Thanks for mentioning Eddison. I just picked it up on my kindle because of your comment and I'll be sure to read it!

It's funny you mention Melville, because the first thing that comes to mind is Bartleby the Scrivener. I watched the film because I love Crispin Glover, but even the film was a chore. I started reading the novel and it was like digging ditches. I just did not want to continue.

I like her personality more than Amy's.

The sounds that HDDs used to make, like the Apple II we had at the public library, or the Headstart Explorer system (by Magnavox) that we had at home. Beeping and grinding sounds (well, grinding as in - if my computer made that sounds today I'd be shopping for a new hard drive).

Same thing in Madison when it snows. When the first snow falls here, there's like a switch that flips and my driving habits change until the thaw. Though we just go 20 inches 2 days ago, so the bumpy snowpack is challenging even the most skilled of us.

Around Madison, WI, it's people who speed up (when they're behind you in the merging lane) when you're trying to merge onto the beltline, rather than letting you in. There's that and the horrible habit of slowing down before climbing slippery hills in the winter. That never ends well.

FYI, turkey contains no more tryptophan than other meats. It's the binge eating during the holidays that actually makes you more sleepy than with other meals.

That's so wrong! Funny. But wrong!

Geothermal comes to mind. That is unless the robots really don't want to exterminate the human race, then using them as batteries is probably the best way to preserve the species while collecting energy.

I don't even remember what my justification was in the beginning, but I won't be renewing. Since I've had it, I've found contradictory advice more than once, and I can only stand to look at airbrushed abs so many times.

I would have used the term moppets instead of boffins just to illustrate the point better. Though that would denote a certain amount of competency.

I thought you were going to say that he said you could stand to grow a penis, because my girlfriend gives me shit all the time for my Men's Health subscription being softcore gay porn.

I don't think this is satire at all. In the monkeysphere I grew up in, if you couldn't behave in public, your parents didn't take you out. And if you touched another kid in a harmful way, you would be touched in a harmful way at home. People think spankings are abuse (and they can be) but they also serve a greater…

I blame the hospital. I worked in a nursing home for 6 years and we had tighter confidentiality practices than that. When we did have well-known patients/residents who were staying at our facility, we wouldn't even acknowledge their presence over the phone without prior verification.

Yes, yes I did! :D

Occasionally they get squished, pinched, kicked or zipped. The trade-off is that we get to pee standing up and are not prone to UTIs.

I thought that sounded nothing like Tull. That was a flute playing in the song but nothing by Tull sounds nearly so Celtic in nature.

This might come as no surprise to anyone who may have read my responses to similar posts throughout the Gawker network, but I don't get it. I don't see it and I don't get it. I been dating and living with an Otaku for nearly 3 years, and I go to cons, and the only people I see that *might* be hating on women are…

I saw that movie in the theater as a kid, and it's still one of my favorite movies to watch 25 years later.