According to Wikipedia:

------------- Consistently named to US News & World Report's "America’s Best Colleges" list under the Regional College (North) and Best Value School categories. The Princeton Review also recognized the college as "A Best in the Northeast," and Lebanon Valley College was also named on Forbes' list of "America's Top Colleges." -------------

I'm not familiar with LVC, but it seems like it's regarded as a pretty decent place to go to school.

I first became familiar with her work in the early 90's when she was writing for the New York Times. I loved her writing style and always read her articles. She was just as good on TV - sharp, intelligent dialog without the yelling you get on other shows. She'll be missed!

I started my first programming job back in 2000 and was reading Cryptonomicon at the time and came across this little gem in the book:

"When Randy gets back to his cell, he sits crosslegged on his bed with the Walkman and begins dealing out the CDs like cards in a solitaire game. The selection is pretty reasonable: a two-disc set of the Brandenburg Concertos, a collection of Bach organ fugues (nerds have a thing about Bach)"

So I thought 'why not' and got a two-disc set of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. And sixteen years later I still listen to it when I'm working and have never tired of it. Great music for focus.

I'm not mad, but I just got spoiled that Randy apparently goes to prison. I'm at about chapter 40, finally listening to Cryptonomicon on Audible (thanks Amazon Prime).

On the bright side, I'm now listening to Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and grateful for the explicit choice in music for my afternoon. I'm EDM-d out lately.

I remember doing the same thing. I loved KDE until KDE 4. Then I used Ubuntu with Gnome 2 for a while and really liked it, but then Ubuntu decided to switch to Unity which I found to be pure rubbish. About that time, Gnome decided to go against all reason and foisted Gnome 3 abomination on us ... so I checked out KDE 4 again and they'd fixed most of the bugs and made it reasonable again :-)

And through all the migrations, I still liked KDE 3.5 the best.

Oh yeah - I loved that crappy little computer with all my heart back in the day. I essentially memorized the "Beginner's BASIC" book that came with it which was an amazingly simple and effective book for learning TI's Basic as a kid. And writing games with Sprites was about the coolest thing ever. And I will never forget the sheer joy of saving and loading the programs I wrote onto/from a cassette tape. For 1982, it was truly an amazingly affordable computer that was an absolute blast. Best Christmas present ever - Thanks Dad!

Beginner's Basic (blast from the past) http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/ti/beginbas.pdf

  * REWIND CASSETTE TAPE

    THEN PRESS ENTER

  * PRESS CASSETTE PLAY

    THEN PRESS ENTER

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunch

Costco carries a few different TV antennas including Winegard models. They're only about $40, they are flat and inconspicuous (basically look like a paper towel) and they work great!

I was hoping for an informative well-written article. Alas, I was to be disappointed. Ignoring the juvenile profanity and the condescending rhetoric, the author completely misdiagnoses the technology shift that will be the real game changer ... namely, the advances in memory architecture. Whether it's memristors or Xpoint 3D or some other architecture, data storage will be completely turned on its head over the next 10 years. The lumbering giants (who bring in 4 times more in net profit in a single quarter than Pure Storage garnered in its IPO) will have to be nimble in the future, but I wouldn't call them the 'walking dead' just yet.

The point of exactly how profitable the "walking dead" are is vastly underrated. The decision is between making giant profits now with low-risk VS miniscule profits but potentially large future profits with high-risk.

While growing up in the Seattle area in the 70's & 80's, I always thought Seattle was the coolest city in the world. It's still fun for me to visit and I do miss the trees, lakes, and Mt. Rainier, but to me it has completely lost its charm. All that was once cool and unique has been monetized and whitewashed.

Whitewashed? I think this is the most diverse Seattle has ever been. Just a smudge above Portland.

I think darmok is using whitewashed to mean "sanitized" or "cleaned up" not "has a greater percentage of white people".

Like when congressional testimony whitewashes a friendly fire incident, it generally means that they are covering it up or making it look better.

Oh I agree. I was in Seattle in 2005. My girlfriend was here in the 80s to 90s.

Out of curiosity, where have you lived after you left Seattle, and how did you like those places? I've been to a few places and liked Seattle a lot :)

My earlier comment is definitely clouded by nostalgia :-) I loved the Seattle of the past, but the Seattle of today to me seems more about horrible traffic, ridiculous home prices, and omnipresent materialism.

But that's a perspective based on my unrealistic expectation of the past. Seattle truly is a beautiful city and people who see it for the first time will probably fall in love with it. So I'm glad you liked Seattle!