Speaking of the laptop, I've been working from various places now that I've got it, the bedroom watching tv (except this week when the SO's been sick), the living room on the couch. But the Biscuit has gotten used to me working in the office and spending the day in there with me. So he's taken to sitting in there looking out the door at me, as if to say, get to work you slacker! I can't really explain to him that I am working, it's just that I can do it in my pajamas lying on the couch. Although I'd probably get more done sitting at the desk. And I have my kicking new speakers in there. Okay, dog, you're right. I'm coming in.

Why do companies comp sodas for people making $100K a year when they can afford to buy their own damned sodas?

It's a perq. And perqs are more aimed at people making much money rather than less.

Now QI tells me that the idea of the electronic tracking bracelets used on prisoners was invented by a judge who got the idea from a Spiderman comic. Awesome. (Also that Kingpin was originally a Spiderman villain who moved over to Daredevil. I did not know this, though Jonathan Ross did.)

And the creator of Wonder Woman lived in a polygamous relationship.

And that a guy who went undercover in the KKK got the producers of the Superman radio show to write an episode where Superman fights the KKK, and that it completely slammed the recruiting numbers of the KKK.

And that Wonder Woman's truth lasso inspired the lie detector, though I'm not sure I believe that one.

From what I hear, one of the perks of being rich is getting lots of free stuff.

Yeah, that whole concept sort of rubs me raw.

And that Wonder Woman's truth lasso inspired the lie detector, though I'm not sure I believe that one.

Not quite, but William Moulton Marston created them both.

(But his lie detector work pre-dates his creation of Wonder Woman.)

And Roald Dahl helped design some sort of brain valve that's saved the lives of at least 3,000 children.

that whole concept sort of rubs me raw.

Well, it's harder to seduce people that can command a lot of money. Great benefits packages, free meals, relaxed dress codes (or strict ones, depending on the people) are differentiating factors. Factory workers don't need to be seduced.

And that Wonder Woman's truth lasso inspired the lie detector, though I'm not sure I believe that one.

Wonder Woman's creator, William Martson was a psychologist who invented a component used in the modern polygraph test.

So I'm bored and clicking OED's loss for words thing, which is the equivalent of opening the dictionary and pointing to a random word.

Just got a lovely little one: nevermas, n. A time or date which never comes.

Well, it's harder to seduce people that can command a lot of money. Great benefits packages, free meals, relaxed dress codes (or strict ones, depending on the people) are differentiating factors. Factory workers don't need to be seduced.

Yeah, pretty much this.