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Google with a $230 price target. Makes me swimmy-headed.
I agree. Some folks out there looking for bargains or a quick scalp.
XM Radio update... This just in. The radio arrived yesterday & I didn't know it until almost dark.
But I went ahead and sort of threw it at the car, just hooked up the power and the antenna, tuned it to an unused FM station, and listened to it on the way to work this morning.
Listened to one song from the 70's channel, one from the 60's, and then here I was. Maybe I'll get to listen to more at lunch, figure out where I'm going to mount it, where to put the antenna, stuff like that. It has a remote I haven't even taken out of the package yet.
But the audio quality is superb & Elton John sounded like he was in the car with me. I'd have to say it is near-CD quality. Also I noticed it is very easy to tune between stations on the receiver, but the remote should make it even easier.
Maybe tonight I'll hook up the home station and listen to it in the house a bit.
Film at 11:00.
Nice article. I hope XM and Siri don't spend so much money they wind up at the bottom of the pond. I just spent $99 on an XM receiver and just a few minutes ago activated my subscription (but only for a month.)
I have 30 days to return the receiver to Crutchfield and I want to make sure this is something I'm going to get some use out of. So far, everyone I've talked to that has satellite radio just raves about it, but I'm one of those show-me types. We'll see...
Our local radio is pure crap. We have one AM station that's not snake-handling holy-roller bible-thumpers, and it's so weak that if you go behind one little hill it fades out. The FM stations have three playlists, each with 11 songs, and they rotate those playlists around once a week.
The only radio I listen to now is NPR. When Mr. Hollander stated that, "People are emotionally involved with local radio." he obviously had never been to the Tri-Cities, Tennessee.
Buzz, remember all the hoo-haa over DNAP appearing on some TV magazine show about their DNA test helping to solve that rape/murder case in New Orleans? Heck, we thought it was going to go to the moon back then.
"Hit" being the operative word there. Just letting myself run on at the moutn because I'm so frustrated with this brutal market and right now I'm having one of those spells where every move I make is the wrong move.
So I finally got the message and sold everything except PTF and hid under the bed all day.
I bought an XM radio from Crutchfield, the "Roady 2" and got a free home kit with it for $99. Some special they were running. So it gets here Wed the 6th or Thur the 7th & I'll post my progress in getting it up and running in the car.
Wish me luck. One of our outside sales reps has the exact same thing in his company car... I went to lunch with him last week and checked it out, I was pretty impressed with the variety of music, talk, and sports you could get and the audio quality was CD-like.
Oh, BTW Crutchfield has a 30-day no questions asked refund or exchange or upgrade on anything you buy from them. They're the best.
My take on this is that we might as well get used to it. OPEC will soon fall apart, renegade nations will charge whatever they think they can get, $200 barrel is just around the corner, and terrible wars will be fought over tiny nations that are mostly wasteland on top with fortunes and the fate of an entire country's economy just below the surface.
'ere, you wanna hit off this?
Let's sic the SPCA on this guy:
SAN DIEGO - This mugger was left holding a bag he didn't really want.
Police said they were searching for a gunman who ran up to a woman while she was walking her dog Monday night and grabbed the bag she was holding. It contained poop.
When the gunman discovered what was in it, he threw it down in disgust, pointed his gun at the 32-year-old woman and demanded money, San Diego police detective Gary Hassen said.
He then aimed his .22-caliber semiautomatic at the dog, named Misty, and pulled the trigger twice but the gun didn't fire, Hassen said. The robber, who was believed to be in his 20s, ran to a waiting small, silver car and fled, police said.
Well said. Thank you.
Does anyone have a satellite radio?
Good morning everyone. Happy Friday eve.
I want to ask about satellite radio... I'm considering purchasing one but I don't know whether to go with Siris or XM.
I'll be using it primarily in my car. Does anyone have any recommendations to offer up?
Too many ironies in the fire.
Feeding tubes seem to be all the rage with the journalists these days. Now the pope has one of his own.
Wonder if the pope has a living will.....
That strongly resembles our house at the beginning of the re-modling project.
As long as they don't start making marshmallow Peeps in the shape of a '72 Chevy Nova I have no objections.
From what I read of the incident, the sub was in waters off Guam where the charts were very old and known to be somewhat innacurate.
The way the Navy report read, you couldn't tell if it was a colossal screw-up or just the price of doing business underwater.
I like it, too. The dog does look like he is doing his best Bruce Lee imitation though, huh?
James Brown, "the hardest workin' man in show business", would love this pic:
# Tech Support: "What does the screen say now?"
# Customer: "It says, 'Hit ENTER when ready'."
# Tech Support: "Well?"
# Customer: "How do I know when it's ready?
A user came into my office this morning. Apparently, her computer had popped up a message that included the words, "See your System Administrator," so she came down to find out what I wanted.
More tech support horror stories at:
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_misc.shtml
I just love this picture. Reminds me a lot of where I work.
Yes, I'm conflicted by the case, too. We've handed over a moral problem to the legal system and asked them to resolve it for us.
Which, of course, they could never do to everyone's satisfaction. But I'm not complaining. I would never want to see a "morals court" in the United States of America.
Eventually, the final decision rests on one person. She or he will make a decision that's final and irrevocable and it will probably be based on that person's morals.
And those that agree will cry, "Well done" and those that don't will cry, "Foul".
I'm not too proud to admit it was a blood-bath for me today. Yes I am, forget I said that!
I lost my shirt, my ass, and a ton of money. But be brave, me buckos. Now are the times when the weak sell and those of us with cast iron nerves hold and pray.
Poor old Maria's lisp must be so bad today....
For those of you unfamiliar with the onion dot com, it's an old site but still has some of the best, down and dirty satire on the web. Here is a selection from the front page of the current issue. BTW it's free.
"EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name
WASHINGTON, DC—Days after unveiling new power-plant pollution regulations that rely on an industry-favored market-trading approach to cutting mercury emissions, EPA Acting Administrator Stephen Johnson announced that the agency will remove the "E" and "P" from its name. "We're not really 'environmental' anymore, and we certainly aren't 'protecting' anything," Johnson said. "'The Agency' is a name that reflects our current agenda and encapsulates our new function as a government-funded body devoted to handling documents, scheduling meetings, and fielding phone calls." The change comes on the heels of the Department of Health and Human Services' January decision to shorten its name to the Department of Services."
http://www.theonion.com/
The markets just tossed their lunch & the NAZ is under 2,000. What the f... happened around 2:30?
Oh, I didn't sound out in my head my typo until you pointed it out. ...of learing...
I'm old and slow, cut me some slack, LOL. My fingers want to go much faster than my eyes can follow, don't ya' know.
In this modern society of our, do we really need to put up with this?
ring... ring...
"Hi. This is Jill. I'm away from my desk or on the phone right now. Please leave your name and number and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks, and have a great day!"
Then a different voice pipes up:
"At the tone, you may record your message. When finished, you may press the pound key for further options, or simply hang up."
I would like for it to go like this:
ring... ring...
"Hi, it's Jill, sorry you missed me." BEEEP
I know what to do by now and just about everyone that can draw a breath knows what to do, too. And if you don't, chances are good that Jill doesn't want to hear from you anyway!
For Firefox users... There are some nifty little extensions for Firefox and one of them is called Nuke Anything.
Here's how it works: You put the mouse pointer over that obnoxious Flash advertisment at the top of the page, right click, and then click on the option that says "REMOVE THIS OBJECT". Just that quick, it is GONE and won't reappear until the page is reloaded. Or anything else on a web page you don't want to look at.
I love it. Get your copy (if you're using Mozilla's Firefox 1.0.1) by lauching Firefox, clicking Tools, then Extensions, then Get More Extensions.
You may have to search for it, just type NUKE ANYTHING in the search box, pull down EXTENSIONS as the search area, click GO, and it should find it right quick.
Browse through the other extensions to see if there others you might like to try. All these are free and were developed by other users of Firefox.
LOL. One third of the american publik can't spell, the other half just barely.
This is not only so entirely possible, it's probable that she is exactly right and has a valid case. Not to pre-judge, but I've been around enough campuses to have seen exactly what she is talking about go on at other "institutions of higher learing".
See the full article here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&e=3&u=/ap/20050322/ap_on_re_us/sexy_...
BOSTON - A Harvard University librarian claims in a lawsuit that she has been rejected repeatedly for promotion because she is black and is perceived as just a "pretty girl" whose attire was too "sexy."
As a jury was chosen Monday to decide her federal lawsuit, Desiree Goodwin said she's been rejected for 16 jobs at Harvard since 1999, when she completed her master's degree in library science after attending night classes at Simmons College for 4 1/2 years.
Goodwin, 40, also has a master's degree in English literature, seven years of experience in the library of Boston College and another nine years as an assistant librarian at Harvard.
"I feel no matter how much education I achieved or how many contributions I made, there was nothing I could possibly do that would impress them so that they would open the door for me to allow me to advance," Goodwin said during a court recess.
She said she was shocked when, in late 2001, her supervisor told her she would never be promoted at Harvard. In court documents, Goodwin said her supervisor told her she was "a joke" at the university's main library, where she "was seen merely as a pretty girl who wore sexy outfits, low cut blouses, and tight pants.
Link of the day...
http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
He may have told her he was in love, but his hormones just wanted him to be 16 years old again.
I think it's prefectly normal for a 53-year old man to suddenly find himself infatuated with a pretty young girl, although 16 does cross the line.
But acting on those feelings puts it in the category of premeditated stupidity. He chose to make a perfect fool of himself.
I do not think it is right for his employer to fire him, however. Even if the email did come from his work PC.
I forgot to mention that. Actually, I wound up getting the CVS store brand "chest rub". Still works better than anything.
Head cold remedies: What worked for me and what didn't.
I've had a really stuffy nose the past 3 days. Stopped up to the point where I was breathing through my mouth while I slept, which is miserable.
On Thursday I bought 4 stuffy-nose remedies and here is how they worked.
4-Way Fast Acting Nasal Spray... worked extremely well, but I found myself repeating the dosage more often than I would prefer. And it didn't do any better job than plain old saline spray.
Ayr Saline Nasal Mist... worked as good as the (more expensive) 4-way.
Breathe Right Vapor Strips... fantastic. I had never tried Breathe Right products, but these vapor strips worked really well and allowed me to get a good night's sleep last night.
SudaCare Nightime Plug-In... Not so hot. Seven bucks for a little device you plug in to an outlet, and then you insert a little moist pad that is saturated with eucalyptus oil and camphor. You get seven pads in the box. Didn't work very well.
So that's your on-the-scene reporter coming to you live from the head cold ward. Film at 11:00.
This one doesn't need any comment, the headline speaks for itself! They want to speak with someone who can communicate on their level.
GOP Asks Brain-Damaged Woman to Testify
17 minutes ago
Top Stories - AP
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans embroiled in the life-or-death legal battle over the severely brain-damagedTerri Schiavo invited the Florida woman to testify to Congress in a procedural move intended to keep her on life support.
By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&u=/nm/20050318/pl_nm/rights_schiavo_cong....
OK, folks, use your comedy skills and come up with a caption for this photo:
Here's mine. "I told you we shouldn't eat at that Mexican joint!"
Hey, raw, I care. If it's a business trip, I hope it's a huge success, and if it's for pleasure, have a great time.
By all means, please do report the turkey.
That soup he was cooking gave him lead poisioning.
Yes, I always keep a loaded and chambered 9mm with me in the kitchen, too. Keeps those peksy kids from running into kitchen yelling, "Is it ready yet?"