Moreover, no one on the committee can identify who or what instilled Dr. Jones with the belief that an archaeologist’s tool kit should consist solely of a bullwhip and a revolver.
“If all goes well, he will jump from a balloon at an altitude of around 131,000 feet, or 25 miles above Saskatchewan, Canada. At around 115,000 feet his body will blow through the sound barrier.”
“As an aside, the Monster Box - and the cakes they sell - are shaped like a piece of Japanese gym equipment. Just to keep the fitness theme going, see? … All pretext of fitness goes away when you open your Monster Box.”
Mac OS X 10.5’s Time Machine seems fairly revolutionary as far as automated backup goes - but the seeds of it have existed since Copland, the proto-Mac OS 8.
What’s most amusing about this record is that… Guinness arrived at it without even considering all the Mega Man games — basically, they failed to arrive at a full count.
“11) Performance. You’re not supposed to deliver a new operating system that’s been in development for more than four years yet performs worse than the previous OS.” + 10 more!
An interesting story involving a miraculous voice, a time-travel-enabled clock, and Quantum-Leap-style crime solving? Sign me up for more original S-E IPs, please.
Interesting - this is almost like the ‘Convergence’ mode in Parallels Desktop, only for Linux/Windows integration. Too bad a crucial portion of this is a commercial product.