You know the soft spot is the tastiest part.

I stick with potato bread. For whatever reason, it tends to stay fresh much longer than other breads, 3-4 weeks easy.

Nice, but I'll hold out for the Bloom County search engine, thanks.

I'd rather not have a phone that requires me to carry a spare battery.

No thanks, just got my Belkin car charger in the mail this morning.

True enough. But the real growth fear is not a problem of not having enough physical space to accommodate many billions, but about having enough resources to keep them fed, watered, housed, and healthy. Sci-fi solves that with farm planets whose sole purpose is to provide for the monster.

Thanks. Just wondering, is there an internet thing that you don't like and wish would go away?

Exactly! I hope Twitter follows Myspace's trajectory.

MySpace was tremendously popular too, for a while. 5 or 6 years ago, it was the most visited website in the U.S., more daily activity that the entire U.S. Postal service, to be sure. Now it's not even in the top 200.

Ok, but then if that's the case, the problem is with you, not with the theater. ;-)

I used to work for IBM in Boca Raton, Florida. ("Birthplace of the PC") They has a "wall of patents" similar to Qualcomm's, with each patent document framed in a grid pattern. But that wall ran on and on, literally several hundred feet, all the way from the main entrance to the cafeteria. Seemed like it could have…

Ok, yeah, I can understand that.

Not quite so logical to consider things that have gained traction and increased in usage over the last 20 or 30 years as "fads" but ok.

Are you still posting to your BBS?

I think it actually does mean "laundry," but like a child’s laundry. We don’t really have a word for it.

Eh, it's easy to get angry at other people, but it's just as easy to ignore them.

Why am I on the internet? Did you really just ask that?

Dude, that's crazy talk! Harness the power of the sun, sheesh, who do you think you are, Buck Rogers or something? Let me guess, we could use this "harnessed sun power" to fly our space yachts to the moon, right?

I agree. I've never tweeted and, except for those copied and pasted into Giz articles, I've never read an actual tweet. I'm just waiting it out, as I have all other forms of communication that I don't use. Eventually, people will move on to the next big thing and twitter will be an empty wasteland. And then I'll…

I would guess they'd be inspected and repaired regularly, or at least when they see a storm approaching.