"Swiss scientists believe they have a solution to help tidy up the junkyard of satellites over our heads. It's called CleanSpace One and it's designed to tackle the 17,000-mph mess we've made around our planet. The $11 million "janitor satellite" is under development at the Swiss Space Center in the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (EPFL). Its target: derelict satellites 430 miles up that threaten our communications and information networks."
- DB Botts - Just DB Botts
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“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald #fftop20
RT @mashable: The "What People Think I Do/What I Really Do" meme has overtaken the "Sh*t People Say" meme. Here are the best - http://mashable.com/2012...
Steven Perez Hover Bunny — The Daily Bunny - http://dailybunny.org/post... 2 hours ago from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like bezdomnyj82, AJ Batac, Andrew C (✓) and 3 other people liked this oh Mr. Bunneh you be so silly. - Valz loves JJ Hey, Val. Yes, I am. :) - Steven Perez
Apparently, my DL has been suspended since 12/21 and they sent the notification to my old address. So, I've been riding around for over a month now with my kids and everything and could have been sent to jail had I even got pulled over for anything.
- Rah-PM 2012
Sounds like a new DA. She actually didn't talk down to me like poop she just scraped off her shoe. Gave me a reasonable option to resolve the situation. Not that I actually have the money, but she's being flexible.
- Rah-PM 2012
I will have to see what I can do. I may be able to swing it while still keeping the lights on. But, I'm sure you'll find me complaining here if I can't :).
- Rah-PM 2012
This has me feeling so sick right now. Gah.
- Rah-PM 2012
Thank you all so much! I'm just still tripping over this whole situation so I definitely appreciate your help. My paypal is Rahsheen dot Porter at Gmail dot com. Thanks again!
- Rah-PM 2012
"Give yourself one less thing to worry about with the Breville Tea Brewer ($250). Designed for the discerning tea drinker and incredibly lazy alike, this one-touch brewer features a fully automated tea basket that moves your leaves down into the water, then gently agitates them to infuse your tea with flavor, as the whole system keeps track of what variety of tea you're brewing, adjusting the water temperature and brewing time accordingly. Or, you could just do the same thing with a stove, thermometer, and egg timer. Good luck with that."
- Derrick
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I....wow. What can be more simple than putting tea in a pot, pouring boiling water on and waiting? Now there's a MACHINE for that?
- Slippy
I'd buy one if I had the money, says the Keurig owner. :)
- caj needs a haircut
I love my electric automatic off teapot, but this seems to be a bit much. Looks super-cool though.
- Eric
I drink tea, but I don't know if I drink enough tea to warrant this.
- Derrick
Nope, wouldn't buy it. That's just too much--and tea is my primary beverage. Would rather spend the $$ on Joe Bonamassa tickets and a very nice dinner.
- Kirsten
I'd buy one if I had the money, says the non-tea drinker. It looks like it would be fun to play with.
- Soup in a TARDIS
Hmm. If I had money, I'd consider it, if just the ability to adjust temperatures for different kinds of tea. Of course, thinking about it, it is a rare day when I drink something that isn't just black tea of some variety. /edit SWEET BABY JESUS. $250?
- Jennifer Dittrich
$250?! No thanks. I'll take my Cuisiart electric teakettle over this any day!
- Elena
I would buy one except that it doesn't post what tea you are drinking to the Twittersphere or Farcebook.
- Nick B.
I sold a few of these when I worked at Williams-Sonoma. The cool thing about it is the different settings depending on what tea you are making
- Chris Topher
Before you go to sleep, you long press the button on the fitbit to start the timer. When you wake up, you long press again to stop. It'll keep track of movement during that time to guess your sleep efficiency.
- Rodfather
how does it know when you actually fall asleep??? (do you know how much money I had to spend to have a sleep clinic tell me these things?? and how many electrodes??)
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
It knows when you stopped moving - even small restless motions - and calls that "asleep". It then puts red spikes in every time you move in the night, on the assumption that sleeping people don't actually move.
- Jenica
key word in Rodfathers comment, "guess."
- Lnorigb
You can move during non-REM sleep, but you shouldn't be able to move during REM sleep (although people with certain parasomnias obviously do), and the assumption is that the longer you're in REM, the better quality your sleep is.
- Victor Ganata
It seems that even if the world is caving in around me (and the past couple weeks have been particularly stressful), I can still get a relatively good night's sleep.
- Derrick
"No sales? Hard time hooking clients? Your deep-discount pricing could be choking your reputation. It’s not uncommon to offer your services at cut-rate discount with the hope that you’ll snap up eager bargain-hunters. But is this really the right approach? Successful Pros agree that raising your pricing may not necessarily scare away potential clients – in fact, it’ll do a body good. Here’s why."
- vicster
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"By 12:56 p.m., the Subaru drove up, and when officers closed in, Harbar told them the couple was "doing some Valentine's Day role-playing," the police report said. Police confirmed from Pelzner "that she was voluntarily bound and nude in the back of the Subaru," it said. Not feeling in a loving mood -- especially since at least nine police cars were tied up for 20 minutes during the search -- authorities booked both of them into the Multnomah County Jail."
- SteVe C
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