MUCH better than last week.

Neat! For those of you stalker/nerds, here’s a pretty thorough history!

Here you go. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_evFF…

Is that John Voight’s car?

There will be, but you have to cuddle with me. And I get to be the big spoon.

Things I need to know...

“Oi trees ave bilt in trackas, Gov!”

God, that was so good. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is brilliant too.

So what happened?

When my American chums tell me that my British accent makes me sound more intelligent, I bite my lip thinking about all the other British accents that have quite the opposite effect.

You sure this wasn’t just footage cut from the movie Snatch?

Conditional Access - basically a “dongle” card that responds to a security challenge with an appropriate response. Lots of different systems in place (Satellite and Cable Boxes use modern versions of these), but the basic idea is that it can respond with an appropriate pseudo-random code value, or even a set of…

Ok I’m old enough to have been a computer geek in the era of DOS and config.sys/autoexec.bat manipulation and have been a card carrying computer nerd for 25 years, so it surprises me to hear reference to a “CA card” I have never heard of

WTF is a CA card?

Awesome. Definitely something to consider if your flight is full and they’re looking for volunteers to get bumped. Always worth asking!

Karma: Back in the fall of 2004 I was flying cross-country from Dulles to Las Vegas for work. My assigned seat was the very last row, middle seat, so was in the first group to board. As I reached the last row, the flight attendants were doing their normal pre-flight prep work in the rear galley. One smiled and looked…

Every time I fly, I bring a store bought, sealed package of cookies with a local flavor ( I’m in New England, so I go for maple) and write a nice note thanking the pilots and crew for working so hard and keeping us safe in the air. If there are any first class tickets available, I usually end up getting one as a thank…