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I've had two different Porsches, a Cayman S and a Macan. Neither gave me a day of trouble. You just have to do all the maintenance, which is obviously expensive.

Catch-22 was hard for me simply because it was too dark to handle at the point in life when I tried to read it, although it is quite funny in places. It isn't 'hard to read' though…

Schindler's List is a fantastic film, but it's also the kind of film most people only want to watch once. That might explain it.

There were two (hardware) additives synths, both from Kawai - the K5 and the K5000 series. I have the K5000S, and it is relatively difficult to program. It sounds like nothing else…

Many Coldfusion developers use it, can't imagine many others do but perhaps I'm wrong.

I tried this out earlier today, and it's great but one thing confused me a little - your system seems to choose a home price for me based on income and savings. In the real estate …

This is really impressive for three months, and the little charts on her skills page are funny!

Hi there! I also live in St. Louis (moved here about a year ago after six years in SF), and I'm quite fond of thinking. Shoot me an email if you want to meet up sometime, if nothin…

Watch out though. Lots of people lie about being eagle scouts, and you can't verify it without having their troop # and contacting BSA headquarters.

Hey, congratulations. I'm also in St. Louis so I joined your meetup group.

Another interesting thing to do is play back image data as audio. I used to use this for wild sound effects in tracks I was making about 15 years ago. Never did get to the point wh…

IANAL, but at first glance it would be 5 years federal, 6 years for Washington state. In practice they probably wouldn't let him into the US.

I don't know if this is still the case, but Catholics were the single largest religious group at the University of Chicago when I was there in the late 90's.

The yellow pages can still be useful in some situations, although like you I mostly use them to start the BBQ. I'm playing devil's advocate here... - You're in a metro area with lo…

Very good point. I was in much the same boat as the OP. There is a lot of respect out there for people who've worked their way through school. Be careful not to emphasize it too mu…

Out of curiosity, how many HNers write on Wikipedia? I do it every so once in awhile, but only only on a few topics I'm intimately familiar with, or to fix obvious vandalism.

Yeah, I was also quite skeptical of that part - he was somehow able to track down a parachute, a perfect replica of the jewels, and an outlaw pilot all in the space of 24 hours? Al…

I Am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter

Having known Jessica for several years - she is the real deal, and she can handle the pressure. Some people are just made to do this kind of thing.