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Kodak laying off 14-18% of its workforce. -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 29, 06:57
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- see, here, we just get that stuff to the client on Friday. :) -- nm - Andie Jan 29, 06:57 1
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Box Office Report Got Real Fancy, wow -- (link) - MDH Jan 29, 06:56 1
- Edit: I cannot find any of the old site's stuff! :-( -- nm - MDH Jan 29, 07:00
Google releases tools to help you determine if your ISP is blocking or throtling BitTorrent. -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 29, 06:53 1
- That's a provocative name for it. -- nm - nubby Jan 29, 06:55
Neat little YouTube video (make sure you watch until it stops scrolling down....) -- (link) - Andie Jan 29, 06:50 2
- feel-good linking award to you -- nm - zork Jan 29, 06:58
- Wow very good, however sponsored by AARP? -- nm - amoxy Jan 29, 06:56
So the streets in my subdivision are covered in 6 to 8-inch ruts of ice and very hard snow. I'm not looking forward to trying to get out tomorrow. - mara Jan 29, 06:46 5
- Our streets were not plowed until after midnight--even though I was supposed to go to work at 1. We were told today that we have to use 8 hours of - Amy Jan 29, 06:54
- Do it! -- nm - Obama Jan 29, 06:50
- My street has been a test for my shocks for 2 weeks, ever since the last meltdown. - Subversive - daddy x 2 Jan 29, 06:49
- yesterday I was told that your concern is wimpy. :) -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:46 1
  - I really do like that he made a quip about it and that WaPo has gone into full opinion mode. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 29, 06:57
*becomes a fan of Sonya Walger* -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 29, 06:45 3
- Been a fan since The Librarian -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 29, 06:51 2
  - I've been a quiet fan since HBO's Tell Me You Love Me. Oh my! -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 29, 06:55 1
    - She was also on that horrible Mind of a Married Man show. -- nm - Inigo Jan 29, 06:59
NCAA BBall: UConn women are 20-0 and look tough to beat.... - budice Jan 29, 06:44 1
- My alma mater might have given them their toughest game - Strongbad Jan 29, 06:47
You can't have no mail delivery two days in a row, people. -- nm - nubby Jan 29, 06:42 25
- I wonder if Netflix customers would go into an uproar if there wasn't mail on Tuesdays anymore. -- nm - TFox Jan 29, 06:45 4
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  - I don't know that there are enough of them to make a difference if usps decides to do this -- nm - decline Jan 29, 06:50 2
    - No, there aren't, but like Dawson says above, I think it'd be a big blow to Netflix. -- nm - TFox Jan 29, 06:58 1
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- saturday and sunday? -- nm - zork Jan 29, 06:44 19
  - Right. The second off day should be as far from Sunday as possible, ie Tuesday or Wednesday. -- nm - nubby Jan 29, 06:46 1
    - There's more mail delivered on Saturday than Tuesday. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 29, 06:49
  - we need to keep Saturday delivery. -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:45 16
    - why? hell, there's never been saturday delivery here that I know of. -- nm - zork Jan 29, 06:46 15
      - Small businesses would suffer. -- nm - nubby Jan 29, 06:46 14
        
        you're kidding. -- nm - Andie Jan 29, 06:51 8
        
        they need to get their stuff! (I don't really know this, it just seems weird to me not to get mail on Saturday) -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:52 7
        
        i'm sure it would seem weird, and i've always thought it was sort of interesting that you guys get saturday mail, but honestly, it makes NO difference - Andie Jan 29, 06:53
        
        it seems weird to me to get mail on Saturday. The world won't fall apart without it -- nm - Roger More Jan 29, 06:53 5
        
        plus for all the offices that are closed over the weekend, the mail sits around for two days and could get stolen -- nm - zork Jan 29, 06:54
        
        i assume Australia doesn't get Saturday mail either? -- nm - Andie Jan 29, 06:54 3
        
        Nope - though my mum remembers when the mail used to come twice a day -- nm - Roger More Jan 29, 06:55 2
        
        yeah, my great uncle was a mail carrier here his whole life, he used to do two deliveries a day. - Andie Jan 29, 06:56 1
        
        i've heard this too -- nm - zork Jan 29, 07:00
        
        how? -- nm - zork Jan 29, 06:48 4
        
        I don't care enough to argue anymore. - nubby Jan 29, 06:54 2
        
        *snork* -- nm - zork Jan 29, 06:55 1
        
        Yes, I'm nubbing off this discussion. - nubby Jan 29, 06:57
        
        they wouldn't get mail on saturdays! do we need to spell it out for you? - mafic Jan 29, 06:51
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- I think this is a ballsy move that took some real guts on Santonio's part. - TFox Jan 29, 06:44 4
  - You know what also took guts? Posing for that nude photo and having it "accidentally" released on the 'net. (nm) - nubby Jan 29, 06:45 3
    - That also took balls. - TFox Jan 29, 06:47 1
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    - he has an iphone? -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:45
- didn't Bon Jovi admit that too? -- nm - zork Jan 29, 06:42
I don't know the answer yet, but: 15% of people do this within a couple weeks before the Superbowl. -- nm - Redmond has a particular set of skills Jan 29, 06:40 12
- complain about the super bowl? -- nm - JaxSean Jan 29, 06:50 1
  - that would be more like 60% -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:51
- what was the answer to your b2 trivia? -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:43 5
  - spoiler - Redmond has a particular set of skills Jan 29, 06:46 4
    - huh. -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:46 3
      - spoiler - Redmond has a particular set of skills Jan 29, 06:48 2
        
        what's your source? do they say what the oldest item is for women? -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:49 1
        
        They do a trivia question every morning on local news. They didn't have one for women. - Redmond has a particular set of skills Jan 29, 06:51
- download a chili recipe from the internet? -- nm - zork Jan 29, 06:42
- buy a new TV. -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:40
- buy a tv? -- nm - Strongbad Jan 29, 06:40 1
  - this is my answer too -- nm - znufrii Jan 29, 06:55
Obama�s Open Records Pledge Tested Over Citigroup Guarantees -- (link) - Strongbad Jan 29, 06:40 1
- I think I have a new favorite Congressman - znufrii Jan 29, 06:46
Paraphrasing from the SFGate: "If Michael Cera continues to be such an ungrateful little bitch about the AD movie, just recast him. nm - ralph wiggum Jan 29, 06:39 2
- Sounds good. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 29, 06:49
- I like those ideas a lot. -- nm - kelly Jan 29, 06:46
heh. a coworker just emailed to a bunch of people the link to the Bacon Explosion -- nm - zork Jan 29, 06:39
LMS: Sevilla and/or the Algarve region. Average Feb temp is around 17C. nm - ralph wiggum Jan 29, 06:34 3
- I'm thinking a couple of days in Bilbao and then a few in Madrid -- nm - LMS Jan 29, 07:00
- Istanbul. Lisbon is great too -- nm - Roger More Jan 29, 06:45 1
  - also, Marrakech -- nm - Roger More Jan 29, 06:51
Again! Marion Barry failed to file his tax returns for 2007. -- (link) - Don Homer Jan 29, 06:29 13
- Can you deduct crack and hos as a business expense? -- nm - Redmond has a particular set of skills Jan 29, 06:34 1
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- *re-elect* -- nm - DC residents Jan 29, 06:33
- *re-elects him again to whatever job he wants* -- nm - DC idiots Jan 29, 06:33 7
  - To be fair it's only one ward of the city. He wouldn't win a citywide race anymore. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 29, 06:34 5
    - We stand by our idiocy in every way. -- nm - DC idiots Jan 29, 06:35
    - Sounds like Cynthia McKinney down here. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 29, 06:34
    - sure he would. -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:34 2
      - Nope. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 29, 06:35 1
        
        must be great to know everything. :) -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:35
  - hee! -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:33
- He's just prepping to be the Treasury secretary replacement. -- nm - Inigo Jan 29, 06:32 1
  - snikcer -- nm - ty97 Jan 29, 06:32
So, the interview went well yesterday. Couple questions for anyone who feels like chiming in. - Subversive - daddy x 2 Jan 29, 06:29 22
- I've worked for big and small companies. I have a buddy who went from a small company to a bigger one. He has a pretty narrowly focused job with - oblique Jan 29, 06:32 4
  - See, this might be right. I might not enjoy being a tiny cog in a giant machine somewhere. - Subversive - daddy x 2 Jan 29, 06:48 2
    - If you want to get your hands dirty with larger deployments - Scorpion Jan 29, 07:06
    - Your last part of the IM is true. My "small" company work now - oblique Jan 29, 06:50
  - My take... - Mel Profit Jan 29, 06:37
- My only thoughts are this. With this bad economy layoffs are usually based on seniority. You would be low man on the list if the company took a - Redmond has a particular set of skills Jan 29, 06:31 16
  - Well, that's a risk no matter where I leave for. However in IT things are actually pretty good. Company budgets are being cut but IT budgets are - Subversive - daddy x 2 Jan 29, 06:36 4
    - See my note about my friend. He's really happing making almost 2x what he was at the small company but feels is tech knowledge is stagnating - oblique Jan 29, 06:37 2
      - This is interesting, because that's what I feel is sort of happening to me right now. - Subversive - daddy x 2 Jan 29, 06:42 1
        
        heh. Deploying vmware puts you ahead of alot of people - oblique Jan 29, 06:44
    - I have heard this, actually. -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:37
  - not necessarily. I've been laid off at both ends of seniority. -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:35 9
    - yup, sometimes they'll cut the top salaries instead, saving more money by not having to pay the bigger salaries. - znufrii Jan 29, 06:36 5
      - yes, exactly. Or if a whole department gets cut, everyone goes. I've had that happen. -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:37 4
        
        I've seen that happen too. -- nm - znufrii Jan 29, 06:39 3
        
        I've also seen the "only computer guy" get cut. -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:40 2
        
        I was at a company where all the redheads got fired. -- nm - Redmond has a particular set of skills Jan 29, 06:41 1
        
        seriously, they cut the computer guys. more than one place. "We'll hire someone by the hour as needed" or "we'll use the guys in our other office." -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:41
    - Sometimes the situation is 1 higher-up or 2 entry-levels. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 29, 06:35 2
      - and you retain more capacity with two bodies than with one. -- nm - znufrii Jan 29, 06:37
      - one of my best friends just got laid off from Vault.com after 12 years. she was chief editor. -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:36
  - Good point also, I'm not sure I'd want to go from being "valuable guy in IT" to "one of 6 in a big company" right now - oblique Jan 29, 06:34
Now *that* was an episode of Lost that I really liked (spoilers) - oblique Jan 29, 06:28 11
- i thought it was an awful episode until that moment -- nm - prayformojo Jan 29, 06:50 1
  - Once that happened, it really turned my whole look on the series upside down -- nm - oblique Jan 29, 06:55
- I really, really like - loosilu Jan 29, 06:34 2
  - Your such a girl. -- nm - nubby Jan 29, 06:44 1
    - yup. -- nm - loosilu Jan 29, 06:44
- Does anyone remember... (spoils) - Inigo Jan 29, 06:30 5
  - Aw hell (spoilers) - oblique Jan 29, 06:33 4
    - IIRC (spoilers) - Inigo Jan 29, 06:39 2
      - spoiler - Guigue Jan 29, 06:41 1
        
        (spoilers) - Inigo Jan 29, 06:43
    - I think when the run is done this may be required. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 29, 06:34
My cousin is having a Super Bowl party on Saturday. - ty97 Jan 29, 06:27 5
- Sure, I'll fly down there for it. - secretslacker Jan 29, 06:29 4
  - Be warned, it's gonna be cold here on Saturday -- nm - ty97 Jan 29, 06:31 3
    - And there won't be much of a game. -- nm - Jim Jan 29, 06:32 2
      - who needs a game at a Super Bowl party? -- nm - ty97 Jan 29, 06:33 1
        
        Not someone who's having the party on Saturday, I guess. -- nm - Jim Jan 29, 06:34
Hdn, in addition to the link already posted, this has some more info -- (link) - mara Jan 29, 06:27 1
- Thank you, mara & jax, for the info. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 29, 06:43
What is the oldest thing many men own. (news trivia) Spoiler - Redmond has a particular set of skills Jan 29, 06:27 1
- only because they deny the teddy bear in their closet -- nm - ty97 Jan 29, 06:28
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- Where's the video?!?!?! -- nm - nubby Jan 29, 06:43
- awful. -- nm - Andie Jan 29, 06:38 1
  - *nods* I hope he has a full recovery -- nm - zork Jan 29, 06:44
- shaving? -- nm - Dane Duke Nuuk Jan 29, 06:29
- tangentially, I think stunt work needs to be an Oscar category. -- nm - znufrii Jan 29, 06:29 8
  - The stunt community has been saying this for at least two decades or more - secretslacker Jan 29, 06:30 7
    - I know, I've seen it come up every couple of years. - znufrii Jan 29, 06:31 6
      - And get rid of the Best Song category. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 29, 06:31 5
        
        I wouldn't mind seeing it replaced with a Best Music category. -- nm - Inigo Jan 29, 06:54 1
        
        they already have Best Score -- nm - znufrii Jan 29, 06:58
        
        I wouldn't be too broken up about that. -- nm - znufrii Jan 29, 06:32 2
        
        and does there have to be a distinction between original and adapted screenplays? -- nm - zork Jan 29, 06:41 1
        
        yes, I think that distinction is still relelvant. -- nm - znufrii Jan 29, 06:58
UGA fires coach Dennis Felton, rumored names to replace include Tubby Smith and Lon Kruger -- nm - Strongbad Jan 29, 06:27
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- Stewie=Bippy? -- nm - ty97 Jan 29, 06:26

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