I installed an HP Dodo Rockjet Printer with my abacus and the stone tablet prints are really nice quality. Wilma really likes it as well and she prints out all her pictures to it.

Honestly I had more to watch on TV when I had to get up an turn a knob to change channels than I do these days. No cable for me.

And by mazes I mean mazes that can make your Nethack/Rogue happy bits twitch. Out of boredom I started making a cave and dungeon generator like the one Nethack/Rogue has. Here's the resources I used to put together what I have so far in Java.

Topic in General
http://www.roguebasin.com/inde...

Caves
http://www.roguebasin.com/inde...

Dungeons
http://www.roguebasin.com/?tit...

Procedural Content Generation Wiki
http://pcg.wikidot.com/

BSP Dungeon Generation
http://doryen.eptalys.net/arti...

Use one of the examples those places provides or do like I did and strike out on your own method to solve the problem of cave and dungeon building. I got a cave screen shot of one test generation.

My Cave Generator Output
http://imgur.com/9O9Niae

When I switched my mother from XP to Windows 7 she had a heck of a time finding where things worked and how they worked again. This UI change that is spreading all over the software world to make things more touchy feely like is really not sitting well with me when I use it on a non-touchy feely desktop. Part of me is glad that I kept my mother on IE at this point even though IE is bullet riddled with issues of it's own. The UI is at least somewhat consistent to the desktop for the most part on Windows 7.

I'm sure there is better components out there but this is really cool and make me wonder if I could build my own 1960's Star Trek communicator at some point before I die and have that as my cell phone.

Won't help much if the game is just boring to people and/or expensive. Now if you told everyone to wear protective body armor when going out on the green and start aiming at each other then maybe you'd get your numbers up.

I'm still burnt from the 2.x to 3.x UI changes. I'd be happier if they kept the 2.x look but improved the underpinnings of the Gnome system. Between XFCE and Cinnamon I'm not really concerned about Gnome anymore. Honestly I'd rather see more resources go in to one of those two than Gnome.

I wish I could mod you all the way to Redmond with insightful points.

.. when putting whale meat on the dinner table until a giant black spray painted bounty towel roll core parks itself in Earth's oribit and dangles a glowy soccer ball over the planet to bag us for lack of whales. Shattner and Nemoy won't be around forever Japan!

Glad I didn't put any money in to the kick starter. I hope I'm wrong but I got an overwhelming sense of dread from this.

.. is the furtherest thing from a power user out there. She'd like her old XP interface back.

Why do my comments disappear after I hit submit for them? I scroll down and can't find them. I finally did several more comment loads and found what I posted. At least with the original site I saw my post appear in the comment section.

Yeah I just tried beta a second time to give it a second chance and there is still way to much white space on here to make this pleasant. Also what looks like a tile bar near the top is giving me Windows 8 fidgets and I'm not enjoying this experience. Would someone please reformat the beta site and reinstall regular /. and just fix it so that it doesn't auto-mod everything on the fly but lets you have some sort of conformation when moderating? That's all I think that really needed fixed.

Keep the setup as is but have a confirm for moderations. I really hate moderating and something happens where I miss select a moderation type for a post and it gets stuck with something I didn't intend to put there.