This time, he built a boy.

I love her, although she's human.

Base 10 grew another digit overnight.

"Dead planet; just plants and meat."

"Third time's the charm," sighed God.

One morning, Death awoke feeling suicidal.

Hermione pulled out her Hitachi wand.

All I really need to survive is my coffee maker. Have I not been saying this?

An uncontrolled deer population wreaks havoc on crops and endangers motorists. I'm not a fan of hunting (or gun ownership, for that matter), but we've more or less eradicated their natural predators. If you have a better solution, I'm sure your local DNR would love to hear it.

...Not to mention that it's a choking hazard. Apparently.

Ha! That's basically the reaction I had. This was one of the easiest graphics demonstrations I learned to program Back In The Day, and I recognized it immediately. Of course, it wasn't an illusion in my case; straight lines are just easy to program.

As far as I can tell, Ubuntu has gotten better, and I've never *had* to extract a tarball, but I've done things The Hard Way voluntarily once or twice. I honestly believe that at this point, the more beginner-friendly distros are a viable alternative to Windows, especially for, say, your grandparents or your brother…

Aristotelian already hit the points I'd like to make, but I have to wonder what distro you used. The ones that are designed to work "right out of the box"—Mint, JoliOS, and (to a lesser extent) Ubuntu—generally play well with older hardware. I can't address drivers—I've been using Linux exclusively since 2011, and…

Agreed! I hadn't thought about a remake, but advertising has become so much more cynical and self-referential. It would be interesting to see the subject handled today.

"Come... in the Bahamas."

Fortuitous. I just rediscovered this one.

I'm a pretty rabid Douglas Adams fan (and apologist), and as much as I love The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and especially its last couple of sequels (even (no, especially) Mostly Harmless), Long, Dark Tea-time is my favorite. Adams was always good at being funny, but is his best novel, and probably the one I'd…

Before he settled into children's literature, John Bellairs produced one truly brilliant fantasy novel. Nostalgia brings me back again and again to Bellairs work, but this is my favorite. It's short, hilarious, occasionally truly horrifying, and beautifully self-contained, in spite of the fact that he began and…

The uprising started with the carrots.

"That's not Godzilla—it's Dustin Diamond!"