harder to deliver to a residence

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you pay more just for that.

Is it possible the second figure is higher because it's a) harder to deliver to a residence and b) includes the month rental for the storage unit?

Oh, the month rental is a separate (daily) fee, which I'm fine with (even if it's fairly expensive, as storage spaces go). And my point is, the delivery to residence should be included in the "moving from point A (DC) to point B (seattle)" cost, no? (Granted, the "loading back into a van to deliver it" I would expect to cost additional. But it was noted as being loading AND delivery, so...I suspect they're adding funny)

meara, that sounds crazy, and I have no idea. But good luck?

Now I feel bad for giving bad advice.

Who, to me? You never gave bad advice! It's just Time Warner screwing me over. I missed the first ten minutes of Beauty and the Geek before I noticed!

Online couple cheated with each other

It's like You've Got Mail, the crappy version...

Just finished frosting my cake with about-just-the-right-amount-of-frosting. At which point it occurred to me it's a better test if they have a number of different recipes out there, isn't it?

Mine's a bit too sweet for my taste, but so far perfectly edible with tea. I should go make me some.

Uncanny valley warning!

Remember a year ago or so when ita linked to this unnerving video of a robot "pack mule"?

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Now the robot has a sibling - "Little Dog":

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eta: The Make blog described it well:

You probably remember Boston Dynamics' BigDog, the four-legged robotic packmule, the video of which went viral last year. Here's the latest BD creation, LittleDog. It's astonishing, when a robot becomes this adept, ambulatory, how organic it seems, life-like. The robot: it plans. And there's something uniquely unsettling about that.

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Invented in 1932: One-piece coat and vest: [link]

HERE’S a good way to beat the dry cleaners who charge more for a three piece suit than for merely the coat and pants. It’s a combination coat and vest invented by Philip H. Einbinder, a Denver tailor.

“Vests,” says Einbinder, “are a nuisance. They’re all front anyhow, so why bother putting fronts on them.” Putting his theory into practice he built flaps into the coat which button in front like a vest, the rest of the coat folding over them. If you don’t want to wear a vest, just button the flaps back under the armpits out of the way.

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A married couple who didn't realise they were chatting each other up on the internet are divorcing.

Didn't Kate Bush write that song like twenty years ago?

meara, I'd push back on the initial load into storage fee. That sounds like bullshit. I might also tell them to forget about the storage-to-house bit, and get a local mover for that, but that's just me.

Tommy, your one piece suit link goes back to LittleDog. Have our robotic overlords already gotten this far? Back in time???

I'm heartened to see that LittleDog doesn't have an onboard processor/power unit. Yet.

Oopsie. Fixed. ( [link] )

eta: Actually, I think the one-piece coat/vest looks good on the model. Who is a woman.