Don't call me Shirley!

I guess this explains why the other day I opened the clock app on an iPhone, went to the alarm, and was prompted with "sleep is now in health." The phone *required* me to go to the health app, create some sort of biometric profile including sleep goals and a preferred bedtime, before going back to the alarm where it tried to argue with me that because I was getting up early I needed to also change my bedtime or it wasn't going to let me set the alarm. Without doing all of that I couldn't set any kind of alarm at all.

Afterward I found that once my default nightly sleep alarm was set, I could create other alarms pretty easily, but the initial setup was massively invasive and required far too many hoops for what should be a simple task.

We also live inside cultures and in a civilization, the main purposes of which are to modify, adapt, and sometimes override our animal nature for the greater good. Behaviors that go beyond base animal behavior are not only possible and desirable, but commonplace.

Yes. Consider the number of mountain lions picked up by trail cams. Those things are super elusive, but people still see them. No way any creature as large as a bigfoot could continue to stay 100% hidden and off film.

Loved it as a kid. Bought a few DVDs later in life and was sort of appalled at the amount of repetitive filler used to stretch out the episodes.

I did at least get the satisfaction of seeing Episode 44, "Play it again Wufgang", a second time. My childhood self considered it the funniest episode of them all, where the villain stole the world's music and Danger Mouse had to get by with sound effects from a cassette player. For some reason while I saw all the other episodes at least half a dozen times, I could only catch this one once. Naturally, it wasn't as funny the second time.

They started a new series in 2015 that was on Netflix, maybe? The kids liked it, but I wasn't wowed.

Halved, quartered, drawn and quartered, decimated in the drawing room, drawn like moth to a flame and burnt to a crisp. There's plenty of turns of phrase to choose from, and a lot of fun to be had doing it! I don't know what people's love affair is with "decimated" and why it's the only term they ever use.

Gutted. Extirpated. Massacred. Zapped with a very powerful shrink ray. Decimated 8 times over (I know, bad math). Demolished. Run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! Lots of good choices there.

I realize out-of-context John Kerry parody jokes are about two decades expired, but I can't keep the phrase "I was repeatedly against it, before I was the first one for it" from echoing in my skull.

Yeah, I wanted one of these in the worst way just based on design and the idea of a quiet computer, but the numbers simply would not work out, particularly for someone who needed a second monitor. I ended up buying a low-end G4 soon after, and that thing lasted me more than 5 years, so not a bad outcome.

I'd still like to get my hands on one--even a broken one--just to put on a display shelf.

The key on my keyboard above the right shift pretty clearly reads "Enter". (As does the one on the numeric keypad.) My keyboard doesn't have a "Return" anywhere.

It's a Dell keyboard, btw.

In terms of function, I cannot think of a single instance I've ever found where Enter did something Return did not, or vice versa. I'm sure they exist, probably in old Unix or Vax systems or something, but they've been functionally interchangeable everywhere I've seen. (I know, an argument from ignorance is a poor one, but I've got a lot of experience with this particular ignorance. :) )

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Hahahaha! You're demonstrating the parent's point. "The other side is *EVIL*! They, and they alone, do these terrible things! It's all their fault!" Half of the right will knee-jerk about the left, half of the left will knee-jerk about the right.

Meanwhile, the actual problem *is* the knee-jerking, the demonization, the oversimplification, the drive-by soundbites, and the fact that we're flooded with information, more than half of it junk.

Well said!

It's been way too long since I've read it, but I seem to remember a lot of strategic planning/maneuvering to solve problems. That would put it somewhere more like in a West Wing style than action, which I think is perfectly acceptable. West Wing did pretty well, didn't it?

Yeah, Flatliners is great, and The Lost Boys. I remember being really impressed with Falling Down but it's been a couple of decades and I'm not sure if that's aged as well.