I bet it's that damn FireWire.

Getting paid to do what you do for fun sounds like a good deal.

I need to work out a way to get paid for cleaning up mistakes on Wikipedia.

Yeah, doesn't that one run headerless?

Hey, no howling from this quarter. I'm still using my Treo 650 and I have a spare in reserve for when this one dies. It may not be fashionable, but it's a great tool for doing what I need - keeping contacts, notes, and calendar and syncing them with standalone Outlook. Many newer phones won't do that at all, or require you to take a roundabout route through Windows Live or Exchange.

Pertinent to the OP, the Treo is grandfathered in with Verizon and doesn't require you to buy a data plan. It does just fine with calling and SMS (though I have run into some problems with MMS).

That's ridiculous. What do you do when you need to measure René Auberjonois?

Persuade McDonalds to start including smartphones and mp3 players in their Happy Meals?

That's when you have one of the guys from Skinny Puppy do it.

Perhaps they're into HDSM.

Congratulations. Being an active part of a very active community is an achievement.

I just hit 45,000 Wikipedia edits, if that makes you feel any better.

I can't look right now, but aren't most of those available for free on cbs.com?

I hesitate to refer people to his work since he turned into a raving bigot, but there's a similar plot point in the short story Dogwalker by Orson Scott Card.

If you speed in km/hour, don't you have to pay the fine in pounds sterling?

Fuck everything, we're going to 4 machs.

To me it's a tasty chickpea spread.

Mmm...terrorism.

A captain of the Ship of Theseus.