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Because they know they're guilty as fuck

I feel older, but not wise.

Amateur

I had a very fancy portable hard drive using the brand-new USB protocol that could power itself from the PS/2 port.

What's that under his girlfriend?

The smallest one, but it's only because he had forgotten about it

I remember my old vet back up north about 25 years ago had a MASSIVE leopard-looking cat in their office.

All of the grad students in my department - ten or twelve? - along with the few undergrads we had assisting our program - had to share a single medium-sized room, with no assigned seating. At least they had shared computers at every other seat. Sadly, I don't recall the chair situation.

Thanks. Somehow my brain just kept sliding right over that word even after re-reading it multiple times. What the fuck is up with that?

You jest, but a literal burnt-out shell of a house on a miniscule lot was on sale several years ago for $400k.

How do you get the impression that they are working on their dissertation?

How do you get the impression that this is a grad student?

Your comment does remind me of the time I visited a CS grad student at a local university for some programming tutoring in the mid-90s. He had an office! It was about the size of a closet, but there was a door and everything.

So they're training dogs to trick-or-treat?

Nobody ever brings kittens to the office

An ADU is not a house.

He died because his job got outsourced to the Philippines and he couldn't afford medical care when he got sick.

Their city

Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep was the peak.

That's not a very apt metaphor for the film. At least a sloppy handjob can get the job done; the movie was just a stale puddle of piss on berber carpeting that won't even sink in because the result of the carpet is moist for some reason.