@theamazingpete: I always thought there was a remarkable resemblance between the current Ballmer and Microsoft Bob...

So the rumors of Microsoft's interest in purchasing Second Life means hes right on track to get the full bonus next year, I guess.

@baconfaces: Well, if he didn't, Stalin would.

@captain_zilog: Pretty cool. Mine was the first thing I ever built from a kit that worked. Got it as a HS graduation present. It still works.

@captain_zilog: I built one too. Is his from B&F?

@cc: It's not a purse, it's an iPad bag!

@STIKleinWagon: Also, IIRC, they used graphite blocks as a moderator. Graphite's flammable. Removing some of the blocks to see what would happen wasn't a good idea, either. It's been a while, my memories are fuzzy, but I'm sure there's a detailed description of the incident on the web.

@Imperial Dynamics: Uh...no, Chernobyl was a dangerous, obsolete design, and the cause of the fire and meltdown was an unauthorized experiment that went very wrong. In no way was Chernobyl an "accident", it was a disaster waiting to happen because the Soviets prioritized cheap power over safe design and the lives of…

@MrTripps: The best kind of teapot is a Utah teapot: [en.wikipedia.org]

@Les Mikesell: What you get at the Chinese restaurant is, I think, "green tea". At least, when I buy stuff labelled that way, it tastes the same.

@Ben Zvan: The work needs to be done with human input, I agree, as there is no intrinsic depth information in the image of the painting.

There's a company (sorry, the item's at home and I'm at work) that takes artworks and creates 3D stereo pairs from the original art, then offers them in foldable, mailable stereo viewers.

@Cintax: What does being a motorcycle rider have to do with anything.

Not just an agent, Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming was "C", the founder of MI6.

@FTNWO: Donuts.

@midnightz: Manager's name wouldn't happen to be Basil, now, would it?

As an EE, I have worked for good managers and Lumbergs. The closer the good managers' philosophy was to Packard's, the more their groups accomplished and the more fun we had.

A friend once made a dip-switch PROM emulator so he could change the address on his box to one that could receive all the channels.

@GrumpierGrunt: No, they're sold there. I'm not sure whether it's legal to use them, though...I think it varies by town.

Wish I'd been there with a friend and a couple of tombstones marked "KIN 1" and "KIN 2".