My experience with cats: unless you're willing to reapply the finish every couple of months as the cat removes it (in which case use a food-safe oil and keep in mind that cats notice smells) leave it unfinished. The cat won't care, and we've had several that actually preferred raw wood (the current one is a cardboard junkie, though, so he's happy with cheap scratching pads from the store).

"Can I have that once you're finished with it?" Physical newspapers are subject to being given away by the original purchaser (or getting picked up from cafe tables or pulled from trashcans—people used to leave the damned things lying around everywhere), if you can't afford to pay for them. It's a bit more difficult to do that with digital content.

You're the one who brought up the Boomers, not me. And I don't believe the behaviour of the Catholic Church is justified or should be permitted in a modern society—their priests committed secular crimes and should be doing time in prison for it like the rest of the non-clergy. The Vatican's shielding them is reprehensible and the people in their hierarchy who did so should be charged with aiding-and-abetting. My point was that you can't blame their centuries-old misbehaviour on a group of people that haven't even been around for a single century.

(And you say you can't hold the dead accountable—the Catholics have actually done that before, too. Look up the Cadaver Synod some day when you're really bored.)

I think you'll find that this kind of thing had been going on for thousands of years before the Boomer generation came around.

I think the problem is that it's difficult to tell whether it's a joke or a troll, because of this crappy timeline we find ourselves in. I'll accept that it was intended as a joke, but it read as a troll to me initially.

Alas, my only holiday project is getting the three dining chairs whose crossbars have fallen apart fixed before anyone shows up to sit in them. Not difficult, except that not a single thing I'm going to need to clamp is flat and square.

If you don't already have fabric you're intending to use, you might also consider paper as an option. Paper of the type used in Japanese shoji screens, that is, not office bond paper.

I guess that means the manga is a goodly distance behind the light novels, then. Usually, one light novel volume makes about four anime episodes—not always, since the anime can add or remove subplots, but it's a decent rule of thumb—so there were probably 6+ light novel volumes already published in Japan when they started planning this season.

It's White Fox that's animating it, right? It's unusual for them to be working on two TV series simultaneously (the other one being Sengoku Youko)—maybe they discovered they'd bitten off more than they could chew before the airing dates for this season of Re: Zero were announced, and so quietly altered the schedule without telling anyone?

The TV series was okay, but was a lot more scattered than the OAVs. Mostly because the story was divided into two halves, with the second taking place several years later and having different protagonists. I found it pretty unexceptional, to the point that it's one of the few series I didn't rebuy in DVD or blu-ray after jettisoning my VHS tapes.

The OAVs have a more coherent plot, better music overall (the TV series' only memorable song was Kiseki no Umi, the OP), and (IMHO) better artwork (although not necessarily better animation). Classic, as you say.

Still, given that our dear Premier seems bound and determined to put more cars on the road, removing the tolls on the 407 seems like it would be cheaper and easier than tunneling under the 401.

Mental inertia. It's the same kind of thinking that keeps some people using Windows. They've convinced themselves that the option with the familiar name will take less effort to learn than the one with the new name, when in fact the mental effort required to make the familiar-named thing work properly is greater.