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I also found a program to split large mp4s to make them ps3 friendly.

Same. It's mostly been fine but the last transcode that I did had audio issues mid-way through which truly sucked to find while trying to watch the show. I can do a 720p mkv to mp4 trans in about 2 hours or so, which is just too damn slow even if it is reasonable. Finally today I tracked down the right software to do what Jacob suggested which is to simply unpack the mkv to mp4 without altering the video stream. Even if I have to change the audio stream this seems to take less than 10 minutes for a 2hr movie which is just awesome. No more crappy DVD-sized rips of Top Gear for me!

TurboTax Deluxe - should make for a fun afternoon.

The finger definitely appears to be getting better. I'm completely off pain meds, the only residual suck is the twice daily hydrogen peroxide baths to try and root out the lingering infection. I have another appointment Monday so hopefully that'll bring more good news.

Very cool, Brent.

That's great news on the job front, Todd.

I'm man enough to admit that I came pretty close to doing so when they did the procedure and again today during the poking and prodding phase (no numbing agent for this???). My doc had the balls to say, "you're pretty sensitive." I felt like smacking him and saying, "No, two days ago you yanked my nail off and today you're literally poking the wound with a stick. WTF do you expect me to do, smile?" I'd post a picture except when this is all over I want to purge all memory of it.

I discovered the worst use of a shot glass ever - hydrogen peroxide bath for still infected finger. Imagine 100 tiny needles attacking the tip of your finger for 10 minutes, that's about right. Good news is that the pain level today hasn't required the use of oxycodone or anything so far, the only lingering pain is from the persistent infection which will hopefully clear up over the weekend or more aggressive treatment may be required.

Sweet! I often casually shop used Doxa's on WUS but haven't found one that I like at the right price.

Good news, Ken. I find out tomorrow if they got all of the infection out so here's to hoping that more exploration isn't required.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

It will not rank as one of my favorite days.

I don't really want another device/remote/thing.

I would guess yes since it's much harder (so far) to track new posts/threads. I find the new content to vary from device to device.

I've been using handbrake to do the conversion but it's been unreliable at best, any suggestions? And it's slow as frack as well even on seemingly powerful compys.

Most offer single file DL's for premium users now and my luck with torrents is nowhere near as good. Now if I could just get the PS3 to play mkv's since it seems that all the 720P rips are encoded that way.

Ditto, I'm a big Doxa fan.

Had minor surgery to deal with a severe infection in my left pinkie finger. Today's lesson aka words that you never want to hear from your Dr., "I'm going to have to take the nail off." So it currently feels like my left hand is on fire despite having taken an oxycodone an hour and a half ago and is going to be a long night I suspect.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/16/altec-lansing-octiv-stage/

I find download services (RS, HF, MU) much easier than torrents and much faster too without my IP being logged by every tracker in the world.

Me too.

It's pretty cheap insurance on the keyboard and hinges, both of which had to be replace on my macbook after about 16mo. And lots of people simply don't feel comfortable working on computers/laptops. Me, I'll work on desktops all day, laptops, no thanks. For me, who loves taking things apart and building things the itty bitty bullshit screws used in most laptops are an invitation for anger.

I'd go AC on the mbp, much easier to just be able to bring it into a nearby (presumably) Apple store and have it serviced right there instead of having to ship it out.

I heard there were several playable demos of it in back rooms at CES.

At least another 6" on the ground this morning and it's still snowing hard.