gramie @ gramie @lemmy.ca

Posts

0

Comments

384

Joined

2 yr. ago

*Je does

"doivent" is third-person plural (they, not I)

Oh, and I didn't notice that autocorrect changed my French to English. Should be"dois" or, as you say, "devrais" for the conditional.

All but one of my grandparents had died before I was born, and the remaining one died when I was about 10. She was a stickler for social rules, so I found her kind of intimidating.

That's one of the nice things about the law in Quebec. Binding arbitration clauses are illegal.

A quetzal in the rainforest of Panama.

A drunk man on a commuter train in Japan was convinced that I was Mr Bean. I can see the confusion, we are both Caucasian with brown hair.

"Bean-san, Bean-san!"

To sleep, perchance to dream. And in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

Hamlet (hopefully I didn't get it too wrong)

That's how batteries in series work.

Even going back to the first few seasons, there were an awful lot of misses, and very few hits.

We used to laugh about the killer bees, John Belushi's Samurai, the coneheads, Dan Aykroyd saying, "Jane you ignorant slut!" on every Weekend Update, but when I look at them now, I'm not sure if the humor was there or just going along with the peer pressure.

On the other hand, I look at the old SCTV shows, and most of the sketches hold up very well.

I use Brevo as well. Free tier: 300 emails per day.

Very happy with them.

The Expanse TV show is superb. I'm halfway through the books now, and in some ways the TV show is much better, in other ways the books are better.

There's enough subtlety and complexity that I've watched the entire series twice, and I wouldn't be averse to watching it again.

I don't drink coffee, but the owner of a coffee plantation on the side of a volcano in Panama told me that it was one of the best ways to make coffee. I figure he would know.

My wife, who does love coffee, doesn't use it simply because it only makes one small cup of coffee at a time, and she likes to start the day with a big cup. She acknowledges that the taste is superior.

I got one from Prime Cables that not only has a magnetic attachment to the computer, it has different tips so you can use it for USB Micro, C or Lightning. The cable itself has little magnets so it coils up almost automatically.

Edit: https://www.primecables.ca/p-390676-cab-m10-mltc-g2-cab-m10-mltc-g2#sku415474 About USD $10

I have been using walkscape as well. My walks with the dogs have almost doubled in length, just because I have a little incentive to achieve a goal in the game.

A lot of his science fiction writing is available with a Creative Commons license, meaning that you can download and read it for free. I really enjoy his quirky, sardonic style.

https://craphound.com/tag/creative-commons/

Gets you to a page where you can download.

We don't seem to have a problem giving the state power to take life from other countries' citizens, though. The only way you can stop that is if the other country is more powerful than yours.

And born black. And a Muslim a Hindoo an Indian brown.

I feel the same way about programming languages. There is no way that "User" and "user" should refer to different variables. How many times has that screwed people up, especially in a weekly typed language?

One of the many things that I feel modern versions of Pascal got right.

Famous people take out those kinds of insurance policies, or say that they have taken them out, in order to get attention.

The Japanese government wants people to choose citizenship by the end of their 20th year, because 20 is the age of majority in Japan. But if you don't say anything, they won't ask, and you can keep renewing your Japanese passport along with your other nationality's.

I'm a Canadian, and I was married to a Japanese woman. She was on the family registry, and our children were, but I was a comment. Way to show a commitment to treating all people equally, Japan!