That's not uncommon. I know a bunch of people at Microsoft who use macOS, and they aren't just graphic designers. I've been on calls with people from the Azure team, PowerShell team, C# team, and even the server OS team that we're using macOS.

Can confirm, I'm right on the edge of Gen-X and Millennials. I was the only one of my friends who had a computer pretty much all the way through elementary school. And the only reason we had computers in our house was because my dad was a computer engineer. By the time I was in highschool pretty much everyone had at least a family computer.

You generally don't want to have rats around. They are scavengers and can cause a lot of destruction. We have rats that come up from the greenbelt behind us. They will try to burrow and nest everywhere. And their nests are absolutely disgusting and can carry diseases because they poop everywhere. We had one chew through the insulation and get into our garage. Thankfully it didn't nest in there but it took me days to clean all the shit off everything.

As far as your garden is concerned you can try planting some lavender. It is a natural deterrent for them.

Some dog breeds are great at getting rid of them too. My small dog is quick and can corner them easily. And my German shepherd will grab them off the fence or out of the pool. I also let our small dog sniff around in the garage about once a week to check all the small cracks or places they can get in.

A fellow nano user! There are dozens of us!

I just discovered them a few weeks ago, and I'm loving what I'm hearing. Gregg Deal's writing reminds me a lot of Jello Biafra.

With that in mind you very well could call the fire department to come let you out. That will certainly help draw attention to it.

I was making salsa and the recipe called for a clove or garlic. I thought the entire bulb was a clove. After I chopped up and added like 5 or 6 of them my wife came in and saw what I was doing and put a stop to it. But seriously, that was the best damn salsa I've ever had.

It's a really great book that I recommend to even the most casual Superman fan and especially people who think Superman is just an overpowered boy scout. It explores how Superman has evolved over the decades through the influence of different writers and artists and how their personal experiences and cultural shifts helped to evolve the character. He also examines the character’s transformation across other media, including radio, television, and film. Like how the now cheesy sounding, "It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman" originated from the radio broadcasts that had to adapt a comic to a non-visual medium. Or why they didn't just write a Superman comic in the 40's where he goes and defeats Hitler, because they didn't want to take away from the GIs or give kids false hope that Superman could just swoop in and save the day in a real life situation. But they also didn't want kids to think Superman would ignore what was going on, so that's when they started introducing a lot of off-world stories.

Peggy Hill?

The word sinister, suggestive of darkness or evil, comes from a Latin word meaning “on the left side.” The association of “left” with “evil” is likely because of the dominance of right-handed people within a population.

This usage actually dates back to the 14th century.

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/sinister-left-dexter-right-history

Per Glen Weldon in his book Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, kryptonite representing the destructive force of nostalgia and survivor’s guilt, reminding us that clinging to the past can undermine the present.

Siegel and Shuster had created the Man of Steel as the ultimate immigrant, the personification of the promise America represented to them. His abilities are metaphors for limitless potential and opportunity, for new horizons stretching out before us: the American Way.
\ It seems fitting, then, that the only thing capable of harming him would be a reminder of the Old World he left behind, a past that is irrevocably gone. Only the past—our past—can hurt us.
\ To this day, kryptonite functions in the Superman mythos as the physical manifestation of both survivor’s guilt and a particularly toxic kind of nostalgia, a reminder that when we dwell on what we’ve lost, we can kill what we have.

It's not a great movie, it's superb!

If it wasn't for a few f bombs the Blue Brothers could have been rated PG. And maybe the used condom joke at the very beginning.

A cigarette never chewed through the firewall on my car and filled the glovebox with acorns

I worked in munitions in the US Air Force. Anything to do with bombs and missiles in movies is the worst for me. No you can't outrun a blast. No, a plane cannot just do a barrel roll and have a heat seeking missile fly past it. They also don't follow your exact path. They use proportional navigation to basically find the shortest path to you.

Super Bowl XL is by far the worst Super Bowl I've ever watched. That officiating was complete and total crap.

I'd pay to watch that

First thought was, you don't need to update an Azure. Second thought was tech people really aren't good at coming up with unique names.

The thing that always impressed me with Paul is he seems to genuinely enjoy entertaining people. You hear about bands complaining that they hate playing certain songs, out right refusing to play their hits, or phoning in their concerts. But not Paul. I saw him a few years ago and he put on a 3 hour nonstop show. His band took breaks but he just kept going. I can't even begin to guess the number of times he's played Hey Jude, but every time I've seen him play it he seems to be genuinely enjoying himself.