At the bar where I worked when Suzie B's first came out we chucked them under the cash drawer becaues there was not a slot for them. This worked well until one day when the bar owner confused them with quarters and stocked the cash drawers with them. She gave them out in change as quarters all day before one of the night bartenders told her what she was doing (she asked him why we kept putting quarters under the drawer). She never made that mistake again, but we kept chucking them under the drawer.

Here in Wisconsin, they tried that. The hunters were up in arms because what happens when you see the huge buck and have not shot a doe yet? There are plenty of hunters who will shoot does, but don't want to have to pass up that once-in-a-lifetime huge buck.

Or at least one of his demons. I got to implement time zones in an embedded system a few years ago (think really low end -- it doesn't even have an OS). The time zones weren't too bad -- and they don't change all the time like DST does. Now we get to update the firmware everytime some government somewhere decides that DST should shift to a new start or end day.

Plenty of software folks who make over 80K in Wisconsin. IT directors and CEO's make way more than that. I live near West Bend. My commute takes me 20 minutes in the winter. You've a twisted image of Wisconsin -- makes me wonder if you have ever even lived near here.

And when there are three options?

...in three months. I've been developing software for over 25 years now. My manager is the only person near my age in my group of seven developers (not sure if she is younger or older). Everyone else is around thirty or even younger. We're mostly using C# with .Net 4.0 right now and have just started looking at .Net 4.5. (We're held back a bit by software we have to be compatible with.) It's still interesting to me. Forty is too old?! You young whippersnapper! You're just hitting your mid-life crisis! Go out and buy a little red sports car and get it over with! Oh, yeah -- GET OFF OF MY LAWN!!!

All electric sources of heat (baseboard, portable heater, light bulbs, etc.) are 100% efficient. Every watt of energy that goes into them is transformed to heat without any losses at all.

And it is the same approach a young United States took towards the Barbary Pirates -- spending up to 20% of the country's annual budget on tribute and ransom.

I guess you don't live near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where I've seen Democratic politicians proudly announce that they are really Socialists -- and win.

Ether: how can there be waves unless something is waving?
Four Elements: earth, wind, water and fire
Atoms: little individual elements that cannot be subdivided or changed
Electrons, Protons and Neutrons: little individual elements that cannot be subdivided or changed
Quarks: little individual elements that cannot be subdivided or changed?


Hmmmm... I see a trend here.