I bought a copy of Visual Basic 3 in 1995 for $50 and that’s it for MS products for me.

“Fully modular” == “nobody talks to anybody else here any more”

Yeah, NOTHING in ALL CAPS.

It was a great way to dispose of surplus bombs from WWII.

They were designed for the faster speeds. Speeds were lowered to 55 mph in most of the country during the 1970s as a (perfectly rational) response to the OPEC oil embargoes in that decade. Lower speeds = lower fuel consumption per mile.

I once ran afoul of our UX guy for suggesting that we run our design past a focus group before implementing it. Dude literally said “users don’t know what they want”.

I had a job like that back in the day (circa 2000). I remember one stretch where for a solid month around 50 developers did nothing but call in to Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? to try to become a contestant. Ironically, one web app I wrote for them (with Visual Basic and “Classic” ASP) is still in use today – and it was a front end for a mainframe system that dated to the 1980s, which means that’s still up and running as well.

I give peanuts to crows but sometimes one squirrel shows up and chases the crows away (and there are usually 5 or 6 crows there). I don’t get it – this particular murder will gang up on red-tailed hawks and chase them away but they’ll just sit there looking sad at the one squirrel as he eats the peanuts.

I always say: when Life gives you lemons, jam them up Life’s tailpipe.

You put Basel in the ratatouille?!?!

Which direction you goin’?

Because the last time Congress declared war was 1941, and we have fought a shit ton of wars since then.

Back in the mid 80s I did a co-op with an organization in Atlanta that was similar to Habitat for Humanity but smaller and far less competent. That summer we hired this enormous 6’4" farm boy from rural Georgia as a carpenter. He was naturally a typical redneck which I assumed was going to be a problem since our crew was run by two lesbians. As it turned out, Scott’s sense of loyalty to the people he was with overcame his conservatism and he was cool with it.

Scott’s idea of fun was to get into bar fights. Every Monday he would come to work with a black eye or two and maybe a busted lip; given his size I always assumed the other guy was dead. His best friend on the crew was a guy who played guitar in a hair metal band, and Scott started borrowing this guy’s red leather pants and matching vest and going to college bars in downtown Atlanta. Guys there would assume he was gay and start shit with him and Scott would obligingly beat the shit out of them. I don’t really condone violence, but Scott’s actions here didn’t make me lose a lot of sleep.

I remember reading for four years that Merrick Garland was just making sure his T’s were crossed and his I’s dotted before putting Trump away. Whoopsie.

do they offer coffee in the fellowship room

What kept me going to Sunday School as a kid was the donuts. Also my parents making me go.

How about aristocat anarchy?

People should spend a little time watching The PBS News Hour if they imagine it’s still an alternative to this sort of thing. Yes, it’s aimed at retired liberals, but it has become astonishing seeing how it toes the corporate line and how it sane-washes the stuff Trump and his cronies are saying and doing.

Yeah, I’ve only ever heard “Hindu”. “Hinduist” would be like “Christianist” or “Buddhistist”.

Are we going to start polling on things like what the current temperature is outside, too?

My stats prof in college actually used to do this, and the average guess was always within half a degree of the true temperature. Still not worth doing given that thermometers exist, but interesting nevertheless.

I’ve never met a Christian who even knew what all Ten Commandments were. It’s just a dog whistle.