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The genie traditionally grants only three wishes. Typical woman; puts in a fourth.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Wives and Smartphones have a lot in common:
1. Men scout for the latest models when deciding to have one.
2. Men get bored soon with theirs and wish they'd waited a little longer to get a better one.
3. No matter how longer you wait, you always find better models coming up.
4. You know they're a necessary evil because you can't live without one.
5. The neighbor's model always looks attractive than ours.
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Shameel wrote: 5. The neighbor's model always looks attractive than ours.
It turned personal at the end.
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There is always Soapbox
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Intel Edison[^]
Seulement, dans certains cas, n'est-ce pas, on n'entend guère que ce qu'on désire entendre et ce qui vous arrange le mieux... [^]
Joe never complained of anything but ever did his duty in his way of life, with a strong hand, a quiet tongue, and a gentle heart [^]
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Ooh! I want one too!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I spend enough time searching for my phone and car keys - if I have to dig down the back of the sofa for my PC it'll be a disaster!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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keep things simple : get rid of the sofa...
Seulement, dans certains cas, n'est-ce pas, on n'entend guère que ce qu'on désire entendre et ce qui vous arrange le mieux... [^]
Joe never complained of anything but ever did his duty in his way of life, with a strong hand, a quiet tongue, and a gentle heart [^]
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But then where would I keep my spare change?
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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How could that happen?
Would you connect it to your davenport
Steve Wellens
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I'm trying right now.
Sofa so good.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Good luck. It's a divan opportunity.
<wince>couch!!!
Steve Wellens
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Would be nice but $200 is a little steep.
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I have one of these[^] and its not much bigger than an SD card, and runs Linux.
I still haven't done anything with it, although I do have a great idea for a UAV... Too many ideas for the amount of time I have.
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Holy sh*t!
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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I'll take one too, please!
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I don't get it - a computer disguised as a memory card? Surely sockets are designed and drivers are written for memory cards not miniature smart-arse computers...
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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So you want a onesie with a turtle?
Sounds kinky to me.
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But are you the Chef of the Future?
Chef of the Future[^]
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Norton!
Ah, but that is still some fine stuff right there.
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TTFN - Kent
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It truly is astonishing, isn't it? We take so much for granted these days that this sort of stuff sometimes doesn't even make the general news media - but that is just gobsmacking!
I just wish they would hurry up and invent FTL drives so we can go there & take a close up look!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Surely you are aware that the very word 'drive' is just a consequence of lazy scifi writing? Drives and blasters are terms designed to consign the essential boggling-ness of the technology required to the commonplace so that the 'actors' can get on with the job of telling the story, assisted by special effects.
I would not mind if FTL was invented, but I would hate it if they called it a 'drive'.
Anyway, micro rant over. Now off to work in my Petrol-Drive machine.
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Fact of the matter is that, should a practical FTL engine of some description be invented at some point, it will probably be known as the iDrive, or MS Drive 8.1 or something.
I don't see it as being lazy writing at all - if the gist of a story isn't the specific science - i.e. the fact of being able to travel FTL is a given, then the more mundane it can appear, the better.
noting worse than an author trying to put pseudo-science into a story - especially when you read it years later.
I love it when stories from the 50s and 60s go on about various recording devices that always seem to involve tape, for example - very small, but tape nonetheless; simply referring to it as a recording device has a timelessness about it.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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