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By: Sudie Sarchett

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By: Georgie Alalem

Georgie Alalem — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:13:43 +0000

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By: Kermit

Kermit — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:45:16 +0000

Cali,

Even better than canned bacon, Rose’s Pork Brains with milk gravy. http://foellpacking.net/ mmm and canned bulk sausage.

love the brief as always and you are looking beautiful as always

By: steamy kitchen

steamy kitchen — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:46:11 +0000

Hey! I just found you – love your show! coming back to view more tomorrow when I’ve got more time.

By: matt h

matt h — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:36:19 +0000

I also use open pandora. Installed the pandora desktop, but think I’ll keep using open pandora :-)

By: S K

S K — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:27:43 +0000

Has plurk.com paid you to push their site?

By: Dave M.

Dave M. — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:26:52 +0000

I’m afraid I’m going to have to call bulls**t on the PS3/HDTV using more power than a refrigerator over the course of a year!

I’ve heard junk like this before and I did some research. The claim before was that even an HDTV left in stand-by mode takes more energy than a fridge.

Well, I checked out my HDTV and found that in stand-by mode, my TV takes 274 watts when on and 5 watts when in standby mode. I calculated that I would have to leave my TV in standby mode for ~80+ hours for every hour it was on to generate the same amount of power usage. No where near the usage of a fridge.

The only way a PS3 or HDTV could use nearly the same amount of power as a fridge is if they were left on all the time. I don’t know about you, but I never leave my TV on all the time and I rarely leave my Wii on. (Don’t have a PS3)

I even put my computer to sleep these days, unless I’m downloading something or need to leave it on for some other reason.

Sorry, Cali, but I think you should have done a few minutes of research before reporting it. Even the story you liked to is suspect. They claim that “videogame consoles and plasma flat-screen TVs are major electricity guzzlers, even when left on stand-by.”, yet they never mention anything about standby mode again after that outrageous claim.

The guys over at Revision3 did a story about this subject a while back in episode 17 of Systm (http://revision3.com/systm/energy/). Check it out, I think you will see just how BS this “study” really is.

By: Sean Cavendish

Sean Cavendish — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:53:35 +0000

Cali,

I don’t believe it! The free coffee with any purchase was my suggestion the minute Starbucks put up their on-line suggestion box (the one Natali D.C. didn’t care for, for whatever reason). For one, I am psyched, as 2 hours is far more than I ever spend in a Starbucks anyway. Guess I’m a chugger — not a sipper.

Feeling like some canned bacon. Bye!
-Sean

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:26:24 +0000

Well, if the world ended and among the MREs was canned bacon…I think it would be great. But, as long as I can get bacon through other means….

Plus its kind of a lot of bacon….don’t think I could eat that much in one sitting. Though in the days before high cholesterol, high blood pressure and expanding waistlines…I had been known to make whole packages of bacon disappear….

By: Robert Bigelow

Robert Bigelow — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:45:55 +0000

This week’s “Clueless Complementariness” award goes to Starbuck’s for offering two hours “free” complimentary Internet access when other coffee houses that charge far less than five dollars for a cup of coffee offer unlimited access. ^-^~

By: Cali

Cali — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:38:31 +0000

No, I haven’t tried VSide yet. Don’t give me another one to distract me! lol!

By: AJ

AJ — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:29:46 +0000

Hey Cali,
Smallworlds is as if Secondlife offered the option to use Nintendo Mii as charicters- lol

Out of curiosity- Have you tried vside?
http://www.vside.com

By: thomas_k

thomas_k — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:51:48 +0000

Thanks for bringing me back from hard to soft drugs (Second Life -> Small Worlds)! ;)

By: Michael Schirmer

Michael Schirmer — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:34:01 +0000

Neil…genius.

Remote Control finder and canned bacon….not so much.

By: Trey

Trey — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:32:56 +0000

Has anyone else heard of open pandora. I’ve been using this for listening to pandora from my desktop for over a year now.

By: Ogrim

Ogrim — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:30:17 +0000

I don’t think many people let their PS3s run continuosly through the year, as fridges do. Therefore I think this study is presented very tabloid-like, while there is realy no shocking news here. You can’t realy compare electronic device that you use so diffrently :)

Also, whats up with Neal? Common, give us the WiiFit update! ;D

oh btw, the remote controll finder should have a wall mounted panel of some sort. I would like to just be able to walk over to a panel and press the right button for the thing I’m searching for. I always forget where I put things, and I live in a 9 square meter room!! D: Crazy

By: Dave Peterson

Dave Peterson — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:40:48 +0000

Canned bacon… Yeah, I’m thinking that’s a well-advised pass.

(And can we already say that Plurk’s most significant contribution to the world is turning out to be linguistic? But now I have to teach all these new variations to my spell checker.)

By: fez

fez — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:53:01 +0000

surely you do look a little bit different with the glasses.looks good tho :).geekon!