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  1. Re:Chiming in on Tech's 10 Worst Entry-Level Jobs · · Score: 1
    Two words: customers lie.

    Also, they can't read. And they're idiots.

    tech: I need you to restart the computer.

    neck stump: [1 second later] Done!

    tech: Did you go to Start/Shutdown/restart?

    neck stump: I pushed the button the computer twice.

    tech: The one on the box?

    neck stump: No, the one on the picture screen.

    tech: *pulls out 1911 for cool down game of Russian Roulette*
  2. Re:RIP Denholm Elliott on Spoiler-Free Review of Indiana Jones · · Score: 1

    He once got lost in his own museum.

  3. Re:hmm on The Changing Face of World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    Gotta' hold your hand back for a pass while telling the story.

  4. Re:Given the historical ferocity of Apple Legal .. on Mac Cloner Psystar Ships First Service Pack · · Score: 1

    Maybe Apple Ninjas have infiltrated Psystar's headquarters and are currently switching their coffee to decafe?

  5. Re:Room Temperature Semiconductor *Source* of T-Ra on Room Temperature Semiconductor of T-Rays · · Score: 1

    Well, I can take you as far as the interstate but after that, you're on your own.

  6. Re:zzzz on Room Temperature Semiconductor of T-Rays · · Score: 1

    Check out the subcutaneous fat on that babe! Hubba-hubba!

  7. Re:What can T-Rays do? on Room Temperature Semiconductor of T-Rays · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can they be mounted on a set of dark rimmed glasses? Do they work at the beach?

  8. Re:Sigh, is it Englishness or age... on David Pogue Gushes Over the Chumby · · Score: 1

    In Florida, chum is fish bits and blood, spread into the water to attract sharks.

    Chumby is real close to chubby, which was slang for a partial erection.

    Is real difficult to come up with original product names that aren't offensive/derogatory in some language. Might be able to come up with a cool business researching stuff like this for folks.

  9. Re:Chumby's cool but... on David Pogue Gushes Over the Chumby · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have a live journal account and regularly read and post there.

  10. Re:Ob. post on Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Rebellion on Techies Keen to Keep Jobs In the Family · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I make my own beer, 15 gallons at a time. Hmmm... beer...

    Still working up root cellar type cooler, where I can run the tap line up into the kitchen pantry.

  12. Re:Rebellion on Techies Keen to Keep Jobs In the Family · · Score: 1

    Recently, our security processes have changed. Used to be, if you were going to a sensitive foreign country, you had to check out a laptop that was set for travel. If you were going to non-sensitive foreign countries, you could take your regular work laptop. Now, all foreign travel requires special laptops. Soon, you have to check out one any time you leave the local area and go to D.C. From this, I've concluded that Canadia and Washington D.C. are filled with unscrupulous bad people who want to take my guns, childrens, and beer from me.

  13. Re:Perhaps Apple should begin licensing OS X on Running Mac OS X On Standard PCs · · Score: 1

    Yup, that's where you save money with Macs; buy them with minimal amount RAM installed and then order your RAM from elsewhere.

  14. Re:In related news... on Techies Keen to Keep Jobs In the Family · · Score: 1

    My father's footsteps disappeared when I was three. I wanted to be a planetary geologist and explore the Jovian moons. But then then 70's started sucking. Closest I got was fixing printer issues for rocket scientists at Honeywell. Guess getting a college degree can be a good idea, for some things. Who knew?

  15. Re:Rebellion on Techies Keen to Keep Jobs In the Family · · Score: 1

    Or get a gov't clearance and sign on with Uncle Sam. Folks who keep their noses clean and don't travel to Canadia are in demand.

  16. Re:Rebellion on Techies Keen to Keep Jobs In the Family · · Score: 4, Funny

    My daughter's seven and has already told us (wife and I work on same help desk) that fixing computers is boring and she wants to be an artist. Luckily, we're setting up a clay studio, wood and metal working shop and painting studio at home for all of us. I figure, around 12, she'll rebel from hippy artist life and become a programmer or dba.

  17. Re:Rebellion on Techies Keen to Keep Jobs In the Family · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought the giant ants would force us to work in the sugar mines first. Or will the robots liberate us so we can make robot juice for them?

  18. Re:An update on Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today · · Score: 1

    Don' talk about his Mama like that.

  19. Re:Lets just hope... on NASA Planning Mission To 40-Meter-Wide Asteroid · · Score: 1

    WWWWD - What would Wil Wheaton do?

  20. Re:What about the War? on NASA Planning Mission To 40-Meter-Wide Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Dude, if they send up two chicks and a dude, they can recoup the costs within a week by setting up a pr0n site with the footage. After that, it'll all be over the torrents.

  21. Re:Wrong Orion on NASA Planning Mission To 40-Meter-Wide Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Until it balks at taking your dollar bill. You're trying to get a stable orbit around Mars and shoot right past it cause some one didn't take time to press their cash.

  22. Re:Land, schmand. Pull it into orbit! on NASA Planning Mission To 40-Meter-Wide Asteroid · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's 40 m across. It's smaller in size than the space shuttle or the ISS. You'd need to be outside of most urban zones to even see it, assuming they put it in LEO. If it was set orbiting the moon, good luck spotting it with nekkid eye. As for gravitational effects on your cycles, I think a garbage truck down the street would have more effect on you.

  23. Re:You don't get it... on NASA Planning Mission To 40-Meter-Wide Asteroid · · Score: 1

    They'll be able to do another 'Pollo 13' and show how three guys, not even planning on deflecting an asteroid, were able to McGuiver a solution out of velcro and Tang.

  24. Re:You don't say? on Gaming Gear Showdown, Simplicity vs. Hype · · Score: 1

    If it's not a parody site, I'm going to be hoping for an asteroid srike soon as we're too stupid to deserve life.

  25. Re:You don't say? on Gaming Gear Showdown, Simplicity vs. Hype · · Score: 3, Funny

    Next you're going to say that Brilliant Pebbles don't reduce comb filter effects in the corners of your listening room.