blackbrook

Maybe it's a "damn, I better reproduce, pronto!"

I'm going to use this as an opportunity to reminisce about an insane laptop of the past: I once had a thinkpad W700ds. I chose this because work was paying for it, and I wanted a powerful machine and a 17 screen. This was a no compromises "mobile workstation." I knew it wasn't going to be light or slim, but my attitude was, what, am I afraid of getting a little extra exercise carrying it around?

But I really wasn't imagining quite what I got. It weighed almost 11 pounds (maybe more, because I think I added an extra drive). And it was big. Extra thick. I had to search really hard to find a backpack that would actually fit it, and what I ended up having to get was actually targeted at DJ's. It was a beast.

And the icing on the cake was the extra slide out screen. I knew this was gimmicky, and didn't actually want it, but the model without it was out of stock. It slid out of the cover on the side, so as to be next to the main monitor, but it was kind of crappy. The resolution wasn't as good and it was dimmer, so it just didn't look right. It was kind of embarrassing and contributed to the cover having to be just that much thicker.

Even the power brick was huge.

Yeah, one of those I didn't really think things through moments. It was a great conversation starter though, if you didn't mind admitting to being a dork.

It is not known that the universe is infinitely large. Nor is it generally accepted that space "wraps around" like the balloon analogy suggests.

Probably afraid of an Alec Baldwin incident.

The Homophobic Slurs would be a great band name.

"1/12 lb more beef then a quartet pounder" would have been a great marketing slogan!

Well King Arthur, the flour company, is employee owned.

We're stuck between a rock and a hard place with a bad system but there are choices we can make about how fully it controls us.

I think the combination of strong foreshortening, the unexpected extreme size differences of the eggs, and maybe the half carton many of us are less used to, makes this the eggbox version of one of those 'mystery houses' where things are warped in sone strange way that it fools you into thinking things roll uphill and such.

I don't think "first priority" means what Hershey thinks it means.

pencil would probably work

For a second I thought you had some kind of crazy triangular egg carton until I realized it was just foreshortening.

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