That would be quite the feat since she’s only 68! But in reality the term length for a member of the House of Representatives is two years.

Gotye. Loved “Somebody That I Used to Know.” The rest of his music wasn’t for me.

I buy used paperback books even when I could buy them new. I feel no guilt that none of my money is going to the author.

I stream my local college radio station while I work. There’s charm in hearing the student DJs kind of stumble through everything as they play a wide assortment of music.

I recently discovered a (sub) genre too late - Riot Grrrl music. Bikini Kill is one of the founding bands.

I just did it for the first time yesterday with an old Kindle I had lying around. It was super easy with this website: https://kindlemodding.org/

I haven’t experience this myself but I’ve read that some newer TV’s are forcing you to connect to the internet before you can do anything else.

This finding is becoming less important by the year. It’s been quite a while since you could easily buy an HD TV - they’re all 4K, even the small ones.

Not even Jimmy?

I first heard it in pronounced “jif” from a guy in my college dorm in the mid 90s. I’ve just pronounced it that way every since. Is it there a generation gap in how it’s pronounced? I do catch some flak from my kids about how I pronounce it.

I think there was a golden 20 year era for learning basic computing. If you were a kid somewhere between 1985 and 2005 you had to figure out some slightly more technical things to use a computer. I’m late Gen X and so was exposed early on to the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS, but kids working with Windows 3, 95 and 98 would have developed similar skills.

https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z

I’m now 25 years into my IT career and the older I get the more I understand those former co-workers who retired and just wanted to fuck off, go fishing, and never look at another computer.

I have a sneaking suspicion this is not a real text exchange but was created merely for our entertainment.

You seem fun.