I bonesaw what you did there.

Natural gas … although that’s not exactly “diversification” from oil.

The Dickhead

I can’t even watch Ali G’s interview with trump any more. And that shit was funny.

The Untied Snakes of Vespucciland

Hey, we did get the moon landing out of it.

Idi Amin spent the last couple of decades of his life in Saudi Arabia. I can’t think of anything that Saudi Arabia has in common with Russia …

The city next to mine had its entire hospital network shut down, just because some vulture capitalists saw that the price was less than the value of the real estate it owned. They bought the hospital network, spun off the real estate as a separate venture that then rented the properties to the hospitals, which bankrupted the hospitals leading to their closure.

Hire to create the illusion of growth, fire to create the illusion of competence. Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.

In the US, the punctuation is supposed to be inside of the quotes, even if that punctuation wasn’t actually part of what’s being quoted. So if somebody says “your mother sews socks that smell,” the quoted partial bit would be typed as “your mother sews socks.” In Britain it would be “your mother sews socks”. The difference might not be really obvious visually; it’s whether that period (which is required to end the sentence) is before the end quote or after it. Apparently programmers in the US (like I used to be) have gravitated towards the British style because with string variables (which are generally delimited by quotes) you can’t be farting around with adding phantom punctuation inside the quotes, even if it is grammatically correct here.

I’m going to start using “for bullet points, ____” and see if anybody notices.

I used to write websites in Notepad. It was kind of like digital Amishness.

I think putting spaces before and after the em dash is incorrect, but I’m not sure. I do it because I think it just looks better visually.

I’m trying to stop using “for bonus points, ____”. I don’t have any bonus points left to give out.

I use them with a space on each side – which is apparently wrong. Sigh.

I never even heard of an em dash until I started reading about AI. I was just using hyphens everywhere I was apparently supposed to be using em dashes. I am a stickler for grammar and correct punctuation (except for punctuation inside quotes which my internal programmer won’t allow me to do the American way) so I’ve started using em dashes – and now people think I’m an AI.

(jk)

“I am doll parts.” - Kurt Cobain’s murderer

(jk)

His supporters don’t see this stuff.

I grew up in Ohio in the '70s. We would get our first snow in late September and by the end of October the ground would have permanent snow cover. We wouldn’t see grass again until some time in April with the last snow coming in May. The giant mounds of plowed snow would last into June. It’s hard for me to even imagine a six-month Winter now, but that’s what we got.

In Summer the “heat wave” was when it got to 85°F during the day.