Most of the Olympic shooters use fancy gear like special eyepieces and what not. This guy Yusef Dikec from Turkiye rolled up without all that, stuck one hand in his pocket, shot with both eyes open and took silver along with his partner Sevval Tarhan.

My childhood home phone number is more burned into my memory than my current phone number.

Thanks for the clarification. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.

In Battlestar Galactica (2004) robots called Cylons attack the humans by hacking their computer network. They are able to destroy most of humanity and all but a handful of human ships. One of the ships that survives is the Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that was about to become a museum, and is too old to be connected to the network. The man in the picture is Admiral William Adama, captain of the Galactica. He orders that computers are not to be networked together, so they can’t be hacked by the Cylons.

In real life cyber security provider CrowdStrike had a bug in one of its update files. The file went out as part of an automated update to computers at many businesses around the world, including banks and airlines. The bug made the computers crash, grounding flights, making payment systems inoperable, etc.

Roses are red. Violets are blue. I ignored my instructions to write a poem about cashews.

Glue is not a topping. Pineapples are not glue. Therefore pineapples are not not a topping.

Indeed he did! He had ten cats

parent taking their child.

Princess Diana and Prince William were parent and child

By “celebrate” do they mean eulogize?

This was a triumph. I’m making a note here, huge excess. It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction. Globohomo Science, we do who me must because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are straight. But there’s no sense crying over every Miss Stake. You just keep on trying til you meet a beefcake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun, to turn people legibtaqua.

Takes me back to school lunches