I just got on line after going to the local office supply store for another ream of printer paper.

Fur-suiting folks have a big problem with vision. You're usually looking out through mesh fabric, often recessed and colored. Your vision is limited and peripheral vision is almost nonexistent. And that's if your fursona (furry persona) is a predator species. If your character is a prey species, your eyes aren't in the right place, which looks odd. A system (which could be hacked) that provides a camera-and-display for each eye would let one mount the cameras where your line of sight should be and allow the mask to have eyes in the proper place.

I guess I'm the only one here old enough to remember John W. Campbell's space operas in which he postulated two materials made from "crystallized light". One material, lux, was a super-strong, transparent, insulator. The other, relux, was a perfectly reflecting superconductor. Look up his novel "Islands of Space.

Be sure to shoot any albatrosses that fly near. (It's been decades since I read Who Goes There.)

The case for life in the oceans which appear to exist below the ice crust of Europa just got a little stronger.

From now on, I'm paying for everything with doubloons.

I do read a lot, mostly for entertainment. I'm averaging about three novels a week. I love that I can pack a dozen books for a trip without worrying about overweight luggage charges. At the price I'm paying per book, I'm now reading in more genres and reading more authors in the genre I always read a lot of. My model of Kindle doubles as an MP3 player, so I can have my tunes along as in-flight entertainment, too.

I've bought over 1300 eBooks from their Kindle library. At $3 to $4 each... well, a Slashdot reader can certainly do the math.

I'm not exactly an armchair advisor. I develop software for a company which makes a medical product.

That's a flavor of non-profit which is not a charitable organization.

Disclaimer: I am in no way a member of the legal profession nor am I trained in law.

and including the biocompatibility test results report. What you make a medical device out of matters!

Siskel gave it two thumbs down.

So perhaps these senior moments I've been having are not so much from being over the hill as from the fact that as I've gotten older I get less sleep overnight?

I'm not sure mine will be. I write code for a living.

Except that the beaches in Hawaii are considered public land -- nobody owns them and access to the seashore must be granted by owners of abutting property.