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The scam in question, from the article:

McKcraken said he never requested a tree removal service and didn’t want any trees at his Forest Hills house — which he’s trying to sell — removed.

“They’re trying to target vacant houses because the owners won’t know,” he said. “So that they can post themselves as the owner, and the owners won’t be home to stop it and won’t be home to notice it if the tree services do show up.”

The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office said the scheme begins with a scammer calling or emailing a tree service company for a quote on how much it would be to cut down trees. After receiving an estimated amount, they send the company a faulty check for more than needed.

Before the company realizes the checks are null and void, the scammer asks the company to pay back the difference.

“They send you a check for $1,500, and they want you to send $500 back to them,” Adam Barbee with Arbor Sense said. “And then that way, they take $500, and you try to go cash the check, and the check is no good.”

The $3,000 is a protection plan, kind of like insurance. So if you use that lock and your bike is stolen, they'll give you up to $3,000 to replace it. I don't see a price listed for the lock itself.

How is no one talking about head splitters? Am I the only person who hadn't heard of these before?

Spices have entered the chat.

There are dozens of us!

Whenever I'm talking with someone about my podcast and they ask, "can I find it on Spotify?" a little part of me dies.

Like, yes it's available on Spotify, because it's available everywhere. But I strongly dislike what Spotify tried to do to podcasting, and there are much better apps out there.

Someone once came into my department's office and started chewing me out for not getting a task done on time. My boss literally stepped in between me and the other person and told them, "we'll do our due diligence and get back to you," and then insisted they leave the office.

He and I then checked, and I had completed the task both correctly and on time. Someone else in a different department dropped the ball.

My boss then went to the office of the person who had yelled at me and gave them what-for.

I've been playing Sail Forth. It's very basic, but still fairly fun.

It's not like those Tax Dollars came from the Working Class in the first place!

I want this framed and hanging on my wall.

This is my favorite part of the book. I love how he's all just, "Italy is winning the war."

I hear so many people pronounce "cavalry" as "calvary," which is a different word altogether.

"Until the second half of the twentieth century, mortarboards were often worn by schoolteachers, and the hat remains an icon of the teaching profession." [source]

So they weren't saying that he just graduated, they were saying that he was learned (the tortoise even says, "he is the wisest of us all").

It would be especially interesting to see how his viewpoint changes over the course that time frame.

About 30-some years ago I borrowed a book of facts from the library, and the two I remember are:

• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
• Pound for pound, grasshoppers are 3x as nutritious as steak.

I have no idea if they're true, but they're burned into my brain.

The 800 number is missing a digit. Now how am I supposed to get my oyster?

It next cupped hands. Unga bunga.

Not an answer to OP's question, but I know in PHP there's at least one error message that's in Hebrew.

The Spanish Prisoner is also an excellent David Mamet film.