Don Edwards

/me apparently hasn't figured it out yet...

Could be worse... I once reviewed a sauce as "a hot sauce with no heat, to flavor food with but it has no flavor - why does this exist?"

But what about the lab report? Did the dog have any good news for you?

Nah, the article she was responding to came first, and I can see how women in general - cisgender, transwomen, or genderfluid - would be offended by that article. And maybe men too. Rowling apparently found it offensive, or at least mock-worthy. And it seems that people are upset at Rowling for how, in the resulting mockery, she excluded transwomen from being women - but, reading what she actually said, she DIDN'T. She simply failed to give a definition that included them - just like she failed to give a definition that would include my 90ish-year-old mother-in-law or my 2-year-old great-granddaughter. But her point wasn't an attempt to have an all-encompassing definition, it was to mock the original article's failure to include ANYONE as "women". On the other hand, she DID include many transmen in a group they don't want to be included in, thereby implicitly excluding them from a group they do want to be included in - and as far as I've seen hardly anyone raises a stink about THAT.

And my attitude is "just because you are famous and successful in one field, doesn't mean anybody should care about what you think about anything else." I didn't read the Harry Potter books to get Rowling's views on homosexual or transgender people, and I don't see how those views - learned years later - change the quality of her writing. (Also, I think more people should check out what she said and what she was responding to.)

Because someone's interested in whom Edward and Tedd talk to and what they talk about, but with him being a government agent THEIR phones are harder to tap undetected. So tap the phones of their friends who don't have that solid connection. (Suggested as a plausible hypothesis, not necessarily something I think is true.)

Since bagpipes evolved and were used in a very large area including most of Europe and parts of western Asia - Syria, for example - there are MANY varieties. Some of them have a very sweet sound. Unfortunately, the variety that everyone thinks of first (and usually stop there) - the Scots great pipe - is not among them.

Not really, the name is unique and it correctly identified the state.

No, after the third one you sing the first line of "Silent Night".

Due to getting a new phone, I was looking at a BUNCH of weather apps last night. I was quite surprised to find one that told me the temperature here was 16 Fahrenheit and I should expect snow - all the others were in the vicinity of 41, and search engines return no relevant results for snow here. (Note: 41 is below the average overnight low temperature for January.) I found no explanation for the 25-degree difference or the extremely improbable precipitation forecast. Naturally, I quickly uninstalled that app.

Me, I would suspect an act of deliberate parody...

Well, either journaling or copy-on-write does impose a bit of a hit to performance...

Any journaling or copy-on-write file system should have no trouble automatically recovering from a power failure. I use EXT4 (journaling) for everything except my backups. Those use BTRFS (copy-on-write) which also allows for compressed folders. NTFS (what current Windows likes) also uses journaling, but only for the file system's own data - not for the contents of your files. (Journaling: the system records in a journal file what it is about to do elsewhere, then goes and does it, and finally comes back and records that it is done. On booting, it can examine the journal files and see if any of the "what it is about to do" entries are complete but not noted as being done; if it finds such an instance, it can read the needed data [what it should have written] and metadata [where that data belongs] from the journal file and go finish the job.) (Copy-on-write: no currently-live data gets overwritten. Instead, a currently-free block is allocated to it and the new version written there, then the place that pointed to where the old version was gets updated that gets written out in the same fashion, and this repeats up the stack as far as needed in the same partition. The entire structure is valid, although not necessarily current, at every moment, so a power failure cannot leave it invalid.)

WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS! NOW IS THE END OF TIME! .... so far. Just like it has always been.

That would depend on how your computer's clock was set. At the time, the norm on Windows boxes was to set them to local time - so that's what would matter. (It also caused various issues every time "daylight savings time" started or stopped - mostly avoided by carefully never scheduling anything to start at a specific clock time between 1 and 3 AM local time.) The norm on most other OSes, including Linux, was to set the computer's clock to UTC and also tell the OS what time zone you're in, and then treat the conversion to local date and time as a step in formatting for display (and ONLY when done for display - and if an app allowed a time entry, the app was expected to ask the OS to convert it to UTC, which is usually built into the bit of code that converts a string to a datetime). So on those systems UTC would be what mattered. (As for scheduling issues, just make sure everything is expected to be done at least an hour before it absolutely must be done, e.g. if your cash-register system has some overnight housekeeping that keeps the registers from operating until it's done, make sure it'll be complete at least an hour before the store opens.)

One of the major streets of Las Cruces, NM is Amador Avenue. Which loosely translates as Lover's Lane. So there's at least one thing to like about the state.

You need to talk to somebody. We may not be the best choice, but we qualify as somebody.

Okay, I wish you good stamina. And good luck.

Actually, you can. Here.

I am reminded of something I read some years ago, about a professor at a California university. He taught two classes that are relevant: Rock Music Appreciation and Classical Music Appreciation. The former always overflowed the largest lecture hall on campus, while the latter routinely struggled to get enough students signed up that the university didn't drop it. In an interview he was asked his opinion of rock music, and replied that 90% of it is crap. Then he was asked how that compared to classical music, and he pointed out that 90% of it was dropped from the repertoire a century or more ago. (Personally I think that's a bit unfair. Two people might agree that 90% of rock music is crap but strenuously disagree on which 90%.)

And if you were to reboot (into Linux) they might have a different arrangement. (For those who don't know: Linux does not use drive letters. A disk partition gets mounted to a folder. The more recent Windows version can do that too, but it isn't the default and is seldom used; in Linux it's the only way. There's a file, /etc/fstab, which specifies where various partitions, usually defined by GUID or partition label, are to be mounted; and there are defaults for partitions not listed there - usually they go under /media/$USER or /cdrom.)

I only know where one old-fashioned phone booth is - and technically, that's as of about 3 years ago (but I doubt if it's been removed). It's outside the office of an RV park in a rural area of Montana, where not all cell-phone providers have coverage.

Second covid vaccine shot did that to me. Between midnight the day of the shot and 9 AM the second day after, I was awake for 5 hours.

mlooney, have you tried swiping up from the bottom of the screen? It may make the buttons visible. (Or, maybe not.)

That would depend on whether the mice are playing, or someone/something is playing using the mice. And I would have put the condition as cat.location != here