I'm 6'1" and around 240 lbs and I have no problem relaxing on a plane. And before you say anything, I'm not spilling over to the person besides me either. What I do is simple: I always (if possible) get a window seat.

Aisle seats work about the same for me, with the added bonus of not needing to climb out over the two people sitting with me if I need to get up for whatever reason. I'll get a little extra room by leaning out into the aisle a bit, except when the stewardesses bring the drink cart past. I usually don't sleep when flying, unless it's a redeye (and I've not flown one of those in a long time).

Middle seats suck colon. Fortunately, they're easy enough to avoid most of the time.

They're not turbine blades, but GE is already printing fuel nozzles. Rolls-Royce is also looking at doing the same. Maybe the OP got his parts mixed up.

Hollowpoints and rifle ammo may add up to more than $5 before you empty the magazine.

There's still lots of digital TV on VHF. In Las Vegas, for instance, five of the local broadcasters are on VHF. One of them (KSNV) is even on low-band VHF.

I remember when Intel added power on timers to the BIOS specification and released some software for configuring it. I think I was using a 386DX40 desktop at the time I tested it out.

That capability would've required ATX with its standby power capability, which didn't come along until well into the Pentium era. There's no way your 386 would've had wake-on-timer, wake-on-LAN, or wake-on-anything. The only thing that might've worked would have been to plug it into a timer (like you'd do with your Christmas lights).

Something that seems to be lacking is the IC list. I know the IC list is geared towards usage with the various platforms that you offer as well, but are there any plans to expand the IC list to include chips like logic gates, flip flops, etc?

If I had to guess, there's probably not much sense in them carrying common parts that you could just as easily order from DigiKey, Mouser, or whoever (and probably at lower cost due to the volume they shift). There appears to be little (if any) overlap between what Adafruit sells and what the regular electronics distributors sell.

with the price of Copper continuing to rise, who will be able to afford copper based PCB's in the near future? Silver has been consistently in the 5-12 dollar per ounce range and copper demand has reached the point that it's starting to hit the same levels with the expectation that copper will eventually level out at 100 per ounce or 10x the historical price of silver.

Um...silver's been above $20 per troy ounce for a while now. Copper, OTOH, has been closer to $3-$4 per pound. Copper has had a run up in price, but not nearly enough for it to make silver cheaper for wiring/PCB fabrication/etc.

As I write this, silver is $21.29/ozt. Copper is about $3.25/lb. Copper would need to rise above $310/lb just to equal silver...a two-order-of-magnitude increase.

If you want more legroom and the bulkhead seating is taken, arrive for your flight early and ask to be moved to an emergency exit row. In the U.S. at least, the airlines are not allowed to assign people to this row until the agent can visually confirm that the person is fit and capable of opening and lifting the emergency exit door (weighs about 35-50 lbs). The seats don't recline, but you'll get tons of legroom as they're spaced far enough apart to make an aisle for people to exit the aircraft through.

It's usually the seats in front of the exit row that don't recline, not the seats in the exit row. Looking at this as an example, row 11 is the exit row and reclines. Row 10 doesn't, as you wouldn't want reclined seats getting in the way of getting out of the plane in an emergency.

(The best seat on those airplanes, IMHO, is 12F...tons of legroom.)

I use it for my ... garmin gps watch

Have you tried gant? It'll read tracks out of your watch; I use it with a Forerunner 405. Linux 3.11 has proper support for the USB ANT+ stick too (suunto.ko...guess Suunto also uses ANT+ for some of its products), so you no longer need to load usbserial.ko with vendor & product parameters).

If you're doing more than just downloading tracks from your watch, you'll most likely need to stick with what you're using, but this does what I need without having to spin up a VM.

Roger, roger...

What's our vector, Victor?

Now don't get me wrong, running is a great exercise and builds an iron will, but for fuck sake joggers, there are perfectly good parks, trails, beaches and even bicycle lanes you can use to run on where there is none of the above dangers from cars...

...except where there aren't, and then what's a runner supposed to do? Stay on the treadmill?

Your comment about situational awareness applies equally (if not more so) to the dumbasses behind the wheel who can't quit staring at their phones long enough to avoid clipping a runner or bicyclist. Newsflash: roads (most of them, anyway) aren't for the exclusive use of motor vehicles.

The idea of having affordable health care as opposed to being told sorry but you must just go die someplace as quietly as possible does tend to make it more than likely it will succeed.

Too bad for you 0bamacare's shaping up to be anything but affordable. Even that is assuming they can crunch the numbers, which isn't a valid assumption either.

On an anecdotal note, my employer switched from a PPO plan to an HMO plan to keep its costs somewhat under control. You have the option to stay in a PPOish plan, but it now costs about 4x what we had previously been paying. I switched to this plan to keep access to its better network in case my wife had to quit working and go onto my plan; her oncologist is available through the PPOish plan, but not the HMO. (She's since passed away. :-( Now that it's just me, I might suck it up and switch to the HMO to save some money. So much for "if you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance.")

I find that at least I use both of the shift keys, unlike the right Ctrl, Alt, and Windows keys.

I have a 26-year-old Model M on my desk at work...obviously too old to have Windows keys on it. The right Alt key is remapped to function as a Windows key, and the right Ctrl key is remapped to function as a Menu key (I think that's what the other one is called). I think the only program on here that normally uses one of those keys (to the exclusion of its left-side counterpart) is VirtualBox, and that is set to use some other rarely-used key (F12?) instead.

They are the Badged Highwaymen...

...or as Adam Carolla calls them, chickenshit ticket-writers. The phrase conjures up the contempt such "cops" deserve.

You appear to be overlooking the fact that Calibre is a cross-platform application, and the fact that a sensible OS might refuse to let you casually overwrite an application like that.

BS. Lots of software have an update mechanism built in that works just fine. I don't see why any sensible OS would refuse to "casually" overwrite files installed in a user accessible location that is owned by the very user who is logged in.

Umm...since when is /usr/bin writable by ordinary users in "any sensible OS?" (Or C:\Program Files, for that matter. Even Windows disallows the behavior you describe.)