Ace-Garageguy

"In the year 2525" is the title of this song.

Thanks. I could look at that for hours. More inspiration...

No irks yet so far, but the day is young...

Thing is...ah, never mind.

FWIW, I just ran this sentence through Googli's little AI, and it vomited up an incorrect summation of the film...TWICE...again demonstrating its lack of understanding of context, and that it will make something up to 'sound good' from partial info if that's all it can find. "Hypnotize" is what one lovely young woman seemed to do to me whenever we met, just like the guy in the film "The Gods Must be Crazy" who turned into a blithering idiot in the presence of his beloved." Soooooo...I see CERN is using AI to interpret data. Okayyyyyyyy... When that artificially created black hole that AI was asked "is this going to be safe?" goes live and...PFFFFFFT... ...don't be surprised. EDIT: This is a joke. Or is it?

"Hypnotize" is what one lovely young woman seemed to do to me whenever we met, just like the guy in the film "The Gods Must be Crazy" who turned into a blithering idiot in the presence of his beloved.

There are sellers who say exactly this in their listings, or that they only ship on thus-and-such a day because of their other commitments. Fine. Perfectly reasonable. Understood. It's the ones who just don't bother letting the buyer know what's going on, or who don't respond when contacted after several days go by after the label is created but the item is still not in transit that get annoying after a while. Sure, you can have a job and a life. But how long does it take to send an email? This one took less than two minutes. EDIT: And if you're selling so much stuff you don't "have time" to keep buyers updated, selling IS a job, and needs to be treated as responsibly as a "real" one. EDIT 2: As Mark implies though, you can't control what other people do. All you can control is how you react.

Equivalent masses/weights, lengths, and volumes can be expressed in several different measuring systems.

Time without accomplishment is for rocks and their intellectual equivalents.

They do it because they can. Some sellers are really great about shipping the same day they get payment. Some take their sweet time, often not getting the item to their local PO for several days. Not much you can do as far as I'm aware. I've had to become pretty patient over the years, and have seriously cut back buying anything online because a lot more people seem to be jerks now. It's just the brandy new oh-so-mo-better world of muh technology we live in today.

"Wrong 'un" typically means a bad fella in British slang, but apparently has a couple more meanings I didn't know about until I did a little research.

Nope.

Shelf models don't exist in my house, 'cause I never finish anything.

PayPal is pushing a subscription for an AI-powered "Christmas shopping assistant". Really? I mean R E A L L Y ??? Nothing says "I care about you deeply and understand you well enough to know what you'd like" as much as getting some numbnutz AI to select your gifts. I've never understood people who have "trouble" shopping for somebody else. Oh wait...the totally self-absorbed and generally clueless about anything but their own one-dimensional little existences.