…weesa no like da naboo: da naboo tink day so smartie, day tink day brain so big!..

…i dumped them like a rock shortly after the pacific bell acquisition a quarter-century ago; sadly, our current ISP was my wife’s unilateral choice…

…half that time before i realised it was only half the devices on our network, too: spent a long while chasing DNS poisoning, then the other half patching devices from a mobile hotspot…

…in the end, i never actually figured out why only half my devices couldn’t resolve half of the internet, but a hard-power-cycle of our fiber modem resolved the issue…

HE’S A PERSON AND HIS NAME IS ANAKIN!

…he blew up a droid control ship; that kind of counts…

East Asia gets a very mixed representation in western media, but it’s still better than the (effectively) no representation that is typical of SEA (bar like one or two countries).

…for all grief folks give kara-tur, they made a respectable effort to represent the breadth of pacific asia folklore and culture; no less a patois of anachronistic legendarium than D+D did with western europe…

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Malatra

…my mazda 2 outhandles my MX-5s and is the only car i’ve driven which keeps pace with my elise; we’ve been waiting for an electric subcompact hatchback for about ten years now but the stateside market keeps doing everything it can not to offer me one…

…i was going to say 16 ⅔ feet based on 1 ½ meters being about 5 feet, pretty close…

…you’re still here?..it’s over, go home!..

…go!..

OH YEEAH BAYBEE!!

TIL!

…i also had no idea aluminised tetrapacks were recyclable; always figured composite materials were dead-end landfill fodder…

(the changeover wasn’t entirely in the sixties, though: as a kid, we used to peel cartons open and scrape off the wax for craft projects clear into the early eighties, never realised the packaging had changed prior to the advent of plastic screw-tops)

…typically they’re coated with food-grade wax…

…depending upon the week, somewhere between ⅔ and ⅘ of my workflow can be in outlook…

…our IT policy required a shift to new outlook last year and it devastated my productivity: i struggled against its user-hostile interface for a couple of weeks and eventually just stayed home so i could get work done, despite our back-to-office mandate…in short order i was given an administrator account and i’m back on old outlook again…

…i’m not sure they’re actually made any differently; everything in europe gets a dramatically greater tow rating…

…manufacturers cater to the compact + economy truck market overseas but protectionist tariffs pretty much give them a captive market for luxury yank tanks stateside; your best bet for something new is finding it in puerto rico and paying the premium to ship it across the gulf…

…wagons nearly don’t exist anymore in the US market, but i concur: hatchbacks, wagons, and minivans are purpose-designed vehicles for the way people use them in the real world, whereas modern trucks and SUVs are overwhelmingly poseur props for families in denial of their suburban utility lifestyle…

…when i trained as a rescue diver, i learned that it’s not drowning unless you die: if you survive, it’s a near-drowning…

…for fine drafting, rotation is the last thing you want: that chisel-tip is precious, lead holders are love, lead holders are life…

…with some clever geometry, it could be sized for metric-integer weight, length, and volume…