Well one of the GoDaddy girls at least has a day job if they change marketing themes: Danica Patrick, Indy Car/NASCAR racer.

I was in Vancouver for the first time a year ago. Lovely place. Friendly, welcoming people. The most "dangerous" people we encountered were the junkies in the alleys, but they were pretty much harmless.

The best view to survey the area is Top of Vancouver. It's a rotating restaurant. Don't pay the tourist fee of $15. Go straight to the restaurant and have a $15 drink instead.

Anyway, I was just discussing with my wife that there would have been some interesting view of the riots from that restaurant. Safe entertainment from afar.

If you go, visit the Salt Tasting Room. (It's in one of those alleys.)

I am a fan of many sports, hockey, not so much. I get that emotional rush of wanting a team to win and hating when they lose. But when it's over, it's over. Geez. Move on.

Really? I didn't even realize that product still existed.

The only thing worse than the attention to this ridiculous "story" is all the predictable jokes that come from it.

"I guess I don't to pay my bills since the world is going to end." If I had a nickel for every variant of that joke I've heard, ...

Get a life everyone.

May I ask why he said your teen sons need to be circumcised?

GV is my phone number for everything. It points to my T-Mobile prepaid (using Comet Android), my iPod Touch TextFree, and my office phone.

If I get a text it goes to the T-Mobile (okay, that actually does cost me 5 cents), TextFree, the GV account, and email. I then carry on the conversation from whatever device or app I happen to be near. I use the free apps if I'm in a wifi zone or at home where I work. I may carry the conversation on T-Mobile and pay the fees, but that might amount to $2.00 a month at the most.

For me a text conversation is useful for about 4-6 texts, then I go to phone call at that point. It's what works for me.

I've found the available workarounds are sufficient to the point that I could give a crap about texting fees. I use GoogleVoice and TextFree and they work great. My wife uses Virgin Mobile for $25/mo (that's it no extra taxes or garbage) and can text to her delight.

Just for the shock value that they exist and that someone is paying these prices.

Audioquest: 8 feet of speaker cable for $8,450

Pear Cable: 12 feet for $7,250

Here's 3 meters for $12,700

A voltage stabilizer for $11,500 (what is that?)

A turntable cartridge for $20,000

And here's the winner: 8 ft of speaker cable for $39,999

You can't make this stuff up

Here's the Scientology episode.

There's a reason I cannot find the Islam episode.

I don't care what certain religions have done in the past. I do care what's happening now.

With that, I'd say the most dangerous one is that which Trey Parker and Matt Stone are afraid of.

I have carried the title "Software Engineer" for 13 years. I'm of mixed opinion about how great the job is. It pays pretty well, but much of that is relative to what you're comparing to.

There are worse jobs out there, no doubt, but we're not just coders at least in my experience and many people I know in Silicon Valley. You have to read a lot of boring documents. You have to know how to write. There are meetings. There are customers to talk with. For me what makes it "not the greatest job in the world" is that it's stressful in a way that people don't understand.

Deadlines always loom, and they are always too short. A good SE has to constantly decide where to unit test, design, explain to management, or just hack to get it done. There's no worse feeling when management decides that a project is taking too long and asks "who can we add to the project?" like we and our code is just plug-n-play factory work.

That is stressful and few people understand the kind of stress created on the job. I'm not asking for pity. It's a good gig overall, but sometimes I wish I would have stuck with my original, lower paying pursuit of teaching junior college mathematics.