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ST Poll (to keep you busy while I help amanda): If you have a UV locker do you A) Share it with family members B) Keep backup copies of your UV movies - oblique [220] Feb 5, 11:14
I have a computer problem with which you can help me next board (me and sash, actually). it's kind of dire. -- nm - amanda Feb 5, 11:13 1
- *cracks knuckles* -- nm - oblique [220] Feb 5, 11:13
the dollar store bubble -- (link) - znufrii Feb 5, 11:08 2
- every recession makes thrftshop chic trendy...remember the grunge look? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 11:13
- as long as wages for 80% of americans remain stagnant or non-existent, hard to argue with their business model -- nm - charlie Feb 5, 11:11
I'm so pissed off about something that happened at work just now that charlie offered me his car keys and told me to - amanda Feb 5, 11:02 3
- Use your stress to push it backward a few feet. Doesn't that wind it up, and make Priuses go forward? -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 11:03 2
  - Hee! -- nm - Kelly Feb 5, 11:12
  - look, I usually like you an awful lot but I'm *trying* to be pissed off here and you're *making me laugh.* - amanda Feb 5, 11:09
I'm looking for a way to track my work and get more organized --- any hints? Here's what I do now - Will Hunting Feb 5, 10:54 14
- right click on the field headers of the inbox and outbox, field chooser, and select categories. I assign a category to each email (in and out), later - zork Feb 5, 11:14
- My sincere advice to you is Siri. It has exponentially boosted my productivity. - David Feb 5, 11:13
- I'm terribly unorganized myself, so the only thing I can offer is the simpler the system, the better. - TFox Feb 5, 11:06 3
  - the analyst that worked for me, his primary system was keeping a stack of like 100 sheets of paper on it. - TFox Feb 5, 11:08 1
    - (by "it", i mean his desk.) -- nm - TFox Feb 5, 11:09
  - yup, my inbox is my to-do list as well. -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 11:07
- Chances are, you aren't ever going to read those emails again. I just transcribe the pertinent bits and attach the email (or file etc) to the task. - con_carne Feb 5, 11:04 2
  - I need to track my job hours for each project so breaking things down that way lets me bill roughly in accordance with my time. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 5, 11:11 1
    - oh you definitely want one of those Time Tracker apps that sits on your desktop that lets you use it like a stopwatch -- nm - charlie Feb 5, 11:13
- i write things on napkins or scraps of paper if i can even bother to motivate myself to do that -- nm - charlie Feb 5, 10:58 4
  - (and I do this as well -- I transcribe my napkins about weekly. it actually super works for me.) -- nm - amanda Feb 5, 11:14
  - That was my basic thing; and then I realized with the 2 new systems I'm running that I had a backlog of dozens of items. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 5, 11:00 2
    - serious answer, which may not work for your job/tasks: i just make a master to-do list in Word and keep it open at all times when i'm at the desk - charlie Feb 5, 11:04 1
      - I have checklists everywhere. I have them in excel but I ignore them unless they're on paper. -- nm - amanda Feb 5, 11:12
Forget Judge Judy, this judge is awesome and needs a show: Teen girl flips him off and brings all sorts of attitude which he calmly crushes -- (link) - MDH Feb 5, 10:52 1
- judging like a bauss. -- nm - Max Feb 5, 10:53
great, now I'm going to spend all day figuring out how to build my own fermentation chamber now that I have a controller for it. - znufrii Feb 5, 10:51
The news reminds me. I should probably put something on my about.me page. -- nm - spamlet Feb 5, 10:50
I recently heard someone explaining evolution and using wolves --> dogs as an example. But... - Dr.Vermin Feb 5, 10:46 19
- breeding (without DNA tricks) is evolution on steroids -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Feb 5, 12:02
- Not just breeding, but changes in environment too. Dogs are better able to digest starches into sugars, for example. - Roger More Feb 5, 11:01
- The two are not only not mutually exclusive, they're pretty much the same thing. Yes, they're still pretty close to being the same species (at - mara Feb 5, 10:51
- tge problem with the term "species" is that it's entirely artificial. - Reagen Feb 5, 10:49 8
  - Except for the "two members can mate and produce fertile offspring" rule, right? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 5, 11:01 1
    - When offspring are never fertile, they're certainly not of the same species; but it's not necessarily the other way. -- nm - mara Feb 5, 11:05
  - Case in point: Spawn -- nm - con_carne Feb 5, 10:54 1
    - Yup. - Spawn Feb 5, 11:11
  - agreed, and very very few people understand this. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 10:51
  - "different". I think I was also going for "disperate". -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 10:50 2
    - The shoes go on your feet, Reagen -- nm - con_carne Feb 5, 11:08
    - disparate. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 10:51
- I think you're confusing natural selection and evolution -- nm - ceregon Feb 5, 10:49 5
  - This. -- nm - mara Feb 5, 10:52
  - this is true. Breeding is evolution, it's just not natural selection. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 10:51 3
    - forced selection -- nm - zork Feb 5, 10:53 2
      - artificial. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 10:54 1
        
        better -- nm - zork Feb 5, 10:54
- without researching, I agree with all of what you said. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 10:49
I have no idea of what the difference between Ultraviolet and Vudu is. Is this something Venn-Diagram-mannable? -- nm - prayformojo Feb 5, 10:38 10
- UV is a multi-vendor service to provide digital movies. Vudu is one of the UV compatible services so they can get access to your UV "locker" - oblique [220] Feb 5, 10:39 9
  - thank you. that crystallizes things nicely. -- nm - prayformojo Feb 5, 10:42 8
    - This is why ML is always twitchy about Amazon being a UV partner. If that happened then you could stream all your UV movies via Amazon's Instant - oblique [220] Feb 5, 10:44 7
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        *this*. I'd have every Pixar film immediately. -- nm - spamlet Feb 5, 10:48
        
        If Disney went 3D with Vudu I'd never buy another physical disc again -- nm - oblique [220] Feb 5, 10:46 4
        
        I doubt Disney joins for a long time yet. They want to control their film library too much. -- nm - David Feb 5, 10:53 3
        
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        I think that's exactly the model they want. People have access to the content but they cannot buy it permanently in a standard format. - David Feb 5, 10:57 1
        
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when did people stop understanding that if I'm on the edge of a path and you are walking directly towards me, you will have to move? - Reagen Feb 5, 10:32 3
- one of my dogs does this to everyone, no matter how big they are, even huge biker guys go off the path to go around him (and they always smile at him) -- nm - zork Feb 5, 10:51
- the 'walking logistics' never fail to amaze me. i don't understand how people don't understand the basic spatial relationships of how two people - Andie Feb 5, 10:35 1
  - I was just a bit too surprised to do more than just shoot him a "dude". -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 10:38
ST Poll: Where do you own digital media "in the cloud"? iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, UV, ? - oblique [220] Feb 5, 10:32 27
- none. -- nm - zork Feb 5, 11:01
- All of them. -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 10:54 1
  - But not iTunes. I don't own a single song, movie or tv show with them. - Krusty Feb 5, 10:55
- Almost all of our TV shows are via Amazon. Almost all of our movies are through UV/Vudu. I do have some iTunes stuff but I rarely use iTunes. -- nm - David Feb 5, 10:52
- Yes. -- nm - spamlet Feb 5, 10:42
- i have one movie on iTunes -- nm - charlie Feb 5, 10:41 2
  - Is it Electric Dreams? -- nm - Max Feb 5, 10:46 1
    - nope - charlie Feb 5, 10:47
- I've got a handful of things at Amazon and a handful of UV titles. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 5, 10:40
- Threadjack: Just installed Plex for my Roku. Does that count toward my internet usage? - Dr.Vermin Feb 5, 10:40 3
  - Thanks, you two. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 5, 11:00
  - Not unless you use their channels to watch stuff. -- nm - spamlet Feb 5, 10:41
  - I wouldn't think so -- nm - oblique [220] Feb 5, 10:41
- A hahahahaha. -- nm - Canada Feb 5, 10:35 5
  - right? i actually told someone this morning that all the roku / vudu / codes / prime conversations are like another language to me. -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 10:36 4
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      - canadians - where do we stand on downloading/torrenting? still not illegal, right? -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 10:43 1
        
        I believe that hasn't been changed yet. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 10:46
      - 1080i is supposed to awesome right? -- nm - Canadian teen Feb 5, 10:40
- All I guess. UV and Vudu solely b/c I get codes when I buy Blu Rays. -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 10:34
- Amazon, I have some freebie things on Google Play but haven't yet paid for anything there yet. -- nm - Qale Feb 5, 10:34 3
  - Google Play is quite far off my radar apparently. I forgot you can even buy things there -- nm - oblique [220] Feb 5, 10:35 2
    - they have some nice deals and if you're a Rolling Stones fan the Stones are rolling out a live catalog at $5 a pop. -- nm - Remlik Feb 5, 10:41
    - I haven't completely embraced my Nexus 7 fully yet. I'm using it mostly as a Kindle Fire. Do'h! -- nm - Qale Feb 5, 10:39
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- All but Amazon (and add in Flixster, but that is connected to Vudu as well). -- nm - Stephen, on a Quest for Six! Feb 5, 10:33
- Amazon -- nm - amoxy Feb 5, 10:32
Approximately one hour until Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC for PC. PS3 people... still gotta wait (but not much longer.) -- nm - Qale Feb 5, 10:30 2
- FUCKING FINALLY. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord Feb 5, 10:59
- Kind of sucks that I can't buy a Steam code for it off Amazon where I've got a gift card balance. -- nm - Qale Feb 5, 10:41
Latest count at the pond - 10 ducklings, still just 2 chicks. -- nm - Meg Feb 5, 10:29
I already own it on Amazon Prime but now it's free -- (link) - oblique [220] Feb 5, 10:22 1
- I already own Amazon Prime -- nm - David si Feb 5, 10:25
Estimate Argo's chance at winning Best Picture - prayformojo Feb 5, 10:20 6
- 312,5 % -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Feb 5, 10:49
- 45% -- nm - Max Feb 5, 10:38
- 66% -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 10:29
- I agree with you. -- nm - Qale Feb 5, 10:24
- 32.33%...repeating, of course. -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 10:22
- 37.8887126591% -- nm - Nate Silver Feb 5, 10:20
I just got an email for this. The happiest day of the year is near. -- (link) - spamlet Feb 5, 10:16 8
- Yup! National Signing Day is tomorrow!!! -- nm - Stephen, on a Quest for Six! Feb 5, 10:28
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- "The half-hour with no action during the Super Bowl got me excited for baseball season." -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 5, 10:20 4
  - hmm, where's that killfile again. (nm) - spamlet Feb 5, 10:25
  - *snork* -- nm - con_carne Feb 5, 10:21
  - heh -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 10:21
  - ha! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 5, 10:20
- Seven days! -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 10:19
"Jack you magnificent bastard! You did it!" -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 5, 10:09
I watched the first two episodes of Band of Brothers last night. They didn't really grab me -- nm - prayformojo Feb 5, 10:08 6
- Were you just playing spot the 'Before They Were Famous' during the episodes? -- nm - LMS Feb 5, 10:28 2
  - I noticed that Damian Lewis hadn't acquired his fake British accent yet -- nm - prayformojo Feb 5, 10:30 1
    - It's almost as bad as Dominic West's fake British accent. -- nm - LMS Feb 5, 10:43
- this is still my favourite of all time made-for-television programming -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 10:21 1
  - ditto. -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 10:23
- The next few will. The first couple were just entertaining. -- nm - Inigo Feb 5, 10:11
I can't do mid-cut boots. I'm already wearing like 5 pounds of shoe. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 10:07 10
- as any good Frankenstein would. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 5, 10:08 9
  - I just tried on shoes yesterday - I'm officially into 15s now. - Reagen Feb 5, 10:10 8
    - wait. are your feet growing? (mine are shrinking.) -- nm - amanda Feb 5, 10:48 3
      - everyone's feet (and noses and ears) grow throughout their lives. -- nm - zork Feb 5, 10:49 2
        
        feet can grow, but for completely different reasons than noses and ears (which are all cartilage). -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 10:52 1
        
        I didn't say it was -- nm - zork Feb 5, 10:54
    - how YOU doin? - loosilu Feb 5, 10:30
    - Soon, you will take root. -- nm - Mobile Spawn Feb 5, 10:13 2
      - Just in time for the Entmoot -- nm - TWuG Feb 5, 10:15 1
        
        man, the last thing we need now is an Ent moot. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 10:27
unhhh. Sometimes there's such a thing as "too much goat cheese." -- nm - Max Feb 5, 10:07 3
- namely, "any". -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 10:08 2
  - and you get so many other things right *smh* -- nm - zork Feb 5, 10:26
  - *this* -- nm - spamlet Feb 5, 10:18
I use White Dial. That's not harsh, right? -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 10:06 11
- of course it is. Now buy some friggin body wash. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 10:32
- mrs. zork is an Ivory girl and she has great skin. She reacts to stuff they put in other soaps. -- nm - zork Feb 5, 10:24 3
  - that's one of the strongest detergents on the market. she must not have dry skin. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 10:32 2
    - she definitely does but can't take the chance that she doesn't react to the additives in other soaps -- nm - zork Feb 5, 10:49 1
      - then she needs to use something else like cetaphil. There are plenty of hypoallergenic soaps and cleansers. - loosilu Feb 5, 10:53
- It puts the lotion on its skin... -- nm - Qale Feb 5, 10:24
- I think anything that's used for killing things on your skin can't be the most gentle - con_carne Feb 5, 10:17
- dove is your friend. -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 10:12 1
  - Until it poops on your shoulder. --nm - Mobile Spawn Feb 5, 10:15
- If the 80s and 90s taught me anything you should be using Dove -- nm - oblique [220] Feb 5, 10:07 1
  - Dove ice cream bars, now with 1/4 moisturizing cream! -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 10:07
ty97, udder cream was a big thing here for awhile after Shania said that she uses it on her skin. - zork Feb 5, 10:06 1
- Heh, pictures 97 searching his neighborhood for a feed store.... -- nm - Meg Feb 5, 10:28
Chipmunk board! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 5, 10:04
Tell her to use what's in the basket or else it gets the hose again. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 5, 10:04

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