Episode 1110

Max Poetry
More Friday intro poetry from Rick Maxon, and Leo makes up for last week’s missed opportunity by reciting another piece from Rick, in commemoration of the June 4th Tiananmen Incident.

The Cruzin’ Cooler Lives On
Rob M (could it be Rob M Lansing from Michigan in Episode 1071?) was holidaying with his family in beautiful Buffalo, Michigan, when he happened upon someone driving the Cruzin’ Cooler (Episode 101).  His jaws just dropped.  He never expected to see one in use in real life.

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Episode 1109

LavNav
Back in Episode 810 when Dick talked about the Johnny Light, Leo remarked that he introduced a similar gadget on Regis and Kelly.  I had thought that Leo may have been referring to the LavNav, because that was in 2003, the same year that a version of the LavNav was introduced, but apparently it wasn't what Leo was talking about.

 

The Green Tortoise
In Leo’s younger days, hippies used to travel on the Green Tortoise bus.  Here’s a picture of it, from Wikimedia Commons, by dealerofsalvation.

 

The Green Tortoise Bus

Striking the Funny Bone

Paul Vladuchick, who last wrote in Episode 590, has been a loyal listener since Episode 58, then not a loyal listener from 263 to 378, became a loyal listener again from 469 to 544, and so on.  A hit-and-miss loyal listener.  Paul rather enjoys the Finnish Letters Jingle which Dick and Leo panned recently in Episode 1096.  It just strikes his funny bone.

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Episode 1108

Dorm Gadgets
Leo takes a keen interest in what’s on offer on dormco.com, not only for Abby, but also for himself, like the fridge food locker.

What are you doing to my kids??!!
Brian Thomasson asks, “What are you doing to my kids?”  He noticed the other day that his youngest child in the back-seat of the car was singing a DGW theme, and wanted to listen to the show instead of watching a DVD.

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Episode 1107

Gotcha!
Today's gadget is a similar (but more fun) idea to Keep-A-Cable (Episode 796), and not to be confused with the Gotcha Gift Box in Episode 556.

Sprint Evo
Leo has just received the new Sprint Evo, which he will review next week.  He’s already impressed by it, for the lack of blister pack.  No need for the OpenX (Episode 164) or OpenIt (Episode 496).

A Chat Missive
Not a letter, but a chat missive from trip70 of the Chatroom, who after hearing yesterday’s talk about how many floppy disk equivalents the Verbatim Tuff N Tiny 16GB could hold, sent Leo a link to floppydisk.com – which is still keeping the torch alight for the floppy disk and the floppy disk drive.  Even Sony has given up.

Fast Copy III
Missing the sound of the old floppy drive.  How about Fast Copy III on the Atari, on YouTube?

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Episode 1106

The Samsung Junior Went Bust
Michael Scott is a happy former Samsung Junior user (Episode 1080), until it blew up.  Michael has a modern replacement suggestion, the iWave Cube 2.  See redferret.net.

iWave Cube 2

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