So’s coffee what’s your point?

Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Cask of Amontillado. Flippant internet synopsis: A guy builds a wall and his friend pays for it.

As is Abiword, which is a bit more of a direct comparison.

It’s a reference to an entry in the webcomic series Ctrl+Alt+Del. The female lead has suffered a miscarriage, and this particular entry in the comic, titled Loss, depicts her boyfriend’s journey through the hospital, entering the front door alone, talking to the receptionist, talking to the doctor, then standing at her bedside.

Ctrl+Alt+Del competes (competed?) with Penny Arcade, it’s normally a lighthearted junk food entertainment kind of webcomic aimed at a gamer audience, that SUDDENLY slammed into very heavy material, and then SUDDENLY slammed back out of it. The comic became very widely mocked for the tone whiplash, and one notable form of mockery was making increasingly minimalistic representations of it, often with a “you just lost the game” kind of intention, ie how minimalistic can you go while still reminding others of the comic. A common depiction might be I Ii II I_ (one man standing, a man standing and a woman sitting, so she’s shorter, two men standing at equal height, and then a man standing and a woman lying down) but now :.|:; is even more condensed while maintaining the four panel arrangement.

This is a meme from 2008; it’s been going around awhile. So to those who have been long familiar with the meme that graphic kind of works like a hieroglyph or kanji character; it’s a very simplified depiction of something that carries a sound/concept. You kind of read it as the word “Loss.”

Linux is just Socialism: The Operating System.

Bullets are seldom made of iron though; they’re usually lead sometimes jacketed with copper, so they’re not magnetic. Conductive, but not magnetic.

Headcanon: Stacy’s index finger is along the barrel, ring finger on the trigger, and ring + little finger on the pistol grip.

Also she seems to have three fingers on her left hand.

my cat is reminded many times a day that she is grey. and a kitty cat.

This is to deprive yourself of the ability to return what you bought?

Microsoft’s business model has often gotten in the way of anything they do making sense.

I think everyone should do what I did and stop enjoying such things. Kill the media by not watching ads, not buying movie tickets, not paying subscriptions. Cut them out of society entirely.

Connected through every single coax connector made by man.

Some NC-17 shenanigans have happened to that pineapple.

Children can no longer Woohoo with the Grim Reaper

You know the most masculine activity I can think of? Going to the beach and digging a hole in the sand.

Having been a ten year old that got extra mozzarella sticks, I’m pretty sure what I heard was the opening fanfare to Sell Out by Reel Big Fish. High energy, lots of horns.

gun violence isn’t an engineering problem. miniblind cords are.

Ska is what plays in a 10 year old boys head when he gets extra mozzarella sticks.

i find the Leatherman Skeletool has the best bottle opener, because you don’t look like a jackass using it. you can open a bottle with a Skeletool without going “LOOK EVERYBODY, I’M USING MY MULTITOOL”

Snipin’s a good job mate. I guarantee you’ll not go hungry.