Did you spring for the 4 gig of RAM?

Not at Apple's prices.

I'm probably going to jump to 4 gigs in the next month, but I can get it for less than half of what Apple is charging.

I'm amazed this hasn't hit the boards yet. Mr. Wizard is dead.

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I can't get the sign saying, "beware of the leopard" out of my head.

The lights had gone!

So had the stairs!

I'm amazed this hasn't hit the boards yet. Mr. Wizard is dead.

I raise a mayonnaise jar in his honor!

That's a shame. I used to watch him all the time when I was a kid.

XM's '60s on 6 is giving La Crosse, WI, their "Six Gun Salute" as city of the day today, in honor of Mr. Wizard having grown up there.

Any wealthy Atari video game fans out there? Sotheby's is auctioning off the following:

An extensive archive of original marketing materials (as detailed below) from the "Golden Age" of Atari, ca. 1981 to 1983, comprising more than 2,000 items of widely varying sizes and formats, including manuscript memorandum, internal specification guidelines, original sketches, blue lines, mechanicals, proofs, color separations (including acetates), and screen diagrams; the archive is mostly related to marketing materials for Atari games and game consoles, especially boxes and manuals, but includes some early design and graphic work for specific game characters and components; the archive contains mostly English-language materials, but proofs and mechanicals for cartons and manuals in French, German, Spanish, and Italian are also present. The whole archive organized into approximately 135 large file folders for graphic materials.

The value is estimated at 150,000—250,000 USD.

Phone shopping again.

I am beginning to understand that what I want doesn't exist. Well, beginning to accept it. It's always been obvious.

I like the form factor of the HTC s710. I hate that it runs Windows, but that's the biggest thing I have to get over. But the phone keypad in one orientation, keyboard in another is lovely. And they're smaller than the ones I'd seen before.

In avoiding Windows my choices are Palm (don't love the Treos), Blackberry (don't play well with Mac, right?), and Linux (I know they exist, somewhere), right? I mean, if I want a hardware keyboard, right?

My main issue about the HTCs if I get over the Windows snottiness is that I hear they're slow--my friend who replaced her Razr with one says it's slower, and that's not good. I also have a friend who's using one temporarily to replace a previous iteration of the HTC smartphone, and he says it's slower than its predecessor too. He loves the latest version of the OS, but the speed is such that he's not going to hang on to it.

So that's why I balk there. Any suggestions from those in the know? I don't ask for much (else)--I want a keyboard a step up from a number pad, I want a camera, I need Bluetooth (if it can handle more than one Bluetooth device, that would be some spicy gravy). Everything else will probably be okay, if it's small and fast. Carrier doesn't even matter--my Cingular contract is just about over.

It looks like Blackberry support on Mac OS X isn't as bad as it used to be. There's a Missing Sync for it, anyway (http://www.missingsync.com ). I love Missing Sync for my Treo, so that could be good. Look into that? The only reason I haven't switched to a blackberry is a personal love for touch-screens, so if you're not caring about that, BB might be the way to go.