That would explain why a pencil, which contains a “lead” (actually a polymer or graphite now) is Bleistift

Well, not terribly subtle, but if you are fighting with your spouse and they complain that you never say anything nice about their family, you can respond with:

“Well, I have to say that your in-laws are better than my in-laws”

Yes. That was a quick close of the web browser for me.

I don’t know if you have a website, but my $5/month shared web host allows me to set up a git server, and I think many of them are similar.

I get three to five spam emails every day from Republican agents asking “Patriots” to send money to help defend against the woke liberals. They keep changing the subjects and domains sent from, so it is difficult to block them effectively.

The kicker is that I live in Canada, and have never lived in the US or been eligible to vote in a US election.

The thing is that Trump doesn’t understand subtlety, and public displays of fealty are what really get him off.

Or the dozens (hundreds?) of hours that Robin Williams spent as libbing as the genie in Aladdin. I think it was in his contract that they couldn’t even use it anywhere else

Just have a look at what’s going on in ukraine. Once they started using drones, the drone were attacked through their wireless connections. Now they trail fiber optic cables for control. What does that say about the relative reliability and security?

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I hadn’t thought about it, but those may have been the first books I absolutely adored.

After that, I got into Perry Rhodan, a German science fiction serial that has been published weekly since 1961 (yes, they are past issue #3,300 now).

They translated about 140 into English, and I had every one, hunting through used book shope to complete my collection.

I have gone back to read some, and at least the early ones really were abysmal in writing, plotting and early 1960s prejudices. At the time, the scope of the space opera – and the fact that there were so many of them – thrilled me.

1 hour border Collie had surgery, I saw that where her fur was white, the skin was pink, and where the fur was black, the skin was also black.

I’m still using my Amazfit Bip. When new, it could go 6 weeks on a single charge. After about 7 years, I still get about 2 weeks – enough for me not to bother looking for a replacement.

Other people are way ahead of you:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romana_Didulo

Steven Donaldson had his first Thomas Covenant novel rejected by 27 publishers before it was finally bought.

Big Joe Mufferaw, by Canada’s own Stompin’ Tom Connors (because I’m planning to play it at the open mic this Friday).

You can also buy travel bidets. Basically squeeze bottles that you can direct to the right places. Not as good as an actual bidet, but better than nothing.

My crystal radio would beg to differ, sir/madam!

Rome was sacked repeatedly by foreign barbarians. Given the geography, I figure that is either going to be Canada or Mexico.

Which Google lens work? And take a picture of each page and feed it to the Google translate engine. It might be the easiest way.

Just to point out, the province of Alberta has more measles case than the entire us, with a population of under 5 million people.

Coincidentally, the area where is this spreading most is the least vaccinated part of the province.