@cec: Rubenstein really doesn't fit the stuffed shirt CEO image that HP usually goes for.

Hurd was overheard telling the contractor 'I wanna tap dat ass like a WebOS tablet.'

Too late, Lt. Commander data already made one:

EBone here in San Diego. I'm up for a meetup here.

@rebeldevil: Pool gets put in by disreputable contractor with no permits. Pool develops problems (leaks, equipment failures, etc.). Pool owner will have trouble getting service from the disreputable contractor, since no permit is on file, municipality can't take action against contractor or his license.

No reputable pool contractor would install a pool without obtaining the proper permits first.

I received mine two weeks ago. When I found out they wanted $10/month just for the preview, I dumped the app.

See, that horrible episode of ST: Voyager was based in fact!

@EBone: Oh, and this:

@McMike: Love your Maytag analogy. Golden.

Some people are just too dumb to be entrusted with a computer. Tara Fitzgerald, count yourself as among them.

Those gave me the cold chills. Ghosts walking among us, realized in digital images.

That's about the size of my wife's closet.

@frigg: C'mon man, there's a lot of R&D involved in remaking the toolbars in Office so often that just as soon as you get the hang of them, they change again.

Companies scrambling for this information reminds me of Glengarry Glen Ross.

@Snake56: Clever.

@elSpanielo: You have to be Don Draper cool to get that kind of drink sir.

@pfc.joker: Or The Thing, or frozen Borg, or Aliens & Predators...

@Purple Umpteenth - Zombie Dolpharktopus: My first thought too. And she's not going to be able to carry many tools in a sweater set.

Nice work Amazon. You really needed to be less than half the cost of the low-end iPad, and you succeeded in spades. That, combined with making your reader program available on every computing platform, and the Whispersync software that keeps you at the same place regardless of what device you reading on, is pure…