The worst book Neal Stephenson has written. Go get Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, or Diamond Age.

I'll go fire up my Hummer and obviate the need for ice breakers completely...

Of all the varied sexual activities I have ever tried, it is the only one I would describe as "over-rated"...

If accessible = boring, then "Reamde" is his most accessible book to-date...

TOO URANUS...AND BEYOND!

You can't get the anyone to rush out to buy a marginally improved version of the hardware product they already own if you don't create an artificial difference between the two virtually indistinguishable versions.

I've found that if I download my boarding pass to my smartphone and scroll down just a bit that the group assignment often isn't visible, but the bar code is. I haven't been stopped yet (mainly United).

He probably just had the leasing company buy two SL55s and then he alternated between "leasing" the two every six months.

Sexy Olive Oyl? Really?

Biff, I am your father...

It's funny that the inconvenience of flying to ATL, sitting in a chair for a couple of hours, and being uncomfortably hot stops actors from wanting to do a walk on. How horrible!

Saying "Jack Black" and "not funny" is just repeating yourself...

Put a thumb size indentation at the center of both sides of the patty. This will allow the thinner center to be done at the same time as the outer edges of the burger. So you done have charred edges and a raw center.

Contrary to the article, I'm running BB Gingerbread GPA15 on an overclocked (Slayher) Droid without any issues.

Make sure that POP email application is on a computer that isn't going to disappear on you either.

On top with autohide. I spend most of my workday in Firefox, so I have my taskbar, Firefox menu bar, and all other toolbars minimized. The only "bars" I have are the FF title bar and the FF tabs.

I need to convert .avi files that I download via BitTorrent to mpeg-2 files that I can play back to my TV via my DVR (SageTV). The only application that I have found that works consistently is Any Video. I use the free version and it does a great job.

The Dahli Lama had a great comment about using your car horn. The car horn is suppose to be used to prevent an accident, but so many people today use it to express their frustration many times frustration that doesn't even relate to driving. So he recommends that whenever you use your car horn, take a second to ask…

If I need a buggy browser, I'll dig my NeXT out of the closet and try to fire up NCSA Mosiac...

I just remind myself that before I need to dip into my somewhat battered 401K, it will recover from this, face another financial crisis, recover from that crisis, face another financial crisis, and recover from that at which point my investments will be mainly in money markets and low-risk investment vehicles in…