Putting the punctuation outside the quotes (or parentheses) when the quote is only part of a sentence. I.e. He said “I need to go now”.

Did anyone else read that to “The Distance” by Cake?

I’m currently in a production support role in the US, and I’d never consider it: I work too closely with production operatives that they’d smell it on me. My last couple of role involved programming automated forklifts, so it was strictly forbidden.

Ten years ago I was doing an internship an engineering firm in the UK, and a few times we went out for a beer with lunch. It wasn’t exactly common, but it did happen.

The government

Tubular Bells, also known as the Theme from The Exorcist.

How to keep house while drowning by KC Davis: how it’s not morally wrong to have a messy living space, and how to keep it livable even when you feel like you’re overwhelmed.

I have ADHD and depression, this book was pivotal in helping me get out of the stereotypical “depression apartment” situation.

As a (legal) immigrant with a vanity plate… lmao.

I was going to suggest The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, after all, they will already have a towel.

Them: Can you perform under pressure?

Me: Mmm num ba de
Dum bum ba be
Doo buh dum ba beh beh

How are you hanging your antenna? Dipoles for 20m and lower are typically set up in an Inverted V configuration, which should work fine with the 10m mast you already have.

As someone who used to troubleshoot an extremely complex system for my day job, I can say I’ve worked my way across the entire bell curve.

The things is, if you try to parse html with a regex, you will always be able to construct valid html that will break it, no matter how complex your regex becomes.

We met on OkCupid. We were on opposite sides of the Atlantic, but she had a friend on this side, and they were comparing the “weird” profiles they were each finding. OkCupid has a “if you liked this person, you might like these more” section, and I appeared in there. She wasn’t really looking to date anyone, but she clicked, messaged me, and we clicked. I moved to the US to be with her after a two-year long distance relationship, and we’ll be celebrating our ten year wedding anniversary next year.

United. Twice. They damaged my luggage both times.

I’ve only flown Delta and American since then.

That’s not a hitch, it’s a lashing, if I understand you correctly.

Python or Perl. IIRC, I’ve seen systems with a Perl install by default, but not Python.

On the internet, no one can tell you’re a duck.

It’s definitely great in theory until you inherit a codebase with no tests, poor documentation, and numerous reported bugs already live in production. Even better if it was written by people hired because they could do other things better than they could code - which looking at some of the unlabeled wiring messes we were left, isn’t saying a lot.

The problem you’re going to encounter is that any radio system capable of covering your entire area is going to need some sort of license, either individual or group. You probably can’t require your volunteers to pay the FCC $35 for a GMRS license, and ham radio requires an exam, so that’s probably out, too.

That pretty much only leaves business licenses. Yes, there is MURS, which is license free, and might work better than what I am assuming are Walmart FRS radios, but still runs the risk of communication failing when you need it.

If I was in charge of a convention, I’d talk to the company that supplies your AV equipment about who to rent business radios from. They probably have recommendations. If you don’t have an AV company, you can Google for “radio rentals West Virginia”, there’s a few options. They can help you with all the licensing, and will provide all the radio hardware. This is not going to be cheap, but will probably end up being less expensive than trying to set up your own repeater, and all the associated licensing headaches.