But doesn't show me cutting behind the laundromat and in between houses on the way to work :)

Have you tried 99% chocolate? Lindt's is pretty good (and not too hard to find) but Cluziel Noir Infini is utterly amazing.

Anyway, on the general subject... I'm diabetic and appreciate some of this stuff. "Less food" is important, but "more appropriate food" is more important. Outside of vegetables, my two best friends are popcorn and beef jerky. I can make a meal of either, be sated, and my blood sugar will go down instead of up. So long as I get variety and vegetables in other meals, it works very well for me.

As far as wine goes, I'm glad the variety isn't that important. I have yet to find a red wine I enjoy, and most of them I can barely tolerate. Give me a Riesling or Gewurztraminer any day though. Or sake!

The third one was a Toshiba that outlived Rasputin.

And this got me to notice that 8 people are on vacation from my office today. Why am I not one of them? :P

Crytek's numbers may or may not be crazy -- there have been documented cases where some casual $15 game that "phones home" (ostensibly for high score lists, etc.) was found to be installed on 20x more computers than they sold licenses of it.

For all of those saying Crysis is a system killer and people pirate it just to put it through its paces -- are you not aware there's a free demo?

(I do have a small confession of my own -- in the past 15 years I have downloaded one "game" I didn't own -- a training title for the DS. I found I liked it, and bought it two days later. I don't expect I'd have bought it without trying it first. But to me, that just makes a stronger argument for demos or the old shareware model.)

Gawker: Gina rocks, and don't forget it.

(Though, yeah, Adblock Plus and all that anyway.)

Not the perfect vehicle, but I can get to work for about one penny per day.

As my minor action, I hit you with a warlock's curse.

As my move action, I move 3 squares and gain concealment.

As a standard action, I hit you with Eyebite.

I burn an action point and open up a Hunger of Hadar under your chair.

Suck it, haters. :)

1. While at a stop sign, I got rear-ended by an old lady who wasn't paying attention (she then backed up and almost into the car behind her). This was in a full-sized, SCREAMING YELLOW car that she apparently didn't notice.

2. I bought a small electric scooter. It's not street legal, and I would be royally screwed if Grandma Headintheclouds bumped me on it like she did the car.

I'll stick with the sidewalk, thanks.

It'd just about pay for itself in a year, assuming an average of $4/gallon (who knows?), my present car getting 20mpg (which is a low estimate), 10.4 mile round trip, and assuming 160 workdays of suitable weather per year.

And if not, it'd still pay for itself in a couple of years.

And if it proves too unreliable to last that long, well, I've spent money in less useful ways.

Have you tried updating your system software, and launching it with DSOrganize? Works for me.

(I just got one a couple months ago myself and have been learning to play it as a sorta-quasi-semi-serious instrument. ;))

So maybe that sort of thing is a factor in those widescreen folks running weird resolutions?

About 2 hours later I picked up a 9600GT, joining the ranks of gamers who can crank all video settings up to max. Whoo!

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono for me.

(OK, I wasn't really.)