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I got part of my gift from Mike but did not open it yet. I still have to ship him his gifts. D'oh!

Your boxes arrived today, Dinny. Take it back!

Happy birthday! Cheers

I just received two boxes for Naaman and one for Bryan.

Dinny, you may be in the latter category: "All shipments for on-time paid shipping customers will go out by Tuesday 12/18. After that, shipments will go out again beginning in January. For pick-ups, we ask that everyone pick their bottles up by 1/21/13."

Oh Dalek tree, oh Dalek tree, how will you exterminate me?

He does GET two gifts too.

Awesome work Vicki and Jeff!

It's a liability thing.

Don't you have a Santa Cam in your giant belt buckle or hat or something?

Didn't seem snarky, Jim. I almost mentioned the 13" rMBP, Dinny, but I still think I would go Air.

Not missing anything, but I would not want an 11" screen on my main computer.

13" Air is the right choice, Tom!

If it is the only Mac in your new place, then I would not opt for 11" Air. I can use mine for lots of things but it would make me nuts if that was the biggest computer screen in the house. I think I would go with Air 13" if you intend to travel with it too. The rMBP would be cool but I agree with others that it is starting to feel like a burden to carry a regular sized laptop.

Samsung.

Have one great day each! Cheers

Safe trip home Nate! Good luck Jacob, glad to hear you weren't hung up too much. Send them back the crappy cable so they can see their shoddy work, Shelly.

It is clear this upset you and I don't think people here would fault you for showing emotion. The idea of arming teachers, however, is repugnant. My wife is a teacher. My parents were both teachers. I have many other family members who are teachers and professors. Thinking of them carrying weapons to do their jobs is just too ludicrous to imagine.

Sorry Crappy, I just scrolled down too fast in my revulsion to HPA's post and over this hideous incident in the first place. Anyway, it was not meant as an attack but just disagreement with throwing up ones hands about the efficacy of gun control. My feeling is simply that it must be part of any solution to this mess. The Expanding Man's post has some empirical evidence of success and some steps that could be taken. I especially like the idea of secure gun clubs/shooting ranges where you can shoot your machine gun but then lock the damn thing back up. Eventually the numbers of guns will diminish and the attitude about them in society will change.

Why stop with teachers? Why not arm the kids themselves? Arm the mall workers. Arm the popcorn salespeople at movie theaters. Arm fucking everyone! It worked so great for nuclear weapons we should just have Mutual Assured Destruction in all aspects of our lives. If everybody is armed, then nobody will fuck with anybody, right? And Catscratch, gun control IS the answer. There is no excuse or reason for anyone to own assault weapons. Except Naaman or Jeff, because they need to kill people sometimes. *Edited to respond to the right person.

Good work guys! Have fun and have a great trip, Raffy.

The whole university is purple?

Best of luck to the Power Wife!

Mike Sr. is a man of action! Nice.

Greg, do you have the JFA watch winder?