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'Struth. "Vagabond". ;)

@overgeeked Your definition of "optimizer" from the previous thread is both ridiculous and insulting, frankly. You're straight-up...

I have to second @Ruin Explorer here, this is conflating optimizers with munchkins. There's also a difference between theory-crafting...

This thread will go well .... Let me start with a story. In American law schools, there's an archetype called a "gunner." It's ... not...

I once went to a luncheon where the guest speaker was linguist Marc Okrand, the creator of the Klingon language. It was an interesting...

Yep. He snuck that past a LOT of people.

The absolute genius of making the horn in the music spell out MI in Morse Code. I didn't get that until maybe 5 years ago. Flew right...

Composer Lalo Schifrin, who wrote the Mission: Impossible theme, died today. He was 93.

I love road trips, but all of my real ones were with my parents. The closest I ever came to doing a road trip with friends was driving...

Gordon Ramsay on vacay!

The same photo I use in my Google ID: me sitting on a dock in Copenhagen last summer (I'm 57 and very proud of the Reed Richards-style...

And this is a group of us heading off on a California adventure when I was 21 or so (from top left: sister-in-law, spouse, me (in the...

Bill Moyers has passed. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/media/bill-moyers-pbs-dead-obituary

This grrrrl taught us about what toy destroyers really were. We didn’t realize there were such things as toys for “aggressive chewers”...