The Cal art building hosts just the most FASCINATING rooms full of materi ̶e̶l̶l̶als. The fact that all the arts labs have balconies, and they're all condemned (but mostly unlocked), adds a real je ne sais quoi.

*laughs hauntedly*

My partner did an arts degree at Cal. The spaces that department works in were...

Eyebrow raising.

The phrasing of the statement bothers me a LOT. The FAA closed down the airspace "without alerting blah blah etc..." Like he should have consulted before telling pilots not to fly through space that had suddenly turned into an experimental firing range for the Eyeball Destroyer 9000?!?

Oh you know it was subordinates who came solely so they could drink on the boss's tab.

Oh. What a perfectly ominous definite article.

I rather appreciated that as a young fan of hers. Later I learned that her stated real world beliefs were that we reproduce ourselves by raping young boys. Took a bit of the shine off. 🤷

Er, I get your point, but look McCaffrey's views on LGBT people up. 😬

I had to get some rather expensive voltage-regulated self-charging "AA" devices to get the kind of battery life you should be able to expect from a wireless mouse. :/

I have had several AA wireless mouse but unfortunately, AA compatible rechargeable batteries are too low-nominal-voltage. Eneloops and similar drop below the threshold to reliably operate their circuits really fast, when they're still mostly charged if you put them in a tester

Once the infra is done being built and the state legislature beats them with a sack of oranges... (Grid upkeep is eternal of course, but they're well past the spending hump on the specific projects they raised rates so much for, and our rates unsurprisingly only go down when we do a law about it.)