As I understand it, there was so much taking credit for and erasing various Pharaohs that modern scholars have a much better list of rulers than the ancient Egyptians did.
This is possible because we have access to several lists of rulers that were buried in tombs and therefore survived when all references to a…

2020 is not the lock that a lot of people think it is for the Democrats, but I’ve also learned not to put too much faith in predictions of how elections 24 months from now are going to go. Both times Bush 2 won I read obituaries of the Democratic party, and both times Obama won I read a ton of opinion pieces about how…

My grandparents grew up in the same small town. He was a couple years older, but they pretty much knew each other their entire lives.

Well, I’m not an HR person, but if I were your husband I’d have two resumes. One for the Project Manager job and one for the Programmer one. One should refer to his experience and the fact he is keeping up in a technical way with education in a way that sets him apart from the people who project manage but really…

Ours was about $400. Plus another $400 or so in gear. Plus she proved too.. energetic for the regular behavior classes included in the adoption so she went to the special ones that cost another $300.
So $1100.  Still worth it, but a bit north of $20.

Yeah, I know my parents love me, but I’m 95% that my sister is my Mom’s favorite and my brother was my Dads.
I’m pretty sure, but they have never outright *said* that. Which I appreciate. Sometimes that 5% uncertainty is critical.

It was passed down to me that my grandparents did this with my Dad & his siblings. A sip, but not unsupervised. A sip if you went and got them a new Beer.
My Dad talked about how he grew up feeling that alcohol was one of the things that defined adulthood & how much he looked forward to being able to drink with the…

This is a real question. Do we 100% know that this key isn’t gathering data on all the machines it’s plugged in too? Or all the other sites that it is being associated with?
I know it’s a hardware key and none of that *should* be tracked, but if my wife searches for a winter coat online I start getting NorthFace adds…

Wasn’t this the plot of Mr & Mrs Smith?

My wife used to pneumonia every year. It would lay her out for weeks. She used to say that her year was really only 46 weeks long compared to everyone elses 52. The other 6 she was laid up.  If I heard this story at a party I’d think they were making it up, but I’ve known her for 20 years and I saw it 18 times.  She…

If you can navigate a commute without the break, you aren’t in traffic.  Traffic involves dropping below 5 MPH, Traffic involves sitting still on the Highway.  Many, many cities have Traffic.

10's regeneration episode declared that for 24 hours after a regeneration a Time Lord can regenerate from pretty much *anything* with no permanent harm. 10 used it to regrow a hand that was severed in a sword fight with an alien. Apparently he could always do that, it had just never come up before I guess?

Am I the only one that really hated “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship”?
Every previous appearance of the Silurians (both NuWho and Classic) had portrayed them as a very sympathetic race caught in bad circumstances. Dinosaurs then tries to have a wacky romp set on one of their ships with a backstory of the wacky comedy robots…

Yeah. Your Doctor is the one that made you a fan. You may have watched the show before them, you may admit that other eras were empirically better, but your Doctor will never be equaled and in the best corners of the fandom whoever is *YOUR* doctor is pretty much above reproach.
I am fully aware of the weaknesses of…

The Doom/Dr. Strange crossover story is kind of amazing. Dr. Doom weaponizes how much everyone hates him to save a soul, but only because he wills it’s salvation.

I’ve been doing that in outlook for years.  It does involve monkeying with mail delivery settings though, so it is indeed not there for most users.

I am not intending to be snarky, but “Unified Inbox” is one of those things that I’ve had branded at me alot in many different forms. What functionality does “Unified Inbox” mean for you in this case?

365 Started as just being “the latest version of office” but has sort of morphed away from that over time. With their ability to add features incrementally Microsoft started adding bibs & bobs to the 365 versions of Office a couple years ago.
As I read it, Office 2019 is more an example of taking whatever state 365 was…

Unions exist in Hollywood. People will do almost anything to be a movie star yet the Screen Actors Guild exists and has power.
Organized labor works when it gets to be a big enough slice of the labor pie AND when people going into the field want what the union provides.
If non-union game shops start to be seen as people…

This is the norm, not even an exception.