So is this some good natured rivalry or is Lawson being a dick?

We used to, back when we had a sedan and no kids. Now he rides in the boot.

I get how it’s possible, but this is Google. Surely they have decades of experience at keeping a website up no matter what happens!

But how does this happen? Surely Google has the ability to make highly available systems that are resistant to power going out at one of the three locations (as per the article).

I have had several neighbours grow pest trees, I don’t actually know what they are called or how to describe them. Normally a pale blotchy trunk, reasonably bright green leaves, with a jagged edge of the leaf. They drop seeds all over the neighbourhood and before you know it the neighbour has their tree in the powerlines.

Not strictly related to your story but it made me think of these horrible trees.

What kind of lighting are you putting in?

Slightly related, but in having a bit of a read of wikipedia on this subject, today I learnt about waka hurdling, jumping waka over wooden beams set in the water.

View of Maori waka (canoes) in a hurdle race on the Waikato River at the Ngaruawahia Regatta. A group of people line the river banks to watch. A bridge crosses the river in the right background. Taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1910.

Yeah this was part of the article. Basically we can do it well, we (most of the world) just don’t.

They say that awkward questions from kids are a good way to identify societal issues (as in if it’s hard to answer because the answer paints society in a bad light).

Today I got asked why the dog doesn’t wear a seatbelt in the car. I wasn’t quite sure how to answer, since I think the reason is that we simply value the lives of our animal family members less than the human family members.

I like to read the bad reviews. I know everyone has different tastes. A constructive bad review can sell me a game if the things that person didn’t like aren’t a deal breaker for me.

Thanks! They were done in python using a script that someone else gave me, so I can’t take credit for them 🙂