It's a sad occasion, he brought many shows to light that shaped my childhood.

I have something like that on my classic NZXT Guardian computer case. It looks a bit like Optimus Prime and has a blue led "scanner" that cycles through a few lighting patterns, one of which is heavily Larson-influenced.

I thought Katie was great. Sure, it seemed wrong at first to have such a change, but it left me with this joke:

"Baltar and Starbuck going at it? That wouldn't have flown in the original show!"

I thought it was the greatest thing—saw it at a friend's house who had rigged his stereo to his TV (long before that became a feature,) so I got to watch it in high-quality mono. It looks really cheesy to me now, but I was ten years old at the time.

I've frequently had bosses that wrote cringeworthy notes, the latest being a reminder to turn the clocks back for...

"Daylight Saving's Time."

Ugh. No "saving" some people.

For FAT-32, it was worth it.

The 800XL and other post-Tramiel models were very different from the classic 800. It was a tank, but the keyboard eventually died on mine. Unfortunately, those were hard to replace then and probably near-impossible to find now. At least with all the mods I did on mine (GTIA graphics chip, Omnimon, a keyboard speaker-silencing switch, and green power LEDs) I was very good at disassembly/reassembly. The shielding in there is pretty extensive, and the plastic was pretty thick too.

Of course it's great: some friends of mine run a band here in Portland, Oregon called Tanagra!

While the higher frequency transmissions of cellphones appear to carry no serious health risks, the number of emergency room visits from movie theater texters will surely continue to rise!

I get more of a laugh by telling my coworkers to quit messing with the browser history at work (and making it obvious to the bosses by leaving IE's star menu on the history tab) by hitting, "Control-Shift-P for Privacy!"

Or he'll encounter my crowd and decide to become a death metal musician, heh heh.

Heh heh, yeah, I remember those shows. I called on one of the Mel's Hole shows when the subject of an official Mel's Hole drink came up. I suggested it should be served with chili because "dead cows must be involved."

I miss the old show with Art too. These days, I just check it out from time to time and usually switch back to my mp3 player at work. My original comment was about the fact that many of the news stories at the beginning of the show seem to come from here.

The shows where Art interviewed George Carlin and Willie Nelson are classics too.

Nah, it's old news when it's read on Coast to Coast AM. :-D

I thought our heavy elements came mostly from the short-lived first generation of hypergiant hydrogen stars going supernova. If this theory is true, then are we lucky to have so much on this planet? I think about all the lead here, much of which is the end product of nuclear decay over billions of years from radioactive elements that must have been more abundant at some point.

I also wonder if our protoplanetary disc acted like a gold pan during the formation of the solar system, so Mercury might have lots of heavy elements as well as Venus (talk about hard to mine!)

Maybe our solar system would be attractive to extraterrestrial miners after all.

Interesting article—makes me think of four things:

1) The Harold and Maude movie: she invented a method of smell playback.
2) Scratch and Sniff technology (microencapsulation) may reach a whole new level.
3) Are there "primary smells" like primary colors? If so, imagine people creating new smells and posting the formulas online. I imagine engineered tastes would be possible too, as it's a closely related sense.
4) Imagine if High Times starts using that technology...