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Any real aesthetic concerns with these or are they going to be 100% hidden? Any reason they need to be shielded?

Whoa. It'd be great if it started a trend.

Not cheap, but not hugely expensive. Looking forward to hearing what Tyll has to say about them. Website seems to be from 2011 so are they really new to the game or did they just catch on?

Steve, Don't you already own a K1K to speaker connection adapter? At least I think you bought one from me... also, not sure that you really want a panel mounted connector used in a cable, there are certainly female cable-mount XLRs that should work, unless you think it adds too much bulk somehow. But with 2' of cable length I can't see that as the justification. You want a more flexible version of this w/ RA connectors, right? I can probably help with some of this stuff as long as you don't need it tomorrow save for the digital IC. But I might have a friend who can help with that. I'll shoot him a message.

Sniff, sniff, I miss my old ride reports... Anyway, got the MTB out again this weekend and did another pretty long loop at Fort Rock. Managed to get the bike shifting a bit better but still not great. Can't wait to close the door on this chapter and get a new ride for next year which appears like it should be going forward soon. Portions of the trail were downright unridable with dense leafpack where the lower layer was wet leaves and provided zero traction. Still a ton of fun and it makes me doubly sad that both riding seasons are going to be over soon but I'm pretty excited to ski and next year I'll be getting out on the MTB a lot more than I did this year. Yesterday's data.

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Made bacon in the cast iron skillet this morning. Saved some of the grease and used it to cook the veggies and beef for chili which is now simmering in the crock pot for dinner. Great bacon day so far.

This!

High quality (local farm, no hormone, etc) bacon procured for breakfast this weekend. It's cast iron skillet time, wuhoo! yeah, yeah, I know, one of these days I'll bake my bacon all proper-like.

Good news, CJ, glad to hear it.

Agreed, Ed, a bit of a downer to have only Hamster presenting but also at this point I'll take what I can get. I admit that I have been cheating lately and watching the reboot of 5th gear on Velocity. It's different, but decently good.

Buy.com has a deal on 11" Macbook Air's today for $779 (MSRP $999) and it doens't appear to be a refurb. No idea if it's current gen, but 20% off an Apple product isn't something I've seen a lot of if it is current.

Good news CJ, glad to hear it.

X3. Had a chance to buy one cheap at a meet once and thankfully I listened before buying.

Glad to hear from you Ari, I'd be hoping you'd show up soon. Enjoy the normalcy, Dinny.

There's a limit to how complicated I want it to be to make a cup of coffee. The french press is about as far as I'm willing to go.

The Nexus 10 and 7 both look pretty interesting. I'll be looking for some real-world usage reports to see how the 10 does in the wild.

Done. It gave me some weird "From Address" failed message and it doesn't appear to have sent me a confirmation email but I'm not worried about the tax implications. Good luck Vicki, I'm sure you'll do great and it's a great thing that you're doing.

For a good 4 months up here that's not an option. Being hot is tolerable, freezing... not so much.

To second this I bought our generator almost 12 months ago to the day Sandy hit. I hadn't used it until yesterday. It easily paid for itself in the 4hrs that I had to use it yesterday. Given the dire predictions for this winter it'll probably get quite a bit more use in the near future, unfortunately. Even if you ignore the convenience of having it you don't need to lose many fridge/freezers full of food to pay for it if you want to make an actual economic argument. For me, with two little ones, it's a no brainer just to have heat and hot water. Having family close is great except when it means that there's nowhere to run to in a storm since they'll both be getting battered by whatever we might be running from.

Wuhoo, new content!!! http://www.topgear.com/uk/promotion/jamesbondspecial I'll be scouring the interwebs tonight when I get home for information related to when this might *cough* re-air...

Yup, the power stayed on after 7pm last night for us. Pretty calm this morning, still gusting pretty good but the sun is out inbetween the bands of clouds that are passing by. Once again we're really lucky to be on the spur of the grid that we are. 4 houses down the street has no power and it is the same story for 6 miles to the East. Here's a quick picture I grabbed on the way in, less than 1/4 mile from my house. That was definitely the worst damage I saw on the way in. It mostly just looks like a bad windstorm blew threw, not a hurricane. We didn't get anywhere near the rainfall that was predicted so no real flooding to speak of. No real dammage at work which is very good.

Hang in there NYC. It's going to be a long night.

Power just came back on after 4+ without. Like Tom and Dan I expect more of the same for the next few days.

I suspect we won't see it till tomorrow at the earliest. The store cancelled my order without notification so gas reserves are limited for now as well. I'll probably end up trying to go out for some later tonight unfortunately.