So, no posts about Google this week?

read Brust's "Phoenix Guard" series. Fun, but can't be read fast.

I agree. I pay 110 bucks for unlimited data (throttled after 10 G) 300 (?) anytime minutes to all of North America, unlimited evenings and weekends, texting, and some features, including voicemail, and my wife's dumb phone shares the minutes. And I live in an area where Sasktel is basically a monopoly!

While philosophically an "under" man, due to the ease of the up-flip spin, I live in a house with three bathrooms, and not a single TP dispenser. It drives the OCR types nuts, as they try to find our where it belongs. On the counter, as the FSM intended.

In Saskatchewan, and most of Canada, I belive, you slow to 60k (about 35 mph) when passing workers. A couple of years ago, a young pregnant flag person was killed her first or second day of work. Now fines are tripled.

You actually say, "open the pod baby doors, Hal," don't you? It's okay, you can tell us.

I also didn't know that Google Docs did that. Any reason to use this, or keep CamScanner?(which I also liked.)

"Tux looks drunk and passed out in the headline pic."

I knew this story, but not the phrase. (I'd also heard that the egg was hard-boiled, and he smashed it down hard, but who knows?) The phrase that I'd always heard associated with the story was, variously, "It's easy when you know," or, "It's easy when you know how." In the version that I heard, one of the observers…

Sorry for the late response. Agreed, that is would be acceptable for general conversation. Shouldn't be used in news broadcasts, however. :)

Nicely done.

Pretend that I posted a pic of a punch card.

This is also one of my pet peeves. Thanks for the link; that is excellent. Someone I knew (my Scottish Grandmother, maybe?) used to say "beggers the question," and I once heard, "makes the question .. . [insert question] go begging." Meaning, I assume, that it was begging for an answer that it never received. I…

Same. Same.

I hate "impact" as a verb, because in horse circles, "impacted" means constipated. Often, I think people just don't know the difference between "affects" and "effects." I have been know to yell at the radio on occasion...

Aanndd cue puerile comments.

Agreed, or run the USBs out the side/top/bottom/whatever

I love my cordless drills, but every now and then I pick up my corded one, (a standard 3/8 DeWalt) and go, "Oh, yeah. That's what power feels like."

As a friend said recently, "Remember when you were little, and thought that there were such a thing as adults."

I agree with most of what you say, why not a two-dollar an episode sale model? (Or whatever price makes sense, I'm not an actuary.) Crap shows would soon disappear. (Unfortunately, Jershey Shore probably wouldn't.) I do have a concern, as a Canadian, that Can-con would disappear, however.