Pariah

Because I’m sorry to say, cruel and stupid never goes away.  It may change its address, wear different clothes and skin colors and speak a new language, but it never goes away.

Any science which is distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.  Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”--C.S. Lewis

I think they're at least selling the mix in stores...

Are we talking about thefts from the British Museum, or thefts by the British Museum?
 
* ducks *

Cancer has a first edition of Newton’s principia. 

The hallways are extended gutters and the gutters are full of undiscarded Red Bull cans and half-empty Starbucks cups, and when the trash cans finally run over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of their semesters of idleness and apathy will foam up around their waists and all the entitled jocks and teenage social climbers will look up and shout "Save our GPAs!" And I'll look down and whisper, "No." 

Birthday loot!
 

Rocky Road

Tribble

Got a text about 0400 my time and a followup voice call about five hours later.  Seems that my Costco Visa got hacked into and they tried ordering a bunch of stuff with it.
 
What's odd about this is that it's a new card that had never been used.  We'd racked up about $7k on the old Visa cards in the last few months before my wife's death, and those Visas were associated with my wife's old business account from when she was a solo lawyer.  Both her card and mine were locked up by the issuer when they learned of her death, and I had to get my own account.  Which I did, and they issued me a new account and card with it.
 
But because I could, and because I have been trying to reestablish full control of the cash flow and eliminate as much discretionary debt as possible, I literally have never used that card.  I used a different one several times last week (had to have a car towed and serviced, and pay for an optometrist appointment and new glasses), but that's literally the only credit card use I've made since the middle of January.  And the card that got hacked was never used, period.  I've been writing paper checks or paying cash for everything since Jan 14.
 
That makes it easy to tell them what purchases were fraudulent -- all of them -- but it makes it very hard for me to understand how the account was hacked into.  It hadn't even been in my wallet; it merely got put into one of the piles on my kitchen table which is my imitation of a short-term filing system.  Really puzzled about this.

I want to ask "How so?", but I just remembered that any answer would be major spoilers for a movie I still haven't seen yet.

since i missed C for Caramel
Dulce de leche
 

Last year I got my boss a headstone for his birthday. He wasn't happy.
 
So this year I didn't get him anything. When he asked me why not, I said, "You still haven't used the present I gave you last year."

The hallways are extended gutters and the gutters are full of undiscarded Red Bull cans and half-empty Starbucks cups, and when the trash cans finally run over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of their semesters of idleness and apathy will foam up around their waists and all the entitled jocks and teenage social climbers will look up and shout "Save our GPAs!" And I'll look down and whisper, "No." 

Birthday loot!
 

Birthday loot!