ufo was excellent & most of the episodes still hold up very well today - most of them were downers, not your typical tv fare.

and i love the silver miniskirt/purple wig "uniform" the women wear on moonbase. :)

bach would still have been a genius, even if he'd been an atheist.

i have sync too. it seemed like a cool idea at the time, and since it was already installed in the car i wanted (any idea how hard it is to find manual transmissions anymore?) i didn't mind getting it. it's been a mixed blessing at best. things that seem hard, like voice recognition, work really well. things that seem easy, like sensing whether my iphone is hooked up to usb or playing music and having sound come out, are very spotty. given a choice i wouldn't get sync again.

well, almost... i think i've seen my boss three times over the last two years, and i write my own annual evaluation because nobody else knows what i'm doing. my connection to the corporate mothership is negligible, so i avoid the inevitable office politics (and attendant promotion opportunities - alas!). as long as the client keeps paying the bills, corporate is reasonably happy to leave me alone.

yeah really - who needs pajamas?

there are plenty of ways to store picture files online, or tape or disk. gmail promises to never delete anything, right? email them to yourself. but those files are only useful if there are applications that can use them. chances are that common data formats of today like jpg will be around for a long time, but there's no telling what direction technology will go in the future. have you tried to open a microsoft word 1 document lately? who can count how many dead file formats are out there. whatever format your pics are in today, chances are that 30 years down the road it'll have been replace by something newer and better, and if you didn't convert all those pics from the old format to the new one when you could then having the obsolete binary files won't matter. though maybe your pocket hal 9000 will convert them for you if you ask it nicely. maybe some formats have become "too big to fail" by now - mp3, jpg, pdf - but i still store all my "absolutely can't lose" stuff in ascii text or printed on paper and stuffed in a drawer. fifty years from now what's going to be your great grandchildren's equivalent of finding a stack of old photos in the attic?

if the stock value went up because investors were relieved that they were getting out of the pc business, nobody would be complaining. if hp thinks this is a good strategic move (and it's worked out ok for ibm), why isn't this viewed as positive news?

when you can pinch whole dollars?

in fact, they're going to save me a few bucks when i cancel the dvd portion of the service since i haven't gotten a fresh dvd in six months. their streaming might not have everything i'd want to watch all the time, but they always have *something* i'd like to see. and that's good enough for me.

but only if i plan to eat it?