Alex

"This is correct, but it does lower the number of characters per message." - Alex

"Yes. [This exact piece of road](http://maps.google.com/maps...). Except in the winter, so the grass is grey. No, I don't know why there exactly. I grew up close to there, but not on that street." - Alex

"[Let's just wait.](http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-ass...)" - Alex

"This could well make Bangarang far more useful." - Alex

"[Bow ties are cool](http://www.youtube.com/watch...)." - Alex

"But... Antarctica!" - Alex

"I use several different desktops to distinguish my work. For example, I have a desktop for web browsing etc., one for my media/gaming (which includes Amarok open all the time), one for any programming I do, one for school work, and one titled "Other" where I do everything else. It makes a logical separation amongst them so I don't have the icons all over the place for something I'm not using." - Alex

"It depends what you're doing. There are professors at my university who are in their 80's and doing well. On the other hand, this is unlikely to work for factory workers." - Alex

"Refuse to pay for it because it wasn't prepared to your specifications." - Alex

"Poor Mac became became an alcoholic..." - Alex

"I dunno... with the size of these [cricket bats](http://worldcricketwatch.com/wp-cont...), the ball might have to be pretty large..." - Alex

"I agree that it's been around a long time, but for a long time the term "[calculator](http://oxforddictionaries.com/definit...)" has been used to describe things like this (which is more of an adding machine) and "[computer](http://oxforddictionaries.com/definit...)" has been used to mean something programmable (such as Jacquard looms, Babbage machines, etc.)" - Alex

"A computer imples memory, sequential logic, etc. What's built above looks more like an adder, which is more of a state machine than a computer." - Alex

"No, that's a mechanical calculation system built with Lego. [This](http://lejos.sourceforge.net/r_media...) is a Lego computer." - Alex

"Depending on the computer's purpose, this may in fact be a very good idea. OP: What are you doing with the computer, and what level of technical expertise do you have?" - Alex

"I think this was an [O'Reilly reference](http://www.amazon.com/Unix-Nu...)." - Alex

"Not here. Safesearch off still means scrolling to page 3." - Alex

"[Still nothing](http://www.google.com/search...)" - Alex

"I just noticed that the [List of atheists](https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped...) is in fact a list of lists, and thus should be on the [List of lists of lists](https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped...). This and many of the other items means that the [list of people by belief](https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped...) is a list of lists of lists, making at least two lists of lists of lists. Is it time to start a List of lists of lists of lists?" - Alex

"My distribution of choice is [Kubuntu](http://kubuntu.org). It's built on top of the solid (and easy to use) base of Ubuntu, but with KDE as the desktop, which is my particular preference. IMHO, KDE is a much better way for people to switch to Linux than Unity or GNOME, and it allows power users like me to configure everything." - Alex

"Seriously... I don't think even 40 years from now America will be ready for a black president. I am looking forward to my orbital home, though." - Alex

"If you're a Linux user, I highly recommend System76. Their machines are rock solid and if you need to do GPU computing, you can get them with high-end GeForce cards as well. The displays are beautiful high-resolution beasts as well. If you're a Windows user, you can get the same laptops (though I'm not sure about prices) from Sager. I can't speak for their support, though." - Alex

"He is. Unfortunately, everybody will lose their right eye in a terrible global catastrophe shortly before this occurrence." - Alex

"Who would do such a thing to that beautiful keyboard?" - Alex

"Better do that 2 or 3 hundred times, just to be sure!" - Alex

"It would be a great operating system... Still needs a good text editor, though." - Alex

"I enjoyed the product placement in your comic. It reminded me of the movies." - Alex

"tl;dr: Assertion: God exists Evidence: "Quantum mechanics" Assertion: Reincarnation exists Evidence: "More quantum mechanics"" - Alex