will (Level 1)

For me, there are really three things. One, my primary work machine is a laptop and I carry it with me everywhere. Moving from 4 lbs to 3lbs is a massive improvement in carry weight. Two, battery life. Typically, lower power 3 poundish laptops have batteries that last at least 4-5 hours. That's vital. The final thing is heat. The MBA and Ultrabooks don't get particularly hot, so you can actually put them on your lap without burning anything or making yourself sterile. This also is important.

@wonko33 said:

Situation: In my office, lunch time

2 students walk in.... Hey Mr <insert my name> where's that Lego thing you watch? ME: sorry kids no episode 6 yet.

I understand things happen and episodes can be late, but seriously @will @Norm , have you thought about the children? ;)

I don't think you should let children watch The Amazing Test

Edit: image credit: Tony Guerrero

Special thanks to Norm who used this picture when we had a bunch of good ones where both our eyes were opened

image credit: Norman Chan who is an asshole

@richinjapan said:

I'm in the market to buy some new spectacles, and I think Will's are awesome.

Where can I get them? Other than from his face, I mean.

They're Persols. The model number is 2855-V. FWIW, I really love them, and I've never really had a pair of glasses that were comfortable and fit my thickass lenses this well before. The sides are a little looser than I'd like, in a perfect world, but it isn't bad unless I'm under hot lights or getting sweaty tromping around a tradeshow or something :)

Do you guys want to know my blood type too? ;)

I'm bringing my laptop home tonight, but I think I fixed the problems I had this weekend, so we have a fallback position, just in case my main machine doesn't work.

Typically, disk is too slow means that you need to clean off your hard drive, at least in my experience.

Oops. I meant to set it for tomorrow evening, not this morning... Still having problems with the streaming set up on my home machine. Working on that today, sometime.

Joss has gotten a lot more bald since that picture was taken, while my hairline remains strong.

@ebritt: The first episode of Tested: The Show was good for the site, it got a lot of people excited about what we're doing. Unfortunately it was really an intensive production process, and basically stalled all content on the site for two or three weeks. I hope we'll have some exciting stuff to announce on that front later this year, but in order to do something like The Show with any kind of regularity and keep the regular site running day-to-day, we need at least a couple of more people. Unless we're OK with making people go crazy.

If you add a telephone-like filter to it, it should sound perfect. I'm not going to use any that include reference to Nazis, fascism, or too much profanity.

I like where you're going with this. I'll show Norm tomorrow at the office and see what he thinks :)

Are you looking for this? http://media.tested.com/podcast/closingthemetemplate.wav

I'd suggest keeping them reasonably clean, if you want me to consider using them :)

It looks like the issue is article length. Stuff that's shorter than the right column doesn't work. Stuff that's longer does. I'll see if we can label the main body as the Instapaper section or something.

A++ would LOL again.

@Verus1 said:

@LtSquigs I've only recently discovered Tested as a channel on my Roku, but since then I've spent quite a bit of time on the site as well. I love the tech/coffee content mixture and would like to support your efforts. The thing is, I can't really see spending much time on the other Whiskey Media sites and you mentions you didn't see much benefit because Tested had the least amount of subscriber content. So, my question is; do you see this as something that will change in the near future? The other thing that would make it worth it for me, is if there was actually something at the store that I wanted to apply the $15 to. Preferably a mug with the site's logo. I've read in other places on the site that there will be some additions to the store, but I'm not sure when.

Thanks for posting! We've got new stuff coming next week. We're going to announce is Sunday during the live stream drive to Vegas for CES, and we'll have ton of subscriber-only content coming to Tested in, well, let's say a few weeks.