The motherboard header should be a standard pinout to make it possible to make a solid connector. That should be part of the ATX standard.

The cable from the case…the PC I just built has no reset switch, the power button light is controlled by the case’s built-in RGB controller, there’s no hard drive access light because it’s the distant space year 2024…turns out the only thing plugged into that header on my machine is the power switch itself.

Having an electronics hobby, having played with Raspberry Pis and Arduinos and such, building things like 3D printers, I’m used to dealing with those little 0.1 inch DuPont connectors, everyone else has a fit about them but they’re not that bad.

She probably made you pay for her meal anyway.

I’ve noticed this on zip top food packaging; it’s as if the zipper is a separate piece of plastic that is very weakly glued to the bag itself and it doesn’t extend to the outer lips where you pull it open, so you end up separating one side of the bag from the zipper.

Brian Brushwood once referred to the reverse of the USD $1 bill as “a ticket to the illuminati show.”

Fun fact: The Great Seal of the United States of America has a front and a back just like a coin. The eagle with the shield and the olive branch and the arrows is the front, the All Seeing Pyramid is the back. And while the Obverse of the Great Seal is used quite a lot, the only prominent use of the reverse is on the $1 bill.

Red/green colorblindness is a thing. I would suggest a flashing lamp for charging and a steady light for charged.

(I know you’re joking but the builder in me is genuinely curious if you can make a rubber-like substance out of polystyrene)

I thought Gen Alpha was very explicitly NOT learning cursive.

I had typing tutor software on the family PC. It made the mistake of trying to teach typing by starting with only home row keys, then expanding outward from there. So for a very long time, you would type things like adj daf jal ls; dal fka and so forth. It was a very long time until you really started to get it.

And then MSN chat rooms and messenger happened to me, and suddenly touch typing was the main way I had to hit on chicks. I knew what the home row was, so I knew what touch typing looked like, so I started actually doing it, but typing things I wanted to type. I’m now the third fastest typist I know. On a good keyboard with a passage I’m familiar with I can key 106WPM, right now typing conversationally out of my brain I’m probably hitting about 65 or 70.

This reminds me of a game from aeons ago called “truck dismount.”

The United States has had the luxury of an all-volunteer military for slightly longer than I’ve been alive. My name went on the Selective Service roster. They keep that list. They’re having recruitment and retention problems. And the United States has a much bigger population than the likes of Finland.

I guess he feels like he’s achieving something. Everyone’s got to have a hobby.

Reminds me of the “caravan” episode of Top Gear, where the guys did the British equivalent of trailer camping, and when they arrived at the camp site they asked some other folks there at the campsite what they do when they’re there and the woman replied “fill up the loo.”

Sic Transit Racism.

Latex is natural rubber and is indeed biodegradable though it is slow to break down. Polyurethane condoms will probably be found in the archeological record.

From a soda fountain I can’t tell the difference because they always get mixed wrong anyway. Out of a can yeah they’re different.

Can I see a clip of BET praising Dick Cheney?

The pop culture idea that a dead human’s soul becomes an angel is a much later creation that is nowhere in the bible. 1. Angels are their own kind of being, humans don’t become angels. 2. The old testament describes the appearance of several different types or species of angel, the description of which sound like someone writing down an acid trip. One is described as “wheels within wheels covered in eyes.”

Anyone starts making homophobic noises at you eating a banana, ask them to unlock their phone so you can see if they’ve got Grindr installed.

Keep the roof watertight, keep the toilet flushing, keep oil in the engines, keep gas in the tanks, keep at least a week of food in the pantry. Literally nothing else on this earth matters if you don’t have these five things done.

You won’t believe how many babies this baby can baby.

Or sintered.