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^^ Go figure

I got an email from Todd not too long ago that implied he was restructuring his business' presence and not accepting new orders at the moment. If we tried to negotiate something with him I think the point of contact should be someone he knows well.

Great article, Grahame, despite the fact that it (predictably) skips over headphones entirely. The irony here is that missing headphones entirely really defeats the purpose of the whole thing. The era of average consumers sitting down in a chair and doing nothing else but listen to music may actually BE over, but audiophiles needn't die with it.

True on both counts, as per usual. If you really insist on buying only one pot, you should still buy at least three.

Honestly, for most pasta, I'm not aware of a good reason not to own a $15 aluminum stock pot. The multiple cups of water in the pot pretty much distributes heat evenly, and It's useful to not have exclusively nice pots. I'll not dispute the utility of good cookware -- it's very, very good to have -- but some of the best pasta and soup of my life was cooked in vessels significantly cheaper than much of what I own. What kind of a kitchen doesn't have at least a few pieces from a hardware store?

Off topic, but I've always loved seeing how good old photos can be. Depth of field, composition, focus, etc. It's just somehow charming to think that, in a time very caught up in which <5 year old camera is the only one capable of truly expressing your unique vision, people have been taking phenomenal pictures for 50+ years. Not to say I don't obsess over hardware as much as anyone, but clearly the thing improving the most is the ease of photography, not the quality.

Not only do I wonder how this became a problem, but I wonder who managed to figure out what exactly the problem was, and how that was done.

My computer is kind enough to go out and find Top Gear for me, download it, name it properly and tick a little box for me that it's here and I've not yet watched it. All that without logging my IP, and at an average DL speed of 1.5 MB/s. I do it the same way Grahame does it:

God I love this. I think it's the font.

Colorado holds up well here, thankfully, but the wording of "the worst at" is confusing to me. For instance, Colorado seemingly does the most cocaine, though Colorado residents may also simply be the worst at doing Cocaine. One would think the practice would improve our abilities, but there also might be an inverse relationship when practicing narcotics. Delaware, on the other hand, is apparently the worst at abortion. I'm kind of stumped on that one. Does it mean the most abortions per capita (likely), the most botched abortions per capita (less likely), or what? Even stranger, Iowa is worst at "Oldest State". Since it's not one of the 13 colonies, it's fair to assume that they meant "State whose residents have the highest mean age". Is being old inherently bad? Couldn't Iowa conversely be the best state at "remaining alive"? Since staying alive (and perpetuating our genetic code) is pretty much what we're all hardwired to do, it seems to me that Utah and Iowa kind of have this thing in the bag. EDIT: I hit up the link for explanations and sources. Turns out it's far, far flimsier than I thought.

Thanks for that gracious intro, Steve! I would, as predicted, be delighted to chime in here. Denver is a lovely town. Great food and beer, and near enough to many tourist destinations (without being a real tourist destination itself). The convention center is on the South end of Downtown, and there are a number of good places nearby, depending on what you're looking for. The bestest, swankiest hotel in Denver is pretty close: The Brown Palace Or if that's not your thing, there are swarms of reasonable business hotels nearby. For those, I'll have to go on the opinion of others, since I've never bothered to stay in a business hotel in my own city. Nightlife areas are nearby, as well. You'll want to get slightly away from the convention center itself and up to LoDo (lower downtown) for the best. Start at the best beer bar in the West and then just go for a walk. You're about a block from Coors Field and everything in every direction for a few blocks is pretty busy on a given night. Especially in May, once it's warmed up a little at night. As to food, I have more recommendations than you have time, so I'll need some guidelines. What are some of your favorite places now? Reply in here or shoot me a PM and we'll talk specifics.

I felt comfortable fixing my iMac (and that has turned out to be true) but elected for applecare on the macbook pro. the iMac, by virtue of living on my desk, is not really in danger of anything other than part failure. Parts I can replace with confidence. The MBP is subject to a whole host of other things, due to its mobile nature, so I played it safe.

And, with much of the community having weighed in, it seems you've been approved for temporary posting. Congratulations, and welcome to Head Case (a subsidiary of More Hardcore, LLC)

I agree with Vicki. It wasn't an utterly useless first post, and I do rather like the username "yazz flute". As to Mr. Pretty's point, the Euro has actually lost value against the dollar since thei introduction, has it not? I can't imagine the price change (if any) is due to ForEx.

Beyond adorable. Love love love.

Take note: the fırst few paragraphs of that article represent some of the worst writing I've ever seen in the NYT. "To get the best picture quality from your 1080p-capable HDTV, you need to watch content emanating from a Blu-ray disc; only Blu-ray can deliver the 1080p resolution that your TV can potentially display. One day there may be an even higher high definition standard, but you’ll need a new TV to see it. The University of Southern California’s Entertainment Technology Center, for example, has been experimenting with “super” high definition displays, with up to four times the resolution of today’s sets. But until that day comes, is there anything we can do to improve the existing Blu-ray standard? Paul Darbee, a co-founder of the company that created the universal remote control, believes there is."

This review was complete and utter bullshit. He's running the goddamn thing out of his ipod, or his Sony CDP which has "more than enough guts to run these headphones". Bull shit. Give me numbers, Ken. I, like many others, read and trusted Ken Rockwell when i bought my first decent camera. It was a Nikon D40, and it turned out to be a very smart purchase. For years afterwards I would read Ken's reviews and articles periodically, but I never really dug into photo blogging, so i was largely unaware of his crazy. Then I got more serious, started shooting more and selling pictures, so I started reading more critically. A good portion of what he says is beyond crazy, and he breaks what I decided was the fundamental rule of photo blogging: "don't trust anyone who publishes pictures you don't like". Notable crazy: 1) The iTouch is a better photo tool than the iPhone, since there's WiFi everywhere. 2) Shutter sync is a camera's most important feature, and the SB-400 is Nikon's only reasonable flash 3) You should transport your camera around wrapped in a sweatshirt, 'cuz who needs bags? 4) Tripods are stupid, you should be man enough to handhold everything 5) Despite having zero on-the-spot feedback, high development costs and shrinking support, film is the only viable way to take important photos. Now all he talks about is old leicas and medium format film, and apparently the headphones he got as a gift. What a clown.

Very fast, feels stable, good step. I do have a few questions, though, and while I don't expect answers I think my 3000 or so posts here speak to the notion that I'm willing to say things without too much merit. 1) Watching topics is strange for me. My subscriptions seem to have imported, but the "watched content" sidebar defaults to "forums", which is annoying, and seems to display my topics in completely random order. The first hit on the list is from 2009, then a few from 2010, then one 2011, then more 2009. Not alphabetical or chronological, and I haven't found a setting I can customize to allow me to browse the most recently updated subscribed topics first. 2) My custom title is now too long, and has clipped. "If a chicken is a cow, and why wouldn't it be, then chicken" is a curious causal relationship, at best. Is anyone capable of bestowing upon me a shorter but equally demeaning custom title?

Perhaps he's like my 13 year old sister, and he feels that 2 days is a pretty long time to wait for something.

I would rate that comment, Knucks, but I've hit my quota

The mobile site looks terrific. If my blowjob smiley didn't make it over, I'm sure a replacement can be drummed up.

Series don't generally make the journey across the pond well, that's for sure. Life on Mars sucked, Coupling sucked, the single episode of "The IT Crowd" sucked, Top Gear may well suck, etc. Remaking successful UK shows seems like a kind of TV producer's low-hanging fruit, especially since most of the successful ones (i.e. "All in the Family", "Sanford and Sons", "American Idol", "Office") are much more famous than the British originals. Apparently, the UK is happy to simply watch "24" or "The West Wing" without remaking it, or UK producers don't see the money in it that US producers do.

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On my nook.