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This shows why I've long said, "Put not your faith in stock options." Like it or not, options are basically Monopoly money. You can't get your landlord to accept them, or the groce…

Coming down on its jets, the way God and Robert Heinlein intended!

That's like the British joke about which three football teams have swear words in their names: Arsenal, Scunthorpe, and MANCHESTER FUCKING UNITED. :-D

Of course, there also wasn't as much you needed to know back then. I look at something like a modern "Roadmap to becoming a Web developer in 2017" [0] and I wonder how anyone is ab…

They don't do anything Google Drive, Microsoft OneDriveol or Apple iCloud doesn't do AFAIK, neither Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud will work on Linux.

"Profanity is the one language that all programmers know best." - Troutman's Sixth Programming Postulate

PG-13 movies are allowed two uses of the word "fuck." The Martian had Matt Damon use them fairly early on, first, when Watney yanks the piece of the antenna out of himself ("FUCK!"…

Or, as Raymond Chen puts it (quoting Douglas Adams), "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway."

Where she ought to end up is in jail for fraud, but that's probably wishful thinking.

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

Maybe it's time to revive this little ditty: http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00259.html

And now Pathfinder is just sitting there, waiting for Mark Watney to come along and salvage it to use to contact Earth...

I submitted the following: "I would Make America Great Again by forcing the medical monopolies to break up, by prosecuting them under 15 USC (the Sherman, Clayton, and Robinson-Pat…

I'd have expected Hillary to send in the Federal troops and shut down marijuana sales, simply because she's been in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry and they're already co…

Compaq later created similar promotional license plates with the number "LINUX," and yes, they still said "Live Free or Die" on them. I managed to wheedle one out of a trade show r…

Back when Steven first stopped writing USS Clueless, I was concerned that the content would go away. He sent me, at my request, an archive of the site, which I hosted at Electric M…

If you're interested in this sort of thing, look for Wendy Carlos' album Switched-On Bach 2000. She revisits the material of her classic electronic music album with modern synthesi…

He'd probably appreciate it more if you made his science fiction books hits, as he's been trying to get back into SF writing recently, and has joined the indie publishing revolutio…

I posted a link to the Foundation's Web site to Jeff's Facebook page. (He's been busy getting his house in Colorado Springs ready to sell, as he and his wife are moving to Phoenix …

I'll echo what Bill Quick said[0]: "Yep. Just the sort of thing you'd expect to see from a healthy, booming Obama economy. But #NeverTrump. Because we need more great news like thi…

Nope. I will never do business with Netflix, because they sent me unsolicited commercial E-mail. I do not do business with SPAMMERS.

And his entire Medium account is gone, too.

This gets me wondering: how close is this to, say, the Raspberry Pi GPIO connector? Could someone make a Pi-to-GeekPort converter? Would that even be practical for anything?