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    Boston.. a transportation question

    we're going to be in boston for a convention (at the convention center, summer street) and we're going to be sleeping in quincy. the MBTA website says that's a 1 hour trip, give or take 4 minutes depending on route chosen. my husband is thinking it must be faster to drive it and is...
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    brakes

    I need to take my car tomorrow to get new brake.. pads. shoes. the part that wears out and makes a scraping sound to tell you to go get it fixed. is that an expensive thing? I'm trying to decide if I need to transfer money before I go. I know you can't tell me exactly what it's going to...
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    hunting cool puzzles

    my daughter's boyfriend's parents are both math professors and his dad loves puzzles.. 3 dimensional things you have to put together correctly or get apart.. things you have to figure out. because he loves them, he has many of them but it's the best (affordable) gift to give him if you can...
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    can someone help me understand cable telephone?

    it says I can use my regular existing phones.. but I have 3 regular existing phones in different rooms, and it only says it's going to give me one gizmo to plug my phone into.. and I'm betting that gizmo isn't going to just plug into my kitchen, which is where the most important phone...
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    digital camera recommendations.. around 200 bucks?

    It's for my parents for their 80th birthdays.. they're point and shoot kind of people, don't need fancy, but do need the best display I can find in my price range.. anno
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    pets: People names, or Non-people names?

    the other day karenmarie said she preferred people names for cats, I think it was cats.. I prefer not-people names.. the cats I've had that I got to name were squirrel (1976-1995), possum (1995-2005), persimmon (1995-) (they were twins) and harpo (2005-). harpo is sorta a people name but...
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    PSA: Orange Vodka

    does not mix with cream soda in the idyllic manner I had imagined. (it probably doesn't help that this particular cream soda is blue. this concoction just LOOKS like it oughta taste bad..) (and it does). but.. it sure sounded like a good idea.. just.. figured you should know. :)...
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    renter's insurance..

    the kids stuff has been covered under our homeowners insurance in the dorms up til now and my son (1st year) is still, but this year my daughter (4th year) is over 21 and living (or will be, if it ever becomes habitable.. tomorrow, maybe.. ) in an apartment off campus with her boyfriend.. 22 and...
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    here I am again with webhosting questions

    and the info I got last month indicated that dreamhost was a good deal but it doesn't seem to be a good deal now. he is looking at a small orange he's payin' for this one himself and he has 700 bucks pocket money to last him til february (unemployed freshman) so I'd like to see him get the...
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    visiting NYC (updated)

    *update* we came and went. Boy, NYC is HOT in august.. wow. In traditional ATOT fashion, I asked for advice and then pretty much ignored it all.. not intentionally, thank you all for it, I've got it saved and ready to print for my next trip.. unfortunately, at 4:30 monday morning my brain...
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    starbucks liqueur..

    I know there's a website for this stuff with recipes because I've been there. but for the life of me, I cannot find it tonight. can you?
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    this "new" AIM worm..

    this is probably the wrong forum but I did a search on worm to find the right forum and by far the most often referenced one was this one. :P my nephew (the one who's dad died 2 weeks ago) has got this worm.. and he's more or less computer stupid and he lives 2 states away. So.. he asked...
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    hosting.. some questions..

    I have a 25mb .wmv file I need to find a place to put, so I can link to it from my sister's xanga.. so people can see it. my brother in law died wednesday, and this is the slide show my nephew put together for his memorial service. they've been maintaining a xanga about his battle with...
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    poll: if you were buying a digital camera today

    (I have mastered the poll :) ) graduation present. narrowed down to these two.
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    fish for a bbq

    is there some kind of fish that's the economical equivilent of ground sirloin, that you can toss on the grill sorta like a hamburger, that would make a tasty sandwich (like a hamburger)? I could go with veggie burgers but it bothers me that they come out of the box looking grilled already...
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    bank of america and newegg

    anyone else have trouble with bank of america visa and newegg? I've spent nearly the whole day trying to buy a scanner, and I'm about to go mad from the frustration! newegg sends the charge through, it fails, bank of america freezes my account, I call them, get referred instantly...
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    PSA: Woah! is not a word.

    I think that's really all I wanted to say.
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    where do you really skinny guys buy pants?

    my son grew.. well.. stretched is more accurate, so all his pants are either falling off or too short. I need 27 or 28x32 teenager pants (he's almost 18).. normal jeans and/or cords, and I'm not havin' any luck finding such a thing..
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    good prices for flea medicines

    I bought some flea stuff (advantage) because of this thread the other year, and it was good service and good price (I used petshed) and I needed more.. actually, this time I need revolution, new kitty has ear mite issues.. so I went and dug it up. :) flea season is soon going to be upon us...
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    does anyone know what is a normal.. average.. blood count for a man?

    my brother in law had a stem cell transplant the other week, and to prepare for that they basically killed his immune system.. 2x daily total body radiation for 5 days then some killer chemo.. my sister has been posting his blood numbers on the xanga they're using to keep from having to spend...
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    recording radio (webstream) with programmed start time?

    my daughter does a weekly radio show on the college station and I listen to it religiously but I'm not going to be able to be near a radio or a computer during the show tomorrow (ironically, because I will be on campus doing a new/prospective student thing with my son).. I figured out the...
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    atari paddle tv game 3.99

    atari paddle game on sale in the apartment section at urban outfitters.. plugs into the tv, says it plays 13 paddle games.. super breakout, warlords.. etc. a handful of other really marked down stuff.. I got a couple of these hanging organizer things for the kids going off to college in...
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    hot deals and coupon codes

    I got an email today.. that has a coupon code for 10 off 20 purchase (or more), and it specifically says I can share it with anyone who's interested.. but the hot deals forum rules say I can post a link to such a coupon, but not such a code. I would like to share this code, but I do not...
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    what do you want your aunt to give you for christmas?

    assume for this exercise that you're male, in the 20-23 range. if that range is too broad, assume you're two males.. one 20, sophomore in college.. one 23 (well.. 23 soon, I need two gifts for him), out of college a year living at home working full time but hoping for grad school far away...
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    recommend me a good GBA game

    I have 3 target audiences, so three would be perfect. audience #1 is my brother in law.. (middleaged male) he has a bad cancer and has to spend a lot of time just sitting around from his treatments. I gave him a GBA for his birthday and now I need to give him some new games for christmas...
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    can someone explain this amazon share the love thing?

    it doesn't look like it should be difficult to understand. I have "love" shared with me.. I have email telling me so, I go and look and there's a great lot of stuff (I want to pre-order the LOTR extended stuffs for my husband because quite frankly, I will go absolutely batty if I have to sit...
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    webcast of debate?

    my son's girlfriend is looking for such a thing. anno
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    font identification assistance requested. :)

    my son.. for reasons known only to him.. is on a quest to find the font used in the ads related to this website.. specifically the one used for the "my life" directly under the date at www.freevibe.com any assistance in identifying said font would be appreciated. :) and.. if no relevant...
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    three legged cats

    one of my cats was diagnosed with bone cancer in his right front leg yesterday.. :( but the more I read the more hopeful I become, apparantly this is not such a gloomy thing for cats as it is for dogs (much less likely to metastasize). they did a chest xray too and his lungs are clear...
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    I'm fixin' to open an account at bigzoo

    obviously I can only use one.. please post first so as to prevent a flood, and then pm me your referral number. anno
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    international (italian) mail-order?

    My daughter is in italy.. she'll be there another 4 weeks, at the address I can send mail to for 3 and I'd like to send her a surprise. I was thinking flowers but I can't find any flowers that come in a vase! and.. she didn't pack a vase. So.. then I thought.. a stuffed animal. but flowers...
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    logo design contest!

    my daughter needs a logo for her radio show.. she wants to sell merchandise through cafe press.. but mostly she wants to offer a tshirt prize for her current show contest, and she needs a logo first. SO.. if you submit the winning logo, we will award you with a t-shirt too. I know.. it's not...
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    please help me install my new hard drive

    ok.. so I have this new hard drive (wd 120gb) and I want to put it in my computer (2yo dell something or other) which already has a 40gb wd harddrive in it. and I don't have the first clue what I'm doing. :) I don't even know what I want to do, actually. I think I want to make this new one...
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    a website that takes forever to load

    there was a thread some months back about... crazy websites, maybe.. if I could remember I could probably find my way back with the search but I can't and.. I can't.. it was some guy, some.. homeless guy maybe.. and it was just MILES of stuff on each page.. insane stuff... that'd be my vote...
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    cellphone games?

    and am willing to pay for it. :) any good ones? I'm leaning towards garfield pinball.. I just can't quite imagine how you would play pinball on a phone.. so then I'm leaning towards bejewelled, I love that game.. but.. I can't quite imagine how you would play that, on a phone.. what's a...
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    GBA SP platinum 89.95 at CC (online)

    if you need an SP this week.. I needed one for a gift. was going for onyx, but platinum is on sale for some mysterious reason.. so.. that's what I got. I figure if you can't live with platinum, probably wouldn't be too hard to exchange it, somewhere.. heh.. I don't know if it's a hot deal or...
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    my new digicam came today..

    (minolta s414) I took a picture of one of my cats.. the other one looks pretty much the same only fatter.. they're twins! possum so.. there's the picture.. it's larger than life! very odd. so.. what'd I do wrong? (haven't read the instructions yet.. figured I'd approach this particular...
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    digicam- canon a70 or minolta s414?

    minolta costs 38.00 more (circuit city online.. 50.00 more best buy, maybe they'd price match?), 1 more megapixel, 1 more x zoom (1 less x digital zoom).. a little heavier, a smidge bigger, a better customer satisfaction rating at circuit city.. otherwise they seem pretty comparable, far as I...
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    I need a song..

    a kind of obscure song (freedom, from the musical "shenandoah".. so my daughter can fulfill a request on her radio show tomorrow). is there a place where I can pay my 99 cents and download an MP3 I can burn to a cd today? don't want a wma thing..
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    vote for cocky! ATOT effect would be.. most appreciated..

    shameless beg.. and.. if you care about any of the other choices, then by all means vote for them but.. if you don't care one way or another, it's easy... please.. vote for cocky!! thank you for your time..