There was a time, not that long ago, when cremation was not an option for Catholics. At some point, the church changed its mind. Maybe in the seventies or eighties?

Do you have something to back this up? That wasn’t the feeling I had during the seven years I lived in Japan. There was something of a victim mentality, but it wasn’t as militant as you are making out.

My son, who is an aspiring composer, can do this. It blows my mind, and makes me think of the scene in Amadeus where Salieri is reading the score and hearing it play in his head.

You don’t understand. Once they get what they want, no request will be illegal.

It says that you can sign up (free) to read 3 articles per month, which sounds pretty reasonable to me, as these things go.

In Germany, if you are a medical doctor with a PhD, you are addressed as Herr Doctor Doctor.

In the Pulitzer prize-winning book “The Soul of a New Machine”, Tracy Kidder writes about a microcode programmer having to deal with timing in nanoseconds. One day his desk was empty and there was a note on the monitor saying that he was going to live in a commune, and no longer deal with any duration shorter than a season.

There are no native Latin speakers alive, but there are some fluid speakers. It is the official language of the Vatican, after all.

It may also be useful to draw a distinction between Church Latin and classical Latin.

Still, I think it is incorrect to say that possible to speak Latin fluently.

She’s had enough work done on herself that she kind of inhabits the uncanny valley now.

Speaking of Boss hog, the actor who played him was no dummy. He was in military intelligence during the Korean war, and spoke 12 languages fluently.

My Motorola G Power lasts for almost two days of regular use. I love not having to worry about running out of juice!

Not a very powerful phone, but it meets my needs.

Except that phenylephrine has been shown by multiple studies not to have any effect. It’s only there as a replacement for pseudoephedrine, which does work, but can be used to make meth.

It could be that this is a habit left over from pascal, where result is a reserved word, and is automatically made the return value of the function.

If it is in the context of a short function, I don’t see that it’s all that bad.

If only we could all agree on how to spell “Australians”!

I think that fine documentary, “The Core”, explained how to deal with this issue.

Rocksmith is kind of a follow-up. Except you use real guitars, and you can only have two of them. Choose between lead, rhythm, and bass.

Try to find Rocksmith Remastered, though, and not the new subscription-based Rocksmith+.

Tracing the career of The Beatles in Beatles Rock Rand was absolutely amazing.

Reminds me of the scene in the Netflix show Norseman, where one character says to another, “you have to understand, ritual human sacrifice is not an exact science.”

As National Lampoon said decades ago: because in China, life is still cheap.

I am a big fan of MyNoise, which mixes real-life recorded sounds, but you have a ridiculous amount of control over almost everything.

It’s browser-based, so compatible with any device. Once it has downloaded the sounds, it doesn’t use any more bandwidth.

Definitely worth supporting with a donation.