I don’t know what I would do, but I know what my father did. He did not allow that word to be used, and would quickly and severely punish us (or mom, for using it in our presence). Mom had her own word, mf, that would produce the same response.

You should have mentioned Emerson’s role as Finch in “Person of Interest”, where he played a hero with a similar non-personna to Leland.

Rand Paul has been whining about low-flow toilets for years. He considers them an infringement of his freedom to waste water. It is one of least harmful “ideas”. He is full of them. Or he is full of something.

Hell, yes. Every Thanksgiving I buy two cans of Cranberry Sauce, and only use one. This year, I bought 2, and found 3 in the pantry cabinet. I should remember I have them, and stop buying the stuff. And eat them.

Robots have been making frozen pizzas for years. Most of the pizza at the supermarket in the freezer is robot made. All these guys have done is build a restaurant version of one, and send the pizza into an oven, rather than a freezer.

If the doctor diagnoses you properly. There are about 350 other things that look like plague in the early stages, and he/she has never seen a real case of plague (yet). You would be a truly educational experience for them, if they survive contact with you.

I am going to be the guy who says “I love my electric stove”, I had been a lifelong gas user, until I moved here, where electricity is very cheap (and lungs are cheaper, they are burning coal). But my electric stoves handle simmer and low flame better than gas. At low flame, home (cheap) gas stoves tend to go out. As…

What the techie could do, to allow a tryout of linux, is prepare a 16-32 G flash, with a copy of (whatever) linux installed (not a live image, a real install, with swap and grub and all). Then show the windows victim howto start the bios boot menu, after plugging in flash, and boot from flash.

Maybe, after a few months of training, Cinderblock will be able to run like that.

My local Kroger sells ground and cut bison, it’s raised locally. I make burgers with 12 oz ground bison, 1/2 cup garlic breadcrumbs, 2 egg and a tablespoon of Worcestershire or other sauce. Cooked in small cast iron skillet, they are the best burgers I can make.

“The Night that Panicked America”. It is about the most successful Halloween prank in history. Or just listen to a recording of the broadcast.

“The Night that Panicked America”. It is about the most successful Halloween prank in history. Or just listen to a…

I used 8 inch floppys on the Dec LSI-11 I used in the 1970's to do homework. It was hard sectored, there were 6 or 8 holes punched around the hub to sync the spin motor with read electronics. I have one, somewhere. I know where the punch card is, it is a bookmark in an old Numerical Analysis textbook. At that time,…

“Last of the Summer Wine” - although you have to be rather old to identify with it properly. It ran on Brit TV for thirty years. My local PBS station shows it on weekends.

The author has a very clear vision of Hell. It carries through all the stories. I found the book unpleasantly graphic. I am getting soft. I was also creeped out by a recent Peter Straub collection.

I have read the “Wounds” book, five novellas, each creepier than the last. I am very hard to creep out. I described the last story as “A cannibal and a satanist fall in love, and sail to hell on a pirate ship”. It is story by itself, and also is important to supply a Mc Guffin to the earlier story described here.

From Chicago, about 1979. My sister-in-law was doing an Orthopedic Residency at a hospital on the North Side, and she got a call to come in, to examine a cop who had been stepped on by a cow.

I will give up the outdoors when I see a bear riding a buffalo. Too dangerous out there.

The obvious solution is to make a skateboard version, with a replaceable garbage can. Just pick a “standard” size can with no wheels, build the skateboard to mate with it. No jokes about mating will be accepted.

Trump will just have to tap the Strategic Bullshit Reserve. He is running out of waffling statements about War with Iran, and denying the fact that gas prices rose 30 cents a gallon today.

I have a thinkpad 430 that I picked up used for $200. I yanked the hard disk with win7, replaced it with an ssd and installed an OS fit for humans. I will probably take it into the crematorium with me, after I pull the batteries. No need for anything “better”.

I have a thinkpad 430 that I picked up used for $200. I yanked the hard disk with win7, replaced it with an ssd and…