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I just read that STP fired Weiland? Also saw that ABC just said it was letting J.J. Abrhams go from LOST -- nm - oblique Feb 27, 15:28
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�Said to Lady Journos� Tumblr is �depressingly relatable,� female journalists say -- (link) - ty97 Feb 27, 15:25 2
- Imagine the "said by AMPAS members" tumblr -- nm - Roger More Feb 27, 15:31
- Amy Chozick: "John Edwards to me in 2008: Just a second honey, I'm waiting for The Wall Street Journal. Me: I AM the WSJ." -- (link) - ty97 Feb 27, 15:26
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what's that word that means like "general idea"? sort of like "topic" but different, closer to the ground? thanks. -- nm - amanda Feb 27, 15:13 7
- crux -- nm - CQ Feb 27, 15:25
- gestalt... - Dr.Vermin Feb 27, 15:25
- the nub, the heart of the matter -- nm - zork Feb 27, 15:24
- substance -- nm - Roger More Feb 27, 15:21 1
  - aha! thanks to everyone. this can work. -- nm - amanda Feb 27, 15:25
- gist? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 15:14
- theme? subject? intention? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 15:13
Groupon shares tanked after hours, following earnings that sorely missed low expectations. -- (link) - ty97 Feb 27, 15:09 2
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  - I'm surprised they've lasted this long. The guy in the condo under mind works there, feel bad for him -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 15:27
If you work from home, is it okay to drink at work? - ty97 Feb 27, 15:02 9
- In the last hour my work day went from good to potentially terribly bad to okay. If I drank, I might tonight. -- nm - spamlet Feb 27, 15:17
- someone needs to email patryk and tell him to meet for a beer on my way home because man, *today.* man, this *week.* - amanda Feb 27, 15:15 2
  - I am having a beer tonight. Whenever work finishes for the day (never0 -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 15:22 1
    - I bussed today. I was supposed to move newt this afternoon but screw that. it's 6:30. someone get me a zeno's! -- nm - amanda Feb 27, 15:25
- *thrusts arms out at ty97, looks back to the critics, wags hands at ty97, back to critics* - Melissa Mayer Feb 27, 15:04 2
  - In reality, I have worked far been I work from home than I've ever worked in my life. There are no boundaries. - ty97 Feb 27, 15:07 1
    - Also, doing three things at once has decreased the quality of my ST typing (if that was possible) -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 15:09
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- It's okay to work without pants, but it makes the skype calls really awkward. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 15:03
Ah...Tfox...did we know this? - Mel Profit Feb 27, 14:45 8
- did you know there is a fight in Mass government about naming an official song for Boston? -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 15:22 1
  - here -- (link) - Remlik Feb 27, 15:23
- On sale tomorrow! - TFox Feb 27, 14:59 5
  - Bostoncalling sounds fun. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 27, 15:06
  - I'd need a crash course on Jay-Z...I mean I know the hits but... -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 27, 15:05 3
    - There's lots of hits. - TFox Feb 27, 15:06 2
      - *white man overbite dancing* -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 27, 15:17 1
        
        *sad noise* - kelly Feb 27, 15:31
Trailer: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 14:43 [youtube] 8
- *rages at the further desecration of his childhood* -- nm - znufrii Feb 27, 14:45 7
  - 2009 ... znufrii's childhood ... sounds right - zork Feb 27, 14:57
  - Did you see the first one? - Will Hunting Feb 27, 14:47
  - The first one was wonderful. -- nm - David Feb 27, 14:47 4
    - I've seen it approximately 15 billionty times. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 15:16 1
      - I like it just a touch more than Up. - David Feb 27, 15:30
    - *rages some more* - znufrii Feb 27, 14:49 1
      - It made my top 10 for the year. We bought the 3D Blu-Ray. -- nm - David Feb 27, 14:50
Aw, the pope has to give up his ruby slippers. -- (link) - mara Feb 27, 14:38 7
- plus his ring will be destroyed. that would have been worth a fortune - zork Feb 27, 14:58 1
  - *perks up* -- nm - Danny Ocean si Feb 27, 15:20
- CNN must have spent 15 minutes on this earlier while I was at the gym. WTF! -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Feb 27, 14:56
- lyc, i love red shoes. -- nm - Andie Feb 27, 14:42 3
  - mmmm.... -- (link) - amanda Feb 27, 14:54
  - lyc, I loved The Red Shoes - znufrii Feb 27, 14:42 1
    - I've been known to write diaries about red shoes. - David Duchovney si Feb 27, 15:00
This strikes me as a really good crtitique of Scalia's reasoning today. -- (link) - mara Feb 27, 14:27 7
- though, if that were true, then Brown v. BOE should not have reversed Plessy v. Ferguson -- nm - Max Feb 27, 14:31 6
  - The criticism is of the inconsistency of Scalia's positions. He is being all kinds of hypocritical here. -- nm - pmb Feb 27, 14:35
  - But really, isn't that the court deciding it was not constitutional when passed? Scalia is saying it was constitutional to do it at first, but isn't - mara Feb 27, 14:34 4
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      - Introduces the "Stop the Torture of Baby Pandas " Act. Vote against it! I dare ya! - Sen.Vermin Feb 27, 14:48 2
        
        Having a catchy name didn't help the DREAM Act get passed. Or the Affordable Care Act - it just got given a different name by its opponents. - Roger More Feb 27, 15:09
        
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yeah...the lack of Contra on that list was a disappointment. - Mel Profit Feb 27, 14:20 7
- Level 2 with the waterfall where you had to race up -- the first up-scrolling level I can really remember - Will Hunting Feb 27, 14:38 2
  - Did you ever do it with just the 3 lives? - Mel Profit Feb 27, 14:42 1
    - My two greatest video game accomplishments was beating Contra and Zelda on 1 life each. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 27, 14:45
- nmbMel on last week Justified - what if...*spoils* - Epiphany Feb 27, 14:31 1
  - I like the way you write the show. - Mel Profit Feb 27, 14:34
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  - I love how that's become a beloved code for geeks. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 27, 14:34
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- I would *hate* to see him go but we need too much to not move him for upgrades at multiple positions. - Krusty Feb 27, 14:24 4
  - I presume that if they move Revis for say the #34 and a third (the Niners have two of them)... - David Feb 27, 14:28 3
    - And thinking out loud... - David Feb 27, 14:30 2
      - And one final note: the 49ers are projected to pick up a 4th and a 7th via FA compensation. - David Feb 27, 14:36
      - I could live and probably be happy if that ends up being the situation. -- nm - Krusty Feb 27, 14:31
- Too late -- nm - Jacoby Jones Feb 27, 14:21
- If he has recovered sure would love to have him. It would be like picking up Deion in 1994 -- nm - amoxy Feb 27, 14:19
it's a *baseball* card, of course there's a rumour of it being tainted - zork Feb 27, 14:17
Question of the day...how do you feel about commercials that play the blatant gay card when it has no bearing on the product ? - Meg Feb 27, 14:13 25
- They've been doing it on gay publications / gay areas for years (we're rich, yo) -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 15:00 2
  - This ad doesn't seem to be for gays, though. - con_carne Feb 27, 15:21
  - Now I want to read about how Subaru got to be so popular with this demo. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 27, 15:01
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  - I thought it was a clever reversal, and aimed at increasing gay market share. I concluded, "if it's good enough for gays and straights, it's -- nm - good enough for me." Feb 27, 14:59
  - I think I would be too. and I'm straight. -- nm - amanda Feb 27, 14:52
- I thought it was funny but felt almost as though they were trying too hard. In Mara's example I'm thinking they wouldn't - Meg Feb 27, 14:24 4
  - It's certainly calculated, but not obnoxiously so, IMO. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 27, 14:26 3
    - calculated to sell more Kindles, sure... -- nm - znufrii Feb 27, 14:43 1
      - Of course. Those are the only calculations you do in marketing. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 27, 14:50
    - True - then again I'm the one who gets irritated by cars being marketed based on their electronic accessories rather than their drivability :/ -- nm - Meg Feb 27, 14:29
- it would make me question whether buying the product would make me gay -- nm - charlie Feb 27, 14:19 1
  - who makes the obligatory "pixie's not gay?" post? -- nm - zork Feb 27, 14:22
- I've seen that spot. It does kind of hit you over the head with the "betcha thought it was gonna be a wife, huh? Dummy." - con_carne Feb 27, 14:19 1
  - but movies, books, commercials, do this regularly - playing with expectations is what catches you and makes you take note. -- nm - Andie Feb 27, 14:49
- I'm not sure what you mean by "playing the blatant gay card", but I thought the commercial was cute. -- nm - znufrii Feb 27, 14:17
- I'm okay with it, just like I'm okay with, oh, say a biracial couple when it has no bearing on the product. -- nm - mara Feb 27, 14:17 7
  - But, the ad makes an issue out of being homosexual -- (link) - con_carne Feb 27, 14:28 [youtube] 6
    - there are plenty of commercials that play with social conventions, what's the difference? -- nm - Andie Feb 27, 14:34 2
      - They could find a way to play with social conventions that at the same time reminds you why you need the product. -- nm - con_carne Feb 27, 14:39 1
        
        um...that's what the entire first half of the commercial was. -- nm - znufrii Feb 27, 14:40
    - Eh, seems cute to me. -- nm - Kim Pine Feb 27, 14:32
    - using it to make the joke happen is hardly making it an issue, imho. -- nm - znufrii Feb 27, 14:30
    - Ah, I hadn't seen it and didn't realize. Oh, well, commercials strive to be memorable, I guess. -- nm - mara Feb 27, 14:29
- most commercials play on something that has no bearing on the product -- nm - zork Feb 27, 14:15
and eff you Candy Crush Level 151 -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 14:06 10
- I was stuck on 86 for 4 days until I got 2 candy balls next to each other -- nm - amoxy Feb 27, 14:12 3
  - your second (candy) ball finally descended? -- nm - zork Feb 27, 14:16
  - 2 of the wrapped candies next to each other work great too. - kelly Feb 27, 14:13 1
    - The level that required me to get two sets of those next to each other was really where I almost gave up and walked away. -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 14:15
- Here I am struggling on 28. Am I not using the boosters enough? - Dr.Vermin Feb 27, 14:08 1
  - It takes a bit of time to get used to what needs to happen. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 27, 14:09
- Which one is that? I'm up to about 170 at this point, but getting from 147 to 155 was torture. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 27, 14:08 3
  - Get 35,000 in 90 seconds on a small board - ty97 Feb 27, 14:10 2
    - Yeah, that was tough...you're going to be looking for the crosses and the 4-strings.... -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 27, 14:11 1
      - I've had plenty of them, the points still don't add up. It's just dumb luck which is pointless. - ty97 Feb 27, 14:13
oh CNN, leave Marissa Mayer the F alone. - Jovian Feb 27, 14:06 12
- I look at this almost the same as if Ford decided everyone had to take the bus to work because automobiles are too difficult to manage. -- nm - GregW Feb 27, 14:22 1
  - No more parking lots! -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Feb 27, 14:52
- while I think she's a complete idiot for the edict, I agree that the media is going over board. - Epiphany Feb 27, 14:14 8
  - Soleaded Obrian (spelling is way off) on CNN this morning said that she's bringing the Goolge culture to Yahoo...that Google is/was successful that - Remlik Feb 27, 14:23 7
    - I'm not a CEO nor do I play one on this board. The 37 article had a good point. the good people are going to leave - Epiphany Feb 27, 14:33 4
      - That could be part of the plan, though. When people leave by attrition, you don't have to have as many layoffs. -- nm - con_carne Feb 27, 14:46 3
        
        but where are these people going? It's not like there is a glut of IT jobs, and most won't offer w@h anyway. -- nm - zork Feb 27, 15:01 2
        
        "It's not like there is a glut of IT jobs" - huh? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 15:02 1
        
        comparable jobs. seems like the ones out now are low level networking or else they want 10+ yrs in technologies that are 5 years old -- nm - zork Feb 27, 15:33
    - except yahoo doesn't have anything to offer that google doesn't to users, except fantasy sports -- nm - charlie Feb 27, 14:24
    - just call her Little S -- nm - zork Feb 27, 14:23
- I agree. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 14:09
lawyers. bah. -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 14:04 3
- guns. blech. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 14:05 2
  - Money, woo! -- nm - Vermin Zevon Feb 27, 14:07 1
    - *takes the money and runs* -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 14:10
LIR: groiny. The weird part about that map is that everytime I've played it I've *never* gone into that other tall spire building - oblique Feb 27, 14:03 12
- I should set the spawn points up there, force the game to go up there. - groiny Feb 27, 14:06 11
  - honestly, get rid of the tanks. - Truman Feb 27, 14:08 10
    - Just get rid of the large vehicles in the first place...it's too small a map to have cross-map kills. - Will Hunting Feb 27, 14:11 9
      - I should also put some walls up in the middle of the map, to kind of shield from cross map action. -- nm - groiny Feb 27, 14:13 2
        
        then the point of the vehicles is? - Truman Feb 27, 14:20 1
        
        if you block out the section where the bridge at the curve is, you would eliminate - groiny Feb 27, 14:23
      - which is why there are plenty of vehicles to be had on there, but no one went up top. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 27, 14:13 5
        
        Dude, the team I was on tried to go up top, we got guassed or tanked before we ever made it - Will Hunting Feb 27, 14:35 4
        
        I spent hours working on it, and if it sucks, so be it, but I am tired of - groiny Feb 27, 14:49 2
        
        I'm merely offering a critique, i'm sorry you're upset. - Will Hunting Feb 27, 14:52 1
        
        I did not mean to put 3 teams on there, and even when I did, I said - groiny Feb 27, 14:55
        
        maybe you should try to build a map then. - groiny Feb 27, 14:37
lana, lana, lana! - Truman Feb 27, 14:03
I'm sure Aeris will be fine. -- nm - David Feb 27, 14:02
General Hospital Shake-Up: Julie Marie Berman Out as Lulu, Role to Be Recast -- (link) - Todd Manning Feb 27, 14:01 1
- i blame obamacare -- nm - charlie Feb 27, 14:03
don't hate the playa, hate the game -- nm - charlie Feb 27, 13:59 2
- now can YOU DIG THAT?? - Remlik Feb 27, 14:02
- They hate you for having no game. -- nm - Spawn Feb 27, 14:00

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