for everyone NOT getting this reference, imagine sitting in a pub in Europe, and some nondescript '70's folk/rock song comes on the air, and you don't really notice anything until at one point everyone in the bar is shouting "Who the fuck is Alice". Quite an amusing chain of events if you'd like to check out the story and I recommend 'tubing various versions so you can get the full effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Next_Door_to_Alice#Gompie_version

and I think that making PR people cringe is a good thing... Wow, he is human after all. It's nice to have someone who's down to earth and has a real sense of humor leading for once. Now just to see if it trickles down through the many layers of management....

He's been travelling to HP sites across the globe to get face to face employee input and hopefully boost morale. I'd much rather he do that and get a handle on the company than submit to Oracle's harassment in a suit where he's already given sworn, taped testimony. The last thing HP needs is another lame-ass distraction for the CEO.

From the article they describe taking an animal liver, cleaning out the parts and refilling with human stuff. Human Liverwurst?

http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2010/10/07/classic-v-modern/

'Nuff said

For the case of beer, it would depend on the type of beer drank -- most crap american beers have very little, almost imperceivable amounts of bitterness, but the same is also true for many import beers. IPAs tend to be fairly bitter, but even then how would the bittering agents be delivered to the lungs? The bitterness comes from the isomerization of alpha acids during the boiling of the wort -- 60 minutes is generally required to isomerize and extract the alpha acids. Hops that are not boiled for very long will contribute more aromatics which come from volatile oils, and are not bittering. So, if you're smoking and enjoying a beer, about the only way I see the bitterness from the beer (or coffee) opening up your lungs would be by choking on it after taking a big nasty puff. But then again, that would be closing up your lungs first with the fluid. That said, if I could get an aerosolized form of hop with both the bitterness and aromatics, I'd buy it in a heartbeat even without having asthma or any kind of CLPD. I'd love to take a "Hop Shot"

I guess that would give a whole new meaning to "Down for service" if ever they needed to service it...

I thought it was very interesting -- nice and compact, although now I wonder if you'd have to blow it to get the whole system to work instead of just a rogue cartridge... (yes, i know the real problem was with the contact fingers wearing out and no longer making contact....)

I wonder if there are similar effects to adult beverage enjoyment. I always enjoy my homebrew as well as local and national Craft beers, but this article makes me wonder if there are certain flavor profiles or characteristics I prefer based on my environment or the noise level related to it. When I think about it, I tend to prefer darker, deeper, more complex beers, maybe with a stronger emphasis on the malt character in a quieter setting, but then prefer a crisper, hoppier bite from, say, a classic pilsner or pale ale or IPA even in louder, more enthusiastic environments. Definitely something I'll be paying attention to in the future....

Ok, what we really need to do is create a simulator for a small craft to destroy the asteroid while said craft and means of deployment is being developed. Something using vector graphics should be quick and easy to come up with on the simulator side. The craft should be maneuverable and have a cannon capable of breaking the large asteroid into smaller and smaller chunks until these chunks can be destroyed by the cannon. Incidentally, the cannon should also be able to defend against alien craft in case of their interference. High scorers can be recruited to pilot the craft to save the earth.

Are you hiring? I'm looking for a position outside my current company....

The Roof, The Roof, The roof is on fire! They didn't pay the money let the motherf0cker burn!!