I'm pretty sure I did have some savings from consolidation. Also, having to access one portal made the process of planning and paying down much easier. FYI, I used AES Success.

I consolidated my loans into one monthly payment shortly after college. Setup auto-pay to send a smidge over the minimum every month. It took over a decade to pay them down but I had a low interest rate and the interest is tax-deductible anyway so I never felt crushed by the debt. Now I'm free and clear and ready to…

Vote: Saddleback Leather Bi-fold (chestnut)

It's not specifically a shave soap/cream but I love using Dr. Bronner's Castile Soaps for shaving. A couple squirts into a shaving mug, a little water and then get the lather going with a good shaving brush. Great stuff, feels a little tingly too.

It's not specifically a shave soap/cream but I love using Dr. Bronner's Castile Soaps for shaving. A couple…

LED is the future? Did LifeHacker do a post on this development? I think I read about it somewhere but can't recall why.

LED is the future? Did LifeHacker do a post on this development? I think I read about it somewhere but can't recall…

Gall-Peters all the way!

Not working in Firefox either.

I like cheesesteaks too but I was nominating for SW PA not Eastern PA.

Mrs T's sucks.

Southwestern PA - Pierogi!

I have been eying this product for a long time! But my old bodum travel coffee/tea press mug won't die. Well, it's sortuv dying... the strainer lets some leaves in when I push down. Hmmm...

Does this list also apply to language used in a cover letter? (Though I agree that no one should use the word 'synergy' in any context EVER).

Seriously?! I just bought a Model B last Wednesday! I guess it's not a huge loss since this is for a cheap-HTPC but still!

oh. well... dang. So if I cable-cut again, I'd need a different TV tuner device so that I could watch (and record/pause/etc) OTA signal shows through my HTPC. Thanks for the info.

I love this device. No, it doesn't have an OTA tuner on it but, at least in my area, the small antennae of some of the internal devices don't pick up OTA signals well enough. So I have an antenna that I could plug into this one if I switched down from cable.

My official vote goes to Swype but gimme a few days and this keymonk keyboard may very well surpass it! two-finger swiping could be a huge game-changer for me.

Or better yet that 4.4 would allow you to see the MMS. It's rather irritating to me not to have the full MMS conversations displayed.

I did that for 3 years. OTA provided NFL, some CFB and CBB and a smidge of hockey. But streaming futbol, baseball, etc. just became a pain after a while. I agree with your stated principle but the execution became cumbersome.

I was cable-free and pretty content for 3 years; HD Antenna with WMC/XBMC for pvr plus downloading and netflix. But I really really missed live sports. Streaming through ATDEE and other sites gets old after a while. Recently signed up for Comcast and basic cable was included. Now Verizon FiOS has moved into my area…

Hi Whitson, I was looking at this build and wondered why there's no CPU cooler. Isn't that a normal part of a build? Also, if one has a NAS or separate storage, why not an SSD? Thanks.