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can you guess where these are from?

and... because I'm on the mailing list, I was made aware of this

Kurt Vonnegut is writing for In These Times and has produced this article of which the following is excerpted

This is the information revolution. We have taken it very badly so far. Information seems to be getting in the way all the time. Human beings have had to guess about almost everything for the past million years or so. Our most enthralling and sometimes terrifying guessers are the leading characters in our history books. I will name two of them: Aristotle and Hitler. One good guesser and one bad one.

he's also got a new book A Man Without A Country that looks quite tantalising.

brr... cccold!

anyway, I hate to say this, but, dear Matty, I think I'm going to take a rain check on your fantabulous night of stand-up at the Comic Strip WEM (bourbon street) 8pm tonight and spend my night knitting christmas presents and taking care of my other mundane affairs that otherwise are languishing... isn't that just about the lamest excuse ever? i'm so sorry.

however, I hope the reminder plug helps!

OFFICE MEMO: hey Tony, please check your hipstertwister email. it's a business matter. thanks.

wtf am i now? Ask Jeeves?!? shit. and why are all my questions involving Eli somehow haha.

yup. it's true. it's been that way for the last few weeks now actually. even during that Henry party (a few days before that was the unofficial Velvet launch) it's not bad, they openned up some new seating space, such as right next to the stage where they previously just put crates and shit. it's not really a big difference, but it's better. the less Shawn Horcoff on the walls, the better.

I think today I heard that the Victory Lounge is now "the Velvet Underground"...? wtf? Can anyone verify this, or did I make that up?

Check it:



For media encoding and filtering, the P4 640 clearly outperforms not only the Athlon 64 3800+ but unexpectedly even the 4000+!!! I think for what I'm using this computer for, it's gonna be fuckin SWEET.

To your guys' credit though, the Athlon 64s blow the P4s out of the water when it comes to 3D gaming... but I honestly don't even own a single current PC game, unless minesweeper and NES emulators count. If I did though, I wouldn't hesitate for even a second to buy an AMD instead.

no Eli and Laura no longer go out, but they still long board together which is pretty sweet.
they were going out for like 2 years that's when i first met them.

Yeah, AD I was looking at those Athlons, but the only ones I found that looked good were the 3700+ models (like the one that you posted) and I've read from a few sources to avoid them at all costs. For example:

"There's no clear-cut price/performance leader, unless you simply believe that the lowest-cost CPU will offer the most bang for the buck. We were impressed with how the Athlon 64 3800+ placed, generally offering a slightly better position on the overall curve than most other CPUs. On the other hand, the Athlon 64 3700+, one notch below the 3700+ in price, looks to be the odd duck, and we'd recommend you avoid this one if possible." - see article here

Also, I checked a lot of benchmark tests for stuff that I will likely use the computer for, and I found that Intel's Pentium 4 640 outperformed all of the AMD Athlon 64s... the only exception being the 3800+ model, which was neck-and-neck. Plus, for the heavy multi-tasking that will happen with studio recording, the hyperthreading will be SUPER handy.

So in summary, I think I got a steal of a deal.