Does anyone have any experience with Buy.com? We're looking to upgrade our digital camera to a shiny new 12.2 megapixel, 24mm wide angle model in anticipation of our Seattle trip, and they have the model we want (which seems to be very rare at the moment) at a price significantly lower than the other retailers carrying the camera. I'd like to ( Read more... )

Thanks to the generosity of my darling uisinger, it sounds like I'll soon be able to purchase a new computer in the next month or so. I've been eyeballing different options for a while now, but I thought I'd take an informal poll of the ol' flist and see what others have been using recently ( Read more... )

As a follow-up to my previous post, I'm looking into applying for military veteran plates here in Wisconsin. Sadly, my beautiful Minnesota VFW plates will be replaced by these ugly things. Since Wisconsin doesn't have VFW plates, I either have to get an Iraq War Veteran plate or a Marine Corps veteran plate.

So, I don't know what to do, and that's ( Read more... )

uisinger and I are planning on having a quiet night in tonight after a little grocery shopping gets done. Both of us enjoy noir (or noir nouveau) mystery/thriller films, so I'm looking for a few recommendations to keep in mind when we head over to Blockbuster tonight. Some films in the genre we've enjoyed recently, just to give you an idea: Le Cercle ( Read more... )

I'm anticipating a reply in the affirmative from my editor regarding a re-write of the biographical stub that accompanies my byline in the paper. Here's the current one:

Winona native Wyl Schuth serves with Second Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment aboard Camp Pendleton, CA. An Iraq war veteran and graduate of the Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Program, ( Read more... )

Spring is apparently here in the Midwest. I have seen fully 10% of the people on campus wearing 1) shorts, 2) flip-flops, or 3) both today, even though there are slushy puddles in places and mud like you wouldn't believe where the snow has been on the grass ( Read more... )

If I'm constantly craving oranges (juice or fruit, doesn't matter), what does this mean? Am I getting teh scurvy?

I've been considering picking up President Carter's latest book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Jimmy Carter has drawn some pretty heavy criticism since it hit shelves last month, and with the resignation of fourteen members of The Carter Center's advisory board, the book seems that much more important, both because of Carter's well-known ( Read more... )

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After a four mile walk to and from Kinko's I have discovered that I need a new pair of black shoes. The kicks I currently own are rapidly nearing the end of their useful life, to the point that my ankles are very angry with me. I guess I'll be switching back to my black combat boots until I can afford a replacement ( Read more... )