> As of 2012, Rihanna has sold more than 25 million albums and 60 million digital singles worldwide since the beginning of her career in 2005, which makes her one of the best selling artists of all time
> Her mother is Monica Braithwaite, a retired Afro-Guyanese accountant, and her father is Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor of Barbadian and Irish descent.
My friend worked with refugees. One comparatively pale refugee from Somalia said, "it's really difficult for us whites in Somalia, you will know what it's like".
Which was kind of hilarious.
My friend is white.
The suggestion was that "us" were in the same boat, and the black higher-ups had sent my white friend to deal with the refugees.
Let's see: Don't use Apple products, check. Speak out against intolerance on my blog which nobody reads, check. Holds door for people? check. Looks like I'm not evil!
@Mitch Yeah I don't hold those. Actually I try to avoid them. Those doors are inherently evil.
Example of my struggle against evil: I have an almost overwhelming urge to taze anyone who gets off an escalator and then just stands there. Instead I just knock them down and trample them. See? Progress.
@Mitch As an aspect of my evil, I enjoy holding doors for people who are quite far away, causing them to hurry up, even to run, even to run with packages so as not to waste my meaningless kindness. True evil is subtler than you think.
@Mitch "plow through" is what I do to the people who don't stand clear of the subway doors, when I am trying to get off. It's basic physics: they cannot occupy my spot on the train until I leave the train, so GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY.
> Q. Probable Gay Teenage Son: I am fairly sure my 16-year-old son is gay, based on his choice of pornography found on his computer. I mentioned it to him but he said he isn't. There have been other minor indications since he was a child. So, not a complete surprise. Since I don't have a choice whether he is or isn't, I will support him. He's a great kid, smart, cooperative, helpful. However, should I mention this probability to his mom now or wait for him to sort out his position?
> I am sure she would be supportive too, but for now mentions girlfriends, marriage, hetero topics, etc., in general discussions, typical mom to teenage son comments. And, if we both know, then should the 18-year-old brother (at a nearby college now) be told or let younger brother tell him on his own whenever? Meal-time conversations may be a bit silted and clue-filled if mom has to change her comments.
@Cerberus Once you know your kids are aware of sex and how it works, it's best to just leave the topic alone. You can't win, and it's none of your business anyway.
@Robusto yeah, seriously, this is the part that I would hesitate to bring up with my wife. Not "I think my son is gay", but rather "I found porn on my son's computer"
@Robusto Yeah, I would probably do the same thing...then again, if you push him to talk about it sooner, you may make his life a little bit easier a little bit earlier.
@Mitch Yeah, right, his choice of pornography means nothing...
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Of course you don't mention the porn.
BTW, yesterday I had a look at the Windows phone at the Verizon store yesterday. Just out of curiosity. I didn't think it was awful. Some thing about it were nice.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Oh, I'm not going to buy one. I was actually expecting to hate and dismiss it immediately. But I found I couldn't do that. It even ran the site I'm currently working on pretty much without flaw. And it was fast.
@Robusto I have a sneaking suspicion that it will be a perfectly good phone that does relatively poorly in the marketplace, but maybe enough to become an annoying third-party platform that we have to support
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 The latter issue was my fear. But if it handles the Web as well as webkit browsers, without modification, then it affects my workload not at all.
@Cerberus Well, maybe not. There is still a non-zero chance that it will go the way of the Zune. And Blackberry isn't completely dead. I won't rule them out yet.
@Mitch orkut was acquired, I think... and it was popular in some countries but not North America. wave was a new medium, not a social network. It was a solution in need of a problem. Google+ isn't dead yet. It's growing, but it isn't necessarily filling the niche of Facebook.
You don't need to register with them. You don't need to use their app store. You can use multiple accounts. You can install a third-party modification of their OS.
I kinda think ;good for them' (apple) because they were the underdog for so long, and then along came the ip.... ops almost said it. now they're popular. I'm not going to root for MS, they're the falling greek empire.(or is that IBM?)
@Mitch In Alligator Baby, the parents are having a baby, but end up at the zoo, and come home with various animal babies instead of their newborn, which they've misplaced
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I tried Treasure Island...gah, was that long. took forever to get to anything remotely resembling action. Pages and pages worrying about the 'black hand'. What the hell was that?
I had a heated discussion with a friend over email, and I concluded it by saying:
I know you were trying to help.
That was the edited version of what I had originally written, which was:
I know you were only trying to help.
I decided against using "only" because I thought it begged a...
I had a heated discussion with a friend over email, and I concluded it by saying:
I know you were trying to help.
That was the edited version of what I had originally written, which was:
I know you were only trying to help.
I decided against using "only" because I thought it begged a...
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