First Culture? Yeah celebrate the Neolithic... me man... you women... we mate

"Scientists Find Long-Sought Majorana Particle" and they had all raided the vending machines down the hall and where found in their lab coats sitting cross legged in a circle each in turn sharing there own far-out theories of reality... "hey man don't Bogart that marjorana particle pass in on man".

Yeah I also received these calls... for puppies. I kid you not we had a litter of Boston Terrier puppies for sale in the local paper and they would call through an interpreter wanting to buy the whole litter to be sent to somewhere in Texas to an alleged Petroleum Engineer. After a few calls I smelled something fishy and told them to take a hike... only to receive another hearing- and speech-impaired call with a different story a day later.

Well now you have an excellent subject (as per the OP) to write about for this month blog entry.

CB radios died out because there was nothing to talk or comment about. I don't think you can compare the two.

I understand this completely. There is some cycle that kicks in around 11 PM and I am at my most alert state of the entire day - I call it my second wind. You might consider becoming a contractor or freelancing where you can set your own schedule.

BTW I have found backing away from a lighted computer screen around 9:30 and reading for an hour that i have a better chance of getting back on schedule.

The economy expands via the generation of new wealth not by doing things in the most inefficient in manner. The completion of the canal, if a worthy project, would have facilitated increased efficiency thereby generated more jobs and more wealth to spread around.

Nice thanks for that.

If they are going to include the frick'n writers of the virus that rooted one of my XP machines last week-end resulting in a wasted sunny September day restoring the system - I AM ALL FOR IT! - Throw the bastards away and keep them out of circulation.

In fact, if you consider the cumulative "loss of life" of thousands of people repairing virus intrusions I would think that capital punishment is not out of line.

Super or not if they are idle give them the boot... It sends a message to the rest of the computers that they may be next.