J Larsen

That was absolutely THE worst officiated tennis match I have ever seen. I've seen similar numbers of blown calls once or twice before, but NEVER all against the same player and NEVER in a grand slam. Normally they come close to balancing out. Last night's match was an absolute disgrace. That chair ump should be fired immediately and banned from the sport. She had the chair at the matches I attended last week and was somewhat less than professional then, but nothing even close to last night. None of those calls were even close, by tennis standards.

Want me to throw a little humidity your way?

Frankly, Berigan, I am incapable of caring about someone who doesn't care about themselves enough to stay alive. I am especially incapable of caring about someone who is narcissistic enough to kill themselves so publicly. I didn't need to see that shit, nor did the firefighters who scrapped him off the sidewalk. Take some fucking pills if you're going to do that. And here everyone thought *I* was the bleeding heart type... You never, ever can know what is truly going on in someone's head. I had a good friend end her life like this a few years back. And yet, her last emails to me were the most positive she had ever written. I later found out that when she moved back to France, the doctors there thought the American doctors were over-medicating her, and cut her anti-depressants way back. Her sister said she was having strange visions before she died. Have no knowledge as to what was going on in this woman's mind, but whether her death was to be public or not might not have been a thought she was capable of at the time. I imagine her parents and friends are going through hell right now.....6th NYU student to kill themselves this year! http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-...p-regional-wire This is a fair point. Suffice to say that I get a little pissed off whenever someone nearly kills me. I also have my own attitudes based on my personal experiences with suicide, etc.

I'm just kind of surprised you didn't call the cops or something. Or is this common place in NY? Read what you quoted...

It was ruled a suicide this afternoon.

Are there any differences between these two editions besides the packaging? Thanks.

It sounds to me like an iMac would serve you well. I expect a new line of iMac laptops by the end of the year. Normally the old line drops in price around the time the new line comes out, so that may be a good way to go. You can always connect a larger screen if you want. I love the new(-ish) Apple cinema displays. The 17" model is good, but the 20" and 23" have greater dpi and are really amazing. You really have to see them in person. I don't know what your budget is, but the displays are damned expensive. FWIW, I use Macs, PCs and workstations regularly. PCs are perfectly fine for most users. I do prefer Macs, though. I love that they are built on UNIX instead of DOS. I love that I can open a terminal window and essentially have a workstation. I love that computers running OSX virtually never crash or freeze. I also love the processing power of the higher-end models. However, I understand that many of these things are unimportant to most users, and that the benefits don't justify the extra cost for a lot of people.

That's (part of) what I'm saying. Hence my comment in my original post.

Frankly, Berigan, I am incapable of caring about someone who doesn't care about themselves enough to stay alive. I am especially incapable of caring about someone who is narcissistic enough to kill themselves so publicly. I didn't need to see that shit, nor did the firefighters who scrapped him off the sidewalk. Take some fucking pills if you're going to do that. And here everyone thought *I* was the bleeding heart type...

Good point, Chaney; I guess I should watch what I say!

About an hour ago I was walking on Mercer between Washington Place and Waverly towards Oren's Daily Roast (damn good coffee shop), when I hear a sreaming voice above my head. I look up, see a naked person falling through the air, and stop dead in my tracks as it lands head first, bounces off the pavement with a sickly thud and come to rest with its ass facing me. He (or she, I didn't step around to find out) landed about five to ten feet in front of me. I came back to my dept. to tell my coworkers what happened. They asked if the person was dead. I said if the fall hadn't killed him, I would have. I notified the police immediately, of course. To my surprise, they had almost no questions whatsoever. The body was collected within five minutes.

Very good question.

I think I stick with the sinus trouble and grey hair, thanks. BTW, are we talking about drinking one's own urine here or someone else's?

And here I always thought that phrase had a favorable connotation.

Anyone watching this Jenkins kid? 17 years old, and, as luck would have it, his first ever ATP match is against Roddick! Roddick just got back-to-back aces on serves of 151MPH and 152MPH (1 MPH short of the world record). Poor kid.

The first thing I thought when I saw this was: "G5 laptops are not far away". This isn't all that much bigger than a powerbook, so they've almost got the heat issues under control. I'm sure they had to slow the chip down to get where they are, though. I'm betting by the end of '05 we'll have G5 books.

Love the sinner, hate the sin?

I went yesterday. I saw Mauresmo, Federer and Capriati. Fairly good, if predictable, matches. Federer didn't look like he was in top form; Roddick may have a chance. Mauresmo was quite good, but is no match for Serena. Capriati struggled against an opponent (Chlakova) with a miserable serve (in all seriousness, Chlakova's second serve looked very much like a good recreational player's first serve). I don't think Crapiati has it in her. I guess I'll go out on a short limb and predict Serena and Roddick as this year's champs.

Quite frankly, I feel like I'm getting a lesson in doublespeak with the talk of the church's position on homosexuality.

My potato chip is crying.

That's like me saying that "most" Christians butt their way into my (and everyone else's) business, with anti-gay and anti-abortion nonsense rooted in an arbitrary belief system to which I do not subscribe. That statement is no more ridiculous than your own. I agree with the respect commanding respect bit, though.

It's about damned time!

I waited three weeks for a package from Queens once. I get my weekly magazines on different days every week, and sometimes get this week's issue before last weeks. Also, my postman refuses to ring my doorbell to hand me even the smallest packages (like BMG orders). If it looks like it *might* not fit in the (large) mailbox, it gets left at the station and I get a package slip, which in turn requires waiting in a long, slow-moving line during the local PO's inconvenient (for me) hours of operation. So I'm no big fan of the local postal service.

Strange, their site works fine for me. http://www.girardgibbs.com/firm.html BTW, here's their page for the PayPal case. http://www.girardgibbs.com/paypal.html

Here's a recent news story about the case, though it is scant in the particulars of the offense. There may be more components to this case that what I outlined above. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/...paying-up_x.htm