My wife's been asking me all sorts of technical questions about our PCs tonight, even so far as to ask what's the best CPU and RAM that would "fit" in our existing motherboards -- it's a Deneb 940 Black and 16GB of PC2-8500, for what it's worth (compared to an Agena 9850 and 8GB of PC2-5300). Half of me hopes she's not going on a spending spree. The other half of me wonders whether new hard drives and a copy of Windows 7 is all she's got in mind for my birthday, and can barely contain its excitement.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deepwaterhorizonresponse/4624487176/

This is the ultimate in screwed up. State Senator David Hoyle is trying to block broadband Internet from spreading in North Carolina. He's actually suggesting sending back Federal money assigned to help us get better Internet, as well as spending State money to block new companies and municipalities from offering service. We're already 41st in the country; what more could he possibly want? Big piles of money from the existing monopoly suppliers, maybe?

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Or as good as.

My "people" are taking care of "papers" as I type. I'll ride it home tomorrow AM. Has to be am, actually, because the two owners have to go to their mother's funeral later that day. (awkward!) No images yet, but it's gray, and it's awesome, and it will make me spend even more money on farkles very, very soon.

But, if you're choosing a mode of transport that boosts your chances of grisly demise by about 10x, why fret over a paltry few hundreds thousands of dollars?

While it's not at all surprising that geeks were able to slip one past the NY Times Editorial staff, it doesn't make the deed any less humorous. Check the top-left corner of the chalkboard behind these guys to see what I'm talking about (touch, grep, unzip, mount, fsck, fsck, fsck, unmount). You can also click on the picture for geekosystem article about it.

I'd GTFG, but I don't have the time right now. Are there macro commands in WoW to select your talent spec? How about to switch your outfit in Outfitter? I'm thinking about getting myself set up with a "one click" solution to switch specs for Ynitwo, but I don't know how easy it'll be. I'll GTFG later, but in the meantime, any thoughts and suggestions are welcome.

Tony Hancock's "The Blood Donor". If you're not familiar with Hancock's work, start here and start now.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=32BA767B22DFC732

What do you want to do?

Well, we decided to push back the first wednesday. It is now second wednesday. Who is in?

Edit: updated date to this Wednesday.

It is springtime, and large item consumption is in the air.

I have my eye on a Suzuki V-Strom. There is apparently only one left in-state with ABS, an 09. There were no 2010's imported. 2011's won't show until September, and may have an unpleasant price bump. (The 09 ABS MSRP is $7999, some dealers are talking $7599 already). There aren't a lot of them sitting around, so I might not be able to bargain too hard, but as a plus Suzuki is offering 1.99% for 5 years for the rest of the month.

Here is the ugly beast: