Just curious, do taxes count as mandatory protection money?

I laughed at this one.

Franklin W. Dixon was young me’s favorite author.

I remember the first time I read a WHOLE book in a single day. I thought I was something special.

No banana for scale so how do we know how big it really is?

In June we moved from the Fried Chicken to the chef’s nostrils. Now we are boogers

But it IS how we see prices. If there weren’t science behind it, they wouldn’t be doing it.

Or, as it is the Fifth of November, watch V for Vendetta.

I tell people that I’m 247.5 Oreo Cookies tall.

I could see Mt St Helens from my bedroom window in Portland. I did not see the first eruption but watched the second.

Musk is paying people to sign a petition. How is that any different from what CAH is doing?

If Musks behavior is shitty, then CAH behavior is equally shitty. If CAH behavior is not shitty, then Musk’s behavior is not shitty.

Glad to see you agree with me.

And paying them!

Have you read their schtick? $100 to swing state voters who jump through some hoops. You can parse that however you like, but they’re buying votes for the blue team.

Did we forget the Cards Against Humanity group?

EA used to be amazing. My first two games were Archon and Seven Cities of Gold in the Amiga 1000.

They were great games. EA didn’t start to really suck until the era of the Internet.

I think PE teachers often get a bad rap. I’m grateful that you got a good one also.

Two men other than my father had dramatic impact on my life. Both of them were PE teachers, one in elementary school and one in high school.

I was awkward, uncoordinated, and a social outcast. I was always the last picked when teams were picked. My elementary school PE teacher solved this by making me the “captain” and I got to pick the teams.

My high school PE teacher, who won State championships and coached future NBA all-stars still had time to be my doubles partner when we were playing tennis.

Those two men were definitely my champions.

Me…

Two email threads on the same subject with the same subject line, slightly different recipient lists.

It was a really deep thread and at one point I had emailed the internal version with “the customer is not good at math.” And included the correct math.

Some time later we had resolved the issue and I replied to the customer, but somehow ended up on the wrong thread. Fortunately it was so deep that I don’t think they ever saw it. But one of our VPs did. We had an entertaining conversation.

To this day I hate threads that go on for ages and I hate it when people reuse threads.

I’m impressed you were able to convert the Oreos! 😉

6’6" (247.5 Oreo Cookies for those of you who use that measurement). My wife is 5’1" tall.

When I was growing up my mom would always say “the tall girls are going to love you!” Every tall girl I ever asked out shot me down in flames.