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Falcons release former 1st rd picks: WR Michael Jenkins, DL Jamaal Anderson -- nm - Strongbad Jul 29, 06:19 5
- And Michael Koenen just received the richest contract ever for a punter/kicker at 6 years/$19 million. -- nm - David Jul 29, 06:25 1
  - (with Tampa Bay) -- nm - David Jul 29, 06:26
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  - I think he could become a stud somewhere else. He's a great run stuffer on the strong side but RTs maul him in pass rush. - David Jul 29, 06:27
  - Atlanta took him 3 picks before Patrick Willis was drafted, 6 picks before Darrelle Revis. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 29, 06:22
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- first, look for an area volunteer service that will rehome servicable stuff at schools, non-profits, welfare/shelter residents -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 29, 12:48
- Best Buy -- (link) - oblique Jul 29, 06:19 5
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    - I won't buy from them but I will dump off my excess junk at their stores. Seems about right -- nm - oblique Jul 29, 06:21 3
      - i only give electronics to groups that refurbish/recycle state-side... what goes on overseas is pretty horrible. - colin Jul 29, 06:26
      - there is real money in recyckled computer stuff nowadays - Danedukenuuk Jul 29, 06:23
      - I can't think of a major chain store with worse customer service. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 29, 06:23
- Oh yes. Try your city's trash/recycling department and they will tell you. Even Best Buy does ecycling for some stuff. -- nm - Amy Jul 29, 06:18
- i'd guess any will (if you have a load they also will pick them up) i would think - Danedukenuuk Jul 29, 06:17
I watched The Adjustment Bureau on the plane. - ty97 Jul 29, 06:12 20
- THANK you. See, Qale, you have bad taste! -- nm - colin Jul 29, 06:15
- Oooh...speaking of which...is there a way to know what movies a flight will be showing? - Jim Jul 29, 06:13 8
  - Depends on your airline. Here's Delta's site. -- (link) - Strongbad Jul 29, 06:16
  - For AA, I think you can see the domestic schedule for the month on-line. - ty97 Jul 29, 06:15 6
    - Well, I'm in business class...looks like I'll get my own system with over 25 movies to choose from. Oooooooh.... -- nm - Jim Jul 29, 06:18 5
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      - neato! if it works.. those systems are always crashing... - colin Jul 29, 06:22
      - Fancy! - ty97 Jul 29, 06:19 2
        
        American. -- nm - Jim Jul 29, 06:22 1
        
        Ah, yep, you'll get those on the 767. They will come around shortly after takeoff and plug it in / set it up behind the tray table in front of you. - ty97 Jul 29, 06:24
- was the food any good? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 29, 06:13 9
  - Wasn't bad, but due to the takeoff time (6:40am) and landing time (6:30am) both main meals were basically breakfast/brunch. - ty97 Jul 29, 06:14 8
    - -20 SB Points - Strongbad Jul 29, 06:14 7
      - Fat me loved breakfast foods. I have trouble finding healthy options outside of yogurt and maybe cereal -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 06:16 2
        
        Omelets! -- nm - Strongbad Jul 29, 06:17
        
        grits are quite healthy. throw in a little bit of low-fat cheese. - colin Jul 29, 06:17
      - word -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 29, 06:15
      - that's because you're southern.. best breakfast food ever.. - colin Jul 29, 06:15 2
        
        We have 1 of these within walking distance of work. :) It's one of my standard lunch spots. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 29, 06:17 1
        
        augh! only grits here: instant from Wal-Mart. - colin Jul 29, 06:20
why does my library's website suck so hard? just tell me what's new in DVDs, guys. please just tell me!! -- nm - 16 more days of amanda jones Jul 29, 06:11 1
- There are maybe 4 good library websites. And I'm being generous. There's just no catalog software that works with how people search now. -- nm - Amy Jul 29, 06:16
Headline of the day: "French diaper workers raise stink over job cuts".....(link) -- (link) - Walt_Disney Jul 29, 06:05 1
- it's a shitty job and noone wants to do it? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 29, 06:14
Hunger Games trilogy: shipped -- nm - Strongbad Jul 29, 06:01 3
- speaking of this, my friend maria's husband bought an e-reader yesterday. I am now personally responsible for seven e-readers having been sold. - 16 more days of amanda jones Jul 29, 06:02 2
  - the e-ink is just too cool.. -- nm - colin Jul 29, 06:08
  - We LOVE our Kindle, but I went with traditional books on these since I found the trilogy for only $2 more than Kindle price. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 29, 06:06
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- last two Qs we have been in a reccesion officially - Danedukenuuk Jul 29, 06:12
- Ours too......down 0.3% for the month but a lot of that was due to a large drop in mining. -- nm - Walt_Disney Jul 29, 06:05
- We were up 0.4% in 1Q, 1.3% in 2Q. While that 1.3 might be worse than 'expected' (by who? the fuckers who get everything wrong?)but it's more than 1Q -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 06:04 5
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    - I'm not sure. But "it was less than random guesses about what it would be" certainly doesn't seem a better gauge. -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 06:13 3
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        If it's based on actual data, then why are they wrong? An educated guess is still a guess. - ty97 Jul 29, 06:17 1
        
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- see... Obama is no real commie - Danedukenuuk Jul 29, 06:04
- Plus, they can make 2 trillion-dollar iPads anytime they want to! -- nm - mara Jul 29, 05:56
I'm ready for the Hate to wash over me: Queer and The Fat Man review Captain America. -- (link) - colin Jul 29, 05:54
Really? -- (link) - znufrii Jul 29, 05:50
Old Spice Guy beats Fabio in �Mano a Mano� contest....(link) -- (link) - Walt_Disney Jul 29, 05:38
It's nice to see SOMEone finally figured it out. -- (link) - Jim Jul 29, 05:38 [Backboard] 8
- Spawn/Jim 2012! -- nm - Amy Jul 29, 06:15
- if I hadn't had meetings all day yesterday, I am *sure* I would have made the cut. dammit. next week. next week. - 16 more days of amanda jones Jul 29, 05:46 1
  - Hopefully our bitchologist will make a bitch list. -- nm - Amy Jul 29, 06:22
- I'm sad no one yelled GET ON THE FLOOR! -- nm - Beaker Jul 29, 05:41 2
  - EVERYBODY DO THE DINOSAUR! -- nm - TFox Jul 29, 05:47 1
    - BOOM-BOOM-AKALAKALAKA-BOOM -- nm - Strongbad Jul 29, 05:48
- Oh yeah, I forgot my IM...it was supposed to say (spoils) - Jim Jul 29, 05:38 1
  - See, total bullying behavior. - Will Hunting Jul 29, 05:46
Yeah... glad I wasn't around ST last night. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 29, 05:27 8
- (I can't even muster up the energy to BB. I mean, those are *lot* of words, and I've loathed facto since day one. I would rather *work* than watch - 16 more days of amanda jones Jul 29, 06:04 1
  - I don't know Facto's history - Strongbad Jul 29, 06:26
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  - Well done. - Strongbad Jul 29, 05:45 4
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      - Does this hurt or help Welker's productivity? -- nm - Strongbad Jul 29, 05:46 2
        
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        I see it as a definite decrease in Branch's numbers, but not sure how it will affect Welker and their TE's. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 29, 05:52
chtrome tells me my four most visited sites are you all, gmail, facebook, and amazon.you? (if you don't use chrome, you can ignore.) -- nm - 16 more days of amanda jones Jul 29, 05:21 6
- Pretty sure it is here, Facebook, CBS News (because it is my homepage), Superficial. -- nm - bc/nc Jul 29, 05:37
- How do you check that? Probably facebook and some newspaper sites. -- nm - celedhring Jul 29, 05:27 2
  - when I hit ctrl T to get a new tab, it shows me my most visited sites. -- nm - 16 more days of amanda jones Jul 29, 05:28 1
    - Doesn't look right to me. - celedhring Jul 29, 05:33
- IE9 tells me slackertalk, slackertalk, Boston Globe, amazon.com. - CovingtonCat Jul 29, 05:25
- ST, Ikariam.com, Ikariam.org and FB -- nm - Beaker Jul 29, 05:22
resolved: if you define wars as "hostilities" and defaults as "credit events" then everything is cool....nm - x Jul 29, 05:15 1
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istheregridlockonthevanwyck.com - ty97 Jul 29, 05:06
Was there any whiff of the Chad Johnson-to-the-Patriots prior to yesterday? - prayformojo Jul 29, 04:43 12
- if there's one thing the pats are good at, it's bunker mentality...nm - x Jul 29, 05:17
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  - how then ended up adding two of my least favorite players in the span of 24 hours is.....somethin' -- nm - prayformojo Jul 29, 04:48 8
    - Ocho and Hoodie have a great relationship apparently and the guy who was the Titans GM when they drafted Fat Al is with the Pat now - Beaker Jul 29, 04:51 7
      - that's all great, but it still was done without my approval. - prayformojo Jul 29, 04:56 6
        
        You are also trading for Peyton Manning. - David Jul 29, 05:18 5
        
        why, Pats need a new backup? -- nm - Beaker Jul 29, 05:24 4
        
        If you could read IMs better, maybe you wouldn't be Samara's pet. -- nm - David Jul 29, 05:35 3
        
        she is a co-BF Champion...where do you place again? -- nm - Beaker Jul 29, 05:38 2
        
        Kibbles n Bits, Kibbles n Bits, she's gonna give you some Kibbles n Bits. -- nm - David Jul 29, 05:44 1
        
        heh, in looking at her keepers, it will be an upset if she doesn't at least make the finals again -- nm - Beaker Jul 29, 06:21
- that and the Hayneworth deal seemed to just happen... -- nm - Beaker Jul 29, 04:44
Wake up! -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 04:29 2
- Ban Hammer! -- nm - Beaker Jul 29, 04:43
- Up! I'm up! -- nm - colin Jul 29, 04:29
I must stop myself. Co-worker brought in DDs Munchkins. They are one desk away from me. There are very few people here. I have had a number of them. - bc/nc Jul 29, 04:15
Good...morning? - bc/nc Jul 29, 04:08
BBCA have commissioned their 1st scripted drama called Copper, co-created by Tom Fontana, produced by Barry Levinson. -- (link) - LMS Jul 29, 03:55
Nubby Alert: Time travel possibility rejected by scientists.....(link) -- (link) - Walt_Disney Jul 29, 03:47 5
- Headline 1000 years ago: Scientists reject Earth is Round -- nm - Beaker Jul 29, 05:03
- It was ST that linked to a comic strip that has destroyed any notion of time travel for me because it made clear that to travel through time you have - bc/nc Jul 29, 04:22 3
  - you know what TARDIS in Dr. Who stands for? [spoils] - zork Jul 29, 05:24 2
    - I thought the D stands for - LMS Jul 29, 05:47
    - I did not know that.. -- nm - bc/nc Jul 29, 05:35
"Can the Republicans say Yes to anything?" -- nm - Obama a week ago Jul 29, 03:07
Morrissey says Norway massacre is "nothing" compared to the actions of fast food chains -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Jul 29, 00:36 2
- yeah, they are to blame for people using their own free will to eat there. -- nm - Beaker Jul 29, 04:27
- Well I'm sure that gives the families of the victims the peace they needed. -- nm - bc/nc Jul 29, 04:10
Pixie you awake? -- nm - JenBro Jul 28, 23:22
Bery - is there something weird happening with the ad server. I'm getting a 'Chrome can't connect' where the ads should be. -- nm - MojaveMeg Jul 28, 23:07 1
- Ah, back now. -- nm - MojaveMeg Jul 28, 23:13
Tomorrow I have an appointment with my estate planning attorney. Feels strange. -- nm - MojaveMeg Jul 28, 22:54 3
- Ask for a really big estate, like those in the English countryside, with Anthony Hopkins as a butler. - Mop Jul 28, 23:00 2
  - Heh - I'd be happy just to spend it all foolishly but I know that's probably not a good idea. -- nm - MojaveMeg Jul 28, 23:04 1
    - Hey, it's your money, do with it as you wish! -- nm - psilotum Jul 29, 00:03
Heh. Watching LA Ink, and there's a long sequence about Kat getting a tat of Jesse's face on her. -- nm - loosilu Jul 28, 21:57 2
- I wonder whose face she's going to change it to? -- nm - Trish (Hail to the V!) Jul 29, 03:21
- My wife was watching that, so I broke the wonderful news to her. :) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 22:35
Heh, superman news from a local source -- (link) - Beryllium (iPhone) Jul 28, 21:56 2
- Is that a legit picture of Cavill as Superman? I'm not sure I like it. -- nm - Mop Jul 28, 22:20 1
  - No idea. Looks ... Plastic. Shopped, perhaps. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Jul 28, 22:22
I assume all this NFL activity is substantially above par for the course? - Mop Jul 28, 21:52 3
- Yep. Things should get even more interesting tomorrow night when the teams can begin signing free agents. - not2fast Jul 28, 22:41
- yes -- nm - TFox Jul 28, 21:55 1
  - It's fun. Should be like this every season. -- nm - Mop Jul 28, 22:00
How about you, Hu Jintao? How much do you need, just until the bank reopens?? -- nm - President Obama Bailey Jul 28, 21:52
Human Torch spoils.... - Remlik Jul 28, 21:49 4
- You were pretty impressed I threw that name out there, weren't you? -- nm - David Jul 28, 21:51 3
  - yeah that did throw me that you knew that name -- nm - Remlik Jul 28, 22:00 2
    - And some of us actually read the Invaders when it was being published. - Spawn Jul 28, 22:24 1
      - (like me!) - David Jul 29, 05:20
Microblogging is chipping away at the "great firewall of China". Authorities tried to cover up the train accident there. -- (link) - Mop Jul 28, 21:49 3
- There's a story going around about Luvejournal being under attack in Russia because of how it lets information spread - Beryllium (iPhone) Jul 28, 22:24 2
  - Livejournal. Heh. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Jul 28, 22:24 1
    - Wait until they find out about MySpace! -- nm - Mop Jul 28, 22:51
The more I think about it, the more I think today is the funniest day Pats fans have had in years. - TFox Jul 28, 21:46 5
- I wonder if they decided that with CJ and Haynesworth, two negatives would be a positive. -- nm - David Jul 28, 21:50 4
  - The funny thing is, I can actually see how the.se moves made a ton of sense, in a way. - TFox Jul 28, 21:55 1
    - I don't think I could handle meeting you in real life. - Jelly Jul 29, 03:08
  - Only if they slammed into each other in the Large Hadron Collider. -- nm - Dano Jul 28, 21:54 1
    - "There's your pinch 2." -- nm - David Jul 28, 22:01
For JenBro - another bad joke for your file......... - MojaveMeg Jul 28, 21:45 1
- This is hilarious - one for the ladies FINALLY!!! -- nm - JenBro Jul 28, 23:17
Braves fans are all 'Hunter Pence!' or 'Carlos Quentin!' but I'm all "Josh Willingham!' -- nm - David Jul 28, 21:44
El loco loco debt es muy muy accepto! -- nm - Dawson, prattling Jul 28, 21:43
Facto sucks. -- nm - Qale Jul 28, 21:41 1
- Not even if you paid me a million bucks! -- nm - Facto Jul 28, 22:08
The Stan Lee cameo during this week's Eureka is phenomenal. -- nm - David Jul 28, 21:41 7
- Love me some Eureka. Related...how is Colin Ferguson not a bigger star? -- nm - Jim Jul 29, 05:18
- I thought it was a waste of time -- nm - peglegpete Jul 28, 21:46 3
  - Kiss my smoky comics. -- nm - David Jul 28, 21:48 1
    - He's not referring to serialized graphic stories. -- nm - Fuzzy Jul 28, 21:52
  - it was fun -- nm - Remlik Jul 28, 21:46
- Thought it was better than the Cap cameo. -- nm - Ender Jul 28, 21:43 1
  - Yeah, that one was forced. -- nm - David Jul 28, 21:45

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