@FerminaDaza: I've seen pigeons take the Red Line train in Chicago more than once. Sometimes they looked a bit confused or alarmed, but in most cases they just kind of nonchalantly bobbed around until they decided to get out. No flapping poop whirlwinds anywhere.
@David Alvaro: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
I say Tyrannosaurs were predators, because it would be so bogus if they just ate things that were already dead. The end.
...I'M A CONCISE WRITER, OKAY?!
...I'M A CONCISE WRITER, OKAY?!
@PlaidNinja: Or maybe in the mirror universe, Nero destroyed Earth first instead of Vulcan, and the remnants of the Federation became an aggressive military power in response. Mirror Enterprise is a purely military vessel, and mirror Kirk a ruthless commander furious at the universe for destroying both his family and his home. But I think the amount of arrogance and entitlement between two new-Star-Trek Kirks would cause the film reels to implode.
And I, too, just want something new and interesting instead of a rehash of a classic Trek trope.
They keep talking about extending the Surburban line to the Magellanic Clouds, but they never actually do it because it's "not in the budget." It'd be nice to have something other than shitty buses out there. I'm sick of having to deal with the smelly homeless Bulrathi always sleeping in the back.
@Josh Wimmer: NUMBER EIGHT: THE LIST'S AUTHOR HAD A HAMSTER FOR A MOTHER AND HIS FATHER SMELT OF ELDERBERRIES
Seven books each by Wolfe and Vance? No J.G. Ballard, Samuel Delany, Roger Zelazny, William Gibson, M. John Harrison, Margaret Atwood or Iain M. Banks? Even worse, no Jules Verne, Stanislaw Lem or Alfred Bester? Several of the most influential novels in 20th century literature (Gravity's Rainbow, 1984, Slaughterhouse-Five, A Canticle for Liebowitz) ranked below some extremely recent author I've never even heard of? The Fountainhead classified as SF? Pale Fire's inclusion is also dubious at best, although Ada or Ardor could be shoehorned in if he felt the need to put Nabokov somewhere in there. And even as a fan of Philip K. Dick, there are too many of his novels in the list too.
Really, this list is more of a "My personal favorites" list than anything resembling true canon, SF or otherwise. He doesn't even really give a proper justification for why he classifies these books as the "greatest" rather than just books he happens to like, and some of his blurbs are nonsensical or completely missing the point of the original work. The omissions, and the novels he chose to fill in for them, just make this completely absurd.
I will, however, give him credit for including authors like Pynchon, Bulgakov, Nabokov and Vonnegut on the list.
Wouldn't it at least be a better idea to build the keyboard into the unit itself? The projected keyboard idea is terrible in practice, since you don't get any tactile feedback and it can give you some wicked repetitive stress injuries. Plus, is the projector any more energy-efficient than an actual monitor? This just seems like a bad idea all around.
@ExtendedRockyMontage: Seriously, I have enough problems with wind on my regular bike in Chicago. This thing would catch a light breeze and plow me into the front of a bus. Add to that the fact that steering looks nearly nonexistent, and this is the perfect bike for getting completely mauled. No thanks.
Plus it looks like a TRON lightcycle and a Wii had a flipper baby.
@FriarNurgle: Not unless you find a way to harness heinous dog farts for power. Then it's ENERGY CRISIS OVER!
@ManchuCandidate: For the same reason God needs a starship.
The good thing is, these planets are usually Mineral Rich. Let's hope the Sakkra don't beat us to it.
@Max_Power_Turbo: Wait, why the hell are they playing games in class instead of paying attention?
It's all fun and games until somebody wakes up hungover, trips over something on the floor and crashes through two stories of glass. Whoops!
Also, it instantly reminded me of the ice house in Super Mario 64.
I actually had one of these back in 2004, which I bought off eBay after my Rio MP3/CD player started going south. I used it for about six months before my mom got me an iPod for graduation. I loved it, but lord did the thing plow through batteries like nobody's business. "Portable" was a relative term, really.
@brett.legree: He's looking for a computer, not a space heater.
Am I the only one who noticed that the actual time-telling portion is sideways? Even if the rest of the gadget were totally awesome and didn't look like a total trainwreck, that would be an utter deal-breaker for me because I'm conditioned to the orientation of, you know, every other watch in existence.
Aw holy hell. I'm flying from Chicago to DC on Thursday, so hopefully they haven't decided to go nuts with new security measures there.
Even aside from that, I'm going to Germany for five weeks in March, and if a two-hour flight with all my electronic toys makes me nervous (which it does), I don't even want to think about what a intercontinental flight home would be like without all that. Maybe I'll just stay in Munich. The job market is probably better!
@eirrann: The joke was that "Duvel" literally means "devil" in Dutch. :) But I concur that Stella isn't terribly pleasant.
@kampfy: I would counter your argument by pointing out that Greyhound is trying its damnedest to make bus travel even less pleasant than air travel.
