Good luck with that when your kid gets older. BTW, making your spouse feel like a shit parent over a mistake isn’t the way to insure a long, healthy relationship. Any parent beats themselves up over a mistake. Having your partner pile on is the worst.

Basically, Donohue’s job is to go on TV, act offended, turn red/purple in the face, and spray the table in front of him as he rants about bullshit. He’s the “intellectual” descendent of Father Charles Coughlin back in the 1930’s.

I mean, he’s even ranted about “Secular Jews” in Hollywood who hate Christianity and…

We were a Compaq enterprise customer at the time (OpenVMS, Digital/Tru64 Unix, Proliant Servers, Storageworks SAN arrays) . In order to make the merger look more desirable to HP shareholders, Compaq was goosing up it’s numbers to a ridiculous degree. We bought an MA8000 disk array, an SLT tape library and fibre…

Let’s not let her off the hook for being part of the management team that tanked Lucent!

It’ll start half decently, and a few months in she’ll decide to merge her campaign with a second campaign operation when someone else drops out. She’ll them spend all her time between then and the general election figuring out what parts of which campaign she should keep and which she should shut down, unable to…

None of the local libraries around where I live have guards. Then again, a bunch of the towns in the area just made some “100 safest places to live in” list.

He can’t see it. Honestly, libertarians as a group tend to have a blind spot when dealing with institutionalized racism and discrimination. And as a political philosophy, it’s really unequipped to deal with these issues in any practical way. That’s why you get people (who at least are sensitive to the “optics”)…

With a lack of reforms, the abuse leads to a lack of moral authority in the community. When a department - or an individual officer - uses violence as a tool, but lacks the moral authority to use it in the eyes of the community, they’re seen as oppressive and illegitimate. And if they use it capriciously or with no…

I’m not surprised by this at all. Personally, I haven’t had a hard drive fail in use in years, including a laptop drive that lasted for six years in a Thinkpad R40 before I stopped using it. I’ve got a Thinkpad x201 in year 5 - going strong. On desktops, I nearly always replace the drive - due to size - within four…

Then again, I did know someone who didn’t realize for an entire two weeks that the guy she was dating was missing an arm so anything is possible.

The RX100M3 is amazing. I wish I could justify buying one. It just feels great when you’re holding it - I stopped by a store to check it out and torment myself. The image quality is fantastic from the samples I’ve seen, given the size. I’d love to get one to avoid having to lug my Sony A600 SLT around for a lot of…

The RX100M3 is amazing. I wish I could justify buying one. It just feels great when you’re holding it - I stopped by…

They’ve also got a good deal on the a6000 + 16-50 + 55-210 lens. Looks like places like Adorama and B&H have the same deals.

They’ve also got a good deal on the a6000 + 16-50 + 55-210 lens. Looks like places like Adorama and B&H have the…

You might’ve had three ovaries to start with - it’s not common, but it can happen, and it was probably a lot more likely that they’d have missed the “extra” twenty years ago.

I hate the fact that the renovated rest areas in Connecticut on the Merritt/Wilbur Cross all have a goddamn Subway in them. The sandwiches are infinitely shittier than the pre-wrapped, locally-made sandwiches that the old convenience stores on the road sold.

So now, you go in. Instead of being able to grab a quick…

Actually, in most places it’s 100% legal to take pictures of the police in public, as long as you aren’t interfering. They may harass you, but that’s not the same as it being illegal.

So a cop who doesn’t want a picture of themselves online beating someone should be asked to take it down from a news site or activist blog? There’s no legal mechanism to ask for removal of non-commercial (advertizing) use of a picture taken in public, and I’m not even sure there is one without a Supreme Court ruling…

Scientologists were giving away copies of Dianetics at the 1996 Atlanta olympics. My sister-in-law, who was volunteering at the games, was given a copy. A few of us glanced at it, and the thing that jumped out about the beginning of the book was that it was encouraging you the reader to separate from your friends and…

It really says something about you as a person when you’d rather imagine the impending end of the world because you can’t possibly cope with changing social mores.

Fifteen-year-old me would be surprised we hadn’t been nuked in the interim. That seemed reasonably likely when I was 15.

IRL - pre-web, but not pre-internet. I was a recent college graduate, working as university staff, and she got hired as a part-time student worker based on the recommendation of one of the other student workers. That person is still one of our best friends.

Anyway, a year later - and four months after my six-year…