Add Verizon DSL in Manhattan, NY:

http://n3.netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/summary/id=ae81b058-20468-26aad796-356d-4fce-806b

I was using my own nameservers before, but I'd recently swapped out my older Linksys BEFSR81 (which was becoming flaky) to an E2100L.
Its DHCP server was using Verizon-supplied nameservers by default. Fixed that, thank you ICSI team.

You're right that most mass-market paperback books won't last that long, at least not without significant yellowing and deterioration. However, any trade edition paperback or hardcover book ought to be made from acid-free paper, which is supposed to be good for hundreds of years if kept in reasonable archival storage conditions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid-free_paperwikipedia link

This is true, although it's more because a lot of cheap paper around nowadays is made by recycling, which means using bleaches and acids to remove the old print. (But recycled paper is more often used for newspapers and napkins than for books....)

Back in time, they tended to use natural fibers like Egyptian papyrus or cotton, rather than wood pulp, which tend to last longer than paper made from wood pulp.

There are several extensions to the USB spec, among them is the "Battery Charging Convention":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus#Power
http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/batt_charging_1_1.zip [zip'ed PDF]

If you force Vsync on the display preferences, you'll prevent the game from trying to render faster than 60Hz.

Depending on the game, it might only recompute physics, check for collisions, etc at the same rate it renders frames-- which means that if your hardware is capable of going faster, you might get slightly more realistic behavior if it goes faster than your monitor refresh rate. On the other hand, if your system is chugging, you might find shots passing through their targets.

Other games keep rendering and gameworld physics stuff separated, and do world physics updates at some rate like 100Hz regardless of the display framerate.

While the occasional woman likes a geek, us rarer gay geeks tend to not catch the eye of our mostly trendy shallow ilk. While I think my "I failed the turing test" shirt is witty and looks good on me, I'm immediately IDed as straight or laughable in a bar. My appearance is not sub par either. Maybe I should petition AE to start making apparel for my kind.

You mean like octarine?

Adobe is about 28 this year. It's Photoshop that is 20.

Geeky personality, check. Facial hair, check. Chest hair, check. Gray hair, check. Glasses, check. Soft and cuddly, big time. Not overly concerned with appearances, check. Doesn't watch weight, yep. Passionate sports fan, GO PACKERS. Cries at sappy films? More often than not. Reads a lot, check. A few flaws? Define "few".

According to this, in London, I'd be a total superconducting babe magnet!

(Thankfully, my blushing bride gives me many reasons to not test that theory out.)

You already can see it with just the standard-issue eyeballs.

I think I would just start using the phrases they claim to "own" much more often. Maybe even in court, if it makes it that far, ending everything with one of their phrases.