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My rental car from Maryland to Myrtle and back will be free. Score. - Will Hunting Sep 8, 11:05 6
- Sadly, I just confirmed that I can't go. - Inigo Sep 8, 11:11
- nice! -- nm - prayformojo Sep 8, 11:09
- Great! - kelly Sep 8, 11:09 2
  - Yeah, it's their location....I need to call them and finalize the plan. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 8, 11:12 1
    - So we will be heading to baltimore one night? - kelly Sep 8, 11:15
- The glove box is cursed. -- nm - Max Sep 8, 11:06
you know what's going to be the new kitchen table? hiking boots. I'm serious this time. we're buying them. are you guys ready? -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 8, 11:02 1
- yes, yes boots. would you like to know about my lunch time shopping score> - Andie Sep 8, 11:09
John Wayne wore size 11 boots.. I was just going thru his estate auction listings at Heritage -- (link) - peglegpete Sep 8, 11:00 1
- cool beans (expensive stuff though) -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 11:05
SI has an interesting note about Carl Crawford - prayformojo Sep 8, 11:00 1
- that's very interesting. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 8, 11:02
Jeff Wells calls Moneyball "The Social Network of sports movies" -- nm - moles Sep 8, 10:59 3
- with Sorkin writing both, that's maybe the most obvious poster quote that one could write. -- nm - TFox Sep 8, 11:04
- I'm all over it. -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 8, 11:03
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There is never a SATA cable around when you need it. -- nm - David Sep 8, 10:57 4
- I probably have a few I'm happy to mail to you for the price of postage. I've been needing to unhoard them. -- nm - Max Sep 8, 10:58 1
  - I'm actually stockpiling new wires through Monoprice. I just forgot to get SATA cables. - David Sep 8, 10:59
- There is in *my* house ... when I worked in tech support, all our brand-new motherboards came with SATA cables that we never used. Yoink! :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 10:58 1
  - Teleport me one. -- nm - David Sep 8, 10:58
All right, Jim, I poked the bear for you. -- nm - David Sep 8, 10:56 2
- Thanks! This'll be fun. -- nm - Jim Sep 8, 11:03
- DA BEARS. -- nm - Ditka si Sep 8, 10:57
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Not sure if anyone else saw this but the NYT has an interactive story with 9/11 radio archives synchronized to a transcript and map of plane locations -- (link) - oblique Sep 8, 10:46 14
- I am trying my best to avoid this stuff this week, but looks like it's just everywhere. -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 10:47 13
  - NPR has been approaching the anniversary by doing "where are they now" reports on the 9/11 family members. It's not so negative. -- nm - con_carne Sep 8, 10:53 12
    - This one from ATC was *great*. A 9/11 daughter has become a filmmaker and activist for cultural understanding -- (link) - con_carne Sep 8, 10:55
    - I really don't need to hear over and over again where everyone was. -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 10:53 10
      - You can assume it will be mentioned more than once here in the next few days, so I'd expect you to refrain from complaining. -- nm - Max Sep 8, 11:00 7
        
        of course (and I don't appreciate the tone). -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 11:00 6
        
        Some might say they don't appreciate the tone you take everytime you complain about something you could just walk away from. -- nm - The Ruiner Sep 8, 11:07 3
        
        This. I have zero desire to see anything 9/11 related, but don't plan on bitching about it being out there. -- nm - TWuG Sep 8, 11:10 1
        
        oy. -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 11:10
        
        for the record, my comment above was about the media in general, NOT ST. - loosilu Sep 8, 11:08
        
        "no comment" -- nm - moles Sep 8, 11:02 1
        
        same to you. -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 11:02
      - In my link above, the daughter talks about that. It is also tough for 9/11 family members to deal with stories of that day. -- nm - con_carne Sep 8, 10:58
      - ... that's why what con_carne is talking about is interesting. Where are they *now*? :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 10:55
Has anyone picked up or read that book 'Ready Player One' by Ernest Cline? Thoughts? -- nm - bc/nc Sep 8, 10:43 2
- wigs. she said it was enjoyable if insubstantial -- nm - moles Sep 8, 10:57
- I know 2 or 3 people who read it and loved it. If you are a child of the 80s it hits all the right buttons, apparently. -- nm - TWuG Sep 8, 10:48
~/Hyatt Hotel you no good! Sign the contract like you should!/~ - Stephen Sep 8, 10:43
LIR: the servers for TT were in WTC? I don't remember loosing connection that day. This (that) place was a huge source of information IIRC -- nm - sycor Sep 8, 10:42 33
- TT was down for almost two weeks. They had to physically drive replacement servers to NYC. -- nm - David Sep 8, 10:43 9
  - right. i mostly remember communicating thru bop on the actual day of... - x Sep 8, 10:48 8
    - I am still haunted by Woody's description of watching people choose to jump off the building. - David Sep 8, 10:51 7
      - i still have all the threads from that day in my email -- nm - prayformojo Sep 8, 10:59 5
        
        Oh wow. If you ever paste them into a word file, I'd love a copy. -- nm - David Sep 8, 10:59 4
        
        It could go in the wiki, in fact. -- nm - mara Sep 8, 11:06 2
        
        yes please. they can be uploaded as jpg or pdf files. -- nm - Max Sep 8, 11:08 1
        
        I'd "ditto" this - FWIW -- nm - JenBro Sep 8, 11:26
        
        yeah, that'd be kinda cool....nm - x Sep 8, 11:06
      - I remember calling to cancel my home phone line some weeks later. they were like, what if something like 9/11 happens again?? - HPV McGee Sep 8, 10:52
- No, the offices were in WTC. The servers were in NJ, but there was an outage related to the attack. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 10:43 1
  - (Likely, the servers had an external dependency to a Cantor server in WTC, that would explain the outage) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 10:44
- IIRC TT was down for days once the tower the servers were in went down -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 10:43 20
  - TT went offline, but it wasn't when the towers fell. It was up at least few hours after that. -- nm - Inigo Sep 8, 11:07 1
    - I don't think it went down until that evening. -- nm - Inigo Sep 8, 11:09
  - hmmm maybe I was on a different board then. I could have sworn it was TT> -- nm - sycor Sep 8, 10:44 16
    - I think one of the HSXfansites had a message board that became very active at that point. I didn't know about it at the time and felt very cut off. -- nm - mara Sep 8, 10:46 3
      - I think everyone went to The Trades boards. -- nm - Andie Sep 8, 10:48 1
        
        I was so worried about faile. I felt so honored that it was me he IM'd to tell you all he was safe. -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 8, 10:48
      - I think it was The Trades? I recall that being a defacto forum we'd go to in addition to IRC -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 10:48
    - I vividly remember reading TT that morning when it was all happening - someone here posted a list of all the businesses that were in the buildings. -- nm - JenBro Sep 8, 10:46 7
      - who were you before?? -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 8, 10:48 6
        
        I have always been JenBro - I just didn't join the boards for discussion. -- nm - JenBro Sep 8, 11:02
        
        right? *most surprising post of the day* - JenBro has been here 10 years? -- nm - Andie Sep 8, 10:57 2
        
        wow -- nm - The Ruiner Sep 8, 11:05
        
        I was consumed with taking care of my mom back then - but reading the boards - especially nights when she was having dimentia - actually kept me in - JenBro Sep 8, 11:04
        
        skagnetti! -- nm - moles Sep 8, 10:55 1
        
        Nick Fudge -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 10:59
    - IIRC, we all moved to some other board for a time. Was that when dignan did the "it smells like retarded" post? -- nm - David Sep 8, 10:45
    - We also had an IRC channel at the time, #hsx on (efnet? undernet? I forget which one.) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 10:45 2
      - Undernet. Didn't we all got to hsxworld for the time? -- nm - lileve Sep 8, 10:47 1
        
        I think it was The Trades. -- nm - Jim Sep 8, 10:48
  - Yes - HSX was down for days, and there was a lot of worry at the time that it wouldn't be back -- nm - Roger More Sep 8, 10:44
Thanks for the car advice. Sorry got drug away into meetings. I am going to guess the best option for now is: - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 10:41 45
- so you're paying for part of her rent but not her healthcare? that's silly. she can't get coverage through her employer, can she? - HPV McGee Sep 8, 10:45 23
  - I am in the end giving her nothing. She will be paying me for the car. Clean split other than that. - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 10:52 2
    - you can if it's written into the divorce as a stipulation. can't you? -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 8, 10:53 1
      - Not according to HR, i can only carry her if she lives with me and is my domestic partner or wife. I am ok this means I can - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 10:57
  - that last line could be taken wrong -- sorry. "she's living a very high-risk lifestyle." -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 8, 10:46
  - she's a nanny. -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 10:46 18
    - right. so how can she get coverage through a private couple? can she? if they can afford to cover her - HPV McGee Sep 8, 10:46 17
      - They under pay her a little IMO for what she does. Got tired of telling her to look for something better - its her problem. They are fairly strapped - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 10:54
      - don't know about that, but it's pretty common for employers to give the nanny a car. - loosilu Sep 8, 10:51 15
        
        Most of the time they just let the nanny use one of their cars during the work hours -- nm - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 10:54 14
        
        so, she really doesn't need anything more than a used corolla. -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 10:55 13
        
        No. But I cant dump either car ATM. I dont need the big one and I would rather get the big car payment from her than the small -- nm - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 10:58 12
        
        so you're *not* being nice. -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 8, 11:00 9
        
        also I am nice not a doormat -- nm - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 11:06
        
        Shes been pissing me off and my nice factor drops the longer this goes on. - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 11:04 2
        
        Good grief. -- nm - mara Sep 8, 11:06 1
        
        What? I have bent over backwards to make this easy for her but she insists on driving me nuts and being kind of a B at times. - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 11:12
        
        i'm totally confused, because a few weeks ago cappie was telling us she's fairly well paid AND that she was expected to have a really nice car to - Andie Sep 8, 11:04 4
        
        Fo TX 500 a week is good. Not great she was making 20 an hour in seattle. - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 11:09 2
        
        that's more money per year, actually. -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 11:10 1
        
        She easily got 10 hrs of OT a week in seattle (wasnt salaried like here) -- nm - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 11:14
        
        *that* was the persona, obvs. (my boots, andrea. my boots.) -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 8, 11:07
        
        just being a realist here ... *I* can't afford that car payment. -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 11:00 1
        
        a point. me neither. I make more than $500 per week and my rent is just over hers per month. I have student loans, she'll have credit cards. -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 8, 11:01
- not to drag this out, but how can she afford the payments? -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 10:42 20
  - Here is how it worked out - if you are interested... - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 10:50 12
    - ah. well, best of luck. I still think you should give her the cheaper car. also, if my math is right, she is not paying taxes. - loosilu Sep 8, 10:53 11
      - yeah, she'll have 700 a month for food/clothes/gas/everything else. very very tight. -- nm - Andie Sep 8, 11:05
      - Well we will file taxes together at the end and split the return. But she doesnt make enough to have to pay taxes. -- nm - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 10:55 9
        
        it's like $500/year from each employer you can not report, isn't it? TRUMAN!! -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 8, 10:59
        
        um, I'm pretty sure she does. -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 10:55 6
        
        *nods* kids who work at mcdonalds part time pay taxes. she may get *most* of it back, but she still pays -- nm - Andie Sep 8, 10:58 5
        
        She might. I dont know. Since we will file joint this year (I have 200 a check taken from my pay towards federal to cover her) I wont need to do - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 11:00 2
        
        there it is -- you're paying her taxes. -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 11:02 1
        
        Only until end of year -- nm - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 11:14
        
        plus social security. -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 10:59 1
        
        Her employers pay everything BUT federal -- nm - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 11:00
        
        And after I file at end of this year not my problem -- nm - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 10:55
  - and *where* is the freaking $18k?? -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 8, 10:47 5
    - You are obsessed with this - amoxy Sep 8, 10:52 1
      - I don't get how you can have $18k but not $10k. I just don't get it. -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 8, 11:03
    - We arent mentioning that. I havent got it yet and now we are legally separated. Once I get it and we are divorced I will pay off - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 10:51
    - lol - kare Sep 8, 10:48 1
      - right??? -- nm - HPV McGee Sep 8, 10:50
  - with the money he's giving her, silly. -- nm - sycor Sep 8, 10:43
Heh. In an EW blog post about the Ben & Jerry 'Schweddy Balls' ice cream, a person with the handle 'Abe Froman' said it might be about 10 yrs too - bc/nc Sep 8, 10:40 2
- You should be grateful that the Sausage King of Chicago deigns to chat on the internet with his subjects -- nm - Roger More Sep 8, 10:43 1
  - Abe understands and it's understanding that makes it possible for people like him... -- nm - bc/nc Sep 8, 10:44
This is weird. The word "Starbuck's" in kare's post on B2 is a double-underlined link to an ad. - mara Sep 8, 10:39 4
- Sounds like spyware/malware has hijacked your browsing session to do something like what the ads at BOP do -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 10:42 2
  - It's called in-text advertising and yes, it sounds like a hijacking. -- nm - David Sep 8, 10:44 1
    - *ahem* Yes, re-reading that, I realized it made BOP's advertising sound spywareish. Not intended that way. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 10:56
- Ah, there's Gamevance adware on this PC. -- nm - mara Sep 8, 10:42
st poll: how many of the 500 fantasy leagues that crash davis set up this season will he actually win? -- nm - moles Sep 8, 10:38 12
- all but Znufri's ... because I want Znu to WIN! -- nm - JenBro Sep 8, 10:41 3
  - I want a million bucks....they both have the same odds of happening. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 8, 10:46 2
    - hee ... this post will make it all the sweeter when he does win - sometimes luck has a way of making things happen you know. -- nm - JenBro Sep 8, 10:47 1
      - I can only dream -- nm - znufrii, Q-Lister Sep 8, 10:48
- None, as I will win them all (Caveman!) -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 10:39
- 501 -- nm - Epiphany Sep 8, 10:39 3
  - Get back to work you. Oh and I waited like you said and it turned out GOOD -- nm - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 10:42 2
    - I'm cranky about work today - why can't I win the lottery already. You should listen to me always!! -- nm - Epiphany Sep 8, 10:44 1
      - I pretty much do -- nm - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 10:50
- We really need the Stalker Poll to make a triumphant return. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 8, 10:39 1
  - sneak peek: will hunting ----> patio pavers #7 -- nm - moles Sep 8, 10:40
- All the ones where he is the only player so like 498 -- nm - Capstern (46 Days) Sep 8, 10:38
Kare - alternative idea - I just read the part where Daisy is only on the leash for 100 feet - what if you held a treat for her - would she stay by - JenBro Sep 8, 10:38 13
- (replied to your idea on b2 as well) This might work, she is VERY treat motivated. and honestly she will sit in a heartbeat while on the leash - kare Sep 8, 10:42 1
  - you are the best pet owner ever ... roll the ball for her in the kitchen to tide her over 'til tonight :) -- nm - JenBro Sep 8, 10:49
- also - I'm NOT in favor of you being dragged by the dog - just wondering if this might work. -- nm - JenBro Sep 8, 10:38 5
  - i'll go on the record in favor of her being dragged by the dog - moles Sep 8, 10:39 4
    - you got to see me being manhandled by lizzie and angel, was that not enough?!! -- nm - kare Sep 8, 10:44 2
      - by the way, you should see liz on the leash now - she's great! - kare Sep 8, 10:46 1
        
        yay! -- nm - moles Sep 8, 10:53
    - *smacks Pixie* and quit pickin on Crash too for that matter *hits again* -- nm - JenBro Sep 8, 10:41
- daisy is *crazy* -- nm - moles Sep 8, 10:38 4
  - Hoke! I don't care how deep it looks, drive through it! -- nm - Daisy Sep 8, 10:55
  - and Emma is just mean. -- nm - Diva Sep 8, 10:41 2
    - my dad's puggle is named emma. she's no so much mean as just very chewy -- nm - moles Sep 8, 10:56
    - "Emma ate a guy!" -- nm - tim mie SI Sep 8, 10:56
~ah le-ah~ -- nm - Max Sep 8, 10:35 7
- but our hearts are beating faster - Epiphany Sep 8, 10:39 4
  - me too, but I don't know how to spell it! -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 10:40 3
    - Mark Light on Facebook has it up - cause I don't know either - LOL -- nm - Epiphany Sep 8, 10:46 2
      - I just realized this was a mistake - sorry, I have never done this - ever. Bery can you take this down. - Epiphany Sep 8, 10:48 1
        
        can't do it from work, will have to wait until this evening -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 10:53
- Here we go again. -- nm - David Sep 8, 10:37
- len-oxen-free? -- nm - sycor Sep 8, 10:37

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