Considering the number of posts you have on /. I think it's safe to say you might be able to re-allocate some activities to squeeze in a book or two a year. ;)

Hilariously, I'm in the UAE at the moment and wanted to call my Dad (who is in the states) from my Skype account to his cell phone. Unfortunately, the UAE blocks Skype -> phone (oddly Skype -> Skype works fine) calls so I just used logmein to connect to a XP box I have in the states, flip on the VPN setting, forward the ports on the router and then connect to it from my win7 box here in the UAE thus mading the call with no troubles. Took 5 minutes total, and I had never once made a VPN before...so if they are trying to stop terrorist activity or whatever they are going to need to try harder.

So, A few years ago I went and saw Jack Schmitt ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Schmitt )give a presentation. When he was setting up, he hooked his personal laptop to a projector and fired it up, when it booted we saw this: http://www.adventure-today.com/pix/1170376382.jpeg It's a damn mystery we ever made it to the moon, that's for certain.

I'd love to, but I've got a great business opportunity in Paris. I'll be staying at the Eiffel Towers.

Chances are if he saw anything of Sputnik 1 (assuming 1 is what he was referencing) at all it was the second stage of it's booster, not the satellite itself.

I gnash my teeth while asleep.

Seriously go get an occlusal guard. I went for a long time without one due to not having insurance/not having spare cash, and now due to the grinding I have a tooth that was fractured above the gumline that became infected. They had to slice a flap in my gums to get to the damaged region, then because the damage was so progressed it required a root canal which was the worst experience of my life due to the tooth being "hot" (read: It was numbed properly but I could still feel all the work being done). All this even after I meticulously care for my teeth on a twice-a-day regiment. It's frustrating.

Are you nuts? The person who buys a PS3 as only a Bluray player is NOT who they want to buy it, as Sony will never make back the money they lost selling the unit to them as that consumer will never buy any additional items for it outside of the PS3 DvD/Bluray controller for it. That said, I have a Ps3 and I like it a lot.