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Touching tale of heartbreak promotes Lenovo S10, rends our hearts in twain {Engadget}
Sep 6th 2008 11:25PM I loved the part at the end where she turns into "The Machine Girl" and kills everybody, including the teddy bear. And then uses the S10 to order a pizza...
Monterey 2008: Saturday's Monterey Historic Automobile Races {Autoblog}
Aug 17th 2008 9:32PM I wonder if any of this race action will be seen on SPEED?
Microsoft Surface checks into Sheraton Hotels {Engadget}
Aug 12th 2008 10:19PM "Hands Off ! It's my turn you bastard!"
littleBits are like Legos for circuit boards {Engadget}
Aug 12th 2008 8:08PM I had a lot of fun with a big box of these components. I don't know much about electronics but I do like magnets and as the company says, magnets are fun!
I dumped the box of littleBits on the table and they were all stuck together in a big ball because of the magnets and all. After a few seconds, the light at the end of the circuit started to glow brighter and brighter and the electric motor started to turn faster and faster. So I watched the light get brighter and the motor turn faster until I got bored and pushed the tangle of electronics off the edge of the table back into the box.
Later, I wondered what I had accidentally created. It created power with no source of power...
So I dumped the box onto the table to see what would be created. I'm not sure what it was, but it called me a "blood orange" and ran out the back door.
Just great! That cost me $150.00! What a waste... Customer Service was a joke! They thought I was an Apple FanBoy!
Oh well, I gotta go, Judge Judys on...
Epilog Zing, your personal laser engraver {Engadget}
Jul 12th 2008 1:27PM You have to keep in mind that this box will make you money! Just advertise your laser engraving services via the Internet and people from all over the world will mail your their stuff for you to engrave. You can make your investment back in just a few months, it's all gravy after that! Just vent the smell and smoke to the outside of your home and voilà, instant home based business.
Volkswagen Golf Mk VI not U.S.-bound? {Autoblog}
Jun 15th 2008 12:32PM If you folks in the US would like one of the new Golf Mk. VI you are welcome to come to Canada and buy one and import it into the US, can't be that difficult...
Event Alert: Cars and Coffee goes to Vegas {Autoblog}
Jun 6th 2008 9:14PM 7am to 10am? I don't think I will be awake to take part. Could it be rescheduled for a more "normal person" friendly time?
Why not 12pm to 6pm? Think of the attendance!
WowWee's Wrex the Dawg reviewed: puts real canines to shame {Engadget}
Jun 4th 2008 12:54PM Interesting. Would have been more interesting if you were able to hear the voice coming from the crappy speaker in it over the sound of the servos...
"Oh, so cute! What did it say?"
"I don't know"
Lincoln books 8,600 preorders for MKS {Autoblog}
Jun 2nd 2008 10:37PM That's a lot of money for a car that doesn't have a remote opening gas door! You have to give the kid your keys for him to open unlock the gas cap! I don't think I have owned a car that lacked this feature since the early eighties!
"Hello dad, I totaled your Ferrari - what time is dinner?" {Autoblog}
May 5th 2008 8:58PM I did this when I was 16. My Dad gave me the "car" and six days later I totaled it. I went around a corner too fast trying to impress a girl at a bus stop. I rolled it sideways and did two loops end for end. He got the phone call from the police while I was in the hospital. He was furious! The police said it was my parents fault because if they had raised me right I wouldn't do this sort of thing and let my parents decide the punishment. It was a license suspension for 3 months and pay for the sign which I mowed down. (the sign was never replaced.)
I have a scar on my forehead to remind me of my poor decision making skill and the fact that back then you could get a full license just by writing a test.
25 years later when I take my now very elderly father out for a weekly car ride we pass by the accident scene. He doesn't remember, I do.
