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One of my favorite SNL sketches features Al Gore as Willy Wonka’s brother addressing some of those issues.

Fun fact: Cinnamon (Cinnamomum) is the genus not the species. There are Ceylon trees and Cassia trees and a bunch of others but no specifically Cinnamon trees.

Lots of people hoard data. The problem is keeping it in a working state. Think about how many people have old towers or laptops in their garage or basement never to look at those downloads or vacation photos again.

He came into a vacuum created by Microsoft being litigious in the 90s. There were other companies already doing a better job. (Caldera, for example) As with many rich assholes, he was simply in the right place at the right time with millions already in hand.

They already track your license plate using car and stop light mounted cameras…

I wish more people understood how far away Washington DC is from the bulk of the US.

It’s an 18 hour drive, even if I could afford it, and I only live half way to the other coast.

I remember when we sent memes via fax…

It took me a moment to realize that “Gritty Black” and “White Polish” weren’t movie titles.

Mark Shuttleworth is a greedy bastard and it’s finally starting to show.

The rovers themselves have to do the entire landing (called EDL in NASA speak) autonomously. The process takes 11 minutes so, likewise, by the time we hear the report that EDL has started the rover is already on the ground.