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Walking into my office, you definitely see the backside of my dual monitor + audio interfaces + studio monitor speakers (I dabble in music production as well as tech) from the door…

I've been working from home for almost a decade. My wife has long referred to me as her house manager. I handle coordinating the various outside contractors needed for things like …

As has the US with all of their aid. Yet, the US is the one that is forever chided for being negligent to the terms of the agreement.

The UK, France and China also signed that same agreement.

And another good thing about the Vasa museum? The ABBA museum is only a 5 minute walk away. And easy two-fer.

-45F is pretty cold. Last weekend in southwestern North Dakota windchill temps were down in the -70F range. It's -51F in my hometown in northern ND right now. An interesting tidbit…

Because we aren't bombarded with "Why don't we do things like they do in Italy" messages on every online forum like we are with Japan.

Even in highly liberal/socialistic countries with low levels of religion women are opting out. It all boils down to choice. And women are choosing "No thanks" in high numbers even …

Turns out, actually having to give birth is kind of a drag, even in the best of conditions, and women who realize they have a choice in the matter are more and more likely to nope …

In my family, the difference would have been that the good food was from my German relations, who were Lutheran. (as were my Norwegian relations, but they didn't cook as good for f…

I had to read that multiple times to prove to myself that the text didn't literall call out "Unix Wizards". After 10+ years of doing qa on the ZFS appliance I completely ignored th…

Desire to kill may be a bit strong but I distinctly remember sitting with my WWII veteran grandfather in November 1989 (US Thankgiving to be exact) and watching the stories of the …

I was working for UPS during that strike. We didn't lose a lot of drivers from what I recall because they had relatively nice hourly wages to come back to and could weather the sto…

They tried something like that. The Kazoo Helmet. It had the unfortunate propensity to briefly stick to an opposing helmet during a collision rather than slide off the other helmet…

If the recent book is to be believed at all, we now know that the person that Trump outsmarted most of all was himself. He never intended to actually win.

Interesting. I used to work in a UPS hub in Colorado as a unload manager. As I was in "management" I was explicitly not in the union. Actually, having been a manager, even though 2…