When asked what I do for a living during jury selection, I state very clearly that I design satellite communication links and associated hardware, and am currently involved in leading edge research and development.
I have never failed to get excused by the defense attorney except for the time the prosecutor did me the favor. *shrug* Maybe it was a weak case.
Well, yeah. I have an 8 year old Mac Powerbook that gets killed by modern Flash objects. You can watch the battery % charge meter count down when a heavy Flash page is being displayed.
OK, but these are just animation fans I know. They have no financial stake in the films. Well, one owns some Pixar stock, I think, but Pixar hardly seems to be suffering from the situation.
True story. A friend of mine was visiting and we were watching something on TV over dinner, and the initial ad for Miami Ink came on. I started at it and said, "A show about a tattoo parlor? What's next? A show about a pawn shop?"
I should have run with the idea. I was three or four years ahead of the industry there.
Exactly. This is the crowd that gave Jethro Tull "Best Metal Album" and made Christopher Cross (yeah, I know, who?) their darling for one year. Who gives a flying frak at a rolling donut if they recognize gaming or not? But, hey, don't worry, be happy.
It's like animation fans who complained the Oscars had "ghettoized" them by creating a separate category for animated films. I kept asking them why they even cared what that circle jerk of pampered, Moon-sized egos did.
And people wonder why my desires run counter to the reverse diaspora toward increased urbanization.
Just build the giant, sealed arcologies already, let the social engineering wonks have them, and let the rest of us live in more rural setting in peace.
I'm getting quite skeptical on the cosmology front. With holographic universes and string theory and the third dimension being an illusion and gravity as an information effect, I'm starting to think they're just fucking with us.:-P
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When asked what I do for a living during jury selection, I state very clearly that I design satellite communication links and associated hardware, and am currently involved in leading edge research and development.
I have never failed to get excused by the defense attorney except for the time the prosecutor did me the favor. *shrug* Maybe it was a weak case.
Yes, but it is always interesting to see news from just before the Moon got blasted out of its orbit.
It's a million to one shot, therefore inevitable.
...how long before we never hear about this one again?
Your comment shows a fundamental lack of reading and comprehension skills.
Uh... Kristin Shepard?
Well, yeah. I have an 8 year old Mac Powerbook that gets killed by modern Flash objects. You can watch the battery % charge meter count down when a heavy Flash page is being displayed.
I have my name on nine patents, five of which I got *after* turning 40. Just sayin'
Eew.
I *told* them I'd have my garage cleared out in time. Screw you, Bolden!
That's the last time I buy hookers for a government official.
OK, but these are just animation fans I know. They have no financial stake in the films. Well, one owns some Pixar stock, I think, but Pixar hardly seems to be suffering from the situation.
True story. A friend of mine was visiting and we were watching something on TV over dinner, and the initial ad for Miami Ink came on. I started at it and said, "A show about a tattoo parlor? What's next? A show about a pawn shop?"
I should have run with the idea. I was three or four years ahead of the industry there.
Exactly. This is the crowd that gave Jethro Tull "Best Metal Album" and made Christopher Cross (yeah, I know, who?) their darling for one year. Who gives a flying frak at a rolling donut if they recognize gaming or not? But, hey, don't worry, be happy.
It's like animation fans who complained the Oscars had "ghettoized" them by creating a separate category for animated films. I kept asking them why they even cared what that circle jerk of pampered, Moon-sized egos did.
Bingo. The dedicated buttons. I use my HP calculator every fraking day at work.
Replace the batteries once a year.
So you know exactly how technology and population will go for the next century or more, eh? Please share.
Do you have a point, or does your wet textual fart have some point?
Didn't call anything Utopia, but some of us find certain urban centers a fair try at creating a Hell.
And I'll take a couple nosy neighbors over a gigantic electronic apparatus.
Yeah, caps put a kibosh on the whole thing for now.
I'm actually interested in something where I pay a monthly fee, and I can stream ANY movie or television show ever made.
Just rotate the ship 90 degrees.
And people wonder why my desires run counter to the reverse diaspora toward increased urbanization.
Just build the giant, sealed arcologies already, let the social engineering wonks have them, and let the rest of us live in more rural setting in peace.
Here in California was basically have organized crime for a state government, but, yeah, Sony is such a big menace to me and mine.
The duplicator. "Instacloner" was the eventual commercial name. :)
Pfft!
Calvin made a transmogrifier, time machine *and* an instacloner out of the *SAME* cardboard box!
Gadget Hackwrench
http://rangerwiki.net/images/e/e9/Gadget_extra_parts.jpg
Yes, there is a Chip & Dale's Rescue Ranger's wiki site. God bless you, Intertoobs.
I'm getting quite skeptical on the cosmology front. With holographic universes and string theory and the third dimension being an illusion and gravity as an information effect, I'm starting to think they're just fucking with us. :-P