Last year when I had a batch of sleepless nights I reread the first 10 or so years of Dilbert online. One thing I miss is the puns. Scott used to not be afraid to use them, but they're rare now. I actually laughed out loud at one strip this year not because of the joke, but because it was the first pun I'd seen in ages.

I was also dismayed to realize my all-time favorite Dilbert strip, one which I printed out and had taped to my desk for years, was from something like 1998. Stumbling into it so "early" in the strip made me realize just how long it's been running.

GOTO 110
110: print "I am not a script!"

That's pretty funny. I will admit to having left myself voice mail messages so that I wouldn't forget ideas I came up with on a hike. Not sure what I would have done without phone signal.

And it it something we will not up with put!

I recommend family medicine. Every time I talk to my doctor, I have flashbacks to moments when I'm trying to get a user to convey the symptoms and problems (and any recent changes to the system) to me. It's really a very similar process.

Down side is unless you want to get arrested, you're going to have to spend 6 years in med school to be able to do this legally.

In medical research, at least as my wife experienced, the first author is the surgeon with the biggest reputation/ego, followed by every other associated surgeons. The first non-surgeon author is probably the person who wrote the article and did 90% of the research and analysis, followed by a string of interns and contributors in order of amount contributed.

No, it's okay. The spelling's the same, but the pronunciation is different. The old one was "yo-sem-it-ee" but the new one is "yo-sum-ite".

If you're going to take the time to give unsolicited advice, I will say nothing but thank you. Not sure how far you read, but I do think it's in there, just takes a while to build. Test readers have described scenes as "heartbreaking" and "gave me goosebumps" but many of those are later on. The beginning is definitely light, and geared more toward humor than anything else.

Or you've gone farther and it still didn't work for you, in which case that's a data point that I'll need to consider how to incorporate in the next one.

Thanks.

Nope. *Genetically* they're identical. The entire rest of their biological development is independent and can diverge significantly.

I'm too lazy to read the article, but did they also include anything about what happens if you watch the DVD multiple times versus streaming it multiple times?

I still see a lot better quality from disk. We stream nearly everything, but on the occasion that I put in a Blu-ray, I always say, "Wow, that looks really sharp!" At least for the first minute or two. After that I'm not sure if I notice or care. Hard to tell once you get into the story.

^^ That! ^^

Not gonna happen. But I'd place odds that in 2035, in Soviet Russia ...

I think I just found out I'm not a geek. Unless owning 'Watchmen' counts as a comic book collection.

Okay, I code a little in PHP. But I've been told around here that doesn't count, either.

Bwuh? I got B's and an occasional C up through the middle of high school, and faced practically no limitations about career path later in life.

One of the valuable things I learned by getting those lower grades was that I couldn't slack off as much as I had been if I wanted to succeed. The C was a far more valuable lesson than I would have learned by having a parent who "didn't let me" get that grade at all.