Lamy Safari - with either the Fine or Extra Fine nib.

http://www.jetpens.com/Lamy-Safari-Fountain-Pen-Extra-Fine-Nib-Lime-Green-Body-Chrome-Clip-Limited-Edition/pd/9180

Pick a stand out color for the pen (I picked yellow so I can find it amidst my desk of infinite crap.

You can either go with the pre-filled cartridges that just pop in, or you can get a converter that allows the pen to suck ink out of an ink bottle.

In either case, the ink flow is immediate and consistent. It feels more like you are depositing ink onto the paper than you are rolling a gummy ball around.

It's geeky, and practical at the same time.

If you want a cheap way to check out fountain pens before spending $30 or so, then just go to Walgreens and pick up a Zebra FP fountain pen. It's a fine point, and will give you a cheap introduction to see if it's for you.

Just stand over there citizen. We'll get to you shortly.

You are missing the obvious difference:

Robots don't use toothbrushes.

Notoriously poor dental care. It's almost like robots are, um, ... British.

Why do you think the cybermen just use speakers? And the daleks hide inside their little trash cans?

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Can't tell you how many times this happens to me. You always leave bolts loose, and then incrementally tighten. Hell, you even do it when changing a tire.

Because god knows that we can't expect police officers of prosecutors to be able to use a telephone.

(I was interviewed by phone by UK police during the Climategate investigation. There was no compelling need for me to travel to the UK.)

"No Steve Jobs Ghost - It's like be both snuck into Roger Fidler's place one night to steal his TV, and we both found Dave from 2001 A Space Odyssey had gotten there first."

Held a door for a local law enforcement officer the other day. As he was thanking me, I was this close to (and chickened out of saying),

"Of course. You have the power to shoot me dead and falsify a police report. Why wouldn't I hold the door for you?"

Some days my internal voice sneaks out. Other days, it hides behind the sofa cowering in fear.

http://www.immigralaw.com/english/familypref.shtml (I know, not a US.GOV site, but it was the first place I looked).

" Family First Preference:

Quota: 23,400 plus any unused 4th preference visas
Waiting Period: 2 years for all countries except the Philippines (11 years) and Mexico (4-5 years)
Who is Eligible: unmarried people with at least one US citizen parent

Oh, here:

http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/154162.pdf
(Page 12)
"Prospective family-sponsored immigrants from the
Philippines have the most substantial waiting times before a visa is scheduled to become available
to them; consular officers are now considering the petitions of the brothers and sisters of U.S.
citizens from the Philippines who filed almost 23 years ago"

As your spouse, your wife literally got to walk to the front of the line for her green card. As an immediate relative (spouse) she fits the category with no waiting period, and for which 226,000 green cards are allotted each year. In fact, she gets to step in front of every other category, including - child of citizen - 2 year waiting period, unless you are mexican - 4-5 year waiting period, or Filipino - 11 year waiting period, and then every other possible relation with increasing waiting periods just to get paperwork processed (up to 19 years in some cases).

Everyone else who wants to come here has to put their name into a lottery, from which only 55,000 are chosen each year.

It's easy to talk about how everyone should just do it the right way, when you are able to walk to the front of the line in front of those you are lecturing.

As long as the music is not tied to any particular part of the event, it's covered under a venue's ASCAP license.

But.

If the music is synchronized to a video montage, or used as part of an announcement or otherwise synchronized with something, the campaign has entered into the area of "Synchroization Rights". These are covered on a contract-by-contract basis between the music publisher and the user.

"A synchronization or "synch" right involves the use of a recording of musical work in audio-visual form: for example as part of a motion picture, television program, commercial announcement, music video or other videotape. Often, the music is "synchronized" or recorded in timed relation with the visual images. Synchronization rights are licensed by the music publisher to the producer of the movie or program." (http://www.ascap.com/licensing/termsdefined.aspx)

"But it was enough for me to be concerned," he said." There were people here who were not supposed to be identified for what they were doing ⦠I was [concerned] that people who didnâ(TM)t want to be photographed were photographed."

The interesting thing to me is, that I previously worked at a job where I was doing background research on a technology. I had occasion to contact a few of the primary authors of journal articles to ask follow-up questions that the articles didn't cover. (Why did you use this value here? Can I assume that is a correct value for the application that I am using? Do you have a reference that I can use in my research for this equation? type of questions.). Without exception, the authors were happy to answer questions about their articles (even the 88-year old retired researcher who was not on emeritus status in Germany) and invited further follow-up on anything that still needed clarification.

The idea that a researcher would be reluctant to make their methods clear just sets off alarm bells.