My local Fred Meyers (a wholly owned subsidiary of Kroger Foods) routinely stocks tiny cans of Dr Pepper.

I think about this place every time I shop.

... let you guys in on a secret.

I don't come around here very often. 

https://www.facebook.com/shawnmcbrideisajerk if you want to keep tabs on me.   If you don't:  That's fine and also good.

I played that with FRIGHT NIGHT last night.

It starred not Mark Ruffalo -

(What blew my mind is when I did the IMDB for him his headshot was SUPER familiar... Chris Sarandon is hell of the voice for Jack Skellington, whom I was just looking at a few weeks ago while watching Nightmare before christmas.   So... Nightmare before Christmas stars the voice talent of Not Mark Ruffalo, where as the Avengers seemingly stars Not Young Chris Sarandon.)

Although, holy crap people. Phone phreaking -- 75% of the cookbook is devoted to it; who knew it'd be totally obsolete by now?

Me... but I was super into it when I was young.  I spent a ton of time on K-RAD H/P/A/U/X BBSes when I was a yute.  I was forever scrounging and reading text files which had delicious bits of Bell Labs stuff in them.  I felt SUPER badass, but in a nerdy way.

then in 2001, I started working in a telephone company central office.  It's not totally obsolete.  Certainly it becomes a minority, but the nice thing about Belllabs/Telcordia/Neustar/Verisign handling all the specs, is that (almost) everything is backwards compatible on the wireline network.   Chunks of the world are likely still using some old stair-stepper switches out there, and they need to be able to receive calls from your cell phone.

I get incredibly misty about some of this stuff.   When I worked in the CO, I felt like I wasn't just keeping the equipment in repair.  The stuff going on inside the equipment was far more interesting.  I was safeguarding communication.  How much raw emotion was happening inside of these giant blinking stacks of equipment?  Young couples breaking up, young couples coming together.  News of life altering events.  People falling in love.  People telling their friends that they've fallen in love.  Maybe they're talking about how they aren't in love any more... all very important business.  I took great pride in facilitating these things.   

I used to like explaining to people that when they're talking to someone on a phone, there is an unbroken strand of copper going from them, to the hand of the person they're speaking to wherever they are in the world.  You were literally in physical contact with the person, however abstracted it was.   Granted with glass and light, and wireless services... not so much the case.   Probably not even the case back when Ma Bell was urging you to Reach Out and Touch Someone.

Phones are heady dealings for me... for sure.

You can register a domain and set up "Google Apps" which makes every Google service available to you using your domain name.

You can log into gmail with an @companyname address, etc.

I myself use a hybrid of Google and Apple stuff to do the same thing. 

#2 is a still from the Total Recall remake.

How I know I'm an adult:  I came across some Disney pornography and I wasn't even remotely interested in masturbating to it.