Wonderful story. It's life-transforming for almost everyone who gets the surgery; certainly it was for me. I was mid-50s when I had the surgery. My mother had gone blind from cataracts in the 1960s so I knew it would happen but I was unprepared for the impact it would make. I could swim, kayak and ski without worrying about glasses fogging. And lights at night were pinpoints.

Happy for your father and for you. :)

But I did get X-ray vision... it's not as good as you'd think. For one thing, I'm never going in to the senior center ever again!!!

And give it a bogus default gateway.

You'll be surprised what you can find in the major markets. Seattle, for instance, often has lots of jobs asking for some experience with Linux.

I hate to disabuse you but my experience with low-competence speeders is that they often tailgate (trying to make the person in front move over) and also often ignore a free lane apparently under the impression that "slower traffic move right" means "slower than ME") and they single-mindedly seem to insist that everyone has to get out of their way.

But I have also, like you, seen drivers who seem to have a "comfort zone" a car-length behind and won't pass even when given a chance. Some have offered up the idea that staying close helps traffic by increasing the capacity of the highway system but I think that the constant braking required of drivers who follow too closely cancels this out.

My attitude is that it's an intelligence test and finding a way through traffic without slowing everyone else down is what produces a winner. I often hang back and let a few very-high-speed drivers go by to collect the cops; I'll follow them 1/2 mile behind. I use their sudden application of brake lights to tell me when their radar detectors have gone off. :)

One of the leading causes of accidents is following too closely and a GPS will not measure that. If tailgating can be correlated to speeding (e.g.: people who speed also follow too closely) then I'd say there could be a good outcome from using this data. Otherwise, not so much...

Mostly because the Internet - and the world wide web - existed prior to 1993. In fact, in 1990 the amateur radio operators in the Puget Sound area used a tcp/ip over 2-meter network that was linked to the Internet through one ham's occupation at a major industrial corporation in the area. Most of us weren't using a GUI web browser but we were using Lynx ( http://people.cc.ku.edu/~grobe/early-lynx.html ).

MOD PARENT UP!!! LOL :)

At least we'd know that their brains heard and recognized the words.... whether or not they actually understood them is left for another system to determine.

The same guy who owns the WSJ owns Fox News.

First of all, get experience and knowledge in many different systems (e.g.: MS, Unix, Linux, Cisco, Mac, etc.) and learn how to make them work together. Use your house LAN and your free time now to interconnect them in ways that would be useful to potential LOCAL clients. Combining free Linux applications (installed on cast-off computers your customer has in a closet) with local licensed applications can often save a small LOCAL company a lot of money.

Secondly, make a business... I suggest an LLC or an S-Corp... with business cards, letterhead, and web site of your own (I now use Bluehost).

Thirdly, get out there and join local business associations, clubs, and even fraternal organizations (Elks, etc.) and hand out business cards. This is the old-fashioned form of networking.

I subsidize my retirement income with remote administration of several databases, VPN networks and backup systems. Plus I have one Internet web forum that uses advertising to give me a small income.

You won't get rich but since you have to be around the house anyway you'll get some income (possibly), some more experience (probably) and have some interesting stories for when *you* retire. :)

At least you can change the password... pretty hard to return virginity.

April 1st already, huh?

Some of these positioning rockets are single-use. If you test one you have to build another to replace it. And then test it. And then.....

INSTALL THEM YOURSELF!

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