My 2006 Black MacBook ran for eight years until the CPU fan gave out. I didn't bother to get it repaired at the Apple Store. Although Snow Leopard OS X ran perfectly fan, updates to existing software no longer supported the 32-bit CPU. Better to save up for new hardware to run the latest and greatest.

A Yellowstone supereruption would wipe out two-thirds of the northern hemisphere. If that have gone off, ashy rain would be the least of our problems.

I'm American. My French isn't that great. :P

I thought that was moonshine liberating me.

After a 30 year celebration on Endor to celebrate the end of the Empire, Han Solo got stuck with the beer bill for all those drunken Ewoks.

That's no moon. It's some kid's damn RC toy.

Dear Santa,

We need someone who has five years of experience in a new technology that came out six months ago. We can only pay in milk and cookies. Please send ASAP!

Love,

HR Dept.

I've been hearing that for decades as a construction worker, warehouse worker, spaghetti cook, virtual world tester, video game tester, help desk/desktop support technician, data center technician, PC refresh technician, and, currently, security remediation technician. None of my jobs were ever replaced by automation.

Does machine learning overcome the HR requirement to have five years of experience in a technology that just came out six months ago?

Taxes are at an 80 year low. No need to surrender the honey jar as well.

"Changes?! We don't need no stinkin' changes!"

Why not? Building out a data center is mostly unboxing equipment, following diagrams, placing equipment into the racks, screwing everything down, running cables and port mapping.

KGO-Radio (810AM San Francisco) had an afternoon talk show host in the 1980's who declared war on the word, "basically," because people were abusing it all the time. After a while, he basically gave up.

Not just a data center, but a command center. A huge difference!

Renewable energy doesn't require engineering?