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  5. Posted

    Star Trek Command Chair makes anyone feel like Captain Kirk

     

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    Feeling powerless? Escape to the captain’s chair from the Star Trek original series, and start barking out orders and making dramatic pronouncements as your family rolls their eyes. Just don’t let the missus see that credit card bill when it zips over $1000 out of your cash hoard at a speed exceeding warp nine. Start carrying around a Star Trek communicator when you're away from home, and your apparent insanity will have come full circle.

     

    Comparing it to the original prop from the ‘60s TV series in the picture above, it looks remarkably similar, and its makers have outfitted the chair with authentic sound effects and blinkenlights. For those who are less imaginative, there’s some sampled dialog you can play back, but we’re thinking that could get annoying fast. Just tell your guests not to push that button, or it will accidentally jettison them in an escape pod.

     

    Exact pricing and delivery dates are sketchy, but it should be available sometime in 2009. Hit Continue for a larger pic of the chair.

     

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    Via Retrothing

  7. Posted

    Today many people will became citizens of the United States. They will take the following oath, the United States Oath of Citizenship, to gain the same rights and privileges all United States born citizens have.

     

    I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.

  10. Posted

    I don't have a car, but that doesn't mean that the price of gas isn't a problem for me. Milk is just about a buck less then gas, and in Washignton state the price is near $4.22 a gallon. On the news Friday they were saying because of the $11 jump in the price of oil that gas could go up another 10 cents at lest by this coming Friday.

     

    Now, I'm getting to the point where I'm thinking of cutting off most of my cable. I could save $25 a month and still have basic(comes with rent). I will not get rid of my internet for I need it for work and all other bills (buss pass, phone, ect.) cost another $41. Total bills and rent right now is $725 and I get about $900 a month. Having $175 a month for food and emergencies isn't covering it any more, and I believe that if gas hits $5 with the same effect of food I'm going to be SOL.

     

    My question for all of you is where do you think the breaking point for your self?

     

    For me it will be $5... I know for others they just hit it at $4.

  14. Posted

    Police hunt for robbers wearing thongs as masks

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    Surveillance video shows two robbers wearing thongs for masks.

    Story Published: May 31, 2008 at 12:58 PM PDT

    Story Updated: May 31, 2008 at 12:58 PM PDT

    By Associated Press

     

    ARVADA, Colo. (AP) - Police in a Colorado town are searching for two robbers whose masks showed plenty of fashion sense but little modesty: women's thong underwear.

     

    A surveillance video released this week by police in Arvada, Colo., shows two unarmed men inside the convenience store. They stole an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes in the robbery May 16.

     

    One man wore a green thong and the other wore blue. Each thong barely covered the man's nose, mouth and chin and left the rest of his face exposed. One also wore a pink backpack in which he stuffed the stolen items.

     

    The suspects also wore T-shirts and pants and were described as in their 20s. One had a left arm tattoo.

  15. Posted

    Bad gas leaves damaged cars, angry drivers

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    Story Published: May 25, 2008 at 10:34 PM PDT

    Story Updated: May 25, 2008 at 11:16 PM PDT

    By KOMO Staff

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    SEATTLE -- Three gas stations were shut down temporarily on Sunday after at least 11 vehicles were damaged by bad gas the drivers had just pumped.

     

    "I filled the tank up and as soon as I pulled away from the pump my car died," said Mary Anne Trengove, who stopped at the Shell station on 2nd Street in Snohomish.

     

    "When I got out of the car there was a gentleman who was putting gas in his lawnmower and noticed the gas was brown," she said. "The guy right next to him had just filled up his motorhome and the motorhome did the same thing -- started but didn't pull away.

     

    "While we were there people just kept wandering up to the station and saying their car had broken down."

     

    Officials said tanker trucks that filled up at the Shell Terminal on Harbor Island in Seattle at about 5 p.m. Sunday received a sludgy gas that may have been mixed with water.

     

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    The gasoline was delivered to several Puget Sound area Shell and Safeway gas stations.

     

    At the Safeway station at 26916 Maple Valley Road at least nine vehicles made it only feet after filling up.

     

    A Safeway station at 21401 Pacific Highway South in Des Moines got word of the problem and shut down before any customers were able to pump the bad gas.

     

    It was not immediately known if other stations were affected.

     

    Drivers at Safeway were given their money back and offered a rental car, and a Safeway spokeswoman said Shell Oil will reimburse the drivers for damage to their engines.

     

    Trengove, whose car was damaged at the Snohomish Shell station, said she was given a phone number to call to report the damage, and she was told she would have to pay to have her car towed and repaired before the company would pay her back.

     

    Shell spokesman Shaun Wiggins issued a brief written statement late Sunday that said the company stopped making deliveries from the Seattle terminal after being made aware of the problem and expected to resume operations by 10 p.m.

     

    "Shell is very protective of the quality of its gasoline and we are actively investigating the incident," the statement said.

     

    Duane Devall's car was one of the many that came to a halt, but his vehicle made it a ways from the station before it stalled and he was left stranded.

     

    "I paid over $4 a gallon for premium, and that's painful enough," he said. "And then when they ruin your car. I'm not a happy puppy."

     

    This isn't the first time bad gas has caused problems in the Northwest.

     

    In February, bad gasoline in the Salem, Oregon area put dozens of cars out of commission.

     

    And three years ago, 14 counties in Washington saw bad gas deliveries.

     

    Fixing the damage from those incidents averaged about $500 for the cost of towing the vehicle, draining the bad gas, and cleaning the filter, lines and fuel tank.

  21. Posted

    You scored as a Data

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    You are logical, highly intellegent and unemotional. You wish you understood other people more, but you find computers easier to work with.

     

    Data - 100%

    Geordi LaForge - 100%

    Deanna Troi - 87%

    Worf - 80%

    Jean Luc Picard - 73%

    Beverly Crusher - 60%

    William T. Riker - 53%

    Wow... Very close...

  25. Posted

    trekkiness: 150

     

     

    The Trekkie Test

    ranks me as a(n) Captain

     

    What does it mean?

     

    You are a Trekkie, through and through! You know the series, the movies, the literature, the science, and you are proud of it! You are probably saving up to buy your own starship! You are part of a vast community of Trekkies, and you're loving it! Congratulations!

    ... What???