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Consider it an experiment in web interactivity. Or, consider it a way to artificially inflate our hit count. Either way, just write in!
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Updated on January 16, 2007
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January 11, 2007,
Skip getting an iPhone: how and at what cost? Did he pay to have it stolen from the vaults at Cupertino??? If so the Apple ninjas will be on the station soon to retrieve it for their lord and master and inflict horrible pain to all they find.
I hope the acquisition was less drastic and Skip merely signed over the souls of the crew to Steve Jobs.
Ninjas.... just look what they did to As The Apple Turns. Still stuck, in frozen animation, in the pre Intel years. Poor souls. If they were revived now they would surely die of shock.
--Simon
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Skip ain't tellin', Simon, but rest assured that Steve Jobs received nobody's soul in the transaction. But the Apple ninjas are effective, aren't they? We remember years ago when sites like Mac OS Rumors would have relevant information. Nowadays, the secrecy clamps are on so tight that all MOSR can do is report on the news. And reporting the news is hardly a rumor. Well, unless you're from the Associated Press.
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January 12, 2007,
I've complained about this before, but I know something is not working right when I go to a brand new computer (no possibility of old cookies or memory confusing the page download) on Friday morning, call up rockwoodcomic.com and get Wednesday's comic, even though the yellow type says "updated Friday, January 12."
Are the comic images being linked properly? Or did you forget to upload the image? Or what?
--James
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We don't know what to tell you, James. Apparently you're jinxed, because we haven't had anyone else complain about this problem. Perhaps the brand new computer had been previously used by another Rockwood fan, and the old image was still cached. And perhaps this other Rockwood fan had also just ordered a 2007 Rockwood Calendar.
What would that have to do with it, you ask? Well, nothing. But we had to get a plug in there somehow.
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January 13, 2007,
You are right about doctors (and everyone else) hemming and hawing about the price of everything.
I am without insurance and wondering if I will ever be able to repair my ACL. I have been told $10,000 to $20,000 for this surgery. Your list, total of approx. $14,000, seems to fall into the range I was qouted. However it is now three years later and I'm asure the price of everything has increased.
It sucks that those of us without insurance have to face a lifetime of not being able to even halfway enjoy any sports ever again. I think this sucks.
Glad you got yours fixed though with that "pretty good" insurance. I wish I could bitch about my leg being a little stiff and missing those "2 inches" in a crouch. Never forget how lucky you are.
--A. L. P.
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Brian considers himself extremely lucky, A.L.P., but remember: just because he had insurance doesn't mean his surgery was free. He still had to dig into his pockets to pay out a big chunk of change. There's a reason that Rockwood is still edited on an eight-year-old computer.
The fact is, an ACL replacement is major surgery, and major surgeries cost major money. Unfortunately, fixing your ACL will never be cheap, and we'd bet you're correct in that it will also never get cheaper. But if you want to play energetic sports again, you'll just have to figure out a way to save some money to use for doctor payments (one nice thing about the medical profession is that they usually don't charge you interest if you make regular payments). Good luck!
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