Wow!
We can relate-our son Josh was born at 28 weeks and spent 2 months in the NICU (and major props to Research Medical Center-KCMO!). That was June 2000. In the interim, he did have 2 cases of pneumonia (no thanks to the RSV contracted by some idiot bringing into the NICU-6 babies were affected as well), and the 1st 3 years were a bit challenging developmentally. Now, he's just like any other kid, and progressing just fine. Hang in there-you guys WILL get through this. Will keep you in our prayers!
Mike
Seriously, even though until 5 months ago, I was a Missourian (KC), I've always admired Lawrence-again, although they have issues like any municipality, in general, the city has its collective shit together-unlike a certain larger city to the east (KC, I'm looking at you). Enjoy the Wi-Fi!
True, but at some point you'll reach terminal pressure, whereupon Rush explodes. This will decimate all life in the immediate region, and with all the aerosolized Rush bits spewing into the atmosphere, you'll have a problem with global cooling. I guess at that point, we could burn Ann Coulter...
Not necessarily-our kids are in a public Montessori in KCMO-and it's great! Truthfully, if they didn't get into the Montessori program, we probably would have put them into Catholic schools-unfortuanately the regular schools kinda suck! Mike
This reminds of something that a particularly sick coworker of mine saw in an adult bookstore: "Milkshaking". It involved a guy anally violating a young woman who had diarrhea, and the subsequent discharge (and no, we're not talking about Santorum!). That image put me off Wendy's Frosties for 6 months .
Mike
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Dude-you're my hero! (now feeling slightly better about driving a Saturn)
I used to diss Macs, calling them "Macintrash" (of course, this WAS pre-OSX). However, I've been using Macs since 2001, and am generally happy with them (certainly more than Windows, although I am not particularly anti-MS). I was also a Linux geek of sorts, happily putzing around with OSS and trying to set uptime records for my home server (personal record: 437 days-then we had a neighborhood outage-and no UPS!). What changed me to Macs for my "work" computer, unlike you in having paying clients-was having children . Hmmm, let's see, do I alter the kernel to eke out a little performance-or read a bedtime story to the kids? If you answered "yes" to the former-you are a geek! (and probably unmarried or soon to be divorced-no wife would stand long for that!). That's not to say Linux doesn't have its place-and frankly Ubuntu and Edbuntu are pretty nice! But like you said earlier, Macs "just work". So, to summarize: Macs are for work (and creating) Windows is for play (games) and catching the latest virus and Linux is for tweakin'
I'm having a '70's flashback here-but there was a porno movie which involved a secret agent who had his penis replaced after a mission went horribly wrong. If I remember correctly, they called him "Steel Awesome". Imagine the trailer: Steel Awesome, a libido barely alive. Ladies and Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, we have the technology. We can make him better than he was: longer, harder, faster. (Cue bitchen' mix of The Six Million Dollar Man and cheesy porn music, interspersed with Nina Hartley moaning passionately)
Actually, they are rodent residents of New Hampshire that enjoy watching Ann Coulter and reading the Union Leader, Due to the natural conservative proclivities, they are quite willing to be inserted in Richard Gere's rectum in a self-sacrificing attempt to take him out via sepsis.
Here we go again... MS bought $150M in non-voting stock. Did it help? Probably a bit. More important to Apple though, was MS' commitment to continue making Office for the Mac.
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LOL! Years ago, a co-worker of mine (yeah, Dave, I'm talking about you), discussed this very possibility. We came up with...Purple Helmet Linux, with Nutscrape Fornicator!
Actually-at one point there was a *.ogg plugin for iTunes-I used it about a year ago to play some of the free music off one of the Knoppix CDs. Now whether or not there's a current plugin-that's for you to google.
Amen to that!
I live in KC, otherwise known as the "San Francisco of the Midwest", and ignorant NYTimes editor really piss me off! There actually is culture between the coast, and not just of the yeast variey !
As a former St. Louis resident, I have to tell you that part of "Escape from New York" WAS filmed there. Those of us who lived in inner-city St. Louis, circa 1970's, knew that it was a post-apocalyptic hellhole! Now if you wanted to film "The Day the Earth Stood Still"-you'd go to Kansas !
Yup!
Hallmark totally wanks (I'm saying this despite being a Kansas Citian-where they're headquartered). They also looove Republicans (I don't mind that-as long as it's Jeff Gannon kinda of lovin'!)
Fight the Power!
www.buyblue.org
West Virginia is a beautiful place-we attended a family reunion there some years ago, and the state park (Pinecone?) was terrific! However, after driving through the mountains, I now understand the meaning of the term, "hollers"! As to the earlier poster stating Missouri was the worst place, I humbly disagree. Being a lifelong resident, I have yet to cover all the variety of nature here. I will however, reluctantly agree with the poster's assessment of Missouri as far as our politicians are concerned...
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Wow! We can relate-our son Josh was born at 28 weeks and spent 2 months in the NICU (and major props to Research Medical Center-KCMO!). That was June 2000. In the interim, he did have 2 cases of pneumonia (no thanks to the RSV contracted by some idiot bringing into the NICU-6 babies were affected as well), and the 1st 3 years were a bit challenging developmentally. Now, he's just like any other kid, and progressing just fine. Hang in there-you guys WILL get through this. Will keep you in our prayers! Mike
Maybe my eyes are going-but did I see a logo for Omni Consumer Products (OCP) on the bottom of the page?
Mike
Dude, you rock!
Had a similar experience with an iBook (sans cat piss). Speaking of said feline-did you ship it off to Redmond, WA?
Sorry, just wanted to say the Senator's name-rhymes with Fist(ing)-Oh yeah, Linux rules on low-cost hardware!
Mike
Lawrence Rules!
Seriously, even though until 5 months ago, I was a Missourian (KC), I've always admired Lawrence-again, although they have issues like any municipality, in general, the city has its collective shit together-unlike a certain larger city to the east (KC, I'm looking at you). Enjoy the Wi-Fi!
Mike
There is something that English sparrows and starlings are good for...Cat Food! (at least our cats think so!)
Mike
True, but at some point you'll reach terminal pressure, whereupon Rush explodes. This will decimate all life in the immediate region, and with all the aerosolized Rush bits spewing into the atmosphere, you'll have a problem with global cooling. I guess at that point, we could burn Ann Coulter...
Mike
Not necessarily-our kids are in a public Montessori in KCMO-and it's great! Truthfully, if they didn't get into the Montessori program, we probably would have put them into Catholic schools-unfortuanately the regular schools kinda suck!
Mike
This reminds of something that a particularly sick coworker of mine saw in an adult bookstore: "Milkshaking". It involved a guy anally violating a young woman who had diarrhea, and the subsequent discharge (and no, we're not talking about Santorum!). That image put me off Wendy's Frosties for 6 months .
Mike
Dude-you're my hero!
(now feeling slightly better about driving a Saturn)
Mike
Amen to that!
I used to diss Macs, calling them "Macintrash" (of course, this WAS pre-OSX). However, I've been using Macs since 2001, and am generally happy with them (certainly more than Windows, although I am not particularly anti-MS). I was also a Linux geek of sorts, happily putzing around with OSS and trying to set uptime records for my home server (personal record: 437 days-then we had a neighborhood outage-and no UPS!). What changed me to Macs for my "work" computer, unlike you in having paying clients-was having children . Hmmm, let's see, do I alter the kernel to eke out a little performance-or read a bedtime story to the kids? If you answered "yes" to the former-you are a geek! (and probably unmarried or soon to be divorced-no wife would stand long for that!). That's not to say Linux doesn't have its place-and frankly Ubuntu and Edbuntu are pretty nice! But like you said earlier, Macs "just work". So, to summarize:
Macs are for work (and creating)
Windows is for play (games) and catching the latest virus
and Linux is for tweakin'
Take care!
Mike
I'm having a '70's flashback here-but there was a porno movie which involved a secret agent who had his penis replaced after a mission went horribly wrong. If I remember correctly, they called him "Steel Awesome". Imagine the trailer:
Steel Awesome, a libido barely alive.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, we have the technology.
We can make him better than he was: longer, harder, faster.
(Cue bitchen' mix of The Six Million Dollar Man and cheesy porn music, interspersed with Nina Hartley moaning passionately)
Seriously-in the words of Yogi Berra, could it be "deja vu all over again" for Pixar and Disney. Hmmm-the iMouseketeer!
Actually, they are rodent residents of New Hampshire that enjoy watching Ann Coulter and reading the Union Leader, Due to the natural conservative proclivities, they are quite willing to be inserted in Richard Gere's rectum in a self-sacrificing attempt to take him out via sepsis.
Here we go again...
MS bought $150M in non-voting stock. Did it help? Probably a bit. More important to Apple though, was MS' commitment to continue making Office for the Mac.
LOL! Years ago, a co-worker of mine (yeah, Dave, I'm talking about you), discussed this very possibility. We came up with...Purple Helmet Linux, with Nutscrape Fornicator!
Actually-at one point there was a *.ogg plugin for iTunes-I used it about a year ago to play some of the free music off one of the Knoppix CDs. Now whether or not there's a current plugin-that's for you to google.
Amen to that! I live in KC, otherwise known as the "San Francisco of the Midwest", and ignorant NYTimes editor really piss me off! There actually is culture between the coast, and not just of the yeast variey !
As a former St. Louis resident, I have to tell you that part of "Escape from New York" WAS filmed there. Those of us who lived in inner-city St. Louis, circa 1970's, knew that it was a post-apocalyptic hellhole! Now if you wanted to film "The Day the Earth Stood Still"-you'd go to Kansas !
Yup! Hallmark totally wanks (I'm saying this despite being a Kansas Citian-where they're headquartered). They also looove Republicans (I don't mind that-as long as it's Jeff Gannon kinda of lovin'!) Fight the Power! www.buyblue.org
...Thus the term, "Flying Cluster-fuck!"
Yessss....Lucas, "Prince of Darkness" (I'll leave it to the reader to decide which Lucas was more dangerous!)
West Virginia is a beautiful place-we attended a family reunion there some years ago, and the state park (Pinecone?) was terrific! However, after driving through the mountains, I now understand the meaning of the term, "hollers"! As to the earlier poster stating Missouri was the worst place, I humbly disagree. Being a lifelong resident, I have yet to cover all the variety of nature here. I will however, reluctantly agree with the poster's assessment of Missouri as far as our politicians are concerned...
Hmmm... Apple's new spokesman? "Hi, I'm Tiger, and Apple's new OS gives me Wood!"
Sweet! I own a "Pismo" (400 MHz), and was wondering about Tiger's performance. I am still considering a G4 upgrade, though. Thanks for the info!