My second question, do you hope to uncover dinosaur behavior in throwing back a chicken, or will they always fall victim to fox and coyote and never learn to gang up on the invader and rip apart the life stealing invaders, which may or not may include you! depending how well you feed them.

Are your experiments all going to have the instincts of a chicken with all these little veloceraptors running around laying eggs, or will they eventually get mad and rip off your hand for stealing eggs every morning. "Oh look another egg, MY HAND!!!" spurt ""spurt""" spurt"""" !! ______ !!

I was just shopping for pens the other day... I picked up a couple of mechanical pencils and I replaced this cheap Parker that I've fallen in love with another. http://www.amazon.com/PAR7803211-Retractable-Ballpoint-Medium-Barrel/dp/B00275YMAU/ref=sr_1_23 They like to wander to off, so I don't know what good it'll do you? but everytime I pick up one of these I'm satisfied and I stop looking for a pen and start writing again. They write small, smooth, and have a comfortable heft. Dry quickly and have blue ink. I have a more expensive parker and it kind of sucks. I think I just need to replace the ink cartridge. I do know pens need maintenance, maybe you're not taking care of your pen, OP? Parker does generally make pretty decent stuff and on the ink cartridge it says www.parkerpen.com Ballpen Refill [1.0][M] if M is for medium... So I'm thinking you could probably even find something finer, though how it writes I don't know.

I'm happy with it... mostly. You gotta plug it in everyday if you read it all day long, but it does have expandable memory up to 8 gigs, both wifi and modem and works flawless under Linux with Calibre working unexpectedly well, I say unexpectedly because in my version it's not officially supported but still sometimes I open it and my periodicals have been automatically uploaded to my suprise and they rendered well. Some of the plain txt file conversions with Calibre don't go so well, but haven't really fiddled with it yet. Haven't tried the web-browser or rooting it, but I can't imagine it would be very pretty, you might get a couple of hours out of it, but I think I would gnaw off my hands trying to type this summary of it onto the somewhat painful keyboard, of course I can't stand touchpads either. Comes with a somewhat limited dictionary, it can't find multiplexural. my summary wouldn't be complete if I didn't mention, Don't use it to play music, you get like an hour maybe two out of it and it's dead as a doornail. But maybe it was because I wasn't using headphones, sound was good, but still why'd they put such a teeny battery on the thing if they're going to sell it for close to 300 dollars!! I'd require either a longer Cable or easier battery swapping if I were to buy one for a friend, because they are fun to play with.

you can't delouse a bloodworm, you gotta shoot the dog

I would do this too(after letting them sit dead in the water with their broken computer) until one day you bring up... you know, so-and-so needs a new computer (!one that isn't OEM!) What would you be willing to put towards it? There's always an option once they take that miniscule step. Then go and max out their purchasing power..

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Linux is like water, 80 % of the surface of a habitable planet

But you'll still be saying, jinxes... I've been janked

It is true, I stopped servicing my Dad's computer, put him on a user account on windows told him to use it and didn't do anything. Well, he figured it out, that windows sucks and is inheritantly broken if one as a policy doesn't buy anything for it....even the stuff we had bought was at this point broken... /.... and he didn't figure it out he just plays solitaire and checks email... dunno, hope this Ubuntu 64-bit computer ups his ante and teaches him google-fu, probably not, but you know at least I'll have the TOOLS to actually do something for&with the system, on the system, and by the system,