Vegas Halo Fan

Catchers who hit don't last in this organization.

If he would just throw to first base instead, he would start at least half of our games.

Can't really argue with that. I can count on one hand the number of network programs I watch with regularity. Normally I wind up hanging out on one of the History Channels, Animal Planet, NatGeo or the Science Channel. Occasionally the Military Channel will run something of interest. Other than that, sports programming, DVDs and Netflix.

If the stadium was on the equator, the bill would be completely backward.

If this were true, I would have died years ago.

Let me guess which scene.

He's farther south, so he has to adjust the cap for the altered magnetic field.

This is the main way I use it. I have DirecTV, so sometimes I use the sports score sidebar to look up scores. If an upcoming news item catches my eye, I may hang around to watch it. If I want baseball news I go to MLB Network. The only other time I spend much time on ESPN itself is when they are carrying a game I'm interested in. Some of the people who ESPN hires as "experts" are anything but. Dick Vitale is a joke as a basketball analyst (I have visions of him fantasizing about the court at Duke), and it's hard to believe that Mark May ever played college football (he probably got hit in the head a few too many times). Their baseball coverage is Yankees- and Red Sox-centric. As far as the NFL, you would think that the Patriots and the Steelers are the only teams in the AFC.

I don't understand you people. Like none of you ever put cocaine in the same pocket where you put your cookies.

Better yet, would it be considered suicide?

Hit the diner at Santa Fe Station this evening for an open-faced turkey sandwich with mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce, along with a wedge salad with Italian dressing.

While Jessica Alba didn't even make the top 50.

It would probably be easier for her to snort her home planet of Alderan, since the Death Star already pulverized it into a fine powder ideal for this purpose.

Someone mentioned Stripes. I hadn't really thought about comedies in the genre, but Stripes was excellent. Since we're talking comedies, no discussion of war-related comedies would be complete without perhaps the funniest war movie of all time, the movie that spawned an even greater television series, M*A*S*H.

A birthday bone for the Dawg. Hope your day was a great one.

No argument here. Of course, if I say that around the house I'm likely to be bunking on the couch.

"Here's the latest tune from Jeff Mathis and the Squatters."

In most systems of city government this is the case. Some Las Vegans were losing their minds because the wife of the outgoing mayor (unable to run again due to term limits) won the election. Mayor in this city is largely a ceremonial position - someone to appear on television whenever there is an interview to be done or a dignitary in town. The real power lies with the city council.

Saving Private Ryan was definitely a great flick. I'm also fond of Heartbreak Ridge (although it is really more about training that war). I'm fond of aircraft, so Strategic Air Command with James Stewart is one of my favorites (still can't believe it's not out on DVD).

Thanks for the tip. That may be what I do. I do heavy duty computing from time to time, but that isn't what I bought my laptop for.

Looks like a long time has already passed. Nice recovery, DR.

Next thing you know, we will be importing content from China.

My brother-in-law is one of the people potentially facing a 20 percent cut. He and my sister are already living on the edge, with her working a lot of overtime just to keep them afloat. I'm not sure how they will cope if this happens.

I appreciate the offer. At this point it probably isn't worth making another investment in it. It's a Win XP machine, and as cheap as replacements are (and since the OS is no longer supported, AFAIK), it's probably time to move on - if I decide that I need a laptop at all. Most things I was using a laptop for, I can now do on my iPhone. I'm not one to take work home from the office, and the laptop was mainly for vacations and times when the two desktops were in use (which never happens now, since my stepchildren are grown). I wasn't doing any heavy duty computing with it.

Back in my early days with computers (IBM PC and PC-XT days, before anything was mouse driven), Compaq came out with a "portable" computer that looked like the one in your photo (in fact, that may be it). "Luggable" is how my boss phrased it. These things had to weigh at least 30 pounds. The screen was monochrome and it was small even by early 1980s standards. The handle was on the back of the keyboard, and it snapped into the main case with spring loaded tabs. When the springs started to wear out or the tabs began to crack from supporting the weight of the machine for too long, sometimes the keyboard would abruptly detach from the main unit with usually catastrophic results.