It is a poor design; I’ll agree with that. You’ve been given an easy fix, though, so I’ll also agree with just buy a cord already. Your mom’s knees are decades older than yours - she doesn’t need to be crawling around there any more than you do. 
I’d buy a hub anyway; I’ve always got too much stuff plugged into my mac.
Forgot my own mini-rant - every commercial on tv these days seems to be kid/family-oriented, and I’m just getting sick of it. There also seems to be a concurrent increase in commercials with kids doing the voiceovers, and that’s just nails on a chalkboard to me - kids don’t have nice voices, they have sharp, screechy voices, and most of the kids are putting on a smart-ass, know-it-all tone as well. I understand everyone in the world except my husband and I are worshipping at the altar of the Cult of the Child, but I’m just tired of it. I can’t wait until kids go out of style again.
Preach it!!! 
Kids are in this world. Live with it.
Style is like Sex. A whole lot of in and out.
Which is, coincidentally, how you get the kids.
Something irritated me, I ranted about it. Live with it.
I don’t trust a child to tell me where to buy a car or where to get groceries.
Also, kids are not cute when they are intentionally making a tremendous mess, as so many commercials would have you believe.
Like those stupid paper towel commercials where a kid is deliberately and with malice aforethought making a HUGE mess, and when Mommy looms over him, he gets a fleeting look of “Oh shit I’m going to catch it,” and then instead of screeching at him like a harpy and snatching him bald-headed like any parent on EARTH would do, Mom (who apparently has so much Prozac in her system that nothing can break through) just smiles and either a) breaks out the paper towels, or b) JOINS IN THE MESS-MAKING.
I can’t change the channel away from those commercials fast enough.
New Valium Bounty paper towels!
My little minirant: am I so damn lazy that I’ll spend more on pizza delivery than I would on a good steak dinner just because I’m too tired to break out a can of stew? Apparently so.
Or intentionally causing trouble, as a lot of shows and movies would have you believe. Kids DO cause tremendous messes in the normal course of just being a kid. I did it, my daughter did it, all of her friends did it. Usually, though, this is accidental. But I don’t want commercials to show kids that it’s OK to make a huge mess on purpose without consequences. We’re trying to civilize the little monsters, not make them bigger monsters. Now, I probably couldn’t stand it if all the kids on commercials were perfect little angels, either. I’d probably puke. But let’s not make them out to be worse than they are, and let’s not put the idea into their heads that it’s OK to intentionally cause that mess. They have enough growing up to do, don’t make it harder for them.
Is it cheap if i’d rather go to Staples or Office Max to get it?
It’s so damn hot that my tap water is WARM. Not lukewarm, but warm. I have some jugs, and I keep some water refrigerated. It’s a bit disconcerting to turn on the cold water tap and have warm water come out of it, though.
I’m beginning to see the appeal of being a snowbird.
I’m trying to remember where I bought my last hub; just FutureShop, I think. For some reason my Mac desktop eats USB hubs, so mine has to have a power source. My husband’s Mac (exactly the same model) uses an unpowered hub with no problems.
Hmmm, I think we can work something out. Our summers here are FABULOUS! This one has actually been too cold, if you can believe it.
Why the fuck don’t you just give your stupid fucking daughters **YOUR OFFICE NUMBER **so they stop calling the main line every five minutes during their no-doubt very challenging and scary first week of college? :rolleyes:
If an employee makes a minor mistake, you, as the employer, should always act for evermore as if error is the norm. Even if your employee was error-free prior to and subsequent to said error. You should assume everytime in every subsequent situation that the same mistake is going to be made, and make sure to let your employee knows it. Act as if. That way, you ensure through your relentless vigilance that the minor error will never happen again (it’s NOT meritless anxiety and lack of trust, it’s leadership! Afterall, you can’t expect what you don’t inspect, plus you got burned once before out of hundreds and hundreds of error-free instances!). It’s the only way to promote quality work in your employee. Make sure they know that you know they can’t be trusted ever again. Make sure they know that you know that they’re going to fuck it up! They’ll really appreciate that you care.
My stupid laptop adaptor – it looks like I’ll have to replace the damned thing. Sixty-goddamned-bucks. Fuck. :mad:
I play various card and board games online. Players, if you play games, sometimes you’re gonna lose. Accept this. Don’t just terminate the game if you think you’re gonna lose. That’s incredibly juvenile. Also, if you don’t know at least the standard openings of a game (what to do with a 3-1 or 4-2 in backgammon, for instance), you are NOT an intermediate player. You’re a beginner, no matter how long you’ve been playing. Beginner is your skill level, not how long you’ve played the game. And you are NOT going to change the layout of the pieces no matter HOW long you stare at the board. Make your move! Or sheesh, don’t start a game at all.
“Kudos” is not the plural of “Kudo”.
Do you need another copy of the TPS Report cover page? I’ll email that right over to you.
(Your set-up was too perfect to ignore. )