OK, so my lease says I can sublet with approval. I'll see what my friend Kevin has to say.

As long as he's not calling you Charles, you're ahead of the game.

My basic response to the IO9 changes: Catlike programming detected. And I clearly mean the kind of cats that like to test cause and effect over and over again, and we keep propping ourselves up to be knocked down over and over again.

How ill-considered is their change? If I put any string after a link to a post, you will only see context-free comments by a user with that name, or comments made while at that modified URL. This is only really an issue when the system deliberately generates URLS with strings after post links, so all of a sudden the "hot article" links take you to hot articles that say there are 900 comments, but they're all invisible, except for the ones made by the person who decided it was hot (usually a total of zero), or stumbling fools who got there before you and wondered where everyone had gone to.

They expect to have that fixed by tomorrow.

People work there. People whose job it is to write code (things happen!), but are there people whose job it is to test? People whose job it is to deliver applications? If so, they're fucking up. If not, HIRE THEM.

So what's the currently acceptable way to say that? Just "call it like I see it", I guess. I grew up on a farm. A spade was a shovel (except it isn't a bloody shovel, it's a spade). I never knew it was anything else until college. Can I still use the word spade to refer to a gardening tool, or must I say shovel?

I'm glad I own my house. The perils of renting disturb me.

So what's the currently acceptable way to say that?

I'm a smartass. So occasionally I will say: "let's call a diamond, a diamond."

Typo, you have trouble believing in three assholes? Knowing three assholes? Trusting three guys with impulse control issues and poor judgement?

The last. Trusting one asshole can happen to anyone. But it seems like extremely bad luck to trust three out of three. Or am I wrong in thinking that Groomsmen are usually friends of fairly long standing? Like you know their characters?

"let's call a diamond, a diamond."

This is genius, and I will use it at the next opportunity.

But it seems like extremely bad luck to trust three out of three

Not if you're an asshole or an idiot.

Or unlucky.

I want to ask more questions, but I don't know this person well enough to pry to this degree.

I don't know her as well as a buffista, for example.

Until ten minutes ago, I had no idea that there was any connotation to the word "spade" outside of gardening, playing cards, or misspelled veterinary procedures. On the other hand, I was also unaware of the fig and trough origins. Knowing now that there was quite likely an earthy double entendre in that, I may amuse myself by adopting that.

'm a smartass. So occasionally I will say: "let's call a diamond, a diamond."

Hah, I'd be more likely to go with club, for the same bash-over-head properties as a spade(shovel). :)