Foot in the grave

1. iGood iOne
Good one!

QOTD

Tickled that my iPhone autocorrected "Motörhead" by adding the umlauts
- Rachel Barton Pine, her Facebook page

2. Education gap
Equal opportunity... not outcome. Through school choice:

ibd - Education gap, not income gap, is our No. 1 problem

QOTD

We are challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations.
- W on education in 2004, newsmax story

3. How Java was named

I didn't know this story. Here's an email from Java poobah James Gosling on how they came up with the name "Java".

How was Java named?

4. One foot in the grave

Got this today. He he.

I've actually been getting Gram's AARP crap in the mail for years (after her death), and F AARP. They specifically lobby against individual choice in both retirement and health care, so bugger off. Maybe AMAC will send me a geezer card. Or maybe I can skip the whole dang thing altogether.
cha... yow, bill