So honest question to all the commenters, from someone who hasn’t seen the movie, how did BR treat Murcury’s queerness (his word, not mine) and his struggle with AIDS.

haha, that’s funny. I was all for the animated category, but that is mostly because I think you can actually tell a better story that way. I know I’m the exception, so animated films were always going to get stodgy people disliking them just because they were animated, but I really wanted them to get their due. 

Ugh, I hate myself so much for this and apologize in advance, but below -40 (where F and C are the same) fahrenheit is the lower number. I’m going to crawl into my pathetic-pedant bunker now. Please carry on.

I always find it weird when people don’t see this comming in other languages more often. If you want to get golden fixtures for you shower, you have to find a different way to say it than “golden shower,” because when the two words are jammed together, they mean something totally different.

I and my wife both thank you for getting that stuck in my head for the next week. 

Probably also depends on the quality of the layers involved. I think things like that usually mean one layer from JC Penny’s not Arc’teryx

I have no idea what weird piece of wiring got bent in me over the last few years, but before 30 I don’t think I even once cried “happy tears,” now it’s a real concern if I watch my favorite episode of Doctor Who:

Franky, a way more likely story than “Heaven is for Real.”

Yup, that’s exactly what it is.

Clean out your dryer vents, and check that they haven’t been extended. Lots of people will just run a longer hose to get their dryer wherever they want it and kink it wherever they need to. Do everything you can to have it as short with as few bends as possible.

Lots of homes have in-sink filters installed, or he may be talking about checking out any water softner to see that it is in good working order.

Oh also, learn as many areas of your workplace as possible. Whenever an employer has to make layoffs or cut salaries they’re thinking about what it’s going to cost them day to day and future training. If you do your job and understand a half dozen things in the office that no one else bothered to learn you slowly…

If you rely on outside labor at all for your job, pay your employees the minute they finish their job. I used to do some property management, and I realized that if I cut a check before the plumber/electrician/painter/whatever even left, they were loyal convertees for life. I was in a market where you could expect a 4…

Really glad it sounds like no one was hurt. Yeah, pictures are a big one. I have mine digitized as well. I started scanning this book, but it’s something like 500 pages so that project went by the wayside. The important stuff is done though.

I’m going to have trouble phrasing this, but something I ask myself is “if my house burned down, would this be hard to replace?” So in the scenario, I’ve got the time, the insurance money, it’s literally what I’m focusing on that week/month whatever so there’s no focus cost, would there be any other impediment to…

It’s fun having fans :)

You gain so much good will just by learning a few phrases: “Hi, my name is,” “do you know how to find the_____?” “please,” “thank you.”

The tools that work best for me are:

Haha, I’ve heard similar complaints about Eric Clapton’s “Lay Down Sally,” in the sense that he blew the grammar. No subjunctive there.

I’m not sure Iget why the VPN is considered extreme. I guess it is more work on a phone, but on my computer it just runs at startup and I turn it off momentarily if something I’m doing requires me not to use it. I’ll go weeks without specifically noticing it.