Average mag prized in 1980 was $3. $3 in 1980 is equivalent in purchasing power to approximately $11.84 today (as of early 2026) Capitalism is doing just fine, thanks, and much better than any of the 1980s alternative economic systems.
Why embarrassed? Why annoyed? Starting fresh is an excellent strategy for most every problem, everywhere. Rebooting used to be painful because it took so long. Nowadays with fast solid state disks and memory it should be done every day as a matter of course.
Today is shaping up to be a real peach!
Whatever you’re up to, wherever you are, I hope your day blossoms beautifully!
In my experience, the vast majority of waste in any engineering shop is the managers at both the shop and the client.
Eisenhower
Well, today, they have a great deal more of all those things and we cannot expect the British Navy or General Smallpox to come to our rescue.
A nasty old man,
at the cost of hundreds of innocent deaths and millions of dollars,
kills an even nastier and older man
responsible for thousands of innocent deaths:
difficult to decide what to think.
Lichens prefer cloudy, damp days.
That coworker must have incompetent and should have been fired long ago. If AI can write better than you, then you cannot write. If you think AI will make you a better worker, then you are in the wrong job.
As pink as a baby's pinky.
Using 'regurgitate' in a sentence almost never improves it. The word can be added to the list of sentence killers featuring 'oozed'.
Or perhaps
White houses like tumbled seashells on a hill
Above a beach where surfers hold their boards,
Bright as borrowed moons.
The tide inks their footprints, deletes them,
Says: start again.
Thanks! Now that spring has arrived in England, my feed is full of daffodils, bittersweet here in snowy Ottawa. This one is intriguing. Does the blue flower convey sadness, or only this cold day? Maybe blue supplanting yellow refers to 4 years of the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Art is hard!
4 years of death, trauma and misery. What reason is there to prevent this going on for another 4 years? The war might have been stopped 4 years ago, before it was normalized, but it wasn't and now it can't be.
Pay for ad-free streaming, or mute the ads. No more unenforceable laws to cure minor, easily managed annoyances!
Pink teeth? Sounds like it could be the next trend. The black & white goth / emo color scheme is becoming quite tedious.
Why did you leave out the most interesting part of your story? What was Jeffrey's method?
Black-and-white photograph of Vera Menchik, the pioneering first Women's World Chess Champion, seated at a chessboard in deep concentration during a game or study session. She rests her chin on her clasped hands, elbows on the table, gazing intently downward at the board with a calm, focused expression. Menchik has dark hair pulled back and wears a long-sleeved cardigan or sweater. The chessboard in the foreground displays a mid-game position with black and white pieces in play, including prominent kings, queens, bishops, knights, rooks, and pawns. Behind her, heavy dark curtains frame a bright window letting in natural light.
In 1927, Vera Menchik became the first Women's World Chess Champion at age 21 & is the longest-reigning women's champion in #chess history.
She defended the title 7 times, held it undisputed until her tragic death in 1944 at age 38 in a V-1 rocket bombing during #WWII. She was born #OTD in 1906.
They should study the link between reduced academic pressure ( "accommodation" ) and a life of empty mediocrity.
The planet itself will be fine. Even the human species will survive. Please stop with the ludicrous exaggerations - they only undermine your cause. If you had said something like 'a death sentence for the insurance business' that would be novel and interesting and make certain people sit up.
As a boy I got saltpetre from the pharmacy. Traditionally it is obtained from horse piss - which must have been widely available in 1770s North America.
Gunpowder is so simply made. Get some charcoal, some sulphur and some nitrate and mix them together. Little boys of my generation usually had some on hand. Could the Continental Army not make their own?
As I understand things, Canada's hockey team is not out yet. Hopefully they will get a second chance, this time with their captain playing.
He Did Not Conquer
Benjamin Franklin's Failure to Annex Canada
By Madelaine Drohan
www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...
"a respectable distance." <- respectful
Yes. And the politicians are very happy about that. The confusion is deliberate.
Although your jellyfish is bright red, it looks a lot more friendly then the giant 30 foot long jellyfish recently spotted off the Argentinian coast
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On grey & dank days, with rain stottin' off pavements and steam gatherin rivulets down cafe windaes, Edinburgh streets entice me to their glowing embrace
#WestEnd #Edinburgh
stot: bounce or cause to bounce against a surface (Scots)
In the 1980s, Polgár overcame Communist repression in Hungary, frankly stated sexism in her field and obscene pressure from her father to become the No. 1 woman player in the world – at age 12. 2/2
'Queen of Chess': Netflix is giving another boost to chess with this new fast-paced documentary (available Feb. 6) about Judit Polgár, the highest-ranked female player of all time. 1/2 🧵
