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http://cdn.iofferphoto.com/img/item/985/572/87/o_2DeyRlFrMivDa12.jpg (mine is still somewhere in the attic I believe ... or the basement ... after 40+ years ...)

Anything else means you're not fit to be a parent, IMNSHO ...

Oh wait, that was his daughter.

Here is Gene Klein's hot shiksa wife.

Well, ok, maybe his daughter is hotter than her mother. Must be Gene's genes working their magic for the next generation.

I spent a lot of time as a youngster at the public library. Fortunately my mom was a big reader and took me there often (it was too far from our house for me to ride my bike or walk.) In grade school I'd already figured out that Science Fiction and Fantasy were my favorites. I don't remember what year it was exactly but it doesn't seem like it took me too long to read through everything interesting in the kids section and I moved over to the regular Sci-Fi/Fantasy shelves.
 
I do remember clearly pulling the White Dragon off the shelf one day and there on the cover was a guy, sitting on a dragon, with little dragons around them both. Well, that was it. I grabbed it and I tore through it.
 
I still chuckle because my parents were rather conservative and some of the content in that book would have made them flip out. I just loved every bit of it, and then went back to the library to actually read through the series in order. The Pern books became lifelong friends, from that introduction as an adolescent, to bringing Masterharper of Pern with me on my honeymoon (read it on the flight) and today I still am reading the books. Not too many authors have that kind of long term impact.

When I was a child in the 60s (and dreams could be held through TV) we had plastic toys that were just like miniature versions of this.

They were made by Marx, I think, and we called them "wickety wackety walking toys".

George Jetson's dog

Pluto the Pup

Barney and Fred Flintstone in a compromising position

Mickey Mouse shamefully abusing Pluto

I had all these except the (apparently rare) Mickey bestiality one, and half a dozen more. They walked down a ramp, swinging their legs, but with no knee flexing. Google "Ramp walker" for more. They'd walk forever if you had an infinitely long ramp or an inclined treadmill.

LOL. Actually, I'm a bit of a geezer too (hint: I was a freshman in college the night I went to Incredible Universe at midnight to buy my copy of WIndows 95). One of my favorite laptops was the Zeos Meridian, which just so happened to have an IBM-style pointer stick in the location I'm talking about (and unfortunately, was utterly out of my price range at the time) -- http://cdn2.iofferphoto.com/img3/item/211/480/688/dIaQ.jpg

Finally, there is no fucking phone for them to use even if they do remember their phone number.

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Sounds like you need a Yak Bak!

That link doesn't seem to work. I think it is slashdotted, here is a mirror.

http://i2.iofferphoto.com/img/1137657600/_i/10228270/1.jpg

Will someone with modpoints please mod parent down before the idiot mods mod it informative without looking at it?

Here is a mirror. http://i2.iofferphoto.com/img/1137657600/_i/10228270/1.jpg

That link doesn't seem to work. I think it is slashdotted, here is a mirror. http://i2.iofferphoto.com/img/1137657600/_i/10228270/1.jpg

That picture is slashdotted, here is a mirror. http://i2.iofferphoto.com/img/1137657600/_i/10228270/1.jpg

The graphical artist (probably out of laziness) made some design decisions that area clearly inspired by the Apple logo.

Right, nobody but apple ever did that.

I've ranted on this before but for the life of me can't find my original whinge.
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Take note of the home / ins / del / page up / page down keys and how they've been moved around by Microsoft for reasons unknown, breaking the standard US form factor we've been using for years (and hell! I had to convert from UK in the first place)
Also take note of F1 F2 F3 / F4 F5 F6 - they've split the F keys by 3 not 4 and they require an "F lock" to be enabled for them to work as default, otherwise they serve other functions (it should be the other way around)

Finally the cursor keys are slightly lower down on the keyboard itself.
Absoloute abominations and very arrogant of Microsoft to boot, sadly they come with many cheap PC's - gives me the absoloute niggles.