But if we give them our social security numbers, then they *know* we're proper US citizens, right?!

Sometimes one puker starts a chain reaction.

One eighth grade day in Science class, an attention seeking girl who had recently eaten a tunafish sandwich decided to play Morning Sickness all over her desk. We had to vacate the classroom, and several girls ran for the toilets to lose their breakfasts. I came pretty close myself, if only because I can't stand tunafish.

ever since I found out MS doesn't supply an OS disk with OEM computers, I haven't felt their company supports the product I bought. Just saying.

(and if you buy those dells with linux pre-installed, I'm pretty sure those don't require a bunch of technical questions)

I keep trying to apply that logic to ebay, and when I say it in my head, to ebay *sounds* like a verb, and then I start trying to parse it in pig latin, and the whole thing just goes funny vegetable shaped.

the bit about bonding with the containers made me think of my dog. When he was a poor, orphaned puppy, he lived in a box. He outgrew many boxes, but still treats them like littermates, roughhousing with any that we bring around as though they were actual dogs.
Christmas was difficult, getting down the boxes of ornaments and to wrap gifts in without him chewing them up.

This is the most ridiculous part, I think. As a 13 year old girl, I definitely could've used some ibuprofen once a month.

Well, it redirects to arkansas.gov, but we do have http://www.state.ar.us/ :]

Supposedly, Mr. Fahrenheit started his scale at the coldest winter temperature he knew of and ended up at the hottest summer temperature he knew of, and assigned water a value accordingly after dividing it into 100 parts.

That's what The Romance of Physics (1966?) tells me anecdotally, and it sounds very reasonable.

Maybe they wo;uld prefer to take care of their kids as much as possible rather than giving them over to babysitters and daycares?

Of course it is possible, but it may not be desirable.

so wait, you're saying netbooks don't have screens large enough to use the net with?

32-bit processors might have something to do with it. Or getting your money's worth out of the computers we already had.

who's got a 64-bit operating system?
not me, that's who!

Since my computers and peripherals are a matter of life and death, that's the theme I've used.

DIE - in an ironic sense, hoping my desktop wouldn't
LIVE - my dad's old computer, also in an ironic sense, hoping it wouldn't
LIMBO - mom's laptop, because who knows the path it will take.
Salvation - because macs are just oh so much better than PCs
Charon - Because my dSRL is tall dark and bad-ass
St. Peter - as a smaller camera, he's easier to introduce at parties than Charon.
Zombi - Even if my computers all die, my external hdd will survive.

It comes package with our $1.50 Sunday paper. Then afterwards, when you've realized there's nothing on tv to watch, you can make papier-mache with the paper!

If it doesn't have to be brand new, there's a whole slew of used cars for ~5-8K that would suddenly become a lot more affordable with this. And by used, I mean 'less than 50k miles and get 33mpg'