Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Gadget alert!

[Warren Greenway <opensourcesub@yahoo.com>]

I have known a few people who purchased those
compasses...They failed within a few months...
Count me out!

Warren.

--- David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net> wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 12:56 US/Central,
> Michael B Holt wrote:
> 
> > In the recent "Clever Gear" catalog, on page 35 is
> a nice little
> > device that provides a compass, thermometer and
> battery
> > level display.
> >
> > It's a Digital Car Compass. ....
> 
> Oh, now I see what you were talking about. (Dang --
> it's like you guys 
> expect me to read my e-mail every *week* or
> something! And what with 
> the war and all, it was really piling up... what a
> relief to learn a 
> bunch of it was just malignant goofiness, that I
> could delete right off 
> the bat...)
> 
> It does indeed look like a cool toy -- but I'm a
> little frightened of a 
> compass that costs $60 and has "COMPASS" printed on
> it, in great big 
> capital letters.
> 
> Any more tantalizing details of your Nautilus plans?
> Anywhere I can see 
> a picture of what this version is supposed to look
> like?
> 
> (Apparently "Goliath Awaits" is available on VHS,
> but not DVD. Amazon 
> has it. And I found this amusing review of it... or
> rather, of the box: 
>
http://www.badmovieplanet.com/inferno/archives/goliath.html
> ...I was 
> surprised at how many people seem to think it's a
> good movie, though. I 
> never saw it, but it sounds like such an absurd
> premise... apparently 
> the video version is all chopped up and shortened
> and wrecked, though.)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> - - -
> 
> David
> buchner@wcta.net
> Osage, MN USA
> http://customer.wcta.net/buchner
> 
> 
> - - -
> 
> David
> buchner@wcta.net
> Osage, MN USA
> http://customer.wcta.net/buchner
> 
> The United Nations is like a crime-fighting
> committee whose board of 
> directors includes the leading gangsters of the
> community. --Ayn Rand
> 


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