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Re: It's true - NYT to start charging for online content - 13 years ago

I'm kind of torn on this issue. I'm cheap/lean in the budget right now but am entirely willing to admit that I frequently read the NYTimes. Even for the past year, I've been considering their weekend subscription but never took the plunge. If they offer online access with the paper subscription, I think that might be a good avenue for me and I'll just pay. robfilms and others in the previous

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Re: why did it take me so long to buy a compost pail? - 13 years ago

mattkime, what's the model of that compost bin on Amazon? I've been thinking about composting for real this coming summer and would like to get set up. Other folks, if you have links, that would be great. Thanks,

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Re: Favorite food question - 13 years ago

Oooh, 3d, good idea! How about springtime when it's nice outside?

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Re: Anybody Try Costco's Italian Sausage? - 13 years ago

The boy and I have been making our own sausages lately, for the past couple of months. We use the grinder & sausage stuffer attachments on our Kitchen Aid mixer. It's to the point now that we're making sausage about every three weeks at his best friend's apartment. We call it Sausage Sunday. Last week Friday we taught our downstairs neighbours how to make lamb sausage with their Kitchen Aid.

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Re: Who puts the HATE in HAITI? You guessed it! A Christian leader! - 13 years ago

Quotedavester QuoteCarnos Jax Dak', Swamp', they're referring to the "Moral Majority" as a proper noun...a political entity formed by these nuts. I can't believe they don't know this. I think they're probably just willfully misunderstanding in order to enhance their trolling. Don't feed the trolls folks, don't feed the trolls.

by trisho. - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Recommendation for simple (and free) project tracking tool? - 13 years ago

For that many projects, it's going to be hard to find a free solution. If you're really going to be logging that many projects, I suggest setting up an Excel spreadsheet for now, just to get started and the branch out to other possible solutions. I use Billings for my own business but don't handle nearly as many projects. The good thing about a dedicated software is that may l (like Billings)

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Re: How many hours should I allot for airline security now? Booking a flight for June '10 tonight. - 13 years ago

DavidS, thanks for pointing that out. I remembered about SuperShuttle and I'll book a roundtrip ride with them. It's most likely cheaper than a cab and is on time.

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Re: How many hours should I allot for airline security now? Booking a flight for June '10 tonight. - 13 years ago

Lux, I'm used to doing that on international flights, specifically CDG on my way to Florence, Italy (FLR) for work. I had to do the same thing - collect my bags then wait for the über union Air France/City Jet folks to clock in 40 min before my flight took so I could go through security again. Most of the time I was able to do the check-in way earlier but that one time, everybody in the lines we

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Re: How many hours should I allot for airline security now? Booking a flight for June '10 tonight. - 13 years ago

Oh, and another question...they don't make you go through security again for layovers now, right? It's just running to other gate to catch the plane still, I hope.

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Re: How many hours should I allot for airline security now? Booking a flight for June '10 tonight. - 13 years ago

Quotetestcase You're asking NOW for what the conditions will be FIVE MONTHS from now??? You sound like my boyfriend. Oy. Yeah, I'm not going to worry about it for right now I think and just use the cab route when time comes.

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Re: How many hours should I allot for airline security now? Booking a flight for June '10 tonight. - 13 years ago

Yikes...I was afraid of that. I'm guessing we can just check out super early and use a cab. All the other affordable options are one or more stops. Doc, yeah, I was planning on flying out of JFK around 6pm so both my guy and I could work a half day, but screw it...might as well take the day off and avoid the pile up. I'm all too familiar with the night flight pile up/back up. For 2007 - 2008

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How many hours should I allot for airline security now? Booking a flight for June '10 tonight. - 13 years ago

I'm trying to buy tickets to Denver for a conference this summer and realized I may have to allot leaving my house 3 hours beforehand in order to make my flight in time. This is no problem for me but the real issue is the return flight when checking out of a hotel. I'm considering a 10:45am return to JFK and just thought I may have to leave the hotel at 7:45am to leave room for security. How b

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Re: Heads Up, Foodies! Amazon's having a Le Creuset Sale w/up to 40% OFF! - 13 years ago

deco, I think the main purpose for Le Creuset may not necessarily non-stick but rather heating consistency which varies a lot with non-stick/Teflon pots & pans. As for eggs, we normally just scramble them & the greens in the left over bacon grease...so it never sticks! We use either our non-stick skillet or our Lodge cast iron skillet that we've been seasoning for the past year or so.

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Heads Up, Foodies! Amazon's having a Le Creuset Sale w/up to 40% OFF! - 13 years ago

Thought some folks would appreciate the announcement since a lot of us cook on this forum. Link: This deal in particular looks really good: Le Creuset Stoneware 1-1/4-Quart Rectangular Baker with Bonus 16-Ounce Rectangular Baker, Caribbean - $35.99 after 41% off Those measurements translate to - "10-1/2-by-7-inch 1-1/4-quart rectangular baker and 7-by-5-inch 16-ounce rectangula

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Re: Print designers – retraining? - 13 years ago

Agree wholeheartedly with Seacrest, M A V I C, and the part of mattkime that was serious. Definitely learn CSS & HTML and you can start doing that by taking continuing education courses at your nearest art school and/or university. I say art school, because they will apply the tech knowledge in a way you understand and find useful besides just learning code from an engineer who doesn't know h

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Re: Happy Happy Birthday rgG !!! - 13 years ago

Whoops! Happy Birthday, Rhonda! You make this place magical...unicorns and all...

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Re: Anyone here use a "Salad Spinner" ? - 13 years ago

We have the OXO and do the same thing as blooz & JEBB. Wash & spin 2 - 3 times depending on the dirt level then store the lettuce in a rectangular plastic container...but put paper towels both at the bottom & the top to absorb moisture. I didn't believe in salad spinners until my guy bought one for us after we started participating in our CSA and were receiving *TONS* of fresh le

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Re: What's the most cost-effective way of really helping the homeless? - 13 years ago

Quotethreeprong Quotemattkime most homelessness is really mental illness. Worth repeating. I think for the older generation of folks such as war vets and anybody over 45 years old, that may be the case. For a lot of the younger generation, it's sexual or physical abuse at home, mixed with drug abuse on their part. Hence the rise of child & teen prostitutes in recent years. So, stephen,

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Re: Pretty close to firing a client - 13 years ago

You know what? You're right. Definitely trust your gut with these folks because like you said, it's political. I'm sorry that it stinks so bad. An option for you possibly cover yourself with them is to introduce initial deposits on the work. Let's say you give them an estimate of $500 for the work, request a 50% deposit and get paid the difference after the work is done. I'm just worried that

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Re: Pretty close to firing a client - 13 years ago

Quotejohn doughInvoice was for $250 and rather than fight them over it, I emailed them and said my bottom line was to get them where they needed to be (training-wise) and I would absorb the invoice (I made it clear to them that I was making a one-time exception). I also stated that, in the future, if there was any issues with specific training to let me know AT THAT POINT, so as to avoid a repeat

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Re: Pretty close to firing a client - 13 years ago

I would fire them right now. They're a waste of time for you. State in some form to them that: + Your invoice was sent and it is due upon receipt + The work was completed, the client supposedly took steps to ensure comprehension beyond the instruction that they had grasped the material. If not, your end of the bargain was still held up. + Send the invoice again How much was the invoic

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Re: Rush rushed to hospital. - 13 years ago

So, to bring it back to the OP, how's Rush doing now?

by trisho. - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Rush rushed to hospital. - 13 years ago

Quotecbelt3The Democratic party has empowered him too damn much by attacking him directly. Shoulda ignored him like everyone else. See Germany & WWII to see how well appeasement and ignoring bad people worked out in the end.

by trisho. - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Rush rushed to hospital. - 13 years ago

Honestly? I'm entirely okay with wishing ill will on this guy. I put him in the same league as Strom Thurman and I wholeheartedly did a metaphoric tap dance when that old racist bastard (finally) died. Strom Thurman would have probably called it an n-word shuffle but again...that's why I'm glad he's finally dead. The country was able to move on from a certain point by not having relics of such an

by trisho. - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Franken takes the tour - 13 years ago

Quoteswampy QuoteRgrF Once again a thread about someone else, Al Franken, turns into a thread about Swampy. Who's fault is that? That should be "whose". Sorry, couldn't resist.

by trisho. - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: AT & T Website Has Stopped Selling iPhones in NYC!..."You don’t have enough towers to handle the phone." - 13 years ago

UPDATE... AT&T Resumes Online Sales of iPhones in NYC By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: December 28, 2009 Filed at 2:33 p.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- AT&T is resuming online sales of iPhones to New Yorkers after suspending them over the weekend for unclear reasons. A spokesman said only that the phone company periodically ''modifies'' its distribution channels. On AT&

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Re: human/pet food prep and cleanup - 13 years ago

QuoteDoc Ceramic bowls. Dry food. No gunk. Rinsed in the sink once a week and yes, I use my dish-sponge. Then I wipe them down with a paper towel.... The point isn't to kill bacteria so much as just to get rid of food-crumbs and household dust to keep the food and water tasting fresh. Same here for our two cats and they don't seem to have protested yet. Whenever we do give them wet foo

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Re: AT & T Website Has Stopped Selling iPhones in NYC!..."You don’t have enough towers to handle the phone." - 13 years ago

Yeah, really. There's been so much pushback in NYC against AT&T lately, they may have just finally conceded that their network blows.

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AT & T Website Has Stopped Selling iPhones in NYC!..."You don’t have enough towers to handle the phone." - 13 years ago

Spent the morning reading about the AT & T Debacle of Christmas '09 where they decided to stop selling iPhones in all of NYC & surrounding suburbs due to bad coverage but they're spinning it as "because of fraud". First read about it on Mashable.com who got it from The Consumerist breaking the story... (btw, the exchange below is actually an online chat, not a call) AT&am

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Re: Do you think we'll have another dark age(s)? Or are we past that kind of stuff? - 13 years ago

QuoteArticle Accelerator Quotetrisho. During the Dark Ages we know (and focus) about in Western history, while Europe was thumbing its asses and not washing its hands to avoid a plague, the rest of the world figured out engineering, calculus, cartography, gun powder and washing its hands. Huh? Calculus was invented by Newton and Liebnitz (Europeans, sort of). Washing hands for purposes of an

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