I’m guessing this is nothing to do with the plant that can grow on amusing terra cotta sculptures?

Imagine coloring in a country on the map and then the borders change; like this map doesn’t show South Sudan as independent. Would they go through the trouble of getting the map updated?

I think I used to use this website to try to figure out when I should go to sleep based on when I needed to wake up. I eventually stopped because I got to where I could figure out 6, 7.5, or 9 hours + 15 minutes on my own (or even 3 or 4.5 hours if I made poor decisions about when I’m going to sleep). It seemed to help.

Is that a Douglas Adams quote? That feels like Douglas Adams to me.

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We did, for both games, although we didn’t play Operation much. It kind of lost its novelty fast, especially with the buzzer the TV commercials conveniently left out.

We played a lot of Mouse Trap, though. Everyone complaining about the trap not working half the time seems to have missed that that was the point. You might land in the trap zone and have one of your siblings get the chance to trap, but it wasn’t a guarantee that you’d be trapped. If it was going to work every time what was the need to even do all the building? At that point it’s just a game with an instant lose square. If the trap worked or failed you needed to reset it for the next attempt, and as part of that reset you could adjust or fix any parts that had failed. Or maybe try to subtly sabotage it again if you’re worried you might be next…

Despite including a numpad like the Intellivision controller, the GameStation Go doesn’t currently include any games from Atari’s recently purchased Intellivision library. But [YouTube reviewer who was hands-on at CES] GenXGrownUp says including those titles—alongside Atari Lynx and Jaguar games—is not “off the table yet” for the final release.

I only know of the Atari Lynx from reading about the history of Chip’s Challenge but I’d be interested in seeing that.

The backup singer on the right looks really familiar. Has she had success in another band?

I always enjoyed this cover he did of “Everlong”

French, but I could try

Maybe try a different password manager and see if its interface is easier for her to use? There are lots of options, not all of them FOSS but this might be a time to accept a well-regarded commercial solution. Or, since she has the iPhone, try using their password solution. They integrate that pretty thoroughly in their apps and OS, and I think with this year’s OS releases across the board they have turned it into more of a fully-fledged password manager with its own apps. I know very little about it, but there might be a way to integrate it with Firefox on desktop now.

I wish I could show this to my father-in-law, but he’s in his 80s, speaks little English, and it would take a long time to even get the meme history built up with him to actually follow the humor. If I could get him to understand the humor, though, he’d probably love it; he taught this for decades at a university.

In the original Civ I once lost a destroyer to a trireme

“Apple is being thoughtful about doing this in a (theoretically) privacy-preserving way, but I don’t think the company is living up to its ideals here,” observed software developer Michael Tsai in an analysis shared Wednesday. “Not only is it not opt-in, but you can’t effectively opt out if it starts uploading metadata about your photos before you even use the search feature. It does this even if you’ve already opted out of uploading your photos to iCloud.”

Reading the article, the service itself is interesting and it sounds like Apple might have found a way to process the data while preserving user privacy, but the fact that they unilaterally opted everyone in without giving them a choice is the biggest problem.

One of the six fingered man’s promises was a lie

Not exactly drunk or on drugs, but given nitrous oxide while having a cavity filled when I was younger I started to think I was drowning on my own saliva because I couldn’t swallow and they weren’t using the suction thing to clear it out. I started thrashing and flailing about, effectively slapping the dentist.

I got my bachelor’s and worked in the industry with that degree for about a decade. Now I’m not in any related field and doing some professional certification courses. Part of me feels like I should’ve done a totally different major, part of me feels like I should go get an associate’s or master’s, but I probably wouldn’t have wound up in this field without going through my original career so at least a different bachelor’s degree probably wouldn’t have gotten me where I am now.

This becomes even more confusing with the way people commonly talk in English versus Spanish. In English, residents of the United States of America typically refer to themselves as Americans, and in English “American” typically only refers to someone from the USA. In Spanish, it seems residents of the USA are typically called the equivalent of “United Stateser” and “American” refers more generally to someone from the continent, at least in some parts of the Spanish-speaking world. I once had an apparent native Spanish-speaker online argue that was the correct form in English as well and insisted that the official name of the country is United States (Estados Unidos), not United States of America (Estados Unidos de América), and that America never refers to the country in English. They didn’t appreciate when I asked why in international sporting events the Americans’ shirts always say USA and why the supporters chant “U-S-A” all the time.

Languages are weird. If you’re learning a different language and try to insist that the new language behave the same as your native language, you’re going to have a hard time.

To jump on with this, sometime in TV, especially with sports broadcasts or recaps, I still hear hosts say something like, “let’s go to the videotape” even though basically no one is using tape anymore for these things.

He’s long acknowledged the problem and put the blame on Walt hiring an Irishman as his voice coach for a cockney accent.