You should probably use some real-world nouns that they recognize. Like.. volkswagens. Or elephants. Or - ooh! - floppy disks. "It would take 50 elephants towing 100 volkswagens filled with floppy disks 23,301 years to transfer the amount of data that we just saw go by in the last minute!"
Can't say I'd be too excited to have a GM kid. Even though I could get it for $0 down and 0% interest for 36 months, the maintenance problems and the poor handling would be annoying. I'd much rather get the kid straight from Big Mamma Womb. High quality, german engineered, and a logo on the front that makes the neighbors envious.
I actually thought AOTC was better in IMAX (sony metreon, SF) than on the less-big big screen. It looked great, the sound was thunderous; the best part, however, was that in order to have it fit onto the IMAX reels, they had to cut it down to two hours or something around there. They took out all the flimflam about senates and rolling around in meadows and the other assorted blather, and the pace was substantially improved. I hoped at the time that I'd be able to get that edition of the film on DVD instead of the daytime television chatfest with lightsabers that I saw last summer.
I moved from Maine to the SF bay in early 1998 in search of a tech job. I found a place right in the middle of San Jose, and was unable to get any kind of broadband access for about three years. Right in the heart of the valley and nothing but a flaky modem. Eventually, I adopted a "I've got a modem, and that's OK" mentality, and was able to survive.
Meanwhile, my folks back home were cruising along on their flawless roadrunner connection. The irony got old really quick.
Just recently, IE 5.5 has decided to scroll up from where it should be whenever I hit back. Wacky. Too bad nobody will ever see this to say they've got this problem too - yet another MS conspiracy down the drain.
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You should probably use some real-world nouns that they recognize. Like.. volkswagens. Or elephants. Or - ooh! - floppy disks.
"It would take 50 elephants towing 100 volkswagens filled with floppy disks 23,301 years to transfer the amount of data that we just saw go by in the last minute!"
Can't say I'd be too excited to have a GM kid. Even though I could get it for $0 down and 0% interest for 36 months, the maintenance problems and the poor handling would be annoying. I'd much rather get the kid straight from Big Mamma Womb. High quality, german engineered, and a logo on the front that makes the neighbors envious.
I actually thought AOTC was better in IMAX (sony metreon, SF) than on the less-big big screen. It looked great, the sound was thunderous; the best part, however, was that in order to have it fit onto the IMAX reels, they had to cut it down to two hours or something around there. They took out all the flimflam about senates and rolling around in meadows and the other assorted blather, and the pace was substantially improved. I hoped at the time that I'd be able to get that edition of the film on DVD instead of the daytime television chatfest with lightsabers that I saw last summer.
I moved from Maine to the SF bay in early 1998 in search of a tech job. I found a place right in the middle of San Jose, and was unable to get any kind of broadband access for about three years. Right in the heart of the valley and nothing but a flaky modem. Eventually, I adopted a "I've got a modem, and that's OK" mentality, and was able to survive.
Meanwhile, my folks back home were cruising along on their flawless roadrunner connection. The irony got old really quick.
holy interesting tidbit in a troll post...
Just recently, IE 5.5 has decided to scroll up from where it should be whenever I hit back. Wacky. Too bad nobody will ever see this to say they've got this problem too - yet another MS conspiracy down the drain.