At work, I'm looking up past work on technology we're developing, and I've learned a couple things:
*the US Patent Office's website is slow. Slow as molassas. Slow as christmas eve. slow as fuck. I play entire minesweeper games between page loads. Entire civilizations grow up and die out while scrolling.
*Color Kinetics patents the crap out of lighting stuff. Including light. yeah, if they could, they'd patent it. They must've had the patent first, since they're color kinetics. Maybe we'll patent sight. All their freaking light patents won't amount to a hill of beans, since we've got sight.
*Reading patents all day makes my head hurt and eyes cross