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Texas and Arizona seem bent on allowing guns on college campuses.

It has been a long time since I did a DYI on a car stereo. I can tell you that the Best Buy here did a perfect job installing sat radio in my gf's Honda CRV. Absolutely perfect. And she is impossible to please when it comes to her car.

Makes me sad.

As long as there is a Lou's open, I will survive. I also love a Chicago thin crust once in a while. The best pie within 30 minutes of me is a New York style, not a bad substitute. BJ Brewhouse also makes a decent deep dish, but again, it's just a substitute because Lou's the permanent one.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Jan 26, 2011 -> 07:10 PM) You don't have to go ALL the way to Arizona for that. Wrigleyville is 10 miles North of the Cell. You'll find pleanty of them there And some will even be women

QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 03:16 AM) Oh, also...

300 posts. Probably more than the original Vick thread.

Houston? No problem

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Feb 14, 2011 -> 02:50 PM) Me. I've eaten rabbit, deer, squirrel and bear in the last year alone, and it's what, February? No wolves though, as I think you'll go to jail if you shoot one. I think they're on the protected list, or they were, they may not be now. And single handily you have saved the country from overpopulation.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Feb 14, 2011 -> 07:49 AM) Huh? Do you really need it explained to you? Ok...now listen carefully, Billy...you may actually learn something you can apply to a REAL world, not a made up fantasy land! While what you say might hold true for a temporary amount of time in this mythical world you've built...after a few years, it would come to a grinding halt. While the farmed for meat animals of the day would fall off in population (cows/chickens/pigs), every other animal under the sun would grow exponentially. You see, Billy, since #1 on the food chain (humans) stopped hunting them, they'd grow in number at a rate that would make your little head spin. Deer would absolutely EXPLODE in population, and with nobody to cull the herd, they'd eat your precious crops...the only reason why deer aren't eating those crops now is because they'll get shot for trying. Same applies to rabbits, and just about any other small animal. It wouldn't take long for wolves to realize they aren't getting shot for roaming around, either. Now, if you allowed us to kill animals attempting to eat in this world you've created, but we aren't eating them, then we create a new problem since we would have dead animal carcasses everywhere...and I'm not sure that was the solution you were attempting to find here... You see, Billy, it's part of the natural cycle...and ignoring it doesn't make it go away. This perfect world you are all contemplating CANNOT exist. Someone HAS to hunt and kill these things. It's a top down thing. As I said previously, nature INTENDED it. Keep in mind, the farm animals we keep alive now for meat harvesting are in a controlled population. Without us, and hunters, there would be nothing to control such populations...and most of these animals wouldn't just disappear, "just cuz you want them too in your perfect little vegan world". How many people here have eaten rabbit or deer in the past five years? Armadillo? Wolves? Bear? Squirrel? Waiting for their numbers to EXPLODE!

I'm not certian about total tax liability but I can say when I went from married filing jointly to single, I was much happier :-)

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 08:25 PM) Not in Austin, but I'd love to get a job there after I graduate. It's one of the cities I'm focusing on to start my job search, though I don't have any real connections there. I just think it would be awesome to live in Austin. Me too. My gf has family in the San Antonio suburbs, I love Austin and Hill Country.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 03:19 PM) Ok, fine, read it the other way. If you are going out to a local place to watch games w/ people, then why bother paying to have it at your house if you are going to watch it elsewhere? I'm suggesting not getting mlb.tv package, not suggesting he shouldn't go out to local places and watch. It seems rather plausible someone would want to watch most of the games at home, but catch a few at a local bar with some Sox fans. When I was living in Chicago, I'd see some games at the park, some games at a bar, and some games at home. I didn't think that was weird.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 03:05 PM) Top of the list: REI. Just checked and they are in Chicago. Other possibles: Gander Mountain, Bass Pro Shops. Cabelas and Galyan are also good choices. There was a Galyans by Woodfield.

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 06:41 PM) Last Thursday, I went to the gas station to fill up and got a cheap car wash just to get the salt off. Car Wash was an addition $5. After filling up, I drove around to the wash and it was closed down temporarily. No biggie, my recipt said I had a week to use it. So every day I drove by it and it was still blocked off. Today was my last chance to use it so when I went it was still blocked off. I took my receipt inside and was calm and just asked if I could put the $5 towards gas or some soda or whatever and I was told I could not do that. I explained that I bought the wash a week ago and it expires today and the guy said I purchased the car wash at my own risk and there was nothing I could do. I even said there was no sign saying that but he didn't budge. I didn't make a big deal out of it, it is only $5 but still. WTF You are way more patient than I.

Any of those would be a great pick. I leaned towards Konerko, adding in some intangibles like leadership. I wish I could have justified Buerhle somehow, but I just couldn't build a strong enough case besides knowing you can count on him for 30+ starts and 13+ wins. Will Konerko have the best season of any Sox player? I really do not think so, there are 4 or 5 guys that easily could surpass him. But those same guys could also be the worse of the bunch, and I just do not see Konerko being the worse of the bunch. So that was kind of the edge I gave him, and the comment from Rock I think it was about being the only legit MVP candidate last season.

Happy Birthday!

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 04:04 AM) If you got the mlb.tv package, then why do you want to go to a place that already has it to watch the games? Some people enjoy watching the game with a couple other fans, even if they don't know them too well.

almost not enough to play. Exactly 11. No subs. And two of the girls are usually good for 2 or 3 minutes per half because I have to play them. Instead they were cones for the other team to go around.

You don't believe that violence begets more violence?

You must have seen us play today!

Well it doesn't end so soon for me. Soccer tournament today. We won in the first round so we have at least two games today. Then a Boy Scout Council dinner and really looking forward to seeing Kap at some point.

And thank you Sqwert for making me feel like a hypocrite.