@tyche.eros: I would have taken photos, turned them into Christmas cards, and mailed them to my roommates' mothers.

Q: What if you use all of these methods?

@BFF: So much this.

As much as I loathe everything having to do with Notre Dame, I'm really sorry for this kid's friends, the team, and his family.

@NotChoinski: Yeah, because a Senate run by Mitch McConnell would be such an improvement.

Pournelle is off to the right of my monitor, I guess.

@redman042: Jamjen's comment implied that I don't know how close Fairfield is to SF, and I wanted to correct that impression.

@jamjen: Yes, winds out of the northeast would have dropped some fallout on the Bay Area. But I assumed the winds were blowing from the west, as they do almost every day.

Regarding the Mark IV at Fairfield-Suisun - I can't figure out how the author calculated a possible six-figure "immediate death toll."

@Dr Emilio Lizardo: Economic disasters are as bad as nuclear ones.

@tristam.green: #corrections might get that fixed

You know, I don't really miss the Mac XL. Not one bit.

@ian.nai: Um, BSD pretty much qualifies as a *nix on my planet.

@pixelpushing: This will be the pre-preview, with more to be unveiled at next year's WWDC, and a launch sometime in late '11 or early '12. Bank on it.

@thefingerofgod: Clarence!

@Evdor: You're assuming that intentions of those outside our system are peaceful; I hope to God that NASA doesn't make that mistake.

I have no desire to be around when Halley's returns; I'll be closing in on 100 and that's just too old for me.

@Arken: Note that I said "might."

@Malfoy: Try the #corrections tag, that might actually get noticed.

I find neither of these people attractive. David is cute, but one gets the sense that he doesn't have two thoughts to rub together; one only can pray that he doesn't turn into Gazza in a decade or so. Victoria, on the other hand, is about as sexy as a lump of pig iron. Has she ever been photographed smiling? The two…