I will call it Solar Sail [input name of first girlfriend].

Solar Sail Titanic!

Sorry, I misread that you were in an audiophile.

You are lacking a lot of information. We cannot tell you anything until you provide at least your focus in "techie". What's your niche??

It probably has nothing to do with your age or your lack of education. The best software and developers don't have a collage degree; even the billionaires.

Experience *always* wins over education, so I really don't know what your problem is. Maybe you don't have enough practical, proven experience in delivering real solutions. The agism is hyped here on /.; the real issue is change and knowing how to market yourself. Neck beards get bitter; old people get bitter. Many of them are talented but don't know how to deliver or present themselves.

Among your abilities, I would cite demonstrated experiences that you have had that have contributed to your character: management, yada-yada. Showing management in past experiences in irrelevant jobs says a lot. You know, the stuff that you get with age. Don't get hung up on it, truncate it.

About recruiters.... They need to be treated as they are. It's okay to be condescending to them. If you're networking, none of it matters. They harass me every day. Sometimes I just respond with "LOL". If you're a boss, act like a boss. That's not to say you become egotistical, but understand most of these recruiters are the young folk too. They're early-to-mid 20 somethings who are vain, no skills, barely passed college, whatever. A lot of them are girls with a moderately pretty face; real psycho bitches if you dated them. The guys are flunky frat boys.

Oh, yeah, you might want to set up a LinkedIn account. Recruiters there are basically having an orgy. Job propositions will just jizz all over you.

My advice is to be clear about your working experience and your depth of knowledge; honest, so to speak. All "audiophiles", music engineers, and even famous producers that I have known never went to college.

Maybe you are in the wrong location? It sounds like you need to hustle and network.

You're still thinking that we will be around to do so. This mentality is dangerous.

From your knowledge, can you explain how?

Ad hominem == incompetence.

I will lift up my leg and fart; dismissal. According to your soft science, I am the smartest man alive. I am smarter than your dear Hawkings

Do you dare challenge me on something I care about! I poke you, little man. With a stick. Like roadkill. Speak you insolent bastard! You rotten flesh!

Do you have an intelligent response? Anything to contribute? I would welcome it.

Omission of a word is often accidental and can be caused by spellcheck.

Obviously, you took offense. That says more than I am to spend my time explaining.

Ain't that sad? At some point, I'd figure people would stop wasting their energy. That's the stuff meant for adolescents who are yet to define themselves.

I also got marked troll. ;) What does that say?

From my personal account, they don't carry literature. Very few classics do they actually carry. I am talking about simply finding Henry Miller's "Black Spring" or Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio." Most ain't got 'em.

The best book store I found was in Portland. It was run by an elderly couple below their home. They had hardback covers, decades old, from authors you would only dream to find. They had copies not even the New York Public Library obtains. I found first editions of Hudson's "Green Mansions", John Cowper Powys's "Autobiography", and several other small finds.

Compare that to an Anderson book in San Francisco; they wanted $2000 for it.

More than 2/3rds of Americans are obese. Only in compact urban settings do people actually walk (e.g. San Francisco, New York.) Americans also use to read, but no longer. Hell, in the U.S. it is possible to attain a literary-based PhD without having fucking read literature.

Consider all these factors, books won't make money. I went to the NYPL, one of the greatest books among their library had only been checked out twice in two years.

No reads anymore. /. is no different. /. loves to revere minor writers like Rand, Orwell, whatever. It says a lot...

Americans are detached to the definition of words, their meanings, and even to their native tongue. Calling Snowden a "hero" is a bit too much. He is, however, a *patriot.*

But I guess these days you can be a patriot for gorging yourself to the point of obesity, buying support ribbons, shuttering yourself off to your community, and screaming at your television nightly. You know, a loser is a patriot these days so I guess the bar needs to raised higher. You may as well just call him "God".

AP is bias and WSJ is better? Wow, you have fucking lost it. The only reason WSJ and FoxNews are deemed as news *is because of AP*. Their reporting comes from AP, the rest is biased editorials.