Well, that and it was the closest theater to his apartment. Oh, and the only one on that side of town with a midnight premier of the movie. And it's not like that complex was one of the most well known in Aurora, easily seen from the highway, and has been in that location for years and years.

Good luck getting your 4770k to 5Ghz, sound like you will need a super sweet, de-lidded Haswell for anything over 4.7. These Vishras are doing it stock, on air.

AMD's future is HSA, not clock. But hey, they had these really great parts. Why not sell them?

Dems had a 60 vote filibuster proof Senate majority from 7/7/2009 (when Franken was sworn in) until 8/25/2009 (when Ted Kennedy passed away), call it six weeks. Dems had a majority yes, but not enough to overcome the Republican obstructionism you mentioned.

I think "Fast and Furious" has exposed the hypocrisy of the NRA and 2nd amendment purists. In this case they are claiming guns are not the problem, that the shooter could have found other ways of killing. In F&F the people who "allowed" the guns to get in the hands of gang members are to blame for the agent's death (implying the actual guns themselves are important and part of the agent's death).

Gun rights advocates need to pick one talking point and be consistent. You can't have it both ways to score political points.

Whether or not this is was a hack it points to incompetence (in both the original incident and the followup investigation). This is not the first case of incompetence in Springfield's "City Water, Light and Power" division. I recall two weeks in the early 80s where the entire town was ordered to boil tap water before drinking (and avoid getting water in your eyes and mouth while bathing) because of high levels of ecoli contamination. CWLP workers ran around sampling water from all over the system for several weeks before they discovered their own lab was contaminating the samples. Springfield has a commissioner government where elected officials run various departments (Streets, CWLP, others I can't recall) with an elected mayor acting as a figure head. Commissioners are re-elected year after year as long as they *seem* competent and are generally well liked. I always thought it was strange system and I've never seen another local government run this way. I wonder if it is inherently more likely to have catastrophic failures than say, an aldermann/city council/city manager.

This. My wife of five years passed away last summer. I quickly realized as that much as I loved her, understood her mind and heart there was soooo much I didn't know about her. We didn't go through our personal papers together. It seemed we were always busy doing something else, time for that later. Once she was diagnosed years of life were about beating the fucking cancer and not let it stop our dreaming a future together. And then, seemingly suddenly, it was too late.

But my baby was a packrat. She made hard copies of hundreds of emails, some of which were just a joy to read. She had every letter she ever received, letters she had written her mom from childhood through her mother's death (like mother like daughter). Hundreds of photographs I didn't know existed. Short stories, homework, failed little craft experiments, diaries and travel journals. Working through her papers and internet presence has helped. I am glad I'm still getting to know her.

I pale in comparison, I realize I've let a lot of my past disappear. Teh speaks with a lot of wisdom here.

Ah, the Junior Engineering and Technical Society magic show my senior year in high school, circa 1979. The finally was an oxy/acetylene filled beach ball slid down a wire onto a bunson burner. Well, would have been. We attempted it during rehearsal with a way too much mixture and ended up blowing a hole in the stage, knocking lights askew all over the building and an impromptu fire drill. Biggest explosion I've ever felt. No one was arrested or even fired. The act was, however, pulled from the show's lineup.