Hungarian Dry Whites? Forge Ahead

Fields that supply furmint grapes in Hungary.
By ERIC ASIMOV
Published: February 8, 2010

COMFORT zone? Believe me, I understand. At restaurants, I’m always fighting the impulse to order a beloved dish again and again. I have to struggle against sticking to customary territory in music, books and, especially, in wine. More

Here in Mpls

With curbside snow piles turning many city streets into narrow passageways, Minneapolis is banning parking on one side of most residential streets starting Thursday.

That day at 8 a.m., parking will be banned on the even-numbered side of non-snow emergency routes. More

I can haz overclocking but still no overthrusters

The new motherboard comes with a little utility that boots, incremements, crashes; boots, increments, crashes; boots increments crashes; and then declares a successful overclocking rate, plus there's a wired remote thingie plugged into the MB which allows me to do all sorts o' things, why there's even a Turbo Key button and a Bus Speed rocker switch -- I'd like to see 'em get a bus down my street fast these days! But, sigh, still no overthrusters.

I can haz

Two views of Boston looking from the Boskone hotel on my monitors. The convention center roof continues through the edge of the monitors:
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