Shed a tear for my financial portfolio

The $500 cable is BACK!!

It's worth $10, but it costs $500. Amazon.com has finally brought back the listing with little fanfare and a big twist: The price has now been reduced to $428.68, and Amazon proudly states that this price is a 14% discount.

Thank God it's back, because I was getting review withdrawals. This commentary gem is my new favorite.

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

I don't remember this being in the product description, June 27, 2008

By	Lee Bailiff "merc" (Fort Worth, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This cable does allow for incredible sound. However, I believe a possible side-effect from the use of this cable has not been noted by the manufacturers. Upon playing Prince's "Kiss" my speakers ... how should I put this? ... Well, I think they ... climaxed.

That's not the end of it. Oh, no. My stereo system is now sentient. And horny. Not one of my other appliances has warranty coverage for ... well ... the kind of 'damage' they are currently receiving.

I'd just unplug the darn thing, but it's developed an ability to arc pure energy when it feels threatened. It took two scorched electricians to figure that out. And, yes, I've already tried flipping the breaker switch. Doesn't work. The power won't go out. I don't understand how the hell it pulled that off.

Please, if anyone has any tips or advice, I'm getting desperate. My living room is some kind of sick, mechanical sex den and it's really freaking me out.

The New Windows

Microsoft has already announced its new OS to succeed Vista in the next 12-24 months: Windows Vienna.

95 ran for 3 years
98 ran for 3 years
2000 / XP ran for 7 years
Me ran for 1 year, FAIL
Vista will run for 18 months? FAIL.

Ethics Textbook

I wrote a few choice words about this failure.

There's a fine line between a declaration of geekdom and self-deprecating humor. I am that line.

True compatability

In the future, I'd like to see Windows programs running side by side Mac programs.

Apple's big switch to Intel chipsets was monumental. It suddenly became possible to run Windows and Mac OS simultaneously on the same Apple machine. However, something's missing: You still have to be in the Windows environment to use Windows programs.

I'd like to see icons for Windows apps on the Mac desktop, where you can just double click them, and they launch without the need to display a separate GUI, and still behave like Windows programs. I know it's possible; Apple already did this with "Classic," its solution for running earlier Mac programs in the OS X environment. It's got "X11" for running xfree86 / UNIX-based programs, and it's got "Rosetta" for running PPC applications on Intel machines. A Windows solution like this really shouldn't be a stretch.

It would be so groovy.

What happened on the day you were born?

Find out! It's called "Kakorama," and it will tell you some fun crap. For instance, I share a birthday with Michael Faraday, the English scientist famous for the Faraday Cage, and also, a probable ancestor of one of my favorite characters on Lost. (Not to mention, Oceanic 815 crashed onto the Island on my birthday)

http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Daniel_Faraday

But I digress. Also noteworthy was that the UK's top song on my birthday was "I just called to say I love you," by Stevie Wonder. Fricking Huey Lewis was on the cover of Rolling Stone. A dozen eggs cost $1.01 (but I don't know if this website considered inflation).

You'll probably have some fun things about you on there too.