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Spent the entire day in the ER with my daughter, who appeared perfectly happy and contented the whole time despite having an oxygen saturation stubbornly below 90%. Many nebulizers and a half-bucket of steroids later, the wife arrived on emergency recall from Montreal to man the oxygen blower for the overnight shift. Also learned that the nearest hospital to us sucks balls, which I guess would be valuable information in a direr emergency.

A topical article that may interest you.

She does have some convincing arguments.

I'm in for the July show! Please let me know when you hear about tickets going on sale.

The Alan Parsons Project -- The Turn Of A Friendly Card

Good news, Uncle Sam owes us $13K. Bad news, only because of far larger capital losses we were forced to realize. Worse news, the effective rate on the largest component of our income is slated to jump by 20% next year.

I guess I'll have to start actually listening to you.

And you were keeping that to yourself?

After looking around a bit and trying a few things, I have found that XLD does what I want pretty much flawlessly. Recommended.

The Who -- Who's next MCA Ultimate MasterDisc

The The -- Infected

Husker Du -- Zen Arcade

I hope you put on fresh undies if you're planning to throw them!

The Cure -- Galore: The Singles 1987-1997

Did come across this head-to-head of the Bryston against the Benchmark over on the AVGuide forums. They preferred the DAC1 over USB, and the Bryston over optical.

I'm going to try and score one off the 'Gon to try. As much as I like the Duet, I'm interested to taste some other digital flavors.

Fixed.

Doves -- Kingdom Of Rust :prettyprincess:

The Wailers -- Catch A Fire

Sorry, I'm a Mac guy.

Right, because contemporary Texas Republicans have always been preoccupied with getting more non-white people to the polls.

Oh ... Nerds! I thought you said Neds. Because you still have those, which is a comfort, right?

Sounds like one of my nights on the town. This is great work.

Someone needs to tell Betty that if all Asians were called John Smith it would be even harder for her to tell them apart.

The key is not to try to hit the desired letter with pinpoint accuracy, but to aim for the general area and drag the finger along the screen surface until the desired character is highlighted -- then lift to select it. It takes a while to train the brain to accept that input is accomplished by breaking, rather than making, contact but once you do you'll type both faster and better.