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  1. Joeboo

    The Fast Food Thread

    Taco Bell Biscuit Taco is coming Taco Bell is adding a biscuit tacoT to its breakfast menu | The Kansas City Star The Kansas City Star I'm sold
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    Pregnancy Thread

    Yeah, my wife wasn't keen on black & gold as nursery colors. Damn women. But I'm definitely smarter than to pick a fight with a (at the time) pregnant woman
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    FireTV Stick

    Has this happened to anyone here? Amazon Quietly Bricked Jailbroken FireTV & Kindle Devices Last Year | Techdirt
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    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    That's how I felt about Moonrise Kingdom. It was probably my least favorite Anderson movie. Grand Budapest is probably middle of the pack.
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    Interstellar (2014)

    Watched the Blu-Ray rip of this, first re-viewing since seeing it in an IMAX theater last year. Still a great movie. Not Nolans best(I still like Inception, Prestige, and Memento better) but it's still one of the best movies of last year, and one of the best Sci-Fi movies of the last several...
  6. Joeboo

    Desktop Computers

    You should be fine using 2 sticks, or even just 1. There's virtually zero noticeable performance gain from running RAM in a dual or tri-channel setup, when using standard, everyday stuff like web browsing, gaming, or simple productivity stuff like word processors. I doubt you'll ever notice a...
  7. Joeboo

    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    As it stands now, I don't know about ANY show until a friend tells me, or I read about it online. I don't see commercials for any products whatsoever. They're either edited out if I download a show, or I fast-forward through them on my DVR. Commercials on TV are becoming less and less...
  8. Joeboo

    The Fast Food Thread

    There's a Fun House pizza 2 minutes from my house, they're definitely still around in KC, but I never cared for them much. Give me Minskys or Pizza Shoppe/Kelsos any day. KC has a pretty good variety of Good local pizza places. Since we don't really have a "type" that we are known for like...
  9. Joeboo

    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    So in the future, why do we even need channels, as they exist today, as we transition over to receiving all of our content online? Why do I need an HBO subscription when I really just want Game of Thrones? That's 12 hours a year of programming. Charge me $5 per episode and be done wroth it...
  10. Joeboo

    2015 RR March Madness Bracket Challenge

    Actually, the main reason Kansas has a title is that they faced Davidson in the Elite 8 and Steph Curry went ice cold at the end of the game and missed 7 of his last 8 shots. To get to the Final 4, they beat a 16 seed, and 8 seed, a 12 seed, and a 10 seed(Davidson) in the Elite 8. Kansas beat...
  11. Joeboo

    HDTVs

    Also though, you better believe that retail stores are adjusting the settings on 4K TVs to make them look "better" than the other TVs to the average person. They're going to crank up the brightness and various other picture settings to make the colors really pop, while the $500 1080p TVs sit...
  12. Joeboo

    2015 RR March Madness Bracket Challenge

    NCAA Basketball Tournament History: Kansas Jayhawks - ESPN *cough* 2006 0-1 Lost to Bradley(13 seed) in first round, 77-73 2005 0-1 Lost to Bucknell(14 seed) in first round, 64-63 *cough*
  13. Joeboo

    Pregnancy Thread

    And we plan on keeping the dropcam in the kids room even as he gets older, we currently have it mounted about 6 feet up on a wall in the corner(it comes with wall-mounting kit), can see the entire room + bed. Easy enough to load up the app real quick to check on him while he's playing in his...
  14. Joeboo

    Home Improvement

    Anybody ever jackhammer & remove a concrete slab? I have a roughly 3' x 3' concrete slab in my backyard that was a ramp leading up to our old shed, I dismantled and removed the old, rickety shed last fall, but the slab is still there and I think we're putting the new shed elsewhere(and it...
  15. Joeboo

    The Fast Food Thread

    In the town where I grew up, there was a Little Caesars, Long John Silvers, and Arbys in the same shopping mall/parking lot. Used to occasionally make a meal of LCs breadsticks, LJSs Hush Puppies, and Arbys Mozzarella Sticks. It was glorious. I think at the time an order of breadsticks was 99...
  16. Joeboo

    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    This is the main problem with pretty much every service. Everyone wants different channels, but NOBODY needs all of the channels. Until we get to the point that we have truly a-la-carte channel choices, nobody is going to be completely satisfied, and you're always going to have people who feel...
  17. Joeboo

    HDTVs

    As with everything else, it's all relative to the size of the screen vs how far you are sitting from it. a 55" 4k TV is still only 80PPI/DPI, most decent phones are now well over 300DPI, but you're obviously looking at them from a much closer range. So, if you're using your 55" screen as a...
  18. Joeboo

    Pregnancy Thread

    Fyi, get a dropcam for a baby monitor. It's the single best child-related item we have ever bought. We can check on the kid from any computer, phone, or tablet. And who doesn't already have their phone next to their bed, charging at night? Might as well use it for a monitor.
  19. Joeboo

    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    ESPN is WAY more expensive than any other channel..but not $15 expensive Maybe $8-$9 tops for every single ESPN channel if you add up ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNNews. And I don't know WTF 3net is. I would imagine AMC has to be rocketing up the list as well with the success of its shows...
  20. Joeboo

    2015 RR March Madness Bracket Challenge

    I'm officially rooting for Northern Iowa to come out of that East bracket now that the #1 and #2 seeds are both gone from it.
  21. Joeboo

    2015 RR March Madness Bracket Challenge

    Goddamnit Virginia, Duke is supposed to be the overrated ACC team that gets upset early. There goes another one of my Final 4 teams(had Iowa St in there too). My bracket is officially dead. Is Michigan St pulling what Uconn is known for, having a mediocre regular season and then going off...
  22. Joeboo

    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Yeah, I just meant monopoly in the loose sense of massive % of marketshare, to the point that its near impossible for smaller businesses to gain a significant foot hold, not that they would be the absolute only option in their fields of commerce. I could see a situation 20 years from now where...
  23. Joeboo

    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    It does seem pricey, but have you bought fresh herbs at the grocery story lately? Holy shit. Maybe its because I'm in the middle of the country and it all probably has to be shipped in from California or Mexico or whatever, but I bought a small bundle of basil last month for some pasta sauce I...
  24. Joeboo

    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Agreed Jilariz. As much as we all bitch about the Time Warner/Comcast cable monopolies and Verizon/AT&T phone monopolies, we might not be too far away from a Wal-Mart/Amazon retail monopoly where those two retailers are responsible for the VAST majority of goods and services bought in the US.
  25. Joeboo

    HDTVs

    I'm a big fan of the LG TVs that Costco sells. I have the 55" version of this model: http://www.costco.com/.product.10011...QqRcY0AA%3D%3D The 60" is $829, my 55" was like $799 a year ago. Honestly, I think LG is posisbly the best bang for your buck. Picture quality that is on par with...
  26. Joeboo

    Smartphones

    And 80% of people also put some huge bulky otter box case on their phone too. I've never understood people bragging that one phone is slightly thinner or that their iPhone is metal, etc. They all end up sticking huge bulky rubber cases on them so it's a moot point. I've never put a case or...
  27. Joeboo

    Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian's new CRPG in the vein of Baldur's Gate

    Yeah, both. Lower THAC0(To hit armor class zero) is better, and lower Armor class is better. Whoever designed both of those must have been an avid golfer.
  28. Joeboo

    Fraggle Rock, THE MOVIE.

    One of the best theme songs ever for any show, kids show or not
  29. Joeboo

    Random technology news & announcements

    All you really have is a log of what phone number your machine has connected to successfully and unsuccessfully, but absolutely no record of what info was actually sent.
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    Desktop Computers

    Those Samsung 1.35 low voltage RAM modules were awesome, but they weren't around very long at all.
  31. Joeboo

    Desktop Computers

    I currently have 32GB of G.skill Ripjaw 1866 DDR3, and it's been great for 2+ years. That being said, both brands are solid, I'd probably just go with whichever is cheaper, all other things being equal(timings, etc)
  32. Joeboo

    2015 RR March Madness Bracket Challenge

    Indiana is definitely the type of thing that if they get good shooting performances and start to give a crap about playing D, they could go much, much further than their seed indicates. They have more talent than 90% of the field. On the flip side, they could just as easily lose their first...
  33. Joeboo

    Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian's new CRPG in the vein of Baldur's Gate

    I'm a little late to the party here, just started reading up on this game a couple days ago... so sorry for the total noobness What game system/ruleset is this based on? Is it D&D-based or just something completely unique to the game?
  34. Joeboo

    Random technology news & announcements

    A very large percentage of people that still use a fax service, do it electronically. Every fax I receive comes to me in an email as an attachment. We fax stuff daily, but haven't had a physical fax machine in our office for over over 5 years. It's basically emailing, with entering a phone...
  35. Joeboo

    The Fast Food Thread

    The cinnamon crunch bagel at Panera is one of the finest foods on the face of the Earth.
  36. Joeboo

    2015 RR March Madness Bracket Challenge

    I'm torn, as much as I love to see kansas lose in the 1st round, I almost want them to make it 1 game in so they can get beat by Wichita St, because that loss will hurt more. Wichita St has been dying to play them for years, and kansas won't schedule the game.
  37. Joeboo

    2015 RR March Madness Bracket Challenge

    kansas not looking great so far, but New Mexico St has to be about the most unathletic team I've ever seen. They have some size but they look like a bunch of stiffs so far. Can't catch a pass to save their lives.
  38. Joeboo

    John Wick (2014)

    I want a prequel more than a sequel to this movie. Make a trilogy, with this first movie being the final one.
  39. Joeboo

    Fraggle Rock, THE MOVIE.

    FUCK YES. Probably my favorite muppets-related show of all time. Even moreso than Muppet Babies and The Muppet Show
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    Smartphones

    I think I'd be a fan of the whole "edge" concept if it actually equaled more screen space, but it doesn't, which I don't understand. If you had to stop at the side bezel before, add more screen and wrap it around the side Note 4 = 5.7" Screen 1440x2560 Note 4 Edge = 5.6" Screen 1600x2560...