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I don't understand why people get so upset about monitors, iPad or screens. At the end of long days in the office 80 years ago I'd be willing to bet a lot that people were tired and rubbing their eyes and massaging their heads. Working all day with your brain as your main tool will make you feel like you just gave your brain a big workout, cause you did. Same as at the end of a day of work hammering nails you'd be rubbing your arms and shoulders and feeling tired.

That said I rarely read outside on a sunny day, if I'm out and about on a nice sunny day I'm not often sitting around reading a book. Book reading is something I'm much more likely to do at 11 pm in bed, are a lot of people actually sitting outside reading all day long on beautiful sunny days?

I want 2 amazingly good knives. So I can have one at the sharpener all the time. Of course I don't know where one is near me and I bus so I have 1 knife and it isn't great. :(

I've played a lot with the idea of a mandolin. But there is this little voice in my head telling me "if you just had sharper knives it wouldn't matter".

What can one do?

Mock those of us poor saps in northern climes where it is snowing.

/cry

If it comes without ads then it is like renting the tvshows/movies. But if it still has ads then I'm going to have to hope it is a very minor amount like $6 a year or something. Ads revenue makes me a sad cookie. I'm happy to pay for stuff but then don't bog me down with ads. I'm paying in part so I don't have to waste time on those ads.

Take them off. It is weird and strange and feels very "look what I bought" to leave it on. But I am biased I rarely wear anything or buy anything that advertises itself or its brand.

Any developer who can create a Windows program can create a Windows program.

These are all (it sounds) running full OSs and not something closed like the apple tablet will be running. So if you can create a program that can run on your PC (or on your boot camped Windows 7) then it can run on the 7 tablets. If you can create it to run on the Android OS then it can run on the Android machines.

This just goes to show me that if nothing else Apple has changed the way people talk about computers. Not just phones with the whole iPhone OS. It seems that people are now thinking about it from a closed ecosystem perspective rather than a regular OS ecosystem. This is fascinating.

This is very cute. And washable which is key for transporting home.

Some of these are really nice though looking at them made me realize that yes I do have a problem with asymetry and that I really should accept it and be ok with it because even when I can look and think that something is done well it still makes the hair go up on the back of my neck.

I love the easel and if I was unhappy with my tv situation it would be the first thing I'd do.

I used to keep a bunch of wine in a rack in the pantry but I had a few issues.
1. I keep my apartment to hot. Especially in the summer but in the winter too. I grew up a wood stove girl I can't break it. But it is really warm and there is no "cool space" for storing.
2. There are always bottles that don't get used. For me things that were out of eye or arm range just didn't place my hand on as much. So the bottom rack? Never changed. This got bad esp when combined with #1.
3. Somehow even when I had them I'd still go out to pick up a special bottle when making a special meal.

So I fought with myself and finally decided I don't store wine at all. I do store other booze. Lots of it. But not wine.

This blows on Sundays (stupid blue laws) but all the rest of the time it works better. And I don't have any more "perfect special bottles" that turned to bad vinegar. :(

That said an free standing wine rack (got mine at goodwill for like $7) makes a fantastic mitten/hat/headband/gator storage system!

Yeah how do we know what the rent/mortgage is cause that feels really crucial.

And I was a little confused about the getting around vs travel. Cause Travel says it includes mass transit and getting around doesn't but hey not all of us own cars. (Yes really.) But it does make me feel better about my decision to dump my car :)