True. If I were a member of the family I just spent Thanksgiving with, I'd get out as much as possible. My parents and I go to my dad's best friend's house for Thanksgiving every year. They have about 30 of their closest family and friends. No offense intended to anyone when I say this, but every year is a culture shock for out little WASP family when we spend it in a few rooms with a large Jewish family. I'm not used to it mostly since I have few relatives, but also because the decibel level is insane!

But it's a funny contrast to when we have them over for a small, quiet evening for Christmas diner. I think we might be the only family that serves a kosher Christmas diner

The whole thing is just ridiculous.

This is just ridiculous... And WalMart wants her back as a shopper, probably to recover the millions her lawyers will get her from WalMart in the coming months...

I don't believe in throwing functional things away (much to my wife's chagrin). It does mean I give a lot of weird stuff away at work to students, or sell strange things on eBay. In a few weeks I'm giving someone most of my IBM RT collection.

A kosher diner is one without chrome?

They put the DVD player on "hold" for her? Why didn't they give it to her?

That $29 DVD player was lame. This Apex progressive scan unit for $39 is the best deal out there IMHO. I have one. It is an excellent value. No region hack though.

How is Apex as a brand? The products they sell are so much cheaper compared to everyone else. I'm currently looking for a new TV and the Apex flat screens are much cheaper. I'd like a Sony since the picture is great. How does Apex compare?

Sorry for the thread hijack.

My mother-in-law bought an Apex DVD player for our upstairs while she was staying with us and then left it here when she moved in with my wife's sister. It isn't fancy, but it plays DVDs without any hitches (unlike our other DVD player wich is a piece of garbage and messes up the menus all the time). Right now I don't have it hooked to a receiver so I can't really judge the sound quality, but it looks good and plays movies like you'd expect. I'm not sure there's much else to say. The bottom line is that it does the trick and I have no real complaints.

In addition to the new AD-2600, I have the AD-600A which was a very popular player 2-3 years back due to its secret hack menu. That unit still works and plays great from day-one.

The AD-2600 is excellent. The build quality seems to definitely be there. Nice and sturdy and the power button is no-longer a mechanical switch that cuts power to the power supply (you can now power-down the unit from the remote). I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this player to anyone.

Whoa, sweet. Thanks for that pointer... One for me and one for Mom! =]

... I don't want to be right.

It sounds like you have nothing to worry about there.

For only the second time in 20 years, I braved Black Friday. But instead of queuing for cheap electronics at my local big-box superstore, I drove 90 minutes to the Sierra Trading Post warehouse in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to pick up a $400+ Marmot Alpinist jacket for $86. Exactly three people in front of me when I got there at their regular opening time of 9 a.m.

Cheyenne, Wyoming... Exactly three people in front of me when I got there at their regular opening time

Yeah, Pony Express is still slow in that part of the country with getting the news about big sales spread around...

I didn't do black friday. The sales were lame.

> This is just ridiculous... And WalMart wants her back as a shopper, probably to recover the millions her lawyers will get her from WalMart in the coming months...

Turns out the she is a con. She and her sister have gotten "injured" at least 10 times before at Wal-mart alone, not to mention her other suits.

http://www.local6.com/news/2683654/detail.html

HAHA! I hope they don't hold that DVD player for her now...