Jack M

The actor died in 1989 at the ripe old age of 39. At least you can see the star of the Goonies in LOTR as Frodo's friend Samwise.

I haven't shopped around for a new computer in years. I am seeing laptops advertised with Intel Core Duo processors at speeds of 1.66GHz. This seems pitifully slow to me, as my 4 year old computer has a 2.4GHz (single core) processor. Are they apples and oranges? Is a 1.66GHz dual core processor more comparable to a 3.32GHz single core processor? Thanks, -Jack

Why can't Hellen Keller drive? because she's a woman! :p

my mistake, I must have confused you with someone else. woops!

That surprises me, iirc, you're certainly not drinking the liberal Kool-Aid when it comes to healthcare matters.

How do they catch card counters? Just look for the people who win too much?

Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners..... 1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master. 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. 3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. 4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef. 5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up. 6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. 7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree. 8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine. 9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. 10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup. 11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p. m. instead of 7:30. 12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze. 13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease. 14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36pm traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 pm at a speed of 35 mph. 15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth. 16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. 17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River. 18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut. 19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do. 20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work. 21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while. 22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something. 23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant. 24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools. 25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

Your sequences are clearly the best around for instructional purposes. However try to make a 20x30" poster out of one of the frames! I'll "settle" for my little 5fps 30D. ;) Haven't made the jump to HD video yet - just got a TV though, so I'll be itching to. It's utter BS that the HD video cams are priced at such a premium - HD doesn't even require a 2mp sensor, which has been around for what, 7-8 years?

I can't afford to be the audiophile I really am inside. Dreaming of the day I can throw down for a Bryston 4B amp and some really good speakers like NHT or B&W, or maybe Magnepans if I have the room. When I was between jobs I worked at a high end hifi store with all that stuff. Scored myself some good discounts, including 70% off Transparent cables. But... I didn't think audiophiles listened to headphones??? The stage is supposed to be infront of you, not inside your head!

"adequate" - LOL! That's some serious specific HP. I dig how the exhaust exits out the top of the tail cowl.

So who's got one on order?

I might be able to do a weekend day.

LOL - I don't think it was bragging rights he was after. I didn't say that to say that he "wins", just to point out that girls do respond to pick up lines, and are easier than we might think. I'll never forget the time I saw Alicia Silverstone on Letterman. Dave said "so you must have boys just lining up to date you, right?" and she sheepishly replied, "no, I don't have a boyfriend, nobody calls me." That's because we guys just assume that all hot chicks are taken! Not always true, fellas!!

I always wanted to try: "don't I know you from the cinematographer's party?" But yes Michelle, I know a guy (actually we all know him!) who has scored with more 10's than he can remember just by asking them point blank if they want to get out of here and go f***. Apparantly 10's don't get approached that often and are as randy as senior boys at the prom! Who knew?!? Not me!!! :(

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I can't believe how easy this is. I'll be listening to my own tunes from my home computer at work tomorrow. http://www.lifehacker.com/software/feature/how-to-set-up-a-personal-home-web-server-124212.php

I'll just say that I'm very pleased with my new 32" Sony Bravia XBR LCD TV. The salesman said that LCD is currently the longest-lived technology available. I think for 40" and below it's the way to go. I would have gotten the regular Bravia, but I recently landed a new job so I splurged for the XBR. It's got an HD tuner and when I plugged it in to our basic cable, much to my pleasant surprise it picked up 4 HD channels! (ABC, NBC, FOX, PBS) There's more HD programming out there than I thought, it's great! Anyway, the picture is superb and eye-popping with any digital signal (DVD, HD channels) and it's about as good as my old tube TV on SD analog channels. With an 8ms response time, there are absolutely no trailing ghost images on fast motion - something I was worried about. One cool feature of the TV is a USB port and a built-in slideshow player - I can take the memory card out of my digital camera, stick it in my USB card reader and plug it into the TV and play a slideshow from the card. Very cool. Also you can hook up your computer to the TV and use it as your monitor. Gosh, I've been very impressed with what I'm seeing in HD on my new TV. I'd say the NBA playoffs are the most impressive picture I've seen so far, but the primetime shows in HD are way better than SD. And I'm loving TV in the 16:9 format. 4:3 just looks so small and cramped now! And now I'm seriously contemplating upgrading from our $12/mo "ghetto" cable package just for the summer so I can watch the Red Sox on NESN-HD!!

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http://www.skiracing.com/news/news_display.php/3780/ALPINE funny, I didn't realize Head was still in business. Or that there was anything better than Atomic.

Rosé?? I suppose you like white zinfandel too...? :p The best flat red for the money: Ridge Lytton Springs

I haven't had the camera long enough to try the continuous shooting modes, but I imagine if I have a problem with losing sight of the subject I'll try keeping both eyes open. Yes, all the lenses made for your brand of choice will work on a DSLR. For example, all Canon EF lenses work on all Canon film and digital SLRs. However Canon EF-S lenses only work on digitals.

Amazing macros. And gross - I am a friggin' little girl when it comes to bugs. Especially if they go "crunch" when squashed, I think I'm going to hurl. I agree about having a relationship with a camera shop. I bit the bullet and paid about a $250 premium to buy locally, but now I've got a support crew! As long as we're sharing...

fair enough. I don't like opinions being passed off as fact either. :)