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I can't really beat that Al on Al love, but happy birthday anyway!

^ This Hummer owner is double handicapped. Small prick. Even smaller brain.

Although at $5k it's a pricey bugger, it's still not a complete outrage relative to a lot of the top shelf stuff. But what's interesting is the approach. Seems new and completely different to me, but maybe that's just what they want me to think. I'd be interested in knowing what the technically inclined among us (i.e., those who know their ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to these things) might think... http://www.parasound.com/news.php

I'd have a hard time putting in 10 minutes on my rower these days. Not sure that's the life for just anyone, but it sure makes for a great obit read.

One of the guys won €500 on a €20 bet the first time we were there, about 5 years ago. Three of us walked in just to have a look around, and then he decided to try his luck. He won, cashed out and we left. Bad omen, to say the least... because it hasn't worked out so nicely since then.

Sorry, meant to post this on the Tampa thread. Al sent me a PM to notify me of my blunder. We normally just do face to face meetings twice per year, and everything else is done by phone conference. But you lose something that way, body language and such. Plus, a lot takes place during quasi-social time and just having the ability to sit down with people and bounce ideas back and forth. It's much easier to get to the bottom of things when you meet face to face. That, and we just hit the $1 billion mark in assets, so we have an obligation to celebrate and be wasteful.

Looks like I'm out, other than perhaps Friday night. This email just in: "With regards to the scheduled Board meeting to be held in Monaco Tuesday March 13th , I suggest, that as we have a lot to get through, we hold the meeting over two days, and that if you can at such short notice arrive to Monaco Sunday 11th of March so we can start meetings on Monday..." Means I'll need to leave from Tampa on Saturday afternoon instead of Sunday. But I'm still arriving on Friday afternoon, so should at least be able to say hi to everyone that evening.

Happy birthday, Colin! Ginger > Mary Ann. At least for today...

Congrats, and many, many more!

Congrats Miguel, and good job remembering it!

That's great news, Mike! It's just crazy how quickly she's grown up already.

Tight rope performance like you're never seen. http://www.dump.com/2011/12/14/this-is-impossible-video/

That's what he meant!?!?

Happy birthday, Edbot... indeed. Maybe you should try to make a comeback with that like Beavis and Butthead are doing. Uhhhhh hu hu... that would be stupid.

Happy birthday, Steve. Enjoy it to the max.

Wow, this guy is really amazing... just so inspiring.

Well, that and you're really not supposed to even notice her facial expressions or give a shit if she's cold or pained or whatever.

The mother of all ethnic jokes: An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, a German, an Indian, several Americans (including a Southerner, a New Englander, and a Californian) an Argentinean, a Dane, an Australian, a Slovakian, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Moroccan, a Frenchman, a New Zealander, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Guatemalan, a Colombian, a Pakistani, a Malaysian, a Croatian, a Uzbek, a Cypriot, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Chinese, a Sri Lankan, a Lebanese, a Cayman Islander, a Ugandan, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Uruguayan, a Czech, an Icelander, a Mexican, a Finn, a Honduran, a Panamanian, an Andorran, an Israeli, a Venezuelan, a Fijian, a Peruvian, an Estonian, a Brazilian, a Portuguese, a Liechtensteiner, a Mongolian, a Hungarian, a Canadian, a Moldovan, a Haitian, a Norfolk Islander, a Macedonian, a Bolivian, a Cook Islander, a Tajikistani, a Samoan, an Armenian, an Aruban, an Albanian, a Greenlander, a Micronesian, a Virgin Islander, a Georgian, a Bahaman, a Belarusian, a Cuban, a Tongan, a Cambodian, a Qatari, an Azerbaijani, a Romanian, a Chilean, a Kyrgyzstani, a Jamaican, a Filipino, a Ukrainian, a Dutchman, an Ecuadorian, a Costa Rican, a Swede, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Belgian, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian and 47 Africans all from different African countries all walk into a fine restaurant... The maître d' scrutinizes the group one by one, and bars their entrance saying, "Sorry, you can't come in here without a Thai."

It brings some moisture to my eye. Is that a tear forming?

This is pretty cool. I like how they kept the traditional wedding look, although having two brides would have been just as nice, if that's what they wanted. http://www.adn.com/2012/02/14/2316905/alaskans-are-first-same-sex-couple.html

^ I've got to admit, that's pretty nasty. But not nasty enough to make me want someone to bounce his balls off my nose. I guess it just comes down to how you're wired.

Truer words have not been spoken. ^ Oh... no... that's what I meant to say.

^ Might be just you, Steve. You do crack me up sometimes. I'll give you that.

Of course, I know... was just giving you crap. Would be cool if you got to meet some of the crew while you're in California.

Happy Valentine's Day, sweethearts! May all your dreams come true...