I get similar questions when people find out that I left a job as a programmer and systems analyst to be an Infantryman in the Army. I went back into IT after my enlistment was up. I'm also only 5'5" and wear glasses, so I don't look like the stereotypical grunt, either.

I saw a couple of studies a few years ago that basically said that for all but the most elite athletes (Michael Phelps, Lance Armstrong, etc...), the best pre- and post- workout regimen was a cup of coffee 30-60 minutes before the workout and a cup of chocolate milk 15-30 minutes afterward.

Poe? Is that you??

Gunner HE Truck 1200 meters!!

What's even worse is when I search for a solution to some problem I'm having, and the top results are all MY OWN POSTS from several years ago, and the problem still isn't fixed on whatever platform I was talking about then. Grrrr

I'm not joking, and don't call me Shirley.

They don't need "permission" from the music industry to let me upload my personal collection to their cloud storage and to let me listen to it from anywhere (which is what it already does). What they need is tight integration with a music store, a la Amazon (which transfers song directly to the Cloud Drive / Cloud…

This just makes it more obvious that this plan was not well thought out beforehand. These are the kind of moves you make before going public with a big announcement, not in the cleanup phase after a PR debacle....

Plus $50 a year for an Xbox Live account.

Yes, the point really is to get a following to come to shows, buy merchandise, and to tell their friends so that the following gets bigger. With the old model, you could get a bigger following faster, but at the cost of giving away all of the benefits to the record labels.

All that power just to get the equivalent of ONE Abrams tank out of the atmosphere....wow, that's inefficient. Stupid gravity well....

Han didn't shoot first, because Greedo never fired a shot.

I do this, except I have on my desk a pair of $12 shelves (meant for shoe storage or something) that I bought at Target. One shelf has my 2 monitors and the other has a wireless keyboard and mouse. I can stand and work, or sit down and slide the shelf back a bit to access the wired keyboard and mouse.

When I go to the gas station, I pay the price displayed on the pump. There is a notice on the pump that the price I am paying already includes "x% Federal Gas Tax fee". Why can't phone companies be forced to operate in the same manner?

Amazon wins, in my book

Works pretty well. I tested it on my business card, but it had trouble with my email address, possibly due to the italic font in which the the email address is printed.

Net Neutrality basically boils down to this one basic idea: "treat everyone's data the same no matter what, i.e. Don't Be Evil". No side deals with corporate partners, don't give preference to your own video streaming service over to Netflix, etc....

@toatle: You're right, it would be stupid to try to do that. What this probably does is create a customized variant of a digital camo pattern so that it more closely matches the primary shades of that terrain.

@RighteousDork: haha, not really an option...

I actually finally closed my Mint account today. I used it for a year, then my bank added a one-time PIN to their login about 10 months ago, and Mint was never able to work with that bank since then. Every couple of months I checked their user forums to see if the problem had been resolved but no dice.