I remember when Newegg.com was launched.

Maybe some day it’ll be one of those skills we think “everyone should learn” but most people still get by totally ignoring it. Or maybe it’ll be a severe hindrance to getting a job.

“Search and basic math” are beyond possibly 50 percent of the American population. It’s really about reasoning and simply figuring stuff out without having it handed to you on a platter. That’s why I personally hate the dumbing down (aka simplification, aka ‘user friendly-ing’) of software. In order to use a typical…

Speaking of stupid buzzwords ... anyone else notice that code monkeys under 25 seem to prefer calling themselves “coders”; 26 to 39 say “developers”; 40 and over, “programmers”? Every generation has to change shit just to say the same fucking thing but in a “different” way. So annoying.

Yeah, nowadays pretty much nobody outside of IT says “program” meaning a computer program, or “application” meaning a computer program.

You get to pick from a selection of 6-8 characters to play from and the characters you didn’t pick become NPC’s. <snip> If you die, you respawn as one of the other NPC’s and the end only ends if all the characters die.

Ups and downs. Freight trains haul more shit more economically and create less pollution per ton-mile ... BUT ... trains are severely constrained as to where they can go. There will always be a need for load hauling from a train terminal to wherever the stuff needs to be, and trains can’t do that bit. It’s not even…

Huh, yeah ... Surgeon Vice Admiral just doesn’t roll off the tongue in quite the same way, does it?

A quick browse of the men’s gloves indicates to me these are not particularly notable “deals” ... “Isotoner gloves at 50% off!!!!1!” ... when I could buy the same gloves in a local department store or big box for that same “discounted” price. Sad state of affairs there.

A quick browse of the men’s gloves indicates to me these are not particularly notable “deals” ... “Isotoner gloves…

Surely there are thrills to be found in civilian life were you live

I get where you’re coming from but I highly doubt you watched a plotter doing “the exact same thing” 25 years ago.

It’s not a Buick, its a Vauxhall / Opel with a Buick logo hastily shooped in.

Haha. Um… North Korea borders South Korea and China. And Norway borders Sweden. Finland is in-between Sweden and Russia. More than just Russia separating those two.

Why doesn’t he post material anymore?

The AR-15 is a semi automatic version of the M-16 military rifle. The AR 15 can be chambered in multiple different calibers, but the most common is the exact same caliber as the traditional military M-16, .223 caliber (which is NOT the same thing as .22).

Where on god’s green earth do you buy a bucket of foam? And why? Fire retardant is not stored in foam form, ya know? It’s either a concentrated solution or a powder that is inserted into a water system and agitated into foam form during dispersal. I’d imagine that a 5 gallon bucket of concentrate would be enough to…

Are you plugging a product for someone? Getting paid? Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but you should be clear and upfront about such things if they are true.

a Buick signature styling element for decades

“Do the needful” is just one of the idioms that Indian IT staffers have brought into our world :-D ... they also taught me to sign my emails with “regards / best regards” rather than the stereotypical Miss-Manners-approved “yours truly”. I still cannot wrap my head around how on earth anyone thinks that “yours truly”…

Ad and tracking blockers will have this effect. If you really want to see what’s there, turn off your blockers.