This isn't news at all. 15,000 year old sites in the Ukraine have revealed costumes decorated with over 30,000 ivory beads. Lavish costumes and jewelry were a sign of incredible wealth, especially when they appeared in the form of tiny beads or other time-consuming baubles. If you have the time to sit and smooth a chunk of ivory into a cylinder, then bore a hole in it with a flint hand-drill, that means you don't have to spend your time digging pit-traps or building surrounds to hunt deer or mammoth or oxen, or wander far and wide through the tundra to dig up roots and gather plant material that will dry and keep through the winter. Your tribe has the resources to thrive, allowing people the luxury of doing something as unsurvivalist as decorating themselves.

Jesus, didn't anyone read the Clan of the Cave Bear series when they were in high school? Even if you just skimmed through to get to the dirty parts (admit it, you did, it's OK we all did) there's a lot of information in there about cro-magnon life and decorative arts (clothing, textiles, sculpture, beadwork, you name it.) Say what you will about the quality of the story, but Jean Auel knows her shit.

From Samuel Beckett (another Irishman, god love 'em)

"Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now."

Aging is a bummer, I agree. I have crinkles around my eyes, deep lines lines in that nose-to-lips area (one deeper than the other, which makes for a nice asymmetrical look), skin elasticity is gonegonegone, my bum has a much more intimate relationship with the backs of my knees...

But I was always plain and never had the attention that the pretty girls got anyway. I turn the odd head here and there, but never having been a beauty I can't say that the difference between "then" and "now" is all that great.

Delicious *and* under-recognized. I'd hit it.

I would also add:

Felix Riebl from The Cat Empire -- Even my womanizingly-hetero guy friends want to make out with him.

Paul Newman -- I don't care that he's 80, he's HOTT and has a fantastic sense of humor and a strong moral core. Plus, guys who are devoted to their wife and children? DOUBLE HOTT.

Agree on Tony Leung but alas for us straight girls, I'm pretty sure he's gay.

I'm pretty sure he's been attached to Carina Lau for 18 years.

The first film I saw him in was "The Lover" directed by Anaund set in Indo-China in the 1920's It was an English language film about a Chinese businessman falling in love with a very young french schoolgirl. I've never forgotten the film or him.

I hate to break it to you, but that is a different Tony Leung. There are two of them. The Tony Leung in "The Lover" is known as Tony Leung Kai-Fa (Big Tony).

The Tony Leung in this article is Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (Short Tony). This Tony is the action film star.

Is Mack still hooking up with the hot pre-op tranny?

Rickety Cricket and his exoskeleton? (Was that the same guy who plays Doyle McPoyle?)

Charlie's interpretive ballet to "Take My Breath Away"?

And of course Mac and his insanely off-the-charts hotness...

This show never fails me.

There is even a response from a supervisor who believes that fucking things up her way is preferable to doing them right in another way.

The supervisor didn't write in to say that she wanted to fuck things up her way, she said that the developer who worked for her wanted to change the game plan according to his own point of view. The latter does not indicate the former. I know a lot of junior developers who are insanely smart, like they have an extra CPU in their heads, but they also lack perspective. Their good ideas are indeed very good, but are frequently limited and will ultimately result in more work because they are so focused on "n" that they fail to take into account "p" and "r".

Additionally, the supervisor is usually in a position of having more information than her reports, i.e. corporate policies, corporate *politics*, promises to clients, timeframe commitments, etc. People can have as many good ideas as they like, but that doesn't mean they can all be done in such a way as to meet all requirements for the project.

Or even noticing it.

I have someone like that at work, and I can't stand even being in the same building with her at times. I have a job to do. I was promoted twice recently so I must have some brain in my head, and in my current position I am sort of straddling two worlds, one of which I consider drudgery (people management) and one of which I consider very interesting (project management). The person that I work with excels at project management, so you'd think I could learn a lot, right? Wrong. I can't learn anything because she steps in and does things before I even get a chance to figure out my next step. Consequently, people a) think she is my boss (she is not) and b) I now have zero opportunity to actually become good at what I want to do.

I don't think she intends to do this, and in fact I don't think she even notices that she does it. But in her zeal to 'get the job done right' she is stepping all over me, and has effectively undermined my authority and my intelligence. Nobody around me knows what I am capable of, because before I get a chance to do my job, she's already done it.

I can't stand it. I've nearly walked out three times this year because I can't bear being undermined every step of the way.