somebody must have thought that a tablet is like a licence for printing money.

Umm, I think I am not current with prices of family cars. I beg, elaborate. Because I do live in Portugal;-)

oK, I was actually pondering if I respond to your messages, but here I go: if you don't get the difference between "harping" and "tongue-in-cheek" comments, maybe you want to take some courses on that.

so, now I get chided for actually focussing on what was said, because I am not supposed to focus on it? Way to go. The powers that be usually tell me off for not being on topic. So, you are trying to tell me now, that the topic is not about a 70-year old guy running marathons? Sorry, "coasting" marathons. I am…

I sort of remember the FBI being in on it. So, are there good feds and bad feds?

eeehm, double the time of an 3:36 for a marathon, that's called walking... Honestly, 6 km/hour, I think you might have been exaggerating a bit. I have never run a marathon (and am not planning to do so), but I think that a time of under 5 hours should be feasible for everybody between 20 and 50 years and reasonable…

one charger to rule them all, and this one comes oven with over-current protection, efficient energy usage and exchangeable tips. No MacBook, alas, because AAPL has made sure that the MagSafe stays theirs until the patent runs out (it would be sooo useful on all computers), but there are ways to procure cables…

those are really handy universal socket adapters. So far I haven't found a socket they don't fit into (and according to goIcon themselves that should be pretty damn near impossible), they are flat (as opposed to all those clunky adapters out there), come in one piece (one separable in two) and are even quite…

for the price of number 10 I could buy a golf cart

yeah, I can relate to that. And usually, when you have anything to do in a hospital, the first stuff you hear are those urban legends that embellish those topics. First thing I was told when doing an internship in the emergency room en route to a qualification as a volunteer paramedic was that they had to get a coke…

IT IS LOOKING RIGHT AT ME! MAKE IT STOP!!!!! POLEEEEZE, RIGHT NOW! IT HURTS!

seconded. There are no bigger dicks than Germans. Hang on a second, did I just write that?

Eeehm, you seem to know an awful lot about this stuff. Not that I was implying anything, just saying...

noitcejnI sineP ruetamA htiW naM slliK namoW. You got lazy. You're welcome.

Thank you. It's 3:30 AM over here and I laughed out so loud that probably all of my neighbours fell out of bed. Tomorrow I will most likely have some explaining to do. But it was totally worth it.

I was going to say if the she is Klingon, but Grinch just about nails it. But maybe she was a Klingon in heat? I keep forgetting the correct term for that, (maybe the native Klingon speakers here on the site could help me out with that one) but as far as I remember that is a pretty fearsome state and not to be dealt…

I got a MagSafe cable from alibaba.com for 9 euros, plus shipping (ballpark 5 euros to Europe). They sell knock-off Apple AC adapters with MagSafe included at dealextreme for something like 25 bucks. I have asked them if they could just sell the MagSafe cable, but they haven't gotten back to me on that one (that was…

couldn't resist the gasoline reference...

operative word here being "laptop", because the thingy from the photo doesn't even do laptops.

I was the only guy in the mezcal drinking club in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca (the state where Mezcal comes from, I've been told) who never got one of those red wristbands (the ones that are usually around the bottleneck, the guy who eats the worm gets to wear them). To this day I don't know how I ever managed to avoid…