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Comment Re:Why would they assume Mercury is like the moon? (Score 1) 90

by somaTh on Thursday September 29, 2011 @05:29PM (#37559942) Attached to: Mercury Turns Out To Be a Weird Little World

I guess what he's really trying to say here is "That's no moon"

And if you didn't see the joke coming, shame on you.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 2) 178

by somaTh on Monday September 26, 2011 @04:45PM (#37519924) Attached to: Doritos Creator Art West Dead at 97

It's September. Maybe you should consider cutting back a bit...

Comment Tags (Score 1) 1

by somaTh on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @05:24PM (#37472994) Attached to: I'm getting old

And, apparently, <i> isn't the same as <em>. A little bit older every day.

Journal Journal: I'm getting old 1

Journal by somaTh on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @05:21PM

I know tech is always moving forward. There's always some fresh piece of software out there, ready to be deployed. It's just that the most recent cycle really caught me off guard. I blink for half a second and our entire office is using AJAX to refresh the data on pages rather than form submits. Google introduces G+. Facebook destroys its homepage. I know these aren't really new things, the ideas driving the tech have been around for a while. It's just all so new at once. And don't even

Comment Re:isn't G+ still invite-only beta? (Score 1) 360

by somaTh on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @01:41PM (#37121182) Attached to: Facebook Says That Google+ Has No Users

Yes, it is invite-only. But, it still has 25 million users, which sounds like a lot of people. I guess they must all be pushers instead of users.

Comment Re:Original concept (Score 1) 159

by somaTh on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @02:55PM (#36975646) Attached to: The Epidemic of Digital Distraction

I know, I was trolling for someone to call me out on meta-analyzing your meta-analysis. I like recursion.

Comment Re:Original concept (Score 2) 159

by somaTh on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @02:16PM (#36975214) Attached to: The Epidemic of Digital Distraction

Wow, a joke about meta jokes followed by noting people critique jokes about meta jokes. It's turtles all the way down!

Comment Michael Crichton, Prophet (Score 1) 336

by somaTh on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @03:51PM (#36963960) Attached to: Mysterious Object Found In Seabed

Am I the only one that thought of Sphere? Granted, it's in the wrong body of water and shaped wrong (I think the novel described it as something like a B2), but.... you know. Underwater ship that might have previously been used for extraplanetary travel...

Fine, I'll go back to work.

Comment Re:Thanks! (Score 1) 220

by somaTh on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:47PM (#36923066) Attached to: Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day

Fine. Happy SAAD to you, too!

Comment Thanks! (Score 1) 220

by somaTh on Friday July 29, 2011 @10:32AM (#36921140) Attached to: Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day

Happy SAD to you too.

Comment Obligatory xkcd (Score 1, Redundant) 212

by somaTh on Thursday July 28, 2011 @03:21PM (#36912320) Attached to: Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges

http://xkcd.com/925/

The graph does make it look pretty clear...

Comment Old News (Score 1) 111

by somaTh on Friday June 24, 2011 @11:31AM (#36556622) Attached to: BioWare's <em>Neverwinter Nights</em> Forum Server Hacked

Ars Technica ran this article over a week ago.

Comment Wait a minute! (Score 1) 167

by somaTh on Thursday June 09, 2011 @04:13PM (#36393036) Attached to: Chinese Moon Probe Ventures Into Deep Space

That's no moon probe!

Comment I wonder (Score 2) 89

by somaTh on Thursday June 02, 2011 @02:09PM (#36322790) Attached to: AC/DC Music Attracts Great White Sharks

What would happen if AC/DC plays the theme from Jaws?

Comment Re:Was it really worth it, Sony? (Score 1) 288

by somaTh on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @04:06PM (#36243206) Attached to: Sony Suffers Yet More Security Breaches

Would you believe I was thinking of this when I posted? Since I've clearly already posted, all I can really do is say kudos for doing the legwork.

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