Perhaps the lenses can be used to focus a laser to blow up non-Christian brown people? That should get the Republicans (and many Democrats) to support it.
I also have a pretty simple, short GMail address and I'm always getting emails for people with a similar name to mine. For regular people, I reply back. For bulk company stuff, I just try to unsubscribe.
In a few really annoying cases where I can't completely unsubscribe, I've reset people's password's, logged into their accounts and changed their email addresses. A couple times I changed their names to something like "Captain Dipshit".
Funny how most of the people who are suddenly concerned about the census invading their privacy by citing examples of WWII Japanese interment camps and Muslim tracking the same people who just a couple years earlier defended WWII Japanese internment camps (see Michelle Malkin) and advocated keeping a closer eye on American Muslims.
Now that a black man is President, they're scared that the government is asking them what race they are.
Do we really need to make everything dynamic and interactive? Why do documents need scripting support? Why do emails need scripting support? We're blurring the line between documents and applications and security is suffering as a result. Are the benefits really worth it?
I don't like this idea. Sure, abandoned structurally unsafe buildings should be torn down. Tearing down empty big box stores might not be a bad idea either, but tearing down usable homes and entire neighborhoods seems like very short-term thinking to me.
I've noticed that often poorer neighborhoods have some very nice old homes. We shouldn't be tearing them down, we should be restoring them. There's lots of historic architecture out there that helps give cities their character, and already too many beautiful buildings have been torn down to build CVSs and parking lots.
What happens when the economy does rebound and the demand for housing rises? The remaining housing will be costlier and developers will just go ahead and replace the demolished neighborhoods with expensive "luxury" apartments, condos and McMansions that people will need to take out expensive mortgages to afford. It will be the housing/mortgage bubble all over again.
We should be encouraging more people to move to cities. They're more environmentally sustainable then suburbs. If there's a glut of empty homes, we should be making home ownership easier and affordable, not tear them down.
Tearing down blocks of buildings to return them to nature might make city government accountants and narrow minded environmentalists happy, but it's really a wasted opportunity.
I'm 31. I grew up in the suburbs and moved to the city after college. I'm used to seeing a few random stars scattered in the empty sky and that's all I ever thought of the night sky as. I think I had only ever seen one or two shooting stars. Finally in 2003 I went on a vacation to Las Vegas and also spent two days at the Grand Canyon. WOW! There was almost no light around the hotel I stayed at near the Canyon and I could see the sky packed full of stars and quite a few shooting stars. It was really incredible. It's sad that so many of us have missed out on this for much of our lives. Most people have no idea what they're missing.
I see a lot of people bashing the show, having only seen one or two episodes (or seen none at all), but I enjoyed the show and am really sorry to see it go. It wasn't all just Another-Terminator-out-to-kill-John-Conner-Again-This-Week like some people suggest. That definitely would have gotten old fast.
I think the biggest problem was that it was too slowly paced. There was definitely a larger storyline being built up to about the creation of Skynet and a possible rift between the machines themselves, but it was being built up way too slowly. A little too much inner-turmoil and drama that dragged at times. Battlestar Galactica suffered from the same problems, but at least Terminator was clearly building toward something planned out, while Galactica felt like it was just making up shit as they went along after awhile.
Unfortunately the pace really picked up at the end, just in time for cancellation.
I think many continuing-story-arc shows make the mistake of starting out too slow in their first season or two (Even the first season of Babylon 5 was pretty dull). I'm sure they do it to let people jump into the show without having seen the first few episodes, but without the continuing story, there's less reason for folks to keep watching every week. Hopefully the writers of T:SCC will get a chance to continue the story in another medium, like novels or comics, just as Pushing Daisies will.
Back in January of last year I started having back pains when sitting at the computer. Slowly got worse then one day the pain was so bad I wound up going to the hospital. I was diagnosed with several herniated discs, had to have an injection in my spine to reduce the pain and went to physical therapy for a month.
Besides frequent stretching, the physical therapist recommended a kneeling chair. It's been a life-saver. Sitting in a regular chair for a few hours causes me pain, but most days I can sit in the kneeling chair without any problems. I bought one for home and one for work.
The funny thing is I always worried about getting carpal tunnel from extensive computer use, but I never once worried about the long-term effects on my back. Unfortunately I learned that lesson the hard way. Even with exercises and a good chair, the pain still comes back. When I'm on the train to work, I have to put a rolled up towel behind my lower back to prevent pain. I had to do a few more weeks of physical therapy earlier this year. When I moved to a new home in April, I had to let friends and family carry heavy furniture while I stuck with lighter boxes. I've had to take my time unpacking too.
I'm only 30 now. What's it going to be like when I'm 40 or 50?
To all my fellow geeks out there, take care of your backs! Stand up, stretch and use a good chair. It doesn't have to cost $1000, but even a few extra hundred dollars to save you from a lifetime of pain is well worth it. I imagine if I at least had used a kneeling chair (which only cost me $100) for the past 10 years, my back would be a in a lot better shape than it is today. If I hadn't started using one, I would either have to work standing up, or lying in bed. I can't recommend them enough.
I've been drinking soda in the morning for years now. It's not so much about the cold or sugar or caffeine. My stomach usually feels queezy in the morning. Drinking coffee would only make it worse (It's a sure way to give me stomach cramps and send me running to the toilet.) A can of soda, on the other hand, settles things down for me. I guess it's probably the carbonation that helps.
The only downside is when coworkers see me with a can of soda in the morning, they assume I'm some mega sugar junkie. Most days that first can in the morning is the only soda I drink.
My previous employer went the other way and chose cutesy marketting names for their internal systems. They were a little more memorable, but still not descriptive:
Insight
XSell
Success Management
BullsEye (when management announced the name, my first response was "Well, they got the first 5 letters right!"
What happenned to simple names like "Billing" or "Proposals" or "Sales"?
Slashdot Mirror
"AT&T Threatens To Take Ball, Go Home."
Do you think Steve Jobs would have started Apple if he had been born in Kenya?
No, but he could have become President of the United States!
Perhaps the lenses can be used to focus a laser to blow up non-Christian brown people? That should get the Republicans (and many Democrats) to support it.
Needs as "Bribe/Campaign-Contribution" button.
I also have a pretty simple, short GMail address and I'm always getting emails for people with a similar name to mine. For regular people, I reply back. For bulk company stuff, I just try to unsubscribe.
In a few really annoying cases where I can't completely unsubscribe, I've reset people's password's, logged into their accounts and changed their email addresses. A couple times I changed their names to something like "Captain Dipshit".
Tron: Legacy or The Phantom Menace!
Not only will the iPad's screen be great for viewing the pages of Playboy, it's easy to clean up afterwards!
"He's not the Pope. He doesn't look anything like her."
I think we have the plot for the next Indiana Jones movie.
Hitler!
Wow, this is so much more appealing than my eCup idea for men.
Now all American children can be as stupid as Texans.
Funny how most of the people who are suddenly concerned about the census invading their privacy by citing examples of WWII Japanese interment camps and Muslim tracking the same people who just a couple years earlier defended WWII Japanese internment camps (see Michelle Malkin) and advocated keeping a closer eye on American Muslims.
Now that a black man is President, they're scared that the government is asking them what race they are.
Do we really need to make everything dynamic and interactive? Why do documents need scripting support? Why do emails need scripting support? We're blurring the line between documents and applications and security is suffering as a result. Are the benefits really worth it?
Allowing a government to buy a town is clearly unfair competition and socialism. Only private businesses should be allowed to buy towns.
Isn't that the sound someone makes after eating enough chili or lentils?
I don't like this idea. Sure, abandoned structurally unsafe buildings should be torn down. Tearing down empty big box stores might not be a bad idea either, but tearing down usable homes and entire neighborhoods seems like very short-term thinking to me.
I've noticed that often poorer neighborhoods have some very nice old homes. We shouldn't be tearing them down, we should be restoring them. There's lots of historic architecture out there that helps give cities their character, and already too many beautiful buildings have been torn down to build CVSs and parking lots.
What happens when the economy does rebound and the demand for housing rises? The remaining housing will be costlier and developers will just go ahead and replace the demolished neighborhoods with expensive "luxury" apartments, condos and McMansions that people will need to take out expensive mortgages to afford. It will be the housing/mortgage bubble all over again.
We should be encouraging more people to move to cities. They're more environmentally sustainable then suburbs. If there's a glut of empty homes, we should be making home ownership easier and affordable, not tear them down.
Tearing down blocks of buildings to return them to nature might make city government accountants and narrow minded environmentalists happy, but it's really a wasted opportunity.
Kiss my analog hole.
I'm 31. I grew up in the suburbs and moved to the city after college. I'm used to seeing a few random stars scattered in the empty sky and that's all I ever thought of the night sky as. I think I had only ever seen one or two shooting stars. Finally in 2003 I went on a vacation to Las Vegas and also spent two days at the Grand Canyon. WOW! There was almost no light around the hotel I stayed at near the Canyon and I could see the sky packed full of stars and quite a few shooting stars. It was really incredible. It's sad that so many of us have missed out on this for much of our lives. Most people have no idea what they're missing.
I see a lot of people bashing the show, having only seen one or two episodes (or seen none at all), but I enjoyed the show and am really sorry to see it go. It wasn't all just Another-Terminator-out-to-kill-John-Conner-Again-This-Week like some people suggest. That definitely would have gotten old fast.
I think the biggest problem was that it was too slowly paced. There was definitely a larger storyline being built up to about the creation of Skynet and a possible rift between the machines themselves, but it was being built up way too slowly. A little too much inner-turmoil and drama that dragged at times. Battlestar Galactica suffered from the same problems, but at least Terminator was clearly building toward something planned out, while Galactica felt like it was just making up shit as they went along after awhile.
Unfortunately the pace really picked up at the end, just in time for cancellation.
I think many continuing-story-arc shows make the mistake of starting out too slow in their first season or two (Even the first season of Babylon 5 was pretty dull). I'm sure they do it to let people jump into the show without having seen the first few episodes, but without the continuing story, there's less reason for folks to keep watching every week. Hopefully the writers of T:SCC will get a chance to continue the story in another medium, like novels or comics, just as Pushing Daisies will.
Horray for Zoidberg!
Back in January of last year I started having back pains when sitting at the computer. Slowly got worse then one day the pain was so bad I wound up going to the hospital. I was diagnosed with several herniated discs, had to have an injection in my spine to reduce the pain and went to physical therapy for a month.
Besides frequent stretching, the physical therapist recommended a kneeling chair. It's been a life-saver. Sitting in a regular chair for a few hours causes me pain, but most days I can sit in the kneeling chair without any problems. I bought one for home and one for work.
The funny thing is I always worried about getting carpal tunnel from extensive computer use, but I never once worried about the long-term effects on my back. Unfortunately I learned that lesson the hard way. Even with exercises and a good chair, the pain still comes back. When I'm on the train to work, I have to put a rolled up towel behind my lower back to prevent pain. I had to do a few more weeks of physical therapy earlier this year. When I moved to a new home in April, I had to let friends and family carry heavy furniture while I stuck with lighter boxes. I've had to take my time unpacking too.
I'm only 30 now. What's it going to be like when I'm 40 or 50?
To all my fellow geeks out there, take care of your backs! Stand up, stretch and use a good chair. It doesn't have to cost $1000, but even a few extra hundred dollars to save you from a lifetime of pain is well worth it. I imagine if I at least had used a kneeling chair (which only cost me $100) for the past 10 years, my back would be a in a lot better shape than it is today. If I hadn't started using one, I would either have to work standing up, or lying in bed. I can't recommend them enough.
Tags? Labels? Um, weren't these things just called "keywords" back in the Web 1.0 days?
I've been drinking soda in the morning for years now. It's not so much about the cold or sugar or caffeine. My stomach usually feels queezy in the morning. Drinking coffee would only make it worse (It's a sure way to give me stomach cramps and send me running to the toilet.) A can of soda, on the other hand, settles things down for me. I guess it's probably the carbonation that helps.
The only downside is when coworkers see me with a can of soda in the morning, they assume I'm some mega sugar junkie. Most days that first can in the morning is the only soda I drink.
My previous employer went the other way and chose cutesy marketting names for their internal systems. They were a little more memorable, but still not descriptive:
What happenned to simple names like "Billing" or "Proposals" or "Sales"?