Dusty Chalk

Those first several made me laugh pretty hard.

I've always liked BillyBags stuff, although it's so expensive, I don't own anything by them:

That Subaru is significantly smaller than the other models, but yeah, they don't really make too many sedans. They do, but I have no knowledge of them.

Yeah, I just thought it was funny that that particular emoticon was named after you.

They teach 'em that in 'genius class'.

I'd still lean towards Ubuntu because fanboi.

I still use Ubuntu by default because I still find it the easiest, so that's what I would recommend. I've been doing CentOS for work (which is basically RedHat for free) and have found it quite nice, but I'm a command-line nerfherder, I just installed the desktop (Gnome) for the first time (I mean, literally, within the last hour), it wasn't too bad. Biggest deal about CentOS is that it doesn't hardly support 32-bit no more, so if your CPU is 32-bit, I would definitely avoid CentOS. Don't know if Ubuntu is the same, though. EDIT: Just looked, it still supports 32-bit with the current distro.

<-- The reason that one's called what it is, perhaps?

I'm a full-out 6, but I resemble a 4.5 in real life. ...and I thought you were going to post her entire YouTube-ography?

You have to admit (look, you just did) that you get a little ants-in-the-pants-y when it comes to anything agin Apple.

Why is this an issue? I would think that a phone that bends and still works would be a feature.

Definitely 2nd CarMax -- they make it painless, however for new, they only sell a couple brands. For used, the only way to do better is person-to-person sale. I went back there for my current car, a 2012 Mazda3. I had very specific requirements, and the one car that met all of those requirements was in New York, and they shipped it to my local dealer (not for free, mind you, and with 2 weeks of shipping time, roughly). For new, TrueCar buying service or similar is the way to go. Here's how to work them: do some research, find out which dealers in your area are good and which aren't. Then determine which car you want, then go to TrueCar, enter the car, option it out the way you want. They'll come back with some in your area -- they may not be an exact match, so check carefully. Now the way it's supposed to work, you should get calls from several dealers, you pick one, and you go with them. But the way my friend worked the system, he took the lowest offer to the dealer he really wanted to go with, and they beat even that price. As usual, make sure they don't stiff you on the trade-in, financing, or any other areas. Try to make sure that you are in the position of always being able to walk away. Last thought: it still might be worth it to get it fixed -- tdiclub might be able to find you a good, honest mechanic in your area even if it's not a TDI (they're all VW fanboys, so it's a good network for that). I know I have one really close to me in Woodbridge if I were to have gone that route.

I still enjoyed reading that snark-on-snark action. Please continue.

I need to find a good fish & chips...

I tried to listen to the live stream yesterday, but it was only the first minute of every track by the time I got to it.

Emotiva secret warehouse sale inc. Stealth 6 for $349 ($50 off)

And doggies! Congrats, Ian, looks real nice.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayum.

'stretch au naturale'? Those are fairly abstract representations, are they not? Otherwise I would suggest you have that looked at, I don't think it's supposed to be green like that.

Remind me to have you order for me or something -- I went back to that place and tried something else (not the burnt tips, but I did make sure it was barbecue this time) and it was still really meh. Those burnt tips looked good, though. So does that.

Needed something lighter to read while eating, so started The Winter Long by Seanan McGuire: Look at this, she already knows what the titles of the next books are and when they will be coming (and purportedly, what they are about):