It will be a good week for my birthday, that is sure. This, Star Wars. Excellent!

This is a bad infographic. Not only do the $s in the breakdown make zero sense, nor does the notation (3.816,96, versus the American (which evidently isn’t where this is from) 3,8216.96, but the break down of healthcare costs has the Medical + Kids insurance at the Medicare 53.5% slice, and Medicare pointing at the…

I wrote something similar. Back in 1997.

Agreed. When my wife was working in Basel, Switzerland working as a consultant for, ta da!, a railroad company, I flew over to Paris (she normally flies in to Zurich) and took a train to Basel. Not understanding what I had to do at CDG (which was a CF for multiple reasons, chief among them was an asshole window seat…

I’m anti-libertarian. Sorry, the Internet has made them obnoxious assholes, and I’ve had my fill lately. Truly sad, because at one point in time, I would have said that I leaned libertarian, but today, I’ll gladly wear the sign of “Liberal Socialist” to make sure that I never get pinned with “Libertarian”, even though…

Oh, I understand. But that’s why I’m of the mind that until it works, don’t tell me about it. I don’t want to hear that it’s x years/months/weeks/days away and then find out, “Oh, we’ve got this one little thing to work out, so it will be another few decades...”

Mine was beach themed with beach attire (everybody, guests included), and we were married on the beach. Plus, the dinner reception was actually before the actual ceremony (at sunset). So no problems there. Linen shorts, linen shirt, and sandals. Easy enough to deal with, for me. My wife wore a blue summer dress and…

Best of all, the researchers say the concept could be realized in a decade.

Yep! They’re out there, I’ve seen them.

Well, that sucked! Watched the thing blow up live! :(

This was in the ‘80s. Pre Internet, at least for the masses.

What a crap website. Graphics on top of text, so I can’t tell what the hell the answers actually are, I’m halfway through, and I have no clue as to where I’m supposed to click to continue, I suspect it’s under a graphic, but as I try to scroll the page around, I see nothing at all. I’m pretty well done with this piece…

What I liked the best, that I can’t find anywhere now is Jovan Musk. Not even Amazon.

What I liked the best, that I can’t find anywhere now is Jovan Musk. Not even Amazon.

I’ll second this one. Although I’m not really using any of my pipes for much right now, I’m rather glad that I didn’t go all whole hog in trying to filter a bunch of RSS. Most of mine were shopping things to try and pull the items that I was more concerned about from various feeds.

Evidently, I used to dream about BASIC code in my college days. Then I woke with a headache from hell with the memory of what was going on. I called it my stack overflow. No clue as to what the code did. I didn’t even recognize it as my code.

If I can ever remember to do it when I’m in such a situation. Which, to be frank, has never been that often. When I had a car and there was a garage, it was my parents cars that were in there, I parked next to the barn, and a red barn not really close enough is a piss-poor wall to be checking for blinking lights. I…

I’ll be that different commenter. You’re still going to have to get out of the car to see whether it’s the front or the rear bulb you need to replace.

Thinking about it, yeah, it seems pretty weird that an app could do that. I lost about six different widgets once I realized what had happened, but not all of them, and not all the widgets of a particular app (in the one case where I had two...), only widgets (except that I did see a hole where one app should be...),…

I think the first question to go with has to be, “Has your wife (or you) totaled the single car in the family?” Yes, being a good reason to get a new car. Previously, it was “Is the current car no longer reliable, like setting for 24 hours with a wiring short and draining the battery dry (for the second time in the…

If TV is allowed, the whole of CSI:Cyber.