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Doesn't necessarily have to be a weber, but any charcoal grill is a must. Call me a purist, a nut, biased, or whatever you want. If you want to convenience of cooking on gas, cook in the damn house. The charcoal, learning the proper amount, how to place it/where to place it, waiting for it to get ready is all a part of the pure experience. And after you learn how much (and this takes time), you'll be able to cook on consistent heat just fine, don't let the gas heads fool you on this. Also, you can get charcoal that's ready in under 6 minutes if you are in a hurry.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 01:17 AM) I have a Zune HD. I love that thing, and so do all my friends who own iPods. The Zune HD is meh, my friend has one. It's nothing more than a glorified MP3 player now, just like the iPOD Touch. I don't see the point in these devices anymore...it should also be a phone, mobile internet communicator, etc. I'm not one that sees the point in carrying around a device for every little thing when 1 android or 1 iphone can do all of it plus more.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 08:28 AM) Vests have been getting better and better at stopping high caliber rounds over the past decade as better fibers have become available. I wouldn't be surprised if we've never even heard of the kind of vest the President wears. That could be true. Probably alien tech.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 08:25 AM) You are wrong. In recent years, the President always wears a vest for the first pitch. He might be, but it seems like a silly precaution. The rest of him is unprotected, and vests don't stop much these days.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 08:24 AM) That's Derrick Rose. I know ZERO about basketball...ever since the Jordan era ended, the NBA ended. But...oh lord. These types of people should know better than to do that kind of thing these days. From what I know of Rose, he was probably messing around, but still...poor taste.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 07:50 AM) You guys do realize that the reason why the President is wearing a jacket at all is to cover up the Kevlar vest, right? Especially for this guy, who's somewhat skinny. Eh, I really doubt he was. The only thing a kevlar vest is going to stop is a smaller handgun. A rifle will go through kevlar like butter, so will a lot of larger caliber guns that the type of person (asshat nutbar) willing to assassinate someone in public would probably use.

QUOTE (hammerhead johnson @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 12:10 AM) I could have used a million different terms to describe the people that booed Obama, and I'm sure that you'd have taken every one of 'em literally. You have only ever called someone a p**** when they literally lacked courage? It's not that black and white in real life, dude. The stuff that you choose to take issue with is hilarious, though. What's with the avatar tossing up gang signs, anyway? Dumbass in the front rockin the forks. Anyway, if people want to boo Obama, they can...that flag with the stars and stripes we fly says so. While I do think Obama is a legit transplant Sox fan (he admitted such, as he was an Oakland fan in Hawaii), I also think people can boo him if they want, for any reason they want, including disagreeing with his politics. While I'm amongst those that disagree with *a lot* of his left leaning politics, I also wouldn't boo the man. I believe he's still to be respected as any president should be, whether you agree with him or not. The majority elected him, so he gets his due respect until his term ends.

If you missed it, I called PK's HR on the chatcrew I r00l.

I'm also not sold on the Twins...new stadium, no longer going to have all the free wins that came along with their crap dome...and I don't care if they retooled for the new stadium, they still won't be getting the crapload of free wins that came for them at the dome.

Who is this guy we're talking about?

I'll add to this.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 2, 2010 -> 08:22 AM) If the Bush Administration can get away with the "Healthy Forests Act", the "Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005", the Patriot Act...then although you're wrong, even if you had been right, I wouldn't care. It's a pithy name. For the last time, f*** the Bush administration and the stupid s*** they got away with, too. Your health care costs are going up as they always have. I guarantee it.

Whoever changed the topic caption to the "affordable care act" shows how much they don't know about what just went down. I'll clue you in, from the inside. Prices aren't going down.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 30, 2010 -> 12:39 PM) Who is the odds on favorite to be the Soxtalk whipping boy this year? Linebrink looks like he has a big early lead Pods is gone, it's Linebrink #1 and Pierre #2 now.

Linebrink is going to end up having a good year for God knows what reason.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Mar 28, 2010 -> 04:56 PM) So going to Minny with my family from May 10-14 and am looking for what to do there besides the two Sox games. Obviously got Mall of America, but what else? I know there's lots, but what's the best? Thanks! Fishing. ;D

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 28, 2010 -> 04:30 PM) I think I understand what you're saying, ss2k5. A bank takes out X dollars from the fed at Y interest rate and loans it to students at Z interest rate, where Z is less than Y. Right? That's not the whole picture he's trying to describe, however.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 27, 2010 -> 01:49 PM) Too bad we can't unleash the same forces on Moveon.org that we supposedly did against Acorn... http://www.examiner.com/x-5919-Norfolk-Cri...off-mans-finger I'm sure garbage like this goes on with both sides...people like this bring a bad name to whatever cause they're supposedly trying to support.

QUOTE (BobDylan @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 07:09 PM) Anyone who has ever played a video game online knows trash talk. Play Modern Warfare 2 for five minutes and you have 10 year old kids calling you named you've never heard of. I'll tell you a story. I played Killzone 2 for awhile. It has proximity chat. (For anyone that doesn't know, that means the enemy team can hear you talking if you are close enough to them.) Me and a guy I used to play with used to yell a word that rhymes with mock and starts with a c every time we got a kill. I was living in an apartment complex and did this for about two weeks. I stopped after two weeks because one of my neighbors knocked on my door in the middle of the game and said, "Can you please stop yelling cock?" You're not terribly far ahead of me in gaming years. I started on Nintendo. I didn't start PC gaming until a few years ago because I'm a poor ass mo'fo and stayed on the console for years and years. My recent PC is my baby because I built it myself, and it was goddamn cheap to do, and it plays everything and does everything everyone here is complaining PC's struggle with like a champ - like video streaming. Also, I tried to play WoW twice. I got around level 50 twice, but was just painfully bored with grinding. I hate grinding and I don't play MMO's because it's all about the grind. When I play an RPG, I prefer to explore. But not explore western RPG style because they hardly reward you for it. Japanese RPGs are my favorite, and f*** Square Enix for making Final Fantasy 13 so linear. I don't own an xbox, but I'm trying to save a bit of cash to get one. I do 90% of my gaming on the PS3. But in a few months, I might not be a gamer anymore. I'm enlisted in the Air-Force and was supposed to go months ago, but they allowed me to push the date back so I could get my #1 job choice. Yea, that's the biggest problem with WoW, the game doesn't even begin until you're at max level -- that's where all the fun is. Some people find leveling fun, and it can be for a while, especially if you are doing it with friends -- but to do so it solo is a grind, and it gets boring. The truly fun stuff is all at level 80 now.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 06:58 PM) Get back to talking about my iPad please. Can I has? I see they added like 30,000 free books from that project (some good titles, too, some nice classics), which is a pretty nice thing for a starter library for some books people might otherwise not even bother to read these days. I like what I see of the iPAD, my issue with it isn't price, it's the lack if video on the front and back (mostly front) for video conferencing. I think that should have been a requirement and it's the reason I'm not getting one. I was quite disappointed in that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 06:33 PM) It will get held up, treaties always do. Yea. Like I have pending treaties with 90% of this website...but they never seem to go through. Mostly because they're all haters and against me.

QUOTE (BobDylan @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 06:45 PM) I'm only doing this because I'm having fun doing it. I didn't think I went too far, or, at least, I didn't list my home address and challenge you to a fight and call you a fatass. But I'll take the gloves off with ya, and if you ever want to get 'pwnd' by a young'n online, let me know when and where. You didn't get *too* personal for me, but I guess we both kinda went too far for what they like around here. I'm already on their watch list, so I didn't need to keep this going in a personal direction...and when the shots are going back and fourth, I can't help myself...I kinda have to respond. Years of s*** talking on Xboxlive and WoW will do that to ya. There is no stopping once it starts. But since I realized what you were talking about via me saying the steam catalog (when I didn't quite mean that), it was time to stop returning personal fire. And I'm not a fatass. Ur a fatass. Unless you play WoW, I can't challenge you at least not yet -- I haven't played an xbox game since fable 2 last year...things been collecting dust since. Edit, and I'm not THAT old. I was in the single digits in the 80's...at least for part of it.

Also, I never meant to imply the mac catalog of games would catch up to the windows catalog -- that's not happening for the foreseeable future, probably not ever. However, my point was more games are coming out for the mac now than ever before. Game developers ARE beginning to take the mac more seriously and creating/porting to the mac HAS become so much easier they're actually doing it now. In years past this was simply an impossibility for many reasons, most of which no longer apply. I never intended to imply otherwise. I'm not an idiot when it comes to the world of computers.