Son-of-a-Weizen

Hard to decide between Workin' and Steamin'.........but my favorite tune would have to be 'No Line' w/Rollins.

Well you need an additional one....a third line of defense just to make sure you're absolutely safe! Start using Twizzlewhileyouwork as well.

EpiSims (page 2...) at Los Alamos.

<<<<The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, responding to the growing threat of cybercrime to the financial industry, stiffened its guidelines for Internet banking in October, effectively ordering banks to do more than ask for a simple user name and password.>>>> Good.......the standard user name/password combo seems dangerously outdated.

Yuck....looks downright lethal.

Any of these online vinyl shops taking PayPal yet?

Another decent PJ title that comes to mind is Teddy Edwards 'It's About Time'. I rather enjoy that one. Has this thread been forwarded to Mighty Quinn yet?

It's funny.....if you check Weather.Com with any regularity, they'll usually hedge their bets by listing at least a 10-20% chance of precipitation. Even if it looks like a solid 4-day run of sun & mid-80's they'll dutifully list the 10% just to cover the bases and have some wiggle room. Today, they actually went with a 0% for my area....and it's now raining!

My advice: keep it in your pants and be a good lad.

How about when you raced around the Central Park thoroughfares wildly pointing your lens at every strip of Christo's bright orange tissu coloré to the point of distraction? You never even saw that baby carriage!

I don't own the box.....it would be nice to see them resurface as rvgs.

Does he have any Michelin 235/60 R-16 tires for a Benz? I need two.

Here to Stay has been out in Japan as TOCJ 4135 in 1994. Long time ago ....one of a mere handful of titles (Sonic Boom, Procrastinator, Street Singer, Jubilee Shout, The In Between? ) that appeared as TOCJs but didn't make the JRVG cut.

Shawn, You're probably living in N. Arlington and getting the primo service........they treat us like bad pennies down here in S. Arlington! Jim S, Yes, they've schooled me in that procedure.....but powering off the computer was never part of the equation. Hmmm. On occasion, the unplug modem & then router routine seems to work. The thing is though, the router is a fairly recent addition and I've been logging calls to these folks well in advance of the time frame mentioned in my previous post. I'd just go with the flow for awhile and live with it....then get re-animated all over again when something really really bad happened -- like losing service just as I tried to cast a last minute bid on a Getz Japanese mini-lp last week! probot57!!!! You dodged a bullet on that one!!! You're a lucky man!! See, God hates snipers!

I'd like to see Dexter Gordon's 'Clubhouse.'

......ya know, I thought of him when the first meter reading registered a WMD somewhere around 2-feet out from the modem! Now stop egging me on or Johnny will try to get this thread tossed into political!!

Just checked mine 10 minutes ago (connected to router) and it registered 4445 and 676 which is pretty good. I've been having this problem where the signal would suddenly drop and I'd have 15-60 minute blocks without service. I've actually been calling these folks off & on for months about this and they did everything but check the line. One guy actually put 2 attenuators on the modem to dampen the signal because he said it was too strong. Two months later, the next guy walks in and says 'why did he put those on there?' and proceeds to remove them. On Sunday, 'Mr. Upload' hooked the cable to a meter and said that there was something wrong with the actual cable about 12 feet out...some possible damage affecting the signal. He replaced about 20 feet and then re-tested. Same meter reading. He then replaced an additional 25 feet or so and re-tested. Meter now reports a problem some 1,800 feet away. He said that he must have forgotten to re-charge the meter. I started to laugh. So far, it seems to be running alot better but even when I checked it 2 minutes ago, the download speed was registering 6271. Something's going on with the signal.

Had a couple of Comcast techies swing through to try and solve an ongoing problem. The first guy immediately went to the keyboard and hit this slick little online site to check the download and upload speed. It's kinda neat....hadn't seen it before. He couldn't quite diagnose the problem so 5 days later they dispatched a second guy. First thing I did (Sun.) was to show the 2nd guy the test site that his colleague had accessed earlier. Not only was he unaware of it but when I asked him to explain the difference between 'download' and 'upload' speeds, he said he really wasn't familiar with upload. Am I nuts, or is that totally whacked out? I admit that I'm a dunce when it comes to half of this stuff....but a cable technician? Would that be like a gas station attendant not knowing what hi-octane gas is?

I've checked out a half dozen of the matches and found it interesting. I agree with Jim R about the announcers/strategy.....they've not done a very good job either of explaining the terminology (the hammer?). I'd like to know how they glide about so effortlessly in those shoes. We need a foot cam.

I agree. Watched the first 3 episodes this weekend and called it quits. The premise of the show is that you've got a manager who thinks he's one of the world's great comedians and no one else in the office does -- so what's funny about that? The other thing is that there really isn't a likeable character in the lot.......the manager's a goof and the underlings aren't much better.

Thanks for the responses. I'm interested in taking a look at Seagate but am curious as to why only the internal hard drives are covered by the 5 year warranty? Just as an aside, you read warranty-from-hell stuff like this (readers go ballistic over hard drive warranties)and you wonder if (regardless of how comfortable you feel about the level of coverage) you'll likely end up getting screwed anyway if the thing prematurely bites the dust? I think I like that Danish 2-yr mandatory warranty biz.

Ya know, it's ironic....I'm the one always getting zinged in the political forum as the bad guy who (supposedly) wants Bush to take away everyone's rights...doesn't care (supposedly) about The Constitition, blah, blah, etc.... but I've got serious concerns about public registries like this. I've got young kids and am as watchful and protective as the next guy but if someone was tried & convicted of one of these crimes and served their time, why are they then listed on this thing that can be accessed by any blockhead? Hell, you get a couple of guys belting back a few drinks, scanning the online registry on Fri. night for names, deciding to take a six block walk on over to John Smith the convicted offender's house to cave his skull in with a lead pipe. What the hell is that all about? Where's the ACLU when you need 'em? You might as well just lock 'em up and throw away the key if you're going to put them into a situation where -- after they've paid their dues to society -- they're at risk having their house torched on any given night because they're on a list. I say, let the cops operate something like this...and keep it low key. ** no hits within a 15 block radius of my place.....no need to saddle up and drill someone in the melon with a 9-iron tonite!

WORLD CUP 2006 / GERMANY, Discussion, analysis, emotional venting There aren't any Lufthansa tix out of DC to Munich for under $1,350 in June!!

Good move 'cause at a minumum you've got to go with "F$@% You and The Horse You Rode In On!!" to get people's attention these days. Stop being so diffident!