@randomstep I must listen to it again, for great justice. hamsters + pianos + popcorn = crazy delicious.

@weblivz domain names are like pokémon. You gotta catch 'em all. And speculate!

@owenc hey, it beats the zombie apocalypse, am I right?

@shawnwildermuth what you don't understand is that we have very, very low standards. It's kinda awesome.

@migueldeicaza that's what all the ladies tell me, anyway.

@jongalloway don't you play bass guitar? "What is all the low pitched racket in here?!" http://is.gd/9QUX

@migueldeicaza I am SO down for a game of CUBE DEFENDER OF THE POLYVERSE!! http://tinyurl.com/2gjlxm

@skrenta so you're anti-logging-everything-just-because-we-can, too?

@booboojeebies true, East Asian Age Reckoning is the Basic of age systems. You start out at 1 year old. Take that 0 based systems! Nyah!

@anildash clearly, what you need is a bigger box. with more words.

@charasan @clarkin re: "to cyber", you guys are freaks :P

@carnage4life I'm guessing that 5 mil went for the domain name power.com. The world doesn't need one Facebook, much less clones.

@migueldeicaza ROAD TRIP YO!

@johnstok and advertising, when correctly done, ceases to be "advertising" in any traditional sense of the word, which is the paradox

@johnstok just because advertising is bullshit doesn't mean it never works. It's just very hard to do effectively and ethically.

@eschaton that's behind a paywall, can't see it.

@jongalloway yep, Necromancer badge works. I relaxed the requirements and made it silver, because it's tough to get. http://is.gd/9Gdy

@bradwilson it's all about practice -- adding cymbals means moving in 3D (up + down as well as left + right).

@sburman I wasn't sure if you were on twitter! Previous standup link was from @sburman 's comment on the blog!

@saraford all you need is One Bag(tm), even for the longest trips. http://www.onebag.com/

@kevindente our base dedicated server contract is actually a *really* good deal. It's the "upgrades" which are extortionately priced.

@kevindente you know what $2.03 gasoline means, don't you? It's time to build up that personal stockpile under the stairs again.

@omarshahine Arrington done lost his damn mind. The iPhone "better and faster" at browsing the web than a 9" 1024x6 screen netbook? Er.. no

@cshirky hmm. I wonder how the anarchist soup kitchen would work?

@superdalgas congrats on the new baby boy! More dal-guys!

@cshirky only if the soup was poisoned, and served by surly, churlish men in berets.

@nathanbowers moneyporn is always a class act.

@kevindente is singlehandedly destroying the American economy. Don't you know it's unamerican not to buy and consume products? Terrorist.

@wilshipley imagine how happy you'd be with a 9" monitor, then! Laptops are a necessary evil if mobility is your #1 goal.

@wilshipley I couldn't work in a coffee shop. I am a total diva when it comes to my setup. Need power! + 3 monitors, keyboard, mouse, etc.

@pawelmaczewski I've already covered laptop power consumption in several blog posts. 2.5" HDD power consumption is teeny-tiny, like 3w PEAK

@pawelmaczewski I've measured the difference with my kill-a-watt. HDD's overall percentage of power is tiny (rel. to screen, mobo cpu, etc.)

@caseycharlton why not carry your entire mp3 collection and some movies along with you? small/cheap SSDs are just a bad deal right now.

@shanselman "the SSD in the 9 is shorter than SSD for regular notebooks .. won't accept a regular notebook hard drive upgrade" no sale.

@shanselman really? press F11 for me on the Dell Mini 9. Oh right, you can't. And I do use that key.

@shanselman surprised you like the mini. Lack of FN keys + no 2.5" HDD option is instant and forever "no sale" for me.

@wilshipley awesome, man, your dish was on CNN! And they called you a liar! I demand revenge! http://is.gd/9dVo

@issackelly the person I ultimately got my answer from, @arcanecode (big thx, by the way) isn't on stackoverflow. Go figure..

@arcanecode well, I'll be damned.. you're right. Post that as an answer on SO, so I can vote you up. http://is.gd/93Ct

@arcanecode I think I'm asking the wrong question as usual. I don't think the fulltext engine DOES anything with the bracketed stuff!

@haacked I don't like to ask until I've thoroughly researched something, maybe that's just me being protective of my own junk

@arcanecode however, that makes the entire search a "phrase" .. not really what I want, if it's a multi-word query

@arcanecode wait a sec, you may be right. I just tried ' "arg[0]" ' (without spaces) and that appears to work

@sontek doubling makes no difference. I told you guys, using [ in a CONTAINS() clause is an unexpectedly hard one.

@kevindente \ has no effect in CONTAINS() -- " syntax error near '[' "

@mamund ESCAPE does not work with CONTAINS() only LIKE. @arcanecode quotes make no difference.

@superdalgas good luck with the baby deliver man!

@mstum it's you damn users with all your accursed.. reputation! :)

@wilshipley iTunes link, but I can't follow it (when is a web site not a web site? when it's iTunes!), so I don't know. http://is.gd/8V02

@johnbattelle Cameo is awesome. I have the 6 minute remix of Word Up. http://is.gd/8UTk

@timbray the no-hope search engine crawlers are only pulling gzip compressed text; can't be *that* much bandwidth. Images, man.

@i386 yeah, I wrote the "related" code for stackoverflow; it's a hard problem, but I think we do a little better than YouTube's insanity

@jongalloway by God it is Jon Galloway on The Price is Right circa 1992!! http://tinyurl.com/5ns9py

@wilshipley a moment of silence for this http://tinyurl.com/5utlhl

@mikepope "I specialize in inactivity," said Devine.

@shanselman I still recommend 2.5" hard drives for netbooks -- cheaper, faster, larger, no power difference. Shame Dell doesn't offer that.

@mabster Shrug. I ran out of space running Vista on a 32GB SSD, and all the disk space tools told me winsxs was the culprit.

@shanselman 32GB is still pretty marginal for Vista because of the accursed winsxs folder. Gets to 9GB+ and it literally can never be moved.

@adkinn "if you enjoy documentaries, dancing, or people." Or.. stuff! :) I love music documentaries, I'll check it out.

@hotdogsladies are you besmirching the good name of Dippin' Dots®, The Ice Cream of The Future™ ?

@cdleary referred me to "how to be emo" which does contain a bit of legitimate history http://tinyurl.com/v3gmc

@cdleary ok then, but when was emo recognized as a "genre" with enough bands to support that? Maybe early 90s?

@shanselman word up, Starship Troopers was thoroughly great

@moon agree, YouTube is MTV as well. But YouTube isn't a game.

@mstum we don't; it's a binary flag. It probably should be an offensive style vote

@timbray is that supposed to be good or bad? I can't tell.

@timoreilly did you ever read Warren Johnson's "Muddling Towards Frugality"? Hard to find now.

@timbray you'll never guess Lynyrd Skynyrd's position on electric cars. http://www.thrasherswheat.org/jammin/lynyrd.htm

@betsyphd is dropping mad cancer science on my ass. run away! run far away!

@chris_mahan have you priced RAM recently? For reference, they now give it away in boxes of corn flakes.

@wilshipley Wall-E still leaves me cold. Of course, I am dead inside, so there is that.

@jzy "They are there because I don't like clutter." Ironically, this message itself is clutter. Big time. Just sayin'.

@migueldeicaza tell me more of this Mexican sushi, this is the first I have heard of it

@wilshipley YA THINK?

@alangham for the record @wilshipley mehs Rhona Mitra, but we all know he's crazy as h-e-double-hockey-sticks anyway.

@wilshipley you're meh-ing Rhona Mitra in Doomsday? Seriously? She's like T2 Linda Hamilton, man, not a pneumatic Playboy model. All biz.

@kevindente yes, ICUH8N is from the license plate of a "tricked out" Nissan Sentra we saw with our own eyes in Durham, North Carolina. Srsly

@wilshipley you're making me so hot right now. for delicious pie.

@SteveDuitsman I was just fed up messing with the thing at that point. It took a LONG time to figure out it was the cable, not the soldering

@aanttila did someone move your cheese? THOSE BASTARDS!

@shanselman pff, avatars should be you reimagined; why so literal? http://tinyurl.com/5fjtat

@parsifal you really want the hard drive. It sucks that MS charges extortionate prices for Xbox HDDs. Consoles. Bah.

@shanselman 3d "desktop" = novelty tourist trap crap.

@brettveenstra agree, it's not looking good.

@juicycreative I met my wife @betsyphd because, and I am not making this up, "I was doing the safety dance wrong". TRUE STORY.

@shauntrennery -1 for linking me to utter shite remix of great song. :(

@nycerine they don't protect me when I'm on the minigun hardly at all. Plus they get in the way. The end stages are the problem.

@hotdogsladies because nobody knows the wreck of the soul the way you do

@wilshipley "I definately will never date anyone who spells it 'definately.'" There, I fixed your error.

@wilshipley have you tried internet activation? That usually works when I change underlying hardware, if tripped -- there's "tolerance"

@wilshipley really? I can show you how to pirate anything you like in about 12 mouse clicks. All vetted by the world community, virus free.

@wilshipley well, MS could ship a required hardware dongle with every copy of the OS, like Apple does.

@secretgeek I prefer Diet Cherry Chocolate Server 2008, myself. R2 SP1.

@81bronco I loved Mario 64. The 3D stuff isn't really platforming to me. I just hate 2D scrolling platformers in general (eg Mario 2D).

@nathanbowers http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/7045/mtywtkbf7.jpg

@cwoodruff true, the $349 hdd/1gb/xp or $379 hdd/1gb/xp/mongobattery are better aspire 1 choices probably.

@shanselman definitely update your video drivers if you haven't recently -- download directly from nvidia.com

@shanselman I suspect the replacement video card. Maybe it's time to buy two identical GeForce 9600 GT cards. About $100 each.

@wilshipley well, that, and a lot of screaming. Who's with me?!

@wilshipley with a catchy product name like INTELLISCAN(tm) how can you possibly lose?