Maybe it was just because I was a nerd, but I found the annual new crop of textbooks and workbooks exciting. I can't imagine my reaction to the same old device (more or less) every year.

"Brain and brain, what is brain??" One of my favorite episodes, despite its reputation for awfulness.

Anyway, happy April Fools' Day.

I'm planning to sell ad space on my "Get off my lawn!" signs.

As an elementary school kid who walked to school, I hated it. Michigan winters are cold enough when the sun is shining.

I wondered why the usual deluge of spam to my ancient Hotmail account slowed to a trickle recently. I figured the spammer had died.

Peter Lorre would like a word with you.

That's usually analogous to seeing "Democratic Republic" in the name of a country.

"I say I'm a journalist. She asks what lists I like to make."

It's Spotify, it doesn't have to work correctly or even at all. I'll worry when I hear about one of my financial institutions doing this.

Same here. But occasionally DDG can't find what I'm looking for and I resort to Google, such as earlier today when I searched for aspirin submarine.

they're flush with cash.

Would be an apt name for a software company with a poor attitude toward fixing bugs.

I could think of at least one such company.

I was six years old and took the show very seriously.

Once I forgot to watch it and wept bitter tears.

*Raises hand.* This is VB.NET, not "classic" Visual Basic (that's much farther down on the list). I maintain a crapload of ancient (15+ years old) but still useful ASP.NET apps using VB. Could rewrite them in C#, but why bother?

They also did this (perhaps more on topic) episode: Time Enough at Last which, like "The Obsolete Man," starred Burgess Meredith.

I just saw it again the other day. I had forgotten how utterly mean his wife was -- possibly worse than the totalitarians in the other episode!