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Tomorrow I have a potential career moment to decide. - Fuzzy Aug 15, 21:11 7
- I approve of the term "wife aggro." (nm) - Tim Aug 15, 21:33
- how bad a compromise would it be to be the project leader deligating the responcibility and talking over the phone constantly while on vacation? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 15, 21:21 1
  - That's exactly what it would be. I'm the PM, I don't do any of the actual work, I coordinate all of the pieces and make sure it gets done right. -- nm - Fuzzy Aug 15, 21:34
- tell your wife what you just told us. - Mel Profit Aug 15, 21:21 1
  - "Wondering is this will have any effect" -- nothing is ever certain. Sometimes bosses don't recognize the effort and simply expect it. -- nm - Fuzzy Aug 15, 21:36
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- I'm thinking I'd be tempted to let the other senior PM take care of it and avoid the potential aggrivations - i'm not dead yet ! Aug 15, 21:16
Flexitarian? Seriously? -- nm - Spawn Aug 15, 21:10 2
- Yep. Seriously. -- nm - the liioulu on a bench Aug 15, 21:26 1
  - you only eat stuff you can stretch? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 15, 21:29
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- ESPN lost their schedule. - Krusty Aug 15, 21:11
tonight's winning powerball numbers: spoiler - peglegpete Aug 15, 20:48 9
- Dang! For the 8 tix our office had, 3 of them had the powerball 21, but no other #'s -- nm - JenBro Aug 15, 20:56 4
  - if nobody wins it tonight, we should start a pool tomorrow -- nm - peglegpete Aug 15, 21:05 3
    - Yep - I'd be in -- nm - JenBro Aug 15, 21:06 2
      - ditto. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 15, 21:21
      - me too, but someone who has the game local has to buy the tix. i am not gonna drive an hour to AZ. again this week :) -- nm - peglegpete Aug 15, 21:16
- Hah ha, very funny. -- nm - Spawn Aug 15, 20:50
- I didn't win -- nm - Bacon via droid Aug 15, 20:50
- I got ... ONE of them! -- nm - loosilu Aug 15, 20:49 1
  - me too. the first number. -- nm - peglegpete Aug 15, 20:50
What would you give to be invited to be a part of your favorite sports team? - nubby Aug 15, 20:35 14
- very cool -- nm - Beaker Aug 16, 04:45
- Darn, I thought you were going to get to touch the Rock. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 16, 04:10
- nice! as part of pregame they have to buy you lunch at the Eggsup! -- nm - Remlik Aug 15, 20:56
- Move over Big Papi...stop hogging all the bedsheets. - Mel Profit Aug 15, 20:53
- only thing better, Cabana Boy -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 15, 20:52
- Sweet! -- nm - Spawn Aug 15, 20:51
- *Elaine Bennis Shove* Get Out! - JenBro Aug 15, 20:47
- That is so awesome! -- nm - Krusty Aug 15, 20:46
- nubby: team mascot. - Tim Aug 15, 20:46
- great day!! and what is the team? -- nm - peglegpete Aug 15, 20:45 2
  - The school's baseball team. - nubby Aug 15, 20:48 1
    - It's all just a set-up plot to pants you in public on game day! - Cuzzin Todd Aug 15, 21:07
- dude!!!! that rocks! -- nm - loosilu Aug 15, 20:43
- Nice! -- nm - amoxy Aug 15, 20:39
dammit people, stop coming to work sick! -- nm - mafic Aug 15, 20:20 2
- especially this late at night, you need rest when you are ill! -- nm - ty97 Aug 15, 20:28
- Major pet peeve for me too - especially as we don't have any "set" number for sick days. The worst (sorry ST parents) is coming up when kids go back - JenBro Aug 15, 20:27
If I die in my sleep tonight, it wasn't an accident. Call the cops and tell them to investigate Max. -- nm - David Aug 15, 20:15 5
- That's verbatim what's written on a note on my nightstand. -- nm - nubby Aug 15, 20:23
- You realize you have given the rest of us a free pass, right? -- nm - Spawn Aug 15, 20:21 2
  - "If you owed me money, I'd get my money. If I owed you money, I wouldn't pay." -- nm - David Aug 15, 20:25
  - The cats will get him first -- nm - Bacon Aug 15, 20:23
- "Here's a great piece of technology that will FUCK YOU IN THE DRIVE THROUGH." -- nm - Max Aug 15, 20:21
Police: Moviegoer accidentally shoots himself in the ass. -- (link) - Bacon Aug 15, 20:09 15
- Another good argument against concealed carry - "Guns don't don't accidentally shoot you in the butt, peo....oh, uhm, yeah......" -- nm - the liioulu on a bench Aug 15, 20:28 7
  - Niice Lii -- nm - JenBro Aug 15, 20:31 6
    - Did you see the post about the book on b2? -- nm - the liioulu on a bench Aug 15, 20:33 5
      - Yep - replied before I realized I was BB'ed - heh. - JenBro Aug 15, 20:36 4
        
        I will be. -- nm - the liioulu on a bench Aug 15, 20:55 3
        
        Sweet! Be sure to let me know if there's anything from up here you are craving that I can bring to you :) -- nm - JenBro Aug 15, 20:58 2
        
        cool temps and rain? ;) -- nm - the liioulu on a bench Aug 15, 20:59 1
        
        LOL - just had last night! -- nm - JenBro Aug 15, 21:08
- He probably realized what it was going to take to watch the movie again at home in his Vudu account, and figured "this will feel better instead." -- nm - Max Aug 15, 20:22 1
  - I SAID I WAS SORRY!!! -- nm - David Aug 15, 20:28
- Again? I don't get it - you'd think he would have learned from the other one's mistake and put on the safety! -- nm - JenBro Aug 15, 20:20 3
  - Was this already posted or are you thinking of the guy that shot himself in the ass at Walmart? -- nm - Bacon Aug 15, 20:22 1
    - Wait - did this guy apologize as he left for the hospital? (I didn't click your link). If so - then yeah - it's a repost for WCH -- nm - JenBro Aug 15, 20:29
  - there's no time for safety in a crisis! -- nm - mafic Aug 15, 20:21
- Bourne? I figured it would be an advanced screening of Man of Steel. -- nm - Spawn Aug 15, 20:11
OK, server implosion at work appears to have abated. Now ... should I do something that might cause a new one, in an attempt to diagnose the cause? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 20:09 8
- I'd save that pickle for tomorrow morning. -- nm - mafic Aug 15, 20:11 7
  - My guess is that when the eastern seaboard wakes up, the servers are going to shit themselves ... so ... yeah. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 20:11 6
    - well I suppose better now than 4am, right? -- nm - mafic Aug 15, 20:14 5
      - this is what I'm thinking, yes -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 20:16 4
        
        Saw your earlier post - :( did you miss a family event? -- nm - JenBro Aug 15, 20:21 3
        
        No, I just have a limited window of time to spend with kieran in the evenings, and work was intruding. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 20:26 2
        
        (And I needed to vent because of months worth of frustrations that are accumulating.) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 20:27 1
        
        Understood :) how is Kieran these days? Has the nearbye school playground worked out for playtime? -- nm - JenBro Aug 15, 20:34
Two Pac-12 teams and 2 SEC teams at the top of SI's top 25 poll. Oregon number 4! -- (link) - Bacon Aug 15, 19:49
538's initial Senate forecast: 50 R, 48 D, 2 I (caucusing with the D's) -- (link) - Tim Aug 15, 19:13 1
- (current makeup: 51 D, 47 R, 2 I (caucusing with D's) (nm) - Tim Aug 15, 19:17
"We didn't lose Vietnam! It was a tie!" -- nm - David Aug 15, 19:12 2
- "That's a chip up the nose, I'm afraid!" -- nm - Roger More Aug 15, 19:44
- I didn't lose Blood Feud last year! It was a tie! -- nm - Bacon Aug 15, 19:19
So there's a new Chik-Fil-A opening near work tomorrow, and there were people camping out. I felt like stopping and berating them for being idiots... - Cuzzin Todd Aug 15, 19:11 4
- free food > all (nm) - Tim Aug 15, 19:24
- They award prizes at store grand openings. Something like a stack of 52 coupons etc. -- nm - Qale Aug 15, 19:22 1
  - Yep, usually free CfA for a year for the first 100. -- nm - nubby Aug 15, 19:26
- heh -- nm - Stephen Aug 15, 19:11
What a drag...in preparing for a camping/float trip tonight...one of the cables on our pop-up snapped, I think. - Jim Aug 15, 19:01 8
- Okay, so you are a super stud Eagle Scout, Scout Leader, Survivor wannabe, and you can't fix a tent? FAIL!!! -- nm - Bacon Aug 15, 19:31 2
  - Um...it's not a tent. It's a pop-up camper. -- nm - Jim Aug 15, 21:00
  - What I was thinking. He needs a girl scoutvto help him out. ;) -- nm - the liioulu on a nook for the heck of it Aug 15, 19:42
- So... You can't get it up anymore? -- nm - spamlet (iPhone) Aug 15, 19:28
- is there a way to make a quickie repair to it? -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 15, 19:07 3
  - Only fix is to replace the cable...gonna try to get it in tomorrow, but it'll cost me, I'm sure. -- nm - Jim Aug 15, 21:00
  - jiggle the cable? -- nm - oblique Aug 15, 19:09 1
    - take out the cartridge and blow in it. -- nm - mafic Aug 15, 19:56
Battle of the Year trailer (In case you were wondering what Josh Holloway has been doing since Lost) -- (link) - Dano Aug 15, 18:57 2
- Hey, have you been following Donald Young's Rather Bad Year? - prayformojo Aug 15, 18:59 1
  - I've been aware of it. It came up around his selection for the Olympics. -- nm - Dano Aug 15, 19:01
currently watching: Two Cathedrals. - tRuMaN Aug 15, 18:48 1
- haec credam a deo pio, a deo justo, a deo scito? -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 15, 18:55
That essay reminded me of something: what's with the sentence construction "I'm not a homophobic"? - Reagen Aug 15, 18:46 15
- bearing in mind one of the people in question is bristol palin, and she appears to know basically nothing. -- nm - mafic Aug 15, 19:53 9
  - Why hasn't Mama Bear sent her off to college. -- nm - the liioulu with bug bites Aug 15, 20:06 8
    - tangent: I finally *saw* GameChange. I read the book but somehow seeing it was even worse. - Mel Profit Aug 15, 20:33 1
      - yikes. -- nm - the liioulu on a bench Aug 15, 20:33
    - Money-wise, they are being smart. Strike the reality tv iron while it's hot. - ty97 Aug 15, 20:18 2
      - But a show called Bristol Goes to College could run for probably a decade. - Cuzzin Todd Aug 15, 20:28 1
        
        uh huh. Throw in the other one and you got two decades. -- nm - the liioulu on a bench Aug 15, 20:30
    - because right now she can still make money off her celebrity, such as it is. - mafic Aug 15, 20:14 1
      - I'm thnking it isn't going to happen. -- nm - the liioulu on a bench Aug 15, 20:24
    - Because she will probably get pregnant again -- nm - Bacon Aug 15, 20:10
- They're absently forgetting the last part, "bastard." -- nm - Qale Aug 15, 19:07
- Yeah. Sometimes the noun *does* end with -ic (paranoid schizophrenic), so they use that construction by mistake. -- nm - mara Aug 15, 18:52 1
  - "I'm not a paranoid schizophrene." heheh -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 20:10
- I'm wonder if it's language in transition to form one adjective/noun that's the same - ty97 Aug 15, 18:48 1
  - Or...the person doesn't know better. Wasn't that the Bristol Palin quote? -- nm - the liioulu with Aug 15, 18:51
Boss to me: "You don't mind staying late again tonight, and coming in early again tomorrow, do you?" Me to boss: "nope, just means i'll have an even - Stephen Aug 15, 18:43 2
- *sigh* i remember the days of overtime *returns to unpaid work* -- nm - gLu Aug 15, 18:49 1
  - :( -- nm - Epiphany Aug 15, 21:32
UK Police may be storming the Ecuadorian Embassy to arrest Julian Assange. -- nm - ty97 Aug 15, 18:42 40
- I really do hope that douchebag gets turned over to us. -- nm - Bacon Aug 15, 19:22 1
  - he won't get turned over to us. He'll get turned over to the UK. -- nm - loosilu Aug 15, 20:44
- I really do hope so. That would be fucking awesome! -- nm - Bacon Aug 15, 19:20 18
  - Regardless how one feels about Assange, violating international law to get him would just set a terrible precedent. -- nm - ty97 Aug 15, 19:32 17
    - Like sending Predator Drones into other countries and whacking people? - Bacon Aug 15, 19:37 14
      - Like Judi Dench said, attacking an embassy is the one absolutely inviolable law of international law. -- nm - Roger More Aug 15, 19:38 1
        
        this. YOu can't do that. -- nm - loosilu Aug 15, 20:42
      - As long as your cool when the roles are reverse, have at it. - ty97 Aug 15, 19:38 11
        
        Eh, Iran did it to us -- nm - Bacon Aug 15, 19:39 10
        
        You're supposed to making your argument, not mine :) -- nm - ty97 Aug 15, 19:41
        
        By the way. Don't confuse what I want to happen with what I think should happen. - Bacon Aug 15, 19:40 6
        
        The greatest tests of how strongly we believe in the rule of law is our willingness to apply the same fair rules to those we most dislike. -- nm - ty97 Aug 15, 19:42 5
        
        Do you think it was right to violate Pakistan's sovereignty to kill Osama Bin Laden? -- nm - Bacon Aug 15, 19:47 4
        
        International law isn't really about what's right and wrong - it's about what countries can do, and what they can get away with. - Roger More Aug 15, 19:55 3
        
        International Law is about who you are not what is right and wrong. If you are one of the "good countries" you can do much more. If you aren't in - Bacon Aug 15, 19:58 2
        
        No. If you are one of the powerful countries, you can do much more. -- nm - Roger More Aug 15, 20:01 1
        
        I stand corrected. Yes, replace powerful with "good" -- nm - Bacon Aug 15, 20:02
        
        That was a fanatic regime that didn't care about what anyone else thought. Do you really want to make that comparison? -- nm - Roger More Aug 15, 19:40 1
        
        Seems legit. - Beryllium Aug 15, 19:47
    - There's no way there will be any storming of the embassy. -- nm - Roger More Aug 15, 19:35 1
      - I do agree it's a almost certainly a show of force, as is the rumor of removing embassy status. - ty97 Aug 15, 19:37
- So basically sounds like the UK police are just hanging outside the Embassy awaiting the asylum ruling (due at 7am CT in the morning) -- nm - ty97 Aug 15, 19:11
- haha, the guy doing the ustream buzzed the Embassy's right door to try and get an interview with Assange. - ty97 Aug 15, 19:06
- Fun fact news break! Ecuador's London Embassy is right behind the famous Harrod's department store. -- nm - ty97 Aug 15, 19:03
- *prepares for Fauklands round 2* Only this time with more allies -- nm - Argentina Aug 15, 18:51 1
  - You would still get your asses kicked -- nm - Bacon Aug 15, 19:21
- Police officers have reported entered the embassy via a side door. -- nm - ty97 Aug 15, 18:50 3
  - The officers who enters apparently were invited in, no storming, everything peaceable. - ty97 Aug 15, 19:09 1
    - I was gonna say, they cannot storm an embassy. they MUST be invited it. -- nm - loosilu Aug 15, 20:40
  - This ustream technology is fascinating, even if it keeps hanging -- nm - ty97 Aug 15, 18:51
- From BBC an hour ago: Ecuador says UK issued threat to enter embassy. - ty97 Aug 15, 18:46
- whoa, that won't lead to anything good. -- nm - Beaker Aug 15, 18:44 5
  - Can't it be considered an act of war -- nm - the liioulu without someone else's headphones Aug 15, 18:47 4
    - Anything, can be "considered" an act of war. -- nm - Bacon Aug 15, 19:21 3
      - Your mom is an act of war. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 20:05 2
        
        So is your face -- nm - Bacon Aug 15, 20:06 1
        
        You're damn right. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 20:08
- (of course, embassies are supposed to be foreign sovereign land.) -- nm - ty97 Aug 15, 18:44 1
  - They are not. that's a commonly held myth that is perpetuated by Hollywood and the media. - loosilu Aug 15, 20:46
- Someone is ustreaming from there -- (link) - ty97 Aug 15, 18:43

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