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  1. Snappy;

    Benson the engineer here!

    CSA stands for “Canadian Standards Association”. ETL is some type of new standard that is being promoted by an independent company. Based upon what you wrote, I suspect that these are “gray market” items: designed for the Canadian market, and then resold here.

    From a safety point of view, they are probably just fine. The only concern may be insurance. UL stands for Underwriters Lab, the underwriters being insurance types. If you were to have a fire in your apartment due to one of these toasters, and you had renter’s insurance, they would not cover it (if they investigated that deeply). It has to be UL-certified for them to cover it. If this is a concern for you, avoid these products.

  2. m4l, it was fine. One of my colleagues just called to tell me I was charming and a perfect gentleman. I firmly believe in burning no bridges. It’s a small world, and people are always tripping over each other from one bank to the next.

    m4l, Dave, so are we meeting for breakfast at 11:30 tomorrow at Grand Sichuan at 55th & 2nd (or is it 3rd)??

  3. DH, no. where / how are you listening to the tunes at work now? ever since Imeem got bought, I couldn’t listen to tunes there and have stopped listening completely at work

    Posted by: more4less at February 18, 2010 4:13 PM

    I’ve been listening to Last FM and Slacker Radio – they are more alternatives to Pandora than IMEEM (which ruled)

    If you’re in a sorta old school hip hop mood – check out the first Mobb Deep album. Been listening to that for a minute now – miss those guys.

  4. I’ll be at home, with Xing. Unless there’s a new Law & Order or Criminal Minds I’ll watch figure skating. Usually though (sans the Asian eye candy) it’s just too gay for me!!!!

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