Luckily Austin is sort of the oasis for liberals who live in Texas. While still being conservative it does have a higher (pun intended) ratio of liberals. At least that's how a friend from Texas once explained it to me.

2. The Occupy protests were jumping the shark and losing popular support as crime ramped up and local business suffered. How could crime have "ramped up" when there were so many cops standing around watching them? -------------------- Well there has been a surge in people getting beaten up pretty badly in the area with batons and attacks on people with the use of tasers and tear gas have gone up dramatically in the area. I'm guessing that's all the crime they speak of...

I'm sorry, and I don't mean to be a jerk, but sometimes I can't help it.. I had a programming instructor in college that used to _constantly_ say.... "If you only design your programs for the lowest common denominator (user) you end up with mediocrity."

Synergy!

Aren't earthquakes often referred to as "acts of god". So if they want to hold someone accountable, I mean the Vatican is like just down the road...

Now if Wikipedia built pyramids and housed their servers in there... now we're talking!

...waits for a new online award called the Ego-Stroker... wait isn't that the Webbys?

If anyone uses sites like Yelp much you quickly realize how to sift through the idiot reviews. The ones where the person gives 1 star to a dentist and then complains about going back to work the next day after having their wisdom teeth removed and getting dry sockets while carrying 100lb bundles of shingles to a roof on a construction project. I've seen reviews where people rail against a coffee shop talking about their horrible service and disgusting coffee, but the whole complaint centers around another customer either being rude or unthoughtful like talking loudly on their cell phone or using a six top table by themselves in a packed coffee shop and not letting anyone have a seat. There are plenty of people who have no idea how to review a place without getting all emotional about it. Still, it seems like a web savvy shop would be able to address the few bad reviews they get, of course if all they get is bad reviews then maybe there is a bigger problem then Yelp they should focus on.

What I wouldn't give to be working in a shop that uses Linux. I'm stuck in an office where they only use MS Windows products, and you're not allowed to install anything onto the machines that isn't on a list of "accepted programs". Want to add a desktop/workspace manager for multiple workspaces first you have to write up a "proposal" explaining why it's needed and submit it the desktop software vetting group. Problem is most of the people are just upper or middle managers that don't really know much about computers and software so pretty much everything gets vetoed especially free/opensource solutions. Oh and to get that "NO" response expect it to take 6 to 9 months for them. Really need to find a new job before this one collapses inward on itself. Shouldn't be working for a company that has no agility when it comes to changing markets and has people with little to no understanding of software making the software purchasing choices. It's a recipe for disaster, hopefully I can jump ship before that day comes.

Hah! That's pretty much what i was going to say. I have two 4:3 screens at work one is 1600x1200 that I do most my work on and the other 1280x1024 that I keep documentation and guides on and a couple smaller windows that monitor network and server status, also the 2nd screen is what I use when I'm using RDP or LANDesk windows maximized. At home I have two 16:10 22" widescreens that are 1680x1050, I keep my main monitor nearly centered in front of me, the second monitor is rotated 90 degrees and usually has the guide/documentation I need for the project. Yes, I can work on one screen but it really isn't as efficient when my documentation is in PDF or some digital format. Alt tabbing doesn't work that well since I'm usually juggling multiple programs so I usually cascade my windows so i can see the corners of all of them and lose 10% in screen realestate to have them all tiled and accessible. I have a decent dual core netbook (ASUS 1205PN) that I use when travelling it works well enough, but not nearly as "work productive" as sitting at my desktop with the two windows. ...also on my home machines with the widescreens running Windows 7 I put my task bar on the left side of my screen vertically. I too want every bit of screen height i can get, and with widescreen monitors I'm usually more concerned with vertical height as I almost always have plenty of "width" on my widescreen.