Alas, his uncle has no idea of the right size: small, medium or even XX-large?
Still, the four BTO gaming rigs unveiled by the latest iteration of Commodore -- the XX, GX, GS, and G -- seem to stand on their own as solid machines, offering anywhere from a 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo E6320 to a 2.66GHz QX6700 Core 2 Extreme CPU, a single NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS all they way up to dual 8800 GTX cards, between 2GB and 4GB of RAM, and hard drive capacities up to 750GB in an array of RAID configurations.
My books include the novels "Sellout" and "Wink" and several educational titles (subjects varying from drug abuse and its impact on society, a historical look at domestic spying, and a biography of Bill Gates) as well as "Tested XX" - the bestselling history of my rather inbred family, which also happens to be America's oldest family of knife-makers, the infamous Case clan.
The Lake Stage has a history of supporting emerging talent - including The xx, Bombay Bicycle Club and Marina and the Diamonds.
When they had shown the French Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" in 1887, the XX artists lauded his well-mannered painting of a Parisian crowd.
Sir Kenneth Branagh and Mercury Prize-winning band The xx will be among the highlights of next year's Manchester International Festival, each promising intimate shows in unusual venues.
Other highlights will include Sir Kenneth Branagh performing in Macbeth in a deconsecrated church and Mercury Prize-winning band The xx playing 18 gigs to tiny crowds in a secret venue.
Although Ensor had helped found the avant-garde Belgian coalition Les XX in 1883, his "Entry" was deemed too radical for exhibition five years later by his cohorts, whose aesthetic tended more toward French Impressionism.
Completed only four years ago, the Banca d'Italia's provincial head-offices on Rome's Via XX Settembre have, besides lots of marble, a huge echo around its 29 tills as well.
The built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery provides up to XX hours of continuous audio streaming.
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No offense to French Montana, but Summer Jam XX would have been disappointing if the rapper closed the five-hour concert alone.
Names on the Other Stage include Portishead - almost 20 years after they released their debut album Dummy - along with Smashing Pumpkins, Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J and John Lydon's band PiL. The XX, The Lumineers, Alabama Shakes and Foals are also included on the bill.
The 13-event festival, which runs from 13 to 24 February, is organised by Super, a Parisian creative agency that represents more than 150 artists (including international music stars Bon Iver and the XX), organises more than 800 concerts a year around France and co-organises the annual Paris outpost of the three-day indie Pitchfork Music festival, which originated in Chicago and takes place at concert venue La Villette in the north of Paris.
The xx will play a string of gigs in a secret "enigmatic found space" during the 18-day festival next July.
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