🚀 go-pugleaf

core <core-usenet@spamless.spook.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:49:27 +0000 (UTC), nobody@[127.0.0.1] (David W. Tamkin)
> wrote:
>
>>smr <me@shawnritchie.com> wrote in <j35khu$8k0$1@ftupet.ftupet.com>:
>>
>>| How often does your service go out?
>>
>>It hasn't in a couple of years, unless it went out briefly while I wasn't
>>using the Internet connection and while neither of us was using the Comcast
>>phone line nor watching a cable-fed television. 
>>
>>| Given that money sounds tight for you, I would either go without for a bit
>>| or get something that's capable of riding wifi and either stealing a
>>| neighbor's or head out to Starbucks. Grab one of the $99 Touchpads out
>>| there right now, a cheap used Android tablet, used iPad 1, something...
>>
>>Unsure of finding the concentration and brain cycles to master such a device,
>>let alone of finding such a device at such a price, I thank you for the
>>suggestion, but the status quo sounds increasingly appealing.  It has, come
>>to think of it, the advantage that we don't have to stay off the phone when
>>we're expecting an incoming fax.
>
> I'm waiting for them to show up on WOOT for $75.. It's coming, just wait.

sounded like most of the big vendors just put them out at $100.  Best Buy
was going to return them, but instead sold them for $100 as well.  Seem to
be sold out most places already.