Remember that time 20 minutes ago when we almost died?
930792
*spoilers*  Full disclosure: I cried during most of fault in our stars so I had high albeit depressing hopes for this book. The first part started good enough with a little too whiny Quentin going on an adventure/hijinks with a little too "edgy" Margo. I get it. The girl gets the shy boy out of his shell.  Its all things I could picture high schoolers doing. It was fun.

Then Margo goes missing and it started to all go downhill. Quentin ups his whiny ness by 1000 and makes his friends get intertwined in this mystery that lasted the whole last month of their senior year and gets mad when they have other things to do. Seriously, his friends are awesome. They act like teenagers while still helping out their friend in his ridiculous quest. If I could read a spin off type of book on Ben, Radar,Lacey and Angela I would read it in a heartbeat. The fact that Ben's screen name was ITWASAKIDNEYINFECTION made me laugh for a good few minutes.

Instead, we had to keep going back to the mystery of Margo and to me there was none. She was a needy teenager who thought it would be cool to restart life and that's fine. However, I don't believe for a second she didn't want to be found and that's what annoys me. Don't be surprised that someone who is irrationally into you spent time searching for you. Anticlimactic I guess. Just like the end of this review.
365092
nearly killed my phone. iPhone 6+ fell right out while on a mild bike ride. phone slid 40 yards on it's back down the street and barely missed a car. only through massive luck did this not destroy my phone.
3308821
I remember reading this book about the time it was published, and I remember I thought it was an amazing story. I'm sure that it's probably completely dated now, considering that it was written before the internet or the development of all the technology we have, like mobile phones. The story itself however is timeless, as teenagers are the same in any age.

As an aside, I remember too wondering if I would still be alive in 2057 (I'd be 80) and if we'd really have colonies on the moon then. That I would remember that twenty years later, says something about this book.
1176193
Talk about a tense experience!  We were all covering our ears and fidgeting until the final moment of explosion.  My only complaint is that, at least for our copy, the device that hold the balloon kept opening up so we had to have someone hold the top.  Fun time!
2537845
This made me think..real hard..could this ever happen? Well written with such description you felt like you were there..observing from afar.. hoping they could not hear you breathe.
4183798
I am The Golf Dude in the basement. 4 years ago I was ran over by a car. Traumatic Brain Injury, broken back, broken sternum, SMASHED pelvis.
Mr. Ben Hogan would have shook my hand. Jesus Christ saved my life. Dennis F. Jordan  WWJD
605526
We listened to this song every hour in the car with our 18 month old daughter on a recent road trip.  It is safe to say that this song saved our lives and perhaps the lives of others on the road.  When she would start screaming uncontrollably we'd pop this gem of a song on and all would be good.  2 minutes and 27 seconds of bliss.
2698443
Check out "Two Minutes At The Gate" on Kindle download, amazing story of a near death experience! Great read, real page turner, only 100 pages.
2687150
I pulled this down from my bookshelf the other day and re-read it and it brought back a flood of memories from fifteen years ago. I was chief engineer at a large TV company at the time and suffered a daily pestering by various "Y2K consultants" from the BBC et al. To a man (no ladies were stupid enough to be sucked in to that degree!) they were clearly riding a gravy train that they were going to suck dry! I'd upgraded every OS and bit of application software as per manufacturer recommendations but that wasn't enough - no sir!

"Is that combination door lock Y2k compliant?"
"No - it's a mechanical gadget that has no notion of the date"
"That's not good enough - if you guys are going to get BBC/Channel 4/etc etc millennium certification you're going to have to provide me with manufacturer documentation to show it is compliant"
Suffice to say we sailed through the 1999-2000 junction with no problems - I'd simulated it twice at the station (and once at my previous TV facility) - but that kind of level-headed thinking cut no mustard with the folks from the Y2k industry!

Anyhow - I noticed some interesting trends in the run up to 2000 - aside from the hundreds of books by doom-mongers like Mr Wiles (have these people ever been taken seriously since?) there were well defined attitudes in all the people who wanted the world to end by the close of 1999;

1. Once people had woken up to the fact that programmers had been addressing the issue for most of the nineties and databases are used to badly formatted input the danger turned to "embedded systems" - everything from your car's electronic ignition to nuclear missiles were going to go wrong. All the people I spoke to wouldn't accept the fact that most microcoontrollers know nothing about large time periods - your engine management operates over hundreds of milliseconds (or at most months for the service interval). The view of engineers who dealt with embedded controllers on a daily basis counted for nothing over the views of the doom merchants.
2. By mid-1998 it was fashionable for the Y2k industry to imply that although the USA would be OK all those stupid foreigner countries would cause the trouble - racism was everywhere! In the end Italy spent less than 1% of what the UK spent on Y2k preparedness and they suffered less than our modest amount of pain!
3. In the aftermath of new year 2000 I read lots of online comments from people like Gary North claiming that the US administration was covering up the nature of the problem and we'd see the collapse of society etc etc soon - perhaps he is still holed up in a cave in Montana living on beef jerky and listening to his clockwork radio!
4626192
Pretty devastated that I can't get more than 10 seconds into this game before it crashes and restarts my computer. I have fond memories of playing this in high school and was excited to relive that. A huge bummer because this game is a blast.
684487
I remember seeing this as a kid. It reminded me of just how gullible we were back then. I watched about 10 minutes before I regained my senses and turned it off.
692057
WOW! What a blast from the past. Super Kool Thanks It's nice to take that step back once in a while so we don't forget how far we've come.
3727025
Maybe you have read other stories about the 100th Bomb Group- but just look at the cover painting of TWO B-17s of the 100th locked together. Glenn Rojohn and the 100th had bombed Hamburg, on 31 December 1944, and fought a running battle as far as the North Sea. Turn to p. 139:
' ...The German fighters were coming through our group; they were so close to us that I could see the faces on those German pilots. We were really into a mess. All of a sudden I heard a crash, and my plane started to shudder. I realized I had a mid-air collision with another airplane. What happened was I was trying to fill a void in the formation, and I think the other fella was maybe trying to do the same thing. We'd lost twelve planes just like that. We crashed and pancaked one on top of one another and stuck together. There was no way I could get the two planes apart.
Now, I was the top plane, the bottom plane's engines were runnin' and one of my engines was on fire. There was a lot of fire, so my copilot and I shut down the engines of my plane to try to save from there being more fire. I was able to hold the plane in a flying attitude, simply by brute strength with the wheel....
We went into some circles, and we landed in Germany. We hit the ground, and I bounced off the bottom plane and continued for about a hundred yards. My left wing went through a German headquarters building. All of a sudden we came to a stop, and looked around. Bill and I looked at one another. We're still here....' (I confirmed this story on the 100th BG website. There are 63 stories of other vets, too.)
See also:&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/An-Eighth-Air-Force-Combat-Diary-Combat-Missions-Flown-with-the-100th-Bomb-Group-England-1944-1945/dp/1928623050/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">An Eighth Air Force Combat Diary: Combat Missions Flown with the 100th Bomb Group, England 1944-1945</a>,<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-Mighty-Eighth-The-Air-War-in-Europe-as-Told-by-the-Men-Who-Fought-It/dp/0440226481/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It</a>.
574305
These lasted less than 20 minutes with my 20 lbs dogs.
3841966
I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
Gleick takes us back before time was measured, discusses a reaction or two to the invention of the sundial, and then brings us to the hurried pace of our era. With all the talk about  efficiency, needing to be on-time and up-to-the-minute with everything,  stress, Prozac, antacids, wanting it all overnight, we've needed someone to  take a step back and present us with the "big picture."
Yes,  things are moving faster and will continue to do so. But as the blur of the  world passing by our window moves closer and closer to a burlap, will we  forget what it means to stand still. Will we remember, before it is too  late, the calculus of exponentials?
I just hope that we come to realize  there are limits to things, and that at the end of the next century,  Gleick's descendant in spirit isn't prompted to write a book entitled  "He told you so."
2555008
Slipped out of my hand about 6 inches from concrete and it died.  Bought a $18 replacement bulb (with shipping) and that lasted a split second as I watched it short out.  PO'ed.
2916405
I had this alarm for over two years and pretty much forgot about it. At 3:30 this morning I was awoken by a beeping sound. My sump pump died and this gave me the warning I needed to swap it with a spare before flooding.