Sadly it didn’t work for me. I liked the concept but gave up after two weeks because I didn’t enjoy the experience at all and didn’t seem to make any progress (Swiss learning Spanish). YMMV of course.

My driving instructor always used to say “for all its faults, a car is still highly addictive”, and he’s totally right. But of course how much you enjoy driving it depends on where and how much you do that. Congrats anyway! What type of car is it, and what style of name did you have in mind?

Ugh. One of our ‘kids’ has been using various dating apps for a couple years, and all they did was make her depressed and me immensely grateful that I’ve never had to resort to any of them. They’re such a carnival of vanities, people killing themselves to outbid each other with unnatural selfies photoshopped to faux perfection (while simultaneously assuming that every other person is naturally beautiful without filters).
There should be a dating app or website with a strict ban on images that have been altered in any way.

Good for you to have scored a date though! Fingers crossed that there will be a second one.

Aww, so lovely. It’s not often this actually works out, so I’m genuinely happy for the three of you. There’s no such thing as too much love!

had my first agility lesson of the new year with the pups, and they rocked it.

Lucky you! Mine did every obstacle exactly once and then was like “look, now you know that I could do it if I wanted, can I go now.”

Don’t forget the pics!

severely injured my pinky toe

Aw man, that sucks both for its effects and for how much people underestimate the consequences. Did you stub it or cut it? Keep it snuggled up to the two toes next to it and make sure there’s a steady supply of chocolate.

Congratulations, I presume?
Is it a poly constellation or don’t you have a name for it yet?

Have a virtual hug anyways (no rubbing, promise). And remember - this too shall pass.

TL;DR: Meta has been tracking your every move on the web for years and probably won’t be stopping anytime soon. Now they’ve announced a feature to share the information they’re collecting with you.

I see several issues with your SMTP session.

First, gmail.com will be protected by SPF and DKIM and your message will likely be flagged as spam (or outright rejected) because it’s clear that you’re not sending on behalf of the real gmail.com.

Second, commands should be in all-caps. A server may accept or reject lowercase keywords.

Third, you need to leave a blank line between the mail headers and the body, so that part of your session would look like so: …

DATA
354 Go ahead
From: ...
To: ...
Subject: ...

This is the first line of text.
This is the second line.
.
250 Queued

Having said that, many SMTP will require an encrypted connection (SMTPS), many ISPs will block port 25 for residential customers as an anti-spam measure, ESMTP should be preferred over SMTP etc.
If at all possible, you should use a full-featured mail library for this.

I’m looking forward to the interview with the guy who got fired because he was late for work and offered “I woke up and an airplane window had smashed into my car” as an excuse.

Why do you say this? What gives you the idea that they will face some form of workload pressure because of this?

Oh, I’d be very surprised if any actual personal responsibility found its way to them. But they’re gonna have to look super busy and worried for the press for a while, find somebody else to pin the blame on, call friends in government to ‘expedite’ any investigations and reassure their shareholders. That’s gonna cost them a lot of time they could have spent on nicer things such as working on their handicap, doing coke in the coutry club’s bathroom or firing a couple of hundred workers.

Other than that I totally agree with you.

Wow. My stepdaughter and her boyfriend flew with one of these just yesterday.

I hope this is resolved soon. The top brass at Boeing probably won’t be getting a lot of leisure time until then.