A gas dryer is a lot cheaper to operate than an electric one. If you must have a dryer (and if you've got kids, you NEED one), the extra $50 up front to get gas instead of electric (assuming you have a gas line to the laundry room already) pays off in a hurry.
I get up at 6:15, get myself ready for work, eat breakfast, get my kid ready for daycare, go to work, get home, make dinner or feed the kid, spend quality time with him, put him to bed, and by that time it's 9 PM or later. I have 2 hours left in the day to do anything else I need to do (pay bills, manage some household stuff, etc.) and then I'm back in bed.
I tried exercising after 9. It kept me up till 12:30 AM while my body spun down and I was useless the next day.
Football game tickets have always been hard to come by because there are so few games in a season. Yes, that one sucks. I wanted to get tickets for my brother, father & I for the Bills/Giants this December but the best non-StubHub seats I could find (via TicketMaster or Bills.com) were over $50 each and horrible seats.
But you can usually get regular-season baseball tickets for under $30. I went to an NLCS game in 2006 at Shea Stadium and IIRC the seats were only $45 each - for decent seats on the mezzanine (the Mets did an online lottery for tickets and my father's number came up for Game 2)!
So don't use their DNS in the first place. My RoadRunner connection was terrible (slow, sites unavailable, etc.) until I figured out that the problem wasn't the connection but rather their awful DNS servers. I switched to use other DNS servers and my service was instantly usable again.
The integration in OO.o is too smart for its own good sometimes.
My beefs with OO.o presently center around Calc and speed. Calc takes over a minute to launch on my computer, and I have one spreadsheet which I converted from Excel (now in OO.o format), not terribly complex, which will freeze up for about 30 seconds when performing relatively simple calcuations.
I've only had a chance to read his "cancer update page" but I am in awe. His spirits are amazingly high and he's living life to the fullest as long. I couldn't read it at work as I read the following and nearly lost it (my wife & I have a 9 month old)
And tomorrow Dylan & I are taking a 3 day "Dylan and Daddy trip" to Florida to do a dolphin swim and see Mickey Mouse!
Reminds me so much of that episode of The Simpsons when Homer thought he was dying. But with actual feelings. Gets one thinking what they'll do if faced with the same situation.
Look at it this way - if Airbus doesn't agree with Boeing, then Airbus's current use of composites (which I believe predates Boeing's use) comes into question, and any attempts to use composites more extensively in the future will be questioned even more heavily.
In "skilled interrogations," interrogators have been able to get confessions out of people who were 100% innocent - those people just wanted the misery of the interrogation to end.
Buy at Staples and use their EasyRebates program. You submit the paperwork to Staples online (IIRC you only needed a code from your receipt, that was it), they advance you the money within a couple weeks and then Staples goes to the manufacturer and gets the money from them.
That's not the first time I've heard that complaint about the Outback PZEV. Apparently the tuning required to get to PZEV status causes some other issues with hesitation, poor performance, stumbling, etc.
As for your comparison w/ the Mini Cooper - you're comparing it to a car that's got similar power, rides on the ground, 1000 pounds less weight, and is much, much smaller. For what it is (an AWD, high-riding, very stoutly-built (outstanding crash test ratings) wagon that doesn't have an overpriced German badge on the tailgate), it does quite well.
I nearly did this when we purchased a used minivan for my wife this spring. The "business manager" (who was acting like he was tweaked on something) kept pushing me on it. The van already had a factory 7/70 powertrain warranty, and the extended warranty he was pushing on me only added coverage for the a/c and power steering.
After the 3rd or 4th time he tried to push it on me, I nearly did say "look, if you're so convinced that this thing is going to die on me, I don't want it."
All my TVs have a feature which limits volume variances to prevent overly-loud ads from blaring. Set the volume where you want it for your program and the ads, no matter how hard the broadcaster tries, come out the same volume.
Our first SA8300 from TW crapped out less than a year after we got it (HD failure). I'm fairly sure it was a refurb or at least recycled from another subscriber who had turned it in. The replacement I'm certain is a refurb/recycle and less than a year after getting it, the hard drive is starting to make noises just like the first one did in the weeks before its demise.
As long as the cable companies can keep recycling the majority of the boxes, they can put off using CableCards for quite a while.
You don't have to treat the phone as an immediate response either. We've had a Pavlovian response burned into our collective behavior over the past 50 years that we must pick up the phone when it rings. But you don't. Unless it's a special on-call phone/number or you're expecting a call which demands immediate attention, there's nothing wrong (IMHO) with letting it roll to voicemail after screening the number.
I treat my phone as being there for my convenience, not someone else's.
Slashdot Mirror
A gas dryer is a lot cheaper to operate than an electric one. If you must have a dryer (and if you've got kids, you NEED one), the extra $50 up front to get gas instead of electric (assuming you have a gas line to the laundry room already) pays off in a hurry.
You're partially right. In relation to spending time with my infant son, "working out" definitely is not important enough.
But to get up at 5 AM, I'd have to go to sleep at 10 AM. Which reduces my time to do the other things I need to do by another hour.
Yes.
I get up at 6:15, get myself ready for work, eat breakfast, get my kid ready for daycare, go to work, get home, make dinner or feed the kid, spend quality time with him, put him to bed, and by that time it's 9 PM or later. I have 2 hours left in the day to do anything else I need to do (pay bills, manage some household stuff, etc.) and then I'm back in bed.
I tried exercising after 9. It kept me up till 12:30 AM while my body spun down and I was useless the next day.
They aren't "letting" their 13 year olds on the site.
It's that they aren't STOPPING them from getting on the site.
You know, that whole "active participation in the kid's life" and "proper adult supervision" thing that so many kids lack.
Actually, I believe he told Clippy to "get straightened" as Clippy is already a bent piece of wire.
Read his post again. He sold it to her seven years ago. OS X may not have even been out yet (depending upon when in 2000 it was).
A huge number of the Hondas you see on the road in the US today were built in the US.
But not every seat in the stadium is a season ticket, so there must be per-game tickets available online (and through other channels).
Define "major sporting events."
Football game tickets have always been hard to come by because there are so few games in a season. Yes, that one sucks. I wanted to get tickets for my brother, father & I for the Bills/Giants this December but the best non-StubHub seats I could find (via TicketMaster or Bills.com) were over $50 each and horrible seats.
But you can usually get regular-season baseball tickets for under $30. I went to an NLCS game in 2006 at Shea Stadium and IIRC the seats were only $45 each - for decent seats on the mezzanine (the Mets did an online lottery for tickets and my father's number came up for Game 2)!
So don't use their DNS in the first place. My RoadRunner connection was terrible (slow, sites unavailable, etc.) until I figured out that the problem wasn't the connection but rather their awful DNS servers. I switched to use other DNS servers and my service was instantly usable again.
All the ones I buy are self-adhesive.
The integration in OO.o is too smart for its own good sometimes.
My beefs with OO.o presently center around Calc and speed. Calc takes over a minute to launch on my computer, and I have one spreadsheet which I converted from Excel (now in OO.o format), not terribly complex, which will freeze up for about 30 seconds when performing relatively simple calcuations.
As long as it doesn't scratch easily. Lexan® is a terrific material, but in most applications it scratches very, very easily.
Fool. Torque wrenches are precision instruments, you don't go clubbing people with them.
You use breaker bars for that.
No. Seriously. They're actually looking for contestants for this very thing.
Actually Airbus is siding with Boeing on this one.
http://leeham.net/filelib/ScottsColumn2_091807.pdf
Look at it this way - if Airbus doesn't agree with Boeing, then Airbus's current use of composites (which I believe predates Boeing's use) comes into question, and any attempts to use composites more extensively in the future will be questioned even more heavily.
In "skilled interrogations," interrogators have been able to get confessions out of people who were 100% innocent - those people just wanted the misery of the interrogation to end.
Buy at Staples and use their EasyRebates program. You submit the paperwork to Staples online (IIRC you only needed a code from your receipt, that was it), they advance you the money within a couple weeks and then Staples goes to the manufacturer and gets the money from them.
That's not the first time I've heard that complaint about the Outback PZEV. Apparently the tuning required to get to PZEV status causes some other issues with hesitation, poor performance, stumbling, etc.
As for your comparison w/ the Mini Cooper - you're comparing it to a car that's got similar power, rides on the ground, 1000 pounds less weight, and is much, much smaller. For what it is (an AWD, high-riding, very stoutly-built (outstanding crash test ratings) wagon that doesn't have an overpriced German badge on the tailgate), it does quite well.
I nearly did this when we purchased a used minivan for my wife this spring. The "business manager" (who was acting like he was tweaked on something) kept pushing me on it. The van already had a factory 7/70 powertrain warranty, and the extended warranty he was pushing on me only added coverage for the a/c and power steering.
After the 3rd or 4th time he tried to push it on me, I nearly did say "look, if you're so convinced that this thing is going to die on me, I don't want it."
All my TVs have a feature which limits volume variances to prevent overly-loud ads from blaring. Set the volume where you want it for your program and the ads, no matter how hard the broadcaster tries, come out the same volume.
Your TV probably does it to.
Key phrase: new boxes they deploy.
Our first SA8300 from TW crapped out less than a year after we got it (HD failure). I'm fairly sure it was a refurb or at least recycled from another subscriber who had turned it in. The replacement I'm certain is a refurb/recycle and less than a year after getting it, the hard drive is starting to make noises just like the first one did in the weeks before its demise.
As long as the cable companies can keep recycling the majority of the boxes, they can put off using CableCards for quite a while.
You don't have to treat the phone as an immediate response either. We've had a Pavlovian response burned into our collective behavior over the past 50 years that we must pick up the phone when it rings. But you don't. Unless it's a special on-call phone/number or you're expecting a call which demands immediate attention, there's nothing wrong (IMHO) with letting it roll to voicemail after screening the number.
I treat my phone as being there for my convenience, not someone else's.