Nice, you beat me to it, but I was going to recommend Barcade as well! It would likely be free and a lot more fun than any old event hall.

And they serve beer!

I am looking forward to having a clean and well designed interface on a phone. It's gotta be easy to use, so I can quickly pull up information on it and do the things I want to do with it.

I hate having to figure out how to merge a call on my phone. The touchscreen is brilliant for that!

Damn you Verizon. When I bought my 8703e 2 weeks ago you told me that the 8830 would be going for $400. Now it's going for $200, or just slightly more than I paid for my (now very bulky) 8703e.

I'm tempted to take them up on the whole 30 day return thing and upgrade.

So do we have a final price about what it will go for with 1/year contract?

I had the same problem with Cingular as Sean talked about above. After closing my account and transferring my number away, they kept charging me. The worst part was, every time I called them they said that they corrected it, and then I would get another bill.

It took many many months to get a credit for the money that I had paid (I had left on auto-withdrawl, so I had no choice). Eventually I got it, but only after hours of the most frustrating customer service I have ever experienced.

I am back on VZW and while they aren't my favorite company in the world, they are a head and shoulders above Cingluar. Oh, and the call quality is better too.

Stretch got it right. Ask any pro photographer what lens he uses. It won't be 28-500, those don't even exist for DSLR's. Why? Because the longer the range, the more difficult it is to keep the sharpness up.

ISO6400? That is complete marketing crap. And the resulting image will be... crap. I don't really see it as a feature to let compact camera users take photos that aren't good for anything.

Nikon managed to make an ok lens that is 18-210 (~12x) for DSLR's. It's pretty sharp, though not nearly as good as ones with less range. It also costs $750.

The best buy at 86th St. and Lexington has had this open for about a month. Prices are pretty good, and they do already have the Project Red RAZR. The nice thing is that they hired new employees to work it, and they seem to be a step above typical BB employees when it comes to customer service. I like how you can walk in and compare many different companies offerings, without feeling the pressure or worry about getting uber ripped off like the small shops.

They had one of these in stock Saturday at the East Village Tower Records. It was on sale too, since they were closing.

While I agree that keeping Google off there makes sense (if we are focusing on gadgets), the fact that you used a price-weighted index rather than a market-weighted one means that slight changes to the value of those stocks priced higher will have a greater impact on your portfolio than they should.

If you are attempting to see how well you do, in some thoretical stock-picking game, I would suggest that you use some other sort of weighting. By doing it the way that you are doing it, if AAPL (70B market cap, share price 82) goes up 10%, your index goes up far more than if MSFT goes up 10% (280B market cap, share price 26). You may have wished to put greater emphasis on AAPL, but you should do that by buying varied numbers of shares, NOT by relying on the stock price.

Nintendo World Store in NYC has been taking pre-orders (Guaranteed as well) for weeks. I pre-ordered one September 18th.

Of course you have to go there in person.

I don't really think that there is any risk that these will sell out. They will be popular, but selling as few as 4 million or as many as 9 million before Christmas is pretty unlikely. It's not like the PS3, where we are seeing fewer than 10% of the Wii's numbers. Then again, I know that I want one badly enough that I am not going to risk not having one preordered.

I live in NYC and would love to check this out.