I don’t think we have the capacity to launch a million people into orbit in 20 years, let alone all the stuff they need. I mean, 1 million people weigh about 150 million pounds, and that’s just meat and bones. .

Depends. If I’m in a “job starts at 7 AM” kind of place, I’ll probably have a banana for breakfast. If I’ve got time to sit around the house and eat something, maybe a bowl of cereal or oatmeal depending on the weather. On those slow Saturdays, where I’ve got the whole morning before mowing the lawn, I’ll do the pancakes and bacon routine.

the one that kills me is some genius is selling TOSLINK cables with gold plated connectors.

TOSLINK is a fiber optic standard. The whole point of it is that the cable is non-conductive.

The standards for Normal, Utility, Aerobatic and Commuter category aircraft are codified in federal law, FAR part 23.

The standards for Special Light Sport Aircraft are ASTM standards referred to by law.

I’m an intact American man.I have never wished I was circumcised.

I haven’t ever been bullied for it. If I was, I think I’d first accusing the bully of being homosexual for taking an interest as loud as I could. Start calling him Gaylord Cockstarer in mixed company. Find out what hobbies his dad has, start doing that hobby, befriend his dad, tell him this story, see if you can get his dad to start calling him Gaylord Cockstarer.

Women who are grossed out…I’ve had a few hesitate to give me oral, but were willing to try. One, in her own words, wanted to wait until next time so she could “look up how to handle one of these.” And she did, too. To the women who would be disgusted at my intact anatomy, I have one question: What part of your body am I allowed to demand you slice off? Kind of a monstrous thing to think about someone, isn’t it? Why haven’t you cut that part of your body off? If that’s what she thinks of men, she can never deserve any dick.

I think a better quote would be

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

There weren’t any nuclear weapons on earth in 1930.

What? For my third once-in-a-lifetime economic crisis? There’s no way this isn’t going to suck. We’re all doomed no matter what.

I’m speaking of my experiences in the United States. Here, phone books tend to be separated into white pages and yellow pages. The white pages listed names, addresses and phone numbers of private lines, usually homes, and the yellow pages listed businesses. Taking out a listing in the yellow pages was the SEO of its day.

When the internet happened, the one thing that never really happened was a freely searchable database of the white pages. One thing the internet was never useful for as an upstanding citizen was looking up personal phone numbers.

One thing that never got digitized and put on the internet was the phone book. And for damn good reason.

Dating might temporarily relieve the first, but it won’t have any effect on the second.

What dating really does is waste time and money.

I will say it like this: That is a frame from the show. At some point, Michael and Eleanor stand next to each other and laugh. When you get to this moment, you will not think this meme is a spoiler.

Now go watch it.

Just…don’t. Don’t date.

I picked up a thing that just now came out of early access, called The Farmer Has Been Replaced(). It’s a Python coding game, you’re given a grid-based farm and a drone that runs Python code you write for it to plant, water, harvest etc. crops. It’s a decent little coding exercise, not the worst way to learn Python.

The Klingon language is entirely artificial, it was created to bring an aggressive and war-like alien race to life. You’ll find people referring to it as “Space German.”

haiku aren’t that hard

It’s five, then seven, then five.

You’ll get used to it.

There was a long time when the middle mouse button didn’t do anything, because the standard PC mouse was 2 buttons. I had a Logitech 3 button mouse where the middle button didn’t get much use. In I think RiscOS it had a function, then there are some actions like “both click” where you click both left and right buttons at the same time, which is sometimes also implemented as middle click. In Linux, middle clicking pastes from the primary buffer. And when you know what that means, it’s actually pretty damn handy.

When I was in high school, my girlfriend dyed her cat pink with cherry Kool-Aid. He didn’t seem impressed.

Do you mean the setting called “Enable Steam Play for all titles” that was usually unchecked, that you’d have to go in and check, which some folks wouldn’t do (because they might not have known they were supposed to?)

Yeah, at maximum Feloneigh spelling.