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Betty Fox, mother of Terry, passed away this morning. -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Jun 17, 11:53 1
- RIP. -- nm - Andie Jun 17, 11:55
Public Service Announcement (to Kirstie Alley) : No-one believes you are a size 4 and have a 22 inch waist. - Andie Jun 17, 11:53 1
- get. out. that kind of makes me angry inside. She has lied continually about her actual weight though -- nm - Epiphany Jun 17, 11:54
Reese Witherspoon's neighbors upset her minature donkeys "Honky and Tonky" are too loud -- (link) - MDH Jun 17, 11:49 2
- her neighbours, Honky and Tonky, upset Reese's donkeys? -- nm - zork Jun 17, 11:51 1
  - Reese's donkeys are too loud for the neighborhood :-) -- nm - MDH Jun 17, 11:52
Since I missed the weekend plans poll: 1) Likely putting in an offer on a house and 2) My weekend of comedy. Louis CK tomorrow night and Steve Martin - pmb Jun 17, 11:49 15
- 2) Holy crap. I could not be more jealous. - Dr.Vermin Jun 17, 11:51
- Matthew Sweet tomorrow night, Father's Day brunch with the twin on Sun -- nm - con_carne Jun 17, 11:51
- Oprah's selling now that she won't be doing the show in Chicago anymore? -- nm - moles Jun 17, 11:51
- Louis CK always does a great job of coming this close || to going too far for me. - prayformojo Jun 17, 11:50 5
  - I totally do. -- nm - pmb Jun 17, 11:56
  - (and i still think of that as a name for a rapper rather than for a comedian) -- nm - prayformojo Jun 17, 11:51 3
    - fried chicken franchise -- nm - con_carne Jun 17, 11:53
    - I was extra confused knowing that he had directed Pootie Tang. -- nm - Reagen Jun 17, 11:52 1
      - i know, right? -- nm - prayformojo Jun 17, 11:52
- that's a fairly kick-ass weekend. -- nm - Andie Jun 17, 11:50
- Louis CK may legitimately be the funniest man on the planet right now. -- nm - Reagen Jun 17, 11:50 1
  - the 2nd half of Louie's first season went to some strange places -- nm - prayformojo Jun 17, 11:51
- #1: oooooh, congrats! -- nm - ty97 Jun 17, 11:49 2
  - and: whereabouts? - ty97 Jun 17, 11:50 1
    - Roscoe Village. - pmb Jun 17, 11:55
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- they have compassion for the unemployed -- nm - moles Jun 17, 11:48
- he's aiming for a Flawless Victory -- nm - prayformojo Jun 17, 11:47
LYC: So in addition to seeing Marina and the Diamonds tonight, I may be hanging out with her after the show! - MDH Jun 17, 11:42
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Skipping DJ practice last weekend is proving bad. I have soooo much music to go through. -- nm - Qale Jun 17, 11:40 6
- DJ ... practice? - zork Jun 17, 11:42 5
  - Yup yup. Practice. Unsurprisingly the more I know a song, the better I mix. So skipping a week, all the new stuff that came out piled up. -- nm - Qale Jun 17, 11:49 1
    - And what's worse (better?) is not only is there new versions of Gaga, Beyonce ect. We're getting a glut of 90's nostalgia dance redone for the next - Qale Jun 17, 11:51
  - Qale is in The X-Ecutioners - con_carne Jun 17, 11:47 2
    - He's Grand Master Flash! -- nm - lileve Jun 17, 11:48 1
      - SemeUke! -- nm - Qale Jun 17, 11:52
friday hax chat q: she has a no-phones at the dinner table rule within her family. is it rude to extend that rule to dinner guests? - moles Jun 17, 11:34 26
- Let him be, he's the boring one. -- nm - Amy Jun 17, 11:51
- Nope. That's a great rule. nm - Dignan Jun 17, 11:47
- It's your house, your table, your rules. - Stephen Jun 17, 11:46 2
  - do you reprimand guests for chewing with their mouth open? ;) -- nm - loosilu Jun 17, 11:46 1
    - Yes. - Stephen Jun 17, 11:48
- I think it is okay to extend it to other dinner guests -- nm - Epiphany Jun 17, 11:41
- Maybe she should try being less boring. -- nm - Ender Jun 17, 11:40
- If you annouce it at the start, otherwise it puts them on the spot when it does ring, related, I HATE it when confronted with saying a prayer unexpect - zeitgeist Jun 17, 11:39 7
  - I don't think it's about the phone ringing and them taking a call. -- nm - mara Jun 17, 11:41 1
    - oh, yeah, this is definitely texting/web surfing -- nm - Andie Jun 17, 11:43
  - this is what i say, announce lightly at the very beginning of dinner 'we've made our dinner table a phone-free zone.' and leave it at that. - Andie Jun 17, 11:40
  - I just sit quietly and wait. -- nm - loosilu Jun 17, 11:40 3
    - Loosi, as our guest at dinner tonight, YOU must say the blessing/grace (sits back smuggly) -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 17, 11:42 2
      - ugh, never had that happen. -- nm - loosilu Jun 17, 11:43
      - "no thanks" -- nm - moles Jun 17, 11:43
- Send a text to him at dinner calling in the tab on all the free meals you've served him. -- nm - Max Jun 17, 11:39
- Wow, that's tough. That was certainly the rule in our house growing up. But that's when there was one phone, on the wall, in the other room. - Dr.Vermin Jun 17, 11:39 3
  - My interpretation of the letter isn't that he's talking on the phone but that he's using the web. -- nm - Ender Jun 17, 11:41
  - a ringing phone is one thing. but just sitting there on facebook or whatever during dinner is rude. - sycor Jun 17, 11:40 1
    - especially when they are updating their status with a critique of the recipes and cooking skills -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 17, 11:49
- No, I think it would be rude of her to try to impose the rule. -- nm - mara Jun 17, 11:36 1
  - this. -- nm - loosilu Jun 17, 11:37
- Are you in the mafia? -- nm - con_carne Jun 17, 11:36
- it depends on the guests, actually. but extended family, i say 'yes, you can set the rules.' do it lightly, and say something before the phone comes - Andie Jun 17, 11:36
- I'd do it. We had a no TV during dinner rule when I was a kid. I can see this being the same. -- nm - sycor Jun 17, 11:36
- your house, your rules. -- nm - znufrii Jun 17, 11:35
How much does the new kitten eat? She reminds me of the mayor in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. - David Jun 17, 11:33 13
- Ah, the little Biscuit. -- nm - Kim Pine Jun 17, 11:45 1
  - Is that the new cutie's name? -- nm - Diva Jun 17, 11:48
- you're gonna have to name her Will. -- nm - loosilu Jun 17, 11:36
- "I don't understand it, James Coco went mad in 15 minutes!" (nm) - Brian Jun 17, 11:35
- I forget, was she a rescue? -- nm - Reagen Jun 17, 11:34 8
  - Yes, she'd been at Pet Smart a week and we could see her ribs. - David Jun 17, 11:37 7
    - Hee. They always know they hit the pet lotto. - Reagen Jun 17, 11:49
    - i'm glad she found you guys to take care of her -- nm - prayformojo Jun 17, 11:46
    - mrowr - I'm just going thru a phase. *keeps eating* -- nm - Chubby Kitty si Jun 17, 11:46
    - Nice! Best of luck with the new family member. - Krusty Jun 17, 11:45
    - Kitty Purry! -- nm - Diva Jun 17, 11:43
    - soon she can't see her own feet! - Epiphany Jun 17, 11:42 1
      - you know they are too fat when *you* can't see their feet -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 17, 11:43
David, no one who knows anything about drafts thinks 2002 was a weak draft. No one. - Will Hunting Jun 17, 11:31 8
- Here is the first round of the 2002 draft. - David Jun 17, 11:37 6
  - Ugh, Bryan Bullington - Brian Jun 17, 11:45 1
    - But he was signable! -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 17, 11:45
  - Tom Verducci has it the 6th best draft ever. -- (link) - Will Hunting Jun 17, 11:40 2
    - Then Tom Verducci is as wrong as you. - David Jun 17, 11:43 1
      - Money pick ..... solid player .... don't remember ... injured...don't remember - Will Hunting Jun 17, 11:45
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to put it another way, people who will be seniors in high school this fall were maybe born after the oj slow motion chase.....nm - x Jun 17, 11:30 1
- yeah I was a senior in HS when it happened. I really couldn't have cared more about the whole thing. - sycor Jun 17, 11:38
Bery, coding idea: - Dr.Vermin Jun 17, 11:28 6 1
- I added this to the surrrrrrvey. :) -- nm - JaxSean Jun 17, 11:54
- Wait wait, I'm still waiting for the addition of copying of the top menu down at the bottom with the drop down backboards. -- nm - Qale Jun 17, 11:54
- ... my dead body -- nm - Spon Jun 17, 11:37
- this is how it starts :) -- nm - oblique Jun 17, 11:31
- with a link back? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 11:29 1
  - Ooh, definitely! Good idea. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jun 17, 11:32
i just had one of those conversations with someone where what you are describing is so simple, yet, they seem completely confused and out of it. - Andie Jun 17, 11:24 17
- Wife has the responsibility of teaching middle-aged nurses who've never used a computer before how to use a computer for work. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 17, 11:39 6
  - ?? what, are these 3rd world immigrants? a middle aged person now would have been in their 20's when computers became part of our daily lives -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 17, 11:41 5
    - Not everybody's life has been like yours. -- nm - mara Jun 17, 11:53
    - It's a shocking percentage. Of 10 that she has trained in the past two weeks, 5 were utterly clueless. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 17, 11:43 3
      - My brother has a similar responsibility. He's trying to get middle aged doctors and nurses in rural KY clinics to use iPads. - loosilu Jun 17, 11:45
      - crazy. -- nm - loosilu Jun 17, 11:44
      - what are they? a bunch of third-world immigrants?! -- nm - moles Jun 17, 11:44
- You lost me, Andie. - con_carne Jun 17, 11:30 3
  - *takes your applesauce away* -- nm - prayformojo Jun 17, 11:31 2
    - (laughing.) -- nm - the feel bad poster of ST Jun 17, 11:32 1
      - i'm about to run that into the ground - prayformojo Jun 17, 11:33
- No, cut a hole in the *side* of the box. Yes, just one hole. Guh. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jun 17, 11:29 1
  - ok, this is funny -- nm - zork Jun 17, 11:30 1
- I hate those, and when I know there's something fundamental being misunderstood and try to diagnose what, the other person seems to get offended. -- nm - mara Jun 17, 11:26 1
  - A popular expression is "explain it to me like I'm a five-year-old." But nobody likes it when you take the initiative. - Dr.Vermin Jun 17, 11:36 1
- "ohhhh, *rooting*" -- nm - Max Jun 17, 11:26
- gavileel?? -- nm - the feel bad poster of ST Jun 17, 11:25
Companies that shirk on desktops agitate the daylights out of me. - David Jun 17, 11:23 16
- I'm going to have to downgrade my laptop because I switched divisions. so annoyed. It has to do with who bought it. -- nm - loosilu Jun 17, 11:37
- What if they shimmy? -- nm - con_carne Jun 17, 11:31
- Note: My "new" computer is repurposed. -- nm - Amy Jun 17, 11:28
- I embarassed a big time VP into buying a new set of computers for the office a couple years ago. "We can't load our own site." -- nm - Reagen Jun 17, 11:26 4
  - wow -- nm - zork Jun 17, 11:29 3
    - I relied on autosave as a matter of course. -- nm - Reagen Jun 17, 11:30 2
      - my first computer here had IE 2 IIRC. I couldn't even load microsoft.com to get the new one (5.5?). Luckily yahoo loaded and I found someone's ... - zork Jun 17, 11:34 1
        
        Wow -- nm - lileve Jun 17, 11:40
- I tried to use that to justify paying the meagar monthly fee for spam fighting. 80% of email is spam. If you spend 1 second deleting each one, those - oblique Jun 17, 11:25 5
  - don't forget the disaster that occur when you delete a bunch of 'obvious' spams not realizing one of the subjects "hi" is from an actual potential - zeitgeist Jun 17, 11:35
  - That's exactly the type of thing that drives me nut. People see the expense, not the savings. - David Jun 17, 11:27 3
    - this also affects my industry in some more subtle man-hour ways; investing in building a proper test harness is rare. - Beryllium Jun 17, 11:28 2
      - An old computer professor of mine had a fantastic NASA story. - David Jun 17, 11:31 1
        
        yeah, that's good stuff. (*cries foul for abuses of public funding!*) -- nm - America's Split Personality Jun 17, 11:32
- :) I could have pressured more to get an upgrade, but I got a job upgrade instead. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 11:23 1
  - (Job upgrade includes computer upgrade. :) ) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 11:33
kilbo/groiny, Halo went out Wednesday - JaxSean Jun 17, 11:22 3
- *twitch* I'll have to order that 2 months for $2 thing tonight before it expires. Thanks again! -- nm - oblique Jun 17, 11:22 2
  - sorry. - JaxSean Jun 17, 11:25 1
    - Oh, no worries. I don't actually know *when* it expires, I just don't want to get caught by it -- nm - oblique Jun 17, 11:25
36 covers of Paranoid Android mixed into one -- (link) - Reagen Jun 17, 11:21 [youtube]
weirdly, today is the anniversary of OJ's chase and arrest for murder - moles Jun 17, 11:21 7
- I've always wondered how much different things would have been if he hadn't been talked out of killing himself. -- nm - David Jun 17, 11:24 6
  - I don't think ever he had any intent of doing that - Brian Jun 17, 11:27 3
    - yeah, but again if you watch the footage and listen to some of the audio - it's a man who is saying his goodbyes to the world. -- nm - Reagen Jun 17, 11:28 2
      - just imagine the people on the overpasses and in the helicopters if the glass was suddenly shot out in front of them. -- nm - zork Jun 17, 11:40
      - "now if we just stay calm, no one's gonna be harmed by the huge bomb that's gonna explode any minute. "...nm - x Jun 17, 11:31
  - i don't think he had to be talked out of much. - moles Jun 17, 11:25
  - It's funny how through the trial that people started convincing themselves that he might not have done it. - Reagen Jun 17, 11:25
Per Twitter: Family recognize 17-year old on a police car during the riot. Turn him into the RCMP for charges. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jun 17, 11:20 2
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- good for them. -- nm - Andie Jun 17, 11:21
Windows 95 board! -- nm - prayformojo Jun 17, 11:20 7
- *edits autoexec.bat to get game to run*..nm - x Jun 17, 11:21 5
  - i was part-timing at Software Etc. starting law school - moles Jun 17, 11:24 4
    - I vividly recall the outrage people felt over Wing Commander needing 7 MB of install space back when most people had 40 GB hard drives. -- nm - David Jun 17, 11:44 3
      - you must have extended memory....nm - x Jun 17, 11:53
      - i remember cutting a notch on floppy drives so we could flip it over and get another 360k of space the store programs -- nm - zork Jun 17, 11:47
      - computer nerds: fighting the real injustices since at least 1995 -- nm - moles Jun 17, 11:47
- BSOD -- nm - oblique Jun 17, 11:21
[an error occurred while processing this Fun Fun Fun Fun directive] -- nm - Qale Jun 17, 11:19
first single was Silly Love Songs by McCartny, first album was this K-Tel one -- (link) - zork Jun 17, 11:18 [youtube] 2
- First single: Snoopy and the Red Baron by the Royal Guardsmen (so embarrassing I know) first album Meet the Beattles (and proud of it) -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 17, 11:38
- first CD: I bought Cleaveland Symphony doing Beethoven's 9th and Dire Straits Money For Nothing at the same time -- nm - zork Jun 17, 11:21
Iowa: More progressive than New York -- nm - ty97 Jun 17, 11:17

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