In Cambridge, there's a TJ's right by the big Whole Foods, in the same parking lot as my favorite computer/software store, MicroCenter. It's like one-stop (well, two, if I move the car from lot to lot) shopping for nerds like me!

When you say "it's all uphill from here" are you meaning it's a good thing or a bad one? Is it about the easy trip or the vantage point of your destination? I just heard someone else flip flop between downhill and uphill, and I was wondering how clear it was.

"it's all uphill from here"

I don't think I've ever heard that exact phrase. I've heard "it's an uphill battle" (meaning, it's difficult), and "it's all downhill from here" (meaning, the hard part is over).

Oh my god, I want one of those.

Me too. I was surprised at how cheap they are.

NEver used one of those, nor has lori. But we still want this [link]

The Bay in Halifax stocks other items made by this company, and I keep hoping that this will show up.

I like MicroCenter. They actually carry a good selection of parts and cables and such and some of their prices are decent. CompUSA is better located for me, but they value their cables too much and don't always carry simple parts. I remember going in CompUSA one time for a SATA drive cable and after looking in what seemed the logical place I had to ask someone only to learn they don't carry SATA cables at all and I was all WTF?

They're going to have a seperate entrance for the wine store -- unlike the Whole Foods at Columbus Circle which had to close theirs.

That's smart. I am surprised that they haven't done that here with Wegman's (our area giant grocery store), as I know they have a department dedicated to getting wine in the stores!

When you say "it's all uphill from here" are you meaning it's a good thing or a bad one? Is it about the easy trip or the vantage point of your destination? I just heard someone else flip flop between downhill and uphill, and I was wondering how clear it was.

Agree with Jessica. It should be "it's all downhill from here" but actually I think that might be good or bad depending on the context. But I think the mixed metaphor with uphill battle means that "it's all uphill from here" is supposed to be pejorative.

Interesting. I thought the expression always meant "it's a good thing" and the phrase was uncertain. Instead, the phrase is locked, and the meaning variable.

That's even more confusing.

You know what bothers me lately. It's people who defend the wiretapping of citizens without a warrant by saying that Clinton did the same thing. First, that don't make it right. Second, if Clinton did the same thing I somehow think that the congress that spent years and millions upon millions of dollars investigating some possible shady accounting in a land deal that went down a decade before he became president, might, just might investigate something like wiretapping citizens without a warrant.

It's the "he hit me first" defense. Which stopped working, for me, when I was about five. I don't know why it still works in politics.