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1. about 18 hours ago on Jeff Danziger

   Suitable primarily as kindling. I don’t even find its stories entertaining; for that, I turn to the Onion.

2. about 23 hours ago on Dana Summers

   I can definitely feel your pain with wanting a Unix box. If you’re ever forced to get a Windows machine, download Cygwin. (Assuming you aren’t in a position to install Linux, that is.) Cygwin will give you a Unix-like terminal, and, if you manage to get all the right packages installed (which can be a bit of an adventure…), you even get all the Unix utilities you’ve grown to know and love. I don’t know what I’d do without grep….

3. about 23 hours ago on Dana Summers

   I’ve got Macbooks and you can absolutely buy third-party magsafe power supplies. (I get them off Amazon.) Some of them will produce complaints from the computer about inadequate charging, but most of the time they’ve worked out okay. I do find they’re usually not built as well as the Apple ones, but they’re so much cheaper that I will gladly accept the reduced quality.

4. 1 day ago on Steve Kelley

   “The U.S. shouldn’t be telling other countries what to do.”

   Well, we certainly don’t have any moral high ground. But we do have some wisdom born of experience. We can at least say we’ve tried this approach and it definitely did not work out.

5. 2 days ago on Luann

   Don’t be discouraged! If it’s not going well, keep track of what isn’t going well — learn from what didn’t work.

6. 2 days ago on Frazz

   Different stores have different limits, but yeah, it’s to help the dressing room attendant keep an eye on how many items people are bringing in and out again to make sure things aren’t vanishing under people’s street clothes. Some stores will count your items on the way in and give you a tag with the number on them. On your way out, they ask for the tag back and count the items again.

7. 2 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Reminds me of Uncle Iroh. ;-)

8. 2 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   Really. Any particular examples? Because either we’re talking about a different person, or you’ve got a unique definition of “jingoism”.

9. 3 days ago on Frazz

   In this context, it obviously does not refer to a tornado over water. It’s talking about a raingutter downspout on the side of a building. But I could see where a small child might not realize that, being too young to have had the particular “joy” of having to clean leaf clogs out of the downspouts.

10. 3 days ago on For Better or For Worse

    Yep. My eldest and my husband wept buckets when we put our dog down last fall. But I didn’t cry until later. It was the little things, like cancelling the Chewy order for her Rimadyl prescription. That almost undid me.