... hey, did I mention I put together a Web site talking about exactly what I’m doing?

Shit, I didn’t know white kids did that, but of course they did. :-(

I’m not about to tell you that my way works for everyone and therefore you need to try it or else. HOWEVER ... I think there are genuine charms to what I’m doing that make me think it’s likely to work:

You are a terrible person, because I am hearing your words in my mind, and when I got to #3 I finished the quoted part with “BAT-MAAAAAN!” Now I have to knock that out of my head.

Well sure, any plan becomes a bad plan as soon as you change the elements that originally made it a good plan. You know how I keep saying something about hiding the piece of paper in a Collins German dictionary ... ? It doesn’t have to be a German dictionary, the point is to hide it somewhere better than “under their…

Also true. I guess I just don’t have any way of knowing how well the password managers are written. I like to imagine they’re pretty good since they exist to do only one thing, but you still don’t know.

No offense taken and full respect in both directions.

Best stragety I’ve heard of for passwords: use a common root password for all sites, and add a different suffix for each site.

Good point. Colonizing means not just appropriating new territory, but also keeping anyone else from participating in what they’ve got (and possibly appropriated from someone else).

... just trying to correct the mistake of his wayward colleague Yakub.

I’d really like to turn the Fantastic Four black. Not as a supervillain plot, but I can’t think of any reason they wouldn’t work well with Reed / Sue / Johnny as a black family (with their pal Ben too). I didn’t like that the most recent FF movie turned Johnny black but kept Sue white, because what that amounts to is,…

“There Are Black People in the Future”

Displacement seems to be a key component.

I am a cheapskate so I just pull my belt as tight as I can, until that doesn’t work any more. I had to abandon my original pantses* when I went from “at least an inch too tight” to “there’s four inches of slack in the waist and this is getting silly”. Current pantses* are four inches smaller than the originals, but…

There are a few ways to answer the question of how much weight.

“alumna”

I don’t know that being a vegetarian makes a person “better”, but if I can switch to a diet that doesn’t require animals to pay the price, I at least want to try. I might find out that I can’t do it, though. So be it, we all do our best.

Thanks! I’m basically a big oaf (I like to think I’m something like Teddy from “Bob’s Burgers”) but once in a while I stumble upon something useful.

It’s also great for passive aggression: “I see the Easter Lilies are in full bloom today!”

I’m not much help on that front, sorry; I generally don’t order ribs, because most often I’d rather have a burger (and all of the above are off my menu anyway*). Winking Lizard makes appealing ribs, I seem to recall, but I’m no connouiss ... connasu ... I don’t eat ribs a lot.