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Anonymous wrote:Not sure yet.
- God

Oh come on! You know but you aren't telling.

He's waiting to see how many gay marriages occur between now and next Wednesday

Anonymous wrote:I want it and will buy the version with cellular network connection. Already have the iPhone 4, iPad 2 and kindle fire. Looks awesome.

I'm curious what your reasoning is for buying it as well, considering you can get an iPad 3 for only $50 more.

Considering that you can get a refurbished iPad 3rd Gen for about $50 more than the Mini, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. If price is the primary consideration, the Kindle and Nexus options are much better. If it has to be an Apple product, then the iPad is a much better deal at the slightly higher price. The only reason I can see to get the Mini is if you specifically want a smaller, less-powerful iPad and don't mind paying more money for less.

An iPad is a tablet...

If you aren't already invested in the IOS ecosystem, then I would go with either a Kindle or Nexus 7(Although I'd wait for the announcement for new Nexus models next week). They are much cheaper, so less worries about breakage. Any of them will work well, so to me, price is the major consideration. The iPad Mini is overpriced, IMHO, so I wouldn't consider that one unless you specifically wanted a smaller iPad. If you do go with the iPad, you can pick up a refurbished iPad 3 for about $379 right now from the Apple store.

Thanks for the info! I was surprised at how many of the restaurants were either already on my regular dinner list or at least very close to home.(I think I've eaten at about half of the places in the article already and several others are on my "need to try" list) We just had a little girl about 1.5 weeks ago, so we are going to need this info soon.

If I receive something that was requested, such as information, documents, etc., I'll usually respond with something like "Thanks", just like I would say thanks if I asked someone to hand me something in person. It also serves the useful purpose of documenting that the email was received, should the question ever come up. If it is just a back and forth conversation, or nothing actually being passed in the email, then I don't think it necessary. I generally follow the rule of thumb that says to only say it in an email if you would also say it in person.(Ex: "Can you hand me that file? Thanks.")

Anonymous wrote:What you make when you enter the job market and where you end up are entirely different things. Remember that loads of CEO's have liberal arts degrees. Slow and steady can win the race.

Many CEOs don't have college degrees at all, and I doubt any of them started with a degree in "CEO Management". However, you can't really derive anything useful from statistical outliers such as Gates or Zuckerberg, as well as most CEOs, in terms of college decisions. I think many people would find it useful though, if comparing two degrees, to see that for one degree and school, graduates had 90% employment with an average starting salary of $50k, while another degree and school had only a 70% employment rate and average starting salary of $30k. The point is to ensure that students have realistic expectations on what to expect after they graduate, not what they can expect 20 years down the road.

I really wish people would stop using the headline "Mom given life sentence for gluing daughter to wall". She was given the sentence for beating her daughter into a coma, among many other examples of abuse. Of course, that wouldn't sell the story nearly as well, and it is all about the ratings/clicks/pageviews/etc.

Wait, you've seen a cyclist stop at a stop sign or red light? I didn't think any of them ever did that unless absolutely forced to.

Anonymous wrote: My favorite is David Tennant and Martha, followed by Rose. I couldn't stand Donna she was difficult and obnoxious to me but that's JMO.
The current doctor has really grown on me and I adore Amy and Rory. Did this season seem really short to anyone else?

The season isn't over. That was just the mid-season finale last week. There will be a Christmas special, then the last half of the season sometime early next year.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks. Would you recommend some free storage sites?
I plan on take both post advise. Two thumb drives and the cloud.

I've only used Google Music, so I can't really tell you how it compares to iCloud or Amazon's service. However, I can say that it is about as simple as you can get. Just set up a Google account(If you don't have one already), download the music manager, and point it to the directory containing your music files. It will upload the music in the background, then monitor the folder for any new songs added. You can store 20,000 songs for free and listen to them through just about any web browser. In the event you lost the local copies, you could also download them again.

Are you planning on ripping them to MP3s and storing them in that format? If so, I doubt you actually need an external hard drive. Even at higher quality settings, you aren't likely to need that much room on the hard drive. In fact, you could probably store them all on a flash drive for around $30 or less, depending on how much space you needed. I think an external hard drive would be overkill for the amount of space you are talking about, unless there are other reasons you want one.

As for not trusting the cloud, I can understand not trusting it by itself, but it would be an excellent way to have an offsite backup solution. If your CD collection is really prized, it would make sense to have some form of backup that would protect you from fire or other disasters that could destroy any local copies. Given the multiple options for free storage of music online now, I don't see why you wouldn't take advantage of at least one of them.

Anonymous wrote:Another newbie runner here - and I would also love some advice. I'm in reasonable shape, workout - mostly lift weights - a couple of times a week, not overweight - but I wanted to increase aerobic activity so started running a few weeks ago and I seem to have zero endurance. I literally can make it two blocks and two blocks only before stopping. Then after walking a bit I can run a couple of more blocks. I know people say it's mental - but it feels quite physical - I feel tingling in my arms and legs like I'm not getting enough circulation and cannot run any further. I assumed I'd slowly be able to go further but I've had zero improvement after several runs. Is this normal? Will I have some kind of break through soon and be able to run more than two blocks at a time? TIA

I'd start with a program like the C25K mentioned above and try following that. As the PP mentioned, the speed you are running may be the problem. The key is to jog, not run. You are going to time first, distance will come later. You should go at a pace that you can maintain reasonably easily for the time allotted for that particular run and no faster. You aren't trying to build up muscles(Although they will come as well) to begin with, but rather you are teaching your body how to efficiently process the oxygen to keep you going. If you've been working out, then you've probably been teaching your body to do the opposite, release a large amount of energy in a small amount of time, so you are basically starting from scratch here. Trust me, I was overweight, completely out of shape, and I hadn't actually run in over a decade.(And then only when required) Just don't push yourself too hard to start with, and you'll make progress faster than you realize.

When walking the dog, I would only allow him to get off the sidewalk a couple of feet, basically enough to do his business. Just try to keep him as close to the sidewalk as you reasonably can.(No 30ft retractable leash going halfway across the yard) And no, I would not leave the dog tied up outside while you shop. Besides theft, there are a host of other problems that this could cause. If you need to shop, leave the dog at home.

Trust me, it gets harder as you get older. I wouldn't put much stock in your results after only a single week. Any diet that causes rapid weight loss will also likely be immediately followed by rapid weight gain after it ends. What worked for me was making smaller changes in my normal eating habits, combined with increasing the amount of exercise I was doing. Some of my changes include eating healthier lunches with fewer calories, skipping the combo in favor of just a single sandwich(Or whatever the equivalent is at any particular place I eat), more salads as opposed to other side dishes, and just generally trying to reduce all of the portion sizes that I was eating before. Individually, these changes only amount to a small difference, but combined they are a significant reduction in my caloric intake. I'm probably averaging a little under a pound of weight loss a week since I started actively trying to lose weight, so on many weeks, the changes aren't that noticeable. But on the positive side, the weight is still coming off(Getting close to 20 pounds lost so far, and still going), and I don't feel like I'm really depriving myself of anything in an effort to lose the weight.