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Is this place especially good for Sweeden or good for everywhere? Welcome aboard Peter!

Revoke + 4 is the opening Vegas line.

Nawlins loves parades. Still have quite a bead collection.

But if I can't find a partner I still won't use a wooden chair.

I agree. Lots of guys don't seem to like backpackers but to me a much better alternative to working at WalMart.

My favorite in Thailand is Ploy Samed on the beach, as on the sand itself, on Ko Samed. In Chiang Mai for farang food, Chez Marco. In Pattaya it's a little noodle soup stand that doesn't have a name.

I don't miss the stress of work. And I hated having to be a t work and not having enough vacation time. But sometimes I miss work, but just a little.

I was in Memphis and couldn't be bothered either. Beale Street is pretty cool though.

Seems like you worked in a kinder gentler place than me Thaimo. We were more about leveraging the platform.

COBRA is good a s a stop gap measure between jobs, but if you're not planning on reentering the workforce, one needs to get permanent coverage ASAP.

Lots of entertainers and sports stars end up bankrupt.

Grumpy coworkers, slow computers, and almost all meetings. Jargon gets in the way of communication, but I understand it, so what the hell.

But the ManCrunch episode was not bad publicity. It was free publicity.

Google plans experiment to offer superfast Web On Wednesday February 10, 2010, 2:05 pm By Ian Sherr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Wednesday it would build a super high-speed broadband network for up to half a million people around the United States in order to experiment with the possibilities of a network running at 100 times current speeds. The company has long argued that it can sell more Web ads -- the way it makes money -- by encouraging Internet use. It imagines three-dimensional conferencing and classes, faster movie downloads and new businesses taking advantage of the speeds that are only theoretical for most people now. Google said it would use fiber optic lines to the home, the same technology used by many telecommunications companies, but declined to give details about whether it would build, buy or rent such services and how much the venture would cost. The move, which follows successful and aborted attempts to launch wireless Internet networks in some U.S. cities, could put Google in direct competition with the likes of AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications Inc, although one analyst did not see the move as a new stand-alone business for the search company. "That's not the point. These are test beds, not vast geographical networks," said Art Brodsky, spokesman for public interest group Public Knowledge. A Verizon spokesman described the Google move as a "new paragraph" in the "exciting story" of Internet development. Google, in a blog describing the network, imagined a New York doctor discussing and looking at three-dimensional medical images with a patient far away, students joining a class from various locations in 3-D, or simply downloading a high-definition movie very fast. It asked cities and states interested in joining the experiment to apply to Google by March 26 and said it eventually would build the network in a number of U.S. locations. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-wi th-gig-our-experimental.html AT SPEEDS MORE THAN 100 TIMES FASTER Oppenheimer & Co analyst Timothy Horan said he suspected the cost of building out the broadband network would cost about $1,000 to $2,000 per subscriber if Google bought unused fiber lines already underneath many cities. "They can buy a lot of this stuff fairly inexpensively that's out there already," he said, adding that communications service provider Level 3 Communications Inc owns a lot of those unused lines. "We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections," Google product managers Minnie Ingersoll and James Kelly wrote in a blog post. Google's Ingersoll also said that once established, the company wanted the project to become an open-access network where the Internet giant would offer wholesale access and other businesses could offer retail services on top of the network. "I think there are a lot of partnership opportunities, and we are definitely interested in having those discussions," Ingersoll said. As an example, she said VoIP, or telephone-over-Internet providers could offer their products and services over Google's network. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski immediately hailed the move, saying "big broadband creates big opportunities". Google's "significant trial will provide an American test bed for the next generation of innovative, high-speed Internet apps, devices and services," Genachowski said in a statement. The FCC is about a month away from submitting a national broadband plan to Congress. Google said it would offer the service at a "competitive price" to at least 50,000 and up to 500,000 people in a small number of locations in the United States. Google did not say what prices would be for consumers or when the high-speed broadband network would debut. Mountain View, California-based Google's shares fell less than 1 percent to $534.41 in midday trading on the Nasdaq. (Reporting by Ian Sherr, Gabriel Madway, John Poirier and Sinead Carew; Editing by Peter Henderson, Lisa Von Ahn and Bernard Orr) http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Google-plans-experiment-to-rb-3377125317.html/print?x=0

Rumor is a gag order will be imposed making it illegal for Thai print media to speculate on the Feb 26th ruling.

Thanks lvdkeyes! If I take coffee out of the bag and put it in a glass coffee container, I can put that in the freezer, right? Or will the glass crack?

At Super Bowl house parties that I've been to in the States, the ratio was often 50-50.

Should I also keep the ground coffee in the freezer?

It's Larry David's show, the co-creator of Seinfeld. Never watched it, figure I'll like it and a friend who likes it downloaded every episode and gave me a copy.

At Friendship the cheapest coffee is 46 baht for 100 grams and it tastes OK to me but sometimes I splurge and try slightly more expensive ones. I can grind the beans right in the store. I'm under the impression that coffee tastes best if it's brewed soon after grinding.

I agree. The toughest game to do it would be the Super Bowl. But it would be a dramatic effect to drop the bomb right after the planes that flew in formation after the National Anthem passed by.

Think it's a combination of the above factors.

I doubt it too. But they got lots of publicity for free.

Of course there's more guys watching. Would you agree that the Super Bowl has a lower percentage of guys watching than any other football game? I think of all the Super Bowl parties I've been at that are 50-50.

Thanks Wino, I'll check it out! But will stick with basic colors.