Microsoft was running radio commercials at the time warning business people not to walk into traffic because of how awesome reading Excel spreadsheets on your phone would be.

Yeah, they didn't get it.

Sending and receiving SMS messages from the Mac to Android phones works. You need to have your phone number associated with your iMessage/iCloud/Apple ID/whatever. Setup seems kind of non-intuitive, but once it works, you have a log of all your SMS/MMS conversations on the computer.

My iphone uses an actual alphanumerical password. Apple requires a minimum of 6 digits, but doesn't restrict to that.

I'm thinking "Read Slashdot".

Huh. The people I know use Obsidian Portal for RPG coordination. http://www.obsidianportal.com/

"far less"? All the diesels seen on the road today still (even after the low-sulfur directive) still stink to high heaven. Particulates are still visible, even if we ignore the Rolling Coal asswipes.

Much like Android's patching system, you are way too late.

Dude has not gotten a Dell.

It wasn't a comment on what he does with his grandkids. That's great and all that.

It was a comment on this being newsworthy, when the application of Lego was quite underwhelming.

Actually pretty lame.

I mean, not only did he use a CAD program for a box with 4 arms, it doesn't even look "cool"... No lego fins, etc. Not even a minifig in a cockpit. It looks like every other quad-copter.

am shifting my interweb searching to search engines that don't productize me.

Gah. This may have been a threadjack, but I just spent 15 minutes reading wikipedia Golden Girls-related articles. (3 of the four are dead now)

*shakes fist*

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I saw this last week... In Saint Paul, MN. Where it started running 5 years ago. (Chicago is a recent expansion.)

Good show. I suggest going to see it next year.

This must be where The Lost City of Pnakotus was located!