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QUOTE(knightni @ Jan 5, 2005 -> 01:31 PM) Yeah, photoshop can be expensive. That would be very cool for locals - and very generous of you. Maybe us out of towners can get a free year's SoxTalk membership?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 5, 2005 -> 02:45 AM) Jim, I was just reading a computer tip regarding what to do about your computer when evacuating from a hurricane. They suggested leaving the computer in your dishwasher. It is water tight and would probably survive a house falling on it. That is a pretty good idea. My home machine is a PowerBook, so I just took it on the road with me. I did leave the wife's cheap iron (=Wintel) to the fates, however. At work, I had to move 6 desktop machines into a storm bunker for the hurricanes. It's reinforced concrete and built into the side of the coastal ridge (fossil dune line), and is rated to withstand a direct hit from a Cat5 so we were in good shape ther. But, yeah, if you don't have one of those handy at home I guess a dishwasher will do...

"The sea was angry that day, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli." "...There I was on the back of the great fish..." "Mammal." "Whatever."

Happy Happy Birthday!

Hope it was a memorable one!

Hope it's a good one!

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jan 3, 2005 -> 09:08 PM) My uncle is the biggest Seinfeld junkie ever... Uncle Leo??

QUOTE(Mr. Zero @ Jan 3, 2005 -> 09:04 PM) iPod costs WAY too much for the simple man at this time. I'm waiting till those massive 20 or 30 giggers go down to 100 dollars. Simple Man? Is that a subtle Gary Rosington tie-in to your sig? And anyway, you're not really living until you go with the 40GB deal.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jan 3, 2005 -> 08:26 PM) iPod=greatest purchase I've ever made. Yesterday I gave it to my friend, who has a ton of CD's, and he filled it with 700 songs, and I gave him 20 bucks. Haha, fair trade if you as me. Pre-iPod life was like caveman days. I use it as my portable firewire drive to carry things between the 6 or so computers I end up using during the woek day. I use it as the scratch disk doing video crunching. I put together a set of playlists with about 200 preselected songs and plugged it into rental PA gear and it was the DJ at a surprise b-day party for my folks back in Chicago last month. iPod

QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Jan 3, 2005 -> 07:55 PM) winamp's pretty quality....i like the older versions better though, a tiny, incredibly fast little program. But only the new version of winamp will play the itunes file type so i'm stuck with that. :banghead iTunes is rock solid on both platforms, and they're putting out significant updates avery few months. The AAC file type is better sound quality at better compression than mp3 (it's essentially based on the audio layer of MPEG4 like mp3 is based on the MPEG3 audio standard), but iTines handles them both easily. It's also not hard to convert to mp3, and when you rip CDs you have the option of either format. It rips pretty fast too. The seemless integration with the iPod makes it a must in that instance, but I'd also recommend it as a standalone desktop player. Best of all, it's FREE! About the only thing it doesn't do is give you a way to save mp3 streams, and that's actually a bit of a challenge for us mac folks compared to the relative ease on the cheap iron.

Shrinkage. Elaine: "It shrinks?" Jerry: "Like a frightened turtle." Elaine: "Why does it shrink?" George: "It just does." Elaine: "I don't know how you guys walk around with those things."

QUOTE(HSC's Biggest Fan @ Jan 3, 2005 -> 03:54 PM) A little note on population density. If you took every living person and put them in the state of Texas, it would have a lower population density than Manhatten. That is scary but true - and in fact it's not even close. according to wikipedia.org, the Manhatten land surface area = 23.0 square miles, and the Manhatten population (2000 census) = 1,537,195. That gives a frightening 66,835 people per square mile. Compare that to the netstate.com value for Texas land surface area = 261,914 square miles, and the approximate 2000 world population of 6.2 billion - cram us all into Texas, and we'd only get to a density of 23,671 people per square mile. Damn, there's a lot of people in Manhatten.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jan 3, 2005 -> 02:32 PM) Instead of all out stopping people from producing, try talking people out of producing so damn much. The world would be fine if we could just bring the numbers down a bit. I have no idea how to do that... Outlaw alcohol? That would stop some of the uglier segments of the population from gaining entry into the reproductive pool at least.

Kudos to MOS, HE GAWN, SoxnBears and Goldmember!!

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Jan 3, 2005 -> 04:19 PM) Congrats! Whatever you do, don't let her become a Cubs fan. Then congratulations to you and Eye as well!!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 3, 2005 -> 10:34 AM) Woman rescued after 5 days adrift That's very cool. While she's in sympathy mode, think I should call her and ask her out?

QUOTE(gosox41 @ Jan 3, 2005 -> 12:16 PM) Everett's problem is his weight. He needs to get his act together or risk looking like a Brontosaurus. Bob And if that happens, he would be forced not to believe in himself, right?

QUOTE(Mr. Zero @ Jan 3, 2005 -> 12:33 AM) Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health. Does this make sense? Why even bother reading the rest when they're proposing I live a life where I do not have children. They are a bunch of tree hugging morons, they'd give up all of mankind just so inanimate objects and animals can be healthy. That's great and all but.. no one will be there to care, except for a bunch of animals. I hate some of what people do just as much as the next guy, but this is just plain silly. The strategy is flawed, we agree. But the sentiment is spot on. Life on earth existed for 99.99999683% of its entire span in the absence of a hominid presence. Then for the remaining 0.00000317% of that run, humans and their ilk have managed to set in motion a mass extincton that rivals that of the Permian (that killed most life in the sea) and at the K-T Boundary (the one that did in the dinos), and far outpaces any stretch of backround extinctions yet unearthed. From a biodiversity and global environmental health standpoint, it is just about impossible to argue that the planet is better off for having taken the evolutionary turn that gave rise to the the bucnnh of us. Dumb f***ing monnkeys that we are (OK, great apes technically, but you get the point), we have been really crappy stewards of the planet.

"the very best" My New Years' resolution is to be a smartass. Or a bigger smartass anyway.

QUOTE(whitesoxin' @ Jan 2, 2005 -> 07:40 PM) gluteus frappuccino 4 results for me. Um, remind me to never let you make me a cup of coffee.

QUOTE(Chisoxmatt @ Jan 2, 2005 -> 06:51 PM) Rhinotillexomania tyrannosaurus -1 result thats 2 for me Today's Latin Lesson from geek corner, for everybody too lazy to look it up: Rhinotillexomania = Compulsive nose picking

I'm ooolldd and change scares me... Zzzzzzz... ZZzzzz...

QUOTE(He_Gawn @ Jan 2, 2005 -> 06:41 PM) Chicago Bears got 0. Somebody needs oogle lessons.