No, he's a human being.

Well, you can order NOS slide rules from Faber-Castell in Germany TODAY (via their internet/web storefront no less) so I'm not sure that we can count that particular technology as obsolete just yet. It has indeed been a while since they were produced, I'll grant you that.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/com...

Why hasn't the fax machine died yet? Who is it in the installed base that refuses to move on? It can't be more reliable or less forgery-prone for medical/legal stuff, can it? I always wonder about this whenever I absolutely, positively, have to send some dinosaur a fax.

I was just today having the almost-annual conversation with some electronics hobbyists about this. Where do you see their business going? Have you ever been involved in their business other than as an author? (Sorry, two questions in one post.) And, as so many others have said: thank you for the education and also VERY much for the graph-paper!

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Yeah, I just got a little PogoPlug device (Seagate DockStar) off of Woot! for less than $50 shipped, 4 USB ports (for external drives) & 1 Ethernet port, hackable (so I read) - kind of a no brainer. Going to replace a small tower for my BitTorrent serving if I can get it set up right. It'll do file serving right out of the box, both to my LAN and also facing the Internet. Some folks on Woot! were saying Office Depot has had this as a promotion for ONE dollar.

That color/b&W strip was my all-time favorite - especially when Dad reminds Calvin that many artists are insane. A classic.

Agreed, very very much. Netbooks are so handy they will not be going anywhere any time soon - what will happen is cleverer and cleverer geeks will find ways to make them do more and more.

But c'mon, the place is disgusting and the pizza takes for fucking ever to be served.

New Haven. There's something in the water there. I'm from Brooklyn, and lots of folks think we have pretty good pizza here. But there's no comparison with the Pepe's/Sally's/Modern triumvirate.

I miss my Pismos. Between my wife and I, we ended up with three of them, I had hacked a CD burner into one of them and everything.

What you wrote was pretty much what I was going to post . . . . They would have had some decent success with this model in 1995, I think. The horse is WAY out of the barn now.

I've got a metal-envelope RCA 6N7 tube (dual triode with a common cathode) in my stereo system's power amplifier that dates back to the pre-WWII area. And some of the other parts in that amp are of the same vintage, including the power transformer and a few resistors.

I bought a netbook for my wife which had windows pre-loaded, the first thing I did was install Ubuntu on it. I've booted Windows once since the original install to upgrade firmware, so I guess that netbook is counted in their stats.