I haven’t been able to find a non-garbage email client for Windows for years. <glares at Thunderbird>

As a software engineer that specializes in large-scale cloud services, I’m both very sympathetic to how hard it is to solve a problem like this, and completely boggled they didn’t have it solved before they rolled this out. The only explanation is that they were completely blindsided by how popular this thing is…

I’m neutral about excluding them from Rio, but they should strip ALL Russian medals awarded at Sochi, regardless of lab results. I’m sure there were some clean Russians at the games, but part of the lesson needs to be that you can’t just keep your head down and pretend you're above it or it doesn’t affect you. The…

In the interest of trying to figure out what the kids are on about I’ve been trying to bring it on the morning dog walk, but it literally crashed every single time I looked at it this morning. I’ve lost a couple now to crashes right after catching them, and at least one to a crash while sending it off to the…

you don’t say

Challenger is the first thing I remember clearly, since I was well into elementary school. The absolute earliest thing would be Korean Air Lines Flight 007, mainly because my dad came rushing home early from work convinced WWIII was about to start. Good times, that Cold War.

The argument I’ve heard from proponents (long before this election, btw) is that closed primaries actually tend to favor the far right/far left over the center, especially in congressional elections, especially especially in traditionally “safe” states or districts. If Joe Democrat knows that the general election is…

Exactly. Bernie fans - if you want to be taken seriously, put this on your calendar and come back on Inauguration Day and make a stink. Prove you actually give enough of a shit to pay attention six months later, or you’re not worth paying attention to now.

They should have had a website months ago that would let owners put in a VIN and find out exactly, definitively, what will be happening with their vehicles and when. Dates and $ signs are the only thing VW owners care about at this point. If regulators are dragging their feet on a settlement, VW needs to sweeten the…

Those are the boogeriest booger welds I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been around plenty of farmers with more stick electrodes than sense.

I hate to be a pessimist, but I think the main difference this time is just that it’s an election year, and the perpetrator isn’t white. Even at that I wouldn’t hold my breath for anything meaningful to come out of it.

If I sign up and then loudly UNSUBSCRIBE do you still get your pizza party? I’d hate to deprive someone of a pizza party.

Wonder if she still does the maintenance herself.

Good well-fitted gloves work fine for fine work. If you can’t find anything at the usual places, try your local welding shop - TIG welding requires very fine control + good protection, so the gloves they sell to TIG welders are usually fantastic, and surprisingly cheap.

Eye protection is huge, and multiple types if you’re doing really dangerous stuff like grinding or cutting metal. I was cutting on a rusty frame member with an angle grinder, and had standard safety glasses on. A fragment flew off, hit my cheek, bounced up UNDER the glasses, and into my cornea. I ended up spending…

Well, I did the MGB thing for a few years and regretted it - and now I’ve come to regret selling it. Just like anything else remotely collectible, the prices have gone through the roof over the last 15 years.

I’m not really sure that’s reassuring. The creepiest thing to me about all the deeply woman-hostile porn out there is the fact that means there’s enough demand to support a whole industry churning it out. I mean, go to any redtube-type site and practically all you see are (gross) ads for crap like “18 and abused” or…

I have a friend who actually produces car ads for a living. Apparently they routinely break the trucks they’re given when shooting those “cargo drop” sequences. Looks great on camera, just don’t show the after where the poor pickup leaves on a flatbed with a twisted frame and collapsed suspension.

Not true. If the equity loan is secured by your primary home, is not more than $100,000, and the total value of all loans is less than the fair market value of your home, it is deductible, even if you spent it on hookers and blow. You only have to prove you used it for home improvement if you go beyond those…

Inchworms are good tho