Pay no attention to the Google street view vehicle that captured your dong. Or at least, some dong. To be fair though, there are probably a lot of dongs on that street.

I spent the morning taking a ride in a hot air balloon. That's a unique perspective on the sky, even if you fly in airplanes a lot. Highly recommend it. I've been skydiving the past couple years but think I want to hang out in the sky longer. Might have to take up paragliding or one of the other gliding spots. I don't suppose I'd find much there, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be fun to explore. In '15 or '16 I want to go wingsuit flying over Hawaii from one of their dropzones.

Like that scene from The Fifth Element? I'd post a link but I find it amusing that if you search youtube for "That scene from the 5th element", it's the second link.

Oh that's an easy problem to solve -- you just require the user to store their key in a keystore that makes sure you could get at it if you ever want to decrypt their E-Mail. The vast majority of the users would never realize that completely eliminates the security they were looking for when they decided to use encryption in the first place. If you really need an excuse (which you don't,) you could make a nice shiny feature like the ability to decrypt your mail from any machine on the internet.

Funnily enough, I got the following story about a pilot once; a fairly new skydiver found himself in the unusual position of being the last one off the plane, so he asked the pilot if he wanted him to close the door on his way out. The door's usually a sliding affair and difficult to close from the outside. The pilot explained that this wasn't necessary because after the last skydiver left the plane he'd light his cigar, trim the controls and walk back to close the door himself. Of course, you can actually do that in a plane -- it's not like you're likely to hit anything at 13000 feet.

Indeed! That's why my suggestion was that instead of airbags we have sharp deadly AIRSPIKES! If you're in an accident, the airsplke stabs you in the face! I'll bet you'll pay some serious attention driving, THEN! If not now, then in a couple of generations once the people who don't pay enough attention to avoid getting an airspike in the face have weeded themselves out of the gene pool!

Well the math doesn't seem to care how many dimensions you have. If you need another dimension, just add another one!

Looking for a job where I can get away with expensing this.

If only we had some stem cells, we might have saved him!

If you've never stayed there, you can post a bad review for free? Because I have a special review I've been saving for years for just such an occasion!

Your servers are already pwned.

I'm glad the men in charge of ending the world have such unflinching ethical standards.

Just use the Google public DNS. Also, Windows 7 can have intermittent DNS issues like that when waking up from hibernation. It can ping fine by IP, just not domain name. So if the problem keeps happening after you switch to Google, that's probably why. From poking around on the Internet, Microsoft's answer to that seems to be "Try another network card." Mine is, "The problem doesn't happen with Linux."

I hadn't thought of it in those terms, but... yeah. Until the people who want to live their lives without having to worry about exploding on a daily basis stand up and fuck some assholes, the situation is going to remain the same in that area of the world.

This one seems to be caused by a tiny percentage of assholes on both sides. Peace will never be in the assholes' best interest as it will reduce the amount of control the assholes have over their populations. Dozens of times during my lifetime peace has been within reach, only to be shattered by some asshole on one side or the other. Until such time as leaders arise on both sides who are interested and committed to a peaceful solution, this situation will not change.