I had a dog that was a cat. She wanted affection, but it had to be her idea. And ONLY her idea. She could be walking up to the couch to hop in your lap, and if you saw it and invited her up she’d turn around and walk away, because she did NOT answer to your commands.

But then you’d be watching the TV and notice that you were petting the dog, and have no idea when she’d snuck alongside you for her cuddling.

She also was super attached to her dog bed we’d made out of an old suitcase. She did whatever she could to stay in it.

I dropped a word there. “It doesn’t have to cost…”

I love how the guy who played Edward Snowden is buddies with the dark lord of surveillance.

I’d prefer he commit suicide rather than have his clients murder him.

A major state university with 45,000 students.

Choosing not to sit in a crowded room while people read names for 2 more hours so someone can hand you a fake placeholder diploma (the real one is mailed later) isn’t some grand sacrifice.

I like that it happened because it’s embarrassing for Pichai. Bit there is no price to be paid by the students as far as I can tell.

When Karl Rove spoke at my college when I was a student, I was part of the angry audience that lead to him ending his address 20 minutes early and leaving with his security detail forming a crowd around him. It was a cool moment, but it didn’t cost me anything.

And I think that’s the bigger takeaway. It doesn’t have to cost you anything to stand up to these assholes.

I just found out she was born in 93.

Evil can age a bitch.

I was very relieved by the end of that sentence.

I teach at a college. The ceremony is so Mom can come get a picture. There’s a reason so many grad students don’t go to theirs.

I work for a city that’s an enclave for the mega-rich and is going through hyper-gentrification. People are buying 3 million dollar houses, tearing them down, and building 15 million-dollar houses.

It’s the 1%ers being pushed out by the .01%ers. It’s a whole different planet.

But the contractors still suck and cut every corner they can, so it really is the same anywhere you go.

They walked out of an extremely boring ceremony. That’s nothing.

We can talk about more than one thing.

My favorite thing about the diagram is the layout. The liberals are on the right and the leftists are neither right or left.

Don’t forget to schedule your colonoscopy.

Tomorrow - got it.

Don’t forget the part where Trump backed out of the horrible deal Obama made with Iran that involved 1.6 billion dollars going to Iran.

Now it’s 300 billion, extra taxes on fuel that benefit the Iranian regime, thousands of people murdered, and America’s international standing even further eroded.

Art of the Deal!

I use vanced and uBlock Origin, but I do also pay for YouTube. I watch more YouTube than anything, and I’m okay paying for it.

But I still use Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, ad nauseum (really cool if you want to fuck with the algorithms on the stuff that gets through), etc.

Pointing out that Windows Vista is turning 20 this year is a gut punch.

You need different boys.

I got together with some of my old college buds a while back, and they got drunk and started droning on about how much they loved and depended on their wives and how they never imagined they’d grow up to be excited about settling down and redecorating and shit, but that it was amazing.

It was wholesome as fuck.

I love how that also applies to Harry Potter.

Obligatory note: The author is a terrible person and she’ll never get another dime from me.

8 was pretty solid under the hood, but they really pushed that Metro interface, and even if you managed to disable it with something like Start8, it was still crippled by the tablet-first design on an OS that had like 2 tablets. And even with the tablets it sucked because lots of settings were still in the old control panel that required a mouse and keyboard.

If we’d had a Service Pack that just gave us the Win7 UI and the Win8 backend it could have been great.