Slippy Lane

Correct, Madam, the pope was indeed under hat number 1. Now, who else wants to play? Roll up, Roll up, find the pope for a dollar! - Slippy Lane

+++++Slippy ROFL - Faboo Mama

@Slippy, LOL!!! - AJ Batac ♘

got this in an email...thought it was hilarious.. - Zee from WeDoCreative

LOL @Zee! I work in Windsor so maybe she is there - better go an check :-) - chet

Royale with Cheese? - John Worthington

hahaaa....John... @Chet, yeah poor woman. :) - Zee from WeDoCreative

only in France, John, only in France. ;-) - Slippy Lane

How I would love to see that happen for real! - Dave Pook

it's not for real? - Zee from WeDoCreative

Oh yes... one's McJob is to pay off one's baby dad's hookers tab. One wouldn't mind so much if one got a bit of royal saber without having to get royally ripped of one's tits. A queen's gots to get paid - John Worthington

LOL - Kol Tregaskes

There's a Burger King joke in there somewhere..... - abacab

think John hit the nail on the head with Royale with Cheese... :) - Zee from WeDoCreative

Not sure she would like that as our Queen is German! - Dave Pook

Yuvi - I really want to build something out of physical components. Also, I think I wrote a scraper back at Uni. ;) Been there. Done that. - James Williams (willia4)

well, call me kiddy for equating techy = software. Must.Grow.Up :) - Yuvi

Heh. ;) Usually it does equate to software for me too. I'm just in a rather odd mood today. (It's the sort of day I wish I owned a soldering iron) - James Williams (willia4)

How about a metal gear solid inspired rubber band gun? A link to one is on Walyou.com (http://www.walyou.com/blog/200...) - Rob Diana

I know: you could build a website where people could post funny pictures of cats! - Glen Campbell

And another thing, APIs are always interesting. Look at ProgrammableWeb.com for a ton of web APIs. - Rob Diana

James, what kind of stuff do you have laying about? Are we talking about circuitry? something structural? will it move? light up? can it connect to the internet? does it make music? can it be trained or programmed? is it dangerous? or is it tiny and clandestine? - Jason Wehmhoener

;) Well I gave up on techy stuff and decided to just watch Fifth Doctor Doctor Who with the GF instead. - James Williams (willia4)

Glen - Flickr already has that market cornered. - James Williams (willia4)

Write an app that uses the friendfeed API to let you select users by various patterns - what rooms they are in, common friends, what lists you have them in, what lists you DON'T have them in, number of posts per specific service over time, etc. etc. ;-) - Slippy Lane

You just need to start doing the ________________ posts again. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Just name a popular friendfeeder and I'm sure it'll happen for you. ;-) - Slippy Lane

@Louis, Why? - Jeff P. Henderson

some of the best photos are taken while driving. - Thomas Hawk

@Jeff, because I think those things are less intrusive than other non-banned activities, and because I only do them if I'm stopped (intersection) or not around other cars. I think these new rules are silly. Given how much time we spend in cars, we shouldn't need to be disconnected. - Louis Gray

@Louis, I have no problem with people talking or texting while stopped at a light. I'm glad you use some common sense. What I do have a problem with is some jackass driving in the fast lane during rush hour going 50MPH with a cell phone glued to their ear and trying to take notes, totally oblivious to those behind and around them. That is who these laws are for. - Jeff P. Henderson

Another reason to use mass transit - you can play with your iPhone all you like. - Jason Kaneshiro

Louis, I trust that you would still drive responsibly. But would everyone? I am sure the lure of a near-real-time SMS conversation would cause people to attempt to drive and text at the same time. It probably happens all the time. - J·Phil·Glockner

Good - Ryan

I don't like banning of phones in vehicles. What's next? No radios? Those are distracting. Or, how about a navigation system? I'd rather see them stop people for driving in the passing lane, running lights, not using turn signals, and blocking intersections (not stopping by the stop line) then go after all phone users. Fix the other stuff first please. - Becca

+ A LOT, Becca. I was just thinking that myself... - Lisa L. Seifert

Can't agree with Becca more. Have watched more people drive off the (main part of the) road messing with Nav systems ... Either all or none? - Charlie Anzman

I'd offer anything that distracts both eyes and hands simultaneously should be banned while driving. - Jason Kaneshiro

I know a few drivers that should be banned from driving - Charlie Anzman

i have a GPS and i've texted while stuck in traffic. the GPS is dangerous to use while driving, there's no way i'd text. still i wonder if on those occasions i'm checking the traffic on my GPS will i get pulled over. i use my GPS to talk on my phone too - Faboo Mama

I don't even use the phone while driving... - Mavericks of Troy, NV!

I'm leaving this comment via iPhone while driving home. - Nathan Chase

On the other hand ... not too sure any of this matters. Have people with no toys tailgating me every day?! - Charlie Anzman

@Jeff 50? Try 90. I remember a guy on the phone who used me as a pace car once. (This was when I was younger...) I kept speeding up and at around 90 MPH he realized what he was doing and abruptly slowed down! - Oliver Ortega Chua

we CAN'T drive and text in the southeast because we HAVE NO GAS. - jeneane 'the wink' sessum

It would seem that I have broken the law tonight? - Colby Olson

welcome to Australia! :-) - Duncan Riley

need to ban women putting on makeup, mascara in the vanity mirror...gawd i hate that! how about people reading magazines, newspapers. hey what about smokers...that ties up 1 hand for a good 10 minutes - Susan Beebe

I'm surprised it's taken this long. Five girls were killed here last year due to driver texting. - Cyndy

Would have to think the train accident was the immediate motivation ... even though it wasn't a car - Charlie Anzman

I feel like ramming drivers sitting in front of me at a green light that just turned but the driver in front of me didn't notice that the signal had turned green because he/she was texting. - Tokyo Dan via twhirl

Good - dan

There is a BBC report on the Transport Research Lab study into the effects of texting on driving at http://tinyurl.com/3mlq9w - Richard Peat

Here in the UK, we don't mess about with having one law to ban something when we can have three. Using a mobile phone (texting, talking, gaming, whatever) falls under "Driving without due care and attention", "Using a handheld microphone whilst driving" AND "Holding an active telecommunications device whilst in control of a motor vehicle". The first is a catch-all ruling, the second was brought about in the 70s to curtail the use of CB radio, and the last is a couple of years old. One would have been enough - Slippy Lane

Whoa. I better pull over. - Jay Tannenbaum

Hey, Slippy. I LOVE the way driving works in the UK. Doesn't eating whilst driving also fall under "without due care and attention?" And I REALLY love that you can be ticketed for being in the passing lane when you're not actively passing! Slower traffic move OVER, please! - Lisa L. Seifert

Which one did you like best? - Chris White

And you, sir, are no Alaska. - Jim Norris

Biden had a great line on Olberman last night: "Just because I've been there doesn't make me right" - Jason Carreira

...but can you see them from your house? - Slippy Lane

Slippy- lol - Matt Musgrave

My votes' for you! - Jeremiah Owyang

Now you only have to threaten Iran to qualify! - Joe Buhler

I was surprised on how fast it was on computer running on Windows Vista 64 bit version. It was much better than I thought it would be but I'm sure it's still not ready for prime time usage since they need to get it updated to latest WebKit engine + assure that it gets enough of continuous security testing to fix possible holes in the code. Thing that most surprised myself in it was how instantly new tabs opened... - Daniel Schildt

And for linux users, there's cxChromium, which at least gives us a sense of what Chrome feels like, even if it doesn't work properly. - Slippy Lane

I wouldn't go as for as that... native software feels better. - Daniel Schildt

lol, change "feels" for "looks" then...no, that's not true either....poor font rendering....errrr - Slippy Lane

Anyways, there would be font issues as you said in your blog post. - Daniel Schildt

uhm. i think your answer is built into your question. :D - ♥ pea ♥..!..♥..!..♥

I have made many in the last 6 months, more than the rest of my life combined ... a friend offered these words to me which helped me ... 'fortune favours the brave' ... :) - Penny

I have some big decisions to make in the upcoming months. It will be interesting to see how things pan out. - Matt Musgrave

Penny- I like that. - Matt Musgrave

I'm in the same boat Matt. :/ Penny, thank you for those words. :) - Anna Haro

Good luck to you, Anna! :) - Matt Musgrave

Matt, Anna, good fortune to you both. :) - Penny

Good luck to you too, Matt! :) - Anna Haro

Thank you Penny. <3 - Anna Haro

this sounds like it's a cosmic trend or something - I know about 5 or 6 people here that are doing the whole 'shake up your life' thing... Matt, Anna, all I can say is: you regret more the things you didnt do than the things you did.. good luck to both of u.. - Kim

Thank you Kim. I'm going through my "Return to Saturn" phase, so I am pretty aware of what's happening, but still :/ . And, here is a preemptive "SHUT UP" to anyone who tries to clown me for the previous sentence. :) - Anna Haro

Thanks Kim! My problem is whether I should stay or if I should go. If I stay there will be trouble, and if I go there will be double :) - Matt Musgrave

Matt, the thing is, one day is fine, the next is black... - Anna Haro

Yes, because they are life-altering. :) - Mona N.

Jeez Anna, so if you want me off your back, well come on and let me know. - Matt Musgrave

Should I stay or should I go? - Anna Haro

*high five* - Anna Haro

lol. *FF high five* - Matt Musgrave

haha! seriously need that 'love' button for threads like this :)) - Kim

Mona- I didn't see you sneak your existential comment in there while Anna and I were ripping some Clash. I do agree, every decision is a life-altering one. From what I ate for lunch up to what I want to do with my life as a whole. Trippy. Fun to ponder though. - Matt Musgrave

Matt, what did you do with your whole? :p - Anna Haro

Anna- I did everything with my whole as I was supposed to. Now I'm wondering if there's anything more to my whole than this. Why try to fix my whole if it's not broken ;) .....................whole. - Matt Musgrave

hahahahahaha....WRONG. - Anna Haro

;-) - Anna Haro

Because you usually have so many different paths before you. - Mathew Ballard

Mathew- That is way too hard to decide. I need a monorail life to go along with my one track mind :p - Matt Musgrave

When faced with a situation that requires a decision, I always take my first, instinctive response, ignore it, wait a day and then ask someone else to make the decision for me. :-) - Slippy Lane

Hmm good question ... had to make a few of these in my life . - johnpiercy via twhirl

In my line of work as firefighter/ems Ive seen people make the wrong life-altering desicion , with severe conquences - johnpiercy via twhirl

John- I can't even imagine. My situation isn't quite as severe. I'm debating on whether or not to pick up and move out west on a whim, or stay and settle with the safe stable job I currently have. I change the course of my career/life with this decision. But as Mona so kindly pointed out, every decision is life-altering. - Matt Musgrave

The thing is, one can never really know what the outcome will be, and whichever path one takes, the path not travelled remains a mystery. All we can do is to choose the path which appears to cause the fewest problems for others, and hope for the best for ourselves. - Slippy Lane

I didn't get where I'm at now without tossing the dice a few times. I just want to quit while I'm ahead and settle down before I crap out (to keep with the gambling metaphor)..I want to move to SF, but the question is if I can keep moving forward at the same time. Timing is everything. - Matt Musgrave

I KNOW. I can't stop laughing. HAHAHHA - Mona N.

I want that beanbag - John Worthington

I want the grill. - Bren

i would totally buy them all. - Faboo Mama

i would totally get that grill. cook up some shiskabobafetts. whomp whomp - Cee Bee

I would buy almost EVERYTHING on the reject list. - Mona N.

I want the AT-AT chair caddy -- I totally would have used that in my classroom. :) - Pete Delucchi

bummer. - Matt Musgrave

I want a Death Star Grill - Brian

Vadergumballmachine needs "Use Force here" sticker next to and pointing at the nose.... - abacab

I would *totally* buy a Jabba the Hutt beanbag chair - David Adam

I'd totally buy all three haha Even the Leia ear muff speakers haha - Mona N.

That Jabba chair actually looks pretty comfortable. - Thomas Frütel

Some of those are great ideas! +1 abacab - Toby Graham

I would totally want the jabba bean bag! - Parth Awasthi

Deathstar BBQ Party - Dave Q

The grill rocks, but the beanbag chair creeps me out a bit. - Bonita Garrabrant

+1 Bonita - Susan Beebe

the grill would be fantastic - Nathan Chase

I remember listening to a Diggnation a while ago where they talked about this. Death Star Grill FTW! - CannonGod

thanks @CannonGod, i was trying to remember where i saw this before... that Tauntaun suit would have been awesome as a kid's Halloween costume - Philip J Beyer via twhirl

I would definitely take a pair of the princess leia headphones. - Sam via twhirl

Although that girl's eyes are definitely a bit creepy. - Sam via twhirl

@Philip ~ I wonder if the Tauntaun suit has a zip-locked chest so one can climb inside to escape the freezing Hoth temperatures? - CannonGod

I would pay big bucks for a Death Star Grill! - Chris Luckhardt

Get on that Weber! - Ryan

I wasn't sure if this was a weblog link or my Amazon Wish List! ;-) - Joe Lassiter

No, I saw all three at Target today. I swear. - l0ckergn0me

Does the beanbag chair come with chains and a gold bikini? - Slippy Lane

Not in my size Slippy :( - John Worthington

Error #40362 - - - Politically correct Slippy is unsure of how to respond - - - - Slippy Lane

me too, but he was dani radu ... :-p and a lot of beers where inside of us - cata b

"Dani and Cata, sitting in a tree, b - e - e - r - i - n - g" - Slippy Lane

so f**kin true hhahaha .... - cata b

I knew this would happen. They told me. Luckly, I have 2 out-of-jail-what-happend-in-vegas-grant-all-wishes-free-cards. And we will never spealk of this again :) - Dani Radu

dude i gave 1 to me ........ - cata b

Ma? how's it going, MWM? - Bren

Hey. :) - Mona N.

Wowie, so formal Mr. Fancypants. ;-) btw, check your FB - Anna Haro

I am... in need of mocha to clear my muddled but non-tired head - Michael W. May via twhirl

I did check it, A. I also responded. :) Hey M! <3 - Bren

good morning Bren! :) - Niki Costantini

buongiorno, bella Niki. Come stai? - Bren

good morning - Baard Overgaard Hansen

I'm allright thank you :) Working... (and yes, even on saturday morning) - Niki Costantini

and to all my friends in time zones where it is not evening, I say: good morning, bon matin, buongiorno, guten morgen, etc. :) - Bren

and of course good evening from me :D sorry...! - Niki Costantini

Morning from me and goodnight to you Bren! :) - Emma

Its good morning for me but Good Evening for you :) - Hayk Hakobyan

Over here it is goodmorning... ;) - Aline

My budz in Canberra are probably just getting ready to get their drink on. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Good afternoon, Bren. I imagine that you are no longer online, but I trust that when you awaken next, the day will find you well. Yeah, HARO, I got yer formal right here. - Slippy Lane

Slippy Lane, HOW DARE YOU SIR!!!!!!! I AM A LADY.... - Anna Haro

Siddharth- That's a great explanation. I've always wondered that. Thanks! - Matt Musgrave

Actually, even MP3s at the maximum 320Kbps bit rate sound louder than the equivalent on CD, played on the same system. - Siddharth Deb

In the UK, the audio on commercials is ramped up so the sound reaches you in the kitchen, which is where we go to make tea during commercial breaks. - Slippy Lane

Thanks, Matt! That's why a lot of TVs have a setting to "equalize volume", so that you don't get blown out of your sofa when certain commercials come on. iTunes has a similar feature called "Sound Check" that makes MP3s and normal WAV files play back at the same volume as well. - Siddharth Deb

ciao - Jeff Douglass

night night-crewer - anna

Good night - Morton Fox

gnight - Emotion Tad

Night, Kyle. - Ayşe E.

theatre - Bwana McCall

theatre - Trish R

how old were you when you guys saw it? - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠

Theatre - I was 7 or 8 and I had bronchitis. Loved every second of it. - Emotion Tad

Theatre. - I was too young to understand it. I watched it on video when I first understood it and was a die hard Sci Fi fan ever since. - Christopher Welle

I saw it in the theater four times on the opening day. And Luke made that "million to one" shot EVERY SINGLE TIME! - Glen Campbell

me too. went off the deep end immediately. I had a 2 buck a week allowance = 50cents to and from on the bus and the rest on the admission. Saw it way too many times that year. at least 15 times. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠

I was 3 or 4 when I saw it. Don't remember if it was before my 4th birthday or not - Bwana McCall

I loved it so much my sister bought me an LP (vinyl) of the movie. I can't remember if it was a soundtrack or something else but I loved it - Bwana McCall

don't get me started on the toys and crap. I wish I still had all that stuff EDIT I would give it to my kids (3 & 5) who saw it just the other day. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠

Theatre. - Mona N.

Cowering behind the couch in my lounge room... Darth Vader scared the living crap out of me... - John Worthington

Theatre. Three or four times. - Alan

I was around 7 and saw it on video. I've since seen it in theaters upon rerelease though. - Aaron Krug

1982, 5th anniversary showing at local theatre. Friends had seen it more than once when new in '77, but nobody thought to invite the poor kid :P - Michael W. May

video - ♥ pea ♥..!..♥..!..♥

I loved the re-releases. up till the special editions that is. they were ok. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠

Funny thing is my dad dragged me to the first viewing. I was a Star Trek geek at the time. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠

HBO at age five-ish. Saw RotJ in the theatre at six years old. Didn't know there was an ESB until a few years later. I was a confused kid. - Robert Haas

Theater....5 years old... - Live4Soccer

Wasn't it re-released several times? (theater) - Mona N.

I recall 2 re-releases before Empire came out. Plus it played at the drive-in for years and years. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠

I saw it in 77 at a drive in on the roof of my parents 69 T-Bird. - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Theater. And saw it before it said "Episode 4 A New Hope" in the crawl (which was added for the 1978 rerelease). Oh sorry, my geek is showing! - invariant

Empire was such a tease. There was a projectionist strike in our city and couldn't go see it for *months*. I was clipping the newspaper ads from Toronto and Montreal in hopes of convincing my parents to go on a road trip. No Dice. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠

Video. I was born in the time frame (1991) where they were done with theater round 1 and didn't start theater round 2. I still love it. :) - Zach Flauaus

Sad thing is that, in this city, all the theatres and drive-ins I saw it in are now gone. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠

Gotta get sleep. Next Time: How I ended up seeing Jedi (before opening night) with the Prime Minister of Canada. nite. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠

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