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I have to say I got a chuckle when I got to the part about "inheriting" their IT problems. Obama "inherited" all his problems after all!

Let's be clear on one thing - then-Senator Obama went around the country, gave countless speeches, shook innumerable hands, and raised a record amount of campaign contributions to take on these very same problems he now blames the prior administration for... He asked for the job - he didn't draw the short straw, and as a sitting U.S. Senator at the time, he was in the best position to know exactly what he was getting into.

The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate didn't pull him out of a crowd - he stood on a chair and yelled "Pick Me, Pick Me! I have the answers!"

It went forward in time, no to worry though, it'll come back to our time and cause a self fulfilling time loop.
http://www.tvacres.com/images/spacecraft_pota_movie2.jpg

and when it didn't do anything we realized it was Good & Plenty

You didn't even see Choo-Choo Charlie?

Years later, and Lily Tomlin's character is still right.

http://www.tvacres.com/comm_ernestine.htm

"Intel also plans to introduce an even smaller, less power hungry version of the chip known as Medfield, which will be built on a 32nm process with a full solution comprising a PCB area of about half the size of a credit card."

Selma, is that you?

Yeah, Lazerbeak was the first thing that popped into my head before I even finished reading the summary!

This definitely sounds like Lazerbeak, with the reporting to its handlers and all. BUT, in terms of cool ships that perch, there can be only one: Hawk's fighter, from Buck Rogers. That series had easily some of the coolest space tech ever, rivalling White Stars in B5 and BSG's Mk I Vipers (which were designed by the same guy). I loved that series, and BSG and all too, but Hawk's fighter (and that whole Hawk character concept) just blew me away as a kid.

I'm really surprised how hard it is to find example of his ship online. I'm sure the entire episodes are available somewhere, but this is the best page I can find:

http://www.tvacres.com/aliens_hawk.htm

http://www.tvacres.com/images/spacecraft_hawk_fighter4.jpg

Yeah, Lazerbeak was the first thing that popped into my head before I even finished reading the summary!

This definitely sounds like Lazerbeak, with the reporting to its handlers and all. BUT, in terms of cool ships that perch, there can be only one: Hawk's fighter, from Buck Rogers. That series had easily some of the coolest space tech ever, rivalling White Stars in B5 and BSG's Mk I Vipers (which were designed by the same guy). I loved that series, and BSG and all too, but Hawk's fighter (and that whole Hawk character concept) just blew me away as a kid.

I'm really surprised how hard it is to find example of his ship online. I'm sure the entire episodes are available somewhere, but this is the best page I can find:

http://www.tvacres.com/aliens_hawk.htm

http://www.tvacres.com/images/spacecraft_hawk_fighter4.jpg

Ovian:

http://www.tvacres.com/aliens_ovians.htm

or one of the 4-eyed vocalists from the alien R&B group in the original BSG

Nah, they must have got that wrong, you let them drink beer, and then they may have sex with you.

And the ones that will look like Mimi Bobeck.

The model code is PU-36.

http://www.tvacres.com/weapons_ammunition_uranium.htm

Good call, but at least get the nomenclature right.

"Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator"

Call it the wrong thing and there won't be "an Earth-shattering KABOOM!"

Good point on the nomenclature. I stand correcte..(KABOOM!)

Good call, but at least get the nomenclature right.

"Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator"

Call it the wrong thing and there won't be "an Earth-shattering KABOOM!"

At least we know now why the Martians were so keen on securing the last supply in the universe of illudium phosdex.

Who modded this Informative?!?!!?

The parents, obviously. Now they know where their starchild went.

Your grandmother's name...it wouldn't be Slowsky, would it?

http://www.tvacres.com/comm_ernestine.htm

404 forbidden...Assholes!

Don't need to

Or Lily Tomlin's Ernestine, the Telephone Operator sketches?

http://www.tvacres.com/music_songs_jetsons.htm/

I do enjoy the train very much. It's the only way to fly

For anyone who doesn't get this, it's a reference to AT&T's monopoly days when Saturday Night Live had a sketch starting Lilly Tomlin in '76 called simply enough... "The Phone Company." Surprisingly, I can't find a YouTube video.

That's because that character of Tomlin's, Ernestine the Phone Operator, pre-dates SNL: It goes back to Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in.

Here's a clip from The Cher Show.

The Ferengi rules of acquisition of course!

We had upward of 80%+ polling that they wanted nothing to do with that little exercise, but our PM chose to go ahead anyway...

And he was re-elected, too.

...all beaming (literally, ridiculously) with pride when Dubya called him "his deputy sherriff"!

Did he give him a bullet to keep in his shirt pocket?

"There once was a deputy called Fife,
Who carried a gun and a knife.
The gun was all dusty,
And his knife was all rusty,
Because he never caught a crook in his life."

Sorry, man. I can't help myself these days. I would still move to Australia the first chance I get. What's Broome like?

It's a bad system that by design turns everyone into snipers. That people deal with it strategically or technologically doesn't change the fact that it is busted.

Or go home.

You know, if we called them "pickup pixies" I wonder if they'd knock-off the standard tough guy stance that usually comes with identifying as a "Sniper." You know, maybe use this guy as the mascot...

That's hot!

http://www.tvacres.com/images/koolaid5b.jpg

MS is a diversified organization. Half of their serfs are experts at twisting digital protocols and the other half specialize in legal protocols.

MS is pure evil. If I had to bet my life on a single statement, it wouldn't be that "god exists", or that "Jennifer Anniston is prettier than Kath kinney. It would be that MS, by gently raping hundreds of millions of innocent people stands out as one of the great scourges in recorded history. By me another beer and I'll elaborate!

Scientist's speculation of what the mini dinosaur might have looked like - picture

This is funny.. Once again real life is getting dangerously close to Sci-Fi.. :-) If anyone watches Stargate SG-1 they'll know what I am talking about.. But for those who dont here is a link.. http://www.tvacres.com/images/malp.jpp

Not funny. Combining "tried and true" formulas ("it's Terminator meets Home Alone") is standard in movie and TV pitch meetings. That's why movies and shows tend to be so unoriginal. The original Star Trek was supposedly pitched as "Wagon Train in space." It's not unlikely that "Harry Potter in space" was exactly the pitch that got this project off the shelves.

If they threaten KAOS, then SOMEone will threaten Control.

Maybe they won't be satisfied until Hymie:

http://www.tvacres.com/robots_hymie.htm

comes along and takes their jobs.

Maybe they should bunch up under the cone of silence?

Maybe they'll trade in their cell phones for shoe phones and PDAs for spiral-bound notepads?

Seems to me that IT and unions are like water and oil: They'll only under EXTREMELY harsh conditions and not be a normal mix. I TWICE was in unions and didn't know: once as a 411 operator and another time, before that, in retail sales at a now-defunct formerly-major chain. In each case I was NOT told I was in one until AFTER I was hired, and I was paying money to self-serving entities. My take (a limited one) is this: If I'm FIREABLE, FIRE me. I don't need some org covering my ass when I should be fired. I don't need the costs of goods going thru the fucking roof to the point that I can't afford to buy what I make or sale for the company. I like speaking for MYSELF; I don't need some org talking for me (I don't even let the current occupant of the oval office speak for me; I do my OWN speaking!) and telling me not to cross a line, and so on.

Now, I realize the goods I purchase probably all went thru union hands, from raw goods to WIP to FG, to shipped product and shelved, and even rung at the cash register. But, that doesn't mean I need to join one. Seems like IT is of the last bastions not skimmed/dipped into. Imagine if IT workers went into a union: We'd be PISSED. It's one thing going thru a temp agency, costing a would-be employere TWICE (sometimes twice) what we're getting paid. Now, if IT were unionized, WHO'D get that money, even if our checks are scraped of $100 to $300 per month: Charity? No, some org preserving itself. Hell, if I'm going to lose $300 a month from my check it's going to be in a direction of MY goddam choosing, not just because, "Well, those are the dues...."

Imagine if militaries were unionized. I remember when I joined the "Nav" and we were told that in the Navy there is NO SUCH THING AS STRIKING. Hell, in war time (hopefully a REAL war, not this half-baked shit scam were foisting on the world right now...) "going on strike" could be punishable by death. To some extent, massive strikes are a massive destructive act: downline SOMEbody's gonna eat those costs, usually the consumer. Anybody remember the cost of the Long Beach strikes a few years ago? BILL-F*KING-IONS. COG UP. COLA?

Probably said too much here... might come back to haunt my ass one day...

... the Maytag repariman.

Obviously the guys who named it watched The Drew Carey Show.

Are you a high school dropout, between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five?...Are you tired of lying around in bed all day with nothing to do? Well. you never need get up again, because in six short weeks I can train you to be high paying Amazon ho...Just think-fifteen hundred dollars a week, without even leaving the comfort of your own bedroom.. Sound too good to be true? Just send for my new book, "I want to be a ho!" by me, Velvet Jones!"

Actually, you can use Tivo to snag a whole lot of educational programming that they miss when they are in school. Discovery, Science Channel, even public television, have a lot of good kid centric shows on between 8A-12P (central) that Tivo can snag and they can watch as wanted/needed. Sesame Street is still good too.

I agree with all that, except for the sesame street bit. It's really gone downhill. No, seriously. I'm showing my age here, but I recall watching the episode where they dealt with the death of Mr Hooper. Now that was one tough subject to get through. Nowadays it seems that it (and most kids shows) are all happy touchy-feely, "the world is a wonderful place" stuff. The lesson kids need to learn is yes, you might want to be an astronaut, but someone still has to be out there unblocking sewers.Sesame Street is a little early to learn it - everyone needs their innocence. But I think it's starting them down the path to unrealistic expectations, and one hell of a fall later on in life.

Or better yet, Any swedish girl wants to marry me? =-)

Voting ain't worth that, they all look like Mimi Bobeck.
The days when the swedish girl next door could be a supermodel are long gone.

Monks have done an amazing job preserving important documents over the years. In fact, Xerox worked with Brother Dominic in the field of document preservation. Print out all the e-mails on archive quality paper and store them underground. Be sure they are also translated in Spanish so future Americans will be able to read them.

Old indeed, CONTROL was using a more sophisticated version in the 1960s.

I wonder how the Drew Carey staff can get in on this patent... Or better yet, what if they decide to claim this patent instead, how weird would that be. I mean, they did create Buzz Beer afterall.

http://www.tvacres.com/beverages_beer_buzz.htm

The Drew Carey Show ;)

Here at the Phone Company we handle eighty-four billion calls a year. Serving everyone from presidents and kings to scum of the earth. (snort) We realize that every so often you can't get an operator, for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order [snatches plug out of switchboard], or perhaps you get charged for a call you didn't make. We don't care. Watch this [bangs on a switch panel like a cheap piano] just lost Peoria. (snort) You see, this phone system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space-age technology that is so sophisticated, even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it? Next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string. We don't care. We don't have to. (snort) We're the Phone Company!

http://www.tvacres.com/comm_ernestine.htm

I'd rather fight than switch!

We Don't Care, We Don't Have To.

Get Lily Tomlin on the line, she's got work to do.

Don't get me wrong, The Prisoner was a damn good show, but science fiction? Maybe I'm biased with presentism, but besides the Rovers, I can't really think of any scientific elements in that show.

But only after his license is reinstated...

Looks like somoene needs to see this.

At least someone got it. I didn't get my +4 Funny for nothin'. :)

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Should I study Data Warehousing or E-Commerce?

You should learn how to provide vertically integrated e-commerce solutions providing dynamic interaction to customers in synergistic markets.

Knowing how to work a sock puppet also helps.

its PU-36 folks, no Q www.tvacres.com

It's actually a "PU-36" space modulator, but commonly mistaken as "Q-36."

It's a Uranium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator of course.

Heck it's even on the right planet