There is this helicopter pilot at an airport near where I work, that knocks over smallish traffic cones, and stacks them on the from of one of the upturned skids, in some fair wind. That's some skill, not SAR hovering in a gusty canyon skill, but as fine a work as I have scene from a large piloted machine.

@Steve Martin: I would. What I am hopping for is something that I can use for OCR then to TTS. I could get the new iPhone, and may, but the iPad ismso much more friendly.

No! Nobody ever made them like this! I mean, the architect was either a certified genius or an authentic wacko!

I have had nothing but problems with the Zink printers that I have used. It seems that the only way to get a good print was to run the calibration card through after each print.

@RaindropBebop: Rental of a phone ranges between $20 and $100 a week with prepaid time costing between $1.20 to $3+ dollars a minute. If you are traveling in the back country and "need" to communicate this is often a better deal than owning a phone and getting a subscription plan.

@YOUCANNOTDENY: Lens[:]

@Fulgrymm: "he could not justify a character that's an electrical engineer, failing a roll to install a light switch or something similarly mundane."

I am quite happy with the Palladium system, all of the calculations needed are percentile based, no need for complex calculations to figure out hybrid orbitals or to make a save.

A hearing test, so they know what their real baseline is.

@Curves: Live action versions of cartoons are dubious at best. I have dreamed of Robotech being adapted, a serialized version of Battle Of the Planets (The real G-Force sans hamsters), and after watching Boomerang at a friends house, The Herculoids. What was odd about seeing The Herculoids as an adult was that the…

@leavethegun-takethecannoli: Yes, but the "Finger Giraffe" is so easily lost. From Freaking News

@Curves: Despite the sexism and racial stereotypes, I still love them. My mother used them as a bit of a teaching tool.

Once, as a kid, I saw the shuttle being carried by this jet. It was fleeting, as I was between buildings as it went over head. I have never forgotten it. It seemed to move so slow. My grandfather didn't understand what the fuss was about, then again he couldn't see.

@kalleboo: I found it easier. They broadened the contact areas.

@ScratchButt: Funny and oddly prescient. I once almost picked up a land mine. It was John Deer tractor green and looked like a toy or like a Rain Bird sprinkler plate.

I think I am going to make dead satlite TLE file. Geo-stationary, negative altitude, ha!

@Msj2705: It may not be that efficient.

What you'd get is beige, a very unattractive shade of beige.

What If Your Entire Desk Were a Touchscreen?

@Synthfilker: THERE IS ANOTHER SYSTEM