Mine too arrived tonight. Looks very nice. Thanks man.

Being the geek that I am that these are targeted to, my first instinct is to take one apart.

Wish mine'd come. I'm one freaking state away from Paul, they should have been here by now.

Yes. They should have gotten there by now. Hmmm... Yours was in the first batch, mailed last Saturday... If you do not see it in today's mail, send me an email and I will see if I can trace from here.

Meanwhile, I am glad everyone likes them!!! Very cool!

What, 8 times? Oh, sorry, you mean that wasn't binary?

Being the geek that I am that these are targeted to, my first instinct is to take one apart.

Perhaps it would help satisfy that urge to merely look at that web site that's got pictures of the dismantled 8-ball. Anyone got a link?

If you view this thread in flat mode, there is a "how it tastes" link. That is the disassembly web site.

Edit: Or here...

Ahh nice. Yeah that is fine, one of my 8-balls possibly owes you its life. I wasn't seriously considering taking one apart quite yet, but couldn't say for sure my curiosity wouldn't have got the better of me in time.

Thank god for the Internet; destroying things so I don't have to.

Greetings!

If you still feel like destroying one, I have one here that has a rattling sound to it. I am not sure if the answer die is broken or not, but it is a bit unusual. In any case, out of 1000, I would be shocked if I do not have a patient for dissection.

Two notes for readers out there:

1) There is no need to join the board specifically to order. Just send me email. I still am working on a webstore and hope to just publish that URL eventually. Meanwhile just send email.
2) If you have ordered and received your spheres, please send me a PM or email to let me know. I try to keep track of all the shipments to know when something did not arrive. This makes my bookkeeping easier. Thanks!

Paul, have the UK orders been sorted out yet?

Greetings!

I shipped a bunch to Andy (skibum), and he is consolidating orders for the UK and the rest of Europe. You might want to send him a PM / email - I know he has spheres to spare.

Still waiting for them to arrive at the moment. Customs are probably experimenting with them at the moment. Also assuming customs do want some money with them, parcelforce will 'write to me' to tell me how much to pay. Cute that :-)

Received mine last night and looks great! I've already showed it to a couple of people and the LOVE it. I just can't believe no one's done this yet. It makes too much sense! Anyway, good work Paul. I might end up ordering a couple of more as gifts at some point.

> I just can't believe no one's done this yet. It makes too much sense!

Actually, this is not the first time I have seen something like this. In fact, I am looking at one now that our sysadmin got from CDW a while ago. A couple of the answers are similar:

It's not a bug, it's a feature
Reboot
Please submit a formal request
Did you hit the correct key
It'll be fixed in the next release
It works like I programmed it.
It's a beta, what did you expect
Plug it in
It's just an isolated incedent
I can't test everything
it's an unlikely coincidence
it's not supposed to do that
It works on my machine
Program works, must be user error
It worked yesterday
Someone changed my code
CDW has your computing solution
Contact CDW 24x7 tech support
Log on to www.cdw.com
Your CDW account manager can help

They may have arrived; I'm in Cincinnati now, but I will ask my wife when she's next awake.

Hey where in Cincinnati?

Best Western Springdale. PRRT&HS annual meeting. In 2 hours we go to Cincinnati Union Terminal for the "banquet"; Normally I skip it but I want to see the building and the presentations. I got here at 7:55pm Thursday, 5 minutes before the first presentation started.

The Union Terminal is worth seeing. I actually took a train out of there once many years ago.

Since you are so close to where I live, we'll have to meet up later tonight

Okay...

This auction has gone from "amusing" through "obscene" and is now bordering on "just plain creepy"...

Ah, look at the money you are going to make

now bordering on "just plain creepy"

Wow, at $100 a piece. You would never have to worry about how to afford you next hard drive upgrade

? Isn't it $105 for the three?

Good point. I don't know how Paul could better clarify that in the auction, but at first I thought for a while that it was 105.00 each, total quantity available for auction: 3 being sold individually. Re-reading it, it seems like it's 105.00 for a box of three. But I don't know how to tell the difference...

Normally if you were selling multiple items seperately then you'd get a Quantity: Blah line like this (Hopefully the URL will stay active!)

Greetings!

It is for a set of three. Still scary, though.

CDW sphere

You are right! I may have seen one of those when I first started working. That is kind of familiar, especially some of those ad phrases. Cool!

The notice for them appeared Saturday. I picked them up today and have given out about 27 so far.

Cool!!! I was getting a little worried there. You are only a state away - I probably could have driven them there faster.

Paul, how much is S&H for 4 to MA 01460.

If anyone want to save on the S&H and is in the greater Boston area, PM me and I'll ask Paul add it to the box.

that'd be cool!

i'm game for two!

~tim

ancsumins (at) yahoo.com

Greetings!

They weigh about 0.7 pounds each, so that should be around $5 according to the USPS site (estimating 3 pounds). Distance and weight are the main factors here.

If interested, please send me an email with your shipping address. Thanks!!!

Paul.