It’s a slur for Asians, more specifically Vietnamese. I can actually trigger my coworker to say it, by merely mentioning that I like Chinese food.

I will never implement a sort IRL

My answer to “what’s the best sorting algorithm” is “the SORT BY clause in SQL”.

I retired as a programmer five years ago and now I drive a school bus. The difference in acceptable workplace behavior is pretty stark. In my software companies, nobody ever came anywhere close to saying anything even vaguely racist; meanwhile in the bus garage people routinely use the n-word and the g-word. And it’s not like this is Mississippi or anything - this is a suburb of Philadelphia where the entire transportation department would probably be sacked if parents were ever to become aware of how their bus drivers talk.

I’m not allowed to work from home and it seriously pisses me off. Whenever I complain about this to my boss, she always gives me shit like “you’re a school bus driver”.

The wood I linked I’m just using to frame out the cabinets themselves. It would be much too crappy to make the doors out of, although I probably would have considered it if I hadn’t found a full kitchen’s worth of good-quality cabinet doors on Craigslist for $250.

This stuff, definitely not fancy at all - in fact barely acceptable for cabinetry. I don’t know where you’re getting your wood, but you can’t get 12" wide 3/4" planks for anything close to a buck fifty a foot where I live. This is the closest thing to it at Lowe’s, and it’s absolute garbage, full of knots, badly warped and not even an actual foot wide. Even poplar would be more than twice as much for 6’ boards, and oak would be three times as much. The manufactured stuff I listed is at least straight and unwarped and it’s a full 12" wide.

I’m in the middle of building new cabinets for my kitchen and I was freaking out over what the wood I’m using costs (about $25 for each 8’x1’ plank) until I priced even the shittiest prebuilt cabinets at Lowe’s. Holy fuck those things are expensive, and they’re just shitty pressboard.

the same cheap shitty grey vinyl flooring

I have never in my life hated a house product more than this shit - and I grew up in the ‘70s surrounded by the fake wood paneling and the nasty shag carpets. I don’t even understand what that flooring is trying to emulate. No real wood is light gray and comes in 6" x 3’ planks.

I’ve been renovating a house since last year that has that shit in the living room and I’ve intentionally left it uncovered the whole time in the hopes of fucking it up so bad that I’m forced to replace it, but unfortunately it is extremely durable.

My solution to burglars is being poor.

I can’t even remember the last time I saw a gas range or oven that didn’t have pizoelectric starters. My cousin has a stove from the 1930s, that was probably it.

Maybe he meant he could fix the oven. Which he could … by moving.

Somebody will tell him what magic words to utter to make the cops go away.

Trying is the first step on the road to failure.

I went gray in my early 30s, tried dying it for a couple of years then gave up and started shaving my head. Twenty years later I came to grips with the fact that gray/silver hair actually looks pretty cool and started growing my hair out again … only to discover I’d gone bald in the meantime. Oh well, hair today, gone tomorrow.

I’d rather die running, but I recently had to quit because of arthritis in my knee. So I guess I’ll just have to die biking.

Kate Beckinsale of course looks fantastic, but for sure she’s had work done.

I’m 57 and I bike 25 or 50 miles four days out of every five, and I work out at the gym every day. I had stretches when I was a decade or two younger where I did nothing but eat and smoke pot and I weighed forty to fifty pounds more than I do now; during those stretches I felt like I was 80 and hurt all over all the time. Sometimes older folks have severe injuries that prevent them from doing anything physical and the decay just adds up, but for a lot of people being sedentary creates the illusion that aging is unstoppable. Of course it is unstoppable ultimately, but you can sure as fuck do a lot to slow it down.

Tenacious D … ixie Chicks

Why the kitana was a super-sword.

Kinda random, but: the first device capable of measuring the size of an object to a one millionth of an inch resolution was built in the 1840s. So this would have been old technology when Abe got his fax.