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I used to have a gaming PC that used to crash five seconds before my "extreme weather warning app" on my smartphone sent off an alarm. Either events can travel back in time, or the weather radar station close to my apartment was receiving an echo that somehome affected the PC (which did have a clear transparent "window" on the side rather than a solid metal case).

Sounds like the PC in "Thrice Upon A Time" by James P. Hogan that could send email forward or backward in time.

The ten-pack Eclipse Glasses that sold for $25 in July is now $85 on Amazon.

These glasses are not safe for viewing the eclipse. Unless you want to qualify for the Darwin Award by wearing them and finding some way to get yourself killed while viewing the eclipse.

Oh yeah, with reviews like this, you can retire now!

You obviously don't understand my business model. I suggest you read "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More" by Chris Anderson.

Other than that, adapt to what? Retard. The ever change office, desk, and keyboard?

I traded in the mouse for a Logitech Trackman at work and at home. Less wrist movement, more exercise for my fat fingers.

If you want exercise try walking, swimming, moving around, playing a sport, something substantial. If there's some reason you want to focus on your fingers try playing an instrument like a guitar or a piano. Back when I decided to lose 50 pounds I discovered that the key is to find something you really enjoy. For me that was trail hiking.

Honestly you seem more concerned with posting your Amazon affiliate links than anything really related to exercise. Yes that's cute how it annoys some of the ACs and everything, but it also makes you come across as a spammy douche. Nothing personal -- I would come across as a spammy douche too if I did the same thing.

Other than that, adapt to what? Retard. The ever change office, desk, and keyboard?

I traded in the mouse for a Logitech Trackman at work and at home. Less wrist movement, more exercise for my fat fingers.

Imagine the scene, the reactor's cooling system is failing, and your malfunctioning miracle-working brain decides it's time to clean the storage closet instead!

Chain Reaction was one of my favorite Keanu Reeves movie.

When I took Intro Chemistry at San Jose State University (before they kicked me out for playing too much Magic: The Gathering into the wee hours), we had a tour of the research reactor in the basement of the science building. We were reassured that the reactor was completely safe. If it ever did go kablooey (extremely unlikely), it would only blow up the building. Rest assured that I went into computers instead of nuclear science.

Hey Jerry Reed is still very good.

I'll take the 1970's with Smokey and the Bandit (40th Anniversary Edition). My favorite movie with Sally "Gidget" Fields. ;)

...are you fucking stupid?

I guess you're not a fan of Japanese kaiju movies, where suspense is built up by not revealing the monster until the very last possible moment. The most famous example, of course, was Gojira (Godzilla). For the American Godzilla (2014), the bad monsters were shown early but Godzilla wasn't fully revealed until last one-third of the movie. Cloverfield was an epic disappointment when they revealed the monster. The early Dunkirk trailers had the promise of being an epic monster movie.

...are you fucking stupid?

I guess you're not a fan of Japanese kaiju movies, where suspense is built up by not revealing the monster until the very last possible moment. The most famous example, of course, was Gojira (Godzilla). For the American Godzilla (2014), the bad monsters were shown early but Godzilla wasn't fully revealed until last one-third of the movie. Cloverfield was an epic disappointment when they revealed the monster. The early Dunkirk trailers had the promise of being an epic monster movie.

...are you fucking stupid?

I guess you're not a fan of Japanese kaiju movies, where suspense is built up by not revealing the monster until the very last possible moment. The most famous example, of course, was Gojira (Godzilla). For the American Godzilla (2014), the bad monsters were shown early but Godzilla wasn't fully revealed until last one-third of the movie. Cloverfield was an epic disappointment when they revealed the monster. The early Dunkirk trailers had the promise of being an epic monster movie.

He needs some Spam-flavored Macadamia Nuts to go with his whine.

Not sure what youtube has to do with this.

I'm planning to turn my home office into a YouTube studio in the near future.

That's too much stuff for one kissless loser.

The home office is in support of my side business as a content creator. The only thing that is missing is a 30-gallon frag tank I'm planning to put in the corner.

Could have been worse, he could have spent all his money on your eBooks!

Especially since I wouldn't have any ebooks for another ten years.

On that note, Casey Neistat did a video about "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline because Steven Spielberg is turning the book into a movie.

I just started reading "The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network" by Katherine Losse. First chapter identified her as a woman, a woman who browse the Internet anonymously because of stalkers and trolls, and Facebook @ Johns Hopkins University was the first online service she ever put her real name to. She comes out to the West Coast, gets an advertising job in San Francisco, and then gets recruited by Facebook in 2005. Should be an interesting read.

How did you celebrate the anniversary of the day your mother shat you out of her distended sphincter?

Watching Smokey and the Bandit (40th Anniversary Edition) on TV. My favorite movie with Sally "Gidget" Fields. ;)

Remember when computers used to be human? No, here's a few books to read.

"Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983" by Severo Ornstein

"The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer" by Charles J. Murray

Remember when computers used to be human? No, here's a few books to read.

"Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983" by Severo Ornstein

"The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer" by Charles J. Murray

Go eat a cock burger asshole.

Have some Spam-flavored Macadamia Nuts with your whine.

This guy almost certainly thinks of himself as a 'computer scientist,' but he does exactly what you're not supposed to do as a scientist. He draws a conclusion favorable to his ego, and then works backwards from there, constructing an argument to justify it.

Maybe "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez? Or was it "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" by Nick Bilton? It can't be "The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network" by Katherine Losse, as I just started reading that one last night. All three books have douche bags in common, especially from Google and Facebook.

This guy almost certainly thinks of himself as a 'computer scientist,' but he does exactly what you're not supposed to do as a scientist. He draws a conclusion favorable to his ego, and then works backwards from there, constructing an argument to justify it.

Maybe "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez? Or was it "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" by Nick Bilton? It can't be "The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network" by Katherine Losse, as I just started reading that one last night. All three books have douche bags in common, especially from Google and Facebook.

This guy almost certainly thinks of himself as a 'computer scientist,' but he does exactly what you're not supposed to do as a scientist. He draws a conclusion favorable to his ego, and then works backwards from there, constructing an argument to justify it.

Maybe "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez? Or was it "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" by Nick Bilton? It can't be "The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network" by Katherine Losse, as I just started reading that one last night. All three books have douche bags in common, especially from Google and Facebook.

Yeah, I remember that too! It was fucking stupid then, and it's fucking stupid today. Stop trying to pass off your content-free idiocy as "just a joke, that nobody gets."

Still butt hurt about that? Get some Monkey Butt powder.

Here's a safe bet: If nobody got the joke, then your joke wasn't fucking funny.

Did you read the other comments? Some people did. Not sure what the mods were thinking, however.

Mods consist of idiots who have multiple ids like 110010001000 who is the same guy as Narc and others and occasionally respond with verbatim responses and expect us not to put it together.

Yeah, I remember that too! It was fucking stupid then, and it's fucking stupid today. Stop trying to pass off your content-free idiocy as "just a joke, that nobody gets."

Still butt hurt about that? Get some Monkey Butt powder.

Here's a safe bet: If nobody got the joke, then your joke wasn't fucking funny.

Did you read the other comments? Some people did. Not sure what the mods were thinking, however.

Wrote "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" and "The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness," among many other great tech books.

Wrote "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" and "The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness," among many other great tech books.

[...] you're a P.O.S. who will use your family's shameful past in a misguided attempt to entertain strangers on the internet.

Memiors is a popular literary category, especially if it involves fucked up families. My favorite memoir — and the template for my own stories — is "Fiction Ruined My Family" by Jeanne Darst. Her family moved to New York City for her father to write the Great American novel, where her former high society mother became an alcoholic and her father became obsessed with an abortion in the 1930's for a novel that he talked about writing for 30 years. Her worse nightmare came true when she acknowledged that she was an alcoholic like her mother and a writer like her father. So also had a bag of poop that she had to throw away while walking down the sidewalk and kept running into people she knew.

[...] why did the weight loss only kick in in the last 13 weeks, when your story about your current weight and your scale magically changed?

I've been dropping weight for a while. When the gym scales (max weight 350 pounds) stopped "thunking" and two scales gave me different numbers, I got a digital scale with a 400-pound capacity. I was 370 pounds 13 weeks ago. This morning I weighed 357 pounds.

Yeah, it should be easy - you know, considering you have nobody actually asking you to take your pants off.

I dropped a girlfriend in college because she wanted to have sex with me but didn't want to marry me. That wasn't acceptable in church. My bicycle-riding weight at that time was 325 pounds.

1) Your inability to tell a consistent, truthful story;

Adding details to my stories confuses the hell out of my adoring trolls.

2) Your self-righteous & condescending attitude;

The hallmarks of a college education.

3) Your smug self-importance which is well out of proportion to your accomplishments in life;

The alternative is failure. I would rather be known as a successful failure than someone who never tried to be successful.

4) Your physically impossible self-delusion about your body composition, weight, and health;

I weighed 357 pounds this morning, down 13 pounds from 13 weeks ago.

5) Your blithe acknowledgement that you defraud your employer by working on your "side business" during working hours;

I suggest you never work at eBay, where every employee is encouraged to have their own eBay storefront. You may not like the idea that the person in the next cube over is grossing $1M in sales on PEZ dispensers.

6) Your frequent inability to construct a coherent English sentence without glaring errors;

Someone has to neuter all the grammar nazis on Slashdot.

7) Your spamming of amazon affiliate links into any conversation you can find a way to do so, while providing little to no actual interesting content to wrap them in;

Casey Neistat did a video about "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline because Steven Spielberg is turning the book into a movie.

8) Your off-topic posts which add nothing to the conversation;

I'm always fascinated by what topics my adoring trolls troll me on. The more technical the topic, the less likely I get trolls responding.

Twitter is probably one of the best examples, and at one point was valued more then General Motors.

Twitter is probably the most appalling example of an idea born by accident, took off while the founders squabble over the CEO position, and investors threw cash at it when it had no revenue model for years. Read all about it in "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" by Nick Bilton.

I recommend reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez. The author helped merged Facebook's user data ("browsing history") with third-party demographic data to create targeted advertising. Facebook probably knows more about you personally than you do.

By your argument, every one of us who's ever played WoW or any FPS, should be awarded honorary doctorates in VR because we have so much "experience" with virtual worlds.

If you're interested in virtual world technology from the 1990's, I suggest reading "Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture" by David Kushner.

I haven't heard anything about VRML in years. The last time was when I did my six-month internship for WorldsAway at Fujitsu in 1997. I still have my copy of "Avatars: Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet" by Bruce Damer that I picked up from a virtual world fair at SFSU.

None of which has anything to do with the fact that you have very few data points.

I have enough data to make an marketing intern blush.

Why don't you also throw in your weight and granola bar brand name into your "firehose of bullshit" Trumpian response?

My current weight is 358 pounds. I was 370 pounds 12 weeks ago or so. I'm losing one pound per week.

https://www.kickingthebitbucket.com/2017/07/18/losing-ten-pounds-with-a-digital-bathroom-scale/

As part of my diet, I eat two bars per weekday (ten per week): Clif Bars, Fiber One Bars and Power Bars.

None of which has anything to do with the fact that you have very few data points.

I have enough data to make an marketing intern blush.

Why don't you also throw in your weight and granola bar brand name into your "firehose of bullshit" Trumpian response?

My current weight is 358 pounds. I was 370 pounds 12 weeks ago or so. I'm losing one pound per week.

https://www.kickingthebitbucket.com/2017/07/18/losing-ten-pounds-with-a-digital-bathroom-scale/

As part of my diet, I eat two bars per weekday (ten per week): Clif Bars, Fiber One Bars and Power Bars.

None of which has anything to do with the fact that you have very few data points.

I have enough data to make an marketing intern blush.

Why don't you also throw in your weight and granola bar brand name into your "firehose of bullshit" Trumpian response?

My current weight is 358 pounds. I was 370 pounds 12 weeks ago or so. I'm losing one pound per week.

https://www.kickingthebitbucket.com/2017/07/18/losing-ten-pounds-with-a-digital-bathroom-scale/

As part of my diet, I eat two bars per weekday (ten per week): Clif Bars, Fiber One Bars and Power Bars.

Not sure. But the Amazon Dot were selling like hotcakes on Prime Day.

$10k was a pretty common price point for Workstations during the early 1990s, especially graphics workstations.

I'm currently reading "Steve Jobs & The NeXT Big Thing" by Randall Stross. The NeXT computer was supposed to be better than the Mac and priced at $3,000 for the university market. When the NeXT computer got introduced, the universities balked at the $7,000 price tag for their students. Apple owned the educational market the inexpensive Macs.

When did he take credit for anything at Pixar except funding it for the initial 10 years?

According to "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs" by Alan Deutschman, when Steve Jobs presented Toy Story at SIGGRAPH 1995, an industry group that he has no affiliation with. The animators, who were affiliated with SIGGRAPH, had to watch from the backstage. Steve Jobs funded the second decade of Pixar after purchasing it from George Lucas.

According to "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" by Nick Bilton, Jack Dorsey did a complete Steve Jobs transformation by adopting a daily uniform (white shirts and black pants), quoting Steve Jobs and listening to the music that Steve Jobs like. While he did return to Twitter to replace the CEO who replaced him as CEO, he comes off as a douche bag. Steve Jobs was an asshole but never a douche bag.

You should hire creimer to clean out your storage closets [...]

Have some Spam with Bacon for your whine.

So let's correct your post:

Have some Jalapeno Spam with your whine.

Robert Kiyosaki has a book called "Why 'A' Students Work for 'C' Students and Why 'B' Students Work for the Government", where A students (graduates) work for C students (dropouts) and B students (everyone else) work for the government. You don't need a college degree to own the corporate ladder, you just need to hire people who are smarter than you.

If you ever read "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" by Nick Bilton, you would know how appalling that the founding of Twitter was. Mark Zuckerburg has a great quote in the book: "[Twitter founders] drove a clown car into a gold mine and fell in." It's not really surprising that Twitter had zero growth from riding Trump's pants legs.

A good book to read is "The Richest Man In Babylon" by George S. Clason. If you can set aside 1/10th of your earnings and reduce your wants, you will grow rich in time.

Have some I Love Spam socks with your whine.

Have some Spam-flavored Macadamia Nuts, Teriyaki Spam and Hot & Spicy Spam for your whine.

Have some Spam-flavored Macadamia Nuts, Teriyaki Spam and Hot & Spicy Spam for your whine.

Have some Spam-flavored Macadamia Nuts, Teriyaki Spam and Hot & Spicy Spam for your whine.