First at a buddy's house, then in my garage for 13 years, and then, as my wife and I set about an historic home restoration (obviously I never learn) in my mother's garage for the last five.

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Individual TV channels, complete with personalized slide shows of digital photos, can be created and access can be given to others, even if they aren't in the same house, similar to an IM buddy list.

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Its owner Michael Lee bought the house from the estate of late comedian Buddy Hackett, who informally renamed it the Love Shack for all the Rat Pack-filled parties he held.

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Then he suavely juggled two genres: romantic comedy (A New Leaf, House Calls) and 32 years of grumpy-buddy movies with Jack Lemmon.

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Before Holbrooke was sworn in, Helms asked the White House to appoint an alternate U.N. delegate: Irwin Belk, a feisty North Carolina buddy who heads a department-store chain.

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But they reckon without the influence of his determined buddy Costa, who puts all his considerable social networking skills to promoting what turns out to be the ultimate house party.

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