They will think you're from Jersey Shores.

Zodiac.

It's not Microsoft.

We have this coming up in a few months after a very large and old French company bought our little aerospace company. If you were part of the IT transition team, please mail me so we can hear your horror stories.

I have a parrot, you insane bastard! Are you trying to blow up my house?

I live in the Seattle area so HA!

Exactly. If you want to be that anal about the product you should look for a job in aerospace. You'll fit right in.

Us old-timers still sometimes call it a Centronics port.

I had to recover a file from one just the other week. First had to find a computer that actually had a printer port. Then I had to hold the ZipDisk just at the right angle for it to read.

And the kid gets to brag that he was born in the cloud.

I can now see some wacko religious cult leaders ordering up kids by the hundreds to generate more followers, all with the same DNA.

Where does it say that Wheeler worked for Cable & Wireless? Gotta watch those titles.

And what if we tied all those trailers and had a few really big trucks drive them, maybe on steel rails for less drag. That way two guys could take over a hundred trailers across the country by themselves.

Actually a WA judge is ordering the state legislature to come up with the money for schools because, per the state constitution:

SECTION 1 PREAMBLE. It is the paramount duty of the state to make ample provision for the education of all children residing within its borders, without distinction or preference on account of race, color, caste, or sex.

SECTION 2 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. The legislature shall provide for a general and uniform system of public schools. The public school system shall include common schools, and such high schools, normal schools, and technical schools as may hereafter be established. But the entire revenue derived from the common school fund and the state tax for common schools shall be exclusively applied to the support of the common schools.

I don't have FB, can you mail me a copy?

I grew up in Yakima (The Palm Springs of Washington) and when asking certain friends where their dad worked they would answer "the ball bearing plant north of Selah."

We all knew NOT to ask further.

Love those huge ass dishes pointed directly west. Anyone with a knowledge of RF and geography knew exactly what was up. I wonder how they felt when they punched I-82 through to bypass the canyon.