Oh man, I can almost smell the Hai Karate!

another victory for physics!

I'm not sure if it was corporate wide or not but my division of Lockheed required that all meetings have a published agenda and published notes.

Ralph Baer's story:

Wikipedia says it's number four.

The other side of the coin is that being a snarky jerk never works with customer service people anywhere.

I'm an admin and I haven't actually touched a machine besides my laptop for three years now.

When I think about Summertime Blues, this is what I think of:

You're right! I went to the trouble of using an audio editor to string together my Abbey Road's mp3 files.

I've often thought that rich people are rich because they do things like buy really nice cars and keep them for twenty years. Check around the parking garage of a luxury condo. You'll be surprised how many cars need a paint job because the are so old.

Twenty years ago it was quite common. When you got on the airplane, the attendants would just take your suit bag and hang it up for you. I don't know if planes now even have a place to hang a suit bag.

I bet that people who work at Hotels have some pretty funny stories about people having trouble with wifi. I know I get semi hysterical when I'm having wifi problems in a hotel. The worse is getting a wifi connection but it's too slow to doing anything, I start moaning like Nancy Kerrigan, "Why me? Why? Why..."

Airlines should charge by how many inches of seat you take up. This whole idea of one size fits most people just doesn't make any sense.

My experience has been that you get much better deals at no-haggle places. The only minuses I've seen with no-haggle dealerships is that the sales people aren't very well informed and you might not be able to test drive the car you are interested in. They tend to be low margin operations all the way around.

I have a "sit down" job that is causing health problems. I thought a standing desk would help but my doctors told me it would be fine to use a standing desk but I shouldn't stand at it for too long. They said that people with jobs where they stand all day have worse problems. The advice I've been getting is…

"aside from an internet connection" - that's a big aside. You're not really "cutting the cable" if you're getting internet from a cable company.

It's too bad, I actually like using Facebook to keep in contact with old friends. Last night though, with news of this tracking feature, I deleted the Facebook app off my phone. I'll probably still check into the browser based site once and awhile but it seems like fewer of my friends are using Facebook.

Maybe the Neanderthals didn't have a GPS in their cars, just compasses and they all got lost.

I've been trying to get by lately with just a Kindle Fire HD, a Logitech keyboard and an iPhone. I'm a UNIX guy though, so I just need a VPN app and an SSH client and I'm pretty happy. For notes, I use Evernote. I can only open one SSH session at a time so I can't do any serious work but for overnights or…

This might be *the* original internet meme: