There’s a non-obvious freeze function in the Task Manager - for as long as you hold the Ctrl key, it’ll stop updating the list. I have no idea why this functionality is hidden, but I guess Dave Plummer had some unusual ideas about UX.

For sure, but when he says the right things to disillusion a fraction of the supporter base, let’s recognize that even if he is a part of the problem.

White Ninja is a blast from the past! I’m sure I had a bunch of favorites, but this one jumps out at me:

When you install LibreOffice now, the set-up guide encourages you gently to use the newer, friendlier tabbed interface. I don’t know if the same is true for in-place updates.

Thanks. The photo in the original article is, as best I can tell, a staircase in the Kozhinsky family tomb in or near the church grounds in Veshalovka, Lipetsk, Russia – it’s totally unrelated.

I think your second para is purely from LotR Online, the MMO? But you’re certainly right that Shelob doesn’t explicitly die - she flees, seriously wounded, and her fate is unstated as far as I know.

If you don’t love getting dog shit on your newly washed car, you should have thought of that before living 2-3 counties away from a future Float-a-Poo owner, and you have only yourself to blame.

Continued exchange from Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (2006):

Kurt said, “You just said they’re gone. Which is it?”

Dr. Halsey considered a moment and then replied, “Both. The quantum-mechanical implications do not translate to simple, nonparadoxical, classical terms.”

“Then let’s stick to practical terms,” Kurt said, growing annoyed. “Are they safe?”

She tilted her head, considering, and then replied, “You could detonate a nuclear warhead on these pods and because the extruded Slipspace within is not in this dimension, there would be no effect to their contents.”

It’s still used extensively as a promotional and self-publication tool. It’s hard to shake the status of a platform that was the de-facto place to find news about a person or business for more than a decade, unfortunately.

Also ironic because they executed her on the spot by shooting her in the face.

Given the desire path, it probably wouldn’t last long.

It’s Dutch with a few cute changes, I think. My Dutch is very weak, but I believe it’d be:

we [zijn] [heel] hard aan t werk om dit te [maken], [mischien] kan je beter [fietsen]

which gives a rough literal translation of something like:

we are very hard to the work for this to do, maybe can you better cycle

i.e. “we’re working hard to sort this out, but maybe it’d be better if you cycled”

I found a matching listing on Amazon (with the expected deluge of one- and two-star reviews); I won’t link it because fuck Amazon, but here are the two prominent product pictures:

My favorite part is the inexplicable extra angle on the top book that made it into the actual cup.

Don’t forget Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair and the gold Sharpie.

To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump. There is always a photo of him — generally a tear sheet from a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers. I almost feel sorry for the poor fellow because, to me, the fingers still look abnormally stubby.

(I think this photo is actually a reconstruction by BBC Newsbeat rather than a Short-Fingered Vulgarian original, but still).

At the risk of sounding stupid, what would the problems caused by a large number of people making their own cheese be?

5½ flaps per second is impressive; you must be playing Foldy Hummingbird.

egrets, respect my plurality

This is a company helmed by the guy who bought Twitter and had their press contact email just autoreply with a 💩 emoji.