Grey cat club!

Fun prank: Do this around the 7 foot mark of the tape measure, then sell it at a thrift store.

I could have done without all the flanderization.

The title “Scrubs: Med School” is fine for me as a spinoff. Different performance of the intro song, fine. We’ve got a new POV character, a new gang as it were, younger, even younger than the original crew, they’re not first day interns, they’re med school students, so they’re even more raw and incomplete as people, they’ve got earlier lessons to learn.

They didn’t give the first series time to rest, they had no faith in the new concept or the new cast, so they bring back a lot of the old cast to…exist? They had all gotten one of TV’s biggest “and they lived happily ever after”'s, so they’re not really able to have growth moments and drama of their own, they mostly serve as rocks for the new cast to bash themselves against.

If they’d given it a few years to let the audience start wanting more, and then focused entirely on the new crew with maybe one of the original actors in a recurring role (like have Cox or Turk as the hospital administrator, Kelso’s role) and maybe have other characters return as single episode guest stars the way Michael J. Fox and Dick Van Dyke did, and you know, have any faith in the concept at all, it would have gone 4 seasons.

May I present to you Her Monochromatic Majesty Queen Isabella Greypelt.

On the one hand, I kinda hate how much later writers latched onto the Kobayashi Maru. It’s how you know the work was written by a fanboi, and that goes septuple for JJ Abrams.

That said, I do like the minor bit of meta commentary there. TOS Kirk, the honor’s student whose daddy was an alumnus, he defeats the point of the exercise and gets a commendation for original thinking. Lens Flare Kirk, the Corvette crashing bar fighting fuckup orphan, does the exact same thing and gets a reprimand. Which is precisely how it works.

“Full stack”

Mint has the advantage where a lot of instructions are written with Debian or Ubuntu in mind, and thus it practically always works with Mint.

I’m old enough to remember Outlook Express.

They learn this shit at college, don’t they?

Remember when anti-vaxxers were liberal hippie vegan “all natural” gender studies majors and not trucknutsexuals?

“What do you want to be when you grow up?”

“…hehe. hehehe.”

or a crap cocktail.

Well I mean, Nevada is Vegas, Reno and nuclear test craters.

Or you could buy a Skyhawk, three Toyota Camrys and fuel for a year.

Here is the federal Energy Information Administration’s website stating the federal tax on gasoline is 18.3 cents per gallon. On top of that, states will add taxes on top. My state of North Carolina currently has a 40.65 cent per gallon tax on gasoline. Which works out to be 58.95 cents per gallon in tax.

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From an old edition of the Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge:

An airplane’s tire will hydroplane at a speed in knots equal to 9 times the square root of the tire pressure in PSI. So if your tires are inflated to 36 PSI, sq.rt 36 = 6 * 9 = 54 knots. If there is standing water on the runway, you will have no braking authority or steering control from the wheels, you will have to maintain control of the aircraft with the flight controls, and you cannot rely on short field stopping figures from the POH if it requires applying brakes above 54 knots.

I got that out of the 2003 edition; I don’t know if it’s in the current issue.

There was kind of a retro thing at the time; bell bottoms came back for girls, carpenter jeans were in for boys…his shoes and her socks would have been out of style in '06 but other than that yeah.

I pretty much only ever used the remote; I have to keep remembering how to use the main controls.

Fortunately, you can do everything you need to do with just a headset plugged into the device. They didn’t ONLY put the controls on the remote. I’ve seen iPods and a lot of televisions do that.

I do end up using my phone with a set of ANR headphones most of the time, but the time may be rapidly coming when I do away with smart phone life and return to tradition.