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The Houston Astros have brought up their top pitching prospect from AAA to make his major league debut pitching against the Cubs tomorrow. Good luck to Jordan Lyles, the 20 year-old right hander better known as Colin around these parts:

Paid my 5 digit annual affair called property insurance.

Big belly shake here! Got me laughing hard! Good ole' gunt gurl...

Not that I have a lot of experience with exercising in recent years, but I've always found that for routine cardio (i.e., treadmill, elliptical, rowing, recumbant bike, etc.) you're much better off with clip ons. Something simple like Koss KSC-35 or the like. Sound quality doesn't really come into play. It's not like you're going to be listening for hours on end. For weight training, I don't see any reason why custom IEMs wouldn't work, unless you go to such an extreme that they untwist and pop out!!!

Nice pic, Jeff! Would be nice if you could get some time behind the wheel at your next track day. You certainly have enough fast toys to choose from!

This is a great suggestion. Not only do they need lots of juice, but there's also the flavor issue, and it would help if you could sample them with several different amps. This would help you to decide, a) whether you think they're worth keeping at all, and if so, at what cost? The cost factor for K-1000 amplification can vary by a country mile, and what makes one person happy might not do it for someone else. Of course, even if you could get to a meet, it will be far too loud to make any sense of even open headphones, let alone the K-1000. So I guess that might not be such a good idea afterall...

"He said his skin felt like a pork roast, crackling on the outside but soft on the inside." Kind of a strange description, but hey, I'm sure it wasn't pleasant.

Relax, Steve... not that kind.

Happy Judgement Day! If anyone has to go to Hell today, make sure you say hi to Ivan (the guy dressed in the devil outfit) for me. His ex-wife, Mabel, lives down to the street from me and is now married to Spike. She once told me that she's been married twice, and the two of them don't add up to half a man! Here's Hell: Here's a bit about Ivan (he's a Hell of a guy, despite what Mabel thinks): Where the hell are you from? Oh, that's a hell of a place!

Got to the bottom of the bag of pistachios and then made a bad decision... What I should have done is throw away that last handful of stubborn shells that I couldn't bust open with my hands. Or alternatively, I suppose I could have laid them on the countertop and given them some light taps with a hammer or other similar instrument. Instead, I decided it would be a good idea to bust them all open with my teeth... forgetting as one does in these instances of temporary insanity that I've had a lot of dental work done over the years, including a crown that several minutes later was found on the floor. Clean break of the post (or whatever they call it after doing the root canal and then preparing the area to accept the crown). So hopefully Dr. Fred can fix it with some crazy glue tomorrow. Long gone are the days of employer provided dental insurance, so this one will be out of pocket.

I'm still hopeful for the Bullies but giving up the home court advantage really sucks.

Man, this is going to mess up the Bulls-Heat series.

^ Handsome shitter, that.

Amazing guy! Here's one on the fly...

Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over!

Congrats for reaching this major milestone in your life!!! Hope you enjoyed the moment with family and friends. Whew... that's a lot of names to call and a lot of people to walk across the stage!

Fanfriggintastic news! You'll love it. Takes a little getting used to, but that all depends on what your typical applications involve. I have a reference book called "Switching to Mac" (or some such thing) which is quite helpful, but who really reads books these days? Apple provides all of the support you could ever imagine. Check out Switch 101 as a starting place, and if you haven't done so already, consider enrolling in the "One on One" they now offer (and probably tried to sell to you when you bought your MBP) if you're like me and need someone to physically sit with you and beat it into your head.

Syd didn't even know about those albums! Or I should say, he sort of knew, but sort of didn't... it was a little fuzzy to him, which is what makes those albums so durned interestin'

Sorry, must have jinxed it by saying it was priced reasonably.

Loving the camel toads!

Is (n)-solvable intended to be a math play on words? Insolvable? Unsolvable?

For sure! This actually does look like quite an ambitious project, and given all that is included, priced somewhat reasonably. I found the quotes from Nick Mason (in one of the above links) interesting in the sense that it's kind of do or die at this point with all forms of physical media seemingly nearing their final days, sadly. Thus the rush to get it out while there is still a market for the shiny discs.