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    Dean Kamen's Private Island Is Now Entirely Off the Grid

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    Image of Artie Fufkin Artie Fufkin
    12/08/08

    In reply to Dean Kamen's Private Island Is Now Entirely Off the Grid
    Not the first guy to have problems orders Stonehenge replicas.
    18"
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    12/08/08

    In reply to Dean Kamen's Private Island Is Now Entirely Off the Grid
    What kind of anti-zombie defenses does he have in place?
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    Image of electroseven electroseven
    12/08/08

    @Jeb_Hoge:
    Its and island...
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    Image of DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his stapler. DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his stapler.
    12/08/08

    @electroseven: If Zombie movies have taught me anything, it's that Zombies can walk UNDER the water.


    ...That, and to pick up every key and/or shotgun shell I come across.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    12/08/08

    @DeusExMach: Which I never understood as decaying flesh tends to produce gas, which makes bodies float.
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    Image of drjayphd: Presented By Beef 'O' Brady's drjayphd: Presented By Beef 'O' Brady's
    12/08/08

    @Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: ...which Max Brooks addressed in his Zombie Survival Guide, and SHAME ON WHOEVER HASN'T READ IT. See if I let you into my fortified compound.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    12/08/08

    @drjayphd: I understand they can walk on the bottom, but since they are decaying, they should have some buoyancy, which would mean they can't really walk on the bottom. They would more than likely be a foot off the bottom. and should technically be at the mercy of the tides.
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    Image of RG_Shrike RG_Shrike
    12/08/08

    In reply to Dean Kamen's Private Island Is Now Entirely Off the Grid
    He's off the coast but not part of the United States. He got his buddy George Bush to allow him to separate from the US. So he is basically on a sovereign island nation... Not sure about the veracity of that, just dredged it up from remembering past articles I read. I think it was in newsweek or time..
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    Image of Wormfather is Wormfather Wormfather is Wormfather
    12/08/08

    @RG_Shrike: Well if he's in international waters, he shouldnt need permission to secede. I never read the Patriot act fully, so I could be wrong.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    12/08/08

    In reply to Dean Kamen's Private Island Is Now Entirely Off the Grid
    How come everyone with a private island these days has it "off the coast of Connecticut?" Can't they find other places to put their private islands?
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    Image of jchabotte jchabotte
    12/08/08

    @frigg:


    That's because all of us in Connecticut have private islands.


    \mine closes next week.

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    Image of Wormfather is Wormfather Wormfather is Wormfather
    12/08/08

    @jchabotte: I how's the schools on your island, I mine is off the coast of Stamford in Fairfield county was thinking about New London.
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    Image of yelraf yelraf
    12/08/08

    @frigg: The island is actually in New York, though.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    12/08/08

    @yelraf: ...although it retains its CT address in order to continue its complimentary subscription to "Martha Stuart Living" magazine.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    12/08/08

    In reply to Dean Kamen's Private Island Is Now Entirely Off the Grid
    Now Kamen can build up enough energy to have super nerf missle fights with Richard Branson.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    12/08/08

    In reply to Dean Kamen's Private Island Is Now Entirely Off the Grid
    His security force:


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    Image of nevin nevin
    12/08/08

    In reply to Dean Kamen's Private Island Is Now Entirely Off the Grid
    He also gets his light from the Light Quarter, its just next to the Hammock District.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/08/08

    @nevin: My folks have a summer home in Nags Head, NC, a town which does, in fact, have a hammock district.


    [maps.google.com]

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    Image of Anonymoose Anonymoose
    12/08/08

    In reply to Dean Kamen's Private Island Is Now Entirely Off the Grid
    i hate that this guy has money. sure, cyborg arm is pretty cool, but the segway makes me want to stab babies.
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    Image of Eauboy Eauboy
    12/08/08

    @Anonymoose: I believe he made the bulk of his fortune from a type of dialysis machine.


    And in all fairness, the Segeway really could have 'transformed the way we build cities' if only we could send them back in a time tunnel to 1895.

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    Image of CYST! CYST!
    12/08/08

    @Anonymoose: yeah, don't get all diabetic on me either. He invented the insulin pump, redesigned from the earlier dialysis machine.
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    Image of Anonymoose Anonymoose
    12/08/08

    son of a cattle herder, the more i learn about him the more i feel like retracting my statement. but then again, the more i learn about him, the more i hate him for being that much more awesome than me. so my original statement still stands.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    12/08/08

    @Anonymoose: Sounds you have Edison envy, who himself had DaVinci envy.
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    Image of Wormfather is Wormfather Wormfather is Wormfather
    12/08/08

    @Anonymoose: We allow loathing of the jealous type. Play on.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/08/08

    @Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★:


    "Yeah, well at least you get to look at my nice house; I have to look at your piece of crap."

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    Image of qbrad qbrad
    12/08/08

    @Eauboy: you're sort of right... When he debuted the segway for Bezos and Co., he had two in a duffel bag that he assembled in the conference room in under ten minutes. Clearly there were compromises made in getting them to the masses that ruined the vision. They weren't supposed to have batteries, but stirling engines running on hydrogen. They were supposed to weigh about as much as a mountain bike.

    Compromise towards the lowest common denominator is what made the segway a bullshit device (and Dubya STILL couldn't use one without falling off).
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/08/08

    In reply to Dean Kamen's Private Island Is Now Entirely Off the Grid
    The last known photo of Dean Kamen:



    Hey Homer, would you mind killing someone on your way out?

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    Image of jrghoull jrghoull
    12/08/08

    @jdbaile3

    @GreyHammer


    i dont know which guy had the better quote...but it was great all the same


    (sighs) i miss the older simpsons episodes...thank god for DVDs...

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    Image of Ubik2501 Ubik2501
    12/08/08

    @jrghoull: Hell, I miss Hank Scorpio. He was unquestionably the best non-recurring Simpsons character ever.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/08/08

    @Ubik2501: I question that judgment. Hank Scorpio is a close second.


    Number 1, in my opinion, is Frank Grimes.

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    Image of Anonymoose Anonymoose
    12/08/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: i always liked gil.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/08/08

    @Anonymoose: As minor recurring characters go, Gil has been consistently funnier than Disco Stu, who should have remained a one-off like Grimey and Scorpio.


    He's based on Jack Lemmon's Shelly from Glengarry Glen Ross. If you haven't seen it, NetFlix it. Simpsons has referenced it numerous times.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    12/08/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: Didn't we have this exact discussion on Friday night outside the Gallery?


    @Anonymoose: Gil is good. He did convince me to get the rust proofing on those Coleco's.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/08/08

    @Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: Probably.
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    Image of Wormfather is Wormfather Wormfather is Wormfather
    12/08/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: Why I do love Grimey, I have to aggree that Mr. Scorpio was the best, that episode is actually my favorite.
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    Image of The Chad The Chad
    12/08/08

    @Wormfather is Wormfather: agreed. Scorpio is far better than Grimes. Homer was such a freakin' jerk, and Grimes was too uptight. Scorpio's laid-back "ever see a guy say goodbye to a shoe?" attitude was much more enjoyable.

    best. episode. ever.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/08/08

    @The Chad: But Grimey (as he liked to be called) had pencils with his name stenciled on them.


    Just like some pencil company executive.


    Hank Scorpio didn't have that working for him. Which is why Grimey is better.

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    OMG! Ponies! was starred OMG! Ponies! was unstarred
    Image of PCLoadLetter PCLoadLetter
    12/08/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: Non recurring character eh... Mattingly I thought I told you to shave those sideburns!
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/08/08

    @PCLoadLetter: Who wants to see me hit dingers?
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    Image of Erzengel Erzengel
    12/08/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: sure, he didnt had pencils with his name, but he always had sugar on his pockets... i wish i had a boss like that.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    12/08/08

    @Erzengel: And cream.
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    Image of qbrad qbrad
    12/08/08

    @Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: Glengarry Glen Ross is old hat for ponies. He makes reference to it at all meetups. When Kaiser and I met up with him in Union Sq, he couldn't stop telling us to watch it.

    I'll watch what I want to watch ponies!
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    qbrad was starred qbrad was unstarred
    Image of qbrad qbrad
    12/08/08

    @The Chad: Yes, once.
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