@AreWeThereYeti: I prefer the ergonomics of the "transformable laptop" designs, where you can flip the screen around and close it face-up on the keyboard. That allows you to go from laptop to tablet, but keeps everything as one unit, so you don't have to worry about losing the keyboard half.

@abates25: This is one of those slightly awkward phases with new tech where everyone isn't just scrambling to fill niches better than the other guy, but trying to figure out what the viable niches actually are.

Anyone know yet what the dimensions of this thing are supposed to be? For a while now, despite people going on and on about smaller tablets in the 7 inch range (which I don't really get the appeal of- too small to be much easier to use than a smartphone, too big to fit in a pocket like a smartphone), I've been wanting…

@inannamute: We warned them about bird flu, bro.

@Bill-Lee: Yes, and a sexy* astronaut.

I get the feeling that his explorations would actually be a lot easier if he and anyone with him just wore orange high-visibility vests and hard hats, especially when opening up panels and such. People would just assume that he's supposed to be there. Well, I guess until a cop or another city work stopped to ask him…

@RenRen: That's just because American's are good at delegating. We're natural born middle-managers. People respect that. That's why in the coming escape from the end of the world, our ship, the "B" Ark, is going to be allowed to launch first.

@bohica: The animals all drank the rainbow water.

@RizzRustbolt: I thought the end of days was Sunday? That's what it says on my calender.

@Bill-Lee: No, first a bunch of pacemakers need to fail, and the Colosseum needs to explode after being hit by lightning.

@Roklimber: Ignore everything related to the bomb, and the bit with the cliches about space being cold (including them nearly freezing while traversing it without a suit), and its not that bad.

@fluffywarthog1029: You spent an entire day talking to coworkers about this?

@Geoffrey Sperl: Its hard for NASA people to sit through 2001. They often break down midway through the movie, sobbing and babbling things like "WE WANTED TO MAKE MOON BASES! DAMN YOU BUDGET CUTS! DAAAAAMN YOOOUUUUU!".

@KillerBee: The core is a lot less offensive when you realize that its a conscious parody of stupid disaster movies. Unfortunately, it's a little too much of a stealth parody, which can make it painful until you catch on to the joke.

@SkipErnst: Not quite. The vehicle is still expensive, and you'd also have to factor in whether the new fuel is also more or less expensive per pound than the old fuel.

@Jackstick: You mean because of the people who get convicted of having consensual sex with someone a year younger than them, or the Kafka-esque District Attorneys who convict them? And yes, 18 year olds get convicted of having consensual sex with their 17 year old girlfriends all the time- my home state of California…

@ZenGaijin: I dunno, I'm getting more of an OJ Simpson vibe off that mugshot. Maybe its the hair.

"First off, why is it that all YA books and movies all seem to have some sort of silly connection to hideous rings, pins or medallions of some sort?"

@PinballFan: Wow, so they go through all the trouble of having a two-point harness, but then loop both points using a single line, turning it back into a rig which is vulnerable to a single point of failure?

@PinballFan: Yep. I know shit about theatrical rigging. And yet, EVEN I know that you don't use just a single damn line. Crazy.