Brian C

Any ideas as to what it might be? There shouldn't be any lint blocking the dryer vent I paid 100 dollars to have a company come and clean it.

I have windows 7 and pro tools 8 will not install on my machine, it's a brand new Asus stock so I'm guessing it's just never going to work with it. What alternatives do I have to do home recording through my Mbox Mini? I've heard Audacity works but it fails to show the mbox mini as an audio input device when I go to preferences.

My lease for my apartment is ending when June begins, and i've been looking around at houses for rent. Most of them are usually looking for people to lease the place immediately. Is it rude for me to be previewing houses when I'm looking to lease one so far in the future?

Got tickets to the olympics, but have no Passport or Enhanced Drivers license. I've heard these each take more than 2 weeks to get...

I'm not looking to spend anymore than 600 dollars or so, but I can go a bit above if needed. Basically I'm mainly looking for a high quality mic that will be able to capture my voice well, and something such as an 8-track where I could record acoustic or electronic music on, and then sing over the track I just made. I am clueless as to what I should be looking for.

Would a place like Guitar Center do something like this? I tried searching their site but came up w/ nothing. Or is this something only a specialty shop would do? Also can they do it same-day?

I'm about to start work for a company, but the I-9 form they gave me in the mail in a packet says "To be completed and signed by employee at the time employment begins."

This is VERY confusing to me actually... does this mean don't fill it out whatsoever and wait till the first day of orientation to fill it out? Does it mean I can fill it out if I want to? Or does it mean I have to have everything filled out and signed before I actually start my actual work?

Help please!

Hey, I'm a college senior that runs a pretty good 10k and knows how to cycle well, but doesn't really have any formal swimming training/knowledge. I plan on doing triathalons next year, and I need either some good advice to begin with, or better yet a link to the best sites that have the correct info on long distance swimming.

Thanks in advance!

With 2007 finally being a year for decent video game releases, I found it odd that Bioshock is hailed as game of the year by so many sources. I was playing it at my friends house, and it just didn't seem remotely good. The guns, environment, and monsters seemed cartoony, yet it was trying to be a sort of "serious" game and environment? The gameplay seemed incredibly linear and the battle was simple point and shoot with the exception of using a few powers here and there.

The little sisters seemed very repetitive even from the little time I had to play it as well. I ask this question because I feel like I am missing something here, I was thinking of buying the game before I tried it, but after trying it I am having second thoughts.

Does the start of the game just suck and it gets better, or is it just a game that will stay like that for the rest of the game?