I didn’t see the Claritin ad, but I’ve had uBlock Origin on Chrome for a couple of years now. I’m still looking forward to the Chrome update for those (few) sites where I have to disable uBlock Origin to get anything to work, and for those videos that “Disable HTML5 Autoplay” can’t stop.

It’s a common grammatical dodge that I’ve taken to calling the “passive imperfect tense”. It’s a particularly difficult form of grammar to grasp, as it requires all sorts of logical handstands, but once mastered it just rolls off the tongue naturally.

According to the guide on Sling, NBCSN is rerunning F1 qualifying tonight at 7 CDT, after IndyCar qualifying. They are also supposed to be rerunning the Singapore race on Sunday after the IndyCar race.

I don’t know about Vancouver, but Ontario has flashing greens to indicate that it’s safe to turn, that oncoming traffic still has a red.

I knew about Goonswarm, who CCP is, and most of the other details, and it still took me two passes to understand what was happening.

You’re forgetting the 17 pounder on the British Commonwealth Firefly variant. A few years ago I saw an interview with a Canadian Firefly commander who took out several Panthers with frontal shots. (He kind of cheated though. The Panther had a shot trap on the lower edge of the gun mantlet. If the shot failed to…

To clarify, that’s C$1.8 billion. That’s still close to US$1.5 billion at today’s exchange rate, though.

I could never get the hate millennials get for participation trophies. It wasn’t the kids who thought them up, it was the adults!

*sigh* I miss Craigie.

I wanted Cthulhu to win, but it doesn’t look like it’s in the stars. Oh, well, I can dream...

That’s not surprising, given that ANW is hosted by NBC.

That’s because the electrical activity of the brain stops. All actual evidence indicates that our thoughts come from the brain’s neurons and the electrical activity between them. Stop that and the person ends.

Sorry, replied to the wrong person.

I am laughing my head off at this way more than is healthy. Take your damned star.

So that’s what it looks like when someone voluntarily fails the Voight-Kampff test.

Yeah. The thing that scares and depresses the crap out of me is the idea that I will simply cease to be. Everything I am, everything I remember, everything I know, everything I feel will just be... gone. I’m having trouble coming to terms with that.

Seriously, what do you expect from a team whose fight chant starts with, “Oskee wee wee”?

In the South you can get pretty much anything with dual wheels.

I generally like Lewis, but OMG he can be insufferable when he puts on his persecution hat.

As a kid, I went to see the documentary featuring Steve McQueen, On Any Sunday. I wasn’t old enough, really, to know anything about motorcycles, but I was totally enthralled by that film. I see that someone posted it on YouTube.