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QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 11:18 PM) But does being drunk ever really equal failure? Well, if it's a sobriety test then I would say yes.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 02:31 PM) Has anyone seen 61*? I never got to catch that one. Yeah, I thought it was quite good.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 08:12 PM) No prob... Anyone else still check their change for things like wheat pennies or new quarters? I was excited I got my first 2008 coins today. I check my change pretty religiously for wheat pennies and bicentennial quarters and such, but I stopped keeping up with the state quarters after the first 25 mostly just due to lack of time to set them aside. Probably a good summer project for me to help my kids with, they're pretty big into the coins too. I think I've seen all 4 of the 2007 presidential dollars but I haven't held onto any. The Tooth Fairy at our house uses gold dollars and so that's probably where most of thos ended up and the kids probably have them in a shoebox somewhere. The Monroe dollar coin was issued in February I think but I haven't noted seeing any.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 12:27 PM) My point was I didn't need two monitors. Still do not. My 17' laptop display is just fine. I've played with a second monitor and so far, just didn't need the clutter on my desktop. So I guess for those that needed that much real estate, Mac was the way to go. That's exactly it - the right tools for the job. I started doing serious Macromedia Director authoring and Adobe Premier editing around 1992, and for those apps you needed to have enough real estate to have a half-dozen tool windows and pallets open as well as your main project window. With a single monitor you'd spend half your day opening/closing and shuffling windows and you wouldn't get anything done.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 12:08 PM) Nope, I was busy using the bigger and cheaper PC monitors at the time. Creaper?? You would have paid $10K for a single VGA monitor that gave you anything close to the real estate of two of the standard 640x480s of the day.

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 11:59 AM) Mp3 players. I still listen to vinyl. You must have one of these too, then.

QUOTE(knightni @ Mar 31, 2008 -> 11:34 PM) My car radio is just a radio, no cassette, no CD. My older car only had an AM radio in it. My car doesn't have an engine. Instead, me and my neighbor Barney have to get it moving by running with our big bare caveman feet. Oh, yeah, and my stereo is a horn connected to a bird whose beak plays records.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 11:09 AM) I have never seen an advantage for either that lasted moe than a couple months, and it is a lot quicker for the PC world to catch up that the Mac world. And they both jump ahead at times. Your computer work needs apparently never required the use of extended mode multiple-monitors, because that's certainly not something Windows caught up to Apple on in a couple months. Multiple monitors were first supported as a standard feature on the Mac II way back in 1987. It became a standard feature on Windows as of Windows 98. The Mac II was released on March 2 1987, and Win98 was released on June 25th 1998, so by my calculations that is 135 months' lag time, Bro.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 08:24 AM) Linked Sorry Jim, but on the brightside, that MacBook Air lasted longer then you . . . heh heh. I'd rather not have seen the hack occur so quickly, sure, but it was on the second day after the hackers were allowed to direct the user to a website containing exploit code. That said, duping users into visiting malicious sites or installing malicious software is of course the most widespread way to exploit vulnerabilities as we have seen over and over again when all the Windows chumps get scammed into letting their machines get hijacked. Also, I'm not surprised a former NSA scientist who also happens to be the guy who first hacked the iPhone was able to hack OSX so quickly.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Mar 31, 2008 -> 08:34 PM) Just to get you more consumed by the story, excited for the release. It's the new brand of internet marketing that I think is fantastic. It also is a lot cheaper then running 30 second spots on TV constantly. I wouldn't exactly call them new. The strategy dates back at least to Blair Witch Project. AI also did a lot of viral/stealth web marketing back when it came out. Those are the two big early ones that come to mind.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Mar 31, 2008 -> 04:28 AM) And the young lad smoked his 1st cigar. What a day for ya Slav. Well I sure hope he had it before he smoked that vile swisher sweet and it ruined his taste buds.

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Mar 30, 2008 -> 11:33 PM) Funny! Not my reference, but funny. Of course, the wise man who told me that died of cancer in his early 60's, but that's another story. A good one, too. Yeah, I assumed you weren't friends with Peter Sellers, but his version of the song from his historic appearance on the Muppet Show is one I've always liked. he was so beaten down by heart problems, mental illness, depression and drugs by then that it's a really telling episode to rewatch now. He didn't appear as himself at all, but instead appeared as a series of characters in costume. In one skit he wore a viking helmet and a boxing glove and said something to Kermit about being dressed as te queen. Kermit then tells him to relax and be himself, and Peter says, "There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed." When I was 10 years old and saw this I obviously didn't get any of it. But knowing what we do about Sellers troubled life it's really touching and sad. sorry 'bout the threadjack, BobDylan.

I hear you can actually go to the grocery store and buy bread that is already sliced for you, so I'm fixin' to give some of that a try pretty soon.

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Mar 30, 2008 -> 06:26 PM) A wise man once told me that "cigarettes, whiskey, and wild, wild women are what made this country what it is today". Keep on keepin' on, Bob.

I think that might be Tex and YAS in that picture. . .

From the thread where BobDylan shows off the basketball hoop made entirely out of empty hardpack smoke boxes accumulated by e and his roommate: QUOTE(3E8 @ Mar 30, 2008 -> 11:57 AM) Impressive. Shouldn't be too long before one of you coughs up a lung and you've got your basketball

QUOTE(3E8 @ Mar 30, 2008 -> 11:57 AM) Impressive. Shouldn't be too long before one of you coughs up a lung and you've got your basketball :notworthy

Yep, once a season this topic comes up. My four favorites (in no order) are: Bull Durham League of Their Own Eight Men Out Bad News Bears (Mathau version) Natural is great, and Field of Dreams and the Sandlot and The Rookie are all worth seeing again. I think Fever Pitch was a fun movie too.

Yippee! After 3 weeks of hitting a wall and thinking I was pretty much plateaued, I was able to drop 5 lbs this week. I have forgotten what food tastes like, but I guess it was worth it to see the needle on the scale move a bit.

QUOTE(knightni @ Mar 29, 2008 -> 12:55 AM) Big 3-5! Social Security is only a breath away. And each breath becomes more and more precious. Make it a good one, Kap!

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Mar 28, 2008 -> 10:20 AM) Obama Fathers Two-Headed Gay Terrorist Baby: The National Enquirer-ization of American Politics It's an Obamanation Abomination!!

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 01:42 PM) I actually feel the same way about Raymond Fiests Magician/Riftwar books. If you havent already, you should check them out. Starting with "Magician:Apprentice" I have read the riftwar saga as well, and I thought they were quite good. I thought Sethanon got a bit too heavy in its borrowing of Tolkienesque themes and how the ultimate evil could only be stopped by a couple of unlikely heroes, etc., but I liked them.

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Mar 23, 2008 -> 06:52 AM) Didn't read The Hunt for Red October. Disagree about Lord of the Rings. Agree completely on LOTR. The films were really good and all, but the books are among the best fiction the 20th century has to offer. I don't think anybody will ever be able to pull off what Tolkien did — creating not just entire worlds, geographies, histories, and mythologies, but actually going so far as to build entire functional languages based on his expertise as an ancient language academic scholar. I make a point of re-reading the books every few years and I'm always completely blown away by what he was able to accomplish.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Mar 26, 2008 -> 04:32 PM) This is my 10,000th post and since 10k is a milestone on soxtalk, and it took me nearly 4 years to reach it, I've decided not to start a new thread, but to put it in a thread I started a couple of days ago. Thanks for everyone who's put up some advice in this thread, it has really helped. Hopefully another 10,000 posts will come. 10K is indeed a milestone, so congratulations. I remember what a big occasion it was when Southsider2K5 made his 10,000th post. Soxtalk had already been up and running for a good day and a half by that time IIRC.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 12:36 PM) Honest question here... Has there been a President since Nixon who actually owned up to doing something (big) stupid or illegal? Jimmy Carter lusted in his heart, does that count?