I can make up for that in frequency. I promise.

Do you know if :rolleyes:v is still going or is it just you and me now?

That creates a pipeline problem (there's nothing left but new priority items to ship) but it's a corollary of the companies that force sales into the prior quarter, then come short(er) the current quarter.

xyzzy and buy.com. I remember hilarious scenes back in December 2006 :D And I remember my parents looking rather irritated seeing all those boxes being delivered to the house every single day for weeks ;)

So now you made friends with buy.com again? :p

That's my j:eek:b!

I thought :rolleyes:v had to :eek: and IIRC he was :mad: about it. If he is in town, it'd be nice if he joined us for ribs.

I don't recall seeing either of those hotels when I was down there. IIRC, the most centrally located hotel with the best views of the bay was the InterContinental (but there's lots of construction going on around there now).

Be sure to hit up Amador Causeway and have lunch at the hole-in-the-wall diner by the Yacht Club. The Pollo Criolla is outstanding. Under no circumstances should you attempt to walk to the Casco Viejo from the Multicentro.

:rolleyes:

;)

I still buy from them, but back then Google offered $20 off every order over $50 if you used Google Checkout. So, every item I ordered that was over $50 became its own individual order. Lower cost items were grouped together to just hit $50. I ended up placing over 70 individual orders.

That's impressive. ^^ We had a similar scheme with an Office Depot in NYC one day, but it was $15 off $15. Eventually the cashiers got sick of dealing with us so just rang everything up at once. That was nice.

Dangerous or long walk?

:td: :(

A whole conversation made only in emoticons. :cool:

Mad Max Dangerous. If you want to see the Casco Viejo, and don't have a rental car, have a cab take you to the Cathedral and wait for you while you walk around and snap photos. The main parts of the Casco Viejo (Cathedral and surrounding areas) have plenty of Panamanian Police with submachineguns to keep an eye on things. To get to that area, you have to cross through an area along the waterfront that is a bit hairy (at least I did, but perhaps cabbies know a different route into there that isn't as crazy as the waterfront route). Collapsed buildings blocking part of the road, people walking around huffing glue from plastic bags with machetes strapped to their side, prostitutes actively touting construction workers in broad daylight... that sort of thing.

There's a reason many of the photos of the Casco Viejo that one sees on Wikipedia and elsewhere were snapped from Amador or the Multicentro... using telephoto lenses. :D

We need an sfogate-CLE-equivalent here who can assist you into your middle seat next time you fly through... ;)

It started off that way because he was watching Lost and I don't and keep BL JR busy during Lost.