¶ the incandescent subfusc wants to live free of expense:

artificially peppy, chemically imbalanced, hardly easy, polyphonic colophon…

Most people should start by reading the Introduction 

Obfuscated TCP is a backwards-compatible modification to the TCP protocol which adds opportunistic encryption. It's designed to hamper and detect large-scale wiretapping and corruption of TCP traffic on the Internet.


karoshi, from working in a tribe 

To me, what the sweatshop image conveys is very long hours of work, unfair compensation, a lack of control over one's work life and a feeling of tremendous insecurity. And I think that all of those characteristics are very powerfully true in a lot of people's lives.

There are 25 million of us who are putting in more than 10 hours each day at the office. And for many people that is the beginning and not the end of their workday. They're the ones who are working during their commutes, after they put their kids to bed at night, on weekends and while they're vacationing. They feel that their jobs can never be done. The workloads have gotten so enormous that they're inescapable.


An alphabetized list of business acronyms 

3M
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
3PL
Third Party Logistics
A&W
Allen & Wright (Roy Allen and Frank Wright combined their initials to name A&W Root Beer in 1922)
AA
Author Alteration (a publishing term)
AAA
American Automobile Association
ADP
Automatic Data Processing
AIG
American International Group
AMD
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (producer of computer chips)
AMF
American Machine & Foundry (bowling lane operators and former owners of Harley Davidson motorcycles)
AOL
America Online
AT&T
American Telephone and Telegraph
AX
Armani Exchange
B&N
Barnes & Noble
B2B
Business to Business
B2C
Business to Consumer
BBB
Better Business Bureau
BHAG
Big, Hairy Audacious Goal
BOI
Business Object Interface
CEO
Chief Executive Officer
CFO
Chief Financial Officer
CK
Calvin Klein
COB
Close Of Business
COGS
Cost of Goods Sold
COLA
Cost of Living Adjustment
COO
Chief Operating Officer
CPK
California Pizza Kitchen
CRM
Client Relationship Management
CSP
Certified Speaking Professional
CTO
Chief Technology Officer
DBA
Doing Business As
DHL
Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn (founders of DHL Worldwide Express)
DK
Dorling Kindersley
DKNY
Donna Karan New York
DSO
Days Sales Outstanding
DSW
Discount Shoe Warehouse
EA
Electronic Arts
EBX
Electronics Boutique X
EMS
Eastern Mountain Sports
FANNIE MAE
Federal National Mortgage Association (a privately owned corporation)
FLP
Family Limited Partnership
FSB
Fortune Small Business
FT
Full Time
FTE
Full Time Equivalent
FUBU
For Us, By Us
GE
General Electric
GEICO
Government Employees Insurance Company
GM
General Motors or General Mills
GNC
General Nutrition Centers
HP
Hewlett Packard
IBC
Independent Breweries Company (original manufacturer of IBC Root Beer)
IBD
Investors Business Daily
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation
ILM
Industrial Light and Magic
IMR
Information Management Research
ING
Internationale Nederlanden Group (a financial company)
IREA
Intermountain Rural Electric Association
JC Penney's
James Cash Penney
JOA
Joint Operating Agreement (example: the relationship between The Denver Post and The Rocky Mountain News)
JVC
Japan's Victor Company
KB
Kaybee Toys OR Kaufmann Broad (home builder)
KFC
Kentucky Fried Chicken
KPI
Key Performance Indicator
KPMG
Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm)
LLC
Limited Liability Company
LLP
Limited Liability Partnership
MCI
Microwave Communications Incorporated
MOH
Message/Music On Hold
MSI
Multiple Streams of Income
MSN
Microsoft Network
MSRP
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
MVI
Mini Vacations Incorporated
NBB
New Belgium Brewery
NCOA
National Change of Address (List)
NDA
Non-Disclosure Agreement
NIB
New In the Box
NSA
National Safety Associates
OPM
Other People's Money
OPR
Other People's Resources
OPT
Other People's Time
P&G
Proctor and Gamble
PBGC
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
PE
Printer Error (a publishing term)
PL
Profit and Loss
PO
Purchase Order
POP
Point of Purchase
PT
Part Time
QA
Quality Assurance
QAI
Quality Assurance International
QC
Quality Control
QSC
Quality, Service, Cleanliness (Ray Kroc's motto for McDonald's)
REI
Recreational Equipment, Inc
RFP
Request for Proposal
SBC
Southwestern Bell Corporation
SBI
Site Build It! (software for building web sites)
SFI
Six-Figure Income
SKU
Stock Keeping Unit
SM
Service Mark
SOHO
Small Office, Home Office
SOS
Switched On Schoolhouse
SYSTEM
Save Your Self Time, Energy, and Money (as reported by www.just15minutes.com)
TCBY
The Country's Best Yogurt (originally This Can't Be Yogurt)
TM
Trademark
TSR
Tactical Studies Rules (company that produces Dungeons & Dragons)
UMB
United Missouri Bank
UPS
United Parcel Service
USAA
United Services Automobile Association

Do I give a fuck about your Annual Leave Automated Message 

Thank you for your email.

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slowly, it unveils your listening habits (albeit with rather ugly transitions) 


tired, old answers to the question of why this browser is so good 

When compared to browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox is light years ahead. Microsoft will need to do some serious footwork to catch up to the usability and functionality of this browser. Seriously. For instance, you can load extra functionality such as more precise ad blocking, mouse gestures, website registration bypassing, dictionary, user agent switching, complete page and textbox searching, text zooming, UI tweaks, and the list goes on.


talks in math, and buzzes like a fridge 

Every finite real number, no matter how large, has a well-defined value for sin/cos. Ideally, the floating-point result returned for sin/cos would be the representable floating-point number closest to the mathematically defined result for the floating-point input. A floating-point library having this property is called correctly rounded, which is equivalent to saying the library has an error bound less than or equal to 1/2 an ulp (unit in the last place). For sin/cos, writing a correctly rounding implementation that runs at a reasonable speed is still something of a research problem so in practice platforms often use a library with a 1 ulp error bound instead, which means either of the floating-point numbers adjacent to the true result can be returned.


What the conductor said as the girls slowly shuffled around doors 

“Board the train so the doors can close… You must physically board the train to ride. The platform does not move.”


incandescent subfusc 

An impossible object is a collection of reasonable parts, put together in an impossible way


diet tips for reducing cholesterol 

  • Skimmed dairy products will go a long way in reducing fat in your diet.
  • Packaged food generally has more fat than nutrition, so Eat Natural.
  • Exercise.
  • Screw sugary confectionary and desserts – go for fresh fruits.
  • Eat healthy shit like grains, nuts and vegetables with low-sodium condiments.
  • Exercise.
  • Learn to read the freaking food labels and learn how to read them.
  • Load up on fish, which contains polyunsaturated fat (which is good for you)
  • Exercise.
  • Don't smoke and watch your weight.

what is your deepest fear 

”Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”