I'm working in a similar situation. Bigger outfit, and I'm a bit older, but unless the culture is really off the rails then I believe it's all about how you handle it.
In my case, the key is to not exclude myself. I definitely don't participate in all the extracurricular activities, but I do join in enough to stay part of the scene. Yep, I've been to one of those epic Tahoe long weekends. Disc golf at the park. Drunk at the office. Barhopping in the Mission. But only once in a while.
Even the occasional late-nighter is doable; in my case the girlfriend travels for work occasionally, so I just load up on coffee and Dew and code-rage with the gang when she's away. Your situation will be different, but I bet there's a way you can crunch hard a few nights a year.
I've found that if I go out of my way to fit in, others go out of their way to include me. It helps that I'm "youthful" (a nice way to put it) and active for my age, and have hipster-friendly interests since before they were cool, like rock climbing, cycling, and whisky. But I only participate in a fraction of the party mentality and no one seems to mind.
So I'd suggest jumping in! Just be yourself and don't let the grown-up pants get too tight. Focus what you can do, not what you can't. Hang out late once in a while, teach the young bucks how to hold their liquor, go on one of those Tahoe trips. Chill with the crew on a Saturday afternoon, then bow out when it's time to hit the clubs. Just keep it at the level that works for you, stay positive, and have fun.
I've even been able to bend the culture where I work a bit. More stuff is SO-friendly. A few peoople have quietly aspired to more "balance." And some days the chess set gets more action than the (obligatory) foosball table. It's okay to be the old guy. Own it. Make the place better for it.
Autonomously-driving cars would also have manual controls, activated by a bright purple Special Handle. Pulling the Special Handle enables manual high-speed driving mode and the driver, skills un-degraded by years of not driving, can rush the Special Emergency to the hospital.
Special Emergency Unicorn Mode activates the car-top rotating purple beacon, to alert everyone else (via their cars' Special Unicorn Detector) that there's a Special Emergency nearby.
Unicorn Mode also transmits geolocation and in-car audio/video (copyright waived) to DMV and the History Channel, deploys a trail of glowing purple sparkles behind the car for use by Actionhype News, and marks the driver's hand with permanent purple Tribute Ink.
After the Special Emergency, circumstances can be validated by DMV and hospital staff. Drivers reasonably acting to save a life win a guest appearance on NatGeo's True Unicorns, 10% off Tuesdays at Disneyland, and a $25 Applebees gift card.
Alternately, drivers who Unicorned their very special offspring to the hospital for a split a lip from squabbling over the iPad will get their car's Special Handle removed, their purple-dyed hand surgically attached to their head like that thing on a rooster, and a $25 Applebees gift card.
Of course this entails an account at each vendor to buy the books. Downloading is handled by the Amazon and/or Adobe Digital Editions (BN/Kobo) apps used by those accounts. Just don't let the apps fondle your ereader -- that's what Calibre is for.
This technique probably works for Nooks as they're epub-native like Kobo. Not sure how easy or effective converting into AZW/Mobi/etc would be for Kindlers, but these same tools might well do it.
>>>I've gotten to the point where I won't rely on anything offered for free because then you're just one corporate re-org, acquisition, etc away from being booted out in the cold.
Reminds me... Anyone have some AOL discs they could send? I only have 9,000 hours left.
You seem really withdrawn and distant. It's that gossipy jerk Facebook, isn't it?
Our iGoogle times were great. Remember how we discovered new things with Reader, how we built our lives around Calendar? And wow, you were really good in search!
But you've changed, Google. I don't mind that you're heavier, but this diet is like cutting off your legs to lose weight. And frankly, you're kind of clingy.
So let's just be friends. I'll still see ya around Maps, and maybe we can catch an image search sometime. Your tracking will always be with me.
Sorry I missed you at Plus, I came by but no one was there.
It'll hit its heights when the local dragnet, noticing a 'criminal' query, tries to step up its game, and catch the pre-suspect in the act by infiltrating and enticing someone to go through with the act...
Sounds sort of like what the FBI is doing now -- throwing fuel around until a "terrorist plot" flickers, fanning the spark with props and drama, then rushing in, press release in hand, to extinguish the evildoers' villainous plan.
DRM didn't drive me to pirate games, it drove me to give up gaming entirely.
Even on a console, the hassles were just too much.
Game publishers think they're in the game business. They're in the fun business. If they figure out how to sell hassle-free fun on any of my several mainstream computing platforms, I will give them money. But the longer they fail, the less likely they are to ever interest me again.
For professionals traveling with very expensive equipment, handguns in the Pelican cases are insurance. Heck, just the cases cost more than the pistols used to gain lock-ability.
Wouldn't call it a "loophole," though. I don't think there's been any intent to block otherwise legal firearms from *checked* baggage.
I have a drawer full of tools that weren't supposed to be sold. If I want to open an iphone, I'll either have the tool within a day or figure out an alternative.
The embedded references could just as easily have been planted by someone unaffiliated with Israel, who also knew that Israel would be the prime suspect, and wanted to lead some trail to them.
This leads me *away* from thinking it was Israel, because presuming the "clues" are deliberate, any number of parties besides the Israeli government have motivation for planting evidence pointing to Israel.
Granted, that line of reasoning can get circular real quick, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Israeli government was indeed the source. Still, without further info, this circumstantial evidence provides more questions than answers. And I'm not buying that it was necessarily a state action.
Whoever created this attack had the ability to effectively frame someone. They could've made it look like anyone – Israel, the US, Poland, Cuba, CBS News.
That doesn't mean they did frame someone, but it does mean we're naive if we don't consider it. The only thing this "proves," if anything, is that someone wanted Israel or its sympathizers to receive credit/blame. Maybe they wanted exactly what we have now – a strong suspicion without hard proof.
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I mean HD-DVD...
I'm working in a similar situation. Bigger outfit, and I'm a bit older, but unless the culture is really off the rails then I believe it's all about how you handle it.
In my case, the key is to not exclude myself. I definitely don't participate in all the extracurricular activities, but I do join in enough to stay part of the scene. Yep, I've been to one of those epic Tahoe long weekends. Disc golf at the park. Drunk at the office. Barhopping in the Mission. But only once in a while.
Even the occasional late-nighter is doable; in my case the girlfriend travels for work occasionally, so I just load up on coffee and Dew and code-rage with the gang when she's away. Your situation will be different, but I bet there's a way you can crunch hard a few nights a year.
I've found that if I go out of my way to fit in, others go out of their way to include me. It helps that I'm "youthful" (a nice way to put it) and active for my age, and have hipster-friendly interests since before they were cool, like rock climbing, cycling, and whisky. But I only participate in a fraction of the party mentality and no one seems to mind.
So I'd suggest jumping in! Just be yourself and don't let the grown-up pants get too tight. Focus what you can do, not what you can't. Hang out late once in a while, teach the young bucks how to hold their liquor, go on one of those Tahoe trips. Chill with the crew on a Saturday afternoon, then bow out when it's time to hit the clubs. Just keep it at the level that works for you, stay positive, and have fun.
I've even been able to bend the culture where I work a bit. More stuff is SO-friendly. A few peoople have quietly aspired to more "balance." And some days the chess set gets more action than the (obligatory) foosball table. It's okay to be the old guy. Own it. Make the place better for it.
No idea if Goodreads ratings are reliable or not, but if you don't trust Amazon...
Sometimes it seems like the main reason to keep Slashdot in my RSS feed is to click though for the jokes about the typos.
No... On second thought it's also good for misleading headlines on articles I read yesterday.
Redbox's big win is convenience. It's at the grocery store or drugstore I'm going to anyway.
Yeah, first world problem, but going to yet another destination (twice) for a couple hours of superheroes or lens flares was what killed Blockbuster.
If physical media has any shot at competing with streaming, it's gotta be on the way to the beer aisle.
Not exactly. It took us 16 years to work out what was being satirized.
As stoned kids, we thought it satirized militarism. As drunk adults, we think it satirizes Heinlein.
Adobe fixes bugs! They save up all the fixes then charge for them in the next release.
The solution is obvious:
Autonomously-driving cars would also have manual controls, activated by a bright purple Special Handle. Pulling the Special Handle enables manual high-speed driving mode and the driver, skills un-degraded by years of not driving, can rush the Special Emergency to the hospital.
Special Emergency Unicorn Mode activates the car-top rotating purple beacon, to alert everyone else (via their cars' Special Unicorn Detector) that there's a Special Emergency nearby.
Unicorn Mode also transmits geolocation and in-car audio/video (copyright waived) to DMV and the History Channel, deploys a trail of glowing purple sparkles behind the car for use by Actionhype News, and marks the driver's hand with permanent purple Tribute Ink.
After the Special Emergency, circumstances can be validated by DMV and hospital staff. Drivers reasonably acting to save a life win a guest appearance on NatGeo's True Unicorns, 10% off Tuesdays at Disneyland, and a $25 Applebees gift card.
Alternately, drivers who Unicorned their very special offspring to the hospital for a split a lip from squabbling over the iPad will get their car's Special Handle removed, their purple-dyed hand surgically attached to their head like that thing on a rooster, and a $25 Applebees gift card.
I have a Kobo Glo with lots of legitimately purchased ebooks from Amazon and BN on it.
All it takes is the Calibre open source library manager and a couple third-party DRM-stripping plugins. Rarely, converting from AZW, you'll need a bit of CSS skill and a text editor to track down a conversion glitch.
Of course this entails an account at each vendor to buy the books. Downloading is handled by the Amazon and/or Adobe Digital Editions (BN/Kobo) apps used by those accounts. Just don't let the apps fondle your ereader -- that's what Calibre is for.
This technique probably works for Nooks as they're epub-native like Kobo. Not sure how easy or effective converting into AZW/Mobi/etc would be for Kindlers, but these same tools might well do it.
could U.S. educators and health & safety advocates put this issue back on Congress' radar
Not a chance. Educators and advocates lack two things: Lobbyists. Jesus.
Yeah, listening to both music and podcasts this morning, the interface isn't trying to sell me anything at all.
Maybe someone got confused by the iToonz Extreme Premium Platinum free trial on their BigBox box.
Reminds me... Anyone have some AOL discs they could send? I only have 9,000 hours left.
Nope, 30% of the 17% is for Mountain Dew and pizza.
You seem really withdrawn and distant. It's that gossipy jerk Facebook, isn't it?
Our iGoogle times were great. Remember how we discovered new things with Reader, how we built our lives around Calendar? And wow, you were really good in search!
But you've changed, Google. I don't mind that you're heavier, but this diet is like cutting off your legs to lose weight. And frankly, you're kind of clingy.
So let's just be friends. I'll still see ya around Maps, and maybe we can catch an image search sometime. Your tracking will always be with me.
Sorry I missed you at Plus, I came by but no one was there.
Swordfish 2?
Go fuck with Charles Carreon's website.
There, I've done more to "incite cyber-vandalism" than Inman has.
It'll hit its heights when the local dragnet, noticing a 'criminal' query, tries to step up its game, and catch the pre-suspect in the act by infiltrating and enticing someone to go through with the act...
Sounds sort of like what the FBI is doing now -- throwing fuel around until a "terrorist plot" flickers, fanning the spark with props and drama, then rushing in, press release in hand, to extinguish the evildoers' villainous plan.
Not to mention all the apostrofees.
Or 4/6 couldn't be bothered to tear themselves away from their televisions to cast a vote.
I sure wish hypocrisy was an impediment to politicians. And voters.
That was "in-depth?"
DRM didn't drive me to pirate games, it drove me to give up gaming entirely.
Even on a console, the hassles were just too much.
Game publishers think they're in the game business. They're in the fun business. If they figure out how to sell hassle-free fun on any of my several mainstream computing platforms, I will give them money. But the longer they fail, the less likely they are to ever interest me again.
For professionals traveling with very expensive equipment, handguns in the Pelican cases are insurance. Heck, just the cases cost more than the pistols used to gain lock-ability.
Wouldn't call it a "loophole," though. I don't think there's been any intent to block otherwise legal firearms from *checked* baggage.
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/assistant/editorial_1666.shtm
Not buying into the nerdfroth on this one.
I have a drawer full of tools that weren't supposed to be sold. If I want to open an iphone, I'll either have the tool within a day or figure out an alternative.
The embedded references could just as easily have been planted by someone unaffiliated with Israel, who also knew that Israel would be the prime suspect, and wanted to lead some trail to them.
This leads me *away* from thinking it was Israel, because presuming the "clues" are deliberate, any number of parties besides the Israeli government have motivation for planting evidence pointing to Israel.
Granted, that line of reasoning can get circular real quick, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Israeli government was indeed the source. Still, without further info, this circumstantial evidence provides more questions than answers. And I'm not buying that it was necessarily a state action.
Whoever created this attack had the ability to effectively frame someone. They could've made it look like anyone – Israel, the US, Poland, Cuba, CBS News.
That doesn't mean they did frame someone, but it does mean we're naive if we don't consider it. The only thing this "proves," if anything, is that someone wanted Israel or its sympathizers to receive credit/blame. Maybe they wanted exactly what we have now – a strong suspicion without hard proof.