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uh oh, the Dean is coming up the attic stairs. -- nm - loosilu Jan 28, 06:08 3
- Wormer? -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 06:09
- Winchester? -- nm - oblique Jan 28, 06:08 1
  - I wish! -- nm - loosilu Jan 28, 06:11
bacon explosion hits the NYTimes -- (link) - znufrii Jan 28, 06:03
well, once i get through the BS of work with half staff (cause of the snow) and get home, it will be time for Life On Mars -- nm - Jovian Jan 28, 05:52
Sega rebrands Exercise Trainer as Love trainer. Hilarity ensues. I am so going to hack this to say "Prepare for brilliance" -- (link) - oblique Jan 28, 05:41 1
- It gives "FINISH HIM!" a whole new meaning. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 28, 06:08
Another popular BBC format being remade for US TV - genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? Wonder if Mark Strong will be doing the voice over too -- (link) - LMS Jan 28, 05:39 4
- Was this the show that had Springer on it? - ty97 Jan 28, 05:48 1
  - That's the one - apparently that episode was a total tearjerker. -- nm - LMS Jan 28, 05:57
- Hey, LMS... think I saw most of your movies at Sundance - secretslacker Jan 28, 05:42 1
  - Yep - all 3 were ours, well 5 minutes is a BBC Northern Ireland production more than BBC Films. - LMS Jan 28, 05:56
Newegg.com has AVG Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware 2 years for $19.99. -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 28, 05:38
Shocker... Sirius-XM plans official rate hike for March (internet streaming no longer free and price increased for Sirius Everything plan). -- (link) - Don Homer Jan 28, 05:36 4
- yup, I saw this a couple of weeks ago. - Callisto Jan 28, 05:49
- Hooray merger! -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 28, 05:46 2
  - They're going under not-so-slowly, I don't see the alternative. -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 05:49 1
    - In general, I can't think of a recent merger that has yielded good results. TW/AOL, DaimlerChrysler etc. Someone probably can cite an obscure one but - HdnAgnda Jan 28, 06:10
very smooth ride into work this morning. it helps when lots of stuff is closed for the day -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 04:52 6
- Slow, but not bad once I got on the highway. Took about 70 minutes instead of 45. - Don Homer Jan 28, 05:00 5
  - Working from home. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 05:13 4
    - wish I was allowed to work from home. Traffic was great but there's a lot of ice. -- nm - loosilu Jan 28, 06:01
    - me too! -- nm - oblique Jan 28, 05:45 2
      - You guys! High 68F today. -- nm - nubby Jan 28, 05:53 1
        
        I have the day off. (I don't remember a winter storm stretching from here to the east coast before. Weird.) -- nm - mara Jan 28, 06:00
Some NFL ads from before the season... no way any of these are real... -- (link) - nubby Jan 28, 04:27 [youtube] 4
- Those are great....and Laurence Maroney can kiss my ass too. - Jim Jan 28, 05:56 1
  - Or a hole, either. -- nm - Jim Jan 28, 05:56
- I like the Mason crosby one. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 05:16 1
  - I call it "Three Dong Afternoon". -- nm - nubby Jan 28, 05:23
mp3 album of the day is Edith Piaf Greatest Hits for $1.99. -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 28, 03:57
Devil May Cry 4 for $19.98 is the Amazon video game deal of the day, if anyone is interested. -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 28, 03:55
kibbles n bits, kibbles n bits - pigby Jan 28, 00:58 1
- *pours Pixie a bowl* -- nm - Stacy Jan 28, 00:59
top chef head's-up: 75 minutes for tonight's new ep. -- nm - b! Jan 28, 00:56 4
- I have a bet going on this show - Strongbad Jan 28, 04:44 3
  - right now i'd be really surprised if - prayformojo Jan 28, 04:48 1
    - He's the favorite for sure. But anything can happen towards the end, like last season. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 28, 04:49
  - I bet making the sexy times is involved. -- nm - nubby Jan 28, 04:46
ST Poll: How many replies will it take to roll my ego-feed? - psilotum Jan 28, 00:46 3
- 69. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 28, 05:39
- 42 -- nm - Don Homer Jan 28, 05:26
- 22. -- nm - b! Jan 28, 00:56
*finds it strange that elias koteas never got bigger/better roles than his early work would have predicted* -- nm - pigby Jan 28, 00:31 4
- Casey Jones!!! -- nm - Shaun Jan 28, 05:46
- What's an 'Elias Koteas'? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 28, 00:34 2
  - He plays the clock maker in Benjamin Button. -- nm - Diva Jan 28, 04:32
  - Duncan, the punk rocker in Some Kind of Wonderful -- (link) - pigby Jan 28, 00:39
I think I got my hair cut shorter than I really want it, but at the same time, it looks really good. - ReluctantCynic Jan 28, 00:27 3
- nice when it turns out that way! :) - - b! Jan 28, 00:35 2
  - in your case, however - pigby Jan 28, 00:40 1
    - *raises eyebrow* - b! Jan 28, 00:44
One of the ads here keeps hanging on me. I couldn't quite get the name but it was something questionsmart or something like that. -- nm - Qale Jan 28, 00:05 5
- arms.questionsmarket. I think is it. -- nm - Qale Jan 28, 00:05 4
  - amch.questionsmarket. That's it. Sorry for the multiposts. -- nm - Qale Jan 28, 00:06 3
    - It's like I'm having flashbacks to Bery, circa 2007. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 28, 00:09 2
      - hai 2 u -- nm - Beryllium, circa 2007 Jan 28, 00:17 1
        
        oh hai! -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 28, 00:19
Charlie Rose's guests tonight are Pres. Jimmy Carter and Jimmie Johnson. - ReluctantCynic Jan 28, 00:02 2
- ahem .. Carter isn't Pres. any more .. -- nm - Marcel Jan 28, 02:45 1
  - Anyone who serves in that role retains that title even after they pass. -- nm - Diva Jan 28, 05:17
So I was teaching my g/f how to play poker tonight...We played draw poker so she could get the idea. - amoxy Jan 27, 23:32 19
- but strip poker might have led to a little *wokka wokka* :) -- nm - Stacy Jan 28, 00:57 1
  - What does Fozzy Bear have to do with it? -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 28, 04:30
- I was following surprisingly up until that last line... Why wouldn't you want to be playing that again? -- nm - Qale Jan 27, 23:48 13
  - if it's like here there, it's cold. *brr* -- nm - b! Jan 27, 23:59 12
    - *hands the b! a nice warm Pendleton blanket* -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 28, 00:01 11
      - mmm, thanks! i was just looking at a brookstone "nap" blanket someone raved about. (has anyone felt it?) -- nm - b! Jan 28, 00:04 10
        
        you'll get a Snuggie and like it -- nm - pigby Jan 28, 00:06 9
        
        ha. my sister told me she read some amazing number of them have sold in the past few months. - b! Jan 28, 00:08 8
        
        Brookstone? BAH! I'm but a three-hour drive from the home of Pendleton Woolen Mills! - ReluctantCynic Jan 28, 00:10 6
        
        hee. i have a pendleton blanket! - b! Jan 28, 00:13 5
        
        I have a Pendleton blanket that I inherited from my grandfather (of all people). - ReluctantCynic (with squeaky voice) Jan 28, 00:21 4
        
        cool beans. - b! Jan 28, 00:38
        
        i don't know what a pendleton blanket is but you two sound like a couple of liberal elite anti-snuggie tree huggers -- nm - pigby Jan 28, 00:32 2
        
        1.6 descriptors may apply. i'm not saying which in mixed company. -- nm - b! Jan 28, 00:40
        
        You haven't even begun to scratch the surface of my anti-snuggie elitist attitude. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 28, 00:38
        
        *4 million* nm but: -- (link) - b! Jan 28, 00:10
- it's like the anti-hustle -- nm - pigby Jan 27, 23:35
- You need to get her to play against Will. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 27, 23:34 1
  - Strip poker? That's just mean...to her -- nm - oblique Jan 28, 05:34
US roads & water systems get a D. will take 2.2 trillion to fix them -- (link) - pigby Jan 27, 23:02 16
- "say the engineers, who would get a piece of the pie in working on the repairs." - Dr.Vermin Jan 27, 23:12 15
  - find me someone who isn't an engineer who would be qualified to write the same reoprt. - znufrii Jan 28, 05:51
  - Let's see...massive #'s of water main breaks, bridges in disrepair etcetcetc - Will Hunting Jan 28, 05:31
  - as a Civil Engineer who's looked at the report, I'd say it's in the ballpark. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 28, 04:11
  - yes, it's the giant conspiracy to overstate how crappy our infrastructure is to rip off John Q. Taxpayer - pigby Jan 27, 23:16 6
    - I'd much rather throw insane amounts of money at our infrastructure than continue to throw it at a continually failing banking sector. -- nm - Qale Jan 27, 23:47 4
      - At least we'd get something tangible out of it. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 27, 23:52 1
        
        I am surprised it's taking Tyler Durden this long to complete Project Mayhem. -- nm - Qale Jan 27, 23:54
      - as would i - pigby Jan 27, 23:49 1
        
        Sane amounts? Bah! That's perposterious! I demand insane amounts and superfluious legislation immedately! -- nm - Qale Jan 27, 23:51
    - And it would have worked, too, if it wasn't for those pesky kids. Our plan was sheer elegance in its simplicity. -- nm - Mustachioed Structural Engineers Jan 27, 23:20
  - You say that as though you don't support infrastructure upgrades. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 23:12 4
    - I'm saying consider the source when evaluating the urgency of the request. - Dr.Vermin Jan 27, 23:15 3
      - There are only so many grains of salt you can throw at a problem before you get crushed by a fuckton of sodium chloride. - Beryllium Jan 27, 23:19 2
        
        what's a fuckton in metric? -- nm - mafic Jan 28, 00:47
        
        I can agree with this. - Dr.Vermin Jan 27, 23:22
I'll bet wiggums can still get her rage on if she puts her mind to it. --nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 27, 22:51 8
- usually, when she goes shopping for a new bathing suit - pigby Jan 27, 23:03 2
  - Hey, those last 5 pounds of baby weight are stubborn! nm - ralph wiggum Jan 27, 23:11 1
    - what's that book you're reading in the new pic? - pigby Jan 27, 23:17
- What did I miss on the Backboards? -- nm - amoxy Jan 27, 22:52 4
  - Apparently, she might have enjoyed a drink or two on the weekends, but I might be mistaken. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 27, 23:05 3
    - Awww, man. Why you gotta bust balls, Cynic? - ralph wiggum Jan 27, 23:19 2
      - I'm just trying to provoke you into throwing down with me someday. --nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 27, 23:33
      - When playing Blackjack and the dealer gives me crappy cards, I tell him/her They are off my Christmas Card list - amoxy Jan 27, 23:22
Bery, my ego-feed live bookmark failed to load. The regular ST feed is working fine. - psilotum Jan 27, 22:47 11
- ah, I see - reagen's bjorkland joke is not XML compliant. Hrm. I hate dealing with XML encoding :( -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 22:50 9
  - effin' Reagen! -- nm - psilotum Jan 27, 23:57
  - well, I made an attempt at fixing it, but RSS is just too fucking retarded. Random shit goes wrong any time you try to fix something. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 23:08 7
    - (Note that this is probably because I'm building the file by hand, rather than using an object .. an object would potentially know how to correct the - Beryllium Jan 27, 23:12 6
      - Thanks. -- nm - psilotum Jan 27, 23:48 5
        
        I gave it another try, still no dice. XML is a harsh mistress. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 00:11 4
        
        Is it going to resume working after a certain number of replies to my posts? -- nm - psilotum Jan 28, 00:25 3
        
        Yes. I suggest running a poll or quiz in the morning :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 00:28 2
        
        (Until then, you can manually load the URL in Firefox to see the latest replies, and view source to see the ones you're missing ...) - Beryllium Jan 28, 00:28 1
        
        My Firefox won't let me. It seems to be set to automatically offer to bookmark or bookmard toolbar the link. - psilotum Jan 28, 00:45
- Depending on various factors, sometimes the XML will fail to parse properly. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 22:48
I will stand up and admit that I had no idea that Sweden was neutral in WW2. - Beryllium Jan 27, 22:39 1
- "if I don't survive, tell my wife 'hello.'" -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 22:49
so I must say, reading Watchmen now twenty-something years later, is by far alot more enjoyable. - Jovian Jan 27, 22:38 1
- You must have really been annoyed at Heroes Season 1 :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 22:40
Survivor is going HD? - psilotum Jan 27, 22:12 3
- too bad it wasn't around for Colleen's legs -- nm - pigby Jan 27, 22:13
- I thought they were HD last season. -- nm - Dano Jan 27, 22:12 1
  - Oh, yeah. It's TAR we want now. - psilotum Jan 27, 22:14
Kayne West goes (more) crazy -- (link) - Reagen Jan 27, 21:56
Netflix to start testing weekend shipping -- (link) - oblique Jan 27, 21:45 1
- Woo-hoo! -- nm - Jelly Jan 28, 05:09
Obama hopes the stimulus will create 4 million jobs over two years. FDR created that many in the first two months -- (link) - pigby Jan 27, 21:30 9
- And only prolonged the depression by seven years. - Dr.Vermin Jan 27, 23:04 1
  - keep saying it, someday it might be true -- nm - pigby Jan 27, 23:10
- FDR hired them all for the gov't. -- nm - Mop Jan 27, 21:32 6
  - well yeah - pigby Jan 27, 21:34 5
    - And how big was the federal defecit when FDR did all this? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 27, 21:34 4
      - the money's going to be spent no matter what - pigby Jan 27, 21:37 3
        
        well in terms of its money for education it is not really creating new jobs, its simply allowing many prgrams or positions in schools to continue. -- nm - Stacy Jan 27, 21:43 2
        
        and allows funds that would ordinarily be dirverted by the states to stem the education shortage to be freed up for other purposes. - znufrii Jan 28, 05:50 1
        
        actually educational money is earmarked on the bill, my mom runs a school district I should know. -- nm - Stacy Jan 30, 01:31
My son has a music recital on Thursday. Same time as the online Jeopardy! test. -- nm - Mop Jan 27, 21:27 13
- TiVo the recital. -- nm - Dano Jan 27, 21:56
- Laptop + 3G = both :) -- nm - oblique Jan 27, 21:45
- Oh, btw. I'm going to the recital. There was never any doubt. You can wait another year, Trebek! -- nm - Mop Jan 27, 21:43
- i'm taking it (again) too. if it's the same as last time, it'll literally take you 10 minutes - pigby Jan 27, 21:39 1
  - I've done it several times. I'll be in tears after 2 minutes. -- nm - Mop Jan 27, 21:41
- Get your son to take the online Jeopardy! test and make sure to leave the fox on the other shore with the corn. nm - ralph wiggum Jan 27, 21:36 1
  - Those Australian expressions sure are odd. -- nm - Mop Jan 27, 21:42
- Explain it to your son, have your wife video him, take the test, watch the video with your kid later. -- nm - Trish Jan 27, 21:34
- one you can do again, one you can't -- nm - Stacy Jan 27, 21:30
- go to the recital - pigby Jan 27, 21:28 1
  - List. You're on it. -- nm - Mop Jan 27, 21:32
- There'll be other recitals. -- nm - Reagen Jan 27, 21:28 1
  - Dozens and dozens and dozens of them most likely. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 27, 21:34

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