It’s good to see that DUM-E found work after Tony Stark’s mansion was destroyed.

Cosigned - using talk time as the metric for smartphone battery life is as pointless as evaluating a car’s gas mileage by how efficient it is in reverse. How long will the battery last with the screen on and data being exchanged over a three-bar cellular connection?

Work-provided phone. =) but seriously, my fallback is a personally-owned Moto X (2013) that currently has a pay-per-day T-Mobile SIM in it. Were I to change jobs and go into a BYOD situation, I’d probably go for T-Mob’s rarely-advertised $30/mo prepaid plan that has 100 minutes talk, unlimited texting and 5 GB data.…

Grad students are a loophole in the 13th amendment. It’s a show.

Some users who know how to ask questions and listen to the answers are more precious than diamond money with naked people on it. Then there are the ones who want you to think so they don’t have to. I wish I had a nickel for every time I’ve refrained from saying “I can explain it to you but I can’t understand it for…

I mean yeah, the book is kind of a show, but the kid's graduated. Stallings is making the program look a lot worse by acting like Principal Vernon about the thing - as if he hadn't already made it look worse by running off two entire recruiting classes in a row and failing to win more than one NCAA tournament game…

There's a reason why David Williams is the Goldfather.

That would surprise me not at all.

My life goal is to give as negative many fucks as this dog.

Gilchrist's, in Mountain Brook. This tony suburb of Birmingham hosts an actual old-school soda fountain where ladies-who-lunch dine on tomato aspic and the best limeade in the world. Run, don't walk.

Oh, and I figured it out because I live less than 5 miles away and used to drive by it ALL THE TIME when I worked at Moffett. CHEATING!!

It's blank because that's where the conduit from the reservoir comes through so we can get water from Hetch Hetchy to the guts of Silly Con Valley, thus apparently making John Muir cry because it was nicer than Yosemite (allegedly).

Dell Mini 1012 netbook. 3-cell battery with the lifespan of a fruit fly, terrible trackpad, and screen resolution not appreciably better than my iPhone 4. Fortunately my father-in-law, retired IBM lifer with patience and time on his hands, took it off mine for a nominal sum.