pointless anecdote: I had a TV delivered from BestBuy (go ahead, make fun of me now). The guys show up and I've got everything set up; a TV cabinet, a surge protector, and a ROKU with an HDMI cable sticking out of it.

I asked them "Can you set it up? I want to make sure it works."

They started looking at the wall for a cable-tv jack.

And yes, they were "geek squad" LOL

I used option (C) in my "Engineering Electromagnetics" class. I picked up a used book where the equations were neatly written in the inside covers. Didn't do a thing for you if you hadn't put in the work doing all the assignments, but it was a total life saver.

wow... 7 days. We lost power for 2-3 days once, but it was warm and the dogs and cats were in no danger. Last Halloween we lost power in the mountains and had our first snow; we have a wood fire place to keep us warm but the liner gave out and smoke started coming into the house. This freaked out one of the dogs so badly that he flat out refused to eat. At all. Not even meat or special dog treats. glad to hear you turned this into quality time with the birds.

Once we're in a real post-racist, and post-sexism world , we'll be too busy flying around on unicorns to care. Right there, and we're done. The only way we enter a post-racist, post-sexist world is when we've found some other, highly efficient, means of exclusion and bigotry. that being said, YES, your old joke meme is absolutely sexist. If that bothers you, stop saying it. If it doesn't bother you, accept it.

the bass bar shape has changed, the neck has been lengthened, the fingerboard has been lengthened, the neck has been mortised, the tailpiece, bridge, pegs, have had their shape changed. It doesn't even have original catgut strings! Antonio Stradivari wouldn't recognize this. Burn it, so that others may not have it, either.

so if I start the day with a green smoothie (filled with raw veg and fresh fruits)... and then gorge myself on BBQ and fries for lunch.. I'm okay, right?

And "Der Intertron" (read: the internet) was the direct result of ARPA/DARPA. And the civilian 'fallout' of the SAGE program (modems, etc.) and space program (my smooth cooktop is literally space-age technology) lead me to believe that gov't funded "races" (space race, arms race) have in actuality yielded results for the rest of us to the point where I can't see a private company with a 'publically minded' CEO providing anything similar for the greater good.

Yes, I worked it out that way too. I was to *lazy* to bring up the "calculator" app on my phone... so I 'back-tracked' it.

/for definitions of 'lazy' that involve doing some work.

It really is. I don't just want you to manager my systems, I want you to be the one who makes the decisions on how those systems are presented to me and interact with me. Its amusing; my town (population less-than- 500, yet we have our own local gov't due to being the oldest town around) had a discussion on traffic and one of the guys who works with the county traffic system said "the current system is unix and isn't user-friendly." To which I immediately thought "I've been using unix systems since 1994 recreationally, and since 2009 professionally. Unix is user-friendly, it's just choosy on who it's friends are." (old saw, I know) If I need to do some port-mapping to get around NAT, I can do it. If I need to physically re-wire the connection from the NID to my distribution point in the basement, I can do it. But mostly when I come home, I just want isht to WORK; and that is where an attitude like yours comes in. Evolve my interaction experience in a painless way; don't make bug fixes a "revoltion in user experience." /has a macbook, iphone, and actually likes iTunes... feel free to think less of me. //Used a series of sed/awk/bash scripts when my old mac's harddrive died and I needed to figure out ecxactly what I LOST based on what was salvageable from my ipod. ///Next time I won't just backup the MP3s, I'll back up the stupid iTunes library. ////still has missing Duke Spirit mp3s... namely stuff off the "covered in Love" EP, compliments of Sealwolf.

rk beat me to it (good on ya!) but GOOD ON YOU JTS for bringing to power supplies!! Having two of everything is the best debug method of all.