It's all about the poppy seed bagel. I do one of two things:
toasted poppy seed bagel with chive cream chease and lox
or
toasted poppy seed bagel with honey mustard, big slices of brie chease and tomato
Have you thought about connecting your iPod to your car stereo directly? I did this last summer and now I have a spiffy little setup. My stereo has an aux. jack in back and drilled a whole for the wire up through to the glove compartment. Now I have perfect sound, no interference, and it is not at all obvious that there is an ipod in the car. The whole thing cost me ten bucks and a half our of work.
It helps to replace one habbit with another--hopefully something healthy. For example, if you want a cigarette drink a bottle of water instead. Sure you'll go through a lot of water, but you'll be well hydrated!
Personally, I've found it useful to do things I would not have been able to do if I was still smoking. Go to the gym, go running, play some basketball. It feels wonderful (after a week or two) to have fresh air in your lungs. More importantly: good food! You'll taste flavors and textures you've forgotten exist.
in response to 'ian would say' question about who reads The Economist - a lot more than businessmen read it. A large student population, heck, anyone interested in govt or politics my age reads it at least once in a while. Unlike U.S. News or Newsweek or Time, The Economist's articles are better researched, more thought out, and provide for a much better understanding of the world.
as for the endorsement, it's not all that surprising . The Economist did initally support the war in Iraq but has been slowly retreating from that position.
After reading this thread I've learned a couple things:
-I've read a lot more than I thought, and that makes me very happy.
-All you Monkey types have good taste in lit.
-I am going to read some Borges and somes Byatt.
I drive a 1990 Acura Integra RS. It's a sweet little car, and I've just broke 200,000 miles! It's red, has two doors, and goes vroom vroom, what more could a college kid want?
caution live frogs is right, SourceForge is a great source for software (pun intended?). Also, don't forget to check out freshmeat.net.
Oh yeah, these sites cater to the osX/*nix crowd so Windows users wont find these sites quite as useful.
If you want to speed up browsing in Mozilla use firebird instead. Granted, it's beta unlike the Mozilla suite but it is noticeably faster. Also, I'm not sure if this is true about Mozilla but if you type about:config in the url bar a long list of config options will appear. set browser.turbo.enabled to true and firebird will reside in memory even after you quit the application. This leads to quicker ie-esque start times.
47% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
Not all that surprising. I grew up in New England but Russian is my native lanugage. Makes for all sorts of funny mixing.
It's all about the poppy seed bagel. I do one of two things: toasted poppy seed bagel with chive cream chease and lox or toasted poppy seed bagel with honey mustard, big slices of brie chease and tomato
posted by Jabberwock 19 years ago
In "FM transmitters for mp3 players- are there any that don't suck?"
Have you thought about connecting your iPod to your car stereo directly? I did this last summer and now I have a spiffy little setup. My stereo has an aux. jack in back and drilled a whole for the wire up through to the glove compartment. Now I have perfect sound, no interference, and it is not at all obvious that there is an ipod in the car. The whole thing cost me ten bucks and a half our of work.
posted by Jabberwock 19 years ago
In "Curious George: Emigrating within the U.S."
christina is right, western mass is great, especially the northampton/amherst area. lots of good music and food.
posted by Jabberwock 20 years ago
In "Smoke-Free George"
It helps to replace one habbit with another--hopefully something healthy. For example, if you want a cigarette drink a bottle of water instead. Sure you'll go through a lot of water, but you'll be well hydrated! Personally, I've found it useful to do things I would not have been able to do if I was still smoking. Go to the gym, go running, play some basketball. It feels wonderful (after a week or two) to have fresh air in your lungs. More importantly: good food! You'll taste flavors and textures you've forgotten exist.
posted by Jabberwock 20 years ago
In "- the Economist's choice:"
in response to 'ian would say' question about who reads The Economist - a lot more than businessmen read it. A large student population, heck, anyone interested in govt or politics my age reads it at least once in a while. Unlike U.S. News or Newsweek or Time, The Economist's articles are better researched, more thought out, and provide for a much better understanding of the world. as for the endorsement, it's not all that surprising . The Economist did initally support the war in Iraq but has been slowly retreating from that position.
posted by Jabberwock 20 years ago
In "Good Books!"
After reading this thread I've learned a couple things: -I've read a lot more than I thought, and that makes me very happy. -All you Monkey types have good taste in lit. -I am going to read some Borges and somes Byatt.
posted by Jabberwock 20 years ago
In "Breaking History: Ronald Reagan dead at 93"
Always a classic..
posted by Jabberwock 20 years ago
In ""
I drive a 1990 Acura Integra RS. It's a sweet little car, and I've just broke 200,000 miles! It's red, has two doors, and goes vroom vroom, what more could a college kid want?
posted by Jabberwock 20 years ago
In "The Last Written Words of Albert Einstein."
hmmm, I got it! It's like a magic eye thing, you stare at it long enough and the 'real message' pops out in front.
posted by Jabberwock 20 years ago
In "The 16 Best-ever Freeware Utilities."
caution live frogs is right, SourceForge is a great source for software (pun intended?). Also, don't forget to check out freshmeat.net. Oh yeah, these sites cater to the osX/*nix crowd so Windows users wont find these sites quite as useful.
posted by Jabberwock 20 years ago
If you want to speed up browsing in Mozilla use firebird instead. Granted, it's beta unlike the Mozilla suite but it is noticeably faster. Also, I'm not sure if this is true about Mozilla but if you type about:config in the url bar a long list of config options will appear. set browser.turbo.enabled to true and firebird will reside in memory even after you quit the application. This leads to quicker ie-esque start times.
posted by Jabberwock 20 years ago
In ""
47% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. Not all that surprising. I grew up in New England but Russian is my native lanugage. Makes for all sorts of funny mixing.
posted by Jabberwock 20 years ago
In "Fresh monkey meat"
Me too! Long time mefi lurker...but....this allows new users! and has bananas!
posted by Jabberwock 20 years ago
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