Haus

I swear part of it is regional. In the mid-Atlantic region - low volume lot, perpendicular spaces, maybe 1/2 full at max - you can watch people spend minutes faffing around to back into a spot.

There does seem to be a lot of hushed discussion about hair extensions.

Named after Trump’s wig?

Given up? I don’t know. I’ve been appalled pretty much non-stop since 2000, though. When we were taught history, the X’ers learned that the pendulum always swings back the other way. And when you looked back, the notion always kind of held water. But, draw a line from Nixon through Reagan, the Bushes, to Trump, and the conclusions you’ll draw are pretty grim.

There was an influential statement that was true in 1990 that was haunting, though: “The only presidential democracy with [more than 41 years] of constitutional continuity is the United States.” (I think there are around 5 others now between 40 and 70-something years old now.) Despite having a long run, this system isn’t particularly sturdy.

We’ll see, I guess.

Meanwhile “War Pigs” is playing loudly in the back of my head.

More like ‘decomposing’, amirite, guys?

Got launched off the side of a boat near Tokyo in January. Wasn’t very buoyant due to heavy winter clothing and the cold water was… something else. Felt like I was sinking down forever. When I did resurface, it took a long time for them to rig up a ladder for me to climb aboard the adjacent ship.

To an extent, you can make an argument for each individually. But they don’t mix. After a while, you’d be a walking contradiction. For a fun *exercise, try to imagine the opposite.

I’m surprised they didn’t spell it “Yurp.”

What’s the old quote? “If there are 10 people on the shower with a nazi, there are 11 nazis in the shower?”

As someone who preordered it, is CP2077 really a valid mechanism for performance testing?

You don’t even have to leave the realm of music. “A flautist that doesn’t write their own symphonies? Gasp, what a hack!”

Post hoc ergo proper hoc.