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1. 11 days ago on Loose Parts

   The architect calls it “Fallingjenga.”

2. 28 days ago on DeFlocked

   On a related note “My Fellow Americans” (two ex-presidents trying to expose corruption by the current administration while fleeing an NSA hit squad) is really funny.

3. 29 days ago on Edge City

   When we moved to Rochester 44 years ago we insisted on a house with a wood-burning fireplace. We go through a face cord in about 1.5 winters. We have a Texas Fireframe; their increased heat transfer claim is IMO semi-bogus, but it does make it easier to maintain a fire with less poking.

4. about 1 month ago on Bloom County

   “Call any vegetable

   and the chances are good

   that the vegetable will respond to yooooou. . ."

   (Frank Zappa)

5. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   And due to flip-flopping between Julian and Gregorian calendars Sweden had a double leap year in 1712, with the second leap day on February 30.

6. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   When writing an algorithm to return the day of the week for a given day the cleanest approach is to pretend the year starts on the preceding March 1 (implicitly including January and February in the preceding year). After calculating the dotw for March 1 the offset for any following date of that “year” (including February 29, if there is one) is always the same.

7. about 1 month ago on Freshly Squeezed

   Magic color-changing wrapping paper!

8. about 1 month ago on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

   Somebody’s been observing the customers at Dave’s Hot Chicken.

9. about 1 month ago on Agnes

   Acquired taste, originally for social purposes. I drank tea until I was 20 and worked a summer job where the lab crew visited the coffee cart twice a day; no tea, so I learned to drink coffee with cream and sugar. Seven years later I worked at a lab in France where everyone went into the espresso bar after lunch; no cream, so I learned to drink strong coffee with sugar. Still doing the same 48 years later.

10. about 1 month ago on Tank McNamara

    Famous cartoon from some years ago in /The New Yorker/:

    Man sitting in a living room chair, wearing a fake arrow through his head.Wife sitting opposite in a similar chair: “I never know when you’re kidding.”