I’m almost more irritated by the use of two hyphens instead of a colon after the first definition. They just didn’t give a shit really.

Is that Otto at the controls?

If you take a finished product and gradually take away pieces, you can make a progression out of pretty much anything.

You can find many discussions about that online, and it’s basically a BE / AE thing. In BE, it’s not correct, hence I’m annoyed a lot of the time.

I’d just like to thank you for writing “how big a deal” instead of the now ubiquitous “how big of a deal”. That would have really annoyed me.

Is that why bees can’t wear contact lenses?

vbCrLf

‘Get her!’–that was your whole plan?

You should read his wiki page–quite the rollercoaster from tax evasion, Wimbledon commentator, professional poker player, to prison.

Sometimes you can Ctrl+drag (which is copy) text to those annoying ‘repeat your email’ fields that won’t let you paste.

!!true

Sardines, olives, capers.

Lots of percussive maintenance going on around here, but one that sticks in my mind was testing some of the first 486DX PCs in 1990. One particular specimen from Compaq would only boot after hard power off by taking the lid off and tapping the CPU with a screwdriver. Worked fine after that.

When I was 18 and in my first job, my boss and I installed the very first windows NT file servers for a major uk public sector organisation. They were all named after beers that we’d drunk on team nights out. We had Blacksheep, Tanglefoot, Snecklifter, and so on. They were in a test environment so it didn’t matter. Until they went into production…

That was over 30 years ago now, but I still usually resort to beers.

Unfortunately, that’s not very typical.

Working fine in Arctic

How’s his cognitive dissonance holding up?

Or use Arctic on iOS. This is what I see. Internal browser configured to use Reader by default. It’s about 98% effective.

It was a spirited attempt. About a 7.2 on the KenMometer.