...that's a space heater!

This... this resonated with me a little. I took me back to last week when my Internet was down for 24 hours and I felt so helpless. All my devices useless. My iPad, my smartphone, my smart TV, my laptop... expensive decorations. All I had to occupy my time with was whatever was on OTA TV. It was like me and my brain were separated, since all my knowledge is on the other side of the router...

No non-Internet games or things to do on any of the devices? No non-computer hobbies? No going out to do something, even if it's something so mundane as going to a coffee shop to use their Internet connection?

I have things that I can do even if I'm without power, let alone without Internet connectivity.

Yeah. I use GPS, but mostly to determine what the route is, not to go turn-by-turn to follow it. I read the electronic thing as a map to memorize the route then just drive. Beats fumbling with the phone or even a paper map while driving.

It's even easier if there's a passenger- my wife is well versed in reading maps and tends to use the phone's GPS/maps in a similar fashion. She can give me multiple-steps-ahead directions if needed (get right, turn at the next light and then get left, and turn two lights later, then get right, etc) to make navigating tight streets easier than using a GPS.

I doubt those were the same experiment, even to each other...

In space, no one can hear you steam...

So if power dies off, at least with glass windows, the pilots can still see out and glide to a 'dead-stick' landing (even if it's not on a runway) using the backup power to the flight controls.

Perhaps we should call it the Sullenberger Test.

I can see one way that such screens could work- make them multilayer LCD. A black layer closest to the window, a white later, then the image layer. The black layer serves to block sunlight, and the white layer helps to white-balance the screen and provide some additional light blocking. In the event that power fails, the screens turn clear.

I hear that Costco is having a sale on rolls of tin foil...

Typically you either use heavy equipment to dig trenches first, then shoot them at those trenches, or you make them dig their own trenches, then shoot them once they've gone deep enough. Just make sure that they pass the shovel back to you first. After all, shovels are expensive.

You can already do that using anesthetics.

They'll even provide them on the flight. It's called the Beverage Service.

It was the highest post on the site without a reply, so he was assured of being seen without having to scroll down, that's what it has to do with an AC making accusations.

I'll print it out on paper, to be safe from lazy searches.

Wait until you hear about this new-fangled invention, where they print the content for you, bind it, and ship it to you, and it's new content every time...

And here I was thinking it sounded like Alpha Complex.

Maybe a little paranoia once in awhile isn't such a bad thing.

I've been with the same employer for the better part of thirteen years, and I was mired in desktop support for far longer than I wanted to be. I stuck through it mainly to be vested with the retirement system (and bearing in mind that the IT market was complicated when the dotcom bubble burst) and by the time I got vested I managed to move up in the organization, so I'm not as unhappy as I once was.

Now that I've got forward progress again I'm inclined to give myself time to grow into my current role before considering a change. I've got a decade of tech progress to catch up on in Linux administration and Cisco, so I may as well get that experience in a fairly secure environment before considering something more.

I am a garbageman

Yeah, I did desktop support too.

Maybe Livejournal will just move to Russia...