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Post by msg »

stcredzero wrote: post #99
electromagnetic wrote: post #45

Bachelor Chow (See: Futurama). It doesn't have to be particularly tasty, but a simple meal that has 1/3 of your daily nutrition (with 1/3 RDA of all your vitamins and minerals) would be great. Preferably without ridiculous quantities of preservatives and artificial flavours.

There's Clif bars. You can't live off of those full time, though. Colcannon? If this is made with turnips, kale, and lots of buttermilk, then it covers a lot of macronutrients. Then take a multivitamin.

Speaking of which, I was really getting into those Clif Mojo bars at one point, then we got a box of Nature Valley fruit and nut bars at Costco, so I forgot about them for a few weeks.

When we ran out of the box, I went back for my Clif Mojos and found out they were recalled in the peanut salmonella thing. It looks like I missed eating potentially contaminated food by a few days.

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Post by alpha_ori »

jmtame wrote: post #34
ahoyhere wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh my god, hear hear. Went to a "Mexican" place in Vienna (I'm an American expat) a few months back and it was horrible, terrible, frightening. Somebody ordered the spare ribs (!) and they crackled as you pulled them apart.

I'm pretty sure ribs aren't Mexican though

What, people in Mexico don't eat the ribs on pigs? Perhaps they take the shoulder to make carnitas and leave the rest of the carcass to rot under the hot, Mexican sun?

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Post by yummyfajitas »

qw wrote: post #51
tsally wrote: post #7

A device that could accurately measure caffeine intake, levels present in the body, and the strength of your bodies resistance. I know if I have another cup of coffee at 4PM, the quality of my code will be much better. What I never know is if it will wear off in time for me to get a normal nights sleep. :)

I don't use narcotics, but if there were a 100% safe drug out there (not addictive and/or dangerous) I would pay for it.

Pot comes very close, particularly if you make brownies rather than smoking it.

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Post by staticshock »

chris11 wrote: post #97

Something like a Netflix for books and articles. I'd pay just to rent textbooks for general education classes. It would need to have a gigantic library though, big enough to guarantee that I would be able to find any book through there if it wasn't in a library. PDF versions of the books would be nice to, so I could access the book anywhere immediately. And it would need a good selection of scientific books. I have a…

This is an interesting thought. Does anything already exist as a service for college students to rent textbooks?

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Post by ibsulon »

ivankirigin wrote: post #67
ibsulon wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've thought about the same thing myself. (I'll make do with the 24 inch monitors, though. :) I'm surprised the Mac Pro doesn't have a way to dock the air yet, though. There are a lot of usability pieces to think about. Do you really want program configuration to sync? I use programs differently on laptops and desktops.

I use a laptop for my "desktop", so I don't see the problem. I run firefox, terminal, textmate, tweetdeck, and iWork. No configuration changes needed. Maybe for VM software - which I just wouldn't run on a netbook.

I use different font sizes for my work on larger screens, for one example.

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Post by sho »

Ghost in the Shell Section 9-spec full robot body. Medical immortality. Nanotechnological bone strengthening, brain-damping mesh, damage repair, bloodstream oxygen cache system. Brain augmentation. Cancer-free cigarettes. Perfect, invisible contraception and STD prevention. Cyborg love doll, again see GitS. I could go on all day!

Maybe a little outside the implied timeframe of potential availability, but that's what I really want, not some minor upgrade of 2009 tech! : )

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Post by ibsulon »

electromagnetic wrote: post #45

Bachelor Chow (See: Futurama). It doesn't have to be particularly tasty, but a simple meal that has 1/3 of your daily nutrition (with 1/3 RDA of all your vitamins and minerals) would be great. Preferably without ridiculous quantities of preservatives and artificial flavours.

The healthier TV dinners come pretty close. Vitamin fortified cereal in the morning, tv dinners for lunch and dinner, and vegetables for snacks.

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Post by mahmud »

qw wrote: post #44
davidw wrote: post #2

Decent Mexican food in Europe:-) (BTW, "if it were available") Edit: if I ever 'made it big', and decided to stay in Italy, I'd invest a portion of my money in a good Mexican restaurant here. It would probably lose money, but what the hell.

Europe consists of more than one country you know :-) Please don't judge other countries in Europe based on your experience.

No kidding, Spain has great Mexican food. England the best Curry ;-)
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