The current ones are good at it. I hope those who follow are less competent

I’m happy to wish a few people a short, nasty death real soon. Limbaugh was on my better off dead list, and I’m glad it was (complications of) a self inflicted lung cancer (COVID?)

Nor did I. Wikipedia says complications of lung cancer from his lifetime of smoking

I suspect the complication was inability to breathe

“that’s a shame, you should have considered it when you last downsized the workforce. I’ll be back in a month”

The article:

STILLWATER, Okla. (KFOR) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says they arrested a man in Pawnee County earlier this week for allegedly stealing a truck so that he could drive to his court date for a stolen vehicle possession charge.

Kody Adams was reportedly at a Stillwater gas station asking people for a ride to his court date in Pawnee County.

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OHP says that when Adams couldn’t find a ride, he “borrowed” a LifeNet ambulance supervisor truck that was left running to make it to the courthouse.

An OHP Trooper caught Adams walking in at the courthouse and arrested him after he allegedly admitted to the theft. Adams was taken to his court date, then back to Payne County.

According to OHP, Adams’ court date in Pawnee County was for possession of a stolen vehicle.

One of my favourite characters was a cat mage in an After The Bomb/RIFTS crossover game

So few hit points, but so much fun

Ping of death

Bash

Vim (clearly a buff)

1. Only if you drive in a way they can call unsafe
2. There is one brand that will let you opt out of tracking, storing data, etc: Tesla.

Which standard does Canada use?

I have a friend who’s a new PM (in scaled agile). He isn’t up on expectation management.

We have a process where we request data from another agency which takes “from 7 seconds to 12 days”

And of course he tells people that. And of course they hear “7 seconds”

I have told him that if the SLA is 12 days, say “less than 12 days”

Indeed, however the Americans stand out in the anglosphere

Wombats, koala, kangaroo, and emu eggs are easier to catch/find and were the main meat in places where those are common

I would rather Australian risks than those of bears and big cats

Aussie snakes try to keep away from people, they aren’t aggressive.

Our spiders are so like those elsewhere (compare Redback to black widow)

You’re unlikely to see a kangaroo in water. If you do, keep away from it just like you keep away from wild animals anyway

You’re very unlikely to see one in the wild, they’re nocturnal and their burrow entries are under creek banks

In zoos they live in the nocturnal animal section, probably swimming

They said 1st as an abbreviation of first (it’s a normal abbreviation 1st, 2nd, 3rd … 7th abbreviate first, second, third … seventh)

If you want to be both wrong and confusing

If you want to use correct English and be clear don’t use ordinals: Say “index 0, index 1” etc

Save ordinals for contexts without indices: the first time through this loop, the last record"

Calling index zero the first is correct, but risks misunderstandings such as in the op comic

That is why many call index zero the zeroth index

First and 1st are certainly different symbols for the same concept

The spelling for the index before the first is zeroth, no need to insert an extra vowel

Americans also index their building floors from 1

A two storey American building has floors 1 and 2, where elsewhere they might be ground (zero) and 1.

Blame the restaurant for having a table identified as zero