That's a very good point. I'm really not a food evangelist (no, really, I'm not), but I'm impressed at how little we know about where our food comes from before it shows up at the grocery store. A lot of our gut-level revulsion at animal-derived foods of other cultures (I'm looking at you, haggis) stems from the…

Nice to see a Linux user featured!

Oh, great. Now where will I get my Devo bootlegs and short Mike Jittlov films?

Thanks for the advice, Coop.

Sadly, there is no longer a reasonably close alternative.

This, essentially, is my main reason for using in-store pickup. Years ago when I worked near a Best Buy, it was not uncommon for me to go on my lunchbreak and to leave empty handed after the sales associates told me that my items were only available online or (occasionally) not a real thing. Back at work the website…

We're going to have a talk, you and I, as soon as I get back from purchasing berries and heavy cream.

What.

Also, staffing firms: states sometimes have special requirements for legal entities that supply workers to other entities, and if they don't meet those conditions, then the workers are legally considered to be your employees, rather than theirs. This is not usually a big deal if they're reporting and paying…

It's worth pointing out to employers that under certain conditions, it's possible for an individual to have different classifications for different tax purposes. Most states' Unemployment Insurance tax laws, for example, use a specific, statutory definition of the phrase "independent contractor", and it's not…

Very nice! And hello from BTA, by the way.

Didn't realize this format was a military standard. I've been using YYYYMMDD for years to catalog photos, recordings, etc. Occasionally it drives my coworkers nuts, but I find it so much simpler and more intuitive.

I wonder. I use my full middle name just about everywhere.

I went through a Dore kick in my early 20s, which (incidentally) is also when I finally got around to reading Lovecraft. Gorgeous stuff. Dore is the only artist I can think of whose Heaven interests me just as much as his Hell.

Funny to see these two side by side; I've always cited the combination of Doom and Myst as the reason my beloved Sierra/Lucasarts-style adventure games disappeared after the mid-'90s. I've never personally cared for either game, but I'd like to think I appreciate their impact on the industry. Games on 5-year-old…

My parents are both in their sixties and have never been called either. Meanwhile, I have an uncle who has been called six times and been selected four. I was called almost as soon as I turned 18, and had to ask for postponement because the first day of selection was my first day of college (yes, they granted it).

I used to use a brick wall, too, but found it impractical for travel. Or use.

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

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…