#13 - ANTHONY

I noticed the cord going straight up, too. It's because houses only had a few electric lights and no power outlets. The cords for appliances ended in screw-in plugs that fit the light socket.

They must have gotten table lamps with plugs later.

In EVERY SINGLE case where I have had first hand knowledge of an incident in the news, including recently when I was interviewed for the local paper, I found at least three mistakes or inaccuracies.

What's scary is although I remind myself that based on that I know those stories are almost always wrong, I should consider that for every story I read, that thought vaporizes in no time, and I go right playing jump to conclusions. *sigh*

I missed where she admitted she's the Joyce McKinney wanted in the U.K. The last I read she was threatening to sue the AP reporter for asking the question.

Didja notice the store employee respond so well and appropriately during the crisis to clean the glass on the door next to the machine?

Or... you could just use an electric razor.

There was a monetary settlement. WHO paid the money? I hope Geller had to pay the EFFs legal fees.

You shouldn't be plugging these b*tds. They've been spamming me for YEARS.

They sent emails out of nowhere with no opt out.

No problem once I set up a filter to trash all the messages.

Guess they're trying YouTube spamming now.

I know that the Volo Auto Museum nearby has a Batmobile.

I thought they said it was THE Batmobile but I'll bet it's another copy. They don't seem to talk much about it (or at all) on the web site.

Olivetti ade the not-at-all-lamented AT&T PCs.

Wil,

Burt and Dick Rutan called.

They want their sideburns back.

@CENOXO

Woody Allen did a hysterical stand-up routine about how his home appliances conspired to make his life miserable.

He brings them all together in the living room, sits down, and asks for a truce. One day he loses it and beats the toaster. The talking elevator in the building takes revenge.

I have my Kaypro and 3 Osbornes.

AFAIK, they still work - as long as the floppies are still readable - and the Kaypro shows no sign of rust.

BTW, the article says the Compaq was the first portable PC compatible which is correct.

I used to laugh when Compaq ran ads much later saying the company was based on an innovative idea. Lessee. The "innovative" idea was "What if we made an Osborne that was PC compatible?"

Well, hey, these days they'd run right off and patent that.

@Razordu30

That map is funny. I think it corresponds in Illinois to pretty much where I've always said grocery "bags" start to become "sacks."

Somewhere further south automobile "accidents" on the traffic reports become "wrecks."

For the record it's "soda pop" so we'd be two measures on the map.

OMG! http://www.eff.org is down!

Have the lords of control killed it?

@REED SAVORY

I was going to post that.

I have my original Series 3 solely on the net, no antenna (too far away and so far too cheap to erect a tower), no CableCARD (can't abide Comcast).

I note that although you can go through a painful process to add podcasts, it won't play video podcasts and even audio ones don't have the TiVo control functionality.

But huzzah! TiVo signed deals with podcast providers like CNET and Ziff and Podshow so you get those like regular TiVo season passes.

Then I discover that the DRM prevents me from transfering say "Cranky Geeks" from the Tivo to the PC while I can transfer network shows.

Soooo....I can subscribe to the Cranky Geeks podcast directly on any platform and get a non-DRMed video file in my choice of formats but if I subscribe the Tivo I can't transfer it off!

I hooked up my Macbook Pro to the TV and home theater.

It breaks my heart because I'm still in love with the functionality of the Tivo UI and remote but I'll be eBaying the HD Tivo and mothballing the other 4 Tivos.

Mequon is a bit more north than just "outside of Milwaukee." I Google mapped it and decided it was too far from northern Illinois, especially with having to deal with traffic driving through Milwaukee.

Shouldda caught ya in Naperville, Cory.

This was already invented. There was a gadget sold in the early 1960s that was a plastic ball that split on the "equator" with spouts on the axis. Just like this you filled it with ice cream and drank the soda through it. I'll bet it was like 29 cents.

As I remember it may have been promoted by Seven-Up. It was hawked on the lunchtime "Bozo's Circus" on WGN in Chicago.

For some reason, we had to buy and drink 7-up through it, but I'm sure we tried it with Coca-Cola.