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Model Train Control Using Your PDA

Posted by michael on from the obsessive-compulsive dept.

VP writes "Forget that crap about PDAs making you more productive by keeping useless contact lists and appointment reminders. Here is the real reason PDAs exist: locopalm.com. You might want to check out the TechTV spot as well."

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  1. Hey, can I control you train...? by ahooton · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmmm... OK, now that I see it in print, maybe it's not such a great pick-up line after all...

  2. But ... by B3ryllium · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want to be able to drive my car with my PDA/Cell phone.

    I want to be able to fly a remote control helicopter, too!

    1. Re:But ... by papadiablo · · Score: 5, Funny

      I want to be able to drive myself with my PDA, creating an infinite loop of me controlling me through my PDA controlling me through me controlling me through my PDA through controlling me through me controlling me through my PDA....

    2. Re:But ... by B3ryllium · · Score: 2, Funny

      hahah :) That's ten times better than mine.

      No, wait ... infinite times better! wee! :)

  3. Slashdotted by Snoopy77 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Was he running his website on his PDA as well? Did we crash his train too?

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    1. Re:Slashdotted by Snoopy77 · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's sweet coming from the guy who wrote this

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    2. Re:Slashdotted by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yikes! I shouldn't throw stones in a glass house.

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      Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.

  4. Re:Isn't this kind of pushing it? by deadsaijinx* · · Score: 3, Funny

    you are SOOOO talking to the wrong people.

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  5. Re:0 posts and already slashdotted... by dr_dank · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdotted? Nah, I prefer to think of it as derailed!

    Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the fish.

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  6. Sorry, but ... by DogIsMyCoprocessor · · Score: 3, Funny

    this won't be cool until you can use a Palm to make 2 model trains collide and explode like in the Addams Family.

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  7. My experience with model trains.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I was in public school my friend's dad had a model train set up in one room in his basement. We were never allow to go in there, he was afraid we'd break something. You might think this kind of "forbidden fruit" would be beyond temptation to two young boys, but you'd be wrong. I never went in that room, and I never wanted to either.

    Moral of the story.. even though you think model trains are great, most people don't give a shit.

    1. Re:My experience with model trains.. by Neuropol · · Score: 1, Funny

      Should the phrases "freind's dad" and "forbidden fruit" be in the same story?

  8. Re:Choo Choo Choo by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about we work on CONSTRUCTIVE projects that would make this world a better place.

    Or at least someting cool like...

    VNC Server for Toasters and Light-Switches

    and

    TCP/IP Enabled Lego Bricks

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  9. a better title would be by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 2, Funny

    When geek cultures collide... pda's and model trains? throw in linux and its a geek paradise...

  10. Re:shit thats just silly by deadsaijinx* · · Score: 3, Funny

    wont even get your ass laid

    i dont know about you, but i don't like it when my ass engages in sexual activities...

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  11. My model train story :( by l810c · · Score: 3, Funny
    Got a new train set and several buildings, etc for Christmas many years ago. Spent weeks building a 4'x8' table. Used the green bag-o-grass and glue instead of the paper, Huge Paper mache mountain with bridge, roads, buildings, street lights. Had everything installed, but not completely wired. That upcoming weekend I was going to finish everything. Hard Freeze in late February and a pipe in the Kitchen upstairs bursts. It must have been 2-3am and many, many, many gallons came down right on my mountain and then on my trains and then on the floor. The mountain melted, trains and track rusted, base was brown and the carpet was green.

    Just thought I'd share...

  12. Real reason by Zakabog · · Score: 2, Funny

    Forget that crap about PDAs making you more productive by keeping useless contact lists and appointment reminders. Here is the real reason PDAs exist

    This isn't the reason PDAs exist, it's just the real reason why most geeks will never get laid.

    Geek 1: I can either save that girls number on my PDA, or free the memory up so I can use it for my train controlling app.
    Geek 2: There are girls, and phone numbers all over this planet, how many train controlling PDAs are there!?!?
    Geek 1: You're right! Train controlling app it is!