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My next phone is going to be the bottom-of-the-line StraightTalk phone. Well, I might make a step up and get the candy-bar designed one instead of the flip phone. I really think I'm going to make the switch this pay-day. I'm currently spending $65+ on my current (out of contract) plan for 1000 anytime minutes on Verizon(pretty much the only carrier to have around here). It costs me .20 a text when someone texts me. For $30 a month, with ST, I can get 1000 minutes and 1000 free texts. For $45 I can get unlimited text and talk--and it's on the same towers/network as verizon. Wife has the flip phone and she loves it.

 

Thank you for all the suggestions! I thought about Linux or one of its derivatives- but I'm not the main user of the computer. I'm not technologically inclined and my wife is even less so. Last time a friend tried to sell me on Linux it still worked primarily from a command line. As much as I like that, it just won't do for the family.

Also, I think the computer's physically dying. I've been fighting with the blue screen o' death all afternoon. It keeps crashing for different reasons. I think the general message is that the computer's reaching the end of the line.

I'll check out asus. Do they make desktops?

 

yes, there's a line of asus desktops. prices I saw last I checked were in the 600 range, though.

you can always try a Linux Live CD, boot from the CD and see how it runs, and determine if it's hardware or software. If the wife can use windows, she can use Ubuntu

 

rum + Coke = pretty tasty

rum + IBC root beer = not so much

 

Latest set of reviews just went up.

 

Yeah, simpler would be nicer but I'm hooked on the smart/PDA phones. My job requires a myriad of computer systems each with different passwords that reset every 60 or 90 days. Used to carry around a little pocket notebook that filled up w/ a mess of scribbles and cross outs. When Sony and Palm first came out w/ PDA's they were the bomb. Then when they combined it with a phone I was good to go. Been through many of them over the years from Samsung to Palm to HTC. The Hero is probably one of the best I've used before this "upgrade" fiasco. I'll prob. just suffer through it for another 1/2 year and when my free upgrade kicks in I'll go w/ the Evo. Should have done that in the first place I guess.

 

Do you have a Waldens, Borders, or Barnes and Nobles near by? You can get a linux magazine that has several live versions all on one DVD and you can try several out without actually installing anything (assuming you have a DVD drive and your computer can boot from a DVD), otherwise there are Ubuntu and other magazines that come with a single OS on a single CD. Yes, you can just make the disc yourself. However, if you have a poor internet speed or a computer that doesn't always make the best CD/DVD burns, this may be a possible way to go. Actually, I think I just talked myself into picking up a DVD for my new computer I am building to see which OS I prefer.

Just watched Mystery Men and now going to watch Dodgeball... just in one of those moods. Maybe later we will follow up with Down Periscope.

 

Just watched Sherlock Holmes... no, not the blockbuster, the Asylum version of about the same year. It is surprisingly quite entertaining. :happy088

 

craptastic day...

daughter had what sounded and looked like a bad asthma attack. 45 minutes later (bad traffic) we are finally in the after hours clinic with the attack still strong... two hours later we get called back to wait in another room. Another hour later the doctor checks out daughter, who is fine by then and declares that she only has a sinus infection. :mad:

 

excellentness!

 

STM: (singing) "They went with a waddle and a quack, and a waddle and a quack, and a waddle and a SPLAT! Stay outta the road, duck-face!"

 

one more....for now:




“What’s that? You’ll put armor over his heel? Still can’t recommend him…”

 

Ahhh... Asylum, the 2000's answer to Anchor Bay and Canon Group. Good times, man, good times.

I remember how CS used to be this giant pulp catalog that weighed like 50lbs and reeked of stale ink. I used to buy one of those and wear the pages out over the course of a month dreaming about all the stuff I would buy if I only had the money. Looked at one the other day, now it's a little anorexic shadow of itself. Made me a little sad.

You're leaning on the "random" button again, Jim.

Check out today's woot. Acer 10.1' netbook for $209! Heck of a deal, and a heck of a netbook. I bet they sell out pretty quick.

 

Yeah I saw that... if I hadn't just shelled out moolah for an upgrade....

I think about the old CS every time I am in a magazine section looking at the computer magazines. It is very sad; however, back in the late 80's & early 90's that was really the only way you could be exposed to all the gidget and gizmo ads. Today there are so many websites it is more than a bit redundant (and rapidly obsolete) to print ads... sad isn't it? I remember the hooplah that went around the dorm at our all geek college when Kelly called Gateway. He got a CS in the mail a few weeks later with the Gateway ads all specially edited for him with his name/computer needs written on the ads.

But yeah... those were the good days... I really miss that experience when looking for parts now.

 

I *AM* the random button!

yeah, saw that too, great deal

 

FTFY

 

Well... one good thing about being at the doctor's office for almost 2 hours... My luke warm coffee that I left in the car was nice and hot again...

 

FTFY x 2.

 

This is fun.

 

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