I'm not the one posting the empty head link on every comment.

An asteroid buzzed the Earth at 50,000 miles away last year.

https://www.space.com/33891-newfound-asteroid-buzzes-earth-2016-qa2.html

Except southern Florida is expected to be underwater by end of the century.

I did a three day assignment for Palm in 2008. Two contractors and I were supposed to provide user support for the Exchange Server migration. The migration went so smoothly that only one person who had a problem. We spent three whole days doing nothing. I bought a black-and-tan Palm windbreaker for $65 on my last day. I still wear the windbreaker but no one has ever asked me about the Palm logo.

I had to scrub my LinkedIn profile shortly after I got hired. A well-known whistle blower contacted me via LinkedIn wanting to meet with me. Of course, I reported this to management and security.

I don't handle classified information. But I do work on systems that might have classified information and I might find out something that I'm not supposed to know.

Hopscotch with Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson is one of my favorite Cold War spy movies. When a veteran spymaster is sidelined by the CIA, he decides to write his memoirs and mails one chapter at time to all the intelligence services while "hopscotching" between America and Europe with the CIA and KGB on his tail.

Four planets were visible during the eclipse (in order of brightness): Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury.

My current job is at [REDACTED] and my security clearance is [REDACTED]. My cover story is cleaning out IT closets. My actual job description is [REDACTED].

Several of my coworkers who lived in the path of eclipse had their cameras mounted on telescopes without solar filters. The best picture they took was Jupiter shining brightly to one side of the eclipse.

Getting a coal stove is probably a good way to get rid of all those coals that Santa keeps leaving every Christmas.

Dumb Americans used their eyes and/or cameras to view the eclipse.

Smart Americans used certified eclipse glasses and/or rental cameras to view the eclipse.

The freebie DSL modems that ATT provided weren't very good. Most would conk out after a year or two. When I started working one day a week from home, I bought a business class modem for $200 and spent several hours understanding the new security features. That one lasted seven years.

If he was American, he would have put a bullet through the hard drive.

Back in the 1980's, a local WW2 vet passed away and his relatives found sweating dynamite in attic of a detached garage. Since the bomb squad couldn't get to the dynamite, they set the garage on fire and let the whole thing burn to the ground. The fire department sprayed water on the smoldering foundations.

It's a joke. Buy a clue.

Before we had computers in the schools, many boys were interested in blowing up shit. It could be bombs, rockets, engine blocks or frogs. When my father grew in Idaho during the 1940's, he had quarter sticks of dynamite to go fishing with. When I grew up in California during the 1970's , pipe bombs were popular in my neighborhood and my older brother smuggled fireworks across the US-Mexico border. If you buy too much fertilizer today, you're put on a government watch list as a potential terrorist.

Any school that has a library with a chemistry book on the shelf and/or a poorly supervised chemistry lab. Or any public library that has a copy of "The Anarchist Cookbook" by William Powell. Or, today, the Internet.

When I was a kid in the 1970's California, we had to build our own pipe bombs.