Could someone please predict how sick I'll be next year, so I can decide which insurance plan to pick?

Yet another fabulous feature of the fucked upedness of the US healthcare system. We did eenie-meanie-minie-mo. And I threw a dart at a board to guess our FSA deduction.

I didn't do a medical FSA this year, though perhaps I should have. Just childcare and we'll go over that by no problem.

Different sites on the Internet can specify how long their DNS names are cached. www.buffistas.org has a cache lifetime of 86400 seconds, or 24 hours. Big commercial web sites like to specify a cache lifetime that is much shorter. For example, google.com has a cache lifetime of only three minutes. This allows it to recover from failure quicker; if a host goes down, the bad address won't get stuck in other people's DNS caches for very long.

I'm going to get new glasses tomorrow due to FSA screw-ups. Possibly two pairs. Feh.

OOh, the mysteries of DNS, partially revealed....

Sometimes they ask us if we're brother and sister, I guess when we talk about living in the same house or something.

I have two sets of relatives who are a brother and sister living together with their various children -- one of them calls her brother her "brosband," which always makes me laugh.

Tom, if you repeatedly hit a site like b.org, does the cached DNS value still expire 24 hours after the first hit?

I kinda want to invite people over for new years day, but it's super late and I have been so hermitized that I have no meatspace life anymore.

Yes, tommyrot.

one of them calls her brother her "brosband," which always makes me laugh

Okay, freak me out. One should never combine those two words.

does the cached DNS value still expire 24 hours after the first hit?

Yes, tommyrot.

What counts as the first hit? This morning? What if I'm never away for 24 hours? Does it count down from the very first time I hit and then time out every 24 hours from then?