20

February
2005

9:20 PM

it slices! it dices! it writes underwater!

Mama says I've been boring lately, well, she didn't put it quite that way, but take it from me, that was the subtext. Yeah, yeah, it's not like I haven't heard that before in my life, so without further ado, I (mine Nola for good material and having succeeded handsomely) forthwith present (material scraped wholesale from another site via a third, this being the immemorial Custom of the Intarnets) Mobile PC's Top 100 Gadgets of All Time.

This bit's from #80, The Fisher Space Pen:

Spurred by the space race, the Fisher company spent years inventing a pen that could write upside down, underwater, and in zero gravity. What did the Russians equip their cosmonauts with? Pencils. Still, Fisher's Space Pen...

Light. Amusing. Snappy writing. Everything this weblog has not been about for the last few days.

making the neighbours thump the ceiling with: Stockton Gala Days from the album "MTV Unplugged" by 10,000 Maniacs

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