Octavio

Sorry we couldn’t pass the torch to a new generation but I’ll take a fossil over a bigot every single time.

Still kinda disappointed nobody has come up with a brand of soy milk called "Soy Capitan!"

Just gonna leave this here.

I just started Dumb Luck by Vu Trong Phung. I was browsing through Book Street in Vietnam and found this, one of the few that was translated into English. I’m excited, I’ve never read a Vietnamese book before. It was written in 1936, which was during the late French colonial period.

Are you counting the space taken up by the gas wells, transportation infrastructure, and storage facilities?

That's cool. These do seem to be a bit cheaper than comparably configured Windows laptops. I already bought a Windows 11 Lenovo (and put Linux Mint on it), but in the future I will opt for pre-loaded Linux computers. Glad to see it catching on. I don't think I'll be shipping my computer to a Lenovo service center to get a refund on the Windows license, but I may write a nasty email.

Yeah but you have to pay for the sunshine every year that you use to power the panels. And you have to build pipelines to transport that sunshine from the faraway places where it's developed, and sometimes you have to liquefy it a load it onto gigantic tanker ships and carry it overseas, and there's always a risk of it exploding and...oh, wait. I'm thinking of the gas. Never mind.

It’s also fun. I always have a smile on my face when riding back from a grocery run or dinner out. Driving a car used to just make me aggravated.

It’s not enough that the consequences of having 34 felony convictions are exactly nothing. What a piece of work that guy is.

I heard about a company that sold laptops with Linux installed instead of Windows and I checked it out, expecting it to be a couple hundred dollars cheaper for a comparable machine, on account of not having to pay Microsoft a license fee. But actually if anything they were more expensive, so I was disappointed.

That…sounds a tad optimistic.