I read the headline + first part of the article summary. I thought some fan of Topher's had some how edited him into the movies. I was hoping for Darth Vader calling him a dumbass and then using the Force to make him stick his own foot up his ass.

How will it teach them? The money isn't coming out their pockets. Its the equivalent of getting a parking ticket and paying for it by shaking down the neighbors, putting the money in your checking account, and then happily paying the fine.

North GA mountains. Went up there for an anniversary trip because there was no cell phone service and I could get away from the office.

Dumbest move ever, work wise. Machines got powercycled repeatedly to fix "problems".

I'm on SS disability, you insensitive clod! And two lines of AT&T iPhone service. And 25mbit DSL service. And I can eat too!

It's a divorce. By definition someone is going to be a vindictive twat. Every divorce I've seen has been a race to see which party can be the bigger baby.

I spent years believing I was allergic to bananas because one time when I was really young I supposedly ate one and then got the shits. So therefore it was the bananas and my mother beat that into my skull.

Now I realize what a psycho my mother is and how much of my childhood illness was either because of Münchhausen's or just because she was a pathological liar. Or the fact that both my parents smoked like chimneys in the house.

And then they get all get there and find out some jackass in a blinged out Ford Excessive has parked diagonally across two spaces.

I used PGP to sign my emails. I stopped because too many people were pissing and whining about "all the extra crap" in my emails and they didn't know what it was for and dammit will you just stop it you're confusing my little brain. Granted, that was a couple of years ago so I don't know if mail clients have gotten smarter about presenting the messages without the PGP signing info (but you can damn well guarantee they know how to render HTML in the client).

Meh. Nothing beats Jeff Wayne's musical version. Richard Burton *is* the Journalist as far as I'm concerned and the invasion cannot happen without Justin Hayward doing the vocals.

We've bought everything on the PS3 these days. Last thing we bought on the Wii was LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean several months ago. Now it just sits there and does nothing. I even Homebrew'd it to make it useful for something and that was a fucking joke. The homebrew channel apps look like they were written by a 6th grade computer literacy student and MAME couldn't run anything more than Space Invaders without frameskipping and losing audio sync. We considered selling it to Gamestop in trade for Skyrim or Portal 2, but a full system with 4 Wiimotes, 4 Classics, and 4 Nunchucks nets you about $25 store credit (yes, I know Gamestop sucks, but its tons better than trying to fuck around with Craigslist or a pawnshop).