Cheech

Bloody hell, all you need is a HUD and a loud tone telling you when you have missile lock and you're all set. That is one awesome dash.

Have you seen the size of this guy? My bet is the entire front office and the hot-dog vendor outside. That pretty much nailed it. It's pretty obvious why Mangini didn't start Quinn for most of the season - if he did, he'd have to pay him a 11mil bonus for taking 70% of the snaps in the season. If I was a player, that just screams no-confidence from the coaching staff. My bet is Holmgren throws Mangini AND everyone Mangini brought with him from the Jets or other organizations on their ass immediately at the end of the season, and begins the search for their replacement.

a bunch of stuff from Shanghai, some stuff for the house from the Shanghai Museum, tea sets with a ton of jasmine flowers, just a ton of stuff. Motorcycle related I think will be getting my forks redone and re-sprung when I finally get back home.

In a word, no. It's one thing surrounding yourself as an owner with people who know better than you, it's another thing to give these people (or person as it were) the keys to the ship and completely step back. Major league sports team usually don't have that kind of ownership, and that's ESPECIALLY true for Cleveland. Sooner or later, Cleveland will find a coach that's not a complete fuck-up, and the team will fight their way back to a .500 season, maybe even a winning season. It happened with Romeo just as a fluke, I'm sure it will happen again. But completely fixed? Hell no.

Once this baby hits 88mph, you're going to see some serious shit.

Meticulously, through years of experience.

Do you absolutely have to have some portion of that money now? Unless you're willing to take a $900 or even $800 hit, I'd seriously consider holding onto it for someone else. With $1700 in sunk costs, you know you're going to lose at least 50% of it's value in the secondary market anyway. Besides, I don't think you'll have a problem landing someone else in short order, just make sure that they earn that $1700...

Voted. The names in the top 10 are colossally retarded. Teddy? TOFU? If you're feeling like one more dog, get a Dachshund and name him Kaiser Wilhelm von Wienerschitzel.

Butters, is that you?

Just a three-way? It looks to me like you would have to send an entire away team in there just to find her snizz. I'm not sending any of my men in there...

goddamn chinese firewall, can't watch any of the youtube links...

on a totally unrelated note, I absolutely heart your avatar.

i almost forgot, i had to do this on my laptop. The native positioning was off-center, this cleared it right up.

First thing: Ditch the S-Video. I'm not sure what "decent graphics card" means, but if your laptop isn't a widescreen by itself it's possible (but unlikely) it won't support widescreen resolutions. Chances are even better than the PC input on the TV is tuned to certain resolutions (the Sony site wants to reference the manual which you have and I don't). A possibility is to get a DVI-VGA adapter and a DVI-HDMI cable and give it a shot. If you can hold out until the 23rd when I get back to the States I can bring mine over and try it out. I've got a Inspiron with a DVI out and a GeForce card that runs like a champ on my 37in 1080p, and a GeForce MX VGA desktop that pushes 1366x768 (anything else is unreadable) on a 42in 1080p.

another in a long line of KK ditches. I'm beginning to think you're a bot, especially with your postcount...

that's a little, umm, personal don't you think?

Dave's off to Florida. I'm in for the 26th, I'll still be in China on the 19th.

aaaaaaaaand we're done here. Cypress is right, -1 for fake. No rational human would EVER admit to this openly. However, I do know a guy who has posted pictures of his logs on Myspace for some strange and bizarre reason, but he is far from a rational human.

Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, I'm slapping myself silly for forgetting this. One of the BEST enginerd/wannabe spy movies of ALL TIME.

Anything by Guy Ritchie when he wasn't diddling Madonna Seven Samurai/Yojimbo High Fidelity (one of my all-time favs) Interstella 5555 (how's that for something someone's never seen?) You fans of Daft Punk would LOVE it. Cowboy Bebop (movie and series) Kung Fu Hustle Legend of Drunken Master Hackers made me giggle through the whole thing, then I erupted in laughter as they "hacked the Gibson". I did like the Apple sexual innuendo though, that had a nice touch.

i would brutally murder the entire population of Shanghai for some BWW's chicken tenders and popcorn shrimp right now...

Wow, so many developments... The short version is I'm staying at least until Dec. 21st. I have an absolute assload of pictures to upload from downtown Shanghai, tons of night shots of the shopping streets, and a few shots today of the Oriental Pearl tower, both up and down. Unfortunately, my gallery at binaryshower.com is blocked by the Chinese firewall, and the internet at the hotel isn't free so I'll have to wait until I'm back at the plant to upload them. Walking around the Pudong side of Shanghai (the Huangpu river bisects the city, Punxi (I think) on the left, Pudong on the right) going to the Shanghai Museum on Thursday, we ran into 4 girls who immediately started speaking to us in fairly decent English. They started talking about all kinds of stuff, asking us where we were from, trying to practice their English, on and on. After all that was over, they asked us if we wanted to follow them to a tea house for the "International Tea Ceremony held every 3 years to celebrate the harvest". We politely declined, but apparently tourists get sucked into going and get smacked with a 700-800 RMB (USD$102-117) bill for a few cups of tea. We got about 200m down the road when we were approached again by 2 girls, same conversation, almost the same exact story. If you are looking for a similar shopping experience, go to Chinatown in NYC. You get assaulted EVERYWHERE by people who's only English words are Rolex, Omega, pen, laser (green lasers are big here), and the mother of them all, iPhone. Being Westerners, we're obviously easy to spot (and one of the guys I'm with is about 6'4", he's even easier to spot). Looking at the watches you can see pretty blatant spelling mistakes, the better knockoffs are in the copy shops.

"You got a dick. You do have a dick, don't you? Okay, the dick lines up straight like that right? To the right of it and to the left of it are pockets, right? In those pockets are car keys. Look in either one of 'em, get your ass here."

As with all things Cleveland sports, they will find a new and creative way to lose spectacularly in the 4th quarter. Bank on it.