I don't know if you'd really call that a 'troll', Mister Kneejerk. Not unless your initial post was an attempt at trolling? No? Good. Then I'd say we mostly have a difference of opinion - sorry, I felt that was covered in my earlier brevity.

When I first moved to Portland as a kid (13) with only the faintest glimmer of an idea of what Oregon was (or even where it was located) I have an incredibly distinct memory of landing in PDX and smelling fish the entire time I was in the airport. For a minute I really thought that the whole state was just going to…

AHAHAHAHAHAHA no.

Deal! You bring the pint glasses, I'll bring the growler.

But then you won't be able to see the mountain! I'm afraid porters and stouts need not apply.

I don't really get much of a chance to use the NFC, but so far it seems to work just fine...

This whole thing right here makes me think this is like the progenitor to those setups in Johnny Mnemonic and Minority Report where they're wiggling their fingertips around and somehow just freakin' gigabits of data is getting passed. Like first there was... well, this, then they figured out how to make it all holo…

I don't know if you know this, but there's a new bug where if someone were to physically pick up your Curta they could manually change your settings without your authorization...

I used to have the same frustrations. I had a calc teacher that made us do everything longhand. It's a valid argument, but that's operating under the best of conditions. What if the internet's down at your place of business? What if you're in a meeting and you're put on the spot? You don't really want to be running a…

Haha, fair play to you.

Twice as much, Brit. We pay twice as much as you. Twice. Double. Pack that snark back up, if you please.

Did he use it there too? It's definitely in the Stainless Steel Rat series. Haha, don't you love when sci-fi writers take a shot in the dark, and everybody thinks it's bad science for years and years, and then all of a sudden some scientists demonstrate something similar in a lab...

I'm so confused at what I'm looking at... It's a shroud for the key right? So you've got to lift it off before you can use the key? And where are the tweezers hiding?

I got a refurb Hot+Cold and it just never got that hot. I'm in the process of getting a replacement now, so fingers crossed it was just a bad refurb.

I got a refurb Hot+Cold and it just never got that hot. I'm in the process of getting a replacement now, so fingers…

Maybe it's a person-by-person basis. I've set up four different fingers six times a piece and so far right thumb seems to be the only consistently working one

I was in a materials science program back in 2004 and one of my teachers asked if anybody had a research project they'd like to propose to get a small grant to study for the summer. I came up to her after class and explained I'd had a thought about using a material coating mounted on skyscrapers in dense urban areas…

I think that's super awesome, but 4 percent seems awfully low - like to feasibly power the whole facility they'd need a bank of 25 of these guys... Do they plan to put up more at some point? To be fair, they probably chew through a ton of power processing material.

Why... why do I want this? I can't think of a good reason, but I want to add it to my pockets immediately!

Wow, way to glaze over practically everything. Hey, how do you feel about using the data obtained via the Nazi human experimentation of WW2? Obviously this isn't the same thing, but if you're going to cut all the edges off of how, why, or where, then I guess the distinction's pretty much moot, huh?