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I gotta go with 8. For reasons.

You may fascinate just about anyone by giving them a piece of cheese.

No, you can only imagine. Some of us are booked for a bathroom gig.

Bold of you to assume I'm not into that

I generally blame the instructors when that happens. I've taken classes on the most menial subjects that were great because the instructor was great. Almost anything can be enjoyable to learn if you have the right teacher.

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Then sell it to a demolition derby show.

Relevant self-promotion: I created a custom launcher, Mere Launcher, in part to help someone with tremors. This launcher uses no swipe gestures on the home page and the favorites are fairly large by default. Hope it's useful!

I feel like we ended up in the same kind of time line I used to create in SimCity 2000 when I spawned like 8 disasters at once, just to see what would happen.

To whoever is running this simulation, maybe take a break?

"I mean, it's just a woman. If I don't get this one back in a while, I'll just look for another one. No biggie." --that guy, probably

Wisconsin is cheese country. They have hats and everything.

Someone who asks for help with their laptop, then opens it to reveal what appears to be several years worth of snacks smashed into the keyboard and on the screen. No, Doug, I don't want to drive.

To be fair, I'll use the more convenient shortcuts (cut/copy/paste, select all, save) that are genuinely easier to do with one hand. But Alt+F4? It either requires two hands or else your hand needs to qualify for Cirque de Soleil to hit it properly. Some of the "standard" keybinds are often more trouble than moving the pointer.

Green tomatoes fried in bacon fat? Sounds pretty good to me.

It's still the result of robbing the working class, and concentrated wealth like that is bad for everyone (even the billionaires).

Okay, more suggestions:

• for the clusters, Gus and Buster
• for ingress, Ingrid and Igor
• for the nas, Cass
• for your Mac mini, Bach
• for your development server, Jessop (short for Jessop the Desktop)

Just give them ordinary names. Then when someone hears you say something like, "I think Greg is due for a reboot" you'll make their day that much weirder.

I'll sometimes pick ordinary names that are loosely related to the function for memory purposes. ingress01 becomes Ingred, cluster01 becomes Gus (i.e., Gus the Cluster), etc.

And of course, if there's a machine that you expect will give you trouble, you name it Richard.

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I don't think it's a bad thing, and I wouldn't call it a "rite of passage."

It seems like our culture has historically put a lot of emphasis on relationships. For example, one of my older friends (Gen X) used to be treated like he was broken or pitiful because he was single into his thirties. There has been a cultural shift toward the acceptability of singleness, which is much healthier in my opinion.

And on an anecdotal level, I think people are smart to wait until they're older. I made a lot of regrettable mistakes in my younger relationships that I would not have made had I waited a bit. Not saying that nobody should have relationships when they're young, but no one should be pressured into it.

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