I'll see your touchtone and raise you my rotary, which also happens to my first personal telephone. (I got my own telephone line as a Christmas present when I was 16). I still have the rotary. It's in a dresser drawer because I don't have a landline.

Yay! Disney World!

Sure, but it's also annoying when you're following an American show down here in New Zealand the broadcaster is making a big deal of getting hot off the satellite and... oh... it's been pre-empted for some American holiday or a football match.

I'm not an athlete, but I throughly enjoy the Olympics. Not skiing (I'm from Colorado, so, yeah, yawn), but it's awesome watching bobsledding, curling and luge; sports you don't see every day (in fact, I only get to see them once every FOUR years). Those of us who watch (usually) get to visit a different country (in…

"The Sixth Sense was a fluke."

There is a survey question on the dating web site "OKCupid" that asks, "Which is bigger, the Earth or the sun?"

"What do you mean it's slowing down?"

Point: Kirk.

Born-again Christians should not have access to nukes.

Bujold almost ended up in a coma, but I was thinking of the guy on the wires, Tom Selleck.

Right, sulfur from Io. Thanks for reminding me!

exactly what a space ship would look like

There she is, right were Dave left her, albeit in a decaying orbit, spinning end-over-end, and (if I recall correctly) oxidized:

For completeness sake I nominate the Pan Am Space Clipper Orion:

Agreed.

"My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace." — Alfred Nobel

Exactly.

Looks like Han shot first.

The company I work for sells these. Stachybotrys is my favorite.

I thought he was dead.