Several responders here cite difficulties with Linux, although some say they tried it out a decade ago. I’d encourage them to try it again. Linux is a lot more friendly than it used to be.

Vacuum sealers are also good for storing a pack of emergency cash. Wrap the cash in paper, and write the amount, then seal in a vacuum bag. Stash it in your freezer (if you’re paranoid, embed the bag into a few layers of lasagna, and freeze the whole thing).

Vacuum sealers are also good for storing a pack of emergency cash. Wrap the cash in paper, and write the amount,…

This is good advice.

This is good advice.

It occurs to me that I use this picture a lot.

It’s just about the right length to perform seppuku.

Aah! Here’s the article. These are examples from the article, and the comments have others. It’s basically a very specific geotagged trigger.

You’re right that there is a fundamental misunderstanding. It’s rather like the question of blindness, where a person may be ‘blind’ in a legal and functional sense, but can actually see light, colors, and shapes to some degree.

I remember reading of a use for NFC tags to trigger programmed events on an Android device, allowing one to have the device change its settings, etc when placed on the NFC tag.

Her skin is remarkably free of scars. If I had reduced pain perception, I would be a mass of scars.

Decrapify?

I’ve never found the white orange pith to be ‘bitter’. It’s not particularly nice, but it doesn’t seem to have any flavor that I can discern

32 years

But . . . did the Disney Imagineers have to build it with such big hands?

Aah! Well, it’s not quite as bad as it looks. At least, according to the NY Times, word list was intended to be for CDC budget proposals to Health and Human Services, not for public health announcements or research publications. The idea was to avoid offending the new HHS budgeting guys, who might not approve funding…

SickConCen will write double goodthinkwise with plusgood words only. OldSpeak out, NewSpeak in! Badthink unthinked and unspeaked making badsick unhappen!

BB Trump has bestwords!

From the comic strip “Prince Valiant”, there was this narrative:

Camelot. The refugees who stream from Britain tell tales of horror and woe. The city of marvel, once a golden jewel amid emerald fields, stands bent and tarnished, a forbidding fortress. The meadowlands are sear with drought. Where joust took place,…

Holy shit! Someone is selling a lot of concrete!

Did they even think to first open all hailing frequencies?

I wonder if he branded the liver before implantation. While it’s in the cooler, it may be usual for orientation marks to be burned in using the argon tool, and so the operating room staff may not have known what had been done.

Agreed. It has been a terrible, terrible year. I watched the returns tallied on the NY Times, and saw the same movement I saw last November: Looking good in the early returns, then ‘red’ voters pulling ahead.