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This is getting way too confusing. All along, someone said “Georgia” and I thought of the southern state. And then there was a war in Georgia with Russia, and I was just geographically-astute enough to know that they meant the country.
So that raged on for a while, and now, whenever I hear about something happening [...]

A really random thought just popped into my head…
UNIX systems have their “swap” partition, a disk partition where unused stuff in RAM is “swapped out” to disk to make room for newer stuff in RAM. Of course, no hard drive is as fast as RAM, so you obviously want lots of RAM so you never [...]

As the massive thunderstorm came in, I flipped on the scanner to listen to local public safety, as there are often interesting things going on.
I don’t know the background, but here’s what I heard:
“Engines 2 and 3, you can cancel… The caller stated that he thought he had been struck by lightning, but he has [...]

Do you guys recall Obama’s “fist bump” with his wife when he clinched the nomination? It was a big hit with younger Obama fans.
It was not a big fan with E.D. Hill, a Fox News anchor who called it a “terrorist fist jab,” as I was just reading about. That’s not the real concern, though. [...]

The last paper I ever wrote in college was for my Power and Propaganda course, and addressed the propaganda being hurled against Obama. One thing I addressed was that many of the criticisms of him were blatant lies. It’d be like if I started posting here that John McCain said, “Thank God for the Nazis!” [...]

Drive very, very carefully in Wyoming, if at all. Apparently exceeding the speed limit by more than 5 (!) MPH can bring up to 20 (!!!!!) days in prison.
And this isn’t a technicality or an obsolete law on the books. I found this out after an Ask MetaFilter question by someone whose friend was given [...]

From the first two pages of today’s Nashua [NH] Telegraph:

A firefighter in Concord was commended after saving the lives of two children in a trailer home. He explained that he drove by and saw smoke pouring out of an attached shed, with the father of the children attempting to extinguish it with a garden hose. [...]

This comic was pretty funny, and the age/2 + 7 formula got tossed around a lot by my roommates.
Of course, it gives us the minimum age one can date without being creepy. At 22, it’s [(22/2) + 7], or 18. (I, however, maintain that this discrepancy would, in fact, be creepy.)
But what about the upper [...]

Rusty and I were just talking about the recent decision by the Democratic party and how we’re going to count delegates from the two states, which has left both sides somewhat unhappy.
But then we kind of realized that no one is talking about the real issues? I don’t particularly care how we seat delegates. The [...]

…I’d try to arrange a meeting of all the major candidates, in front of the media, where we all pledge to stop this crap. (Obama himself commented that he knew Hillary meant nothing negative, but that after such intense campaigning, he knew exactly what it was like to slip up and say something that sounds [...]