3D printers are going to be as common as Inkjet printers became. I remember having to program peoples printers with DIP switches to be able to change paper width, landscape, portrait, etc. That was 20 years ago.

In 20 years, what will 3D printers be able to do and why will you buy one?

1. Scallop Wrapped Bacon Come on, someone needs to make food thread so I can make crazy combinations of foods that would never be possible. We need Star Trek Replicators, and we need them now! Imagine downloading/purchasing a recipe from a famous chef for the food threads you have available and then getting to eat something amazing that would never have been possible before.
2. Home printed sneakers molded to your foot based on a 3D model of your foot. Perfect comfort, printed at home when you need a pair. Maybe Nike and others can compete with 3D model files of various sneaker styles.
3. No more hunting for...

1. Your high school reunion. Like why? Who enjoyed that hell?
2. The bottom of the ocean. I never liked concrete boots.
3. Any Fast Food Restaurant. I wish I could take back my visits to many. I never needed to know what fried sugar and salt tasted like.
4. Jail Nope, not interested. Don’t plan to do anything stupid enough to visit it either.
5. A Swinger’s Bar That shit is so 1960’s; leave it in the 60’s.
6. Your extended families vacation. You want to go on vacation to relax, not rehash family disputes.
7. An Emergency Room. Never been fun visiting them. Avoid if possible.
8. Your X’s Wedding. Awkward!
9. An Island Resort formed by 2 (still active) volcanos in a lake with land-locked man-eating sharks with only one small ferry to service the entire island. True story, we almost vacationed there until I read about the volcano and sharks. No Seriously, true story. It’s in Nicaragua
10. Mars It will...

1. It’s the new Hotness from your Favorite Company. Microsoft’s Visual Basic, Silverlight, C, and more I probably don’t know. Google’s Go. Now Apple has Swift. How swiftly will it be adopted and/or dropped?
2. The new guy knows it and you want to not seem behind the times. Not me but I have known people that seem to want to learn a language so they can add it to their list of hated languages. Heaven forbid you mention something new and useful for some problem set.
3. Your professor is only accepting assignments in that language this semester. True story. Hello Modula-2!
4. Your boss thinks it’s the new hotness. True Story. Hello Ada! Or was that the old Hotness?
5. To show up your pals who hate anything but “insert pet language here.” True story. Hello Perl.
6. To teach your kids. True story. Hello Scratch.
7. To sell an app. The hottest app story drove a lot of devs to learn Objective-C. Not because...

These are party themes I would want to attend or maybe avoid.

1. Paddleboard Lake: Meet in the lake on your paddleboard. Drink until someone falls off. –Hmm, on second thought, maybe some lifejackets would be needed and sober friends to look after the floating drunk.
2. Her Majesty’s Secret Service: A James Bond inspired party with everyone dressing as a Bond character. Tuxedos, Yellow Drax Spacesuits, Jet Packs, the skies the limit. Bond themed drinks and of course a Bond montage playing in the background with Bond music playing.
3. From the Office of the CEO: Dress and act as your favorite or least favorite CEO. Amaze everyone with your people skills as you tell the bartender their drink sucks and belittle them. Ask everyone for their wallets so you can go through them since nobody wants privacy anyways, right?
4. Space The Final Frontier: Dress as a character from a favorite space/sci-fi...

1. Buy an Instrument: You need to pick something you think you’ll like. Just do it. Get anything you like, don’t fret it, pick the accordion if that is up your alley or guitar or drums. Just pick something since they will all be equally hard starting from stretch. Might as well pick one you like.
2. Get Lessons: It is hard to start from zero and to figure out what to do. Go for the quick hit of success you will get from playing your first song (badly maybe but still you will be playing) and hire an instructor to teach you the basics so you know that it is possible.
3. Listen to Music of that Instrument: You need to know what the instrument can do solo. Find soloists, you tubers, etc and listen to them playing. Learn what the instrument can sound like solo so you know what to expect. You won’t be playing with a band for a long time, so figure out what you will sound liken solo.
4. Get a Jam...

What would be 10 toys for kids that would be more fun motorized?

1. Paddleboat: Why peddle those paddles when you could hook them up to a motor and fly across the lake?
2. Skateboard: It’s been done and it is cool. More motorized skateboards for more spectacular crashes.
3. Lacrosse Sticks: Imagine a motorized spring powered net that slings the ball further, faster, and more dangerously. I can imagine fields that are the size of multiple lacrosse fields as you play long distance Lacrosse.
4. Hockey Sticks: Why force kids to need to learn to do a slapshot? Let’s get some rockets on that blade to really power up that slapshot.
5. Tricycles: You learn things when you are thrown in and the faster it is thrown at you the faster you must learn. Let’s get kids riding younger with powered tricycles to teach them to maneuver at higher speed. That can’t be bad right?
6. Water Guns: I know there are powered...

I was doing laundry one day when this song came to me. I started hollering it and turned the lyrics into a song about a womanizing guy who can’t keep a woman before she discovers dirty sheets from when she was not there. Then she leaves since he’s already onto his next.

It is most certainly a blues song.

I got the dirty sheets
They're piled up on the floor
I got the dirty sheets
They're piled up on the floor

They're the smelliest sheets
The smelliest sheets in town
I got the dirty sheets
They're piled up on the floor

All the ladies come here
I can't turn them away
I got the dirty sheets
They're piled up on the floor

My baby won't come back
She say she don't sleep here no more
She say the sheets are dirty
And it ain't her dirt no more

I got the dirty sheets
They're piled up on the floor
I got the dirty sheets
They're piled up on the floor

My baby don't love me
She don't sleep here

Heat beating down

My chest feels like fire

Arms peeling, shrinking

Exploding from overexposure

Pour water down, anywhere

I lied, the Grey suck is not a curse

It doesn’t do this to me

Sweating, blistering, sun

Coffee won’t get cold

Fingers burn to the touch

It’s hotter than hell

Sure beats the rain in Seattle

The Hacker

A Parody of The Gambler

Based on “The Gambler”, by Justin Sandercoe

From justinguitar.com Beginner’s Songbook

Original Words and Music by Don Schlitz

Intro: | A   | D   | A   | D   |

Verse 1
    A              A            D           A
On a warm summer's evenin' in a cafe out of nowhere,
  A               A               A                 E
I met up with the hacker, we were both too fried to sleep.
      A            A               D             A
So we took turns a-starin' out the window at the darkness,
     D            A      E                   A
Till boredom over-took us    and he began to speak.


Verse 2

He said, "Son, I've made a life out of crackin' people's passwords,

Knowin' what their secrets were by the way they held their eyes.

So if you don't mind my sayin', I can see you're out of wifi

For a taste of your coffee I'll give you some advice."


Verse 3