The ships were special, however. I remember back in the early 80's getting a Lego firefighting ship; and yes, the hull was three large red sections, with studs only on the deck (and some stud receptacles for the keel underneath). Nothing else.

But the thing is, the ships were intended to float in a bathtub (or wherever) --- and I have many fond memories of building all sorts of ships for bathtime play. Had the ships been build ground-up from bricks, they wouldn't have floated -- which defeats the whole point.

Fast-forward to today: last Xmas, I visited my mother's house and unearthed all of my Lego in her attic. I packed it into two suitcases, took it home, and now my young daughter plays in the bathtub with the ship. That, and builds moon bases and pneumatic diggers and the like. To me, that's a real testament to Lego as a product, but also to the fact that not everything Lego needs to be a small brick.

Get off my lawn, you insensitive clod!

Shit, I wish I was as edgy as you!

AC just has no imagination.

Check your privilege, cis scum!

I recently started using mutt + offlineimap (to have a sync'ed local copy of mail) + davmail (exchange connector) + notmuchmail (indexing and searching)

It runs under a screen/tmux session (I am using tmux panes inside screen) and way much easier to access all mail accounts (and nicer interface than gmail and outlook web exchange). I am usually a couple of keystrokes away to mail windows (and I am using a large monitor for a full screen shell window)

It helps that most of my work is text based (documentation is markdown/wiki type), though I jump into a web browser once in a while

No, that's OP's job.

Surely pings aren't the payload in a port scan (although they might be used in a precursor scan)? Ping is ICMP, whereas port scans (or indeed the very concept of ports) is TCP or UDP.

Lox Bagels or GTFO!

If there isn't a picture of Israel getting fucked on/by the Internet -- there soon will be.

Shut the fuck up, Donny! V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!

In or on?

Lots of colors, nice, erasable (don't leave a smudge after erasing). Fine and ultra-fine tips.

I don't know how long each cartridge lasts though.

It's called a pencil.

Mmm, young children and magnets. Can't see anything wrong with that.