I don’t call my parents by their first names. Neither do my siblings.

My kids also use “mom” and “dad”, and we also use “mom” or “dad” when referring to each other parent to the kids.

My wife would call her dad by his first name, but only when she was calling him out for being goofy. In response to a dad joke, for example.

Personally, I don’t consider it a nickname. More like a title that I’ve earned. It’s like calling someone “doctor”. If my kids used my first name, I’d probably give them a raised eyebrow in response.

I’ve seen my rates decrease automatically when a driver on the insurance reaches a particular age. Usually there’s a notice sent.

The administration has had a similar impact on most of the country.

I disagree.

A broken pencil can be sharpened.

Disappointing.

I would expect a sign in a library to say, “No fellatio in the library.”

That’s funny. I’m 55 and the reason I’m pro-palestine is the American doctors working there who reported that they worked on babies that were intentionally shot.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/859/chaos-graph

Out of the 53 American medical workers surveyed who did emergency care for children in Gaza, 44 said they saw kids shot in the head or chest. Here’s Mark.

Mark Perlmutter

83% said they saw a child who was shot in the chest or head-- 83%. So it’s not just my finding.

Ike Sriskandarajah

Could you describe that moment when you saw just how many?

Mark Perlmutter

Oh, I cried. Yeah, because it gave a number to the tragedy.

Ike Sriskandarajah

Feroze published an op ed in the New York Times with the results of the survey. A group of the doctors wrote two letters to then President Biden outlining what they saw. Feroze thought that would mean two things-- they’d get a call from the White House and there’d be an investigation.

Which is, of course, the reason there could be no survivors.

Technically, I’m past the point of needing it. It’s more just to support a company that isn’t total shit.

I’ve got to get to Costco and sign up.

All that to say, if the job you want exists, you won’t be able to get it because I’ll beat you to it!

I did it, but that was 32 years ago.

Edit: got the degree and started my career. I’ve had to deal with windows since then.

Your best bet might be working in university research centers. You will still have to work with windows, but most researchers are trying to save pennies and you can’t do that using Windows.

I was hired 25 years ago as a systems admin. At the time I was hired, the organization used Macs in offices. Servers were running Linux, Solaris, and OpenVMS, all of which I had been supporting since college. I was valued for most of the 25 years because I could solve problems no one else could, and I did that by writing code on Linux servers.

Now I’ve got a manager who doesn’t believe in writing code to support our users and thinks Linux is a bad word that we should never use because we might have to support it. Still, he’s gung-ho for us to support every new bullshit AI that comes down the pike.

I’ve got 25 years of code on a Linux server that made lives easier, but I have to eliminate it all because linux is bad. At the same time every AI project our group installs needs new Linux servers set up.

Your understanding of the term, assuming you replaced “fucked” with “fudged”, is correct. The explanation given by the father was a lie to avoid teaching curse words to a child.

As expected by anyone paying attention.

Rewatching M.A.S.H. right now.

Edit: Wasn’t exactly niche back in the day, but I wonder how many people have watched it recently.

They have to. They’re driving.

Law enforcement sources later identified Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national, as the suspect, CBS and NBC reported.

Can we fire all the rest of the traitors starting at the top?

In high school physics I wrote a parabolic motion simulator. You could set the angle and initial velocity, and it would draw the path of the projectile. I made it so you could set the force of gravity. I also added the ability to set a horizontal force just for shits and giggles.

When I was in gym class later, we were out on the field playing baseball. I saw a ball hit into the wind and the trajectory matched my simulation of the trajectory of a projectile with a horizontal force acting on it.

So, I was pretty pleased by that.

I argue with our guinea pigs when they demand their cookie (hay+vitamin C tablets with molasses for a binder) before 5:00pm.

I insist that they can see the clock from where their enclosure is, so they should know what time it is.

Similarly, Trump hasn’t shown much gratitude to the country for forcing the release of the Epstein files.