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Is he not getting any more of those sweet residuals checks from 'Scrubs'?

This appeals to me because I love anything dealing with aviation, you might love something else that I find to be an absolute bore and vice-versa. Is there any point discussing why we like and dislike what we like and dislike?

Good point, GT is above what amount in California? Unless it's really high, it's really easy for a lens to fall in that GT category.

How so? The only thing I'm skeptical about is I would imagine his local PD would be way busy to go on a petty theft bust but other than that it sounds legit.

This is just like the story of the guy whose stolen bike from Portland showed up in Seattle's Craigslist. IIRC this guy didn't have support from the police and set his own sting operation, the a-ha thing here was that he used Burner to make it look like he had a Seattle area code: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKTdeXH0Iz0&noredirect=1

This lie is OK, so long as this startup takes off. Right?

The stigma of online dating is such rubbish. I am as much of a stranger as the guy on the barstool next to you.

Don't forget the chianti.

Ironically TL;dr. Not sure I got much out of it. Some of my best practices when talking to developers at my company: -Do not leave voice mails. Go see them in person if you can. -If your signature is longer than your short email and/or contains graphics, rethink your signature. -Turn off HTML in your email client. -Expect in-line responses.

The biggest irony of all of this is that I see so many technical recruiters who have massively long signatures with a bunch of graphics.

What's the Bitcoins to Stanley Nickels conversion rate? What about to Schrute Bucks?

FWIW, I see a B with something that looks like a dirt speck blocking a pixel of my screen.

Yes, considering the iPod touch easily turns into a wristwatch.

If that thing accounted for all the social webs, I'd never have a job ever. =p

1% chance of being fired! File that under winning.

Google Alerts + email filters = makeshift RSS reader. Now if Google cans Alerts I'll throw down.

A "Kayak for insurance" is a huge missed opportunity for AAA, who already offers this type of service to its members. Actually, AAA should really look into an accelerator/incubator for travel startups.

See, that's fascinating! I was raised to believe that asking "what do you do" demonstrates interest in having a conversation with someone. Until now, I had never ever posited that asking "what do you do" is a pry into income level.

The wide majority of us have been unemployed at one point or another.

Was it annoying to hear my parents suggest I should just take a job at the supermarket when I was unemployed? Yes. Was it equally annoying when I'd be connected by a friend to someone who had a job but in an area I had no interest in? Absolutely!

When I was unemployed, what got me out of it were chance conversations with people. I doubt I would have gone past the small-talk stage had I lashed out or fumed about the annoyance of being unemployed.

In the end of my six-month unemployment stint, I sent out nearly 120 copies of my resume to various places. Yes, I counted out of curiosity as well as to keep track of status and follow-ups. Toward the end, I had two offers both out of chance/networking encounters because I rolled with these small-talk punches.

In short, unemployed folk, be patient and kind. Very kind. And don't listen to this drivel.

I could play "Master of Puppets" on my guitar when I was 17. But just the rhythm guitar part. That was a big accomplishment. Seeing this, I now feel like a failure.

They're called 'conservatives'.

I think the Corcel I was the Pinto, no?

The video is currently not loading for me, so the below is just an observation on the linguistics of these situations not a troll to downgrade the humor contained herein.

This isn't the first time a brand has had to rethink its name to adjust to the local language. The Ford Pinto was re-dubbed when it entered Brazil because pinto in Portuguese is a word reserved for the male anatomy. It also happens the other way: the Nissan 350Z from the 80s was called the Fair Lady in Japan, which would likely never have resonated with its target demographic in the U.S.

Old news is so exciting! (And, yes, two days in this day and age is an eternity as far as the news cycle is concerned)

http://www.ea.com/news/simcity-update-straight-answers-from-...

Disrupting the airline industry takes a lot of cash. It's going to take more than some pie-in-the-sky cabin concept.

Let's get realistic about what the industry really needs in order to make flying an enjoyable experience. It's no coincidence that the new American Airlines logo looks like Greyhound's. =p

As a PR practitioner, I feel like I can dispense some advice here. Here are some thoughts after reading these:

-Your thing likely does not require a press release so skip the articles that try to teach you the 'perfect' press release. Reporters, in my experience, don't give much of a rat's bum about them.

It's business execs who think a press release is the end-all, be-all for media relations and that miraculously, reporters will see your press release somewhere and your phones will be ringing off the hook. In my relatively short (5+ years) PR career, the number of times that has happened is exactly 0.

Instead, focus on crafting a perfect 2-3 paragraph pitch and fine-tuning a list of reporters who cover your thing. The most important thing when crafting this perfect pitch is editing, in case you couldn't tell that that was a recurring theme in the better articles.

-Some of these posts are really good and some are totally bogus. Don't take any advice from the ones that are from people whose method has a name. Your product is unique and so should your approach to announcing it to the press; don't apply some cookie-cutter formula.

Also, eschew the ones that recommend you subscribe to an expensive media contacts database like Burrells or Cision. Those things cost upward of $1,000/year and contain information that, with some reasonable Googling skills, you can find online gratis. Yes, they'll make your life easier but if you're a startup you're likely better off dropping the cash elsewhere.

-One thing none of these seem to address is: you got Johnny Cakes from ZOMGTechBlog to agree to speak to you or your spokesperson about your widget. Now what? How do you make sure you don't stick your foot in your mouth?

-IMHO these are the better ones: Cheat Sheet, DailyNewArticle.com, Top Story PR, PRtini (for as much as I hate the name), Jason Baptiste's, VentureBeat and PRDaily.

Hope that helps!

As a non-technical person who decided to give this book a whirl, two things come to mind as I approach chapter 7 of the book: 1-it requires understanding of some basic algebraic concepts (as evidenced by the author's 11-year old struggles with if statements; I'd bet she struggled with greater or equal than, etc. concepts as well) and 2-the chapter quizzes are a little misleading and occasionally address concepts not taught in the current or any prior chapter.

Out of all the fits and starts I've had with programming in my pseudo-code nerd existence this is probably the most helpful programming book I've ever read and would recommend to kids above age 13 and adults wanting to learn Python.

Amazing story, from beginning to end - the bucolic DPRK countryside hides such dark mysteries.