Oh great. “unalives” is my term for a group of people in my D&D world who were sort of turned into ghosts by a vast magical accident. They were actually shifted into a demiplane created by the accident, but to outsiders they appear to be ghosts. Anyway if I eventually publish the world am I going to offend people and get accused of queer/transhate or slangjacking or something? I made it up many years ago when social media was MySpace, or even earlier.

“Recursive Backronym”

I doubt that the pay is insane yet. There are a lot more PHP devs than COBOL devs. About half of the web still runs on PHP. It’s true that COBOL runs about half of the financial world, but PHP is less than 30 years old whereas COBOL programs are relics from decades earlier, and generally only get updated minimally if the systems around them change.

I agree. A lot of people who mock PHP know almost nothing about it but they know they’re supposed to hate it because all the cool kids do.

Or TSP (trisodium phosphate) - which you can’t even make websites with, but it’s great for cleaning oil spots off the driveway.

Last week I found the code for the first website I created, way back in the mid 90s. The server-side part was written in Perl.

Get used to the fact that it won’t.

Turns out Cousin It is a Taylor Swift fan.

No idea. Presumably they expected me to figure out the settings and change it like I did. Or maybe I could have told the Digital Assistant to restart the phone, I dunno.

My wife’s parents were both Americans, born in Missouri, but she was born in Brazil while they were both working down there. When they came back to the states they filled out papers to establish her US citizenship. This was decades ago. She’s absolutely an American citizen, no question about it, they were just outside the country when she was born. But we’re currently planning a trip to Scotland and she can’t find her passport, so she’s been going through the (amazingly arduous) procedure of getting a replacement. Now I’ve started to worry that this process is going to trigger some kind of misconceived alarm, and ICE will show up and haul her away with the accusation that she’s an illegal Brazilian. I mean, it’s not all that far-fetched is it? Or am I just being psycho?

In Settings you select Power as the function of the Power Button instead of Digital Assistant. Then the power button works like it should.

And the Pacific Rim? It’s the only rim, baby!

The world will be covered with a whole new set of life forms, humans will be long gone, and there will be no evidence that we ever existed.

Tried to restart my fairly new Pixel phone a couple days ago by holding down the power button, but instead of showing the Power menu it prompted me to ask the Digital Assistant something. Excuse me? I don’t remember enabling that. Every other phone I’ve ever had, holding down the power button has always been the way to power down or restart. I had to search Settings to find how to configure the power button to control the power. Or course maybe I could have asked the Digital Assistant - but fuck that.

D’oh of course, I’ve never had car tires with tubes, but of course they need air. Should have thought of that.

What kind of memes would that involve?

Had to google tubeless tires to even understand the headline. Tubeless tire whats? I thought a tubless tire was some kind of solid or foam rubber that needed no inflation, but apparentlly it still does, it just doesn’t have a separate innertube. Interesting.

Superb owls!

If Colbert is leading in the ratings, it doesn’t matter how much higher the Tonight Show’s viewer numbers were 20 years ago. An overall decline in viewership doesn’t motivate a network to cancel its top rated show to save money. That show is making more money than its other shows. Dismissing this as just the workings of a dying industry doesn’t make sense.

“I only keep it for sentimental reasons. It belonged to me mum.”