Dusty Chalk

...or a hurricane and 24 inches of snow.

orange chicken from Ricky's Rice Bowl

That's a lot of courses. And rather mixed up, culturally. (Not meant as a criticism, just...noting.) Shit, I forgot to eat dinner again. I'm going to go grab a yogurt.

Really, processors aren't getting that much faster -- the bottlenecks are becoming the hard drive (and associated -- e.g., sata controller, etc.) and the memory. They're evolving both sideways (I.E. quad cores and hex cores), and with the whole rearchitecturing thing (i3, i5, i7, etc. vs. previous pentium-based architectures). In other words -- any of those should be fine, even the i3. For things like email, web, desktop production (especially what I would call "consumer level" desktop production -- graphic artists are a whole different thing), your problem won't be the machine, it'll be other things (I add "network" to my above list of examples -- especially for web-browsing). The only time you need a more powerful machine if you're doing something moar hardcoar -- gaming, number crunching, video processing, image processing (which would mostly be memory), music processing...and someone like me, who really doesn't do anything, but just craves power. Don't feel obliged to do what I do. If you do a lot of multi-tasking, then I would concentrate on boosting memory (including making sure she gets a 64-bit operating system), and getting moar coars. Sorry, mah cat is helping me tahp.

moar Tiny moar Consecrator moar Fordham doppelbock moar BrewDog RipTide and one Pike KiltLifter...coming soon, Battle Of The Scotch Ales

Still working mah wah through the AK 100 box set -- No Regrets For Our Youth is taking forever (it will be across three nights).

It'd be nice if they invented an AI that could -- after someone clicked the "post" button -- instead jump you to the single oldest post most resembling yours, and then you could read the responses, as if they were directed at you.

Paul Chambers, Whims of Chambers

Win.

There are a lot of Apple stores around here.

It's all about displacement -- all you need is a big enough rowboat.

Ah.

ShopNBC sells it (or did sell it, or will sell it, I don't know) for ~$100, which means sale price will be about 80, so it's on the good side, but not a steal. Get it if you want it, but don't get it because you think it's 89% off -- they never sell for full MSRP.

"Karlie"? I know a lot of guys name their schlong, but I've never known one to name their condom.

But that can be fixed in post.

You make that sound like a bad thing.

I don't know, I think that's pretty special.

Tourists always see more of DC than I did, even though I've lived in the area my entire life. I did see a bit when I was a kid, but mostly the Smithsonian. I have gone back and revisited Air & Space a few times, a few others, and the Spy museum is still on my list, but really, I'd go mostly for the socializing (I.E. without-of-town visitors). Pizzeria Paradiso, Lost Dog Cafe, and Black Squirrel are a couple of places on my list. Weird how they all show up on the Ratebeer.com proximity map -- Pizzeria Paradiso being walking distance from work (I don't think it's in Dupont Circle, I think that's Georgetown, innit?). Dan, feel free to talk about your allergies, I do. I sure hope it's not "air". Colin -- here's to hoping there's nothing to find, if that's possible.

"huge cones", lol

Yeezh. But it allows me to use the word I made up, based on a word from this page: bescumberment! I have not yet decided on context, however, so I leave it contextless. I will at some point in the future refer to Beellee as "bescumberbun", which will, of course, refer to this thread. As well as sounding like one of our endearing insults to each other.

Somehow, it seems less Goofy.

Like I said, a bad portent.

Lots more Anathema: We're Here Because We're Here, Hindsight, A Moment in Time, Were You There?, and A Natural Disaster (which is sounding a lot better after the passage of time, and being allowed to digest the radical change from one of the architects of the Gothenburg sound, to a more mainstream prog rock band, to a band that sounds like Radiohead meets David Gilmour era Pink Floyd).

Did they say 'nettles'?