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Happy Birthday, my brother with a built-in tan! I, too, look forward to seeing you in Tampa, but shall save the belated birthday spankings to be handed out by Colin. **BRENT**

@JP, why not just max out the RAM? I would imagine that would have more to do with skips/pauses whilst multitasking than a SSD, though SSDs are fantastic things. That machine should have 4GB, but max at 8, no? **BRENT**

Buzzkill. **BRENT**

Leaving a 5 way tie for first place... heh. I'm captivated. **BRENT**

How the hell am I supposed to know that? I figured there was some mystical and magical system of score keeping, but I'm just looking at the #s as they go. It's all so confusing (Really, though, I SHOULD look into the the scoring rules one of these days). **BRENT**

How the heck did the Eagles' defense get 17 points in the first few minutes of play? Oh... I have those guys? Nice. I also love that my kicker has 4x the points of my entire bench this week. So glad I started playing FF. **BRENT**

Just go ahead and get a BTO 11.6" base with ram upgrade. Go with a student discount through one of your kiddies and you'll consider it enough of a "deal" to justify it. You'll wind up using both of 'em, but wouldn't you usually be around wifi anywhere you'd have a laptop? Wouldn't you just use your iPad's 3G connection in the parts you didn't? Just Dew Eeet! **BRENT**

That scares me, Mike. Am I following your lead? :shudders: **BRENT**

Picked up a pair of small bookshelf Wharfedale Diamond 2s for 10$ at a thrift shop. I'm now at a buddy's place opening him up to non-house-party speakers **BRENT**

Small Paul by Paul Frank Toddler Boy's Monkey T-shirt | Overstock.com Here's to hoping you get some cool gifts this time around! Happy b-day, my fiend. **BRENT**

@Gene Red Mesa, but it's in St. Pete (where I'll be Friday afternoon, hoping to get a ride, but I have two old friends in the area, gonna try to work something out if the HC Taxi Service isn't running). Is anyone getting a single room (should be a queen/sleeper sofa/one roll-away bed). For two rooms, I can knock another 15$ off the group rate through a friend, bringing it to 79$/night. There's a little paperwork, but shouldn't be that big of a deal. **BRENT**

It's a Marriott, right? I think I have a line on an employee discount, and I also have a line on what is an AMAZING mexican restaurant (my friend is a chef in St. Pete and she was gushing over this place). Also, for the photogs, there is a Chilluly (sp?) Exhibit, blown glass art sculptures. Should be interesting. Back to work... **BRENT**

Hippie **BRENT**

But... will it charge your iPad? **BRENT**

En **BRENT**

Is it just me, or is this becoming #epic? Is there a confirmed list of attendees yet? Kinda want to see who I need to heckle to fly/drive/hitchhike out (except Nate, who we shall see soon enough. Hang in there, mate.) **BRENT**

1A Fri, Dec 10 805 CHATTANOOGA,TN (CHA) 10:15 am ST PETE/CLEARWATER ,FL (PIE) 11:45 am 2A Mon, Dec 13 804 ST PETE/CLEARWATER ,FL (PIE) 08:00 am CHATTANOOGA,TN (CHA) 09:35 am # Passengers Seat Flight 805 Seat Flight 804 Checked Bags 1 LAWSON, BRENT Unassigned Unassigned 0 **BRENT**

OK, so, buying tickets. It's gone up like, 40$, but whatever. Quick question... someone can give me a ride, right? I think it's like, 30 minutes, but I'm just wanting to check. I'm coming in to PIE instead of TPA (saves 120$ or so). Well, screw it, I'll just buy and we'll see. **BRENT**

Posting this from an 11.6" MBA. The keyboard travel is pretty short, but the build is great, just noticed the o-ring around the edge of the screen which I'm sure helps out a good bit. Reasonable bit of screen real estate, pixel wise, at least. Speakers seem incredibly weak, but, I mean, we all have JH13s anyways, right? Needless to say, I want one. I am sold on this thing as a portable machine (thought I already was, really). Yeah, I want one. I have a feeling this keyboard would be really fast once you readjust to the insanely short travel. Can't really tell how fast the thing would be (I'm at a MacAuthority), but yeah, it's sweet. **BRENT**

Does anyone else love the fact that Jeff has kit for hunting gators? Still waiting to hear if I can get approved for leave those days... will try to find out by tomorrow, since I really want to go ahead and get those tickets before fitz buys the last one. I have a feeling this could be a decent little "meet". Oh, and if I bring a female friend who's a Tampa local out -- Dom, Matt... Fitz (especially)... be nice! **BRENT**

From my HC dinner adventure on 10/30/10 Beef stir fry was a crowd favorite [ATTACH=CONFIG]3861[/ATTACH] This was liked a little less [ATTACH=CONFIG]3860[/ATTACH] This was eaten for the most part [ATTACH=CONFIG]3859[/ATTACH] Was this the duck? It was delicious [ATTACH=CONFIG]3858[/ATTACH] Kung-Pow - Enter the Sweet and Sour Chicken (into my belly) [ATTACH=CONFIG]3862[/ATTACH] MPI's noodle caboodle [ATTACH=CONFIG]3857[/ATTACH] Nebby and Dusty flanking the bar [ATTACH=CONFIG]3856[/ATTACH] MPI trying to avoid the brown dude with the camera [ATTACH=CONFIG]3855[/ATTACH] Your host for the evening, me, MD / Nebby / Dusty / MPI [ATTACH=CONFIG]3854[/ATTACH] You people who take pictures of food before eating it obviously hadn't been fighting 215,000 people in line for food tents/McDonald's/Metro/etc. I feel for you all. **BRENT**

Drive down Thursday night, I'm sure my buddy will rent you a couch cheap. **BRENT**

Friday - Tourist thing in DC, had a quartet of some cool burgers, hung out with 2 good friends, ate Moroccan food. Did the Air and Space Museum, which I'd never done. I want to take my little boy there for a couple days. It's fantastic.[ATTACH=CONFIG]3849[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]3848[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]3847[/ATTACH] Saturday - Up ass-early to get to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. Since we're some of the brightest people in the world, we sent someone out before us so he could get a spot and we could sleep later. He got a good spot. Stood around for 9 hours. Saw some people talk (The Mythbusters, Stewart, Colbert, Father Guido Sarducci, Sam Waterston) and heard some people sing (The Roots + John Legend / Yusef Islam (The Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens) and Ozzy Osborne - Peace Train vs Crazy Train... yes, it was epic / The O'Jays doing Love Train / Kid Rock + Sheryl Crow / Jeff Tweedy + Mavis Staple / Jeff Tweedy + Stewart + Colbert). Maybe some others. Eddie Izzard was backstage. He was just walking around, someone spotted him in the crowd, got in touch with a producer via twitter, and they got him VIP. Fun. With the Mythbusters, we did a few experiments. There were two seismologists on hand with a seismograph for this test. We had 215,000 people jump all at once. It registered "14 Trillion times less than the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. We tried it again and got it up to 100 times larger than a car crashing into a wall at 35mph. We're awesome. One of the most amazing thing there to experience Mythbusters wise is what you couldn't hear on TV. They had different sounds for the audience to do. One was a "mouth pop". Just imagine 150,000 bubble wrap bubbles being popped at once, with the timing ever so slightly off. It was very subtle, and very very cool. Met up with an amazing chick we knew from school and bummed around for about 2 hours, with one of them being an hour long train ride to meet up with her crew (she was about 211,000 people behind us at the mall). Oh yeah, did I tell you I was on TV for a split second? Yeah... 14.2 seconds of fame left in my queue. For dinner, Nebby, mypasswordis, and Dusty came out to meet me and a couple buddies for dinner. We had some really good Chinese and/or Mongolian food at some Chinese place which I forget the name of, but it was pretty good. That was the first time I'd met these 3 fine gentlemen (give or take), but it was good conversation, good food, and many long goodbyes, as we wound up riding trains out together (except Nebby... always trying to be different, that one). An amazing thing is that my seat was right by two open outlets, so I could charge my dead cell phones and camera batteries (btw, 200,000+ cell phones in a small area took all the networks' data down, everyone was fighting for signal, and batteries just died all over). Well, I THOUGHT I had pictures of our dinners + the HC crew, but... uhmmm... they're not on my machine. I'll have to track those down. Wound up heading out around 10am for the drive home, got in around 7. I think I got 9 hours of sleep from Thursday morning until Sunday morning, and I've been pretty much passing out every chance I've gotten since then. I gotta go find those dinner pix now... **BRENT**

Ok, I'm up at 3:45 for no reason, so I figured I'd check airfare. I can get from Chatt to St. Pete/Tampa Bay for 48$ round trip. Who's picking me up? (If I can get off work... all I have to do is not get sick.) 10:45am arrival on Friday, 8:00 am departure on Monday. Hey Fitz... non-stop, baby... head on up. Allegiantair.com... straight outta Chattanooga. That airport is what, half an hour away from Tampa? I may can even get a ride from someone I know down there. We shall see. Oh, Vicki, if you bring your Extreme Plat too I'll bring the Aripower. I'd like to have them side by side to see which WOULD have been better with the HP-1s I just sold (Alex, bring HP-1s, kthxbai) **BRENT**