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OH NO! It's the Central Park Rangers! -- nm - Beryllium Jan 20, 13:45
mel, i really doubt that the market action today had much to do with anything obama said.... - x Jan 20, 13:43 6
- I was thinking there would be a 'feel good' flood of investment that moments of optimism usually brings, especially since a lot of people have pulled - zeitgeist Jan 20, 13:48 2
  - I think it was hyde that brought up the 'sell on fact' thing ... it kind of explains today -- nm - Beryllium Jan 20, 13:50 1
    - it explains a little of it. really, today was pretty much mostly about "oh crap, the banking system really might be largely insolvent"... - x Jan 20, 13:55
- I heard that most of the planned new 850 billion recovery plan whatever doesn't kick in until 2010. Can't rem what news channel. -- nm - Loyola Jan 20, 13:46 1
  - That was regarding the money to be spent on infrastructure, but didn't include tax-cuts, incentives -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 20, 13:50
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CQ....Box Office Game.... -- (link) - J Jan 20, 13:43 1
- cool ,thanks -- nm - CQ Jan 20, 13:46
CNN says WSJ published a letter to Sasha and Malia from the Bush twins; anyone have a link? -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 13:42 3
- are you on your pda? nm but: -- (link) - b! Jan 20, 13:43 2
  - no, just a slow brain day. thanks. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 13:47
  - (it is really nice.) -- nm - b! Jan 20, 13:46
so what does W's not to Obama say? -- nm - Marcel, lefty like Obama Jan 20, 13:41 14
- the locations of Cheney's video cameras, at least the ones W knows about -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 20, 13:47
- i dunno. but if it was me and i was leaving the white house, i'd short sheet the bed in the master bathroom....nm - x Jan 20, 13:45 6
  - That's the kind of thing that the Clinton staff did to the Bush staff. - pmb Jan 20, 13:47 1
    - yah. i think that's part of why bush and his folks have given extra effort to the transition. starting earlier, etc. -- nm - b! Jan 20, 13:51
  - they have a bed in the master bathroom? -- nm - znufrii Jan 20, 13:46 3
    - L5 -- nm - Marcel, lefty like Obama Jan 20, 13:50 1
      - It's the White House, I wouldn't be surprised. -- nm - znufrii Jan 20, 13:52
    - rats....nm - x Jan 20, 13:47
- Nancy Pelosi is an alien. -- nm - Loyola Jan 20, 13:43
- It's a crayon drawing of the white house showing the obama family in front of it. - pmb Jan 20, 13:43 1
  - awwww. That Geo W is so sweet -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 20, 13:50
- O. - Have fun in the Lincoln Bedroom. sftc! - W. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 20, 13:42
- where the booze is. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 13:42
- note even -- nm - Marcel, lefty like Obama Jan 20, 13:41
scam call? I get a call looking for an Allen Green (I'm Allen Greenky) need to verify this is the right person, your last 4 digits of your SS is 6062 - zeitgeist Jan 20, 13:40 4
- obvious scam. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 13:41 3
  - were they trying to confirm my ss#? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 20, 13:44 2
    - they were trying to get you to give them the real one. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 13:45 1
      - while I didn't give them anything but say no I'm wondering if that still was enough -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 20, 13:53
LIR: CQ does not like ties. - con_carne Jan 20, 13:39 2
- I do have ties from the old days of working for the man, but come on. No one really likes them -- nm - CQ Jan 20, 13:40 1
  - I still like them, I just fell out of the habit of wearing them. -- nm - znufrii Jan 20, 13:41
I am playing with the Moment thing on CNN but I can't find the picture Spawn was talking about. Which one is it? -- nm - JaxSean Jan 20, 13:35 4
- Kennedy is wearing a hat. -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 13:35 3
  - Cowboy hat? - JaxSean Jan 20, 13:40 1
    - A scully, yo -- nm - con_carne Jan 20, 13:44
  - D.U. hat? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 20, 13:36
Puts on the Dow 8000 hat! -- nm - Dano Jan 20, 13:34
dammit, why does it want me to install Silverlight when i have Photosynth on my comp? -- nm - Marcel, lefty like Obama Jan 20, 13:34
Benjamin Button: B. Maybe B+ with time. - Dignan Jan 20, 13:32 16
- any particular criticisms? -- nm - znufrii Jan 20, 13:33 15
  - minor spoils, I guess. - Dignan Jan 20, 13:35 12
    - interesting (spoils) - znufrii Jan 20, 13:36 11
      - Okay, but (spoils) - Dignan Jan 20, 13:38 10
        
        I agree with this (spoils) - Roger More Jan 20, 13:42 3
        
        That's a great question. (spoils) - Dignan Jan 20, 13:44
        
        answer (spoils) - znufrii Jan 20, 13:42 1
        
        (spoiler) - Roger More Jan 20, 13:44
        
        I haven't seen the film. Did he play it similar to Meet Joe Black? -- nm - Inigo Jan 20, 13:41 1
        
        Heh, yeah, a little. nm - Dignan Jan 20, 13:43
        
        Didn't really seem like it to me -- nm - znufrii Jan 20, 13:40 3
        
        spoils - Dignan Jan 20, 13:45 2
        
        (though, to be fair) - Dignan Jan 20, 13:48 1
        
        could be. - znufrii Jan 20, 13:54
  - It was unrealistic. -- nm - Dano Jan 20, 13:35 1
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Parmi is married & pregnant - peglegpete Jan 20, 13:32
Loosi, I wondered if you had brought that danish. (mmmm, danish) -- nm - kelly Jan 20, 13:32 1
- yep, brought two. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 13:38
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- i used to make it be a 1-2 before i left for the day. if i left it as it got during the day, i was afraid i'd turn around and leave upon seeing it in - b! Jan 20, 13:55
- Mine's about an 8. It's always an 8. - Callisto Jan 20, 13:52
- my corner of the office where my desk is so (I say SO) buried and cluttered I can't get back to there without spending a few minutes pulling a huge - zeitgeist Jan 20, 13:43
- probably a 3 to 4. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 13:39
- I too have lost my letter opener, but I'm going to give it a 5. The floor's clean. -- nm - emoticripple Jan 20, 13:39
- About an 8. -- nm - TaurusII Jan 20, 13:35
- 2-3 -- nm - lileve Jan 20, 13:34 3
  - here's to the neat freaks -- nm - CQ Jan 20, 13:35 2
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      - well that too obvi -- nm - CQ Jan 20, 13:38
- It's bad. 9 or 10 -- nm - Loyola Jan 20, 13:34
- 4.5 -- nm - Epiphany Jan 20, 13:33
- 4 -- nm - Jovian Jan 20, 13:33
- About an 8 right now. -- nm - pmb Jan 20, 13:33 3
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    - I'm a "have to have it on my desk" guy. But I couldn't believe what I found when we moved about 2 years ago. Even my neatest partner found documents - pmb Jan 20, 13:45
    - it must suck to be your secretary. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 13:36
- 4 -- nm - con_carne Jan 20, 13:32
- at work, 3. At home, 9.5 -- nm - Beryllium Jan 20, 13:32
- 7...pretty bad, but I've had it worse -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 20, 13:32
- 2 -- nm - CQ Jan 20, 13:31
- 6.5 - znufrii Jan 20, 13:31
- 10. Putting in CDs in AbundaTrade. -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 13:31
- 8 -- nm - Roger More Jan 20, 13:31
- 3 at worst. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 13:31
- 7 -- nm - oblique Jan 20, 13:31
Boxoffice results for the work-Facebook-impaired - oblique Jan 20, 13:30 4
- where's this app? -- nm - CQ Jan 20, 13:37
- well not a total loss for me -- nm - J Jan 20, 13:35
- whoa. shay kicked ass this week. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 20, 13:33
- wow that Shelby girl is good -- nm - Epiphany Jan 20, 13:33
I'm pissed...water is just pouring out of my ceiling from the previously renovated bathroom. - Will Hunting Jan 20, 13:29 1
- gotta be a shut off valve somewhere -- nm - CQ Jan 20, 13:30
AGAIN! AGAIN!!! -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 13:27
I love this story about M&T Bank suing Deutsche Bank over a bad investment - Brian Jan 20, 13:27
Cadillac One -- (link) - J Jan 20, 13:26 [Image] 13
- it seems odd that the car would only go a max of 60mph - tRuMaN Jan 20, 13:38 1
  - I doubt that is an actual figure -- nm - J Jan 20, 13:41
- emergency presidential blood transfusions? -- nm - znufrii Jan 20, 13:32 5
  - In case he wants to race in the Tour de France. -- nm - Dano Jan 20, 13:39
  - In case he suffers a blood loss. -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 13:34
  - I don't get that. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 13:33 2
    - because they're for him :-) -- nm - Marcel, lefty like Obama Jan 20, 13:35 1
      - yeah, I don't get how they can have multiple bottles of fresh blood from one dude. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 13:36
- heh, the drawing of Obama inside it is lol-worthy. nm - Jovian Jan 20, 13:28 1
  - Pimpin' it. -- nm - Mop Jan 20, 13:31
- here's the wiki page. apparently a lot of the specs are classified. -- (link) - loosilu Jan 20, 13:27 2
  - Pool cameras are positioned in such a way so when you open the door, you can't see how thick it is. -- nm - Mop Jan 20, 13:31 1
    - I can see how heavy it is, though. holy moly. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 13:34
but .. photosynth was out almost two years ago? why did nobody tell me??? -- (link) - Marcel, lefty like Obama Jan 20, 13:25 1
- that's what I was thinking of. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 13:25
(nobody cares but I am still totally giggling. brian just stopped in my office and asked me if I was high. I just laughed.) -- nm - president 44 loves mandy lane Jan 20, 13:23
And here's where a fifteen-year deal bites ya. DiPietro out for the season. -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Jan 20, 13:22
Not sure if was posted, but whitehouse.gov gets immediate makeover as Obama takes office -- (link) - oblique Jan 20, 13:22 3
- Bah. Nowhere to buy t-shirts. Or yard signs. Fail. -- nm - Loyola Jan 20, 13:28
- they have a blog? great. next they will be twittering -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 13:24 1
  - We just Christened the Oval Office. -- nm - Obama Twitter Post Jan 20, 13:44
presidents on film poll. Who has played real presidents? Charleton Heston played Andrew Jackson -- nm - peglegpete Jan 20, 13:21 18
- That Law & Order guy in Gore Vidal's Lincoln -- nm - con_carne Jan 20, 13:35 2
  - sam watterston -- nm - peglegpete Jan 20, 13:40 1
    - Yes, thx -- nm - con_carne Jan 20, 13:41
- Alan Cumming -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 20, 13:33 1
  - as FDR, forgot to include that -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 20, 13:36
- Dennis Quaid -- nm - CQ Jan 20, 13:28
- Travolta. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 20, 13:26
- Frank Langella (sp) - Nixon -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 20, 13:26
- John Voit..FDR, Dan Hadeya..RMN, Randy Quaid..LBJ -- nm - peglegpete Jan 20, 13:24
- Henry Fonda -- nm - Roger More Jan 20, 13:24 2
  - Bruce Greenwood (Kennedy) -- nm - Roger More Jan 20, 13:25 1
    - Timothy Bottoms, in That's My Bush -- nm - Roger More Jan 20, 13:28
- Brolin, Langella, Hopkins, Giamatti, David Morse, Nolte. -- nm - Inigo Jan 20, 13:23 2
  - didn't see this. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 20, 13:29
  - James Cromwell -- nm - Inigo Jan 20, 13:29
- Paul Giamatti -- nm - CQ Jan 20, 13:22 2
  - Robin Williams -- nm - CQ Jan 20, 13:22 1
    - John Voight -- nm - CQ Jan 20, 13:25
hyde...is it something Obama said? - Mel Profit Jan 20, 13:21
LIR: cnn.com/themoment -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 13:20 2
- sweet, thanks. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 20, 13:23 1
  - Apple who? - Spawn Jan 20, 13:25
there's CY! -- nm - Marcel, lefty like Obama Jan 20, 13:20
loosi: You mean Cooliris? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 20, 13:20 3
- maybe! it was an amazing demo. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 13:20 2
  - It's a browser plugin that lets you do fancy screen effects with web-based galleries -- nm - Beryllium Jan 20, 13:21 1
    - someone posted (here) a video of a guy doing a demo in front of the audience, who just burst into applause. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 13:24
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- We did? Wow, I never heard that one...But around here, Jenna was all the news - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 20, 13:30 3
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    - There were photos of Jenna at parties...and well, they looked like some parties I threw in college...can't fault her there -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 20, 13:51
  - I think by "we" he means Yalies. -- nm - loosilu Jan 20, 13:31
- Here's your handbasket. -- nm - TaurusII Jan 20, 13:22

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