At 5400 square feet, with a one-acre lot, the price seems about right. Even if you could afford the mortgage, there's still a killer tax to consider. Figure about $2k+ a month (based on $24K for all of 2008).

@Wraithen: Thanks. I checked their website out last night and came away impressed. Might even have to buy something. :)

I would cheerfully (ok grumpily) shell out $80 for this. Except: the current iPad generation is due for a refresh and we don't yet know the design of the new model. So....

@Wraithen: What kind?

@mconheady: Excellent question. If it does everything as advertised, I can see this thing costing around $300 or so. Compare that with $85.00/week actual maid service - and it might just be worth checking out.

Call me anal but...if I'm going to shell out that kind of money for a wristwatch, I sort of want the numbers on the face to be right-side up.

WTF Apple? First it was daylight savings time and now it's New Years?

@★☆★rasprenkle★☆★: What cautionary image? All I see is a gorgeous newscaster.

@armin_i: My guess? The owners and operators of the conference vetted all of the info and he was allowed to present it all - likely because the guy was convicted and in jail. Hence, no legal worries.

@FlyingAvocado: +100 for this one! Thank you FlyingAvocado. Had no idea this site existed.

Our cable company even has a "retention department". Having been with them for ore five years, I pull out the stops once a year and negotiate an across the board 30% decrease.

@buddhatooda: Last I checked, cats lost out on evolution and so don't have any thumbs. How are they going to drop an iPad?

@DustyButt: The sad thing is, you could plunk $300 down for one of these things, and a thief would get by it by crowbarring the door itself. They're not going to try to shoot the lock off. They'll go for the weakest point.

I would like someone to engineer one of these things with a spring-up puppet inside. Along with a device that play "pop goes the weasel".

@undeadmachine: What can I say? They take after their mother. *cough*

@izikavazo: if you don't mind the rain that is. My kids live out there and that's all they complain about.

Too bad it doesn't resolve his issue. The sheriff says they may have opened it because they "heard a noise". Which is absolute bullshit, really. He obviously didn't have a live animal in there.

@OMG! A SeaMonster!!!: Seconded. Maybe a car alarm AND the blue dye.

@Amsterdaam - I'm not really the city: "Brown" is how UPS refers to itself in commercial ads.

Wow. I'm grateful to have been informed about this, by email and here on the site. I went through ALL of my online passwords, and found that my FB accounts had been hacked, as well as a few email sites. And one financial one.