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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.

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Perhaps we've spoken to different women.

I maintain my original position on this point. Never ever sell. Too pretty, and not worth enough. If that unimaginable day should ever come though, Larry, I'll not forget you.

Those Dabers look very nice. I'm a sucker for single drivers full range, and it'll be interesting to hear if DSP solves some of the oft-hyped problems that scheme entails. Any idea what driver that is?

If JP turns out to disappoint, I can pop in an SSD and a memory upgrade as well, Al.

This is a real step for Mordin.

I had to set up NFS for the Windows Home Server box, as it doesn't come enabled from the factory, but it's pretty bulletproof now. SMB still gets used more often, but that's due largely to laziness. I can't say I ever considered AFP, mostly because my media streamer (popcorn hour C-200) doesn't support it.

THIS. I've enjoyed using my HP WHS immensely. I have an EX475 with a few hardware upgrades, and it is a great piece of gear. A newer 490 or 495 includes out of the box Time Machine compatibility, as well as an active community for plugins, troubleshooting, etc. It also supports selective backup, or multi-drive redundancy of only certain folders. I have my photos, music and documents duplicated, but leave TV and Movies to the cruel hands of fate. 4 drive bays on my hardware itself, plus support for esata/port multiplier for a 4-bay JBOD external enclosure. 8 bays is decent storage, especially with 2 Tb drives going for under $100. I have no problems FTPing files from my wired iMac to the wired WHS over a pretty standard Apple Airport Extreme router at 65 MB/s. I can move 1080p streams across the network without stuttering. I would be stunned if it wasn't fast enough for Squeezebox Server. I haven't kept up, but the new Beta version of Windows Home Server seems very promising as well.

I remember watching a show sometime where a family of Inuits spread garbage bags out on the floor of their kitchen and slaughtered a seal on it, storing most of it but eating a few ounces of raw blubber and eyeball right on the spot. The scene was hilarious, mostly because they lived in a prefab home that looked like something out of arrested development.

You don't think Jerry would have a sample JH3A prototype he would loan out for meets, do you? Maybe one of the older models, or a pre-production new one? That'd sure be nice...

Sherwood's cut-rate liquor shipping specializes in solving these exact problems.

Versinthe is pretty low-rent absinthe, honestly. It's legal now, you're better off just picking something up locally and skipping the hassle.

I have little choice but to share this here. PLENTY NSFW. This is a truly surreal track from South African Rave-Rap crew "Die Antwoord" (The Answer). It features a Xhosa rapper, and takes a stand against unlicensed circumcision. South Africa is a completely different planet. Look at these guys' other tracks, it's just wholly divorced from the entirety of my experience. The whole thing might be a sendup, but even so...

How apropos

For the first time, I almost feel behind here. I love all my Apple products, and they are truly myriad, but my favorite by a country mile is my 3 year old iMac. To spare you all a soppy missive, I will just say that I can't imagine many people owning a device like this iMac and electing to buy something else the next time around. I didn't rush out and buy all my apple products at once -- I got them slowly, over a period of years. I buy them because I trust Apple to sell me something I can work with, and something that will continue to do what it was designed to do year after year. There are 5 iPhones in my immediate family, one of which is now on its third owner. The older ones are slow, to be sure, but they work well. Until they start turning out products that earnestly disappoint me, they'll continue to receive my tech dollars.

No App store yet for me. I imagine I'll have it soon enough, but I cannot remember a time in the last 5 years when I wanted to purchase a piece of software and just wished it could be done more easily. I guess it strikes me as another solution to a problem I don't even remotely have.

Happy birthday! Please consider my attached pic your birthday present.

^^ I edited after posting. Still getting the hang of proper image sizes. Any better? Edit: Upon reflection, it seems a little narcissistic to think you were referencing my post above, rather than the linked image with the caption "I think Reks needs one". I am over myself now. Never you mind.

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i always heard Ray's Hell was just the most presidential burger. If you make it all the way in to capitol hill, you really must try Good Stuff.