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For now let's say it is, now pay for heat, electricity, and maybe a phone and you're at the $1000/mo figure I mentioned. That's "rent" in my book, however much it costs to live somewhere with the barest of necessities. And you'd never find a 3br in portsmouth for a grand, even in the shitiest of neighborhoods. Rooms for rent go for more than that in places where I've literally seen dead bodies by the front door. No fucking joke. It has nothing to do with priorities. Food isn't a priority. A roof over your head isn't a priority. Notice I didn't include a car of any kind. $2000 a month in raw, not-able-to-be-lived-without necessities is easy to imagine. Take home pay for $40k a year is probably in the $2500 a month range, assuming that you live in NH with no income tax. That's precious little buffer.

That's a pretty huge generalization and would depend on your location and local cost of living. I can tell you this, in my neck of the woods $40k w/ a family of 4 would put you at or near the poverty line and that $400 would be the better part of 20% of your take home pay. Figure another $400 a month for food (minimum), another $1000 for rent and it's not hard to imagine that you'd be living on the bleeding edge where one unexpected bill would spell doom. $40k is barely a living wage for a family these days, the gov'ts estimation of what constitutes poverty and the middle class is laughable.

I will download a clip, a whole episode, NEVER!

I wish I could say that it had some redeeming value, hell anything to make it worth watching. Nothing, and I do mean this, NOTHING will get me to watch another episode of that show.

Probably. The show would have cause me to stick the hot iron into my eyes to find out if the nerves really are super sensitive. Honestly, right now, I'm in search of that hour of my life fearful that I may never get it back. It was bad, so very, very bad.

You heard wrong. Wow, just...wow. I just suffered through the first two epidsodes (hour?) and holy hell, I don't know what else to say other than I can't believe after that long he still can't run fast. What the fuck?!?!??!

Wifey is a HS Guidance Counselor, I officially qualify for the discount - no shenanigans required.

Quick, probably stupid question. It's been a decade or more since I owned a MAC and back then monitors that worked on MAC's didn't work on PC's and vise versa. Is that still the case or will any old LCD do? I've got a nice 19" display at home which is what initially made me think mini.

You have a MAC. The last version for windows still doesn't support it. I just downloaded and tried.

Yeah, option #1 right now is a used Imac or Mac Mini. I posted about buying a mini yesterday as the result of my favorite childhood game being re-released and I'm seriously considering picking up something mac-based to use as a desktop replacement in the office.

Thanks Dan.

[me=Vince]makes mental note to discuss video transcoding with Jacob.[/me]

That echoes my thoughts exactly.

A few actual specs of the 9" eeepc have been released. http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/hands-on-with-the-9-inch-eee-pc/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/asus-9-inch-eee-pc-now-with-living-pixels/ I'm not sure going with a larger screen was really necessary or a good move.

Ety P to S converter cable - sounded like my boy Reks needed one to use with his Touch and one happened to pop up cheap on HF this morning so I grabbed it. Expect this to show up in the "what you sold" thread soon.

Agreed, I sampled IV for a while this morning and there's some good stuff there for sure. Even for a non NIN fanboy like myself.

Thanks Todd. I'm not a huge NIN fan but it's worth checking out.

Damnit, forgot to transfer the Seasons Pass to Tivo for this so I missed it. Guess I'll be dl'ing it tomorrow.

Sweet! You're about an hour and 15 from my house, I think that's mini-meet range.

The Ipod Touch will have to do for now. Hopefully a refund associated with the return of a certain laptop will process tomorrow which might go to fund errrm, something else.

Not bought yet, but I may have to buy a MAC purely so that I can play this. http://www.superhappyfunfun.com/games/gam_returntodc.html Dark Castle and Return to Dark Castle were two of my favorite games growing up.

In my head it's a more useful eeepc, longer battery life, more storage and can do the light computing (web, email) that I would have used an eeepc for. Granted it's smaller, but then again I few that as a bonus, not a bummer.

Downloaded the first episode, can't wait till the Touch shows up so I can watch stuff like this while soldering.

For those of you now on the Buy.com mailing list one of the current specials is a 750GB WD "My Book" external drive for $159 w/ free shipping. That's about as cheap as I've seen that much storage.