jchonan
JC needs a vacation
jchonan

I used to work retail sales selling cellphones and, every Christmas season, we'd get someone who was a bit clueless saying they wanted to give someone a cellphone for a present. Oh, the address for the bill is (someone else's address) please.

My grandma is getting one from me this year. She has no computer, doesn't WANT a computer, and I'm pre-loading it with a ton of pictures from the entire family.

Completely unrelated to the actual subject of the article, but...

You'd think the insurance companies for these people would require that the fee be paid, or pay for it themselves.

thegunboats did say Catholic, and a large percentage of "exorcism" films go along with Catholic teachings.

It's okay, that will just help make humans stronger.

Jalopnik had a "How to fly the SR-71" story May of last year, which included the SR-71 flight manual (with some redactions, unfortunately).

A stereotype in name only, apparently, as while the UK has NHS, we Americans have "Let 'em die!" folks who refuse to let us have something akin to modern comprehensive healthcare.

Of course, that doesn't mean they don't use something similar.

May I suggest reading Cory Doctrow's "Little Brother" for some of the issues that arise to perfectly innocent people with this sort of thing? Free, good read. Unfortunately realistic.

There's a bit of variance in size and mass. Look closely at image 3 and 4, for instance for size differences alone. (Admission: I only included the pic in hopes that peoples eyes will pop out of their heads.)

+Heart for cleverness.

I'm guessing he was thinking "ReTurn on Investment", meaning ROI, but wasn't picky about the acronym.

He's jogging with an oxygen restriction mask AND a weight vest? Hardcore.

The two really bright spots are eyes, from there compare to the picture on the right. It's more facing the viewer than the actual dragonfish image.

My kneejerk reaction to that kind of thinking would be to find a nice forum to post the entire asshat email that the guy sent you. Seriously, "maybe you should change your email instead"?

If he's less than a year old, you really should be talking to his parents instead. I'm not even sure how he's using email... :)

I think my caption would be "Not yet, anyway, but we're working on that."

in OS X, type "diskutil list" to show a list of the disks, then "diskutil eject /Volumes/Name-Of-Disk"