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Sounds like you lost two good friends for whom you had great respect. RIP gentlemen. You lived well.

Baseball is not boring if you live in the Bay area! Home of the best two teams in MLB this year! But being a Blue Jays fan has been fun of late as well.

They're devoted to fair weather. Not so much to the Kings.

The first must be golf or tennis or something like that... you can't seriously think that baseball is boring! Heck, you've even got Vin Scully in your neck of the woods! There couldn't be a more interesting sport, in my opinion, than our nation's passtime.

Yes, and the "percentage" business is one of their classic tricks. Oh, it gives you 80-90% of the sonics for only a fraction of the price! As if "sonics" can be quantified at all, let alone on a sliding scale measured based on percentages. But that gets the attention of the masses, meaning most people who would find $400 to be quite a stretch for some such contraption to begin with. Yet, at least now they can think they are getting a steal of some sort. Meanwhile, 80-90% of what is possible is nothing to the guy who wants 99% or 100% and will settle for nothing less... so he won't lose that customer either. Don't ask me how I know that. MBL in my case. No regrets because I could afford it and it's what I wanted, but price certainly wasn't my first consideration.

Because nobody is buying his expensive shit, yet thousands of people are poised to buy the much cheaper shit that he'll get a slice of? Maybe? Especially with his ringing endorsement.

Maybe Steve can help...

Ditto.

Let's go Hawks!!!

Good night, Alice. You were a friend to all of us. RIP. http://www.tmz.com/2014/06/01/ann-b-davis-dead-alice-from-the-brady-bunch-dies-at-age-88/

Review on Amazon about a hammock I'm thinking about buying. I've provided some highlights to prevent your boredom: This review is from: Vivere Double Hammock with Space Saving Steel Stand, Desert Moon (Lawn & Patio) "It came with a bag, a couple poles, bends, and twistable knobs and was easy to assemble without tools (5 minutes). I bet my dad I would sleep 1 week using the hanging hammock as a permanent bed for $10. I slept in it by myself for a few days and loved it. Then with my girlfriend. She disliked sleeping together in the hammock since it felt smooshed. It also forced her to lay on her back- another unnatural position. But we really wanted to both love it. So I made it tighter, in order to reduce the curvature in the center which was causing hip/back pain when we were in spoon position. I felt better using the hammock as a bed. I felt more awake and could start the day. Having fun in it was also challenging AND interesting. But we broke it on the 5th night. We turned on the lights to see our rumps had been dangling half an inch above the metal floor pole. We had bent and collapsed in one side's bend of the erect staffs. Despite our combined weight of 300lbs (well-below the safety specification of 440lbs). I have to return it now, or ask for a replacement bend. Have not decided. $140 back would be helpful. I'm actually an Industrial Engineer graduate, I understand the hammock bed can handle constant weight. But repetitive, vigorous, and fun activities in the hammock will rapidly cause it to flex inwards... even at "safe" weights (We lasted 5 days @ 300lbs). My recommendation: Mainly use for just one person. It isn't comfortable for two people. Also, don't even think about sex on it! I know it is tempting to try it... and it was fun... but choose a stronger design if you want to try it too! Edit 8/15/2013 I got the replacement! Not much of a choice- I called for a refund but because I threw the box away with premature excitement, it was near impossible to refund. My father, a USPS Regional Postmaster, spent two weeks looking for this quirky sized box ~(110 X 47 X 43 inches). He was unsuccessful. I asked if Amazon would kindly ship us the box to return, they said no. Well, what can you do? Short of making a custom corrugated cardboard package myself, I had my hands cuffed. I have been enjoying sleep since my girlfriend is currently on week-vacation. Normally, I am forced on IKEA when she is home, but for the last few days I can enjoy my hammock. In fact, she is hanging with pillow and blanket in my living room space as my permanent single bed while my IKEA full-sized foam mattress lays stripped in the other room. Also, I assembled my ex-hammock outside for the family to use. (How chivalrous I am to give my family a hammock that is ready to collapse?). Conclusion: Although this hammock is awesome for one person, its lifetime may be severely reduced with two persons. (If you do it in this hammock you were warned!) Great for relaxing, sleeping, thinking, swaying, zzzz.... I fantasize about using a hammock for my future kid/teenager's beds (It's unique, space-saving, ultra-comfortable, improves blood flow to brain to improve development, plus they won't be able to share the bed easily say if they hang out with the opposite sex.) or for ultra-comfort while reading a novel in a future book room. I hope this is helpful!"

^ Boom. Done.

We need a miracle in Chicago. Need to put skates on MJ and Pip.

That's not the way it works here. We decide what the fucking thread is going to be the fuck about. It's "purpose" is whatever the fuck we want to talk about.

Sigh... me too.

Happy birthday, big head boy!

Indeed. Size 8 is sometimes tight...

Break in?

Assuming they don't run out of them just as he's about to order...

This is kind of fun... at a busy train station in London.

Totally agree. First of all, 36 is just a horrific age to die. So much left to do and see and experience. Sad. But if he had to choose just one project to do first, I can't imagine he could have chosen a better one. Fantastic story, awesome music, and amazingly well constructed documentary. RIP. Wow.

Kaner!!!!