Comment so close! (Score 5, Funny) 313
A few more minutes and we can start playing "2 minutes to midnight" by Iron Maiden!
Comment I knew I recognized a fellow Vermonter! (Score 1) 154
Being from Vermont I instantly recognized this man as a fellow Vermonter - token horse and container of chaw in his shirt pocket.
Darth Vader Robs Long Island Bank 190
Apparently the destruction of the second Death Star has stretched the Galactic Empire's coffers so thin that Lord Vader himself is robbing banks. From the article: "Impotent Rebel Alliance security forces tell Newsday (paywall) that Vader marched into a Chase bank in Setauket around 11:30 a.m. today. Brandishing a completely unnecessary handgun — as he had the power to choke the oxygen out every teller's throat — the fallen Jedi demanded cash."
Comment The Non-Book Book (Score 1) 517
Some of the college courses I learned the most from didn't even have text books, but rather I created a "book" from the pages and pages of notes I took from the professor's lectures. I still have most of these compilations of notes -- my favorite being on Theory of Programming Languages featuring OCaml.
Comment Re:tiny step in right direction (Score 1) 605
Vista Ultimate and Business OEM license holders already have implicit downgrade rights to XP. If you order a machine from Dell with either of those on it, they will try and charge you $99 for an XP "downgrade installation". This is more or less bogus and just a convenience charge to have it come with XP pre-installed -- you can just run the XP restore disc it comes with and zap it back to XP.
