It's been obvious to me that we store memories in tiny little flash drives embedded in our brain. Sometimes they go bad, and then we get getstuckget stuck and files don'tloadloadloadfilesystemcorrupt

Drugs: don't do 'em, kids.

Dear Michael;

I call it "TransOzinators". Script is ready to go. Have your girl call my girl and let's take a meeting. I see box office boffo here. I already have a treatment for the sequel ready. "Revenge of WW". Lots of explosions and product placements. Also, my girlfriend would make a perfect replacement for Meg.

Sincerely,

W. S. Shakespeare, Esq.

Next up, Bay takes on Wizard of Oz remake:

"Flying monkeys with bombs. Lots of bombs. Wicked witch with machine gun on broom! Megan as Dorothy! Toto upgraded to pit bull. Shia LeBoeuf will ace it as the Tin Man with laser-eyeballs and missile-firing butthatch! Cowardly Lion now a Mexican political-asylum refugee who knows how to fight! The Straw Man now the Token Black Gay Teenage Computer Wizard in a wheelchair. With glasses. And braces. Eats HotPockets and Pepsi and Pringles while racing against time.

Old plot bad, new plot good. Secret Oz government lab accidently released virus that mutates Munchkins into slobbering zombie vampires. Only Dorothy can save them because her blood has radical new antibodies. Witch nearly kills her, but sex with the Tin Man revives her. New totally unexpected ending not involving explosions!"

I've always wondered how the tunnel borers track position precisely when they are underground. GPS depends on adequate reception of satellite signals, which you do NOT get underground. Inertial navigation systems? But those usually need to be refreshed from calibration sources.

I've concluded it's all done by reference to gnomes.

The best part will be when he breaks the time barrier and lands in 1956. At that point, a farmer will shoot him then shout "I got myself a Russky. Martha, call the sheriff!"

Personal nudity always gets attention and wakes up sleepy audiences, as do firearms. The downside is, after they've all run screaming from the room there's no one left to listen except the guy who had fallen asleep. You can handle that by standing in front of him and shaking him gently.

I THOUGHT there was something suspicious about that Kia with hair.

I have no mod points but you get an honorary one anyway.

I do self-track certain things that are very useful. I keep two logs: 1) concepts log 2) information flow log, and one moderate sized list.

The concepts log records interesting or useful concepts as I encounter then, so I do not have the situation of sitting there wondering where was that discussion of how to do XYZ I'd read six months ago.

The information flow log is a raw stream of ideas and information locations (sites, books, articles)

As a side matter, I keep a list of things I do not know but need to learn. Richard Feynman kept one and it helped him spot holes in his models or domain knowledge.

There's a fourth area where I keep things, and that is a series of 'Library' drives with a large number of directories, one for each area of learning I track, and I copy material into it when I run across it. Thus I can immediately find where I have information on, for example, certain topics in AI, physics, tax law, etc. There is one drive for science, one for technology, one for humanities and more. I use these daily to find things I might have run across years ago.

Mr. Saul Zaentz has a long history of being a dick. Zaentz sued Creedence Clearwater's John Fogerty for plagiarizing himself (!) asking $140 million in damages, and lost.

Zaentz's perception is that he owns the 'brand' Hobbit, although he only owns screen rights.

In the early 1990s Go Corporation had created the PenPoint operating system and a 386-based rectangular tablet. I worked with people at Slate, a company in the same Foster City building as Go. Slate made application software to run under PenPoint.

Go had a working, functioning tablet back then. I used one. It was thrilling to be able to do things on its touch screen. Long before the iPad. Knight Ridder had nothing but a mockup; Go had real working hardware and software.

Unfortunately, what happened was Microsoft conned Go, got them to 'open the kimono', and proceeded to screw them royally by pre-announcing Pen for Windows. They did not have a working product, Go did, but MS killed them in the market by lying. If it were not for that treachery, we would have had tablets two decades ago.

The 386-based machines could not have supported video, but they were good text and graphics apps. This was of course long before WiFi too.

If the colonists don't surrender, we'll just cut off their oxygen. Including the three-breasted mutant hookers.

I will always regret that day that I caused a nuclear holocaust because my cell phone jammer cut off the President's phone while he was assuring Russia we were not attacked them, it was only meteors. I will have the deaths of 50 million people on my head forever. However, at least I still don't have to listen to assholes shouting in my ear while I'm stuck on this bus. It was worth it.

It is too bad, because no country or entity truly has dominion over acts occurring outside its borders or over cultural precepts (i.e laws or even religious beliefs) . For example, the Vatican has no right to declare abortions outside of Italy to be globally prosecutable violations of its rules. The state of California can't tell people in Delaware that they can't buy 100 watt light bulbs because they are illegal in Calfornia.

So, any country can declare a global legal jurisdiction, and pass laws directing everyone on the planet to comply? Or only those countries with very large militaries, indicating that might not only makes right, but assures authority over legal matters outside the nation's boundaries.

I don't think so, fascist state.