I got one from Prime Cables that not only has a magnetic attachment to the computer, it has different tips so you can use it for USB Micro, C or Lightning. The cable itself has little magnets so it coils up almost automatically.

I would guess that I’ve been seeing variations on that sign for at least 10 years, maybe 15.

Are you saying “Whatabout…”?

instead of death

Unless you count birds that abandon their nests, and other animals that flee their homes. Or the heavy metals and other chemicals that are added to the environment. Or the significant increases in particulate matter in the air.

https://earth.org/environmental-impact-of-fireworks/

They also practiced polygamy, so that rich and influential men would have multiple wives and poor men would have none. Imagine the rage when you were a Shepherd tending someone else’s flocks, knowing that you will never have a wife or family.

It makes sense to have occasional wars with neighboring tribes so that excess males can be removed from the system.

POST means Power On Self-Test. All motherboards will run some diagnostics and detect basic problems (e.g. missing RAM, no boot media).

If the motherboard beeps, you can look up the motherboard and see what the number of beeps means.

I finished two episodes, and I really hope that the interesting part is going to start. So far almost everything has been about how Cowboys are tough, gruff, brooding, and loyal to their families above all else. A couple of SF elements, but those have been incidental.

I really hope that it’s going to do more than just mining the cowboy mythology and showing how rugged individualism is superior to government and corporations.

We have small lights that plug into the socket. They turn on automatically when there is movement and it is dark, or if the power goes out. We can also take them out of the socket and then they become flashlights.

It helps if you realize that most people are delighted to talk about themselves, if you can find the right angle. They may be passionate about cars, or gardening, travel, their children.

Also realize that most people have spent a lot of time doing whatever they do, and there are things they know about it that few other people do.

For example, someone who works in a laundry might have insights into the laundry business, or the people who come in late at night or the values of different kinds of detergent.

Someone who works at a mall may well know things about them all that you don’t. There may be aspects to their job that they find challenging or painful.

I seem unable to care much about other people (not officially diagnosed on the spectrum, but it seems obvious to most people who know me), but I am interested in the insights they can give me, and I genuinely want them to be happy.

Having a conversation like that also beats sitting around awkwardly.

The title is just “Pi”, and it’s by Darren Aronofsky, who has gone on to create a number of excellent movies.

Note that this is an American experience. In Canada, every time you renew your mortgage the interest rates are set at the current rate. So people renewing their mortgages now are paying around 7% interest, whereas 5 years ago they might have been paying 2%.

One of my co-workers had his mortgage payment jump from about $2,500 to $3,500/month a couple of years ago.

23 hours to go from Cornwall, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario by the most direct route.

But this ignores all the cultures where women’s breasts are not considered sexually. I lived in Africa, and it was actually a big adjustment for me, even though the local people’s attitudes were changing due to Western media. 25 years of Canadian upbringing made it hard not to look when women or teenage girls took off their shirts. But that was my problem, not theirs.

And not just Africa. In rural Japan japan, before WWII, women were often topless.

but thats just me

Yes, in fact that is just you. Most other people have a firmer grip on their sanity.

I had a birthday and thought I was 28 for about 6 months, until my younger brother had a birthday and said that he was 27. I know that I am 2 years older than him, so I said that he had made a mistake.

It turns out that I had my own age wrong for those 6 months.

Fun fact: the character “&” was a way of writing the Latin word “et”, and used to be known as “per se and”, meaning “the word ‘and’ itself”.

When reciting the alphabet, people would say, “…x, y, z, and per se, and”.

Over time, “and per se, and” got shortened to “ampersand”.

page load

It would be fine if they only loaded a partial page so that it will render in my browser quicker.

However, what usually happens is that the entire page loads, then an overlay pops up to get me to register or pay, or whatever.

Being a web developer, it’s not hard for me to inspect the page and remove the overlay so I can read everything, but it is an annoyance.

Is there any explicit requirement that this presentation contain truth?

We Have Ways of Making You Talk, about WWII, now over 600 episodes. Chatty, inspired, incredible guests. Not all about D-Day and Iwo Jima, but dealing with lesser-known stories and personalities. The hosts are Al Murray and James Holland (whose brother Tom does an excellent podcast called “The Rest is History”.

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