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You ever wake up and have one of those days when you realise all that stuff that you've been thinking was due to skill or wisdom or smart choices, not only including a lot of positive things, but also the avoidance of any major negative things, including getting all the girls you really wanted, and getting out before things were bad, or getting jobs really easily and almost persistently, and all that stuff, isn't really related to talent or perspicacity, but an amazing run of sheer, dumb luck that should have run out ten years ago?

Yeah, me either.

I did, in fact, seriously think this was created in response to this article by Virginia Postrel, and thought, wow, Flash is speedy!

People who put up silly reviews on Amazon should be shot.

Ahem. ;>

    From: "Courtney Crowell"

    Subject: Fight Impotence

Err...

With phones such as the Nokia 3650 in the world, Google needs more than two hits for "gay keypad". I'm just trying to help balance the universe.

Khan's Mongolian Barbecue, 500 E 78th St, Minneapolis

I'd never had mongolian barbecue before. The idea of piling up a bunch of meat in a bowl, taking it to some guy who throws it on a big hot-table and stirs it around, and then scoops it into another (I hope) bowl -- it ain't my cup of meat.

But, Choadbite said that it didn't suck completely, and that this place, Khan's, was "tolerable".

After last night, I know that if he had to, he could eat the raw ass of a german shepherd and call it tolerable. That's not a rimming reference.

Let's start with the smell of the place. Actually, let's not, because it's too nasty.

Oh, and I'm looking for a PDA in the next week or so, so it'll hit this year's tax return. I'm looking for something in the Sony UX-50/Toshiba e450 price range, but I like slim, Mac'able, and a decent battery life. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

We were in BestBuy yesterday, and I decided on a whim that we needed iPods. So, I got a 20GB model for Kat, and a 40GB for myself. Now that I have a device capable of holding possibly all, but definitely most, of my CD collection, I've been ripping the stuff that I almost never listen to, or haven't listened to in years, just because it'll fit.

I'm using mine with my PowerBook, and it's good, and it works well. The firewire port is powered, so I don't need to get fancy with cables. iTunes is (obviously) integrated very well with the OS and the iPod, and it's very speedy with its Altivec optimisations to encode the CD to MP3/AAC.

Vincent, 1100 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis

Having been consistently gaining weight over the past month or so, Choadbite and I were both seeking lighter fare. Minneapolitans don't eat out that much, so most decent restaurants favor the super-fatty high-caloric plates that special-occasions demand. I'm also really bloody picky about food, so I either make it myself from fresh ingredients (yes, I'll cook it on the hotel TV), or I'll eat out.

After lots of heavy meat dishes, we happened on fish. There's only one semi-decent sushi restaurant in Minneapolis (Origami), so it comes down to the two chain seafood restaurants: Oceanaire, and McCormick & Schmick's. M&S is an old Seattle restaurant (like Palomino, one of those to break out across the country), and seafood lovers in Seattle avoid it. If you're a seafood restaurant and you can't get it right in Seattle, you're hopeless. It's like getting laid in a women's prison with a fistful of pardons and a prehensile tongue. It probably smells the same, too.

So, maybe the Mac isn't taking. I've been thinking about buying either the new Sony X505 (no bloody wireless net built in, but look at the size of the motherboard!) or the slim Panasonic W2 with the flippy DVD drive, and just doing RDP.

I basically want a tiny pIII-class machine that can accomodate Office/Project/Visio without a problem, because, honestly, working with PC-generated data on a 1.25Ghz G4 laptop stinks, even with scads of RAM and an "ultra fast" disk. I've been thinking about swapping out the HD and putting in a really fast notebook disk, say 7200 rpm instead of 5400, but I'm not sure I'm up to that task right now, without "accidentally" scrambling the innards with the screwdriver while it's open, and throwing it in the trash.

I am the suck.