I'm on the laptop and having a smoke while the desktop computer attempts to send a nine-megabyte zipfile containing my latest completed editing project, just in time. Woo. What do I win? Oh, right: a fairly hefty check (eventually) and a set of melty, melty eyes. And a new project that is apparently some monstrous tome from whose gravitational ( Read more... )

First the White House requests $160.5 million to pay for credit monitoring for people whose information was compromised, and then the laptop is recovered and the press are reporting that the data were "apparently unaccessed." Erm, how exactly do they know? The quote from VA Guy: "They are diligently conducting forensic analysis on it to see if they ( Read more... )

Situations In Which a Person Might Consume the Suggested Two-Tablespoon Serving of Yucatan Organic Guacamole ( Read more... )