#OCTOTHORPE

those words should be a recursive loop, endlessly rolling through the entire waste of existence. They are a self-fulfilling prophecy. again and again and again and again and again.

Not among the dwarven folk!

Ack! Not the hanging chads debacle again!

Quoting from the article linked to in the summary:

"The CenturyLink-owned cable — actually, a set of cables bundled together in a black jacket a few inches in diameter — was buried several feet under the rocky soil in a dry wash, about a quarter-mile from the nearest houses and a couple of miles from an outlet mall."

So "several feet under the rocky soil" ... that sounds like it'd be a pain to access, unless the dry wash is just rocks and sand.

That depends on how fast you're moving toward the nearest city, of course. Flying? Driving? Walking? :)

Fourth try? That's a remarkably efficient track record. Thomas Alva Edison took around a thousand more tries to get inventions working. ;-)

"My parents call me Alvie. You can call me DC all the way."

Whoa... I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up.

My first reaction to the news was, "Frungy!"

I hope the developers can keep it that way.

Maybe so, but that's why /. mandates "Preview" before "Submit". :-)

Several kindles? That's called kindling. ;-) I'll look you up the next time I need to start a fire.

English: "Thick air"
German: "dicke Luft"

Last time I checked, DuckDuckGo's servers were in Panama...

If you're referring to all positive integers by which 12 is divisible, you can't forget 1. :)