I used to do IT for (among other things) a clinic that fabricated artificial limbs for amputees. They employed 4 doctors, 8 “craftsman” that actually milled the parts, and another 8 people whose full time job was to fight the insurance agencies. I remember overhearing a call between one of those insurance fighters and…

Not too long ago I came across a youtube channel that was demonstrating how to correctly perform a breast exam. They had a real woman as a subject, but taped photos of male nipples over her actual nipples so as to be in compliance with the community standards. Because as long as the images were of female nipples it…

I’m running a Werewolf 20th Ann game set in Victorian England. A town is cast in ruin as the children dance among the bodies of the adults as a dapper spirit of cold laughs in the storm. Then the Werewolves show up. I feel a wacky wayside village coming up...

You would think they would be a bit more suspicious of Little Brutus’ old time hoagies.

Voltron is pretty great though.  I’d rather watch it (and this) than most of what is out there.

I took it as her responding to the call for help. She was very much a “follow the rules” type of ruler, and Glimmer’s Mom had officially sent for help. Probably for the first time in decades.

I always took Rorschach’s code as another trope being deconstructed. Lots of superheroes have codes, and the comics generally treat that as making them better people. “Great Power/Great Responsibility” sounds good but what does it actually *mean*? Its a good thing Peter Parker didn’t decide he was responsible for…

Ok, all the crazy and the tacky in this are pretty next level, but just to clarify a point:
If I’m reading this correctly, the Bride’s stepmother is the Bride’s college roommate? Awkward Thanksgivings I’m thinking.

Old people have had decades longer to do and think every dirty thing you and your friends thought you invented.
Lots of them feel like the should be “proper” and so pretend that they didn’t, but get a couple drinks into them and they remember their “glory days”

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.