The game was arguably better than the movie. Probably the most fun I had on a racing game up to that time.

Although, waiting in line the night before Episode I was pretty fun. Camping out with Nilla Wafers and EZ cheeze... also better than the movie.

Fuck SurePost and SmartPost. These two "services" are the worst of both worlds. More expensive than USPS, less reliable than UPS/FedEx/USPS. If you ever lose a package each provider will blame the other, and you will never see it again. You can only track it to the nearest Post Office. The most fun is if you have a PO Box. If your vendor doesn't mention that they use SmartPost, you naturally put in your street address. When the post office gets your box and sees your street address, they return to sender, since that street address doesn't receive USPS mail. Good luck!

There's a news article that got it backwards. I nearly made the same mistake, too.

Accidental?! Really? You can't be serious in thinking that this was an accident. This was a deliberate bypass of ethical measures put in place decades ago. It might have been unintended or unexpected by some, but it was perfectly expected by many. Why else would Oklahoma have gone through all the trouble of concealing the nature of the drugs being used?

That being said, I'm surprised they didn't do the baby raper first. Burying a 19-year-old alive is pretty heinous, but raping and murdering a baby... It would have been hard to shed a tear if that SOB had suffered for 43 minutes.

Thank you! Finally somebody else who finds this frustrating. That was one of my biggest concerns. Almost NOBODY else seems to think this is a problem. Not my wife, nor 99% of the people on the Apple forums. Wait, this is sad... I find the validation from a complete stranger on the Internet as comforting. Oh well.

A host computer is not required, but being able to communicate with one is a big part of why my wife liked the iOS/iTunes combo. Nobody expects an upgrade to lose functionality, especially something as basic as being able to download the photos from your camera onto your computer.

Moving water over a mountain is easy in a pipe. Say you have a reservoir at height, like a mountain lake, and you want to pump it to a city in the valley below. You need only get it over the ridge. Once the flow to the lower height starts, it will continue. The problem with your suggestion is that you can't get the siphon started. All this guy is saying is that the flow continues due to gravity. Which makes good sense. The atmospheric pressure at the lower basin is actually slightly higher than at the higher basin, so it's clearly not atmospherically driven.

Best. Unintentional. Joke. EVAR!

This is totally off topic, but I'm posting it anyway because I need to vent.

My wife recently upgraded her iPhone to iOS7. Of course nobody* told her it requires iTunes 11 to run. But her laptop is an old one running on 10.5.something. And guess what, iTunes 11 won't install on anything less than 10.6.8 or so. Of course an upgrade costs $20. So now a supposedly free upgrade is going to cost $20, or else my wife won't be able to get pictures and stuff off her phone. Luckily it's not a PPC, otherwise she'd be really screwed. Just missed that by a few months.

All the comments on discussions.apple are basically full of rude people asking why anybody would be so stupid as to still be using a 6 year old computer or whatever. It totally misses the bigger picture that Apple is defrauding people $20 at a time. Granted even if they have a million such suckers, it's not a lot of money. But I can guaran-damn-tee ya that the next laptop in my house will not be a Mac. My PC laptop can communicate with her iPhone just fine. Seriously.

*and by "nobody," I mean "nobody besides me" since I'm apparently just a paranoid lunatic.

It's OK. Apple never listens to their users anyway. We apparently don't know what's best for ourselves.

OK, so I need to recalibrate my humor detector. I totally missed the "pop tart" bit. D'oh!

But just in case anybody else takes you seriously, I'd like to interject. In Texas it's quite common for families to supplement their food supply with fresh game and fish. A buddy of mine gets over half of his protein budget from stuff he raises, catches, or shoots. He grows most of his own veggies, too. The Wild West might be long gone, but feeding your family the old fashioned way is still appreciated around here. Even in the suburbs where I live, we have neighbors who eat quite a bit of fresh-caught fish and venison.

yeah. the supreme court said you can even strip search a 13 year old girl for Advil. So I guess it's anything goes. It's a wonder there aren't *more* psychopath principals.

I've done this intentionally a couple of times. Once the year my wife started working and once the year she went back to work after our son was born. I made something like $500 bucks back in '05, a lot less in '08 (fewer safe options). It sure felt good to write that four-figure check to Uncle Sam, though. The trick was withholding the same or slightly more than I did the previous year (with one income). Then penalties don't kick in.

I do everything by hand as well. I find it somewhat fulfilling, although it's always a bit crazy. I messed up one year and didn't take a credit I was entitled to. The IRS gave it to me anyway.

The math isn't the hard part. Knowing what goes in what box is a nightmare, though. My wife runs a small business that loses money each year, and she doesn't keep very good track of her P&Ls. To get that extra hundred bucks or so, there are instructions that refer to publications, which in turn refer to other instructions, which have worksheets that require you to input something from the original form that you haven't calculated yet. Whee!

Don't even get me started on the lines that say things like "other gains (losses)" or "other credits." Really?

Hmmm... it depends on the bulb. Most glow purple more than in that photo, but I don't know about "bright." You may check with somebody you trust with the prism-sticky note test in the article. Just have them put a sticky note where they cease seeing color and compare it to your own vision. Not exactly scientific, but it could be interesting.