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eag, how big is the download? - Stephen Aug 19, 13:01 1
- "It's sooo big!" -- nm - eag si Aug 19, 13:02
Men's Tennis Spoiler - Diva Aug 19, 12:57 1
- hmmmmm -- nm - prayformojo Aug 19, 13:02
Holy Good God is it raining. - Mel Profit Aug 19, 12:53
ST swaps! I want to swap with bc/nc for a day. - loosilu Aug 19, 12:52 9
- I want to swap with pmb - amoxy Aug 19, 13:02
- I swap with Cappie. - groiny Aug 19, 12:53 5
  - hide your daughter. -- nm - loosilu Aug 19, 12:54 4
    - Hide yer kids, hide yer wife, hide yer husbands? -- nm - Qale Aug 19, 13:01
    - oh, this is a good point. Maybe I will pick someone else. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 19, 12:54 2
      - commit a crime so you get locked up for a few days, THEN do the switch. -- nm - colin Aug 19, 12:54 1
        
        "How did you get the fountain in the jail cell?" -- nm - Reagen Aug 19, 12:55
- I claim ceregon. -- nm - nubby Aug 19, 12:52 1
  - *punches fist through old-timey hat* -- nm - ceregon si Aug 19, 13:08
from backboards: 'Mander: My one complaint about Spotify is that it's shuffle suffers the same lack of randomness as Winamp did. It should work like - Qale Aug 19, 12:50
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- So things are pretty much normal? -- nm - Qale Aug 19, 12:45 3
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    - On Fridays for me it should be Waneed! -- nm - Qale Aug 19, 12:52
  - Maybe better if it's just one. -- nm - Ender Aug 19, 12:49
mara, FYI. Hazelbloom is erroring for me. HTTP 500 internal server error -- nm - oblique Aug 19, 12:44 13
- crap, thank you. -- nm - kamara Aug 19, 13:04
- crap. thank you. -- nm - kare (not mara) Aug 19, 12:46 8
  - How dare you pretend to be mara! ;p - lileve Aug 19, 12:47 6
    - i'm not going to lie, i think being mara would be pretty cool, at least for a day or so. what say you mara, wanna jason bateman/ryan reynolds - kare (not mara) Aug 19, 12:49 5
      - this is like a sci fi version of Ice Storm -- nm - con_carne Aug 19, 13:02
      - *imagines kare and mara peeing in a fountain* -- nm - Stephen Aug 19, 12:52 1
        
        don't joke, it won't be long for kare. - loosilu Aug 19, 12:52
      - we should pick ST swaps for each toher. -- nm - loosilu Aug 19, 12:50
      - hehe -- nm - lileve Aug 19, 12:50
  - damnit. sorry -- nm - oblique Aug 19, 12:46
- Mara, make sure that you tell Kare this. -- nm - prayformojo Aug 19, 12:46 2
  - that's not mara's job. -- nm - loosilu Aug 19, 12:46 1
    - remind me to have her tell my wife something later -- nm - oblique Aug 19, 12:46
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- Has he backed down on the whole, "I will only be a QB" stand? -- nm - Michael Aug 19, 13:10
Time to head to Costco. What won't they have that I want this week? -- nm - MojaveMeg Aug 19, 12:39 5
- a tub og Guildens mustard -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 19, 13:16
- Costco opened here today!!! Still need a membership though. -- nm - Shaun Aug 19, 12:42 1
  - That, and a truck to haul everything home :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Aug 19, 12:49
- Good coupons. -- nm - Michael Aug 19, 12:42 1
  - Exactly. But sometimes they don't have Skinny Cow and last time they didn't have my breakfast sausages... - MojaveMeg Aug 19, 12:48
from BB : I did not like the previous Call Of Duty games, but I really like Black Ops. - groiny Aug 19, 12:38 10
- There was too much yelling and sprinting for my taste in Black Ops campaign vs its predecessor, but I like the coop more. - Max Aug 19, 13:00
- I kinda like the whole Oliver Stone approach to Black Ops -- nm - eag Aug 19, 12:49
- I liked MW2 ok enough until I realized how shitty the matchmaking algorithm was. -- nm - Shaun Aug 19, 12:43 7
  - i absolutely abhor its matchmaking. i may trade it back in -- nm - Remlik on da droid Aug 19, 13:03 3
    - maybe what you need to try, is the Barebones one. - groiny Aug 19, 13:08
    - I remember it took me months to get Halo matchmaking to where - groiny Aug 19, 13:07
    - honestly man, it gets better. - groiny Aug 19, 13:05
  - yeah, I wish there was a better way to match people up, but overall - groiny Aug 19, 12:46 2
    - And I also realized that I suck at stright up deathmatch games. I need objectives, like in Killzone 3. -- nm - Shaun Aug 19, 12:48 1
      - played last night, had one game where I got owned (5 kills, 16 deaths)... - groiny Aug 19, 12:52
The teaser to the much hyped "American Horror Story" TV show set for FX -- (link) - MDH Aug 19, 12:37 4
- I find "new drama from �Glee� creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk" gives me a wildly different expectation here than "new drama from �Nip/Tuck� creators..." -- nm - Ender Aug 19, 12:42 2
  - Yeah, at first I was like "Who cares?" and then I was like, "Cool!". -- nm - Michael Aug 19, 12:43 1
    - Some of the reporters/reviewers apparently left the preview terrified beyond belief. -- nm - MDH Aug 19, 12:50
- Damn it. Was about to post "Reverse fire snata!" and then saw he used the exact phrase in the description. -- nm - Michael Aug 19, 12:42
Misery Bear goes to work -- (link) - marcel Aug 19, 12:36 [youtube]
I'm not pleased that a captcha on a website I'm using is "Identity Theft" -- nm - Qale Aug 19, 12:35
YDC (the gays will): Not officially announced/ no dates set, news is starting, expect Madonna, Cher, and Lady Gaga all to have huge 2012 world tours. - MDH Aug 19, 12:32 4
- *wait for the Cher/Gaga co-tour* -- nm - ty97 Aug 19, 12:44 1
  - This would end society as we know it. - MDH Aug 19, 12:49
- Madge needs a new album first as you sort of mentioned. -- nm - Qale Aug 19, 12:41 1
  - Spring 2012. -- nm - MDH Aug 19, 12:48
follow up to my blogging post below ... first of all, my blog is set up through blogspot / google, if that's the 'platform' some of you were asking .. - i'm not dead yet ! Aug 19, 12:31 9
- The RSS feed is a computer consumable "feed" of your posts. When you post, it is updated. Users use an RSS reader (Google Reader, Feedly, etc) to - oblique Aug 19, 12:43 1
  - exactumundo. i was suggesting feedburner for their email subscription feature, which i think is how he wanted to push new posts to subscribers - kare Aug 19, 12:45
- With blogspot, it should already be set up, no? Doesn't every blog on there have an RSS button? -- nm - con_carne Aug 19, 12:35
- no. they use a feed reader to see your RSS feeds. they need to subscribe in some way to get emails (see feedburner), afaik -- nm - kare Aug 19, 12:32 5
  - What kare said. Most web browsers let you add RSS subscriptions as easily as bookmarking a page. So your readers... - Dr.Johnny Vermin Aug 19, 12:35 4
    - I'd be more concerned about his blog having a "Follow on Twitter" button - con_carne Aug 19, 12:38 3
      - Twitter makes it super easy to make the button -- (link) - oblique Aug 19, 12:48 1
        
        hmm. seems the dupe algorithm should consider https and https the same -- nm - oblique Aug 19, 12:49
      - just link a graphic to your twitter URL (e.g. http://twitter.com/#!/scottbaio) or use one of their widgets -- (link) - kare Aug 19, 12:42
For groiny. 6 Essential Tips for Taking Small Children to Sporting Events: An �Away From the Action� Guide for Moms and Dads -- (link) - con_carne Aug 19, 12:28 2
- every kid is different though. I was enraptured by hockey at age 2. You couldn't pull me away from the TV. -- nm - Reagen Aug 19, 12:33
- I've *really* got to take the family to roller derby. -- nm - TFox Aug 19, 12:30
FREESE!!!!! -- nm - Jim Aug 19, 12:21 3
- POLIP? -- nm - nubby Aug 19, 12:25 2
  - WARTBGONE! -- nm - con_carne Aug 19, 12:32
  - hehe -- nm - oblique Aug 19, 12:26
Krusty, we're largely settled in. We have about 20 hours or so of stuff to do and we'll be good to go. - David Aug 19, 12:20 10
- Sweet. I'm so happy you two found a great place. - Krusty Aug 19, 12:29
- We got a pool going on you. -- nm - Sgt. Powell Aug 19, 12:26 3
  - he's got a pool growing around him. -- nm - loosilu Aug 19, 12:27 2
    - All kidding aside, it bled a lot more than I had expected. - David Aug 19, 12:28 1
      - one of our contractors cut his finger the other day and we were begging him to go for stitches - Reagen Aug 19, 12:30
- Uh... it sounds wonderful? -- nm - Michael Aug 19, 12:25 1
  - We had our passenger window broken a while back and apparently the detailer missed a piece. - David Aug 19, 12:27
- Are you okay? - Kim Pine Aug 19, 12:23 2
  - Ecstatic. And Hilary says hi. We should go down there and talk at some point this weekend. -- nm - David Aug 19, 12:26 1
    - Kim, it sounds like he is suffering from blood loss. -- nm - Michael Aug 19, 12:26
Here is that link Stephen and anybody else -- (link) - eag Aug 19, 12:20 4
- So the only two civilizations you can play as are Greek and Egyptian? - Stephen Aug 19, 12:34 3
  - Persia and the Celts will be coming next like right around Labor Day -- nm - eag Aug 19, 12:42 2
    - ah, cool. Of course I don't know how you don't have the Romans in the game from the very beginning. - Stephen Aug 19, 12:49 1
      - I havent started playing cause its a sizeable download - eag Aug 19, 12:53
Reposting from b2 in case anyone has experience backing up one WD external hard drive to another. -- (link) - Don Homer Aug 19, 12:20 [Backboard] 1
- Crashplan! :) -- nm - oblique Aug 19, 12:24
Here is an afterhours style set I did that you may find enjoyable over the weekend. - Qale Aug 19, 12:19
Etsy can be a source of endless amusement -- (link) - Fuzzy Aug 19, 12:16 13
- And it's a knock-off of this -- (link) - TWuG Aug 19, 12:23
- recently there was a movie with a guy that made biblical dollhouses with mice? In San Fran there was a guy who sold stuffed rats doing almost anythin - zeitgeist Aug 19, 12:22 1
  - Ooh, I should post a pic of Ellie. She's a baby alligator in a cocktail dress that we bought in New Orleans over 40 years ago. - MojaveMeg Aug 19, 12:27
- I'm amused at the use of a small robotic action figure as a stand -- nm - oblique Aug 19, 12:22
- That's gross. -- nm - Stephen Aug 19, 12:19
- Why would anyone want that? -- nm - Don Homer Aug 19, 12:18 2
  - I betchu it's also on Regretsy -- nm - con_carne Aug 19, 12:25
  - shock value. -- nm - loosilu Aug 19, 12:21
- The first picture is almost cute, the second one is creepy as f*ck -- nm - Guigue Aug 19, 12:18 1
  - needs something in the eye holes, I think... - znufrii Aug 19, 12:22
- yuck -- nm - prayformojo Aug 19, 12:17
- wow. -- nm - loosilu Aug 19, 12:17
- that is amazing. - znufrii Aug 19, 12:17
OK, ST, so are there any serious bloggers here? I have a question about some technical stuff on a blog I've started... - i'm not dead yet ! Aug 19, 12:13 19
- i prefer feedburner for this use. it's quite easy. -- (link) - kare Aug 19, 12:27 2
  - also if you use wordpress, there are some plugins that make it relatively easy to subscribe by email. (if you're serious about blogging, btw, you'll - kare Aug 19, 12:30
  - +1 here. If you're going to offer a feed, run it through feedburner as you get analytics and other nice features -- nm - oblique Aug 19, 12:29
- Following is a term used by the blogging platform? Is it Tumblr? -- nm - mara Aug 19, 12:23
- RSS is what you want but you should also look at a recent article that referenced how the NYT was moving to curated social media posting because it - oblique Aug 19, 12:20 5
  - Can you expound on curated posting, please? -- nm - Dr.Johnny Vermin Aug 19, 12:24 4
    - Why would you want to make kilbo tired? -- nm - Vermy's boss SI Aug 19, 12:30 1
      - Heh! -- nm - Dr.Johnny Vermin Aug 19, 12:48
    - There's a little blurb about it here but they recently "unautomated" their twitter feed in favor of human curation -- (link) - oblique Aug 19, 12:25 1
      - Ah, I get it. Thank you. -- nm - Dr.Johnny Vermin Aug 19, 12:31
- *points to the Hazel Bloom on the left* - oblique Aug 19, 12:18 5
  - :) - kare Aug 19, 12:33
  - Yeah, I want to redo the sidebar to highlight community features (blogs, wiki) but haven't got to it yet. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 19, 12:20 3
    - Turntable... -- nm - con_carne Aug 19, 12:31
    - Make sure to include the rippling water effect from that sailing site. That would be great -- nm - oblique Aug 19, 12:21 1
      - oh, absolutely. And the snowflakes from a few years ago. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 19, 12:36
- This is what RSS is for, honestly. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 19, 12:16
- The thing you're searching for is RRS feeds, but damned if I know how to set it up. Which platform are you using? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 19, 12:15 1
  - Google Reader is awesome for RSS feeds. And most blog platforms (even twitter) have RSS output built-in. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 19, 12:16
I like spicy food as much as the next guy, possibly a little bit more, but there's no way I'd want to do a show where that's all I ate - znufrii Aug 19, 12:13 11
- If Adam Richman kept going he'd weigh 400 lbs in a couple of years. - Krusty Aug 19, 12:16 9
  - Heh, just watched one last night from Baltimore. I didn't realize he had stopped. -- nm - Don Homer Aug 19, 12:17 6
    - yeah, his new show is Man vs. Food Nation - znufrii Aug 19, 12:18 5
      - I caught a couple minutes of a spicy pho challenge earlier this week. - Diva Aug 19, 12:22 4
        
        I saw the providence one (that was the 15 hotdogs, right?), missed the pho one. -- nm - znufrii Aug 19, 12:23 3
        
        oh yeah - the hot weiners. How did he do? -- nm - Diva Aug 19, 12:36 2
        
        15 Olneyville NY System weiners, all the way? Good luck with that, broseph. - TFox Aug 19, 12:39
        
        failed, got through 13 of the 15 in the allotted time, iirc -- nm - znufrii Aug 19, 12:37
  - my suspiscion is that he had to change the show on doctor's orders -- nm - znufrii Aug 19, 12:17 1
    - I'd believe it. -- nm - Krusty Aug 19, 12:20
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helping contribute towards the next board roll ... I wanna ask about something and it not get LIR -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Aug 19, 12:11 4
- Only 149 more posts to go -- nm - con_carne Aug 19, 12:11 1
  - Yours, if the only response, should have been 148. -- nm - Michael Aug 19, 12:12
- You have a long wait ahead of you, then. -- nm - Michael Aug 19, 12:11
- (well,,,wish granted, I guess..) -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Aug 19, 12:11

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