This was around 2003 or 2004. After I had purchased a townhouse outside of DC I decided to go with DirecTV for television programming and Comcast for cable internet.

I once had Comcast come by for an installation - I can't remember what it was. In my apartment was a small box where the cable came out of and it was missing a screw. They charged something like $4 for the screw and $15-$20 to install it. I wasn't present at the time (my girlfriend was home but paid little attention…

No, previous Soundtrack posts overwhelmingly have something to do with items or topics found elsewhere on the Gawker media empire suite of sites or is tied to current events. This is just doesn't belong.

And your sappy proclamation of love on a gadget oriented website is worthy of publication why?

Read it upside down.

A simple Google search turned up this solution:

Mr. SQLGuru,

so one scientist's opinion and an unsourced anecdote. Right then.

because clearly a single scientist's opinion totally outweighs two decades of research.

Let's leave fabrics out of this, please.

It may sound like a contradiction, but I don't think it is. I marvel at the ingenuity of all these machines, big and small, but at the end they are killing machine and I despise them for that.

Should have her do a demo

what is this?

I think they just say "hey!" all the time...

No, not good design; lazy design.

As someone with a milder form of CP than the mother featured in the documentary, I'll say that smoking marijuana was most likely the best thing that happened to me.

Apparently, you bought shoes instead.