There is a retailer in EWR terminal C near the PC in the sky that had them on display so you can take them for a test drive. The one thing that sort of ticked me off was that the codec's for the player are sold seperate. If you want the wifi to work, you have to download it for $30 bucks, same thing with the mpeg codec. To get your programs off TiVo and onto the player, you need TiVo To Go plus or prem. It costs about $30 and it converts the tivo recordings into mobile H.264 somthing so it will play on the mobile device.

I think the Rescue 911 timing was more for dramatic effect. I can ask Vinny (err... Vincent) though. I run into him on occasion.

We strive to be on scene within 9 minutes 90% of the time. I'd say we beat ALS 60% of the time. But, it really depends on where the call is. NY EMS (around here) is wayyyy better than NJ according to my friends that work both.

If :rolleyes: hits the fan we have a commercial service that does transports back up the 911 side. So, in theory, you're never waiting more than 10 minutes for an ambulance. In theory...

Thanks for the info .

Yes. But the fees/other charges (4GBP for a CC transaction, etc.) quickly add up to a point that you're paying a bit for the fare anyways.

Kindof like MSY.

It is exactly what it is - a haven of excess and ridiculous behavior. At least they don't pretend to be anything else.

I don't much like the place either but a friend (from California of course) loves to have parties out there and so we are going out Monday morning for a few days. He will hole up at the encore so we managed to get a not too damaging rate there and will join him.

I am debating whether to take my laptop or just the BB, but taking the laptop always wins. :o

That would be right next to Boca Executive Airport and the kid's palace next door to the movie theater, Boomers. I'm still known to go there for some video games and mini-golf, to say nothing of the mini-bowling. ^^ Loud as all hell with the ankle-biters everywhere, but if you get in and have your fun before a case of the :rolleyes: sets in, it's not too bad.

I had a :rolleyes: woman there who accused me of stealing an air hockey table from her 6-year-old grandson, and she had the chutzpah to claim that he was in line for the table, when there was in fact no one occupying the table. The grandmother wouldn't admit that I was faster on the draw and beat the kid to the table quite fairly.

:confused::confused::confused: - to each their own, of course, but I'd never thought I'd read anything like that.

Yeah, well said. I really don't know how to respond to hating on Vegas - I didn't think it was possible. The Christian Coalition certainly won't be having their convention there, and true to that statement, I always thought that some kind of belief system violation was really the only way to dislike Las Vegas.

In other news, did anyone see that Michelle Obama's rep ripped the Beanie Baby people a new one over their creation of Sasha and Malia dolls? If you're opposed to the dolls because it's your kids, that's fine. But the quote from her rep was somewhat irksome no matter what part of the spectrum you call home: "We believe it is inappropriate to use young, private citizens for marketing purposes." :eek: - so if that's true, no kids should be used to market, well, anything...and by her line of reasoning, that includes kids' products. I guess you could switch out the kid on the oatmeal box with the old man in the nursing home. :rolleyes:

Nope. Missed it. But I think you're comparing apples to earwax.

Did Sasha and Malia and/or their parents give consent? Or was their likeness exploited for the purposes of commercialization?

The kid on the oatmeal box got paid and agreed to it. Therein lies the difference.

Bad quote from the rep? Sure. Taken out of context? Probably. The whole thing stupid? Absolutely.

In other news, why am I not at Lace? Oh. Right. :rolleyes:ing.

HAHAHA.

A firehouse is on fire! Irony, how I love thee.

Here we go again. Reminds me of the Clintons trotting out their daughter for all kinds of publicity and promotional purposes and then showing high dudgeon whenever anybody said anything other than flattering about her or tried to find out what she really was doing there.

Obama cannot bring his his children front and center and if he really wants to kill their appearing on the front page over and over, he can do it by withdrawing them completely from the public eye. Otherwise, he is taking a page from the Clinton playbook.

No matter what you thought of W, he managed to keep his children out of the political spotlight despite the fact that their misadventures kept calling attention to them.

Agreed.

Although a cynic would argue that their being kept out of the spotlight was directly related to their misadventures. ;)

:rolleyes: I'd hardly call it 'trotting them out there' at this point. Given a new first family there's a lot of public interest in all of them, plus there have been a few events that are of no small importance to their family where they have been front and center. Let's give them more than 4 days in the White House to let the novelty wear off and see if the 'trotting' out happens.

Point well taken.

The daughters were absolutely used in W's campaigns, probably more than Obama's kids were. They actually appeared on their own at events to try to build support for daddy.

I completely understand wanting to use the kids during the campaign and then them being off limits. That isn't a double standard as it is the way it has always been.


I agree with belynch's assessment:
The whole thing is ridiculously stupid. Besides, who knew that beanie babies still existed??

Church must not have let out yet. Quiet this morning.
Or everyone else is watching the Rolex 24 hour...

The guy across the aisle from me on my flight this morning was talking to his seat mate about Flyertalk and mileage runs. The seat mate was not a FT'er but was an avid mileage runner. I was too tired from my redeye to strike up a conversation or determine whether it was anyone from the CO forum, however.