Congrats to Florida on getting the expansion.

What we really need, then, is bear spray at the end of a 56-inch hiking pole.

If they're having trouble reading faded ink, I wonder if UV photography would help.

You better watch that alert...

And not yourself? *sniff*

I was a kid when they opened. Trammel/Crow got local computer clubs to move their monthly meetings there, so I prowled through the halls for many Saturdays of my youth. For a short while, the idea of a giant exposition hall for the IT industry actually worked, even as the overall concept of having to fly in to vendor…

I'll bet it's something for the inevitable PBS pledge drive during which it will show.

It's part of a uniform, just as much as a tie is. No, I don't mean a baseball uniform, though it's part of that, also. It expresses something about the wearer's identity or aspirations.

Starred for the nod to Dr. Seuss, who used the word nerd in 1950, apparently the first documented instance.

I'd be much more interested in a socket adapter that acts as a receiver, like you're suggesting, instead of this idea of stuffing a new receiver into every bulb. So wasteful, both of money and resources.

The Chrome team probably ought to be demoing Chrome on Chromebooks — you know, those devices shipping with ChromeOS? :)

Wonder if the for-rental-only modems only support IPv4, and not IPv6.

Geeks bite the heads off chickens. Talk nerdy to me.

What made the original hilarious for me was that all the players were in typically-overwrought hardcore raider mode, and Leeeroy's unscheduled, unauthorized, and ill-fated burst of enthusiasm demonstrated how silly they were being. I didn't get that from this.

What's in your head? Zombie fans should find it encouraging, not ominous :)

I was just thinking that. Next time they send something to Mars they should include a whisk attachment. :)

The real reason why he's wrong for the role of Khan is that he could be better-looking than Quinto's Spock, and we'll be rooting for the bad guy.