Uhhh… custom turn-by-turn from mapquest is a pretty recent thing. I used to use an atlas supplemented by more foldy-uppy paper maps and even occasionally stopping to ask for directions.

Probably not.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/07/01/735822187/the-science-of-smiles-real-and-fake

opposum, racoon, fox, squirrel, chipmunk, deer, bats, frogs, toads, copperhead, rattlesnake,etc turtles, lizards, newts, woodpeckers, bluejays, finches, chickadee, crows, hummingbirds, hawks, eagles, owls, buzzards, hornets, carpenter bees, ants, paper wasps, termites, cicadas, black widow, orb weaver spider, and countless other birds and bugs. Most interesting bug might be the bumblebee moth.

TV

This is DC, but needs more clueless tourists.

Even though sometimes it’s a pain in the ass, I like having a shape-shifting penis.

This brings to mind for me Michael J. Sandel’s discussions of law (a compliment, as he is a Harvard law prof.)

ATT does financing for phones, etc. Presumably that is why.

Additional storage, and installing the RTX2060 Super from my old box it was replacing. That was in 2020 when this system was new.

Oh, I did upgrade my rear chassis exhaust fan to a fancier one because the cheapo one was too loud.

I dont really play new AAA games, so it mostly does fine. When I bought it, I had planned to wait for GPU prices to return to sanity …

Not every trait has an adaptive significance.

Protip: you can evenly ripen avocados and most fruits in a brown paper bag. I like to throw in a nice ripe banana to jump-start the process (gives off ethylene.)

Lately I have been making muesli a lot, which I only re-discovered recently.

I also only this year started to appreciate tart cherries which I enjoy mostly dried (unsweetened.)

Detailed technical analysis by GreyNoise

https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2025-03-28-ayysshush/

I still have a few Asus routers capable of running the older version with the CVE-2023-39780 vulnerability. This makes me wonder whether it might be worth making one into a honeypot for fun.

In business, good ideas are a dime-a-dozen. People who can figure out how to monetize (ie, get people to pay for) those ideas are the ones that get paid big. If you cant figure out how to make money from it, it is not likely to magically work out later.

Around age 5ish, mostly Storybots. Ruff Ruffman. A few other shows handled it well for younger kids.

Once a bit older, maybe 7-8, I setup an old laptop with debian and allow-listed network connection, etc. Let them play with it and gave them learning activities.

Presumably demand is why.

Isnt that Lin-Manuel Miranda?

No one said it was a prerequisite. R1

Yes, and where I work the HV line is several times that.

Nope. All the downvotes wont make my mail carrier suck any less. USPS around here is terrible for packages. Mailbox stuff is fine.