It occurred to me that if it was looking like war between USA and Europe, he might threaten that all US companies must cut off all business with “enemy countries”. No more AWS (shut down services), no Windows/MacOS/Android/iOS (push out a disabling update), no access to your Gmail, no payment processing by Visa/Mastercard, root DNS fuckery…

My son insisted for a couple of years that it is Bihop, not Bishop, because of a typo in the instructions for his chess set.

I couldn’t plug in an adaptor in what seemed to be the correct way, in a Sri Lankan hotel (type M), but it went in ok when I rotated it. As soon as it went in, the power went out in the entire hotel. It was out for the rest of the night, and as I went up the street the next morning, there was a crew working on a transformer a few blocks away. Coincidence?

Also, at the place I was working, there were 2 other types of power plug than type M. WTF?

Yeah they seemed to be editing code live in production with no revision control. What morons.

“I could be arguing in my spare time”

3d printed houses are, in general, stupid PR stunts.

But the news told me they would solve the housing crisis!

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Damn, I thought this said pensioner games. I was hoping it meant old-school style games were making a comeback.

They should call it “Corps Laver” so it sounds all fancy/French for the girls, and sounds like corpse and lava for the manly men.

He was Prime Minister when he lost his seat, not the opposition leader.

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pump and dumb

Perfect typo… I think

Not even 3 months

“We’ve been trying to contact you about your car’s extended warranty”

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Suddenly and all over the place

not uncommon for fathers to die before their children.

Isn’t this usually the case?

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