Heh, that's a good one.

Those coffee pod things are cool. I'm more of a tea drinker than coffee (don't even keep any in the house), but enjoy the occasional cup once in a while, that could definitely work for me.

So long, Johnny! Thanks for helping start the punk movement man!


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I wish I had a buck for every Ramones show I attended. Many a loud drunken night spent with good friends at the shows.

I get a kick out the article as it mentions that Eddie Vedder was "at his bedside" when he died. Vedder is everything the Ramones weren't, including pretentious. bah....

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Sucks that three of the Ramones have died at relatively young ages. I would have liked to gone to some of their concerts but it was a little before my time. It is a shame more and more early punks are dropping but i suppose that is the lifestyle.

That is kind of wierd that people were "at his bedside" when he died considering it happened while he was asleep. Is it common for people to stand around you while you sleep ehe.

Vedder is everything the Ramones weren't, including pretentious.

Nah I wouldn't consider Vedder pretentious. You can blame the media for that. He was put into the position of spokesman for Gen X in the early 90s by MTV and the media in general. He didn't care for it much.

If you want to see pretentious, look at guys like Scott Stapp with his Jesus Christ poses and Vedder-wannabe voice...he doesn't even sound like that when he talks. He actually likened his band to Led Zeppelin...sorry but Creed is no Led Zeppelin.

I figured Vedder would be by Johnny's side in the end. They were really close friends. Let that be a lesson...even liberals and conservatives can be friends

the opening of that monday thing gave me Sewer Shark flashbacks.

Use your head, don't lose it - Don't feed the trolls!

Those coffee pod thingies are quite appealing. The Senseo by Philips and other similar models have been available for like a year here, and I'm always drawn to them. I can't stand cold coffee, and I rarely drink more then two cups in the morning and another in the afternoon anyway.
The main disadvantage is that they're really quite expensive, as the article also mentions, easily two to three times the price of normal coffee. At my consumption rate, that's not too bad - bad enough to make me wait to see if some generic pads come up any time soon - but my father drinks way too much coffee and would notice the increased price.

I just saw one ad now, Blue... But no boobages in this personal. Not yet being at work, I'm of course disappointed.

Still getting them at 6:15 PST 9/16/04. If you are trying to get rid of Tickle ads, they're back. Or do I need to run Adaware on my end to exorcise them from my machine?

A few years ago it looked like we were going to redesign and rebuild a machine that makes those coffee pods for a Portland based coffee company but it never happened. Pretty cool machine - well designed for making the pods but poorly designed from a maintenance standpoint.



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Beware of the pods, dudes, they're evil marketing hype and the coffee from them tastes like paper. Stick to good ol'Bustelo, that'll never let you down.

Oh, and can we select the Tickle ads with the bewbs somehow? Maybe specify a bewbcount (0-20) per ad?

That's the one thing I hate about DSL, those stupid filters.

There's supposedly a way to install DSL without them, but Verizon refused to do that for me.

Essentially, they put a device in your house (or attic) where the line comes in. The device is essentially a special kind of splitter that seperates the phone and the digital-data-line to 2 different wires. You then run the digital line to the room you want your modem to be, and thus no splitters anywhere, and the phone-signal line just connects to your existing phone line.

But, like I said, Verizon wouldn't do that for me (even though they sent 3 technicians to our house to install it).

Unfortunately, I don't know what it's called. I want to say "POTS Splitter," but I don't think that's it. It was so long ago.



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I'm not complaining that you have ads because I fully understand, but those ads are pathetic. Carbon copied faked personals constructed from pictures that I'm sure weren't authorized. So sad if someone actually buys into that crap. Oh, and girls using online personals probably don't look like the girls in those pictures. End rant.

the opening of that monday thing gave me Sewer Shark flashbacks.

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There's supposedly a way to install DSL without them, but Verizon refused to do that for me.

So do it yourself. I did. I have precisely one filter in my entire house.

And it's dirt simple to do, at least if you have any wiring experience at all.

Take the phone line coming from the demark and split it (either using a splitter or a block). One end you run to your DSL modem. The other end you put a filter on and connect the line that used to feed all your phones back in to it.

In my case I use a block (77 block I think; I don't know the terminology honestly) so my line comes in from the demark, I stripped the ends and punched it down into the block. Punched down another line to that and ran it to my DSL modem. Took a filter, cut off the plug end, stripped those wires, and punched it down. Punched down another line into another part of the block and plugged it into the filter. All my regular telephone lines are punched down downstream from there.

BTW, filters can go bad. I had one go bad and my DSL modem stopped working. Just grabbed another, stripped it, and replaced the filter and everything was hunky dory again.

And this is a whole hell of a lot easier than making sure you have a freaking filter on every phone. At least if you have access to the phone line nearish where it comes into your house, and aren't afraid to learn some things in fixing it.

There's supposedly a way to install DSL without them, but Verizon refused to do that for me.

Essentially, they put a device in your house (or attic) where the line comes in.

We have one of these at work. It is merely an in-line filter for the entire line. Instead of filtering each location it filters the entire line.

A 'normal' Verizon tech can't do this or doesn't normally carry the equipment on their truck.

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A 'normal' Verizon tech can't do this or doesn't normally carry the equipment on their truck.

Sounds like another example of a company doing something the hard way and frustrating customers at the same time.



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I don't know about the rest of you, but the whole human genome project is very exciting to me. When you think of it, it's just programming instructions for the human body. Very complex and complicated instructions, but nonetheless... yes, there will be opportunity for abuse and major screw-ups, but in the end, I believe the genome mapping to be incredibly positive. It could very well lead (relatively soon) to the elimination of disease, for one thing. Or the extinction of the race from tampering, but I'm being positive here...

However...

"Volumes of genetic material lie in between the genes, which for a long time were dismissed as "junk" by researchers.

But on closer inspection, it seems this judgement was premature. The fact that sequences of junk were conserved for hundreds of generations suggests they have a function worth holding on to."

Hmmm, you think maybe?

Exciting times ahead.

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Is it just me, or does the face in that illustration from the “People on Mars” article look sorta like Clint Eastwood taking a really big and hard crap, and enjoying it??

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That’s a deep kiss too, like the Europeans. You know the French they have to unhinge their jaw to show love.

What's really nice is that it will all be available for searching and data mining. For example, you are be able to do BLAST searches on unknown sequences.

Enter your own sequence here for fun and profit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/seq/HsBlast.html

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