“I’ll be quiet.”

It’s not in that clip, but Gromit releasing the parking brake cracks me up every time.

A few years ago, I showed one of our cats how to clean the water bowl, step by step. He was on the counter, watching, so I assumed he wanted to know.

Hasn’t done it once.

I’m reading Wil Wheaton’s book “Still Just A Geek”, and I feel like he’d really enjoy this comic.

The drawings of Hobbes’ different positions in this comic are amazing. Watterson is an incredible artist.

It’s annoying that Vegas has fewer points than the Caps, but won their division and are in the Finals, while the Caps didn’t even qualify for the post season.

Wonder? Or blunder?

How much do you want to bet that this guy has been on the internet calling people snowflakes unironically?

Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese!

We reach!

Was it just two weeks?!

I think it’s more that hockey is just a high energy game. Each game requires a lot of energy, of course, but then the season plus playoffs is just a brutal schedule. The teams that win the Cup are often good, but not great, during the season, and then get hot during the post season.

Winning the President’s Trophy is great, but relatively few teams who win that also win the Cup. The Caps have won it, then got bounced in the first or second round.

The other problem is that the playoffs are different. First, the overtime rules are different, but also penalties tend to be called differently - there’s more “let them play” attitude. So, if you did well during the season because your power play was killer, when you get to the playoffs, you might find the power play doesn’t have as much opportunity to work. And if you’re really great at 3-on-3 overtime and shootouts, that won’t help at all during the playoffs.

And sometimes you run into a hot goaltender.

Peaked too soon? No one really knows, but that’s how it reads.

And only the nut jobs, at least the last few times I tried it. It has been quite a few years at this point though.

And even if you don’t have that experience, truck drivers are mostly right wing, so you are still going to have to listen to insane conspiracy theories and uninformed political theory.

Absolutely!

Good question. For filters, I have various template sensors set up to monitor the age of the filters, then have automations to alert me when they are due for replacement.

I must have been doing this a while - I’ve got one coming due that is only replaced every five years (for the ice maker).

Debian on my server, my desktop, my laptop, and my gaming computer. That last one might be the most questionable choice, but so far it has been working well.

Just works. No issues.

With Calvin as their kid, it’s a safe bet they weren’t driving a new car.

I’m reminded of an exercise we did when I was in 9th grade: “Write down how much money you want to make per year!” What a pointless exercise. I had no idea how much things cost. Inflation is a thing. And I ended up moving to an area that was much more expensive than where we lived while I was in school. I’m pretty sure my first real job out of grad school paid more than what I had written down, but I certainly wasn’t rolling in cash.

Checking whether he meets the physical fitness for boxing?

I always took it to be that they didn’t want to implicate an innocent person.

But no evidence is given either way, so either possibility could be correct.