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Today, I’m thinking about Grandparent Names. How did you/do you address your grandparents? If you’re a parent, how do your kids address their grandparents? If you are a grandparent, or picture being one someday, how do you want your grandkids to address you? ncG1vNJzZmiclai2qLrMqKRnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1ww8eaq2amkaKytHnDqGSyp6ViwrSxjJ%2Bmq2WppMKzecarmKecoJa%2FprrTrGacp52isq%2FA0g%3D%3D

I get press releases for new products all the time, but this one really excited me: it was for canned baked beans with no added sugar. I love baked beans and I occasionally open a can of them for a quick side dish or vegetarian main. However, I usually need to add some apple cider vinegar and/or mustard to help balance their aggressive sweetness, so my hopes were high for this new product.

Here’s the acting advice that actress Jenna Fischer, who played Pam in the wildly popular series The Office, says got her noticed time and time again in auditions: “So in any project, if it's a TV show or a movie, that my acting coach said, you pick one moment for your character that you decide in this project is your big moment of realization - a confession, something, you pick one.

This is our last Thursday seeing clients in The Netherlands! For the last two years, Julia and I have lived in Utrecht, the Netherlands. We had a pipe dream of starting a therapy business in Europe, but that was quickly overturned by two realities: It’s really fucking hard to start a new business when you don’t have external funding. We would have to give up money in the short term in order to invest in marketing and building new clientele in Europe.

Welcome to the second edition of Guest Articles, where we continue to be community-led by handing the reins of the Rag over to someone from our community and where they’ll write about a topic of their choosing. The only requirement is that it strengthens our community or helps us achieve our goal of making Canberra suicide-free. This week, we’ve got an anonymous writer, and we encourage it. Whether you put your name to it or not, we want to hear your perspective.

Welcome! We’re back with another issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. Glad you could join us. Here’s what we’re doing this week: One — breaking down the “UPA style” and its influence. Two — animation news from all around the world. Three — a post-UPA classic from the Hubleys. Four — the last word. If you’re new to our newsletter, we do this every week. You can sign up to receive our free Sunday issues right in your inbox:

The layoffs that have happened at Coupa should not be a surprise. We’re not clear on numbers, but I’ve seen the 30% figure, which is probably 900-1100 employees losing their job. Big numbers. Thomas Bravo acquired them to their ever-growing portfolio of big tech. A company with over $2bn in debt likely had issues other big tech have been displaying. Too many people. We all saw earlier in the year when Elon Musk bought Twitter how he cut the workforce by approximately 80% and closed down one of its datacentres.

I’ve been reading The Fug Girls, , pretty much as long as I’ve had INTERNET. For almost a decade, their celebrity fashion/pop culture blog, Go Fug Yourself, was the first thing I’d check when I got to the office early, keeping the browser tiny and in the lower left corner so as not to disrupt my daily performance of “busy theater.” I’d like to thank th…ncG1vNJzZmiZnZeys3rSrpmsrJGYuG%2BvzqZmqWenna61edOhnGaepZx6qLXRpapmmqWueri106FkraCVnr8%3D

Almost everyone knows what a “MAC address” is. At least, everyone has seen them. My nieces have seen the WiFi MAC address of their iPhone, my aging parents have seen the list of MAC addresses attached to their Comcast router. And yet, even experts who have spent decades working with him on network backbones are a little hazy about some details. For example, what does the phrase “media access control” mean and where did it come from?