They say every generation has a defining moment where everybody remembers where they were. Pearl Harbor. Kennedy. Challenger. 9/11.

I was home sick that day from 6th grade; my parents trusted me to stay home alone. As it was, my mother was a teacher and called to tell me to turn on the news. It was horrifying, but what strikes me today is that I didn't share this with my classmates. I wasn't at school watching the launch live like nearly everyone else in my generation.

http://www.mslinux.org/

"I thought they smelled bad on the outside."

This was my thought, especially it they made it as much a parody of Star Trek as the movie was of the cast and culture.

Okay, so it'd have to be really well done.

Then you probably don't like Raiders of the Lost Ark either, where the outcome of the movie is the same whether Indiana is in it or not.

Do they write a GUI in VB to track the IP?

Remember sniglets by Rich Hall? One was "essoasso": someone who cuts through a gas station to avoid a stoplight. Didn't make sense to me but my Dad explained Esso used to be an oil/gas station company. So though Esso is before my time, that's how I remember them.

In my town, we have a choice between Time Warner (soon to be Comcast, I suppose) and WOW!

Or, instead of complaining, go the open-source route and fork a project and port it to another platform.

FTFY.

Just like Superman III.

I download my peanut butter. If that makes me a pirate, then a pirate I be.

But this is what they did and are doing. While Zune wasn't the direct antecedent of Windows Phone, the Metro UI was first developed for the Zune and refined for WP. And regardless of one's opinion of Microsoft, few can deny WP is generally considered a really good product, with high customer satisfaction and plenty of plaudits from tech blogs and reviewers. Sales were and are slow, but they keep improving it (though granted, Nokia has been improving WP at a faster clip). Currently, Microsoft looks to be in it for the long term; Windows 9 and Windows Phone 9 are expected to be a convergence of platforms.

A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!

GOG.com is my go-to for games now. The only non-GOG game I have installed is Sims 3 and I never play it (by the time I get through all the loading screens to actually play the game, I don't want to play anymore). Other games I still play regularly are RCT2 and 3 and Torchlight 1.