It's a natural age progression for the reader (as in the scores of girls that were brought into the fantasy genre via Harry Potter). As they got older and moved through the YA fantasy novels many transitioned to the vampire romance genre (whose female protagonist in the middle of a boy-girl-boy love triangle then…

I think Twilight was the logical extension of the Harry Potter mania, in that as the audience aged up they continued to have something to latch onto. Both phenomena deserve credit, because maintaining a craze is often as difficult if not more so than starting a craze.

waaaah but they're such a pain to go through security with waaah

Here's one quick question: I have an SSD coming today (500 gigs) that I will be using for the actual main drive for the system (it was coming later than the rest but I wanted to start the process immediately). Can I just perfectly clone the current HDD (again using CCC, though I'll use Time Machine if necessary) into…

That part actually comes off as slightly confusing in context because it doesn't distinguish between whether it was already disengaged (if it was disengaged it doesn't matter whether or not it was not pointing towards space as long as you were; the boosters are already on their way to the ground).

Just wanted to update that I basically did as you said (did a fresh partition and reinstall of ML by restoring from my MBP's time machine backup) and it worked basically PERFECTLY. If I'd known how to do this the first time around I would've saved hours of the past week.

if only he'd gone to prison

Wait, no, pachyrhinosaurus with Styracosaur frill.

Yeah, reminded me of a Chasmosaurus (edit: with a Styracosaur's frill)?

After not being able to make it to the 2nd episode of Forward Unto Dawn, this was a nice refreshing change (though not a very fair comparison, FUD still had those scrawny young actors who wore their uniforms like 6th graders playing paintball).

You're telling me... the big pressure this year was saving up for our wedding next August, and the total contract for the job ended up being the price I WOULD'VE quoted on the job originally (at my normal rate) PLUS the amount left I had to save up for the wedding. So we're taking a pre-honeymoon!

Wow, thanks! So you were able to personally migrate your authentic Mac computer data to a hackintosh with no real hiccups? I only ask because if it works 90% of the time I probably would have a hard time finding out how to get the last 10% working ;).

My fiancee and I are taking a super impromptu trip to Germany over Thanksgiving break to celebrate landing a huge freelance contract as well as to just get out of having to do all the Thanksgiving prep (as the "couple" among our friends it usually falls to us to organize).

Just built a Hackintosh and want to know what's the most comprehensive way of migrating the data from my Macbook Pro into the Hackintosh?

Yeah the Pro sounds intriguing but I'll have to wait and see. Again if the Surface is a golfcart with a bucket and the iPad is a shovel, I'd still rather not use either to move a truckload of sand. FWIW I do love my 1st gen iPad but it's clearly a consumption device.

(I swear this is actual curiosity not trolling) did you get the impression you could still do sustained productive work with the surface, though? Like my spoon is better at hauling a truckload of sand across town than a fork, but that doesn't mean I'd haul a truckload of sand across town with either a spoon or a fork.

Yup, I do this as well as the CD spindle trick!

You just reminded me that I told myself that if I ever got a blu-ray player the first thing I would get would be Speed Racer. And I just got a PS3 recently (not my first bluray however, since I'd been gifted others before)

Socialization aside (which is a lot, I understand, so I know I'm trying to pick my battles here), but would you actually want to date a guy whom you judge as thinking they unjustifiably deserve a supermodel without looking like one? It seems like the universe is giving you a pretty easy way of culling a huge segment…