I agree. I returned to grad school at 40 to jump start a career change. I even did internships while studying (and maintained a day job to keep my student loan costs down). Upon graduation, I've found I have to hide my age as best I can on resumes (e.g., remove undergraduate graduation dates only include recent,…

I have recently been doing some basic design and layout work for a law firm that emails out weekly newsletters about each of their practices. The documents are very text-heavy (as one might expect for a law firm) and the layout is very simple. However, something like 90% of their readers (I don't have to pull the…

Cosmic Boy. Because skimpy outfits are not just for women anymore.

When I was in college, the town had "867" as an optional (and at the time, new) exchange. My friend specifically requested Jenny's number because he's a huge '80s fanatic and thought it would be fun (and easy to remember). It only took a few months of drunken frat boys calling him in the middle of the night,…

I'm not an engineer, but aren't planes in danger of becoming obsolete simply based on their reliance on fossil fuels? Trains can, and have been, run on electricity for years and we have many non-fossil fuel options for generating electricity. Is there some equivalent for planes (I'm seriously asking here-because off…

Something my sister and I (both in our 40s) have said to each other for years is that we wish we would have put larger sums of money (or any) in a retirement plan in our first jobs out of college. The thing you have most on your side at that age is time. If you can build up some principal early, you can weather good…

This is one of my favorite talks from Scott. It's great information for anyone considering user experience, whether the game is played in physical or virtual space.

One more in agreement for JL8 (though I loved the original, if trademark infringing, name "Little League" even more). It's the most highly anticipated "DC" release in our household, more so than any of the official monthly books.

This is really nothing new. When I was applying for undergraduate schools waaaaay back in the '80s, my high school guidance counselor was prompting me to apply to several Ivy League schools (which wasn't out of the question: I was valedictorian of my class and a National Merit Scholar). The fees, even then, were…

I'm sure someone at Dragon-Con 2013 will take you up on that challenge, Meredith.

Not Goofy cosplay. It's PaRappa the Rapper, no?

About ten years ago I was working on a project for a friend (a workshop of a new, original musical that also had Faustian undertones). My friend had no budget for the workshop but really wanted me involved. His ultimate "payment" to me was letting me watch his original laserdisc of "Little Shop" with this original…

The movie's original release inspired a lot of smaller theatres nationwide to stage the show (which was usually prohibitively expensive due to the cost of building the Audrey II puppet). Prop houses started renting copies of the puppet, allowing these smaller theatres to produce the show. I saw a local production…

The "Google Street View" application that is referenced here is actually Aspen Movie Map, which one of my graduate advisors worked on. It was four years old by the time Jobs made his speech and most of the insiders in the tech industry at the time would have known about it.

Wear mine only when I'm in my car. When I have both hands available, I'll hold my phone. The people I see with earbuds (which *do* seem to fall out of my ear more than a Bluetooth headset ever did) and dangling them to pull the microphone closer to their mouth seem to be missing the point of "hands free". Plus, I've…

I was going to post this myself. Glad someone beat me to it. The water displacement issue that sharpimus raises is my biggest question, but I still can't wait to get one of these.

Can you go into more detail as to why he didn't last? Lack of technical skills? Personality issues? Was it really his age or something else about him specifically?

Voltage was so low it didn't matter. Sometimes we actually used an old key (one that, obviously, didn't work on the actual door).

Growing up my father had installed a rather ingenious method of getting into our house if we were ever locked out. Our house was partially set into a hill and the garage was on the ground floor with the living space on the second floor. My father (an electrician) wired the garage door opener to two screws on the…

THIS. When done thoughtfully (just like the use of sound or color in film) the use of 3D can be transformative to story. More 3D movies means more opportunities for creative filmmakers to discover new storytelling techniques with depth.