Wait...that was the new one?

And shouldn't slay hundreds of birds.

I have a coffee grinder that goes to 11 - had to name it Nigel.

...I gotta wear shades.

I really want it, but my geek senses are tingling.

My God! My iPhone's a useless piece of slag! I feel so...uncool.

Dang! There's never an anti-personnel weapon around when I need one.

So when he's finally convicted of war crimes all we have to do is switch it off?

@Kaiser-Machead v.2.1.1: I have some in the house - I used to be married to a geologist. He also thought it was cool.

Riedel's been making goblets that size for years: the main difference is that they're a lot more expensive.

@MifuneT: It sounds like a great idea until you hit espresso machines: espresso geeks are the geekiest geeks in the universe.

@FrankenPC: I looked at the maker's web site and there are knives that would gladden any Cro-Magnon's heart. For kitchen purposes, however, not so much, since both edges are sharp and my family does not like cole slaw mingled with human flesh.

I've heard of brain surgeons using scalpels made from knapped obsidian because they're so devilishly sharp. If that thing were shaped more like a kitchen knife, I'd probably go for it.

Our enemies seem to be doing all right with their low-tech methods - that's why our tech-happy military is so confused by them.

It does give one ideas...

The latest in space-alien fashion.

It didn't work immediately, but when I unplugged the drive and plugged it in again, the new icon appeared.

My husband started out in the punch card era, but the nerd impulse was in him long before. As a teenage novice monk, he sent his mom a letter describing his day: it was in the form of a pie chart.

@earthling: There's an old saying that fortune favors the prepared mind.

Some blokes have all the luck.