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Favorite meal huh? Well i'd have to go with fried chicken cutlets with spaghetti. My mom makes the best angel hair pasta, with amazing sauce, and fried chicken. Simple breaded cutlets fried in oil and added with spaghetti. That is one of my favorite meals just because of the taste.Also gotta go with barbecued chicken, and even maybe an obscure reference - Captain Crunch breaded chicken. I got it once at Planet Hollywood when I was a child. Chicken fingers that (instead of bread crumbs) were covered in crushed up Cap'n Crunch. It was amazing. Definitely worth trying to find.

The only reason I don't enjoy them winning is because one of my house-mates is a HUMONGOUS fan. Like ridiculously big. He's a huge boston fan and we live in New York. He drives everyone nuts with his sports obsession but anyway, that's besides the point. I"m not a huge baseball fan. I don't care much for it. That's just me. It's nice to see them break the curse in '03, but I could care less who the champs are. If I had to choose I woulda liked to seen the Mets make it.....but that turned sour. So congrats to the Sox.....tho I don't really care

Kurt Vonnegut So i'm reading Kurt Vonnegut's book, "Timequake" and I just really wanted to know what all of you thought about the weird author? Have any of you read his novels? They really intrigue me because of his critique of society and the everyday things we do. I look at him as an observer. Almost like George Carlin but of the written word. Anyway I really......REALLY enjoyed the book "Cat's Cradle" which says a lot about people, religion, war, government. It's all pretty wild when reading it. So the point of this thread is to discuss: 1.) Have you read any Kurt Vonnegut novels? 2.) What are your favorite Vonnegut books? (i'm looking for recommendations) 3.) Do you know of any similar authors/styles of books?

I read a lot of Stephen King's "Nightmares and Dreamscapes". Not the whole thing but a lot of the stories. I have to re-rent it from the library in order to finish up the rest of them. Originally I was interested because I saw the television show but also I was looking for something to read while I was at work. Anyway, it was really interesting. A lot of totally different types of stories being told, and not all of them horror (which I had pigeon-holed King as since I hadn't known all his work). I really enjoyed "Dolan's Cadillac" and "Chattery Teeth". "Chattery Teeth" was about this guy (Bill Hogan) that picks up a set of those novelty chomping teeth we've all seen over the years. Only these teeth are big and metal. He then leaves and picks up a hitchhiker who plans on robbing poor Bill. Stuff happens and in the end the teeth brutally murder the dangerous stranger."Popsy" was a story that was a bit too weird for me. Something about kidnapping kids and then a flying grandfather/bird type creature. Maybe I didn't get it. Anyway.......that was the last (partial) book I've read.Anyone got any Stephen King recommendations?

Thanks for the topic and info guys. This stuff has been really helpful for when I plan on buying my next computer. I just got one with a ton of memory and space, but still didn't know what a lot of the numbers mean. This will be good for when I want to get one focused on just video editing and media production. Thanks again.

Good question. I konw they've had the topic of favorite book but I didn't even begin to think about classic books. I guess you could say that my favorite classic book is to kill a mockingbird. It's just an amazing story that really stood out to me. I enjoyed it a lot and learned a ton of stuff about racism and unfairness. The characters were all playing this book out in my mind as I read. Really good book.....good movie too. I don't know if it counts but what about "Lord of the Flies"? That's a classic IMO and definitely shows a lot about society and personal behaviors. The idea of kids living alone on an island trying to make the perfect community is such an odd one.....but it's so entertaining. It definitely reflects problems in normal day societies.

Honestly.....its tough to say. Obviously everyone has a chance. There's got to be someone of the opposite sex out there for you. Some guys are ugly and they have a better chance with an uglier girl. But it's all in the eye of the beholder. Not everyone will think the same person is ugly.A lot of people will, however, agree if a person is fat. Sometimes theres a limit to the amount of pounds I like in a girl. I don't mind chunkier women......especially if they still look good. But when you start hanging out of your shirts and getting really wide.....personally I don't go for it.So yes there's a chance.......just a slim one.

Tennessee. I went down there the last three years in a row for a music festival (Bonnaroo) and it's the hottest place i've ever been. It was somewhere near Knoxville and this last summer there was a drought. The heat was too much, the sun was beating down. I got sunburn within the first few hours of being there and felt like I was going to pass out.Second would have to be Florida. Definitely hot but I wasn't forced to bake in the sun like at Tennessee

I tend to consider myself pretty lazy. Not to the point that the OP stated where I don't read what's in the thread and just post. I don't look at the title and try to fill up my credits. I always try to read what the others have to say and yea I click on the links to go to the pages. Would I be doing all of this if I didn't want to save my hosted site (which I am not even using btw.....i'm so busy).....probably not. But it can get annoying when guys say the same thing thats already been posted just because they haven't read the rest of the thread.

I Don't know about this. If it's real then it's kind of a dumb idea. What's the point? People know when they are mad or something like that. It seems like all the different lights in theh care would serve more as a distraction than an aid. I wouldn't want one of these cars.

We've been studying web 2.0 in class lately. I've actually led a discussion on the topic. Web 2.0 is all about collaboration. Working together for the common goal. It's like.....Linux. Take Linux for example. An operating system is made and freely distributed. Anybody can use it AND anybody can update/improve it. The only catch is that they share the information on how to improve it with everyone else. By working together we get a lot more done. So web 2.0 is like Facebook and Flickr.com and other sites that are built and maintained on mass collaboration.Think about youtube.com. It gives you the tools to display videos and stuff like that......but wouldn't survive without the work of the people. Without sharing of information and collaborating ideas, it wouldn't last. It's run by the people. So basically web 2.0 is hard to define.....but it's all about working together. Wikipedia is a web 2.0 site. MySpace is a web 2.0 site. Anything that is helped improved by the masses can be considered web 2.0

It's amazing how many companies are starting to venture into the online world. I knwo many corporations have websites and do business online.....but now with these web 2.0 applications we are seeing a new world open up. Microsoft Online is doing what they need to in order to keep up with the trends. I believe Google Docs was going to blow them out of the water by making it much easier to upload, transfer, work on, and display documents, spreadsheets, charts...etc. It's a smart move and Microsoft knows what they're doing.

I used to really enjoy Garfiled when I was younger. I'd read him every week. But as I got older I started to like the others better. Guys like Dilbert, and the boondocks. I'd definitely have to say my favorite nowadays are the boondocks. They are so funny and really get points across without pulling any punches. The author of that strip knows what he's talking about. I love the show they have too.So I guess i'd have to say Boondocks.

I definitely believe that there are other universes out there. IT's almost ignorant to think that the possibility isn't there. It's sometihng that people have said for quite a while but its still kinda hard to travel to alternate places (even if we find them). So yes I believe so and although I haven't heard the theory on the big bang being two universes colliding.....I like it. It seems like it could make sense, and even tho I don't know the truth.....I'd say that's kinda believable.

This is a pretty amazing concept. I haven't tried it out but find it cool that a site would give 100% of the revenue to the user. I remember reading something about Youtube contributing some revenue to the people.....but 100% is amazing. I'll be checking it out. Thanks.