Curiously, 17 of their husbands died in battle after being drafted past the age of 90 . . .

hawk

>up and thought 2-digit years would be enough,

When economists actually looked at the *data* for the "Y2K problem," they found that it would have cost, in discounted real dollars, three times as much to prevent the problem as it would have to avoid . . .

doc hawk, economist

My Uncle looked at his draft number, and enlisted (more control over assignment).

He was right.

My grandmother forwarded his induction notice to him in Viet Nam.

He had the cook lay down, poured catchup over his head[1], and stood with his foot on the cook--and sent the picture back, from Viet Nam, to the draft board.

hawk

[1] Kind of silly to worry about color for a B&W picture . . .

Try "Princess Bride"

*whoosh*

cultural illiterate.

You keeep using that word . . . I do not think it means what you think it meanz . . .

hawk

Tablets make it far easier to measure dose on over the counter medication than if supplied as powder. Thus the many brands of aspirin tablet, but it's hard to find analgesic headache powder.

hawk

Just be happy it was a zune, err, surface, rather than Disco records . . .

hawk

>Now that they've found the Atari 2600 ET cartridges
>in a New Mexico landfill, there's plenty of room for
>all the Surfaces (all variants) that Microsoft can't sell.

wait a minute: they took those *out* of the landfill, rather than covering it i concrete, or calling in an air strike???

I'm going to do this with the Airs I bought for my kids to use at school.

Right after I trade in my Cadillac and some cash for a Kia. Then I'll pay more to trade in this Retina Pro for a Samsung tablet.

hawk

I thought focus-follows-mouse would be the hardest thing about going from years of X back to a mac.

Turned out that text selection/paste is even harder . . .

hawk

On my parents' kitchen table . . .

Since I was around, it had to be sometime before mid-86 (likely summer 85. I think the family gatherings were July).

A cousin who worked for HP came by with a prototype (?) of a 68000 Unix luggable. It showed off by drawing a wire frame of the space shuttle and then,I believe, solidifying it, at an impressive speed for the time . . . (today, it would be done between frames, along with a couple of navies shooting at it . . .)

hawk

I don't care *how* it flies so long as I can have it chase anything larger than a hummingbird, yet smaller than a cat, that moves.

@*#(*^% air rats eating my seeds, berries, and other fruit. Go at them while emitting raptor cries . . .

hawk

Better yet, hire a lawyer without MPD and follow his advice (or "her," if the specific lawyer is female).

Speaking as a lawyer, never, EVER higher a lawyer that can be referred to in the plural . . . :)

hawk, esq.

Why do you think I have dochawk.org, rather than dochawk.com?

I checked for dochawk.com. Available. Went to register the next day, and gone. Scratched my head.

Then I checked dochawk.net. Waffled a day, and it was gone.

So I just registered dochawk.org.

And then the bit elsewhere where they double-billed and held data hostge . . .

hawk