Same with me. I grew up in backwater Alaska and have never met an important person in my life, and I'm currently at Cornell for engineering.

Really? You think anyone can simply skate through college with A's and B's just by turning in papers and showing up to tests? For some of us that aren't gifted with an IQ of 140, it actually takes some work to learn linear algebra or basic electrical engineering principles, for instance. I attend a private university in the States and it's a metric fuck ton of work, in my opinion. I work hard for my B's.

What a hideous colour khaki is! I'd hate to be a Delta.

WHAT THE HELL IS A GIGAWATT?

OK this is a really dumb question, but what's with the "This?" I've been seeing it a lot lately and just don't get it. I'm not trying to be a jackass or anything here, I really don't understand.

I asked my sister's dog, "Hi Dolly, wheeeeere's Geordi? Wheeere's Geordi!!?" Dolly lead me out the door, inside the garage, and to the kennel where Geordi was. It was just incredibly interesting to me that she seemed to have a concept of "where" and "the other dog."

You know what's disgusting? You meant "monkey sex" as a joke, but recently a new strain of HIV that's "closely related to one found in gorillas" was found in a woman in Cameroon. What do you think the chances are that someone was desperate enough to pork a gorilla, then this woman?

There's a command you have to run from the command line when you want to file a bug report. Annoying, yes, hard to find, yes, but the functionality is there. If you can actually find the command (I couldn't in a 5 minute googling) it actually is a pretty easy system they have set up.

..is when they can "fix" the abnormality. Who will be the one to decide whether or not one needs to be Fixed?

FTFA:
"The lawsuit filed against Turnitin's parent company, iParadigms LLC, seeks $150,000 for each of six papers written by the students....'This case is not about money, and we don't expect to get that.'"
Not about the money? ORLY? Do you honestly think these high school kids give two s**ts about their little papers?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour

I hear girls like smart men. Now intellectualism can be combined with everyone's favorite pastime, video games-- bonus!!

"synchronizing episodes to a portable media device" is not present, you can do whatever you want right?
I don't think this seems like a patent for podcasting so much as a patent for sort of an all inclusive...thing.

I agree that it would be *nice* to be able to sell a digitally distributed game, but on the other hand, I personally don't give a hoot if I can't sell a game if I bought it for a discounted price. When I buy a $40 or $50 game through Steam for $20, I couldn't care less that I'll never be able to sell it short of selling my entire account. For me $20 is expendable. I drop that much on lunch for friends all the time.
Your number 2 point is the real catch though, as I know I'm screwed when Steam goes down. And it WILL go down someday.

The problem with having the same email address for 15 years is that the amount of spam you are subjected to grows and grows every year. I am fairly careful about what I stick my email address into and I still get a few hundred spam messages per day on my (3,4,5?) year old first gmail address.