I have made a spreadsheet on Google Docs to help keep all the usernames straight.  Especially with Google Plus where you're supposed to use your real name, I don't know who the hell anyone is. 

So if you'd like to add yourself, here's the link:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtBX3xfRb7tCdG0wMW0wc3ZweElKaFpvRmliVnBJTUE&hl=en_US#gid=0

Thanks, and have a nice day.

EDIT: people can no longer add themselves because a couple of douches thought it would be great fun to delete things, move shit around, and all kinds of other stuff.  They didn't realize that in some cases I could easily tell who did it.  None realized that it's pretty easy to fix.  But the last time it took me a whole five minutes to straighten it out so I've locked the document.

If you want to be really public, you can be added by posting your information in this fanpost.  Please use "Add Me" for your subject line.  If you don't want to do that, get in touch with me on google plus.  The document is still available for public viewing so my info is easily found there.

If you are trustworthy I'll add you to the permissions for the document and you can add yourself and hopefully help me maintain it.

After this I will never ask you about customer service again.  I promise.

I just want the names of companies/establishments, really, but if you want to give reasons that would be interesting.

For my own entertainment I have created a poll.  It has nothing to do with anything.  Let's see.  Need more words.  Go Rangers!  Wilson looked very good tonight, even if it was just Seattle.  The NBA sucks but I guess I hope the Mavericks win.  And that should do.

This is going to help me with something.  I know it's dangerously close to spam, probably, but what the hell.  It could be a good place to blow off steam.

In the last year or so what companies do you feel you have given you bad customer service/tech support?  It could be anything.  If you went to Tom Thumb and bought a can of peas that was dented and they wouldn't take it back, put it down even if it was 79 cents.

This is a great moment.  It's sad that it took so much money and so much time, but I actually gave up hope they'd ever kill that son of a bitch.  Apparently they have, though.  Anyway, fuck that guy and I hope he burns in hell for eternity right along side Hitler, Pol Pot, and other bastards of note.

So anyway, great news and hopefully the following discussion won't turn into some crazy bullshit toll extravaganza.

I am weary of all the Mike Young talk, and I have a question about iTunes, which sucks.  Since this post is about a product made and distrubuted by Apple, so Sharky is NOT INVITED.  Get out of here, Sharky.  You're a moron and nobody cares so just GTFO.

Anyway, like I said, I think iTunes sucks.  The first sign that it's a bad program is that every time they update it, you have to download and reinstall the entire thing along with Quicktime, which also sucks.  Most programs, you don't have to download the entire thing to update.  Just a little patch.  Anyway iTunes and Quicktime together are bigger than Adobe Lightroom, which also edits photos. It's re-diculous. 

A friend of mine told me there's another program that's freeware and it will do everything that iTunes does, only better.  Sync your phone and everything.  You still have to keep iTunes because this program supposedly uses it.  But I have not been able to find this program.  If you know what it is, please let me know.  He doesn't know and now denies ever having told me that.

Otherwise I need to learn how to use iTunes, which is a database if I understand it correctly.  A database should help you manage your files, but I don't know how to do it.  For example, I have five different folders for Guided by Voices on my iPhone.  I'll have only two songs from one record, yet iTunes puts these into their own folder even though on my hard drive they are in the same folder along with some other stray GBV tracks.  It also have two folders for the record Alien Lanes, which I ripped myself and know for sure there's only one on the hard drive.  iTunes put it in my phone that way.  And there's a bunch of partially downloaded tracks on my phone, too.  Sometimes they'll play a little and stop.  Other times they make noise.  And other times they don't play at all, which will stop the iPod if it shuffles to one like that.

I guess Lightroom has spoiled me.  For those of you who don't know, its main function for photographers is keeping their archives organized.  When I got it I imported 60k images into the database.  It allowed me to add keywords, metadata, and organize them into collections.  Is there some way to get iTunes to do this, and if not, is there an easy to use program that will?

Thank You,

Not the Real Black Francis

Okay, so my mom has Charter Cable and the DVRs are absolutely horrendous.  There are also compression issues with Charter's signal or something...I don't think she's getting true HD even though she pays an obscene amount of money for all this stuff.

At my old apartment I had Dish Network, which was pretty good when it worked.  The problem was it was Dish through a third party provider.  I lived in a loft at the old Sears warehouse and was on the wrong side to get my own Dish Network or Direct TV.  A company called Grande Communications had a big dish on the roof that served the whole building.  I had lots of trouble with this, but Grande always said it was the way the system was installed, and of course it wasn't installed by them.  I've never had any contact with Dish customer service.  All that was done through Grande.

So even though I've had Dish, I don't really know what it's like to have it.  The cost was increased by Grande, and I got fewer channels in general and fewer HD channels than regular DIsh subscribers.  All I know is that I was happy with their DVR. 

None of my friends say they've had problems with Dish or Direct TV going out during the rain.  If they have I don't remember it.  At my old apartment that generally didn't happen unless it got windy.  The thing was 11 floors up, so yeah, you know.  That's going to happen.  But my mom's friends all say they have had problems with their satellite services, so that is what she's worried about.  It going out every time the weather gets even a little weird. 

And so I'm going to put up a poll to see how happy you are with Dish Network or Direct TV.  If you don't mind, put in the comments what you like/don't like about your service.  Please don't skew your results if you're upset about the service you got five years ago.  I'm only interested in what the service is like right now.

People will say she should get fios or uverse, but neither are available in her neighborhood right now, and neither company will say when they may become available.  Those are off the table.

I appreciate your responses.  (If I talk my mom into changing and then it sucks, she will bitch at me for 10 years about it)

What car do you drive?

If money were no object, what kind(s) of car(s) would you drive?

What is the stupidest thing you've ever done?

If you could only choose one food to eat for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Has your family been familiarized with the magic of cumin?

If you had to pick one, what is the best movie ever made?

Do you play a musical instrument?

How old do you think you'll be when you die?

Have you ever dreamed that you had to throw a drunk, mostly naked ex-President out of your house?  If not, what was the weirdest dream you've had that you're willing to share here?

I would disable comments if I could as this has been discussed elsewhere.  Elsewhere didn't have a poll, however, and I am fond of polls.  So I'm trying to make sure I get enough words in here. 

I think I took lunch too early today.  Hate it when I do that because it makes the afternoon seem so much longer, but at the same time the morning had to end because it was dragging, too.  I like my gig and everything but with Game 5 happening tonight it's impossible for me to think about anything else except envisioning hard hit baseballs screaming past and over befuddled Rays outfielders.  And to do this I have to think of Tropicana "Field" which makes me kind of nauseated. 

I'm sure that's enough words.

The following videos are both TV reviews for the same automobile.  Which do you think is the better review, whether or not you agree with the hosts' conclusions?  These programs have a bit of a rivalry going on.  Neither are from the US but one is aired here.  If you have an option on the rivalry itself please try to disregard that.  I just want to know what you think about these two reviews.  Which is more entertaining, which seems more honest, more thorough...whatever. 

Thanks

Top Gear DBS Review

Fifth Gear DBS Review

I started this thing as sort of a directory, but Bhill came along and made a twitter list, which makes more sense.  If you make tweeters about the great game of beisbol, please add your name in the comments so that all of us will be privy to your innermost thoughts.  Also, if you follow someone else who's not an LSB person (player, front office person, media type, whatever as long as its baseball related) you can put their twitter names here, too.

Bhill's Twitter List

How much snow have you gotten today where you live?  Where you work?  Have you crashed your car?  Did you know that we're forecast for up to ten inches of snow before this ends?  I heard it has something to do with the Nino.  This is the most snow I've ever seen in Dallas.

Today I drove a little over 100 miles in it and it wasn't really that bad.  Tomorrow morning is going to suck, though, as the slushy stuff on the highways turns into ice. 

Are you going to work tomorrow?  Going in late? 

I don't like the NBA All Star Game and I still haven't bought my girlfriend anything for Valentine's Day.  Any suggestions?

Alright, first of all...please do not say I should have gone with some other phone or some other provider.  I've had ATT for years and have always been okay with them.  And I know lots of people who are still using the first iPhone that came out so it has to be an okay phone at least.  Either way, what's done is done; I just signed up for two years.

I'm not an "iPerson".  I never thought I'd own iAnything.  But I finally decided to hop on board with this century and decided that it would probably be good for my job to have a smart phone.  And after doing some research and talking to people, the iPhone does seem like a good business phone.

What I'm looking for now is apps.  I had a bunch in mind before I bought the phone but didn't write the names down, and it turns out finding them again has been pretty hard.  There are so many.  I'm sort of lost in the internet noise.

I basically run a mobile office, but I and everyone I work with uses Open Office instead of Microsoft office software.  Is there any way I can open, view, and manipulate OO files with an iPhone? 

Also, I downloaded Google Earth for the iPhone but there's no way I can use placemarks, of which I have hundreds of on my computer.  Is there any application that will put KML files on a map on the iPhone?

And there are a million different apps for managing files, and a million different opinions about them.  What are people actually using?

One thing I'm disappointed in is the iPhones contacts.  Isn't there or shouldn't there be a way to update my context on the computer while syncing instead of typing them all out on the phone itself?

Any other business apps ideas would also be welcome.  Fun apps, too, I guess.  Right now I'm just sitting here with my eyes sort of glazed over.

I appreciate it.

I have an irrational impatience for discussing anything to do with Ben Sheets.  Perhaps this thread can help clear some things up.  Nothing about Jon Garland has been mentioned in the press recently that I'm aware of, so I guess this is hypothetical.  But he is still available as of this writing, so that explains why the poll is the way it is.

In my mind you have this guy -- Ben Sheets --  whose stuff is awesome and has never really struggled to get big league hitters out.  The consummate ace, he has thrown a lot of innings, as well.  But he's hurt and has not pitched in well over a year.  Andy Pettitte had a similar surgery and was back relatively quickly.  So my questions about Ben Sheets extend beyond "why would we want the Rangers to sign a rusty pitcher?".  Instead I'm wondering what the hell else is wrong with the guy.

On the other hand you have this other fellow who goes by the name of Jon Garland.  He's not hurt, at least as far as we know.  He's never really been seriously hurt.  Garland is consistent; you know what you will get from him, and that is more than 200 innings with a whip of around 1.4.  He won't K a lot of guys, but won't walk a lot of guys.  There's nothing really flashy about him, but he can be counted upon. 

Consider that the Rangers' ace is a guy who we can only hope will pitch 140 innings and that except for Scott Feldman they're relying on youth and inexperience.  Assume there are limited financial resources available to the team and they're not willing to part with a bunch of young talent to trade for a starter.  With that and mind, please discuss and answer the poll question.  Hypothetically the two pitchers would sign for very similar terms.

Thank you for your time.

Until a couple days ago I had never heard of the guy.  Needless to say that doesn't interest me that much, and I hate to see one of my favorite corners of the interwebnet devoid of any content that I find interesting or amusing.  Too bad it seems to be the winter doldrums as far as the Rangers go.

So.  I was thinking of off-topics that usually get people to talking around here, and one of them is television.

As I have mentioned before, a few weeks ago my DVR stopped recording stuff.  Apparently the shows I was watching are either on hiatus or have been canceled.  What would be good for me to watch right now?  I don't want to get into something that's a serial and I'll be lost when I first start watching.  I do not like reality programming of any kind.  Drama and comedy is what I'm looking for, I guess.

Discuss what is good on television.  Thank you.

We will all be dead this time tomorrow.  There is a winter weather warning in effect for North Texas until 9pm CST. Merry Christmas!

Fancy words:

00z model guidance follows the trends of very aggressive 18z runs 
so have made some significant changes to current forecast. Have 
issued a Winter Storm Warning for northwest portions of North Texas with 
a Winter Weather Advisory a little farther south. See wswfwd for latest 
information. 


Powerful upper level storm system continues to be a little slower 
than previous model guidance indications with colder air now more 
likely to make it into North Texas before moisture pulls off to 
the east. All of the guidance indicates significant wrap around 
moisture coinciding with moderate lift in the 700-400mb layer... 
with saturation in the favorable area for snow production. 
Although indications are that instability is not quite as 
impressive above the strongest frontogenetic forcing as we would 
like it to be...snow is still likely. The combination of snow and 
strong winds will create near blizzard conditions at times...therefore 
warranting a warning. With air temperatures just above freezing and soil 
temperatures quite warm...accumulations are likely to be limited to areas 
where snow bands set up. 

NWS does not advise consuming pets and children for sustenance; however 
make sure you have plenty of steak sauce on hand.

I have to keep short as I am on an abbreviated lunch break.  First I want to say that we should all pray in our own way for all those affected by this incident.  Can you imagine what it would feel like if any of those casualties were your family?  I mean you almost assuredly dread it every time they are deployed to a combat zone, but the fact that these people met their end so violently here at home on a military installation...that's just crazy. 

I have some questions about this, though.  And some of it may sound cold but I want you to know right up front that I don't mean it to be that way.  They're just quesitons.

The shooter, who is apparently still alive, acted alone.  He had two handguns.  I've never been in the army but I assume officers are issued the standard M9 9mm pistol, and he may have got another somehow or maybe used different guns all together.  But if he used M9s, as I understand it they can only hold a maximum of 20 rounds in an extended magazine plus another in the chamber.  Between two guns, that would of course account for 42 rounds.  13 people were killed and another 31 were wounded.  That adds up to 44 rounds, and I think it's a safe bet that he didn't hit his mark with every single shot.  In fact he was taken down in an exchange of fire with a civilian police officer. 

Anyway, the point is he had to reload at some point.  Now it does take a little time to reload a pistol like the M9 and it's not very much, but I have trouble understanding how in a room full of trained soldiers this guy wasn't taken out before he shot so many. 

I'm just having trouble wrapping my head around how this guy did this.  You cannot fire two handguns simultaneously with any degree of accuracy.  I've tried and I've seen far better marksmen than me try, and that was always at a shooting range.  Even if the guy could do it that would explain how he shot a lot of people quickly, but even then at some point he would have ended up with two empty guns. 

I just don't get it.  There's something I'm missing.  What is it?  I've been hearing about this story on the radio all morning and it's been bothering me on several different levels.  Any ideas about how, though?  And yes it appears the guy as a muslim or something but let's please not get into that or politics or anything.

So I was thinking about my favorite GOOD movies.  You know we all have our guilty pleasures that we enjoy watching more than films we may like and think are important culturally, so I had to cut out such greats as Gross Point Blank and
The Hudsucker Proxy (both of which I think are brilliant but probably not examples of great film making).

Following is a poll with a list of some of my favorite good movies, and I was wondering which of them the community liked best.  Hope that a good discussion follows, too.  I have included an "all of these suck" option for those of you with no taste whatsoever.  Anyway, they're in no particular order.

I live just barely south of Downtown in a very large apartment building situated on Lamar Street, and yet I cannot find one decent place that will deliver here.  I used to get my pizza from Carmine's, a little place on San Jacinto.  But they've changed their ingredients or something and it's not good anymore. 

It's my God given right as a Murican to be able to order decent NY style pizza and have it delivered to my door if I want to pay for it.  And I do, yet I cannot find the place.  I've searched Yelp.  I've talked to friends but they have their heads up Zini's ass, and that's horrible pizza.  I know some of you have to work downtown and you have to know of a good place.

Gotta bum ankle.  Don't really feel like driving to go get it. 

You can complain all you want about me making this fan post, but I do not care.  Worse tripe has littered the fanposts lately and hell I'll even delete this one if I get an answer.

Thanks.

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I was going to put this in the post-game thread, but it's not up yet and this seems to be a pattern anyway.

Inning/Pitches seen that inning/total pitches at end of inning/pitches per inning at end of inning)

1st – 12 (12, 12)

2nd – 19 (31, 15.5)

3rd – 7 (38, 12.7)

4th – 9 (47, 11.8)

5th – 17 (64, 12.8)

6th – 19 (83, 13.8)

7th – 9 (92, 13.1)

8th – 9 (101, 12.6)

9th – 8 (109, 12.1)

In five of the 9 frames, the Rangers failed to make the Yankees throw even 10 pitches. It should be embarrassing for another team to come on your field and screw you six ways from Sunday in front of all those people.

Also, Nelson Cruz hit a solo shot in the ninth to bust the shutout. Now down 11-1, FIREWORKS GO OFF AND MUSIC FILLS THE STADIUM??? I like what Chuck Morgan does, but I do not like that. There's not one fucking thing to celebrate when you're getting trounced at home and get a meaningless run in the 9th.

Okay.  So I'm 32 and I've had "ocular migraines" for years.  Since early college, anyway.  For those of you who don't know, an ocular migraine presents with strange visual phenomna.  Gray spots.  Feeling like your eyes are crossed when they aren't.  Flashing blobs traveling in front of your vision.  They're really weird, but aren't generally accompanied by pain.  Anyway they come on very quickly and go away just as quickly.  There one second and gone the next.  And, for me at least, they usually don't last long so I have never been too bothered with them.

Then my doctor tells me about five years ago that people with ocular migraines most often go on to have regular migraines.  A long time passed and that never materialized.  Until maybe a year ago.

They're getting worse.  I'm not going to say they're the worst thing in the world.  For me they're not, anyway.  But they do suck, and can sometimes debilitating when they are happening. 

I've been getting them with more frequency and for longer durations.  I talked to my physician about it maybe two months ago, and aside from some pills I'd really rather not take there doesn't seem to be anything that he can do about it. 

So, finally, my question is, how many of you live with this?  They're fairly common from what I understand.  For those of you who are on medication, does it help?  Side effects?  For those of you who are not, do you have any tips for living with them?  Since light literally hurts my eyes all I know to do is to hunker down in a darkened room.  That doesn't really help anything, though.  It just keeps things from getting worse.  What about accupuncture?  I'm not a big believer in holistic and alternative medicine but I'd be willing to give some things a shot, I suppose.

And sorry for posting this here.  I've been to some medical sites and forums, though, and haven't really gotten any basic, down-to-earth advice.

I should have hired somebody to do this like I have every year since I started making decent money.  But I didn't, and I want to watch baseball (priorities, man) so I had to file an extension.

Went to IRS website and was directed to get form blah blah blah, and when I went to fill it out it seemed like I needed to have my taxes done before I could complete it.

Fail. 

So I dug around the Google.  Turns out Turbo Tax will e-file an extension for you.  I followed the link and got in there, and at first it was almost as crazy as the IRS form.  Did manage to complete it, but then it only gave me an option to print and mail it to Austin.  Well, I don't have any stamps and live in the ghetto so that's no good.  Would rather not deal with it tomorrow, ya know?

But after some more digging on the Turbo Tax site it turns out that they DO have an option to e-file an extension and it required all of about thirty seconds of time.  So as a public service to my fellow Rangers fans, I am providing this invaluable link in case you're in a similar situation or whatever. 

So they'll do that for you and for free, and now you can hire someone who knows what they're doing to prepare your taxes.  Thanks, TurboTax!  I may even use them, who knows.  Any opinions on that?

In spite of not knowing much about it and not being a video game person, I've been intrigued by the concept of the Wii for a long time.  I have a hard time sitting still.  Anyway, I finally broke down and bought one yesterday.

It came with a DVD called "Wii Sports" or something, and it has golf, boxing, tennis and baseball.  I haven't tried golf but the others are amusing, at least.  Just way over simplified.  I'd like to get a real baseball game for the Wii, but I want to be able to "swing the bat" and "pitch".  You know, do something other than just sit there.

So I've been reading and am confused.  There are some baseball titles for the Wii, but from what I can tell not all of them take advantage of what the controller is capable of. 

I'd like to know what you guys think has the best balance between "fun" and an approximation of baseball.  I don't care if the characters are cartoon-like or not, but I would like it if it were MLB licensed with real teams, players, stats, et cetera even it's not super in-depth.

Any thoughts?

Sort of.  Well, I actually did take him seriously.  And while he's a scoundrel for not paying off his debt to ab03, I have to hand it to him on this one.

In a thread not too long ago he (as well as others) advised me to go with Vista and just buy the computer instead of building my own.  That's exactly what I ended up doing and so far I'm annoyed but fairly pleased. 

At 5am I was there at Best Buy not just to pick up the computer I ordered last night, but also to take advantage of a monitor deal they had going on.  Got the second to last one of those...a nice Samsung widescreen.  Also got a video card so I could run dual monitors.  Haven't set that up yet.

So I get home and install the video card.  Hook up the new monitor.  connect the mouse and keyboard.  Then, fearful of the horrors of Microsoft VIsta, I booted her up.  Of course it had nine billion updates to download, but really it's been working great ever since.  My mom's crashes ALL the time.  In fact I had a lot of trouble with it yesterday while I was there for thanksgiving.

It's going to take some getting used to, but for several reasons I think I'm going to like Vista.  And I'm writing this for two reasons.  To give Sharky his fair due, and to say that those of you who said photoshop and stuff wouldn't benefit from a 64 bit system were dead wrong.

The computer I bought is a quad core Intel.  Six megs of RAM installed, and I can get up to eight in there.  Vista, as large as it is, boots up in a 1/4 of the time that XP does on my old desktop (to be fair it is messed up).  Photoshop, Photomatrix, and Neatimage are only 32-bit apps but boy do they fly.  Photoshop itself will open in three seconds.  THREE seconds.  1 gig files are easy and fast to work with even though I also had a browser, e-mail client, anti-virus, and whatever else running in the background.  Compared to what I had (Pentium 4) and my laptop (dual core Intel), this thing is a super computer. 

And, finally, I have a question.  The box came with a 300w power supply.  The graphics card I bought isn't exactly state of the art, but its "requirement" was a 300w PSu.  So the question is, worst case...what would happen?  Would it screw up other components?  The graphics card?  Or would the power supply simply die?  Would windows give me some kind of warning? The case has loads of space in general, but the power supply looks like a pain in the ass to change out.

Final questions: I've never worked with dual monitors and I haven't set them up, either.  Is it difficult?  With the wide monitor I got today there's less of a need for it, but it would still be nice when I'm working on my actual job.  Anyway, I don't think I'll get into that until tomorrow...just wondering what kind of time I need to set aside. 

PS -- Sharky isn't going to like this but either I'm going to partition the drive or buy a separate one and dual boot XP pro.  Just in case.

The starters have to pitch some innings.  I've looked at every playoff team for the last  two years and their top three pitchers in terms of workload.

2008 AL:

TAM:: 596

BOS: 565.7

CHW: 633.3

CAL: 613.7

2008 NL:

PHI: 613.7

CHC: 600

MIL: 561

LAD: 595

2008 AVERAGE: 597.3

2007 AL:

BOS: 594.3

NYY: 566.7

CLE: 648.3

CAL: 580.7

2007 NL:

PHI: 544.3

CHC: 618.3

ARI: 633.3

COL: 547

2007 AVERAGE: 591.7

In comparison, your Texas Rangers top three pitchers:

2008: 491

2007: 429

The point is pretty obvious, isn't it?  I don't think one out of those sixteen playoff teams failed to have at least one pitcher throw more than 200 innings.  Many had two.  In any event, their top threes beat the Rangers top threes all to hell.  Millwood, TEX's IP leader for both years would've have made the third pitcher on I believe only one of those teams.

Okay, I know there are probably better places to post this, but the problem is with those places is I don't know who the people there are.  I'm not a computer person.  But I know there are computer people here and that's why I'm comfortable asking questions here.  And I figure there are enough computer people here that maybe this post could entertain a little conversation between them.

Okay, so here's what I need a computer to do.  Business stuff.  Typically I use Open Office but will be going to Seseme at some point.  Web surfing, of course.  The computer will be networked to another desktop and a laptop.  I don't play games, but you know, someday I might.  Probably not, but maybe.  What I do, though, is photography.  I want it to run Photoshop CS3 very quickly.  I want it to run Photomatrix very quickly.  And all that.  I'm also a musician and would like to do my recording on the computer at somepoint.  Not albums, but demo quality/songwriting sketchpad stuff.  And at somepoint I may like to get into video.  I usually do my editing at my friend's place for now, and he has a Mac and all the software. 

I did some business with a guy at Microsoft Los Colinas the other day and he gave me a copy of XP pro.  He said Vista's done and they're going to come out with some other kind of Windows that's faster "soon".  Anyway, I do not want Vista...I'm building this computer and I want the power to go to the apps, not the operating system.  XP has always treated me right, and I have a copy now for free so that's that.

I've picked out the components.  Now I just want to make sure that all of them will work together properly.  I'm also not sure about the video card.  Did I overdo it?  Does that affect the performance of photoshop?  If I could get something less expensive that would suit me that would be fine.  Also, I've never made my own computer before.  Is the power supply enough?  Are there things not listed that I left out?

Here's the stuff I picked out at NewEgg.  The first number is the price, and then it's the component with link.  Okay it will not let me make a link...I highlight a word and it gives me the option to "unlink".  Whatever.  URL, then.

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http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/AddToCart.aspx?Submit=ADD&ItemList=Combo.141498

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59.99 Case (inc. 585w Psu)

 http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/AddToCart.aspx?Submit=ADD&ItemList=N82E16811121004

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54.99 RAM (4 GB)

http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/AddToCart.aspx?Submit=ADD&ItemList=N82E16820145184

139.99 HDD (WD 1TB)

http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/AddToCart.aspx?Submit=ADD&ItemList=N82E16822136284

27.99 CD/DVD RW

http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/AddToCart.aspx?Submit=ADD&ItemList=N82E16827151173

124.99 Graphics

http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/AddToCart.aspx?Submit=ADD&ItemList=N82E16814127379

24.99 Sound

http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/AddToCart.aspx?Submit=ADD&ItemList=N82E16829118105

I appreciate any thoughts or advice you can give me.  I've upgraded computers before and am not exactly scared to do this, but I've never made one from the ground up before so it is unfamiliar territory.  Thanks.