Thank you for what you did for us. RIP, and condolences to your family and your friends.

I mentioned it to a friend via Messenger a ways back and it blocked the communication and claimed it was malware. Ended up sending my friend an email about it, but lesson learned.

How much carbon gets into the atmosphere from the eruption of an underwater volcano? Do events like this help or hurt the climate?

It worked out fine for them. They got bailed out, we got screwed.

Mine is running like a top in the southeast US. I use Google's DNS, though, and have been hearing the outage is DNS-related.

Does this mean Groklaw is coming back to cover this mess again? :-)

I used to have a pet Umbrella Cockatoo - known in the bird-owners world as a destruct-o-too. Could crunch a broomstick like you and I could crunch celery. The cables should have been buried,

North Charleston, SC - the Detroit of the South.

Yes - but I do understand why so many people have stopped. I am now retired, so I can catch shows in a matinee - and...treading lightly here.... I have a nicer theater nearby that attracts a better demographic. I don't have to deal with a messy venue, people talking, people texting, knife fights in the parking lot, ect. My only complaint with the experience is the 20 minutes of commercials before the movie starts. Not a whole lot that interests me, but when something does, I am there. BR2049, It, American Assassin and Jigsaw in the last month. Going to watch Star Wars: Killing the Last of the Original Characters 2, when it comes out. The theater experience should not be as bad as it has become, and it isn't just crap movies that has killed the movie industry: it's the refusal of the theaters to make sure bad behavior is dealt with so that other customers do not suffer for it.

Buy a good VPN service as soon as you can afford it. Know what it does and especially what it does not do. I got mine the first time I got a nasty letter from my ISP for downloading a torrent for a movie I already owned (Flixter *sucks* on a Mac). Don't regret the purchase a bit.

I live just outside of Charleston, SC, and we had a frog-choker of a rain storm that moved in and obscured the eclipse. My neighbor's rain gauge claimed over 4 inches (10+ cm for you Metric Folks). It was something of a letdown, but I still enjoyed the experience.

At those hours of the morning, how bad could the traffic be? Think I would sleep in an extra hour or two and drive.

I had a Twitter account and deleted it a month or so ago. Had nothing whatsoever to do with Trump: it's a stupid way to miscommunicate and I saw no reason to keep it. I would think more people are hanging on to their Twitter accounts to see what he is saying rather than leaving Twitter because of what he said. He may be slowing the landslide, not making it larger.

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It only would run the federal government for 3 weeks or so.