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  1. SteveLa

    Selling My House. Should I Put in New Carpets ETC.

    My mom recently had her house on the market for over a month and had attracted little repeat interest from people viewing the property. Her agent suggested maybe installing new carpeting, so she had some cheap carpeting and pad put down. Result: the house sold the following week.
  2. SteveLa

    Can any Chicagoan's help?

    If they are taking I-90 from MN (it's a toll road in IL) they can stay on it until it turns into the Kennedy Expressway near O'Hare airport. If they are taking I-94, it will become the Tri-State tollway in Illinois. Eventually I-94 splits off by itself, becoming the Edens expressway. Take the...
  3. SteveLa

    Canada gets some good candy and potato chips

    There was a story on the national news last week (CBS, I believe) about a guy that buys these foreign Kit Kats and other candy bars advertised as "special editions" and makes a killing selling them on the Internet. They showed one oddball that keeps a two-year old box of dark Kit-Kats in the fridge.
  4. SteveLa

    Honda CR-V...Opinions?

    I've been tossing around the idea of getting a new vehicle soon and I'd pretty much decided to go with a smaller sized SUV. The two models I'd been looking at until now were the Chevy Equinox and the Hyundai Tucson. However, I got a look at some of the CR-V's on the Honda lot when I went with my...
  5. SteveLa

    Tips for Grilling Steaks?

    Turned out very well. Brushed them with olive oil and shook some Montreal steak seasoning (which I always use on everything else) on each of the filets. The only thing that went wrong is that the instant read thermometer sucked. Some people that wanted a steak rare or medium got medium-well or...
  6. SteveLa

    Tips for Grilling Steaks?

    So I have these filets from Omaha Steaks that I want to throw on the grill tomorrow. I've always used a marinade when grilling steaks, but these particular filets come wrapped on the outside with bacon. I'm thinking the steak marinade may make the bacon taste funny. Would it be better if I just...
  7. SteveLa

    Omaha Steaks Freezer Limit?

    Found a box of Omaha Steaks that I received as a company gift last Christmas buried at the bottom of my freezer. Anybody know how long these things can be kept frozen without going bad? Each bacon-wrapped filet is in its own vacuum sealed wrapper so there shouldn't be any air getting in. I'd...
  8. SteveLa

    HELP--Outdoor Ant Control?

    Same here. I have dogs so I have to be very careful anytime I use chemicals. I bought some ant bait at the local hardware store called Terro. Amazing stuff. You put a few drops on a piece of carboard and leave it outside. Within an hour, it looked like a hundred or more ants had crowded on this...
  9. SteveLa

    HELP--Outdoor Ant Control?

    After having an off year last year, it appears the ants have returned in force this summer. In years past, I used Diazinon to keep them at bay, but it's been banned by the EPA. What would be a good equivalent? I don't know what kind of ants they are--not fire ants but very tiny black ones. For...
  10. SteveLa

    Google Hacked?

    Whatever is was has been resolved. I'm having no problem getting to the page now.
  11. SteveLa

    Google Hacked?

    Interesting. I'm using a Mac so if is spyware or malware it will be a first for me. I had a tech from Comcast out yesterday to replace my cable modem. He also ran some software of a CD he had with him. Wonder if he could have left a little "gift" behind. Or maybe some sort of DNS issue.
  12. SteveLa

    HELP! I'm addicted to Qdoba!

    Oh yeah...I love this place. I usually will go for a chicken queso burrito and a side of chips and queso. Rarely can I finish both.
  13. SteveLa

    Google Hacked?

    When I try to get to Google I'm being re-directed to a site called SoGoSearch.com. Anyone else having the same problem?
  14. SteveLa

    Mac mini or iMac?

    FYI: The G5's use a serial ATA bus for the hard drives. Hopefully that's the type of drive you bought for the best performance.
  15. SteveLa

    Mac mini or iMac?

    If you can swing the extra couple hundred bucks, I'd definitely spring for the iMac. You'll really appreciate the extra power the G5 provides when crunching video. In addition, the serial ATA hard drives in the iMacs are far faster than drives in the Minis.
  16. SteveLa

    What to charge for video editing?

    Pamela, I'm curious with what you decided to go with for the analog->digital conversion. Did you decide to go with iMovie for the editing tasks or Final Cut?
  17. SteveLa

    wireless connection between pc & mac

    http://www.mac-connect.com/win_mac_samba.php
  18. SteveLa

    Gas Furnace Maintenance?

    Have mine checked in the Fall before the weather gets cold. Basically they vacuum it out, check the electronic ignition, check the condition of the filter, look for leaks and check to see if the water pad on my humidifier needs to be replaced (it's attached to the furnace.) All told it runs...
  19. SteveLa

    American Dreams Season 3 thread

    Even though the news was a foregone conclusion, it still stung when it was announced today: NBC Announces Fall Schedule :frowning: :thumbsdown:
  20. SteveLa

    Holy Crap! Someone stole $1600 from my ATM account!

    This happened to me a few years ago. Really pissed me off. To make things worse, it happened again two weeks later. I think I know which retailer stole my card data. I informed the bank, but they never told me how the investigation turned out. In any case, I got my money back both times. Still a...
  21. SteveLa

    The Wacky World of Airline Pricing

    Check different travel sites. Sometimes one site will have an exclusive fare. You've already gone to Travelocity so try Orbitz or Expedia. Or try a flight out of one of the other airports in the NY area. Sounds like it's probably an American Eagle regional jet. If so, I'm already feeling sorry...
  22. SteveLa

    Editing Home Movies-Mac-Questions

    I wish I'd found a place that rented and analog-digital converter. Instead I broke down and picked up the Canopus ADVC-100 (an open box special at NewEgg.) It couldn't be more simple to use and the finished product is excellent. Still, I'll have to convert quite a few more tapes before I can...
  23. SteveLa

    Any Mac OSX Guru's out there... Please help.

    When trying to print with Adobe Reader, have you tried printing the file as an image? It's slower, but it works pretty good on files with font issues or PostScript problems. From the Print screen, click the Advanced button and check the box that says "Print as Image" Other things I'd definitely...
  24. SteveLa

    Funniest Reviewer Ever

    Anyone ever read the reviews of "s.t.a." over at Amazon? I realize these reviews are complete b.s., but this guy (or girl) is a hilarious writer: The reviews of Smith T. Aames
  25. SteveLa

    Diet Coke with Splenda

    My choices of the moment: Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi Canada Dry Diet Ginger Ale Minute Maid Light Lemonade Hawaiian Punch Light
  26. SteveLa

    I got the Tiger Launch Blues...

    I've only installed it on my desktop machine for now. Can't install it on my laptop until Cisco releases an update to their VPN client. First impressions are positive. The release is faster than the beta versions that I had tested. The Spotlight indexing in particular was significantly faster...
  27. SteveLa

    I got the Tiger Launch Blues...

    http://www.apple.com/retail I don't know anyone that walks into an Apple Store and expects to get hardware or software on sale, especially something on day of launch with lots of media coverage and great word-of-mouth. I've never seen anything on sale at an Apple Store except discontinued...
  28. SteveLa

    Questions regarding interior paint

    Coming in the next two weeks, the job I hate most...painting the house. Well, it's not the painting i really hate, but the prep work (taping, draping, moving furniture, etc) and the cleanup. A couple questions. First, has anyone used those trim pads that they sell for window/baseboard trim and...
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