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Do you really have clients who would pay for 19 straight hours of reviewing files (at any time, but particularly when they know you were travelling internationally that day)? If so, can I come work where you work?

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Originally posted by leagleaze
What would your bedroom theme song be?
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the Smiths' How Soon is Now.

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Yes, but it's got a long waiting list so it's prestigious. So what if aesthetically it deserves to be soaked in gasoline and lit on fire. Where the fuck are your priorities? ;)

And because I am feeling nice today even to a designer of hideous liver-colored bags with ugly logos that pollute the world, I will point out that his early spring bags in simple lines and solid summer colors were pretty.

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Note the first three words of my post:

"Not personally speaking"

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Thurgreed's bedroom theme song... Too easy.

M is for the many things she gave me

O is for the .....

Tax(y'all get the picture)wonk

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Hardly. Your song is either "The Romance of the Telescope" or "La Femme Accident (12 " version)," by Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark.

NTTAWWT.

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Suprising, I had you for Girlfriend in a Coma

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Ah yes, the classic Dennis Miller: "Why is the person in front of me trying to restructure third world debt on the friggin ATM machine?"

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Barrel Fever was not one of my favorites, and it had some of the same stories from Holidays on Ice (which I liked better.) I can't remember the name of the book that is basically a collection of stories about his childhood. I thought it was outstanding. There is one story that talks about the death of his mother that [literally] I was laughing hysterically on one page, and crying (not because of laughing) on the next. I can't remember which book that was, though.

Me Talk Pretty was hilarious. I loved the half about his being in Normandy. Absolutely hilarious.

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That's the post-game flip side.

Book rec?
 

Felicity,

The Santaland Diaries, to which others have referred, is in his earlier work Barrel Fever. It's a collection of true, fictional, and pseudo-fictional essays. Inspired stuff. Enjoy.

Peter

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I saw those for 25 bucks in the Santa Fe flea market last weekend.

ketchup
 

Bedroom song: Prince, Ballad of Dorothy Parker (or almost anything else on Sign O' The Times)

Sedaris: If you like David Sedaris, you might like stuff by his accomplice in crime, Sarah Vowell.

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Diamonds... the best fucking gimmick ever. An astounding piece of marketing staregy. I mean, really, has any business ass-fucked the world harder and laughed about it longer than the DeBeers? "Hey, this rock is unbreakable and shiny as hell. We should mark it up 100,000X its value. Hell, how else can we pay the negroes in the mines their $.50 a day?"

I'm all for free markets, and idiots who buy things to show off deserve to get fleeced, but the diamond thing... fuck, that's just plain old foul filthy exploitative greed run amuck. I bought one a few years back and recall writing the check and thinking "This is surreal. I might as well write 'I'm a fucking sucker' on this check and staple it to my forehead." Thank God I didn't pay for the fucking wedding - then I'd really feel like an idiot. Best post wedding quote I ever heard was from a buddy after he just got married. He said "I just bought a Lexus and drove it into a lake."

The only thing more pathetic than writing the check for the diamond is watching the receipients of diamonds compare cut/clarity/quality/size, etc... I want to leave the room when that shit happens.

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Lenny's mom was Roxie Roker. She just passed away a few years ago.

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I was always sort of confused that they played Kashmir in that scene as opposed to one of the songs from Led Zeppelin IV (e.g., Misty Mountain Hop). Of course now that I'm wiser I realize that Ratner was not yet ready to make-out, hence he was not playing IV in the tapedeck.

Also, I always thought it was side one, not two. A google search finds quotes that use either of them. My own preference would be side two.

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I have 6 (a startling realization that my purse fetish is almost matching my shoe fetish)- half knock-offs - for reasons stated by PJ - they blend well. And I love visiting the knock-off carts in G-Town.
Agree that anything LV is ugly. (Chanel logo-print bags also awful)

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Side 1 is cooler and more well known (Black Dog, Rock & Roll, Stairway, etc.), at least for us guitarists, but not as hip and trendy as Side 2

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It was done by a Japanese designer and all the LV stores sold out of them. How do I know this? My sister wanted one and wouldn't stop talking about them before they come out and just recently stopped whining about the fact that she didn't get one.

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I always thought it was side 2, and I've obviously seen it many times. I will break out the DVD tonight and investigate...


Hearing about power problems in NYC and other places on the news, anybody else hearing something??

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Yes, but when someday you use that rock to justify purchasing the Hugely Expensive Wide Screen TV/Surround Sound System of the Gods (or she buys it for you for your birthday) it will all have been worth it.

Come to think of it, as a major remote control hog, I'd like one of those too. I'd better get shopping for a nice gift for the Mr.

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From Boston.com:

BREAKING NEWS: A major power outage has hit much of New York City as well as parts of Long Island, Connecticut and the cities of Albany, Cleveland, and Detroit, as well as Toronto and Ottawa in Canada. In Manhattan, thousands of people are trapped in elevators and on trains, and thousands more are pouring out of office buildings onto the street.

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I think that's one of the nuances that makes the movie so good. Not only does Rat show up in a station wagon and forget his wallet at home at the restaurant, he also plays the wrong (according to DaMone) make-out music...

I recently heard the best story about how to deal with the big screen tv issue. My brother in law's father wanted a big screen tv. He went to the store to buy one. His wife didn't argue, she accompanied him to the store and simply walked over to the best dish washer she could find, and said, I'll take that one. Dad's mouth popped open for a moment and then, wisely, he said, yes dear.

As it turns out they got a huge discount on the dish washer for buying the tv at the same time.

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6 bags counts as a fetish? Then honey, I am a PERV!

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Do you know me? God, your last comment freaked me out because I've been wanting to buy an HDTV for years and the wife won't let me because she says they're "offensive" to look at (she makes me keep my current TVs inside armoires). She HATES everything electronic and says my surround sound system is "invasive" because it sounds like whatever you're watching is in the room with you.

Still, no matter how nice the sound system is, it ain't going to cost as much as that silly ring. Hell, I'd feel better if bought her a watch that cost as much as the ring. That would be a grotesque waste of dough, but at least the product would have a function of some sort.

S(Now I will admit that giving her the ring was so much fun that I don't really regret paying for it at all, but I'm speaking from a strictly logical perspective here)D

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NYT is saying the same thing "Power Outages Reported Along East Coast; North to Toronto, South to Maryland and West to Cleveland and Detroit (4:32 PM ET)"

If I put "spa vacation" in for "dishwasher" I like this story. Unless they had NO dishwasher because doing dishes by hand sucks bigtime.

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MSNBC has a live feed on their site reporting on it now.

They are saying it is states in the general area, but DE is ok as is DC.

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You obviously married the wrong woman. I'm with PJ, I'm a total remote hog and not only do I HAVE to have a big screen to watch the Mariners on, it HAS to be of extremely high quality. I hate dot crawl, color bleeding, color impurities etc. on my televisions. No cheap crap for me. And the newer televisions are quite attractive. The new Sony plasmas have a lucite frame and silver base that look good with all but the most traditional of furnitures. Of course if you have traditional furniture, then just stick with the RCA console.

Edited to add that the new Pioneer Elite's have a very attractive black lacquer frame. Panasonic has a nice silver finish for that in-between look.

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Sendin out the sympathy on that. Out of respect, I am thinking there will be no dinner party invites from me being sent your way. I think she would faint seeing my house: two music studio rooms and a great room that exists solely to feature 3/4" Straightwire speaker cables (displayed prominently in front of the fireplace).

It turns out not to be as much of a chick magnet as you would think.

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The 4C issue really seems to be a gimmick and diversion for the real factor - size does matter.

A D quality, flawless 1/3 carat diamond is a 1/3 carat diamond and makes the girl look like she married a real chump. A 2.25 carat rock still looks like a big rock (assuming its not dull yellow) and appears that way unless you've got a f**king magnifying glass to examine the carbon inside the diamond.

I'll admit that my wife's comment to me was 1 carat or more - otherwise forget it.

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You should have gotten Audioquest - that's a chick magnet.

Televisions
 

Several of the high-quality digital projectors have fallen significantly in price. I was ready to spend $4k on a tv, and ended up getting a $1k projector with a custom screen. It's _so_ elegant (hangs from the ceiling behind viewing area, components on low shelf in front of screen) and the picture quality and is awesome.

The only drawbacks are that it takes a decent amount of set-up to get it right, and that you can't use it with bright ambient light.

It does 800x600 resolution native, which is enough to make all resolutions but 1080i as good as they can. 1080i looks great, still, but it's not displayed in true 1080i.

www.infocus.com

mmm

Power outage
 

Now they are reporting that the Niagra Mohawk powergrid is overloaded. I.e. not an attack of some kind.

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In an effort to remain carefree and happy, I have decided to change people's statements to better suit me. This one, to me, now reads: "I'll admit that I dated a girl whose comment to me was 1 carat or more - otherwise forget it. Needless to say, she is not now, has never been, and will never be my wife."

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That's 'cause that shit's a frickin' *man* magnet, MM.

But it was a nice try, all the same.

Power outage
 

No kidding about the power outage in Toronto. Delgado and Wells have been sucking the big one since the all-star game.

buh-dum-bump

Bow-chicka-bow-bow

str8

Is it Friday yet?
 

Obviously I forgot my password (and yes, did all the stuff to get it, but this was easier.)

Can we make it Friday now?? Any takers?

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Actually, average it out. Assume that pleasure is a useful function in itself. She'll wear the ring every day for the next several decades, and will at least occasionally pause to think "that's really pretty" or "I remember the day we got engaged." This excludes the external value of the compliments she receives first from family and friends, then occasionally from new acquaintances. Compare this to the HDTV, which will be obsolete or a decaying piece of crap in 15 years, and will cause you a shooting sense of agony every time you look at it when Joe Next Door buys something new that makes your TV look like a Bobby Brady transistor radio.

SD, you just got hosed.