I bet it would be a boon if it only replaces celophane.

Explain to me how that works if the traffic is end to end encrypted.

There was about ten minutes there when Quora was Yahoo! Answers for people who passed the Apgar test.

fcc.gov. Those goddamn “Sign into the Federal Fucked Up Document System with your FFUDS PIN now” things that just don’t actually work. The layers of garbage between you and renewing an amateur radio certificate is truly Idiocratic.

All of them? including visible light?

I very rarely adopt apps anymore, most of what I do with my phone is in Firefox or the default utilities.

That too.

Stop using as many services as possible. It might not be funny but, I mean, what if you went to a music store and bought used CDs instead of using Spotify? Do all of that you can.

I have a cat. She is currently emitting no noise and is a moderate grey color.

I don’t know if I want to drink what will roll out of my water heater’s drain. I don’t think it’s been drained since installed and I’m kind of afraid to do it.

The longest power outage I’ve ever done was 2 weeks. The town kept the water and sewer going, we kept warm with a kerosene heater. My current house has a natural gas heater. I don’t keep like gallons of water stored up but I have a camp stove and a gas grill, I can cook if I need to, and we have three vehicles fueled and ready.

I’m prepared for basically any natural disaster that leaves the state government in power. If it’s so bad that the governor isn’t around to give a press conference than I’m either also already dead or I’m going to be the guy that flies an F/A-18 into the alien’s superlaser.

I use a Cooler Master Masterkeys Pro M white LED board with MX Blue switches. It’s nominally a gaming board but it’s very subtle, the “It’s a gaming product so it has to look like Gigatron’s left knee cap” is held to a minimum. I mainly use the backlights in the “all keys lit” mode at its dimmest brightness or turned off.

The Home Alone version is in the ballpark; the version I’m thinking of I’m pretty sure was on a CD of Christmas music my parents had. The Home Alone version sounds like it was sung by a children’s choir. Then you get a lot of this version that is women plus instruments. The version I’m thinking of was choir only, ran a little faster, and had men in the choir. The sopranos still did most of the work but having some bass in the counter melody and chorus took the power up a notch.

I’m gonna see if I can find that CD today.

There is a particular version of Carol of the Bells I quite like.

Also, the Trans Siberian Orchestra turned out a couple great tracks as well.

There are a few tracks by Frank Sinatra that sometimes get played as Christmas music which I won’t tolerate. I’ve never heard a Sinatra song I don’t physically hate.

I’m left handed, and the topic has come up with right handed people over the course of my life. Living in a world largely built for right handed people forces you to adopt some right handed habits. Wii Sports let you choose your handedness per activity which is helpful to a lot of us southpaws; we legitimately do some things the “right handed” way.

Guitar for example; when I started taking guitar lessons when I was 12, they handed me a normal guitar off the rack with the neck in my left hand and it was instantly comfortable. After a few lessons it came out that I am left handed and “Oh we have a left-handed guitar if you want to try it. Here.” and it felt wrong. Meanwhile I would say just over half, say 54% of the right-handed people I’ve handed a guitar to went “oh no this isn’t right” and wanted to play it the other way. So I’m convinced “normal” guitars are in fact left-handed.

Right handed people often report being strongly right handed and that doing things with their left hand is very difficult. “My right hand is a hand, my left hand is a clamp.” I’ve heard very few left handed people report the same.

Jessica Cox is a certified scuba diver, a light sport pilot, and I think it is safe to say she is without handedness.

The quarter-dollar coin was minted for a very long time with an eagle on the back but I don’t think it has been since 1998 when they started the state quarters program. If I understand correctly the quarter-dollar is currently minted in 5 versions, each depicting a notable American woman on the reverse.

The half-dollar coin is still minted in the 1964 Kennedy/Great Seal design, so it’s got the eagle in full Freemason Illuminati regalia with the shield and the olive branch and the arrows and whatever. It’s weird that the front of the Great Seal is on the rear of the half-dollar.

The one-dollar coin is still currently minted with Sacagawea on the obverse and a realistic depiction of an eagle in flight on the reverse.

Completing the set:

The ten-cent coin is still Roosevelt plus the olive-torch-oak, no birds.

The five-cent coin has not too long ago updated the image of Jefferson on the front but still features Monticello on the rear.

The one cent coin needs to fucking stop. It’s often Abe Lincoln themed but they’re doing similar commemorative shit as with the quarter so there’s an untold number of things it can currently be. We also lose money every time they make a penny because there isn’t a metal worthless enough to make pennies out of.

No longer minted but historically the $10 coin was called an “Eagle” and the pocket watch sized gold $20 coin was called the “Double Eagle.” These are no longer minted and since we’re off the gold standard there’s a couple hundred bucks in gold in a Double Eagle.

But I wasn’t being technical; in casual discussions online about exchange rates of the various dollars minted around the world you’ll hear people use national symbols or stereotypes or whatever to add a little levity. “It cost more in kangaroo bucks compared to freedom eagle dollars.”

Yes. Which is why, when you see a novel service being advertised, it is a useful exercise to ask of them “What is your business model?”

Free and benevolent maybe not. but genuine and non malicious?

“What’s your business model?” “we make and sell delicious sandwiches. Customer buys the sandwich for a little mote than it costs to make so we get money for ourselves.” That isn’t a scam.

Why do I have August 6, 1991 on my mind for “the world wide web switches on”?