An article about teaching nerds social skills is posted to Slashdot and it takes less than an hour before there is discussion of a female from Star Trek ..and allusion to Enterprise being terrible. :)

I also like the signature pads Safeway has. Drawing curves or shouting "beer" is much quicker, and more entertaining, than picking up a pen and actually signing.

Neither that nor the phrases like "I'm a hacker." I use when logging into my credit union account have ever been noticed.

I'm not sure.. I don't know much about it either, I've just heard it's popular and see it used for scripts at work. Let us know which you end up going with.

Yeah, I looked at one of your posts right after I typed that.. doh.

I think this stuff is standard practice for a big organization in a powerful position. Yesterday I tried buying coffee beans from a small (2 location) coffee shop located in a mall. Apparently Starbucks had leased a spot elsewhere in the mall and negotiated a clause into their contract with the mall. The small shop could sell Starbucks beans or make coffee with their own beans, but was forbidden from selling their own beans.

I'm not sure why that situation doesn't qualify as anti-competitive, but controlling distribution options is a basic part of some businesses' plans.

C# with its ties to .NET stuff is very popular in some places too. If your goal is to become more desirable, then Python or C# are probably your best options. Just keep in mind Python sometimes goes with Java and of course C# with Windows, if either of those are concerns.

Aren't journals only shown to people on your fans list?

Oh, and of course this could be avoided by not counting movements less than 10-20ft towards vehicles' travel distance but that's more complex and less fun :)

Though the locations provided through GPS are accurate, they're not perfect. For a vehicle traveling at highway speeds the distance traveled between each reading is great, and inaccuracies are tiny in comparison. At lower speeds the ratio of the distances becomes closer. At a stop there will still be a slight location difference detected on each interval.

Somebody primarily traveling via city streets or during rush hour would be charged for tiny extra distances over time; considering Oregon's population the state will be scraping off a nice bonus from building reflections etc.

Well said! I have only been in the position to do this once, where I was tasked with designing a line graph within our product. I made the y value of the graph increase along the x axis: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8.
99% of our customers will see it as an example. The other 1% will think "Oh. These guys are nerds like me! Cool!" :)