and there you go.....

Ok then, if Zubkerberg is so fond of Star Wars, we would be happy to feed him to a sarlacc.

I along with a friend who uses Uber when he travels have been discussing Uber and its operations.  They just changed their logo from a familiar and sensible 

to a new and confusing:

Ahhh yes, when I see THAT on a car I will know it is Uber.  

We started talking about how large the company is worldwide and he talked about all the job openings Uber has.
They have 300 engineering positions open, 40 design positions and 400 in "Design and Launch"  REALLY? This company is that big?
http://www.uber.com/careers 

My son and his girlfriend aren't speaking right now.

This is the result, of course, of a bunch of drama that happened on Facebook.

Heh.  I told him Facebook was nothing but trouble.  (Women too, of course, but primarily Facebook.)

Fun little phishing message received today.

It was from "Bank of American"

And they were advising me that there was an IP address conflict on my account.

(Wow, sounds like they need some help with their network.)

I P Freely.

I had a friend whose email was compromised somehow and had an email from him to a google docs link.  It was pretty good, it discussed things he was interested in but I could tell it wasn't him.  He told me others thought it was from him.

As a current member of the Illuminati I must say that five million is chump change.

and I really mean aluminumati.... and five million is the amount of pixels I have viewed since I have started using a computer.

Having returned from a place that used to be a big producer of the ore that makes aluminumati (i.e. bauxite), that it is quite a coincidence that I was reading Snow Crash while I was there and was quite pix-elated in the process. 

I know you hate facebook but you have the ability to log in with AOL, Yahoo, Google, and openID why not facebook? Is there a reason other than your hatred of facebook?

Thank you very much.

You are a nice guy Mr. Foobar, no matter what admin says about you.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/25/journal-accepts-paper-requesting-removal-from-mailing-list

Dr Peter Vamplew, a lecturer and researcher in computer science at Federation University in Victoria, submitted the paper to the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology earlier this year after receiving dozens of unsolicited emails from the publication and other journals of dubious repute.

Picture URL: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/11/25/1416892804483/19221216-c965-4f45-8657-d512479a8d65-620x372.png?w=620&q=20&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&dpr=2&s=56934f0bb02d9ce4fc5cd875a06201e2

An annoying feature that has been around a while is covering half the screen with a graphic asking you to sign in or register.  Yeah, you are annoying the hell out of me so I am going to sign up for your crap.