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Well, 8 days of sun, surf, sand, and spirits are now behind me and I'm officially back in the office.  That doesn't mean I'm mentally all with-it, yet.  Quite the contrary.  I'm desperately wishing I didn't have 200 emails to read and respond to (that's not including the 300+ emails I have to read and DON'T have to respond to).  Oh well, vacation time in Mexico is now over and it's back to the grind.  I have to go from one extreme to another – next week, I'll be up in Duluth, Minnesota, where it's -20 degrees before the windchill.  I'll post some vacation photos once I pull them off my camera to rub it in just a bit more (or more likely, to help me forget about my frostbite).

Wishing I Was Here (again)

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"Thank you for calling Legacy Billing Services. You may stay on the line for the next available representative, or you may press 2 to leave your name and number for one of our customer care professionals to return your call, or stay on the line for the next available representative. Thank you."

- The on-hold message of Legacy Billing Services

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clipped from www.usatoday.com Toy trains 'Star Wars' fans to use The Force The Force Trainer (expected to be priced at $90 to $100) comes with a headset that uses brain waves to allow players to manipulate a sphere within a clear 10-inch-tall training tower, analogous to Yoda and Luke Skywalker's abilities in the Star Wars films. Mind-control games may be the coming thing: Mattel plans to demonstrate a Mind Flex game (also due this fall), which uses brain-wave activity to move a ball through a tabletop obstacle course, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday. In the Force Trainer, a wireless headset reads your brain activity, in a simplified version of EEG medical tests, and the circuitry translates it to physical action. If you focus well enough, the training sphere, which looks like a ping-pong ball, will rise in the tower.

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I posted this on my tumblr this morning but figured I'd get a better response over here.   Plus it's been ages since I've posted here, and the white space of the compose window is throwing up a writer's block right now…

More things promised to us “in the future” that haven’t showed up (yet):

• Flying cars
• The Thunderdome
• Daily depilatory cream (i.e. Nair for beards w/ no side effects)
• Hoverboards
• Toilets/bathrooms that clean themselves
• Soylent Green
• An end to disease, ignorance, and poverty
• Replicants
• Big Brother
• Holographic advertisements
• Multipasses
• Human-embedded computers (w/ brain interface)
• Teleportation / matter transmission
• Lunar / Mars Colonies

Others you’d like to add to the list?

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