I love being a "visitor", wearing enemy colors in town. I wore a rangers jersey in pittsburgh when they were playing when I was up there for my kid's hockey tournament.
Depends on the room, the mics, and the band?
My favorite method of recording is a good pair of microphones, in a stereo pair, placed in the best sounding spot in the room. I don't like close micing for recording, because you lose the "live" room...
4gb of memory to replace what apple "repaired" for me by installing 2 512mb dimms
bookarc stand
luckily, the repair was free, so I just paid for the memory.
Took mbp to the apple store for a dead video card. Genius was supposed to charge me for the repair, but found a program to cover it under, so it'll be fixed free.
I don't sync the calendars, I have calendar accounts. You just register the google calendar as an outlook/exchange account, and me as a me.com account. Works no problem. You can also subscribe to calendars.