Actually, when I read this I had the same thought, only it was about the Commodore VIC20 I originally learned to write code on.

Several years ago, I was in a meeting about some building modifications at an Air Force Base that my squadron was relocating to. The base Civil Engineer asked if we would like thermostats on the walls, and my response was "Sure, it will be nice to adjust the temperatures in the offices." He looked at me and started laughing, and then with a straight face told me that most thermostats in government office buildings were for show only, and the real controls were in an obscure closet somewhere.

Adam Savage said it best when he said, "That's just wrongedy wrong!"

Well, in my case I chose 2-5 because I counted by 20 years in the Air Force as one, even though I was stationed at 4 different bases in my career. If I counted each one separately, then it would be 6-10.

Actually, I typically use my iPhone for eBook reading when I'm on airplanes. I can't ("technically", I know) check email or surf the net, so that temptation isn't there.

History has shown that the human leg is an often untapped behemoth of energy, having in the past powered generators, submarines and, of course, deep space hair dryers aboard Red Dwarf.

Next thing you know they'll be reporting that Lister has been hired to peddle the thing around London. They tried to hire Cat but he was afraid being outside in the summer heat and humidity would ruin his fantastically perfect hairdo.

Wow, someone had better tell Kellie Pickler and Carrie Underwood that they haven't "made it" yet. Hmmm... I'll bet they think having #1 songs and headlining tours actually means something.

The left bookshelf has 25 years worth of programming books (Ada, C, Pascal), while the center one has a 10 year collection of SysAdmin books. The bookshelf on the right has my growing collection of Amateur Radio texts.

I agree. I entered the U.S. Air Force 30 days after High School graduation and "earned while I learned" for the next 20 years. I was officially a computer programmer my whole career, but back in the 80's and 90's that meant being part programmer and part sys admin. When I retired in 2003 I took my experience and found a very nice contractor job paying more that double my military pay as a UNIX admin. When that ended I already had my current job lined up as a programmer/administrator for a major government contractor. No degree, but now with 25+ years experience I don't need it. Should I have gone to college? Maybe, but it really wasn't for me. I hated going to school and would have probably failed miserably. The irony of it all is that my last 10 years in the Air Force I was an instructor teaching others to be programmers and UNIX admins. Do you need to do 20 years in the military? No. Even a four-year stint will get you experience that college just can't match up to.

The fact that the military has had containers hosting communications, power production and AC equipment for decades. All of them transportable by air, land or sea. I worked in just such a box in Saudi Arabia in 1986, and that thing was probably 20 years old then.

But of course all these companies are the great innovators. Didn't MS invent them internets for us?