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sitwap - lawsuits starting on the Carnival Cruise Ship breakdown -- (link) - JenBro Feb 22, 12:04 1
- I'm sure there were lawyers waiting on the dock. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 22, 12:12
My child approval ratings just went through the roof. I got good seats for Justin Timberlake/JayZ. -- nm - pmb Feb 22, 11:56 5
- I'm just trying to decide which stadium I want to go to. -- nm - TFox Feb 22, 12:05 1
  - Yankee Stadium, of course! :-) -- nm - Krusty Feb 22, 12:07
- Encore, do you want more? -- nm - David Feb 22, 12:03
- *moment of envy* -- nm - b. Feb 22, 12:00 1
  - *seriously.* -- nm - amanda Feb 22, 12:07
Today is National Margarita Day and tomorrow is World Sword Swallowers Day! -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 22, 11:49 1
- SWEET!! This is good news - a co-workers husband just notified us he's having a surprise B-Day for her at a local Mexican restaurant tonight - so - JenBro Feb 22, 12:06
Music time mishap. Finner just broke the drum part of the tambourine. I'm guilty of givign the little dude some drumsticks, hee -- nm - CQ Feb 22, 11:40
Have any of our SodaStream users done the hack to use normal paintball tanks instead of SS ones? -- nm - spamlet Feb 22, 11:33
Those of you who saw Ed Wood (I saw it years ago but remember nothing about it), was Martin Landau deserving of the Supporting Oscar? - Kelly Feb 22, 11:31 5
- I think he was. But Sinse should have won. -- nm - Remlik Feb 22, 11:59
- Sinise did very well and could have been deserving of the oscar, but Landau is a keeper. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 11:54
- It's been a while for me too, but that doesn't seem that outrageous. -- nm - Ender Feb 22, 11:46
- Landau was very good, but i would have given it to Sinese. -- nm - Andie Feb 22, 11:39
- Landau was really good in it -- nm - peglegpete Feb 22, 11:38
Transportation Secretary details how the sequester will f*ck up your air travel. -- (link) - znufrii Feb 22, 11:29 7
- The Washington Monument gambit has basically spread to all parts of the government right now. - spamlet Feb 22, 11:48
- Let it happen. Americans won't realize the impact until they feel the pain. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Feb 22, 11:46
- q: if they did away with security at airports, would the sky turn into anarchy/free for all blood bath? or just a tragic incident every other year? - zeitgeist Feb 22, 11:43 4
  - honestly? I would expect all hell to break loose. -- nm - loosilu Feb 22, 11:54
  - doesn't matter, after the first incident, air travel would become prohibitively expensive over insurance and private security costs - znufrii Feb 22, 11:48
  - That's because there is security. - pmb Feb 22, 11:47 1
    - Right. The concept needs to be rearranged, not eliminated. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 11:51
Down to 3900 emails from 5500 yesterday. Time to get back to filing/deleting again -- nm - oblique Feb 22, 11:28 14
- we're going to the Cloud! - Mel Profit Feb 22, 11:29 13
  - which cloud? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 11:32 8
    - I dunno *waving my hand around my head randomly* that cloud thingy everyone talks about. massive storage, pulls...errr...stuff...from anywhere. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 22, 11:33 7
      - google, amazon, microsoft azure, other? ;-) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 11:35 6
        
        Stop being mean to me Tech Geek. - Mel Profit Feb 22, 11:38 5
        
        I am eating hawkins cheezies and drinking non-diet pepsi right now. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 11:50 4
        
        hawkins! from my hometown! a rare sighting. -- nm - Andie Feb 22, 12:02 1
        
        There is no better cheezie than a Hawkins cheezie -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 12:03
        
        noted, geek. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 22, 11:52 1
        
        Now I am going to go microwave some rice so I can have slow-cooked peanut chicken for lunch. I should have bought birkenstocks. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 11:55
  - Cloud storage still costs $ - oblique Feb 22, 11:30 3
    - this is for work. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 22, 11:31 2
      - yeah, wait for it - oblique Feb 22, 11:32 1
        
        hooboy. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 22, 11:33
I don't think I could date a dude with a lame network name. in my neighborhood, I have things like - amanda Feb 22, 11:10 10
- What network name would you prefer they use to get you to show them? -- nm - Ender Feb 22, 11:18 8
  - "come over - we have cake" -- nm - Andie Feb 22, 11:20 7
    - "the cake is a lie" -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 11:37 4
      - I'd bang a dude with this network name. -- nm - amanda Feb 22, 11:38 3
        
        *chages his network name* -- nm - znufrii Feb 22, 11:45 2
        
        She said a dude -- nm - oblique Feb 22, 11:45 1
        
        so, amoxy's out of the running? -- nm - znufrii Feb 22, 11:46
    - oh this is good. with my neighbors' apartment number. -- nm - loosilu Feb 22, 11:29
    - "come over - we have cake and we know how to use it." -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 22, 11:21
- TYTO is so much better -- nm - CQ Feb 22, 11:14
Google glass to be available in 2013, not $1500 for consumers -- (link) - oblique Feb 22, 11:01 6
- I'm thinking I need to start getting outside more. And/or maybe timeshare a pair with someone in Australia. - Dr.Vermin Feb 22, 11:23
- in for 12 or 15.. -- nm - colin Feb 22, 11:05 4
  - We were talking the other day how this could revolutionize our jobsites (we're in construction) - oblique Feb 22, 11:08 3
    - My first thought was police officers. -- nm - volnelk Feb 22, 11:25
    - Lots of inspection applications. We're also thinking pavement evaluation. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 22, 11:14
    - already talking about this for mobile VC stuff.. (boring stuff inside) - colin Feb 22, 11:11
The 30 Most Portland Things That Have Ever Happened In Portland -- (link) - Mop (190 lbs) Feb 22, 10:59 3
- Right after reading this I saw the following post on reddit.... -- (link) - Krusty Feb 22, 11:25
- the more i watch Portlandia, the more i want to go there. -- nm - Andie Feb 22, 11:17
- If Cockneck is not on the list the entire list is a fail -- nm - Bacon via droid Feb 22, 11:13
STIS: are there any wireless keyboards that have a USB port that allows you to plug in a flash drive? - colin Feb 22, 10:57 4
- Not that I know of but you can get wireless USB hubs -- nm - oblique Feb 22, 11:01 3
  - oh, nice! i'll give you an executive producer credit... -- nm - colin Feb 22, 11:09 2
    - Nice. Personally I'd just snake a cable out of it to a hub but I'm all for buying cool tech -- nm - oblique Feb 22, 11:11 1
      - well, the rack is at the front of the room.. getting a cable out to the table means a very long run through conduit with a CAT5 transmitter. - colin Feb 22, 11:12
I can take a nap now, please? -- nm - znufrii Feb 22, 10:55 17
- I remember working in a cubicle. Thursday nights killed me in my mid 20s. How old are you? -- nm - CQ Feb 22, 11:16 9
  - I absolutely can not envision you working a cube. the idea amuses me. - Mel Profit Feb 22, 11:18 7
    - oh, hell yes. I think I still have some of those old Tommy Hillfinger two colored ties somewhere. -- nm - CQ Feb 22, 11:21 6
      - The fat outside would be blue and the skinny inside would be yellow. I was so effin hip -- nm - CQ Feb 22, 11:22 5
        
        I'm guessing you made a great office employee and displayed a willingness to conform to established policy. - Mel Profit Feb 22, 11:28 4
        
        I was a great employee, but management didn't really like my lack of tact -- nm - CQ Feb 22, 11:39 2
        
        but his shit was TIGHT! -- nm - loosilu Feb 22, 12:01
        
        OY! -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 22, 11:39
        
        Better yet, threw someone through a candy machine* - spamlet Feb 22, 11:34
  - old enough to know better, for sure. -- nm - znufrii Feb 22, 11:18
- this led to a classic George Costanza moment on Seinfeld -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 10:59 2
  - "Was that wrong? Nobody told me that was wrong." -- nm - JaxSean Feb 22, 11:02 1
    - I was thinking more of him building the little hidden nap area under his desk than him nailing the cleaning lady :) - Beaker Feb 22, 11:04
- yeah go ahead. scatter some paperclips on the ground and lay on them under your desk. anybody comes by, you passed out when you bent over quickly. -- nm - colin Feb 22, 10:57 3
  - something tells me you've done this before... -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 22, 11:00 2
    - bonus: you get sent home early out of sympathy. -- nm - colin Feb 22, 11:04 1
      - "Hey...why do those paperclips smell like beer?" -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 22, 11:04
NHL grab bag (the first clip with Price's glove snag is awesome, like he is playing the hot corner) -- (link) - Beaker Feb 22, 10:54
bery...when was the last time the oil was changed. often the garage doesn't reset the mileage counter that triggers the warning at 4 or 5k -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 22, 10:49 3
- I always check it before I go and make them reset if they forget. It's some weird combination of key and pedal presses -- nm - oblique Feb 22, 11:12
- I had that happen to me at the midpoint of a long drive. Freaked me out. -- nm - Was Bar Was Feb 22, 10:49 1
  - owning all older cars, i've gotten really good at ignoring warning lights. -- nm - colin Feb 22, 10:53
B2 Bery: For most cars it's mileage based on the last time a counter was reset. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 22, 10:47 1
- some of the new ones have an oil probe that tests viscosity and other things to determine oil quality.. kind of cool. -- nm - colin Feb 22, 10:49
great headline: Calif. Chili Finger Lady Faces New Allegations -- (link) - amanda Feb 22, 10:46
ST Poll: What's your Wifi name? - Beryllium Feb 22, 10:44 32
- I'm thinking of changing mine to "ocd is treatable, you play music too loud, and stop letting doors slam." -- nm - b. Feb 22, 11:48 1
  - oh, and mine is the name of a notsocommon tree. - b. Feb 22, 11:59
- TWuGNet -- nm - TWuG Feb 22, 11:24
- HWDYK -- nm - David Feb 22, 11:22
- Mel Profit's Ghost... - Mel Profit Feb 22, 11:19 2
  - Well, in The Net, the disk containing the Praetorian gateway was called "mozart's ghost" ... -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 11:30 1
    - I don't know what this is but it sounds awesome. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 22, 11:34
- We have ATT, so we don't get the option to name our network. -- nm - Stephen Feb 22, 11:18 2
  - This. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 22, 11:23 1
    - Which sucks! - Stephen Feb 22, 11:54
- Firefly. - Reagen Feb 22, 10:56
- The name of a road I used to live on. I named my brother's router by another road we lived on and my retired router yet another road. - ty97 Feb 22, 10:53
- Once I figure out how to change it, I think I will use the apartment number of my neighbors. - loosilu Feb 22, 10:52
- Pretty fly for a wifi. I've been meaning to change it. -- nm - Krusty Feb 22, 10:51
- AbbeyRoad -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Feb 22, 10:50
- meijo...the name of my previous great pyrenese -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 22, 10:50
- 1737 Boys -- nm - MDH Feb 22, 10:48 4
  - The question was not how many people you've slept with -- nm - ty97 Feb 22, 10:53 3
    - Haha nmbty97 - MDH Feb 22, 10:57 2
      - poor Spawn -- nm - oblique Feb 22, 11:40
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- third (after the floor I lived on in the MHT). when I install networks for my friends, I name them "third" as well so I can just hop right on when I - amanda Feb 22, 10:47 2
  - That's evil genius territory there. -- nm - spamlet Feb 22, 10:56 1
    - I'm lucky not many of my friends are confident in their abilities to set up networks. joy's mom took joy's old router, even, so when I go to her house - amanda Feb 22, 11:09
- Jupiter Mining. -- nm - Was Bar Was Feb 22, 10:46
- virus_install.exe -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 22, 10:45 3
  - Oh, this goes below. Read the whole page, Vermin. Nice, J! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 22, 10:46 2
    - I stole that from you :) -- nm - J Feb 22, 10:48
    - i think i got it backwards too... -- nm - colin Feb 22, 10:47
- used to be Brothel Wifi.. now it's just some generic ATT### thing. -- nm - colin Feb 22, 10:45
- Circus Freaks -- nm - Andie Feb 22, 10:44
- Hello World -- nm - decline Feb 22, 10:44
ST Pollmanda: What is the name of your wireless network at home or work or? - oblique Feb 22, 10:43 9
- jaxsean -- nm - JaxSean Feb 22, 10:56
- it's the default. the instructions for changing it don't work. -- nm - loosilu Feb 22, 10:45
- no idea. it never told me their name :( -- nm - peglegpete Feb 22, 10:45
- virus_install.exe -- nm - J Feb 22, 10:44
- La maison des supers lurons - Guigue Feb 22, 10:44 1
  - geeks! -- nm - loosilu Feb 22, 10:46
- Let's Get Dangerous -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 10:44
- your mom -- nm - znufrii Feb 22, 10:44 1
  - and, your mom_EXT -- nm - znufrii Feb 22, 10:44
On a whim, I've applied to a job in Sunnyvale, CA. We shall see... -- nm - colin Feb 22, 10:40 8
- Bubbles? -- nm - J Feb 22, 10:53
- sunnyvale is the name of my mom's wireless network. because she lives on the hellmouth. see? -- nm - amanda Feb 22, 10:42 3
  - not sunnydale? -- nm - colin Feb 22, 10:45 2
    - oh sorry. this is what I meant. they're seriously the same word in my head. -- nm - amanda Feb 22, 10:52 1
      - i've been getting it wrong too just looking up info about the town. -- nm - colin Feb 22, 10:53
- vampire hunter? -- nm - peglegpete Feb 22, 10:42 2
  - watcher? -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 10:42 1
    - an Other. -- nm - colin Feb 22, 10:43
The best movie songs to lose the Oscar -- (link) - Beaker Feb 22, 10:39
'Crash': The Most Loathsome Best Picture Of Them All -- (link) - MDH Feb 22, 10:38
Parks and Rec spoilers - Beaker Feb 22, 10:37 2
- F***ING DVR! - Will Hunting Feb 22, 10:40 1
  - spoils for what you missed - Beaker Feb 22, 10:48
I guess that was Mel's "pizza indicator light" that went off this morning - oblique Feb 22, 10:36 3
- Now there's cake in the kitchen. free work cake. - Mel Profit Feb 22, 11:52
- Hey...I craved pizza this morning and suddenly this afternoon free pizza shows up. I wouldn't mess with me today. - Mel Profit Feb 22, 10:44
- It has been 40,000 steps since Mel had Pizza. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 10:41

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