Maybe its like these! http://www.grabberwarmers.com/handwarmer.htm -Owl

Actually "orient" is archaic according to m-w.com (dictionary). and besides, the orient & asia are different. i think the orient is generally around persia (think oriental rug…

My mother gave me these packets that looks like saline drips - except its all sealed and it has this nickle sized disk in it. you simply snap the disk, and it gets really hot. L…

Yep, it is a Japanese hand warmer. I happen to have one sitting on my desk right now. No real danger in opening it, just don't burn yourself.

Thanks for the replies guys! I think we save this little wonder for some cold winter day... As for "oriental experts", sorry if I insulted somebody. I wasn't even sure what languag…

Quote: Originally posted by tomppu: to me the picture somehow brings that to mind so... Agreed. I don't know why there's a magic carpet guy there. The product websi…

I got a ticket today coming home however I am being accused of going 83 in a 65 on 09/26/04 at 8:45am The officer wrote the wrong date in the violation section and also wrote 09/2…

Quote: Originally posted by Truepop: I got a ticket today coming home however I am being accused of going 83 in a 65 on 09/26/04 at 8:45am The officer wrote the wrong d…

Does the fact that he wrote down that the wrong date invalidate it in any way?

Quote: Originally posted by Truepop: Does the fact that he wrote down that the wrong date invalidate it in any way? Not really. I had a cop write 172mph once, whi…

Damn I assumed I was going the speed limit and didn't look at the speedometer. he assumed it was the 26th and didn't look at the calendar. the court assumes he meant 6th and doesn…

Quote: Originally posted by Truepop: Damn I assumed I was going the speed limit and didn't look at the speedometer. he assumed it was the 26th and didn't look at the ca…

Before you head to court on 9/26/2004 > at 8:45am you should find a 65mph zone and cruise at 83MPH. It's legal. You already got a ticket for it.

They can just amend the ticket in court that day. When I was in high school, I got a ticket for getting into a fight on 8/5/97, when in fact the fight occured on 10/5/97. The jud…

you might not have to go to court. some places take credit cards over the phone and will give you a confirmation # for paying that way.

Just pay the thing and move on.

I'm considering taking an intensive web design course in the school of continuing ed at NYU. Anyone know anything about the school or the program? Looks like it's taught by a guy…

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=227268

Quote: Originally posted by starman: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=227268 Starman wtf he isn't talking about the suicide thing! He is asking if an…

now I see there's two intensive courses, one called web development which is more technical and one called web design which emphasizes photoshop, illustrator and flash. this progr…

Quote: Originally posted by Komisar: Starman wtf he isn't talking about the suicide thing! He is asking if anyone has done the program.... I don't know anyone who has do…

Quote: Originally posted by starman: It's called HUMOR. I was laughing when I saw you put up that link. It was humor, albeit a dark one, but humor none the less.

well I signed up for the Web Development Intensive so I guess I'll be the NYU continuing ed experimental student as I can't find anyone to give either good or bad reports.

I have a brand spanking new G5 Dual 2.5 and Flash MX Studio Pro will crash on launch every time. System is fresh, Flash install is fresh. I log in from a new user and it's the same…

Well I'm surprised to be the one to answer my own problem but I fixed it It turns out that when I used Apple's convenient "Transfer All Data For An Old Machine" it didn't do a ver…