Even with a 4-digit passcode, you can't brute force your way through each iteration. The phone locks up afer so many failed attempts.

and they kill defenseless sea urchins! It's those poor little urchins—of the sea! So nasty.

A review of my online comments would show I'm not too much of a twerp. And I'm still proud that a website of mine was reviewed positively on io9.

In other news, scientist spend 5 million to conclusively prove the Earth is round. Morons still refuse to believe it.

while many of the comments talk about historical revolutions, and the problems of YA novels, it is worth noting that Susan Collins did an amazing job in her writing, and rally does understand how messy revolutions are. Katniss is as often as not the pawn of an unseen revolution run by the adults around her. As a…

In Ashland, OR, you can drink lithium spring water from the public fountain. It used to be part of the health cure there. You know it's healthy because it tastes horrible. But that taste could be from any of the other flavors from the mineral springs.

Working late? Check hell, yes. Highly educated? Ditto, yes. Well paid? Hah! I'm trying to get from retail into a new career, and make ends meet while putting a kid through school. America seems more like a third world country every day. Alas for the late middle class.

The SF Bay Area is Taco Truck crazy, with a good helping of Korean food in Oakland.

The writer who changed my life. I've long thought her someone deserving of the Nobel. Congratulations!

Peter Max/Yellow Submarine colors.

And let the trolling begin! Oh, it's already started? I must have a slow feed.

I can't get over how bad that show is.

Keep in mind Moore doesn't believe it's the character he puts forward, but that it tells a better story to be the character he names. He wants to indict an era, and does so successfully.

I sometimes work with kids & music, and it's a great app for youngsters getting started. The auto play features are something they enjoy, and it's got a fun sampler built in. I can't tell you how many little boys switch on when you show them they can make fart noises then play it like a piano. Plus it's free! A great…

What's fascinating to me, is that over the centuries, city walls were built to keep people out. But walls to keep people in are either a subset of walls within a city, (jails, concentration camps) or around the whole country, (borders). There are towns turned into jails, but I can't think of a historical city where…

I mentioned it in a reply, but "Spend" used to be widely used for ejaculating. The thought was that you only had so much of this precious life essence given you. If you chose to spend in someone unworthy you were wasting yourself, literally. Which is why you grew sick after visiting bawdy houses. Whereas, if you chose…

I came to the conclusion that so many Jedis died in the movie because part of Jedi training is having your IQ lowered 40 points. Yoda must have been Really smart beforehand.

I believe it's to separate it from "come" when writing, so there's less giggling. "Spend" used to be dirty, and had the connotation that you were giving something precious and irreplaceable from yourself.

Even though it all looks dimly lit, the characters look like they're having fun. And that's what made the Flash great—he had the most fun power.

This is why I was dismayed when there was an article last week touting another way to prove to skeptics we've gone to the moon. It's good to have it, but you can't debate idiots.