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Costello’s sheepishness after the judge cleared the room and took him down a couple notches was epic.

The submarine will almost certainly implode before we get that deep.

Mitt the Shit should STFU.

Saying that costs nothing. It would have been a hell of a lot more impressive if he hadn’t worked so hard to stack the court and put us in this situation to begin with. Fuck you, Mitch.

Same here, although it did eventually lead to years of employment as a web dev.

It was around 1991 in the university computer lab. Just a green screen dumb terminal for email and newsgroups. Played too much Nettrek after hours on the Spark workstations later on.

This ought to happen everywhere. Either I’m the admin on my machine or I’m not. If it’s not, I’m not sure how much longer I’ll tolerate a Windows machine.

He’s one of the absolute best.

Winter, you say. It felt like spring yesterday.

Given trade, it doesn’t seem to be in their best interest to cripple the US.

Nope. Not even once, and that’s just fine.

My Internet has Pihole and uBlock. I don’t know what these ad things are.

They meant to say fecal recognition. They’re struggling to determine the difference between a Whopper and a whopping dookie. No luck so far, and I doubt an app is going to help.

I’m not so sure about that. It took me forever yesterday to get my international keyboard setup to work on Ubuntu the way I wanted it to. I’m saying that as someone who’s been using Unix/Linux in a school, IT and home setting for 30 years. It was unforgivably difficult.

Ben Folds. He’s got classical, jazz and rock chops, with a full helping of the wit and mischief in his lyrics.

There’s nothing objective about that opinion at all. I think Mariah Carey’s song is cynical corporate kitsch written for one reason and one reason only: to make money. That’s why I hate it.

I can tolerate some of the secular big band/swing songs, and there have been a few decent ones since then. Fiona Apple does a brilliant cover of Frosty the Snowman. Vince Guaraldi’s work for the Charlie Brown Christmas show is still wonderful.

According to the people who know me intimately, the AI is gonna nope out even harder than I am.

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my Kindle Paperwhite. I’ve had it for six years now. I’ve occasionally cursed it when it forgets the WiFi, but that hasn’t really happened a lot.

The phone app has a lot more features, but it hurts to read on something that small and heavy for very long.

Ditto on the Arduino. I built a pickup winder for electric guitar, and it’s more than made up for its price in entertainment alone.

The graphic novel Paper Girls features a giant living tardigrade, if you want a preview.