Does anyone else count their knuckles to see how many days are in a month? I still do that.

I just know them.

Russia just announced that it's sending humans to the moon

Before 2030, Russia plans to land its first cosmonauts on the moon, and Europe wants a piece of the action.

They're a little late for the great space race of the 1960s, but the mission is an admirable push for the reignited interest in manned deep-space travel.

On Tuesday, at a space and technology conference in Moscow, the head of Roscosmos Energia — Russia's version of NASA — announced: "A manned flight to the moon and lunar landing is planned for 2029."

And the European Space Agency, which made history last year by landing the first spacecraft on a comet, is teaming up.

"We have an ambition to have European astronauts on the moon," Bérengère Houdou, head of the lunar-exploration group at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Center, recently told BBC News. "There are currently discussion at international level going on for broad cooperation on how to go back to the moon."

Russia and Europe have expressed interest in establishing a permanent base on the moon, and they have already begun taking the fist steps toward this goal.

Last month, Roscosmos announced that it will send a lander, Luna 25, to the moon's south pole in 2024. After touchdown, the lander will investigate the lunar surface for future lunar bases.

The Luna 25 mission was initially proposed in 1997 and has since suffered a number of delays, but it seems that with Europe's aid the mission could finally get the jump-start it needs. Construction on the spacecraft has already begun, Tech Insider reported.

This collaborative effort is a welcomed contrast to the lonely space race of the mid-20th century. While Europe and Russia raise their collective eyes to the moon, NASA continues its quest for a farther, more dangerous mission: Mars.

I also now know how to spell necessary, but I'll still do the "never eat cheese eat salad sandwiches and remain young" thing in my head as I type it.

"Cup and two saucers", surely?

Russia are going to the moon :

No, name all the weeks. But have an official Week Naming consortium that every Spaghetti to Lederhosen decides what all the following year's weeks are going to be called.

Russia are going to the moon :

No, name all the weeks. But have an official Week Naming consortium that every November decides what all the following year's weeks are going to be called.

No, men in silver suits will appear on the moon and President Putin will deny all knowledge.

When you're laminating something, there's only 2 things you need to know. When to put the sheet in and when it comes out.

How on earth has someone I work with managed to get 3 sheets stuck inside the laminator with another one being fed in? My mind has been blown.

How did they not realise that their laminated sheet hadn't come out?

Hi Mimi, I am in Germany, although coming home today. Looking forward to it, this has been my first trip away since Lily was born and am missing her.

It is a long haul to move through the qualifying events to be eligible for the Ticket to Ride World Championships.

Hi Mimi, I am in Germany, although coming home today. Looking forward to it, this has been my first trip away since Lily was born and am missing her.

This morning someone misconfigured our UAT environment so that, instead of resolving to a dummy address, emails would actually be sent to real users. We found this out after I'd sent a test email which included a PDF of a stupid internal course completion certificate with my name and id printed on it. It's been delivered to 1400 people globally and, so far, viewed by about 1200. Amusingly, as of a change I made only yesterday, when anyone looks me up on the internal phone book, as people tend to do in these circumstances, they'll get a profile pictures that's an image of Fallout vault boy giving them a big smug thumbs up.

This morning someone misconfigured our UAT environment so that, instead of resolving to a dummy address, emails would actually be sent to real users.

Fallout vault boy giving them a big smug thumbs up.

I would fire them so hard.

Objection.

On what grounds?

He's not giving you a thumbs up, he's seeing if he'll survive the fallout from a nuclear explosion.

He's not giving you a thumbs up, he's seeing if he'll survive the fallout from a nuclear explosion.

It's not been answered conclusively. Either could be right.

True enough, but it does fit rather well.

This morning someone misconfigured our UAT environment so that, instead of resolving to a dummy address, emails would actually be sent to real users. We found this out after I'd sent a test email which included a PDF of a stupid internal course completion certificate with my name and id printed on it. It's been delivered to 1400 people globally and, so far, viewed by about 1200. Amusingly, as of a change I made only yesterday, when anyone looks me up on the internal phone book, as people tend to do in these circumstances, they'll get a profile pictures that's an image of Fallout vault boy giving them a big smug thumbs up.

Lol. Now a lot of the users are panicing over this email because it looks weird and has a weird attachment so they're forwarding it to our security guys for review. And they're then beating a path to the door of the very senior guy who's name I published the mail under to ask him what he's playing at. He's really pleased about this entire situation as you can imagine.

This morning someone misconfigured our UAT environment so that, instead of resolving to a dummy address, emails would actually be sent to real users. We found this out after I'd sent a test email which included a PDF of a stupid internal course completion certificate with my name and id printed on it.

Never ever ever put embarrassing data into any test environment! Always use data that won't matter if it leaks into prod, because there's always a nonzero risk of a leak.

It's not been answered conclusively. Either could be right.

Why did I agree to work on a Saturday?

It's cleverly done, and is too well balanced not to be purposeful

God I want This

Wife says I'm not allowed one. Plan B is engaged.