gcapell

I see what you did there.

Australian here: I think anyone can become Australian.

A few _days_ ago they were looking at 60-70 cents. I suspect those were (relatively speaking) the good old days.

I honestly can't tell exactly when the thread meandered into satire.

Very cool. I keep middle-clicking the Delwin button, which my browser interprets differently than I want.

If there was ever a time for the universal New Yorker caption: https://web.archive.org/web/20060203045552/http://modernarth... ...

AIUI the scenario with Jim Butcher and Dresden Files was that he was _trying_ to write some "genre hack" novel, and succeeded despite himself: https://www.tor.com/2008/07/25/sdccjimbutcherinterview/

"... struggled mightily until deciding (out of frustration) to reverse course and follow Chester’s rigorous writing techniques to the letter, doing all the plot outlining and character background sheets and so on that the English literature folks often scoff at as the workmanlike tools of genre hacks."

> Can any English speaker remember the name of the interpreter of their favourite audiobook?

Anne Hathaway for Wizard of Oz, David Tennant for How to Train Your Dragon, James Marsters for Dresden Files are all _amazing_.

Towards the back of the article it talks about video from inside the house where the man shows the knife to the camera then turns off the camera.

Acme. I'm used to it.

>>> log(99999,2) -> 16.6

I've got (an earlier model of) http://espressounplugged.com/rok Less portable, but much less fiddly than this minipresso seems to be.

What makes you think the _small_ guys will protect your data _better_?