I say good riddance to cursive.

Then again I am a bit jaded since not only was I forced to write in cursive but I was also forced to write right handed.

I remember enrolling my oldest son in a Catholic school and when I put down my signature I was told that they needed a real signature. I looked the woman in the eye and said that is as real as my signature gets and its good enough for the state. I should have taken my son out of the school right there and then, sadly I made him suffer through two years of that crap.

Malware vs Virus is kind of an issue of semantics (or is it Symantec(s)LOL). Come on its an attack on your OS and it was only a matter of time before some came after the Mac OS.

See the following truths

1> Yes, the Mac OS has been attacked before

2> Microsoft's OS has been and is attacked much more frequently.

3> Any OS is vulnerable

4> People who unleash malicious software are either douche bags or deliberate criminals.

5> Don't put it past a corporation to create a threat so that they can profit.

6> Your OS does not define you as a person, get over it.

Here in Northwest Ohio we have a urologist named Richard Tapper.

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100% on the first try and dang proud of it.

-sipping my vodka martini-

Poster 32 has it exactly right, you need a chimney starter and lump charcoal. With a chimney starter you're coals are ready in under 15 minutes.

Sure it takes a bit more skill to maintain the desired temp but that's the fun and well.... skill of it. Grilling and BBQing is really easy once you do get the hang of it.

As for the time issue, BBQing is a long process if its done right. Grilling is fast, BBQ is slow because its all about smoking the food, which is low heat. If you cook your ribs like you cook a steak you don't know what you are missing. A slab of ribs should take no less than 4 hours to cook, try it you'll never do it any other way again. Also try to smoke other things, once I learned to smoke a turkey breast on my grill I put my deep fryer away for good. Now my smoked turkey is thanksgiving day staple and I live in NW Ohio so its cold.

As for grilling and the whole marinade issue. Sure marinades can make something taste good but if you cook it right it tastes good without the marinade. Someone upstream mentioned putting coals on one side of the grill and that's spot on. Put the majority of the coals on one side, a few on the other and leave a space with no coals.

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No facts about Star Wars are accurate without mentioning Dune. Lucas can deny all he wants but he ripped Frank Herbert off pure and simple. To make matters worse he dumbed the whole thing down.

-shaking my fist in George Lucas' general direction-
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My grandfather was a marine aircraft mechanic in the closing days of WWI. They would fly in the planes so they could work on them in flight.

The best part of his tales where what they did in their down time. They were stationed in Cuba and at night would head up with a couple bottles of rum. Once they were in flight the pilot would put the plane into a slight bank and tie the control stick in place with rope. Then the pilot and mechanic would climb out on the wing, sit and drink rum while doing lazy circles over the ocean.

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