Overheard just now in a coffee shop...

[kickaha]

Two 30s-40s aged women discussing watching DVDs...

"You can listen to a different language sometimes, but I don't know how it translates it... it's so weird."

"But how does it *know*?"

"I don't know. Oh, and then its' *really annoying* when it gets stuck on something like French because that's what the last person who rented it put it on. I hate that."

...

Peoples is ignurnt.

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[georgmi.livejournal.com]

*checks stock accounts*

Yup, sure does. :)

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

*checks bank account*

If you do it right, oh boy does it. :D

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

So you're living off your wife's money too? Small world. :)

(M. started at Amazon.com about six months before they went public. I am a lucky lucky man. And she can cook, too.)

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Hah, don't I wish. I just whored myself out to the right company. :)

[kaneda-khan.livejournal.com]

As tiktok(?) once put it, if you're ready to sell your soul, do it at Microsoft, because they'll gladly take the whole thing.

I do wish I'd believed in Amazon and gotten in at the right time, though. I already had a decade of dev experience, but byrdie did tier one email/phone support and earned options worth more than my salary one year.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

It's been a good (for some value of "good") ten years since the options at Microsoft were worth your soul. My grants from '95, '96, and '97 did very nicely for me, but the later grants were still underwater, or very nearly, when I walked away in '03.