I'd rather work on 40 yr old treasures there than windows98-era clunkers that we STILL have lying around here.

/tumbleweeds

I think the OP should take his family to a restaurant, buy a beer, hand it to one of the kids to drink, and report the results here.

Well, yes, but the issue with that analogy is that just connecting to the internet doesn't make you "you". When I connect at home, I'm not browsing websites as my actual, or any, self; I will go identify (i.e. login) as "me" to Facebook, then llogout. Go next to Google+, then logout. Come to /. then logout.

Being on the internet now is to be a series of disconnected selves as you join and leave insular virtual universes. IMO that is inherently *anti*-social. I envision a decentralized social network as having a singular virtual self.

I'd dump it today if it wasn't for sports, can't get by without the Sox, Bruins, Celtics.

Bullshit. If you're going to do the intentional-typo kind of post, you do it with multiple and obvious words, not 1. This was a legitimate crow-eating moment.

A whatnow?

Like Xerox?

Like Photoshop?

I see people come in to the office all the time wanting to get their toys on the network. I tell them "come back with something that doesn't' have a picture of a piece of fruit on it".

I never would have gone for a sit-in-a-call-center position myself. My degree form one of those cozy New England liberal arts universities was a BA in Information Technology. Some programming, some networking, some MIS, and so on, a grab-bag. I do tech support for a public K-12 school system, and I think its kinda fun.

In the end, find something to do that you simply enjoy. All else will flow from there.

Employers want well-rounded individuals, not button-pushing, narrowly-focused sheep. Your resume will sink like a stone on any competent HR manager's desk.

I don't read comic books...oh, excuse me..."graphic novels"....and what I know of Green Lantern is just from the old Superfriends cartoons of the 70's/80's.

For what it was, a fluff early-summer action movie, it was entertaining. standard comic plot devices...outsider/loner with daddy issues, a girl that is also desired by the nerds soon-to-be-supervillian friend, etc...etc...aside. Kindof a weak fight at the end...flinging prlalax-whatever into the sun just didn't feel satisfying...but you don't go to summer movies expecting Oscar material.

but without the cool t-shirt?

Thankfully, the hired help doesn't fire the management.

Enjoy your 4D tv, kiddo.

Times like these I wish I was more active here and had the points to spend to send your post into troll/flamebait oblivion.

People like you are the embodiment of that "your laptop/phone/tv is already outdated" tv commercial.

We don't need to ditch perfectly working computers simply to be on the latest-and-greatest side of things. I have XP at home, I play some older games on it, some stuff from Steam, and stream Netflix. It does what I want it to do, and I'm quite certain many others would say the same. Why should people spend money that they don't need to, just to appease some twitchy teenager on the internet who does the "OMG OLD" shtick?