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Feel down, that is--in person he's a tiny scrawny little guy.

Also bad for ferry boats! On the original topic, there's also some amazing videos of successful crab landings, I think some aircraft (big transport maybe?) the main gear even rotates quite a bit so it touches down like that, if I recall it straightened before the front wheel touched...

TY, your moderation (in moderation!) is such a refreshing change from the site many of us fled from, glad you will still participate and sorry to see you give up the reigns of power!

Sounds and looks a lot like RealDoll which has been around for a while now.

Neither is "man"... ;oP

April first cocktail menu, I really want to go to that place! Guess it's in Rhode Island.

Yeah, I'm beginning to be a bit conflicted about the whole episode. $1000 donation, as opposed to the active participation and advocacy of a person like Orson Scott Card, and he's hounded out of a position he worked long to obtain. And he had real tech credentials, apparently creating javascript... It's like we're moving into Christian RIGHT territory: have tolerance for me OR ELSE, and by tolerance we mean let us do whatever we want!

I generally agree with you and Expat (especially Expat since I'm also rather tall) but was just thinking, the experience we remember from the good old days of flying is still available--in first/business class. And things have gotten so cheap that adjusted for inflation those tickets can't cost more than coach tickets did back before the 'Greyhound in the sky' crap started, right? It's just we're all too cheap... We get what we pay for then we all bitch about it!

I think it has a space at the end of that url, here's the working link. You gonna earn some frequent flyer points Townie? I was just thinking about offerings like this (I've seen another, somewhere) the other day... stuff sucks in flight. Food, people also have worse impressions of movies... the noise and vibration and lack of pressure all contribute. So would sex also be worse?

I also use Gmail and an Android phone, so Chrome integrates right into that, looking forward to the Google Now cards popping up in Chrome feature. As it is if I Google a place on my desktop info about it pops up automagically in Google Now on my phone. Can be very useful (though can also be kinda creepy, sure...). You have 2.5 choices for custodian of your digital life: Apple (I've probably made my feelings on them clear in the past) or Google (or Microsoft--if you're a masochist). Of those three choices I'd actually lean towards MS if they weren't so poorly executed all the time, so that leaves Google. Once you choose one everything gets better and better if you just go all the way. And yes, having one corporation have so incredibly much info about me is a bit unnerving, but on the other hand I think they're the only one I've heard actively pushing back against gov't surveillance and the corporate motto of "Don't be evil", even if they don't always live up to it, is actually kinda inspiring...