My favorite position is the “Holy shit!” That’s where the passenger grabs on to the side bars and prays I don’t goose the throttle and send him flying off the back.

“I believed that men had better reflexes, performed better under pressure, and were more technically competent than women.”

I stopped reading after this: “...militaristic six sigma management.”

“Welcome to the party cookie dough...”

I grew up in San Diego home of the 32nd street naval station. During the PC revolution we had a LOT of ‘squids’ coming in to buy the latest thing after coming back from long missions. The guys were hilarious. Completely batshit insane in a good way. I imagine Down Periscope is pretty damn accurate at least where the…

That’s Alice in Wonderland meta.

Protip: Say you’re a new HR hire. No one like or cares about HR. You’ll never be questioned.

I pre-ordered through Steam and promptly got a refund. Steam changed the game. +1000 to them for realizing there was a serious problem and being willing to do something radical about it.

This brings up a good point. With modern 3D visualization techniques, what’s stopping us from re-creating R’lyeh?

Maybe as a kid I realized that my wrists hurt if I didn’t sit a specific way.

WTF happened to the 55 MILLION DOLLARS they raised? Hookers and blow?

The Sinclair ZX80 was my first true love. THEN the glorious Cadillac called the Commodore 64. What a luxurious racing machine the C64 was compared to the garbage ZX80.

“There are no vaccines for uh, allergies or colitis. That’s not a thing, Bill.”

What’s strange is I’m in my mid 40’s and have been gaming/programming since I was 10. I’ve never used any special wrist protection and have never developed TCS. Is it because I have been using keyboards/mice/joysticks since my body was still in the development stage?

When you attempt to make a design capable of everything, it excels at nothing.

So true. At work I’m really careful about what I say. People can be so cruel.

I actually prefer to hear other people’s stories. It’s really entertaining to get downloads from other people’s lives. So, listening is a no-brainer for me.

I totally agree with this. Whenever anyone says “maybe”, what they mean is “I’m a spineless noodle who simply can’t say no”.

Looks great. But ugh...cloud based? I have such a total lack of trust about storing anything personal at all in the cloud. Well...unless I’m the one doing the encryption.

Ben Bova’s Venus novel was a fascinating read if you are interested in what it would take to actually land on a planet that hostile. He basically theorized that you could used bricks of lead to absorb the intense heat. As the lead melts, you simply dump it.