Makes one wonder about the content of that “Radium Girls” book.

This exists now in the US at Target. I liked them, actually.

When my toddler was much younger, they would take a bath in warm water, then get out in my well air conditioned house, shivering violently and happily declining any attempt to warm them up. We would always end up warming them up in the end, of course.

Nowadays they’re a bit older and will seek out the biggest pile of blankets they can find at any opportunity.

No, Spoodermang.

What about flying a kite in the dark?

And depending on the size of your lot, maybe you could use a reel mower. They’re nearly silent!

You could also use a scythe, but that sounds like a lot more work.

When I was a kid, I would read (among other things) X-Men novels. Wolverine wasn’t as popular of a character back then, but he frequently featured prominently. A common descriptor for his character was “barrel chested.”

I never really knew what that meant before.

That seems plausible. Thank you.

I still want to know what a Dragula is.

Pretty much, yeah.

My condolences regarding your second shift.

I have a family living a normally scheduled life now, but if I didn’t, I would go back to third shift in a blink.

It sounds like you already have this problem solved, but just in case:

Back when I still used Windows, the workaround was just to make sure you didn’t have a network connection when installing the OS. This could be done by unplugging the NIC during install on a physical system or by deleting the NIC in a VM (or other ways, obviously, but these were the simplest). It still took some convincing, but then you could make your username whatever you wanted.

I don’t know if that still works - it’s been years - but if you still use Windows and still have that problem, this might be worth a try.

edit: program -> problem

Yeah, if I had to pick a shift, second would have been my third choice.

Two things coming together finalized my choice to leave Windows:

• the ability to play almost every game on Linux thanks to Valve
• the fact that you couldn’t create a local account during a Windows install (back when I discovered this you still technically could with some workarounds; I don’t know if you still can but you shouldn’t have to put in any effort IMHO)

That’s approximately second shift. I suspect the original comment is referring to third.

(Though the point still applies)

I genuinely miss third shift, though.

Fair enough.

Bshole?

Happy to be of service.

I think it’s the newest popular LLM, named after a concept introduced in the book Stranger in a Strange Land.

I once looked into an apartment that was essentially an empty box with a separate fee for each amenity / appliance.

It’s been a while, but I think one toilet was included, but nothing else to my memory.

It’s entirely plausible that this is the case for your wife’s family and others, but it’s hard for me to imagine a household without at least one non mobile computer. However, I can.

Without non mobile internet, though? Again, I can imagine it … But it seems wrong.

It shouldn’t be so hard; I was around before the internet was prevalent. My life now involves constant internet access, though, so I guess it’s weird to me that some people have lives that don’t - and especially that that might be the average.

One must always remember the words of George Carlin, I suppose.