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Archive > December 2004
The perfect gift
Not sure what to get your true love this Christmas? You could be the ultimate romantic, but it’ll cost you.
One Partridge in a Pear Tree $93.00 (Partridge $15.00, Pear Tree $78.00)
Two Turtle Doves [...]
Bad Santa, aka Kyle
Dear Santa I wud like a kool toy space ranjur fer Xmas. Iv ben a gud boy
all yeer. Yer Frend, BiLLy
Dear Billy, Nice spelling. You’re on your way to a career in lawn care.
How about I send you a fricken book so you can learn to read and write?
I’m giving your older brother the space [...]
Bad Santa, aka Kyle
Dear Santa I wud like a kool toy space ranjur fer Xmas. Iv ben a gud boy
all yeer. Yer Frend, BiLLy
Dear Billy, Nice spelling. You’re on your way to a career in lawn care.
How about I send you a fricken book so you can learn to read and write?
I’m giving your older brother the space [...]
Holiday Eating Tips
1. Avoid carrot sticks. Anyone who puts carrots on a holiday buffet
table knows nothing of the Christmas spirit. In fact, if you see
carrots, leave immediately. Go next door, where they’re serving rum
balls.
2. Drink as much eggnog as you can. And quickly. Like fine
single-malt scotch, it’s rare. In fact, it’s even rarer than single-malt scotch.
You [...]
Military Robots Get Machine Guns
Next spring, the U.S. military is expecting to deploy Talon robots with machine guns. They can also be equiped with rocket launchers. Really, they’re remote-controlled ‘bots, not true autonomous ‘bots, so you can save the Skynet jokes for, um, some day in the not-to-distant future. This is just the first, or maybe second step. As [...]
Half of U.S. I.T. Operations Jobs to Vanish
MacCentral article says Gartner, Inc. researchers believe that as many as 50 percent of the IT operational jobs in the U.S. could disappear over the next two decades because of improvements in data center technologies. Donna Scott, a Gartner analyst, said IT workers face a situation similar to that in the manufacturing field, which has [...]