It's epic scenery to look at yourself living in the day of 386, before Windows 3.1 and 8 MB RAM/128 MB HDD, and to know that your shot at survival, today, depends on knowing Win7Pro, Win Server 2008, 4G iPhone, ShoreTel VOiP, IPv6, Exchange 2010, Office 2010. i5. 4GB/500GB HDD.
An MTv video should show some ECU of some girl's eye crying, then pan out to show what that eye looks like in five, 10, 15, 20 years.
Some age better than others, but age and time happen to us all. If we don't see it, whose fault is it?
When I was young, I knew I'd never be in this position. Yet here I am, and as fortunate, or more so, than I've ever been.

Marriage is like a TV show.
1) No TV show is lifetime (including, hopefully, that "Lifetime Channel"): The Tonight Show, Law and Order, and South Park will someday end
2) The best outcome is having reruns that play into perpetuity: The Twilight Zone. Star Trek. Possibly one day, South Park.
3) The more common outcome is in finding out what you taped is not worth upconverting: Whale Wars, Meerkat Manor, Nip/Tuck, the X-Files, Three's Company, One Day at a Time, Captain Kangaroo.
OK, Captain Kangaroo was before VHS/Beta.

Why do people feel the need to inflict pre-recorded bass noise all over the neighborhood for several hours, in 2010?
Is it like, "Look Mommy and Daddy! I have a boom box now!"

I

Hi,
I've been a happy customer of (company) since approximately 2004, when I bought a (make) (model) scanner-printer-copier.
In early 2010, I acquired the replacement.
I am shocked at the intrusiveness at which (company's) software exhorts customers to buy ink or renders their printers useless. Right now, the printer has stopped recognizing the black cartridge and offers to print on the color one. Then it goes through a calibration loop that never completes.
I'm working on a new installation and was counting on the printer to print the product keys and proof of purchases as (my old printer) would have done. It has not.
The bottom line: If this printer needed hundreds of dollars of genuine (company) cartridges on demand to function, clear and prominent customer disclosure should have been mandated prior to purchase.
What I would like by tomorrow is instruction on how to make your printer print what it says it will print instead of wasting ink on endless alignment loops or trying to redirect me to your proprietary ink-supply site.
I would like to remain a satisfied *company) customer. But right now, I could not even give this printer, less than a year old, to any good cause with good conscience. I'd dump it and register my complaints with FTC. I hope this does not have to happen, and hope very much to hear from you by tomorrow, 8/9/10, and that we then move to resolve the issue.

There.
That's my letter.
I'm open to suggestions about alternative all-in-ones. I refill the DIY way.
I wasn't talking about HP in the letter, just to be clear.

The cassette tape is great.
No devices saving to weird formats you then have to convert.
No devices phoning home.
If your car predates 2005, you can play the cassette in your car.
And if my car happens to lose it somewhere on the i-80, the evidence of my sucky music taste will have melted away.

Tonight on Whale Wars on Animal Planet, the Sea Shepherds' $5 million BatBoat gets cut in half by a Japanese whaling vessel.
Regardless of suck edit: The whalers were in the right by terms of maritime law and common sense. If you're the littler boat, you get out of the way.
Yall who paid Fat Admiral $1,000 apiece for the "honor" (as Pubestache said) of "serving" (yep): It's so clear you feel so GOOD about yourselves in your Sea Shep Patagonia gear. It's like a cruise just for Prius owners with 4G iPhones, and you get to be on TV, too, "at least doing something."
Yes, as in 1) using chemicals last known in abortion clinic attacks and getting the politically correct to agree it's just rancid butter. What a change to believe in!; and 2) using prop foulers on your opponents in the Antarctic Ocean. Human opponents. If you really did disable their ship, it'd be just fine to leave them there? Because they kill the rock pigeons of the whale community?
Well, it is entertaining to watch you collectively fail. That scene where the Affluent Girl goes on about a "minke whale. a little little whale" and starts crying?
Hilarious.

Dear Soon-To-Be-Ex,
As fast as I know you would like to be divorced, I cannot move the mediative process along faster or better than it already is.
(Person A) is unavailable until next month. It's not like I picked it to be that way.
I have a permanent job with benefits starting next month where I've been working with neither. It's a relief to know I won't depend on yours.
Further, I have nine units of CSIT courses starting next month.
You don't get it. You're just another brat who thinks we just wave this magic IT wand and all your computer problems go away.
Do you even know what Windows 7 is?

WHAT?
(Federal Prosecutor Pamela) Satterfield said the reason there was no sound being heard in the original file played for the jury was because the laptop in the courtroom âoehad a jack in the wrong hole.â
More at http://www.xbiz.com/news/news_piece.php?id=122841&mi=all&q=Stagliano
Our change dollars have gone for this. ssdd.

Belladonna is a porn actress. She came into mainstream fame in January 2003, when Katie Couric interviewed this "nice Mormon girl from Utah" and how she came to be doing the scenes she was doing in Chatsworth. The network that aired this also ensured that the words "double anal" would be heard over broadcast TV on PrimeTimeLive less than two years later., when Belladonna was depicted signing a baseball bat.
The above may be relevant for the reasons below:
In January 2008, an FBI agent took it upon himself to view the latest trailer in Belladonna's Fetish Fanatic series. Belladonna produced this series. The guy who financed her production was then indicted by the federal government. The anointing of President Change Be Upon Us nonwithstanding, pornographer John Stagliano went on trial.
Now for the really funny part:
The porn that a federal employee not in the SEC got paid to surf...crashed.
As a result, there is not a suitable copy of "Fetish Fanatic 5" trailer for jurors to view.
As a result, said trailer may be thrown out.
Source: xbiz.com.
When it comes to subject matter expertise, subject matter experts who can write are worth a dozen LATimes writers who know nothing about said subject.

I believe in jury nullification, but what is more typical are jurors that want to go along with the fastest way to go home.
Nullification usually isn't it.
But I should add this to why I would not be a good juror right now.
That, and the day you're commanding that I be over there is the first day of my promotion, which I found out this afternoon.
I need a deferment to avoid being found in contempt.

Dear City,
I obviously showed up to juror call at [Courthouse]. As you can tell in your
interrogation, I obviously speak English.
However, I do not believe I would be a good juror for you today.

        * First, I am getting divorced through this courthouse soon. So it is a distinct displeasure to be here.

        * Second, I am here when I am supposed to be at work in the next county over. Just because you made me be here does not mean I get paid.

        * Third, I would not be fair against anything I perceived in the interests
            of this city, as I do not believe this city can be fair unless something slips by it.
  I don't trust this city to save me
            from a heart attack. If I do have one, I hope it is at work.

Your Honor, please just let me just go back to work. OK?

These are times when government cheese looks pretty good if they're handing it out for free. The five-dozen eggs at Ghetto Safeway cost $6, The sign next to them says something like "si puede con WIC."
You went to the best high school, undergrad, Ivy League grad. No drug/alcohol addictions, etc. Yet here you are, your divorce underway, your original industry evaporated, your life redirected at 45, contemplating how all those eggs can get eaten before they go bad. It seems like a bad deal even on WIC.
I don't have a bunch of bambinos, and the idea that the state would help a middle-age, non-English barriered citizen is somewhat amusing.
At times like this, to survive isn't courageous. It's just instinctual. Watch cattle go into the slaughterhouse. Watch dogs and cats be taken to euthanasia. Many figure it out, and they don't want to go. All they want to do is make it though one more day. Because that's survivor instinct.
Now, with animals, that day is usually the last.
But with humans, that day can be a groundhog day.
If you're that human, do you just reach that state of being a rat who gets shocked when he reaches for something, shocked when he doesn't, shocked when he goes to take a shit...and just throw yourself into the grid? Lay down?
Hope is an ephemeral thing.

Oh, my goodness.
"I love that u read my blogs.I can see your IP addys etc.I can see more than that since I have that ability.I would consider myself an IT,but not for work.
"The âoeMILFâ title is stupid...."
I only read this at home. I only read /. at home. If I ever confess otherwise, not at home, it will be for this, that some words are too...funny...not to record.

"Funnier still, is that nearly every one that does believe they are hot shit, are always the same ones who really aren't. In fact, they're nowhere near. Maybe in their minds, maybe in their
own little world but not in reality. And it's always these same individuals who don't realize it's their own attitude that creates the negative situations they find themselves in. But of course, people with delusions of grandeur almost always find ways to lay blame at the feet of others when things don't go their way. Ultimately, no one cares about them, their trials and tribulations. They'll eventually disappear and be forgotten."
http://forum.adultdvdtalk.com/forum/topic.dlt/whichpage=4/topic_id=123053/forum_id=1/cat_id=1/123053.htm

When you're support, people pretty much carry on with their conversations.
Sort of like they do with...pets.
I checked up on someone's PC today and found his dog crawled up under his desk.
This dog has always been one to greet people.
But today, she pretty much crawled up into my lap, mourning in her eyes.
The owners of the dog are breaking up.
I went out, started the car, saw all these white hairs on my slacks in mid-afternoon. Drove home. Alone.