If cartoons have taught me anything, it's that gravity doesn't have any effect unless I look down.

Wait, what?

Which is fine until the financial institution eff's that up. I've had checks get lost in the mail so I avoid sending them where possible and do most payments on-line. One of my utilities won't let you pay on-line unless you agree to stop printed statements, which I don't want to do (plus their web site sucks...) So I thought I'd try on-line bill pay through my credit union. A month later I received another statement that failed to show my payment. I asked my credit union for any data they had on the transaction. They sent me a receipt which showed they sent the payment to the wrong business . When I asked what they could do to help resolve it they said there was nothing they could do and that I'd have to contact the business myself. It was an business I didn't have any relationship with... I guess it's "just the way it's done" -- they can only send money, they have no way of issuing corrections. Fortunately the business in question was very helpful and was able to send me a check for the amount in question. The worst part is that this wasn't a big bank, but a local non-profit credit union which is supposed to be by the members, for the members. And they never even issued an apology.

What I learned is that apparently part of the on-line bill pay process involves a human reading your payee information and transcribing it somewhere else to make the payment -- they don't directly use the text typed by the customer. When I log in to the credit union's web site and look at the bill pay transactions, it clearly shows the correct payee, not the one they sent the funds to.

Whoa, punchcards? Lucky dog! I had to chisel my ones and zeros out of stone. In fact, we didn't even have ones and zeros. We had to use the letters 'O' and 'I'.

Cops are crooked? That's unpossible!

Smart phones aren't messing with the development of kids' brains?

I don't think so, mate.

And there's a big bucket of water right below them. About two thirds of it is water.

That didn't bother me. The word "ancient" in front of it is what made me sad. Well, it made me feel old which then made me sad.

You think the moon landing was fake? Dude, the MOON is fake. It's an optical dilution created by the Stonecutters.

I was a VAX fan. Running VMS with uptimes in years. After I left the last job that used VAX system I toyed with the hobbyist VMS license on some VAXstations for a while, but alas it's all memories now.

She had four years to do so. She didn't. Face it -- none of the people involved will receive any jail time, except Maxwell, who's in minimum security and will most likely be out relatively soon.

At least be reasonable:

"If I was in charge, I would simply build an oil pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of America."

What is this, a joke?

"A foreigner, a woman, and a black pilot walk into a spacecraft..."

I didn't even know Samsung had a Messages app. It must have come after my last Samung tablet purchase, a Tab 3 back around 2013 or so.

It's all about the hype. It's like during the pandemic when there was an uptick in cases over the prior week, all of the news reports would state that cases were "spiking."