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OZ, not sure if you're aware that you can plug a 27" monitor, or a large TV, into your MacBook Pro. The new MacBooks can even send video and audio to a flat screen TV using an HDMI adapter and cable. Seems like this would be a bit easier and less risky than schlepping your desktop around, although you seem to have had no problems so far. Personally, I'd be lost if I went to Rio while my computer went to Riyadh . FourAces, glad you like your laptop so far! One thing I've noticed, for Macs anyway, is that notebook hard drives are about 25% slower than desktop hard drives. Not usually an issue except when you're short of memory and the laptop uses the hard drive for virtual memory and keeps swapping data back and forth. Then things can get a bit sluggish. The fix is to bump up the RAM, which is pretty cheap and easy to do yourself. Of course, you were probably smart enough to buy your laptop with lots of RAM. I skimped, since Apple charges an arm and a leg for extra memory, but I maxed it out myself with third-party memory in less than a half-hour. Quite zippy now. And congrats on getting up and running so quickly!

Mine definitely isn't a smart phone, though I try not to talk down to it.

I've used a laptop at home for the last five years. I have WiFi so I can use it everywhere: desk, kitchen, living room, bedroom and outdoors. It's probably a little too handy, but it would be an adjustment going back to a single location. And when I travel, it comes with. Haven't missed the larger screen and in fact replaced my 15" laptop last year with a 13" this year. If I really needed a larger screen, I could buy one and plug in the laptop. I did get a mouse for it though, as the trackpad is a pain for long periods. I also like that I can plug it into my TV and show videos and photos to friends on a larger screen. And it streams my music to the stereo over WiFi. A lot depends on what you use your computer for, and your patterns may change after you've had your laptop for a while. If you find you really miss having a desktop, you can always plug everything into your laptop and pretend it's a desktop, no?

Phimosis? Now you've gone and ruined Lucky's perfectly good thread.

Whatever you do, don't let AdamSmith see this post. He might still belong to that medical site with all the open sores.

Eeyore, if you go to your Profile Page, there's a 'Find My Content' button on the left. It will list the threads you've participated in, twenty-five to a page. I counted fifty-five threads for you since January 1st. So you have at least fifty-five posts, and more if you posted multiple times in some threads. Seems like a good start. I didn't check for multiple posts inside the threads, but maybe you can or one of the site Mods can run your totals. Hope to see you in the Winners' Circle!

The last man nearly ruined this place. He didn't know what to do with it. If you think the country's bad off now, Just wait till I get through with it.

In my opinion, these commercials are just the forward prong of JCPenney's new CEO, Ron Johnson's, plans for revitalizing the company. Remains to be seen whether he'll succeed or not but I've got to give him props for increasing brand awareness, which is what this phase of the marketing effort is about. It's been years since I even thought about Penney's (which is what we called it when I was a kid) and decades since I've been in a store. Johnson (who built Apple's successful retail operation from scratch) is planning to throw out coupons, nearly do away with sales promotions, and rationalize pricing. It's a huge gamble. I agree that the commercials didn't do a terrific job of explaining all this, but it's early yet. This kind of brand reinvention won't happen in weeks or months, but he does have folks talking, and that's a critical first step. I think the Million Moms did him a huge favor, getting the buzz started when they did. Ellen picked it up seamlessly and got even folks like me watching for the ads and looking to find out where the nearest JCPenney store is. Alas, there's not one even close, and I think that's one of their biggest problems right now. Their real estate is awful. But, with his experience at Target and at Apple, Johnson seems like a good choice to try getting things on a better track. I'm looking at these commercials as the season-opener for what I hope will be a series we'll come to enjoy for many years. . .

Yikes! Thanks, Lucky, for posting this. Worth noting that all this potential info sharing pertains to Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, which runs on the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and iTV. As far as I can tell, it does not allow such 'sharing' through Apple computers running the non-mobile operating system. So, I'll remain a fan of my Apple laptop, but will resist the urge to buy an iPhone until I can be sure of walling off personal information. I'll make sure my friends considering an iPad know this too. Thanks again.

Thanks, Pauleiro, for your wonderful descriptions of your adventures! I could imagine being there. At least they have their priorities in the correct order: And congratulations on finding a blow job in this most unusual of places!

He sees you when you're sleeping.He knows when you're awake. He knows when you've been bad or good. So be good for goodness sake!

Still, no harm in trying.

Well, he's gone into a private show now. Perhaps he should pay you a commission.

Wonderful list, Charlie! Was there ever a better kids' show! Adult fans included Orson Welles and Tallulah Bankhead. Gleason's physical comedy was superb, as in this Rum Dum sketch. My Friday night treat was an ice cream soda while staying up to watch her. No one was more pompous or did a slow burn like Osgood Conklin. I'd add Ernie Kovacs, here doing Percy Dovetonsils: . . . and Mr. Peepers, only to watch the incomparable Marion Lorne. At the time, I didn't know she was incomparable, only that she always made me laugh.

It's a runaway counter at 88! I sure hope I don't get 'consolidated'.

Holy cow! Now it's 87!

No, wait a minute, it's 86.

Whoops! Make that 85.

Yeah, I'm at 84 now.

Don't let a wrestling match turn into a game of 'stinkfinger'! ∼ Acme Singlets with genuine Tear-Guard™ lining ∼

Perhaps He's just teasing her.

Well, one of them anyway.

Le môt juste!

I've learned not to look in the mirror.

I understand the procedures are far more advanced these days.