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*smears peanut butter on razorhawk and trish* - zork Oct 21, 09:01
walk this way -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 21, 09:01 2
- I told you to -- nm - zork Oct 21, 09:02 1
  - talk this way. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 21, 09:04
Right wing judges characterize SCOTUS decision as "illegitimate, activist, poorly reasoned and fueled by politics rather than principle" -- (link) - znufrii, elitist Oct 21, 08:59
Gas Prices: SoCal has officially dropped below $3/gallon -- nm - budice Oct 21, 08:56 6
- I saw $2.69 here in Louisville this weekend. -- nm - emoticripple Oct 21, 09:04
- $3.29 near me, down from $3.59 last week -- nm - znufrii, elitist Oct 21, 09:01
- I saw it under $1/l on the weekend. -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 08:58
- I filled up outside Chicago for $2.96 yesterday -- nm - kilboooo Oct 21, 08:57 2
  - It's still over $3.60 near me. -- nm - pmb Oct 21, 08:58 1
    - I could meet you outside the city and make a deal :) -- nm - kilboooo Oct 21, 09:05
Best wishes, ML. -- nm - David Oct 21, 08:54 2
- Yes, sending good vibes. -- nm - emoticripple Oct 21, 09:05
- word -- nm - chris Oct 21, 08:56
Some people in my town is trying to get "And Tango makes three" banned from schools -- (link) - amoxy Oct 21, 08:51 6
- You must have seen the No On Prop 8 ad, which scares parents on the prospect of having to teach their kids about gays - con_carne Oct 21, 09:00 1
  - 40 years ago, it was shocking that parents might have to teach their kids about inter-racial marriages...today - The Calico Cat Coalition Oct 21, 09:03
- I've never heard of this book, yet I knew the basis for the objection immediately -- nm - ty97 Oct 21, 08:56
- That's the top banned book request of the last year. -- (link) - JaxSean Oct 21, 08:54
- *sigh* - znufrii, elitist Oct 21, 08:54 1
  - because they ban books...it's a downward spiral of stupidity -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Oct 21, 08:57
Hard times have some flirting with survivalism -- (link) - chris Oct 21, 08:51 5
- the name pixiepound disturbs me -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 09:13
- again, making one's own wine is one way to economize. -- nm - all the boys love mandy lane Oct 21, 09:01 2
  - and beer woman! beer as well! -- nm - Remlik Oct 21, 09:04
  - or just start dating a bartender -- nm - decline Oct 21, 09:03
- The survival bucket first appeared at Costco after Homeland Security told us to tape up our windows. But it was really meant for a crisis like this. - Mop Oct 21, 08:53
-100 - ty97 Oct 21, 08:46 1
- Today's the day the Leham Bros debt is supposed to come due. -- nm - Mop Oct 21, 08:50
Sweet. My blackberry can now record video. Watch out! -- nm - kilboooo Oct 21, 08:44 8
- *pets HTC Wizard* -- nm - colin Oct 21, 08:53
- Which blackberry do you have? - Krusty Oct 21, 08:47 4
  - Curve. T-Mobile just released 4.5 for the Curve -- (link) - kilboooo Oct 21, 08:47 3
    - That's a great upgrade, so many features I've been complaining about the phone not having. -- nm - Krusty Oct 21, 08:54
    - Sweet, thanks! -- nm - Krusty Oct 21, 08:50 1
      - The HTML email is really what I wanted and it looks very nice -- nm - kilboooo Oct 21, 08:56
- *hides* -- nm - TaurusII Oct 21, 08:46 1
  - You and Kilbo's wife, both. -- nm - Mop Oct 21, 08:50
Trish, I responded to your post (currently on B5)/ maybe now we can have some peace? -- nm - RazorHawk Oct 21, 08:42 3
- opps currently board 4 in the HEROES thread...my post = "I totally see what your problem is now...." -- nm - RazorHawk Oct 21, 08:45 2
  - nice response. If all that's true, then you're owed an apology in my book. Not knowing the background, I also thought some of the responses were way - CrankYanker Oct 21, 09:06
  - interesting post -- nm - zork Oct 21, 09:00
Happy Birthday Trish!! and good luck ML. -- nm - peglegpete Oct 21, 08:42 3
- word and triple word -- nm - zork Oct 21, 09:00 1
  - "Triple Nerd Score" -- nm - con_carne Oct 21, 09:01
- Happy Birthday Trish and crossing my fingers for ML -- nm - con_carne Oct 21, 08:51
a-ha! Found it! Everyone needs to read this. -- (link) - JaxSean Oct 21, 08:41 4
- That's awesome -- nm - con_carne Oct 21, 08:57
- Heh - That story should've been sent to the HSX powers-that-be a week or so ago. ;) -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 21, 08:55
- Mop-wife frequents another woman's site which is undergoing the same revolution. -- nm - Mop Oct 21, 08:44 1
  - I'm very interested in seeing how HSXers react to the redesign. - JaxSean Oct 21, 08:49
Hmmm. In their rundown of tracking polls, 538 says that GW/Battleground changed their methodology a couple of weeks back. Do they read 538? - Mop Oct 21, 08:38
LYC: I am not a Librarian but I just got an e-mail invite to an International Libraries Conference in Crete, Greece....(link) - Walt_Disney Oct 21, 08:36 1
- TT Greece 2009! -- nm - ty97 Oct 21, 08:37
sitwap - hedge fund manager who bet AGAINST subprime mortgages retires at 37, thanks 'idiot' traders for making him rich -- (link) - crash davis Oct 21, 08:34 5
- A link to his letter. -- (link) - lileve Oct 21, 09:05
- Sounds like the type of person I'd want to punch in the face repeatedly. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 21, 09:01
- Wow, good for him. Still kicking myself for not shorting WorldCom when I had the itch too. -- nm - lileve Oct 21, 08:47
- heh, good for him. -- nm - Loyola Oct 21, 08:37
- sounds like a lovely fellow -- nm - ty97 Oct 21, 08:36
"Logan learned a cruel lesson about not knowing math that Halloween" - chris Oct 21, 08:32 4
- Logan will learn a cruel lesson when Uncle Pete steals his candy and he doesn't notice at first. -- nm - Remlik Oct 21, 08:38 3
  - i don't think it's Logan you have to worry about -- nm - chris Oct 21, 08:48 2
    - oh I know better than to touch Amy's Candy. I've seen her punch people. -- nm - Remlik Oct 21, 08:50 1
      - ha! just make sure Logan doesn't put ketchup on his - chris Oct 21, 08:52
More competition for itunes; www.lala.com. -- (link) - Loyola Oct 21, 08:30 4
- the winning sentence... - Mel Profit Oct 21, 08:35 3
  - I agree. I can "download" any item I've downloaded before at eMusic, but I just want to *access* it, not download it everywhere. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 21, 08:48
  - They all say it and then say "except for DRM protected music". Stop buying from iTunes and your world will open up -- nm - kilboooo Oct 21, 08:41 1
    - I loathe DRM.... -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 21, 08:44
Had my cat neuterededed this morning, she's now back home with a cone on her... - Random Enigma Oct 21, 08:29 1
- is she normally graceful? cause it is funny when they go from acrobats to stumbling like a drunk -- nm - Epiphany Oct 21, 08:37
I think I figured out the best way for McCain to get a bump in his numbers - Banzai! Oct 21, 08:28 4
- Done that already. -- nm - Larry Flynt Oct 21, 08:32
- *mental brillo* -- nm - znufrii, elitist Oct 21, 08:29 2
  - Drill baby, drill!!! -- nm - Sarah Palin Oct 21, 08:29
  - You can't poke out your mind's eye. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 21, 08:29
LYC: It takes a *really* long time to upgrade my blackberry OS. I blame Berry -- nm - kilboooo Oct 21, 08:28 2
- I may be slow, but I'm dumb. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 08:28 1
  - *blinks* -- nm - kilboooo Oct 21, 08:30
I know HSX has no staff, really, but I can't think of any "corporate" website that's been down for more than a few minutes or hours for an upgrade or - Banzai! Oct 21, 08:27 29
- There's a great article in the new Wired magazine about a website that changed its forum style, so the users created their own - JaxSean Oct 21, 08:38 1
  - oops. article linked above. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 21, 08:42
- You'd think it'd be "ready to go" before hand then just... switched over. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 21, 08:34
- Wait, it is still not back? - Spawn Oct 21, 08:29
- Not to diss them but I've never seen them do an upgrade that took less than twice as long as they expected. I kinda want to go work for them in IT - kilboooo Oct 21, 08:29 24
  - seriously...we do this alot where I am. - Mel Profit Oct 21, 08:40 6
    - This is like what? One nine? -- nm - kilboooo Oct 21, 08:43 5
      - "What's a Nine?" - HSX SI Oct 21, 08:45 4
        
        Well, they did say consultants were involved. Maybe they messed it up. -- nm - budice Oct 21, 08:54 3
        
        that's a big screw up and from what we've seen it seems like a pattern... - Mel Profit Oct 21, 08:56 2
        
        Yeah, well, you should know how well outside consultants can mess things up -- nm - budice Oct 21, 08:58
        
        The rastafication process must have hit a few snags. -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 08:58
  - You all think I have been kidding... port reset. -- nm - Spawn Oct 21, 08:33 3
    - Please no, my port growth took so long. -- nm - lileve Oct 21, 08:50
    - You'd think if you were just resetting everything it would go much faster :) -- nm - kilboooo Oct 21, 08:34 1
      - I figure they lost a number off ports and are attempting to retrieve/debating on a full reset. -- nm - Spawn Oct 21, 08:49
  - I wonder if they don't have a proper sandbox for testing and so wind up testing 'live'? - ty97 Oct 21, 08:32 4
    - one of the most fun things I ever did was tested things in Live for an upgrade once... - Mel Profit Oct 21, 08:43
    - It's hard to imagine, but that has to be the case. With the availability of virtualization, etc., I find it difficult to - kilboooo Oct 21, 08:33 2
      - Oh hell, you didn't just go through Beckett.com's transfer. Took 3 weeks and it's still not 100% 10 weeks later. - Will Hunting Oct 21, 08:34 1
        
        Worst SO FAR. ;) -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 21, 08:35
  - Indeed. I'm not worried yet. If it stretches into November, then we can worry :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 08:31 7
    - I just don't understand the process. Any major upgrade should have been done along side existing systems, prepped, and the cutover should have been - kilboooo Oct 21, 08:32 6
      - I think they have a really small budget which doesn't allow for extra systems. -- nm - ty97 Oct 21, 08:34
      - You assume they have the budget to do it. -- nm - budice Oct 21, 08:34 4
        
        I'm sorry. VMware and others give away free virtualization software. It's not expensive to do anymore -- nm - kilboooo Oct 21, 08:34 3
        
        Plus their testing may not have been as extensive as the full migration. Sheer amount of data could be causing issues. -- nm - budice Oct 21, 08:36 2
        
        I'd think you'd test with the full data set, but that's just me -- nm - kilboooo Oct 21, 08:37 1
        
        I could kill a large animal with the testing script on my desk. - Mel Profit Oct 21, 08:48
Mel REB2 nmbMel - ty97 Oct 21, 08:27 11
- even if it's closer than we make it sound, there's still a hell of a lot of ground for McCain to make up to have a good shot. -- nm - znufrii, elitist Oct 21, 08:36 4
  - based on *polls* that is true. Polls can be dead wrong. -- nm - ty97 Oct 21, 08:38 3
    - individual polls, yes, but all of them? - znufrii, elitist Oct 21, 08:40 1
      - a more interesting question would be "is fivethirtyeight's projection algorithm accurately interpreting the poll data?" -- nm - znufrii, elitist Oct 21, 08:49
    - but typically are not *this* wrong. -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 08:40
- it doesn't feel close at all -- nm - chris Oct 21, 08:35 2
  - the most amazing thing to me is that Obama has a very realistic path to winning without OH, FL or PA. - Reagen Oct 21, 08:39 1
    - McCain is in Kerry's place...but worse, he has to win all three...and not lose anything else -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Oct 21, 08:42
- I don't know if he's going to get to 363 electoral votes like some of the projections, but it's much more solid than in other years. - Reagen Oct 21, 08:34 1
  - I hope you are right, but I won't believe it until I see it. - ty97 Oct 21, 08:40
- agreed...I like seeing the blue but in no way do I believe it. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 21, 08:33
the Drudge mockery today on 538 was him reporting that Obama is winning the Nickelodeon kid's poll by a much smaller margain than Kerry did - crash davis Oct 21, 08:27 9
- Well, of course he wouldn't want to dwell on McCain pulling out of Colorado -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Oct 21, 08:39 2
  - Mccain's camp says it's not true. - Reagen Oct 21, 08:41 1
    - Fine, I hope they continue to throw money down the hole...less they have to spend elsewhere - The Calico Cat Coalition Oct 21, 08:45
- My oldest daughter is winning over previous 7th grade McCain supporters. - JaxSean Oct 21, 08:33 4
  - I won over kids in a Grade 10 mock election, which always kind of surprised me since I was... not popular. -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 08:35 3
    - probably because you were the only one who sounded like he knew what he was talking about? -- nm - znufrii, elitist Oct 21, 09:00
    - However, you were a foot taller than them and intimidating. - Will Hunting Oct 21, 08:53 1
      - heh. that was only mid-spurt. -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 09:01
- and the mocking was just them highlighting the report on Drudge's site -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 08:27
thanks. I had been thinking "core" but flagship might work better -- nm - zork Oct 21, 08:27
They said "Down on Tuesday, back up on Thursday". They just didn't say *which* Thursday. -- nm - Mop Oct 21, 08:27 1
- *makes note to check back day after tomorrow* -- nm - TaurusII Oct 21, 08:31
Has the st gaming group seen the Halo3 Mythbusters videos? -- (link) - tRuMaN Oct 21, 08:26 [youtube] 3
- Nice. I know all about the vehicle medals you can get without board a vehicle. - Mop Oct 21, 08:31 2
  - there are some very interesting things in this series. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 21, 08:48 1
    - hmm, - tRuMaN Oct 21, 08:50
Was it Bery who's learning to tie knots? Has he learned to tie a bow tie? -- nm - Mop Oct 21, 08:26 1
- :) -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 21, 08:28
*throws B2 under the bus* -- nm - znufrii, elitist Oct 21, 08:26
LYC-This is what I tacked up behind my monitor. -- (link) - lileve Oct 21, 08:26 [flickr] 3
- Sorry, this link should work. -- (link) - lileve Oct 21, 08:36 [flickr]
- Can't see the pic, says the page is private. -- nm - Krusty Oct 21, 08:30
- permission denied -- nm - kilboooo Oct 21, 08:29
"Kat Von D credits boyfriend Nikki Sixx for her sobriety" -- (link) - prayformojo Oct 21, 08:25 5
- ~ She doesn't drink the swill! / The swi-hilll / She doesn't drink the swill/...~ -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 21, 08:56
- interesting -- nm - Epiphany Oct 21, 08:39
- Nikki cleaned up years ago. - Spawn Oct 21, 08:27 2
  - He was still shooting up after that but it was a wake up call. -- nm - lileve Oct 21, 08:29 1
    - very true. But I think he was the smart one of the group and recognized that Crue is a Brand that needs working on to continue to generate money.... - Remlik Oct 21, 08:37
Bappy Hirthday Trish! -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 21, 08:25
bery = devil -- nm - ty97 Oct 21, 08:25

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