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Does anyone do yoga? I have to buy a birthday present for an old aquaintance and all I know is that she's big into yoga. -- nm - Loyola Jul 31, 09:45 4
- How's she feel about getting caught in the rain? -- nm - TWuG Jul 31, 09:53 3
  - God knows. -- nm - Loyola Jul 31, 09:54 2
    - You gave me an earworm with your original post, let me return the favor. :-) -- (link) - TWuG Jul 31, 09:56 [youtube] 1
      - Ah, that explains alot about another girl I know. Thanks. Funny how you find out things sometimes. -- nm - Loyola Jul 31, 10:01
Eli Roth to design Hostel-based attraction for Universal Studios Hollywood -- (link) - ty97 Jul 31, 09:08 1
- JESUS CHRIST NO! WTF?!?! -- nm - Buzz Jul 31, 09:12
Cracked: Surprising film connections (eg, The Wire and The X-Files take place in the same universe) (spoilers) -- nm - nubby Jul 31, 08:47 4
- I figured that Munch would connect a lot of shows. -- nm - Dano Jul 31, 09:27
- I had heard the Lone Ranger Green Hornet connection before -- nm - amoxy Jul 31, 09:04
- (and yes it's film AND TV, I recognize the things I referred to were TV shows.) -- nm - nubby Jul 31, 08:52
- ...and the link -- (link) - nubby Jul 31, 08:47
Lindsey Graham on This Week looks like he hasn't slept this week. -- nm - nubby Jul 31, 08:20 2
- And for the first time since they've started doing the In Memoriam segment, the State Department did not release the names of any servicemen killed. -- nm - nubby Jul 31, 08:57
- And he just called George Stephanopoulos "David". -- nm - nubby Jul 31, 08:21
SI's Jimmy Traina: "RE. Plaxico Burress signing w/Jets. I wouldnt leave a city either after finding a nightclub that lets you wear sweatpants." -- nm - prayformojo Jul 31, 07:56
Reading the lodging suggestions for next month's conference and chuckling over Kanab, UT being identified as - MojaveMeg Jul 31, 07:20 5
- nice. -- nm - loosilu Jul 31, 08:37
- Parts of that geography are breathtaking, evening w/o the wine. - Old Antarctic Explorer Jul 31, 08:36 2
  - We probably won't have much time for exploring on this trip but we're expecting to be back up there in October. - MojaveMeg Jul 31, 08:49 1
    - This is where we're planning to go in October... -- (link) - MojaveMeg Jul 31, 08:59 [flickr]
- It's all about priorities. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 31, 07:45
Watching last week's Hoarders. The guy who leaves the gas burner on for heat in the middle of his hoard. wow. -- nm - loosilu Jul 31, 07:16
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- a new Bourne Idendity -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 31, 07:40
- *sigh* -- nm - nubby Jul 31, 06:59 4
  - We gave up Schafer. UGH. -- nm - nubby Jul 31, 07:00 3
    - but you kept Mike Minor! -- nm - Strongbad Jul 31, 07:53 2
      - Between the two, I'd much rather keep Minor. -- nm - David Jul 31, 09:57
      - A minor victory? -- nm - nubby Jul 31, 08:02
Came downstairs to let the dog out and.......it's raining!?! - MojaveMeg Jul 31, 06:40
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- damn, I thought he was coming home -- nm - J Jul 31, 06:47
- I like that news. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 31, 06:21 4
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    - Sounds like a good deal to me. Didn't cost much and they can still sign more guys to fill other holes like defense up the middle. - Krusty Jul 31, 06:30
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    - They need a big wide receiver and there really wasn't all that much left out there to pick up. - Krusty Jul 31, 06:26
Hope Solo to drive the pace car -- nm - Remlik on da droid Jul 31, 06:18 1
- Japanese or domestic? -- nm - moles Jul 31, 06:34
McConnell says a deal is close... $3 trillion plan, no "new taxes" and it will not come up again before the election -- nm - stewie Jul 31, 06:05 13
- Sounds like there is going to be a mechanism whereby if they don't finalize the debt reduction portion by a certain date there will be automatic cuts - stewie Jul 31, 06:21 11
  - Smart deal....if they don't get the 2nd round of cuts finalized by Dec 31st, those cuts to defense happen. - Will Hunting Jul 31, 08:27 10
    - But if they cut defense, Hitler wins. -- nm - Loyola Jul 31, 09:29 1
      - Yep, I worry about Argentina as well. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 31, 09:32
    - This is a good deal. Not great, but certainly not complete capitulation to the GOP, either. -- nm - TWuG Jul 31, 08:53
    - Using the smaller committee to decide this will also allow the tea party dopes to not vote for a tax increase on the rich but one still happens -- nm - stewie Jul 31, 08:29 6
      - Yep, this sounds sorta like the debt reduction committee that everyone looked at, laughed and went about their merry way - Will Hunting Jul 31, 08:32 5
        
        A committee with real teeth is a great idea. - Strongbad Jul 31, 11:19
        
        the other angle is that the automatic cuts/increases if no deal is reached *are* the actual deal - stewie Jul 31, 08:34 3
        
        aka the "do your fucking jobs" committee? -- nm - Reagen Jul 31, 09:29
        
        Probably true. - Will Hunting Jul 31, 08:41 1
        
        The tell will be whether there are any tea party patriots on the committee - stewie Jul 31, 08:45
- They should all be kicked out of office for this mess. - Krusty Jul 31, 06:20
How to win big playing Massachusetts' Cash WinFall lottery game. -- (link) - CovingtonCat Jul 31, 05:40 1
- track temp will push 135 degrees -- nm - Remlik on da droid Jul 31, 05:57
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Boogity: doing traffic reports for the Brickyard 400. And nothing is going on...which is fine. -- nm - Remlik Jul 31, 04:06 4
- word is attendance is so bad this year they closed the grandstand down. And overnight they sent cops home. -- nm - Remlik Jul 31, 04:10 3
  - What's the deal? This is a NASCAR race, right? I thought NASCAR was popular. -- nm - Mop Jul 31, 07:50 2
    - It's down significantly from 5 years ago....and Indy's ended up having a lot of stuff working against it. - Will Hunting Jul 31, 08:31
    - People are figuring out that it's actually pretty boring. -- (link) - mara Jul 31, 07:55
How-To Build a Cyclorama Photo Studio -- (link) - marcel Jul 31, 02:35 [youtube] 1
- Boy, this EyeHandy series of videos sure is useful. -- nm - Mop Jul 31, 07:51
God help me, I just sat through an episode of Big Rich Texas. - Stephen Jul 31, 00:54
Overnight poll: Okay, Summer is essentially over. What fall movie are you looking forward to? Me? Colombiana -- nm - Qale Jul 31, 00:19 1
- over? There's only been a week of it! - Beryllium Jul 31, 00:34
"So we have no leads ... and our suspect is a boat." heheh -- nm - Beryllium Jul 30, 23:58 2
- somebody's watching Haven -- nm - Trish Jul 31, 00:06 1
  - Aye, three episodes in a row -- nm - Beryllium Jul 31, 00:34
I set fire to the rain... -- nm - MDH Jul 30, 23:11 3
- Gosh I wish DJs would break that song out already. I've been doing it in my practice sessions. It's a great song. -- nm - Qale Jul 31, 00:14 1
  - they have. its been out for a month. ATL needs to catch up. :-) -- nm - MDH Jul 31, 09:03
- She acts like summer and walks like rain... -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 23:15
I guess I ought to get drunk, seeing your former love who dumped you now doing rather well kinda does that. - zeitgeist Jul 30, 22:40 9
- Rather qwell? Look at the dork she barely beat! -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 22:48 6
  - The part I don't get is, she was a Deadhead, I mean the rainbow gathering, live in a schoolbus and follow the tour, later a wharf rat kind of deadhead - zeitgeist Jul 30, 22:54 5
    - She has no self, just adapts to what she is around. And seriously, barely beating a guy that lists I mean, "Kurt Cobain and Nirvana" as inspirations? - Spawn Jul 30, 22:55 4
      - Anyway, don't be a victim of your own mind. - Spawn Jul 30, 23:03 3
        
        its the ones that get away that hurt the most -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 30, 23:07 2
        
        If they had not got away, think of all the things you would have missed. -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 23:15 1
        
        I miss San Francisco, I still feel like a refugee here. I saw the article cause I still read the chron as my home town paper more so than I read the - zeitgeist Jul 31, 01:42
- I'll drink with you. - ReluctantCynic (at home) Jul 30, 22:41 1
  - I saw an ex tonight. One of the few I still love. It never gets easier. -- nm - Qale Jul 31, 00:17
And can someone fill me in on why ST was down for so long the other day? -- nm - ReluctantCynic (at home) Jul 30, 22:16 8
- That depends. Were you getting the orange screen saying the site was being migrated? If so, the site was being migrated. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 30, 22:54 3
  - (There are two other possible causes: 1) the old server getting crushed with traffic causing about an hour-long outage, 2) the rapid refresh on the - Beryllium Jul 30, 22:58 2
    - I blame you. That is enough. --nm - ReluctantCynic (at home) Jul 30, 23:07 1
      - Ouch! - Old Antarctic Explorer Jul 31, 08:38
- Bery said something about a surge of use and IIRC he adjusted something to make us less - TWuG Jul 30, 22:27
- two possible reasons. one was search engines repeatedly scanning us, the other was bery migrating everything to a new server, and the DNS change took - mafic Jul 30, 22:26 2
  - It was the first. -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 22:27
  - I blame Bery. -- nm - ReluctantCynic (at home) Jul 30, 22:27
Now Streaming: Mad Men: Season One; Episode One. -- nm - psilotum Jul 30, 22:00 5
- It's funny, because the show is so prevalent in pop culture, nothing really surprises me, but it is a very nice pilot. -- nm - psilotum Jul 30, 23:12
- Now Streaming: Mad Men: Season One; Episode Five. -- nm - ReluctantCynic (at home) Jul 30, 22:15 3
  - Now I'll never catch up! -- nm - psilotum Jul 30, 22:26 2
    - It's okay - Imma switch to FNL in a bit. -- nm - ReluctantCynic (at home) Jul 30, 22:27 1
      - heh. good idea. -- nm - psilotum Jul 30, 23:11
Shark Week starts tomorrow on Discovery [not the Food Network] -- nm - peglegpete Jul 30, 21:35 6
- the food network should have Snark Week featuring Gordon Ramsay -- nm - Beryllium Jul 30, 21:38 5
  - Comedy Central has Snark Week. -- nm - kelly Jul 30, 21:45 4
    - History Channel has Stark Week ... I guess Food Network could have Carp Week. or Spork Week. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 30, 22:00 3
      - The Animal Channel could have Bark Week. -- nm - loosilu Jul 30, 22:05 2
        
        The Oxygen Network could have Fart Week. -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 22:31 1
        
        The Christian chanel can have the Ark Week.... -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 30, 22:50
Fedor really should have taken that UFC money when everyone wanted him vs Brock. - the wrong element, bad guy Jul 30, 21:31 1
- uh spoiler -- nm - ceregon Jul 30, 22:41
I *really* liked The Adjustment Bureau. (spoils) - kelly Jul 30, 21:04 2
- your IM touches on what cracks me up about the plot (spoilers) - prayformojo Jul 30, 21:21
- From what I remember, it didn't impress me (spoiler) - amoxy Jul 30, 21:06
Giants get Orlando Cabrera -- nm - amoxy Jul 30, 20:53
Just let the Treasury start printing money. What default? What spending cuts to programs? -- nm - Ice Cold Beer Jul 30, 20:36 12
- writing a bunch of it off as 'bad debt' is not an option? -- nm - peglegpete Jul 30, 21:15 4
  - lots of insurance companies will not like that -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 30, 22:22
  - Not without giving investors a very good reason to doubt the full faith and credit of the US. -- nm - TWuG Jul 30, 21:23 2
    - and really, is that not the exact same thing as defaulting? "I am not going to pay this" is what both phrases translate to, right? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 30, 21:24 1
      - Yes. The very, very frustrating part of this is that Congress has already spent the money. This is all about whether or not they'll pay the bill now - TWuG Jul 30, 21:32
- they actually can't with bills -- although they could with coins. -- nm - mara Jul 30, 20:45 5
  - What that would do to inflation... -- nm - TWuG Jul 30, 21:24
  - Ahhh, the trillion-dollar coin thing makes more sense, now. -- nm - psilotum Jul 30, 20:53 3
    - what they should do is make some 100 billion dollar coins, and then let the stamp plates get stolen - then make a movie about the recovery. - Beryllium Jul 30, 20:59 2
      - Didn't work for The A-Team -- nm - Roger More Jul 30, 21:40 1
        
        *sheds a single tear* -- nm - Beryllium Jul 30, 21:59
- it's not a matter of whether we have the money (we do). it's just authorizing the Treasury to spend it for payment of outstanding debts -- nm - moles Jul 30, 20:43
david, your internet still doesnt let you play halo, correct? - tRuMaN Jul 30, 20:23 1
- Right, I don't even have the game here. -- nm - David Jul 30, 22:14
PBS is running a very comedy show, Laugh-In from mid '60s, this one features bits with Cher who looks older then than her last movie -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 30, 20:04 9
- sock it to me! -- nm - peglegpete Jul 30, 20:12 1
  - Veeery interesting.... but stupid! -- nm - Qale Jul 31, 00:16
- I couldn't even begin to guess what Cher's last movie was, without Googling. -- nm - mara Jul 30, 20:06 6
  - Burlesque -- nm - Dano Jul 30, 20:10
  - Wasn't it Burlesque last year? -- nm - Jim Jul 30, 20:07 4
    - If you're asking me, I'd be glad to Google. I seriously have no clue. -- nm - mara Jul 30, 20:10 3
      - Not really. It was more of a wasn't it just last year. Which it was. November. -- nm - Jim Jul 30, 20:39 2
        
        yeah, sorry, i shouldn't even talk about movies, i keep up so poorly. -- nm - mara Jul 30, 20:44 1
        
        well actually the last movie *I* was thinking of, was that silly one of the siamese twins, one wanted to be an actor, and cher needed a bad one to ... - zeitgeist Jul 30, 22:31
let me get this straight the "debt crisis" is more or less self inflicted right? - Danedukenuuk Jul 30, 19:55 12
- Yes, it's a completely arbitrary date that the Administration set, based on when Congress traditionally takes a break. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 31, 07:58
- ok here is the plan - Danedukenuuk Jul 30, 20:27
- Totally. -- nm - mara Jul 30, 20:04
- Yes. We put the cap on ourselves. No one else has told us we can't borrow more. -- nm - Dano Jul 30, 19:59 8
  - Right, but if a default does occur, interest rates across the board would go up, making things cost more - Beryllium (iPhone) Jul 30, 20:04 5
    - Even if we don't raise the debt ceiling by next week, we still wouldn't default. -- nm - Dano Jul 30, 20:07 4
      - And if soldiers go unpaid, what then? How long before desertions start? - Beryllium (iPhone) Jul 30, 20:14 2
        
        No, no, the national parks are the go-to newsreel for government shutdowns. -- nm - Ender Jul 30, 21:26
        
        Didn't say that there wouldn't be consequences, just not an actual default. -- nm - Dano Jul 30, 20:18
      - No, the Treasurey would "exhaust its borrowing authority." Just because it's not an actual default doesn't mean it won't suck. -- nm - mara Jul 30, 20:09
  - Also, we've already passed the budget that is going to require us to raise the debt ceiling. -- nm - Dano Jul 30, 20:00 1
    - Sure, but they knew that passing that budget gave them leverage. They could now require certain things. "We'll vote to raise the debt ceiling IF..." -- nm - mara Jul 30, 20:06
Word. -- nm - Jim Jul 30, 19:52
around her hair, she wore a yellow ribbon -- nm - peglegpete Jul 30, 19:52 1
- i thought it was around an old oak tree .... - i'm not dead yet ! Jul 30, 21:22

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