My MBP has a miserable battery life running Ubuntu.

W.... what? Boston may be "full of itself" in regards to sports, but I had landed a sysadmin job before I even graduated late last year, after only a month of job searching. Even my brother landed a sysadmin job a week after being laid off. If you're intelligent enough to compete with the many local tech school grads and like working in IT, Boston is where you want to go.

And before you complain about real estate prices there, do bear in mind that you don't have to suffer through tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, and the last major hurricane we had was a gust of wind compared to what Floridians routinely deal with.

Clearly you've never been to Boston. Red Sox fans are just drunks, but for the most part relatively harmless.
Meanwhile, you can't put on a Sox hat and walk three blocks in NYC without being accosted. I know from firsthand experience; last time I was in NYC, a complete stranger bloodied my nose in front of the Roosevelt, screaming "Go back to Boston." So I did!

And now he has a brain tumor the size of a nectarine. Karma's a bitch.

But they make sure to ship it with a Vista sticker anyway, just to make it that much more of an annoyance when you want to wipe the crapware-laden drive and build a ghost image from scratch.

Man I hate OEMs

The primary function of the Cambridge police is ticketing illegally parked cars and moving bums along, so, no.

Asus has a few motherboards out there that offer an instant-on OS that'll take you to a web browser, skype client and a few other goodies. You aren't up in a *second* but it's pretty nice.

Why should the government still be obligated to assist everyone at this stage in the game? The coupon program dried up; tough noogies, you've only had nearly a year to apply for one. If you needed the discount that badly, then you should have taken 2 minutes to apply earlier. And if you can't muster up the cash to rub two 20's together, your ability to watch television should not be anywhere on your radar at the moment.

Beh

There's a little more to it than that. Interior designers choose which lighting types to use for certain contexts based on their color rendering index, which is - basically - a ranking given to certain lights based on how close they can get surfaces to look as though they're being illuminated by a bright sun. (There's a lot more to it - in fact, that's so vague it's almost incorrect - but I'll move on.)

The long and short of it is traditional incandescent bulbs have a very high rating, while LEDs are rather low - for the time being - and CFLs are somewhere in between. This is why one of the only rooms of a traditional home that CFLs are very rarely found is the bathroom, and why LEDs today are strictly used for utility purposes where coloring is not important.

And yes I am dating an interior designer.

Just wipe it with some isopropyl alcohol, it'll tear the gloss right off. Disclaimer: Don't do this