we won the lottery!

[lazarus]

Six people had winning tickets, and 19 people were in my wife's pool at work, so we get $25k. Sweet.

I'm getting a Kindle.

[flvegan]

1. Congrats!

[sakabatou]

2. W00t!

[Pool Hall Ace]

3. Way to go!

[Rambis]

4. Can you buy Liverpool a striker

wait not enough congrats though:hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

5. Congrats!

You'll like the Kindle! :hi:

[lazarus]

6. I hope so

I thought about the Kindle DX, but that's a LOT of money.

[Call Me Wesley]

9. I think it's the only available to the US?

The European model I have is way smaller, but fine. I just don't think you can get it in the US.

[lazarus]

10. the DX

has worldwide 3G or somesuch.

[Call Me Wesley]

12. Oh, great!

I just checked. Yes, of course, now it's available for Europe, too. Thank you, amazon, for letting me buy the smaller not even a month ago.

[TommyO]

11. I saw a Kindle DX at my nephew's birthday party

One of the dads had one so he could sit back and get some reading done at Chuck E Cheese's and it looked phenomenal. I think the extra screen real estate would be worth the extra cost.

[gmoney]

7. Congratulations!

Just don't go all Britney Spears on us, OK?

[lazarus]

13. well.....

I shaved my head years ago. Does that count?

[LisaM]

8. Good for you!

Well deserved, I'm sure.

[bigwillq]

14. Cool.

Congrats! :toast:

[rbnyc]

15. Hey!

Long time no see. So great to drop in and get this news!

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. wicked cool!

[crispini]

17. Nice! Grats!

Party at lazarus's place! :bounce:

[Shell Beau]

18. I'm jealous!!

:P

That's awesome!

[DainBramaged]

19. Good for you, wonderful, enjoy your loot.

I want to give a kindle to my sweetie......

[femmocrat]

20. That is so cool!

Congratulations!

I've been paying into our pool at work for years. The most we ever won was $2500----I think I got around $200.

[lazarus]

23. we had a small win last year

about 120 dollars

[AwakeAtLast]

21. What a way to start the new year!

:woohoo:

[Highway61]

22. No shit!

Damn...I tip my hat to you. Enjoy....really ENJOY!

[GOPisEvil]

24. Congratulations!

I can see how $25k would come in quite handy. ;)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. Woohoo!

That's enough money to have fun with but not so much that it distorts your life.

[AsahinaKimi]

26. Congrats..

This is a kindle?

[lazarus]

40. i think that's the first wave kindle

the new ones look a bit different.

[david13]

27. Donate to DU, that way you are truly sharing the luck. dc

[ceile]

28. Very cool!

Congrats

[joeybee12]

29. Congratulations!

:toast:

[mnhtnbb]

30. Wow! Happy New Year!!

[Vidar]

31. Congratulations.

[Odin2005]

32. YAY!

[tonysam]

33. Man, that's neat.

Congratulations.

[Pithlet]

34. Kev told me and I couldn't believe it. That's amazing!

People really do win :) I bet you just couldn't believe it. I'm so happy for you :bounce:

[Pithlet]

35. And that's an excellent thing to get. I can't shut up about my Kindle.

I love it :)

[nytemare]

36. Will you buy a few more Occam's razors?

:D

Congrats!!

[soleft]

37. We have 81 people in the pool i run at work

So we never play til the jackpot it over 100m.

Congrats! What a nice thing to happen in these crappy economic times.

[SoxFan]

38. Good! Contribute to my 2011 campaign!

[marzipanni]

39. Wow! Lucky duck. With that much dough I'd be tempted to wait and see what the apple tablet is like

<snip>
"It will be an e-reader, that's certain," said Marshall, admitting that he underestimated the e-book reader when Amazon introduced its original Kindle. Now, he's a convert. "Amazon sold two million Kindles in the second half of last year," he said. "Clearly, the market is much larger than what I expected. So Apple's tablet will be an e-reader, but also a TV viewer and more. For Apple, content is the focus of the tablet."

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143107/Apple_s_tablet_will_use_Verizon_s_3G_network_sources_say

[lazarus]

41. I'm not a fan

of backlit screens. That's one reason I'm going for the Kindle.

And thanks to everybody for the good wishes!