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Yah, go with good all season tires. Even in winter, the roads between columbia and balto and dc will be wet way more often than snowy, and the 4 times the conditions will be more favorable for snow tires,you'll want to stay off the road, because everyone else will switch to racing slicks and get drunk before going out.

Ben, how far from the cities are you? How often do you plan on leaving the main corridor?

It's hard to appreciate how much of a difference snow tires make til you have them

I've had good results with both blizzacks and michelin X-Ice. I definitely recommend studless vs studded tires, unless you're mostly going to use them in wet icy conditions. And even then, I'd get studless.

dfh bitches brew. I love my beer store. they'd been holding it for me since it was released.

plus I got dibs last night.

that's what 1984 c10s are for

yup, I was always taught it's perfectly acceptable to eat sushi with your fingers

shrimp thai curry over rice noodles

I just leave the leaves

Seagate 3TB USB External HDD - dealmac.com

Yah, I MUCH prefer the form factor of the TTVJ Slim.

Personally, I'd stick with local drives for backup. Stick stuff in your mobile me idisk if you want to share it, but the idea of restoring any quantity of data over the internet gives me the heebie geebies

I'm happy with the volume control on my ttvj slim. The biggest difference between the two for me is that there's a knob on the pico, and a little color led on the ttvj. Makes it harder to control without looking at it. Probably makes more of a difference on other headphones, but I've only ever used the ttvj with my jh13s

bedazzle the drives?

heh, ok, get a couple of 3tb external drives, use the 2nd for a time machine backup, and have a tb extra, for less than the cost of a drobo

Don't go nas unless you need network attached (for multiple computers etc). It will just add traffic to your network and make everything else work less well. Now, how much space do you need?

better volume control on the pico slim vs pico amp. It can't be overstated how much better the volume control is on the slim.

why network attached instead of direct attached?

I dunno. If you only have $250 to spend, I think maybe winning JH13s in a raffle is the answer.

woke up at 5am to shut down my cluster. I freaking love these stupid power outages. Oh well, 6 hrs of overtime today, anyway.

Oh, and yay Habs tonight, too. My 2nd favorite team. Favorite Team: Washington Second Favorite: Whoever's playing Pittsburgh

I boil potatoes somewhat regularly as well. It's not always convenient to roast them. And boiled fingerling potatoes are better than roasted russetts...

ended up 3 fights in 6 seconds

caps showed up tonight. kovalchuk got in a fight with green. it's 7-2 with. 4 to go.