There is no requirement that you do. I’m completely unsure why people believe that you must allow shitty human beings in your life because they are family. Fuck that! Allow people in your life who make your life better. If that’s family, that’s great, if it’s not family that’s completely ok also.

I think a child up until about 18mos is a baby. A new born is an infant.

We’re a Sonos family. Listening to Sonos right now as a matter of fact. But this really bugs me. I don’t allow voices control in my home so was interested when Sonos brought out their own version. I’ve contemplated rolling it out, but now likely won’t.

Is make fine furniture and finish writing that video game I started about 8 years ago.

Me in High School, carrying a torch for a girl who was completely uninterested. We’re skiing at Mount Bachelor, I missed the exit from the chairlift and they wouldn’t let me jump down, so I ride the chairlift down. Of course girl I was carrying a torch for saw.

Or…

Fast forward about 45 years. Last weekend I was at Lynn Family Stadium with my wife, watching LouCity play. Just past the second half restart, I’m standing up from letting some people go down our row to their seats. I decide to put my drink can in the cup holder before sitting down all the way. I bend over and over balance. Go falling down over the row in front of us and the aisle beside us.

You can pick which is more embarrassing.

I’m 247.5 Oreo Cookies tall, that is many more Oreos than most, but not as many as some.

Thanks! My wife is a Soldier. We sometimes have interesting conversations about stuff like this.

Our government has completely lost its way. The Founders would be both appalled and ashamed.

Douglas Adams did this one. It didn’t turn out well for the whale.

This is amazing. I already love the train, this would be my dream mode of transportation.

I did that in Minecraft just a few weeks ago!

I absolutely love this.

This relationship can be saved as long as the guy’s wife does not start expressing an interest in Emacs. That would, of course, put an end to the relationship, but if she’s one of those “Notepad is all I need” types, there is hope this can be worked through.

From what I’ve read it was already unplayable…

… On any platform

Did you let them know you use Arch?

Gosh, on one hand this is tragic, on the other I can’t wait to see what they come up with.

This is really a great statement. There are many extraordinary people of faith, I am blessed to have some of them as friends. Unhappily, there are many horrible people of faith, and they give the good ones a bad name.

Worship how you see fit, just don’t demand the rest of us subscribe to your world view.

Preacher’s kid here. The first 30-some years of my life I was inculcated in conservative Christian orthodoxy. My journey to “faithlessness” paralleled my journey to anarchism, but started a bit later. I considered myself an anarchist a few years before I considered myself an atheist.

That said, after more than three decades in the church, are you ever truly done with faith? The easiest place to spot “faith” creeping into my life is in my music. For many years I refused to have anything to do with the music of Christianity. But it turns out I like that music! So I said fuck-it , and started adding some gospel back to my music server. I even sing along sometimes.

I also happen to love the art of preaching, not necessarily the content, but the delivery. Watching a skilled preacher brings me the same happiness watching a skilled actor does.

So in both those senses I’m still a bit religious.

Minecraft and Football Manager 24.

No chance of making a clean cut, around the wire and soldering it back together?