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lstc, - tRuMaN Feb 18, 06:23 2
- very nice. -- nm - decline Feb 18, 06:24 1
  - one of their move in specials is free highspeed internet - tRuMaN Feb 18, 06:25
I'm amused. 2 separate headlines on the CNN homepage read - TWuG Feb 18, 06:19
So watching American Idol before falling asleep will cause you to dream about dating Taylor Swift. - Redmond Feb 18, 06:19 4
- no, no it won't. - ty97 Feb 18, 06:20
- She'd be perfect for the movie I'm directing! -- nm - President Obama si Feb 18, 06:20
- *prefer's secretstalker's Obama dream* -- nm - znufrii, cliqueless Feb 18, 06:19 1
  - Oh, well and the sucky part was that when the interview FINALLY started... - secretslacker Feb 18, 06:24
I just bought my first cup of coffee in 2 yrs. It smelled so good, I thought maybe I'd like it. - kelly Feb 18, 06:18 17
- coffee is the worst smelling, worst tasting crap there is out there. I'm constantly amazed how many people drink it. -- nm - CQ Feb 18, 06:24 1
  - it's as if your olfactory center is wired backwards. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 06:26
- You clearly didn't go to Dunkin. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 06:24 1
  - True, because Dunkin coffee = instant stomachache in Kelly-land. -- nm - kelly Feb 18, 06:25
- Coffee is easily in the top 3 "Things that smell awesome, but taste like crap" -- nm - Jim Feb 18, 06:23 8
  - Coffee is easily in the top 3 "Things Jim doesn't have a clue about." -- nm - znufrii, cliqueless Feb 18, 06:25
  - *nods* -- nm - ty97 Feb 18, 06:24
  - werd -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 18, 06:24
  - Of all the things we've ever disagreed on, this takes the cake. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 06:24
  - It was Cinnabon-flavored! - kelly Feb 18, 06:24 3
    - naturally. - znufrii, cliqueless Feb 18, 06:26 1
      - Oh, non-flavored coffee is vile. I'd only drink flavored coffee. -- nm - kelly Feb 18, 06:30
    - oh, I see your problem. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 06:24
- Coffee is gross. ^5 -- nm - oblique, better than nubby Feb 18, 06:19 3
  - I think I would be fine if I never had another cup of coffee as long as I live, but deny me my diet coke? - kelly Feb 18, 06:21 2
    - I am cracking open my first Diet Coke now. -- nm - Redmond Feb 18, 06:22 1
      - I have done pretty well in cutting almost all soda out of my diet. I was drinking waaaay too much diet soda. - kelly Feb 18, 06:25
so since st is smart. I am trying to look for a new place to live, and looking at prices etc, is there a % of your income that - tRuMaN Feb 18, 05:56 40
- FWIW, assuming you are staying in your current area, you should do decently with the 'normal' percentages - ty97 Feb 18, 06:08
- Depends on the market and other expenses. most place 25% of gross is a good guideline. Places like NYC, 35-40% or higher is more common. - znufrii, cliqueless Feb 18, 06:06 12
  - MTA passes are soon going to equal a car payment...... -- nm - ty97 Feb 18, 06:08 9
    - heh...not even close - znufrii, cliqueless Feb 18, 06:09 7
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        that's why I parked in the street. Gas was not bad at all. Prices weren't especially high, and it's not like I logged a lot of mileage. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 06:25
        
        that's why you register the car at your parent's house :) -- nm - decline Feb 18, 06:17 1
        
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        . -- (link) - ty97 Feb 18, 06:17 1
        
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      - well, not close yet.... - ty97 Feb 18, 06:11
    - the killer in NY is the insurance. you wouldn't believe the rates. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 06:09
  - the not having a car is a good point. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 06:07 1
    - I cannot imagine paying as much as I do and having to pay for a car as well. -- nm - znufrii, cliqueless Feb 18, 06:08
- Depends on your credit score. Over 700 and they will give you up to 42% here, under and it's more like 35%. - Subversive - VCP Feb 18, 06:06
- as someone who just bought in November....its 40% of gross is what you are pre-assessed for....however.... - Walt_Disney Feb 18, 06:03
- This discussion suggests 28% of gross income. I tend to hear numbers in that area. - ty97 Feb 18, 06:01 7
  - I always heard 35%-40% of net when renting. that seems very high to me. -- nm - all the presdients love mandy lane Feb 18, 06:02 6
    - I think that's location dependent. in NYC, for instance, it's hard not to go that high. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 06:02 5
      - I'm just at 25% now, for the first time since I've moved here. - znufrii, cliqueless Feb 18, 06:11 4
        
        *sigh* - ty97 Feb 18, 06:12 3
        
        It's not easy, but it's worth it. -- nm - znufrii, cliqueless Feb 18, 06:13 2
        
        hrmmm - ty97 Feb 18, 06:19 1
        
        it's an adjustment, for sure. -- nm - znufrii, cliqueless Feb 18, 06:27
- 31.250% -- nm - oblique, better than nubby Feb 18, 05:58
- mortgage lenders traditionally used 31% of gross pay as their template, - decline Feb 18, 05:58 2
  - sigh. I never end up following a budget - tRuMaN Feb 18, 05:59 1
    - yeah, I don't follow one either, but when I had to find a rental after selling my house I was able to ballpark it - decline Feb 18, 06:03
- I've heard 25-30% of gross. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 05:56 11
  - is that just housing, or housing plus utilities? -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 18, 05:57 10
    - Mortage (P+I), property taxes, any PMI, homeowners's fee. Doesn't include utilities. - ty97 Feb 18, 06:07
    - housing -- nm - Don Homer Feb 18, 06:00
    - I believe the number depends on whether you'll be buying or renting since so many tax cuts apply to homeowners. -- nm - all the presdients love mandy lane Feb 18, 05:58 6
      - not tax cuts, sorry. like, since interest and taxes are deductible, your overall tax rate is lower if you own than if you rent. sorry for the error. -- nm - all the presdients love mandy lane Feb 18, 05:59
      - renting. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 18, 05:58 4
        
        i pay about 25% of gross for renting. -- nm - Andie Feb 18, 06:07
        
        I pay around 27% (of gross) - utilities included -- nm - decline Feb 18, 06:02
        
        I pay 25%, utes included. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 05:59
        
        sfek, more than likely. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 18, 05:58
    - someone smarter than me needs to answer. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 05:58
Major cache of fossils found in LA. In honor of hump day, let's just say I read the sign in front of the bone wrong -- (link) - oblique, better than nubby Feb 18, 05:53 2
- one word: Baculum. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 05:58
- heh. I had to get a closer look. - JaxSean Feb 18, 05:56
I had a dream last night that I was interviewing President Obama... about the new movie he was directing. Weird. -- nm - secretslacker Feb 18, 05:49 2
- Ha, didnt' see this before I posted mine. Were his parents pissed at you, like Taylor's Parent's were pissed at me? -- nm - Redmond Feb 18, 06:21
- *points and laughs* -- nm - JackDawson si Feb 18, 05:50
"Hi! I'm the bus driver. Listen, I've got to leave for a little while, so can you watch things for me until I get back? Thanks. Oh, and remember: - Don Homer Feb 18, 05:48 1
- Can I drive the bus? -- nm - Pigeon Feb 18, 05:55
DSi officially coming out April 5th for $169.99 -- (link) - Inigo Feb 18, 05:42
Oh joy. Guess what's on the woot-off now. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 18, 05:40
LYC: I get my travel assignments for the next six months on Monday. Which three would you want? - loosilu Feb 18, 05:30 10
- 2,3 and 4 for me -- nm - Roger More Feb 18, 06:16
- If you go to number#1, can you find all the scarmers and do something evil to them? - Walt_Disney Feb 18, 05:56 1
  - I was thinking of cutting deals with them. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 05:57
- oh! Where in SA? - ty97 Feb 18, 05:33 4
  - Joburg. I'm dying to go. However, there is a soft possibility that the event will be in Namibia or Zambia instead. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 05:35 3
    - oh, I hope you get to go! -- nm - ty97 Feb 18, 05:36 2
      - me too, me too. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 05:36 1
        
        note: chances of getting one of the three are high, because I'm at the top of the list for that event. - loosilu Feb 18, 05:37
- South Africa & Rwanda - Epiphany Feb 18, 05:33 1
  - I really want Rwanda because it's beautiful, has gorillas, and my birthday would be there. If I get SA I'm going to try to swing a trip to Cape Town. - loosilu Feb 18, 05:34
Changeling spoilers - kelly Feb 18, 05:30 4
- heh -- nm - CQ Feb 18, 06:00 3
  - That's pretty accurate though, isn't it? - kelly Feb 18, 06:03 2
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      - Don't get me wrong, I thought she was very good - she is definitely a very good actress. (spoils) - kelly Feb 18, 06:29
I wonder how much jail time I'd be looking at if I were to put a xanax in my boss' coffee every morning. - Will Hunting Feb 18, 05:28 3
- "I'm no fool. I've killed the boss, you think they're not gonna fire me for a thing like that? " -- nm - Violet from 9 to 5 Feb 18, 05:35 1
  - heh. (But you thought it was Skinny &Sweet.) -- nm - Don Homer Feb 18, 05:43
- Another fun day, I take it? -- nm - kelly Feb 18, 05:31
Holy mother of crap, Heart Shaped Box wastes no time getting to the fireworks factory. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 18, 05:09 3
- Great book. nm - Dignan Feb 18, 05:45
- Joe has so much promise as a writer. I've loved everything he's written. -- nm - Callisto Feb 18, 05:12 1
  - Thanks for turning me on to his Twitter feed. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 18, 05:14
sitwap: GM, Chrysler to Govt - GIMME! Request another $39 Billion. -- (link) - Beaker Feb 18, 05:05 4
- GM: buh bye Hummer, Saturn and Saab... -- nm - decline Feb 18, 05:59
- actually, they're only requesting another $14 billion, bringing the total amount of aid to $39 billion -- nm - znufrii Feb 18, 05:08 2
  - *fails reading comprehension* -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 05:11 1
    - that's okay, we don't fail people at the ST Academy, we just ridicule them mercilessly -- nm - znufrii, cliqueless Feb 18, 05:48
*does the peepee dance waiting for Thursday so he can buy the Wire boxset on amazon.ca* -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 04:55 4
- Have you seen the show before? (You're in for a real treat.) -- nm - Don Homer Feb 18, 05:06 3
  - never, basing purchase on ST glowing ratings alone (haven't been wrong yet! - Burn Notice, Psych, Fables to name 3) -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 05:11 2
    - I think I'll watch the Wire when network dramas dry up over the summer. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 05:36
    - It may take a few episodes to become fully immersed in it, but it's well worth it. I can't praise it enough. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 18, 05:16
heh, Home about to be foreclosed after owner loses job...she requests original loan document...foreclosure screeches to a halt when they can't find it -- (link) - Beaker Feb 18, 04:46 2
- heh. I wonder who the lender is. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 18, 05:10 1
  - betcha I know. :) -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 05:29
Boy's body found in crocodile -- (link) - Dane Duke Nuuk Feb 18, 04:43
Jesse Ventura aks an interesting question: in the 90's the Feds indicted Vince McMahon for steroids in wrestling...why not Bud Selig for baseball? -- (link) - Beaker Feb 18, 04:36 2
- They indicted Vince becuase he was supposed to be actively involved in the trafficking - Will Hunting Feb 18, 04:51 1
  - Yeah, I thought Jesse was a little off there -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 04:53
Philips Portable DVD Player with Dual LCD Screens $79.99 * + $5 shipping -- nm - JaxSean Feb 18, 03:52 1
- One of these days I'll actually have money to spend at a Woot-Off! :/ -- nm - kelly Feb 18, 04:13
Today's Amazon mp3 special: Grateful Dead's Wake of the Flood. Everyday low price: $5.99 Today's price: $1.99 -- (link) - JaxSean Feb 18, 03:49
ARod's admission of wrongdoing and details confuse experts - Will Hunting Feb 18, 03:00 2
- He would have been smarter to say "Yes I took steroids, and refuse to elaborate" - Subversive - VCP Feb 18, 05:46
- Tim Keown of Page 2 piles on -- (link) - Beaker Feb 18, 05:03
Wow, that's a pretty amazing Woot-Off Killer... been going on for over an hour -- nm - secretslacker Feb 18, 02:31
Facebook caves: "..Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues ..." -- nm - marcel Feb 18, 00:09 5
- needs more orange -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 04:22
- Histrionic! Histrionic! -- nm - nubby Feb 18, 04:04
- Did the new Terms of Use involve wearing the color orange? -- nm - secretslacker Feb 18, 02:31
- Good. Starts a protest of Windows, Office, Acrobat, iTunes, Gmail, SlackerTalk TOS's. -- nm - psilotum Feb 18, 00:49
- thought that had as much chance as the protests over the change of the home page -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 18, 00:37
zeitgeist - the movie -- (link) - marcel Feb 18, 00:01 1
- hell no....this is where zeitgeist comes from - zeitgeist Feb 18, 00:36
Very interesting show on now, on the NFL Channel about black NFL players in the 1950's & 60's -- nm - peglegpete Feb 17, 23:32
My latest media project - entering all my DVDs into this -- (link) - Reagen Feb 17, 23:23 1
- webcam barcode scanner, you say? that makes things easier (if it works). -- nm - mafic Feb 18, 00:13
Tonight they played the Wolverine trailer on Idol, is this the premiere? -- nm - Stacy Feb 17, 23:09 5
- Danny Huston! -- nm - pigby Feb 18, 00:03
- I saw the wolverine trailer during House ... looks good -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 23:12 3
  - Hey Bery me and J won 2 on 3 tonight - eag Feb 17, 23:17 1
    - nice!! -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 23:27
  - agreed, I'm really looking forward to it :) -- nm - Stacy Feb 17, 23:15
So wait, California is bankrupt but they have property taxes capped at ridiculously low levels? Can nobody there add two and two? -- nm - Tim Feb 17, 23:08 7
- property values are insanely high, though. -- nm - loosilu Feb 18, 05:33
- You could argue that they are capped at rediculously high levels if you bought your house at pre-collapse rates. - zeitgeist Feb 17, 23:27 3
  - They have the highest other taxes in the land becuase they capped the property tax increases with Prop 13. - Will Hunting Feb 18, 02:55
  - They passed a tax cap law here that will slowly strangle the counties, a 1% cap on revenue increase per year, which means a few years inflation will - zeitgeist Feb 17, 23:32 1
    - Here In WA there's less incentive to invest in public stuff, like they Viaduct they want to remove, normally all those open vistas would propel real.. - zeitgeist Feb 17, 23:35
- That was due to Proposition 13 -- nm - eag Feb 17, 23:12
- Of course wouldn't raising them possibly cause more foreclosures? -- nm - Dano Feb 17, 23:09
Leverage was so mind blowingly awesomely great tonight I couldn't bear for it to end. - Trish Feb 17, 22:57 2
- I just finished it. agreed! -- nm - peglegpete Feb 17, 23:06
- they got renewed, though, as the video proved ... hopefully you saw that, a few days ago -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 22:58
Green Laser Pointer. $14+5. These things are awesome. -- nm - psilotum Feb 17, 22:52 1
- Those Eargrips Behind the Head Fleece Ear Warmer for 3 are great, I paid 10 each last year -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 17, 23:29

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