I’ve had a few friends, of whom I am rather envious, who have managed to take a few intercontinental vacations. In today’s day and age, that’s really not all that remarkable, but it’s also a marker of an era that has long-since passed into the mists of time. I’ve talked before about how [...]
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This morning’s User Input is brought to you courtesy of Number_Six. Specifically, it’s brought to you by the fact that Number_Six’ flight was cancelled, and for some reason he ended up catching a flight to Edmonton en route to Toronto. Since he had a few hours stop-over in this lovely city, he texted [...] 
Who wants to take a little trip?
Image via laughingsquid.com. 
It’s a holiday season around these parts, and what better to do than take a vacation from your job? Four day weekend! Since it is Thanksgiving in the USA, that means 
Undoubtedly for most of us it has happened that the temptation was just too great to worry about the warranty. Maybe it was a car, maybe it was a cell phone, or even your old tube television set with the extra warnings about electrocuting yourself, but either stuff breaks or you just want to see what is inside, and you have to break that seal. Lucky for me, this Quixotic Quantum Quandary item happened to come along with this pre-existing condition, thus alleviating any guilt I might ever feel should it require some preventative maintenance.  This scene should have been repeated for the next twenty years The 1950s and ’60s were the best of times and the worst of times for the British aerospace industry. They were the best because the country’s engineers were at the top of their game, producing excellent machines like the Vulcan, Canberra, Lightning, and ground-breaking TSR-2. The worst because of the government’s disgraceful and vicious assault on a world-class industry. Continue reading Roto-rooted A commute we can all only aspire to. We’ve talked a few times about the various gadgets that do the day-to-day tasks that we find tedious, and about the relative convenience and/or laziness inherent in those gadgets. Techie and I took that line of thought one step further the other night in one [...] 
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