What's an adding machine?

There is crazy shit all over that desert! What is interesting is that the canals to the north look like they pull water out of nowhere. It almost looks like the water table is very shallow there, just dig a deep trench and it will channel water.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.441134,+90.828180&hl=en&ll=40.444596,90.843372&spn=0.127374,0.264187&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=66.320747,135.263672&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=13

Are these the ponds of algae I read about yesterday, designed to feed Chicken Little?

Or he could grow up and get a different job.

I suspect you are one of those people who will always think that your boss is a manipulative jerk. Either change your attitude or get a new job. They are not the problem. You are.

Windows has a kernel?

I've heard goats destroy the roots. Better to go with sheep.

Why are we still growing grass that needs to be cut?

And my comment made no mention of the Osage.

What makes these tall grass prairie reserves so special is that they are one of a few places in the plains where you can look across a piece of land and see what it looked like before we completely transformed everything. I personally don't think that windmills are ugly at all an I'm all for it in the midwest. But if you place a windmill farm within sight of the prarie, this feeling of it being untouched will be lost.

A town of 10,000 people is not tiny.

Tell me what to do and I'll do it. Don't scope out 2 weeks worth of work for each member of the team, knowing that since all tasks take longer than expected, each member either has to work 50 to 60 hours a week, or come up with an excuse why the work didn't get done. No change to existing code is trivial. There are always surprises. You end up with 10 people in every meeting justifying why their work took longer than expected. That's causes stress and lowers morale.

Nowhere in the article does it say that Google is against software patents. I only see them pushing for patent reform.

It's not odd. Its brilliant. How else would someone who owned a small share of a company (that's an assumption) get elected to the board?

Note necessarily. This just suggests that Microsoft must have had some bugs in their code. I'm not surprised.

OMG, what are we going to do with all that copper!?