Aw, fuck cancer. Here’s hoping it’s not, but I like that you’re positioning yourself better just in case; solid strategy.

I will choose to believe any weight loss was hard work and only a little luck until we learn differently. Please keep us up to date; and keep the chin up through what must be a scary-ass time.

Ohh. Excellent point. I know I haven’t made great Choices this season. ;-)

You’ll find a system that works for you, eventually. You only have to win once.

My relatives called it ONE-derland, because all the weights start with 1.

Congrats to the OP! I hope every new resident of ONE-derland got here through healthy means and is here to stay.

It’s SJVN. That’s all you need to know.

He’s no Cringely.

will let

This implies there was a choice. I’d’ve been glad for a “must let” headline.

Even if your spouse does, it’s the same bank account.

It’s totally okay not to sweat this stuff, since there’s never any good in stressing about it.

Why would I expect my painter to give me medical advice or represent me politically?

That’d be like expecting the lead singer of the Offspring to do a Ted talk on molecular biology or the guitarist from Rage Against The Machine to debate political science.

Madness!

Dad worked. One day in the lean years he was on the books for 5 employers at the same time: no overlapping shifts, just a hairy schedule on a paper calendar and more than one job-to-job commute.

We do not castigate dad for devoting his entire life to the household.

Mom, who merely had one full-timer, did the shopping and wrapping on the side. The two of them set up a wonderful Christmas day together with very few gifts and resources, and we were all together on Christmas morn before Dad went to work.

It worked. We didn’t lack for joy.

Fracking methane.

It’s a hobby: it’s driven by your interests alone.

no matter how urgent it is, never run. Running makes it look like we fucked up. And we don’t fuck up, we just have the next thing that needs to be fixed.

Fake calm to be calm. Nice.

I worked on United Linux. It was very rough.

I love how you blame everyone. It must feel freeing. And you must be hell on jaywalkers and people who don’t use their signal light.

There’s two things at play, here:

• installing dependencies without checking
• a framework that will allow this

Both are absolutely the fault of the user.

I have cops in my family. They’re actually all really great people and weirdly positive parents.

imbeciles that don’t read

…imbeciles who don’t read

Aw jeez, I never noticed that. Ron writes like an actual scholar but he’s got resting bulldog face sometimes.

Dude, people still think vi is important skills. I know ‘ed’, so the rest is just a waste.

For that matter, just use cat, and be free of vietnam-era cult shit.

If you can’t spell the word, I doubt your expertise in that subject. If you can’t spell a lot of words, then the doubt increases. If you sound like a used-car salesman (“the ask”, “the spend”), a cliquey teen (“literally”), or a moron (“till tomorrow”) then I will judge you as such and know I don’t need to read anything you write.