Learning this from my (soon-to-be-ex-) wife right now…

Massholes are aggressive, but not necessarily bad drivers. New Jersey, on the other hand…

On Linux, 0 often works out to 12/31/1969 after local time zone conversion…

Where does a young man get this free health care? I’m not young anymore, but for free health care I can pretend to be…

If you always expect the worst, you’ll never be disappointed.

Arch is known for upgrades breaking things, which is easy enough to fix if you know the right incantation, but no beginner is going to guess that correctly, so they post to a forum, and are met with a general condescending attitude, usually several replies that amount to “if you had read the upgrade guide, you’d know what to do.” Of course when googling, you’re much more likely to find the general upgrade instructions, rather than this week’s specific upgrade guide with the known pitfalls and their fixes…

You misunderstood. I meant if it were not a white person, there wouldn’t be a story.

It’s really fun in the Phoenix area, where walk lights are barely long enough for an able-bodied person to walk across the street, I really feel for anyone with mobility issues that doesn’t have a car… Not to mention how often cars just cruise through the crosswalk before stopping for a right on red… If they stop at all… When I’m driving and need to make a turn, I feel like I’m the only person that looks up and down the sidewalk and behind me for any cyclist that might have missed my signal…

I’ve told my boss, if something must be done via email, tell me about it through some other channel, otherwise I will ignore it like all the other spam the company sends out. Only ever clicked on one of the company’s fake phishing emails once, but that was enough to train me not to look at emails.

The other group takes it as a personal insult if you’re having problems in linux that you don’t know how to solve

Also known as Arch users.

What story?

may not even understand what a file system is or how it works … which abstract away from the concept of a hard-drive, a User folder, file extensions, etc.

What’s funny is, filesystems, folders, file extensions are already abstractions, there is nothing inherently “right” about those particular abstractions, it’s just what we’ve used for 40 some years… Before that, you might just have blocks on a disk, or a linear stream on a tape, and it was up to you to figure out what went where, and how to find it again. Point being, it’s all just a sea of bits, regardless of how you organize them- the goal is to organize them in a way that you can forget the sea of bits.

The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.

I miss my mini. With the rear seats folded down, it had a surprising amount of cargo capacity.

A good fuck should last much longer than a good shit…

I tried an airzound, it was not as effective as the boat horn. Though to be fair, it was a long time ago - so long, in fact, that I could go to RadioShack and buy dust remover spray to replace the canister, and it was significantly cheaper than the official refills at marine supply stores…

Public library where I grew up had full height stall walls, but the doors had been removed. There were always several homeless people shitting in there. But hey, at least they weren’t fucking, right?

It’s because of the puritanical shame- without those gaps, people might (gasp) have sex in bathroom stalls instead of doing their business as god intended.

I used to have one wedged between the brake and gearshift levers of my bicycle, so I could hit the button with my thumb, it was very handy.

My wife lied about who she was and what she wanted from me for 20 years before she started fucking another guy… She even managed to hide that from me for a few months, and continued to try to hide it as I figured out what was going on… I ended up having to talk to the guy (because of course it was someone we both knew) to get confirmation- and I thought it had only just started, he’s the one who told me it had been going on for months. He said she told him we were already separated, just living in the same house to keep things stable for the kids… He seemed genuinely distressed and apologetic to find out that wasn’t true, and from my wife’s change in demeanor afterwards, I think he broke it off with her, though she was still trying to stay close to him, under the guise of letting our kids play together… But I suspect even that’s stopped now, based on what I hear from our daughter… Sounds like she’s latched onto another guy she works with… Which is how we met way back when… And she still hasn’t filed the divorce papers, she started working on it back in March… At this point I’m going to beat her to it, I’ve been talking to a couple lawyers…