He always struck me as more of a “Do as I say, not as I do” sort of guy.

This.

It’s when he starts loading up on 1950s-era vacuum tube-based aircraft, ships, etc, with un-hackable non-networked analog systems, that we know exactly what’s up.

I’d probably blow half of my fortune alone on trying to build a yacht out of one of the mothballed Kirov-class cruisers, just to see the look on Paul Allen’s face when I one-upped him in a completely un-toppable fashion.

Suddenly my Quadra 950, Color Classic, G3 B&W tower, half-dozen various different CRT iMacs, and even my goddamn eMate seem like a lame collection compared to his neon green Color Classic and that harlequin PowerBook.

This. There amendments in the Bill of Rights protecting freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of association.

NASCAR knows their market. It’s just like the gun scope company that put Bible verses on their sights. (Or Sierra Trading Post with the hidden verse in every catalog, or In-N-Out Burger with the verses on the cups)

I’ll forgive you for your kickass avatar, but this business about “in-groups” and “out-groups” is nothing but latter day liberal McCarthyist horseshit.

You are on the tight track, though the SR-72 design brings a couple new propulsion toys to the table.

It slipped back into the black where it came from.

Aurora is and was a hoax based off of misinterpretation of the B-2's congressional funding designation, but you’re on the right track.

Or, perhaps, with their loss of the LRS-B contract as well as the F-35's much-publicized woes, they’re looking to pull the curtain off of some of their more exotic (and less strategically sensitive) black projects to help their stock prices, especially in this era of shrinking military budgets.

Digging down that rabbithole takes you to some pretty interesting places, that’s all I’ll say.

I’m sad that it took me so long digging through the comments to finds someone who was saying what you just said.

I really meant it about that AvWeek opening, Tyler. They would be lucky to have you.

Not as steep as $115,000,000

I’m glad to see that they finally found OP’s mom’s diaphragm!

>Damascus steel

*grabs popcorn*

This.