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Stupid successful season for the Blues. Hope opener against the Wings: good. Tickets @$70/ea: bad - spamlet Aug 24, 11:09 1
- $100 for two tickets to a normal game in the upper bowl! - spamlet Aug 24, 11:16
Unread email #451. Say, what is the ignition point of email? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 24, 11:09
nmb JenBro - ceregon Aug 24, 11:01 1
- dang ... I had these great visions of the logo - Bobby in a hulk like muscle costume ;) - JenBro Aug 24, 12:07
Damn Sea Otters taking good cup stacking jobs from good humans! -- (link) - Ender Aug 24, 10:56 [youtube] 3
- You can tell the second time she's like "where's my damn fish?" -- nm - spamlet Aug 24, 11:00
- awww how cuuuuute they held haaaaands -- nm - gLu Aug 24, 11:00
- *makes plans to have them self-deport* -- nm - spamlet Aug 24, 10:59
This is interesting in relations to ST itself: "What If Social Networks Just Aren�t Profitable?" - Andie Aug 24, 10:55 28
- if it meant I had to give up mousehunt ... yep - JenBro Aug 24, 12:11
- Poll: Would you pay 1$ a month for facebook? 5$? - Guigue Aug 24, 11:08 16
  - I would pay $1 month for it to go away. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 11:20
  - Nope, I wouldn't pay for FB. I would pay to keep ST going. -- nm - Krusty Aug 24, 11:19
  - I think that sort of monetization of a social network misses the point (and I think app.net will fail, also). - Beryllium Aug 24, 11:15 2
    - I'll never forget interviewing for Peapod and them describing their system as being not about selling groceries but about selling customer data - oblique Aug 24, 11:20 1
      - whoa -- nm - Epiphany Aug 24, 11:21
  - no -- nm - Epiphany Aug 24, 11:14
  - 1, sure. 5, no. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 24, 11:12
  - I think I would as long as there's no exodus. FB is only good as long as most people I know are on it -- nm - Guigue Aug 24, 11:12 1
    - right. -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 11:12
  - i would rather shell out maybe $25 for a lifetime usage. i would pay $1 / month for ST though. -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 11:12 1
    - absolutely pay $ 1 a month for ST -- nm - Epiphany Aug 24, 11:15
  - No. Something else would come along and be just as good and free for a while - oblique Aug 24, 11:10
  - I wouldn't pay anything for Facebook. -- nm - mara Aug 24, 11:10
  - Maybe. I'd pay $1/mo for ST, though. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 24, 11:09 1
    - ditto. but don't tell Bery. - Mel Profit Aug 24, 11:14
  - f*ck that, I'm going back to email. -- nm - znufrii Aug 24, 11:09
- Yes, we're self-sufficient, but it would be too much work (and far too annoying) to become prosperous. :) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 24, 10:56 9
  - You really should charge per post......loosi alone would pay for your kids schooling. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 24, 10:58 5
    - no no no.. she would pay for the boat he wants -- nm - Remlik Aug 24, 11:16 3
      - We already covered this on B3-4-5. The money in the family goes to give the kid everything it wants; the boat can wait till the kid is 18. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 24, 11:17 2
        
        "Kieran, what do you want?" ... "BOAT!" -- nm - Beryllium Aug 24, 11:18 1
        
        I'll speak with his mother. Just stand there and cut the check pops. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 24, 11:20
    - For one of my other projects (wtsnap.com) I'm working on a library for micropayments ... I could apply the logic to ST. But I won't. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 24, 11:12
  - So what you're saying is ST's bills are paid up, but we don't generate much extra cha-ching? -- nm - Qale Aug 24, 10:58 1
    - Buy more David Hasselhoff CDs, yo. -- nm - Roger More Aug 24, 11:02
  - but, the article's theory is that bigger ultimately fails. smaller, and exclusionary, actually work better. - Andie Aug 24, 10:58
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- wow, seriously? -- nm - prayformojo Aug 24, 10:52 8
  - It's a nothing story. They have 3 days to either work out a trade, or the Red Sox pull him back. August is Revocable Waivers month. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 24, 10:53 7
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    - Right. About half of MLB gets placed on waivers in August. -- nm - David Aug 24, 10:53 5
      - man, i just do not understand this sport -- nm - prayformojo Aug 24, 10:54 4
        
        The trade deadline is technically the last day of July. - David Aug 24, 10:59 1
        
        Please claim Heath, please claim Heath....Buehrle too. Please? -- nm - Jeffrey Loria Aug 24, 11:00
        
        Quick and dirty --- Up till July 31st, you can trade anyone. - Will Hunting Aug 24, 10:57 1
        
        Sorry, not Vernon Wells, Alex Rios -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 24, 10:57
BTW, Titans/Cardinals had one of those moments that reinforces the fact that the NFL needs real refs. - David Aug 24, 10:50 2
- Good call. -- nm - GregW Aug 24, 11:25
- yeah, that was sort of amusing while watching the game ... - i'm not dead yet ! Aug 24, 11:17
Evan silva's top 150 Fantasy players on rotoworld is such a ploy to get hits. - Inigo Aug 24, 10:45 14
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  - I'll say it like this, if you allow Aaron Rodgers to fall to me at the first pick in the third round, I'm going to win that league for sure. -- nm - Inigo Aug 24, 11:01
  - Word. You can definitely wait...but Rodgers, Brees, Brady, Stafford, Eli...based on last season, they're all 1st or 2nd round picks. - Jim Aug 24, 10:50 11
    - I would put Cam ahead of Eli and Stafford. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 24, 11:05
    - Top 24 players --- you're putting Rodgers, Brees, Brady, Cam in there; Stafford and Eli and Romo would be 3rd rounders imo - Will Hunting Aug 24, 10:52
    - Eli before Cam is cray-cray. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 24, 10:52 8
      - 4900+ yards, 29 TDs, 14 of 16 games over 250 yards...5 300 games, 3 400 yard games - Jim Aug 24, 10:59 7
        
        this -- nm - Beaker Aug 24, 11:19
        
        At worst, Cam's going to get 10 rushing td's most likely. - Will Hunting Aug 24, 11:02 4
        
        I'm not knocking Cam at all. I just have more faith in the 2 time Super Bowl MVP to duplicate his last season than a 2nd year guy - Jim Aug 24, 11:07 3
        
        Eli might surprise me, but I think he regresses. - Will Hunting Aug 24, 11:13 2
        
        I think he's playing with house money now. -- nm - David Aug 24, 11:18 1
        
        Who Eli? Even if he's hit that point of being transcendent, there's not much more he can go - Will Hunting Aug 24, 11:19
        
        Let's re-visit this at the end of the season. - Strongbad Aug 24, 11:02
Half the fish in stores and restaurants are mislabeled (do NOT order white tuna in a sushi bar) which can lead to health issues (mercury in shark etc) -- (link) - zeitgeist Aug 24, 10:45
Off to the liquor store. -- nm - Beaker Aug 24, 10:44 3
- TEQUILA!! -- nm - amoxy Aug 24, 10:53
- I'll take a bottle of Makers -- nm - znufrii Aug 24, 10:52
- ooh, bring me a Nob Creek rye please -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 10:46
Pot farm first spotted by aerial surveillance...are these regular flights? -- (link) - CrankYanker Aug 24, 10:43 13
- Yeah. They often cover up the pot farms with camouflaged canopies. Big brother is watching. -- nm - Mop (196 lbs) Aug 24, 10:59
- probably. there are a lot of pot farms on Govt. land in Ca. & Nv. that can only be spotted by the air -- nm - peglegpete Aug 24, 10:45 1
  - I'm sure, but this is Rowland Heights. -- nm - CrankYanker Aug 24, 10:46
- I saw a news show about this years ago. -- nm - loosilu Aug 24, 10:45 9
  - I don't think I would notice it from the ground, how do they see it from the air. ;-) -- nm - CrankYanker Aug 24, 10:46 8
    - I would guess it's a distinctive shade of green? -- nm - loosilu Aug 24, 10:48 5
      - This would be one factor, for sure. Also, if they have access to thermal vision, I think the pot plants have a different heat signature than others. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 24, 10:55 4
        
        especially if lit. -- nm - CrankYanker Aug 24, 10:57
        
        I just googled a bit (don't want to do more) and it seems some operations are in open areas, arranged in rows. -- nm - loosilu Aug 24, 10:57 2
        
        bizarre, I would think just the opposite. -- nm - CrankYanker Aug 24, 10:58 1
        
        I just something about this in the last week. Most of the time the plants are interspersed amongst cornstalks and from the air they can see the change - zork Aug 24, 11:08
    - they are grown in buckets mounted high in the trees -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 10:48 1
      - I'm pretty certain that that method would be exceedingly rare. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 24, 10:54
Does your company have a -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 10:39 24
- *ahem* Does your company have a newsletter of any sort? - Andie Aug 24, 10:39 18
  - Three member newsletters and one employee newsletter. I used to lay them all out. - Dr.Vermin Aug 24, 10:58
  - Nope -- nm - JaxSean Aug 24, 10:55
  - Ours is daily. -- nm - LIndsay Lohan Inc. Aug 24, 10:48
  - Yup, Monthly. -- nm - Inigo Aug 24, 10:46
  - Yes, bi-monthly I believe. I ignore it and throw it out. -- nm - Krusty Aug 24, 10:46
  - just e-news that we put out ourselves on a weekly basis -- nm - gLu Aug 24, 10:45
  - we have one with an ISBN number, but it mostly goes to clients and congressional offices. -- nm - Max Aug 24, 10:45 1
    - I misread. We don't do any internal newsletters, just monthly staff meetings. -- nm - Max Aug 24, 10:46
  - No. -- nm - amoxy Aug 24, 10:43
  - not really -- nm - Epiphany Aug 24, 10:43
  - yes, once a month. -- nm - loosilu Aug 24, 10:41
  - We get a 4-8 page newsletter every other month. -- nm - Jelly Aug 24, 10:40
  - yes, distributed via our Sharepoint intranet as PDF monthly -- nm - oblique Aug 24, 10:40
  - nope. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 24, 10:40
  - yes, bi-monthly (I think) - spamlet Aug 24, 10:40
  - Sometimes there's an advertising department newsletter. It's useless, though. -- nm - Kim Pine Aug 24, 10:40
  - ha haha. we have *thousands.* I personally get about sixty per week. -- nm - amanda Aug 24, 10:40
  - online news. yes -- nm - Beaker Aug 24, 10:40
- only on the third Friday of every month. -- nm - znufrii Aug 24, 10:39 1
  - have your periods synced yet? -- nm - Beaker standing in for Dawson Aug 24, 10:40
- it's not legal here. -- nm - amanda Aug 24, 10:39
- no -- nm - spamlet Aug 24, 10:39
- yes. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 24, 10:39
Mars rover has apparently spotted a couple UFO's -- (link) - Beaker Aug 24, 10:36 2
- I'm hoping that first contact is a prolonged alien rant about the scientific falsehoods in John Carter. -- nm - David Aug 24, 10:40 1
  - "WTF was up with War of the Worlds?" - Mars aliens Aug 24, 10:41
Jenna loves a lot of people. -- nm - David Aug 24, 10:35 1
- mmm Jenna. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 24, 10:35
The Hunger Games failed as a movie the same way the Harry Potter's failed as movies. They failed to make me want to read the books. - Shaun Aug 24, 10:33 29
- Spoiler: Movies are movies and books are books. -- nm - Qale Aug 24, 10:51 2
  - Dude! You have to put the spoiler *inside* the message. Now you've ruined it for everyone! -- nm - Jim Aug 24, 10:52 1
    - Do'h! -- nm - Qale Aug 24, 10:54
- The Potters, at least the early ones, were empty shells of movies to me. - Will Hunting Aug 24, 10:40 1
  - the Potter movies seemed more about recreating the important points of the books than telling a good story. -- nm - znufrii Aug 24, 10:42
- Seems to me that's not failing "as a movie", that's failing "as an ad for the book". -- nm - Ender Aug 24, 10:39 1
  - "in my personal opinion" -- nm - Shaun Aug 24, 10:40
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  - Someone spoil me a little on something for the future movies. - Qale Aug 24, 10:54 2
    - spoils - groiny Aug 24, 10:55 1
      - Hurrah! -- nm - Qale Aug 24, 10:58
  - I started the book at lunch. -- nm - spamlet Aug 24, 10:35
  - I haven't watched my digital copy yet. I should but I'm trying to finish GoT:S1 - oblique Aug 24, 10:34 4
    - I had trouble with the first handful of eps in GoT as well. Hard to get to know everyone...but once you do, it really takes off. - Jim Aug 24, 10:36 3
      - Kim fell asleep so often during the first four episodes of GoT that she wanted to quit watching. - David Aug 24, 10:53
      - it is a fantastic colleciton of people you can't stand. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 24, 10:37 1
        
        Word...and (spoils...seriously Kilbo, don't read) - Jim Aug 24, 10:41
  - I have read it twice, seen the movie 5 times now. - groiny Aug 24, 10:34 2
    - Movie spoilers - David Aug 24, 10:37
    - I *bought* the movie. ridiculous, I know. -- nm - amanda Aug 24, 10:37
  - This is one everyone should have on Vudu. -- nm - David Aug 24, 10:34 8
    - "The Vudu, who do, what you don't dare to people." -- nm - Qale Aug 24, 10:52
    - Still trying. They sent me an e-mail directing me to do everything I already did so I did it again. - spamlet Aug 24, 10:35 6
      - They're having a bad week. I'm in favor of their tormenting Max but not anybody else. -- nm - David Aug 24, 10:35 5
        
        I still haven't emailed them. I'm searching for the right words. -- nm - Max Aug 24, 10:36 4
        
        "my name is max, and I am an alcoholic. " -- nm - groiny Aug 24, 10:39
        
        start with: "I deserve this." -- nm - David Aug 24, 10:38 2
        
        I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and damn it, I don't like you people. -- nm - Max Aug 24, 10:47 1
        
        FWIW, if ever a person was justified in screaming at them, it's you. -- nm - David Aug 24, 10:50
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- slackers -- nm - Danedukenuuk Aug 24, 10:37
- they should have two prizes, one for drug fueled and the other for 'organic' -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 10:37
- so basically you've thrown out all of the race results. -- nm - loosilu Aug 24, 10:35 2
  - I was only half joking that it will turn out there was no sports from 1998 on. -- nm - Reagen Aug 24, 10:36 1
    - in case of the tour the date is after ww2 (atleast) -- nm - Danedukenuuk Aug 24, 10:39
- and the other 29 just didn;t get caught -- nm - Beaker Aug 24, 10:32
turntable -- (link) - CrankYanker Aug 24, 10:31 2
- "As long as you don't play Nookie, you're fine" - spamlet Aug 24, 10:33 1
  - lol, no prob it was joke anyway. -- nm - CrankYanker Aug 24, 10:37
DRAFT! -- nm - Beaker Aug 24, 10:31 4
- TAP! nm -- nm - groiny Aug 24, 10:31 3
  - DANCE! -- nm - JenBro Aug 24, 10:32 2
    - Fever -- nm - Old Antarctic Explorer Aug 24, 11:07 1
      - Flytrap -- nm - zork Aug 24, 11:09

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