I more or less figured IMO was a given, given the nature of the post. Point taken.

Nice wordplay, 2. I enjoyed that.

I think Buddha may be alluding to the fact that "Mrs." looks more masculine than John himself.

I come from a family of engineers, and I really love this foundational stuff. It's great thinking.

"The keyboard!? How quaint..."

It is IMMORTAL Pink Floyd.

I'm not skeptical of the price or the sensor technology, as much as of the support hardware and processing power needed to pull this off. I expect they were running this demo on a quad quad-core monster with 3Tb of RAM, or something.

Indeed they do. Not a rabid collector myself, but I've got a couple dozen of their pieces, mostly Italians, and they do a superior job with the details.

MY Stratos is even smaller that yours.

Okay, here's me stepping off the bus right in the middle of Sick-Shit City. Walk with me for a moment:

Exactly my impression. I was hoping for some of the grit and tension that accompanied the Nostromo's landing. This has been over-sanitized. Disappointing, but I'll withhold final judgment...

Milk bucket.

Now there's a euphemism I've not heard before.

That's where I went instantly.

Utterly beautiful, and utterly bizarre. How is that possible? I know there are dozens of "transparent" shrimp species in our oceans and reefs, and they befuddle me the same way. So...

Indeed they do. Seldom fatal unless you're a child, but painful as hell from all accounts. By the time I was feeding him by hand we knew each other pretty well, and the blue mug was his indication that food was coming, so no need to bite. He was He became almost stoned after a feeding, and seemed to enjoy the physical…

Awesome indeed.

C'est un Cthulhu espace. Bien sûr.

I'm on beam with your argument, and I agree with many of your points. What Apple has clearly demonstrated with their success is the importance of human-device synergy, both in hardware and in software. That's the single largest contribution Jobs made to the tech/communication/productivity landscape. There is, from the…

Oh the MEMORIES!