You have just helped me to understand a decades old joke. Thank you.

Sorting my mail is one of my most stressful activities after meetings with my boss.

I think we’re on the same metaphorical page.

I’ve not lived in many states, but when my dad died in Maryland, there was a period during which creditors had the opportunity to collect from his estate, then any debts were considered forfeit.

edit: Correct a word.

Because … It kinda looks like a backwards one and cheese is often stored cold?

Or is it meant literally, like just sometimes you feel the desire for cheese?

I’m afraid I don’t get it.

The artist who did both of my tattoos had a tattoo of a severely bound woman on his stomach around his hips. I don’t remember for sure but I think he said he did it himself.

I don’t care what anyone’s into so long as everyone involved has provided informed consent, but I don’t think I would put that on my skin.

I wonder why this is a static image and not an animation or video.

Remember when he, at least allegedly, tried to end the comic? In my memory it feels pretty tame but at the age I was at the time it felt pretty edgy.

I initially missed that Jon greeted Liz and wondered whether it was Lyman calling. Liz makes more sense but for some reason I find the Lyman option more entertaining.

Nothing can ameliorate the ineptitude of Principal Skinner Plex.

I have a static IP (didn’t particularly want it but my ISP required it for port forwarding for some reason). I’m not currently hosting anything, at least not anything externally accessible, but when I did I had a tiny AWS instance configured as a reverse proxy to a separate reverse proxy VM in my house. It worked for me and if anything I hosted ever got compromised it escaped my notice.

However, I think the advantage of using something like Cloudflare rather than the way I did it (and as it sounds like you might) is threat mitigation. Especially stuff like DDoS protection.

I was trying to figure out why that name sounded familiar. I hadn’t heard of the story you referenced. I’m also pretty sure I’ve never been near anywhere with that name, though I think I might have encountered a road with a similar one.

Eventually, I remembered a book my then 5yo gave me after it was withdrawn from the school library and offered as a “keep forever” book.

The book did tell an interesting story partially based on real life first person accounts of a famous storm / flood, but overall it was fictional. There were some details I thought were inappropriate. I don’t know if those details (casual racism and acceptance of same, both by otherwise redeemable characters and by the victims of it; fairly graphic representation of bodily harm) match the reality of the time but, to put it bluntly, I agree with whomever made the decision to withdraw the book from a children’s library.

(I’m not sure what age group has access to the library. I do think it’s important for schools to allow access to uncomfortable facts, especially of history … But again, my kid was five at the time, so presumably other similarly aged kids also had access and I don’t think that they needed to hear these stories at that age.

My kid didn’t read, nor appear to want to read, the book, but given that they get freaked out by my surgery scars I don’t think that they would have benefited from doing so.)

You shouldn’t eat people with scurvy, regardless of whether you know them.

Remember shower oranges?

I think they’re supposed to go on your face.

Have any of them been pilfered by the promiscuous?

Same! Well, about the mouse. I am definitely a vi (and all its variants) user.

However, for transferring text between windows, the mouse is probably the best option. It’s not necessarily needed for highlighting, but definitely beneficial. If you don’t like ctrl+shift+v or middle click, shift+insert often works?

See, I prefer middle click.

Yeah, there are several repositories that seek to replicate it, but at least last time I looked they’re not particularly searchable. Another lemming did demonstrate that you can download the data and grep through it but I haven’t been motivated to do so yet.

I don’t know where it comes from, but I first saw it on bash.org, now defunct.