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speaking of books, it's embarrassing how excited I am to read the third veronica roth book. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Dec 24, 09:17 4
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  - you have to know what you're getting into. it's not literature. it's crappy YA. sometimes it's just what the doctor ordered. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Dec 24, 09:28
- This inspired a poll (for next board) -- nm - ty97 Dec 24, 09:24
- Not familiar with that author. I get similarly embarassed getting books from the teen fiction section - Capstern Dec 24, 09:23
It is impossible to find a bounce house/moon castle Christmas ornament -- nm - ty97 Dec 24, 09:16
I have a question about electricity. I think. or maybe about USB. - peggy ann mcamanda Dec 24, 09:13 4
- if it fits, it charges. Except when it's an Apple device, those can be a bit stubborn at times. -- nm - marcel Dec 24, 09:28
- You can use it for anything that accepts charge via USB -- nm - budice Dec 24, 09:24
- USB is almost all the same. Sometimes there can be different power requirements, but the devices where that matters will usually tell you. - Beryllium Dec 24, 09:21 1
  - To the extent that there are different power requirements it really just affects charging rate. - Ender Dec 24, 09:49
Note to self, do not read Facebook after finale episodes of singing competitions if you really care about not being spoiled - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 24, 09:11
Scientists Recreate Dreams With YouTube Videos -- (link) - Dano Dec 24, 09:00
Finally going to break down and try a book alternative. Kindle Fire HDX 7 - Angie found a great deal - Capstern Dec 24, 08:59 26
- I have an e-reader for reading and a tablet for like, web stuff. I don't like reading on my tablet (the light is weird) and find that - peggy ann mcamanda Dec 24, 09:08 10
  - What mandy says about the sun is exactly why my wife loves her normal Kindle reader. Truly this is the #1 reason to get one IMO vs a tablet reader -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 24, 09:10 9
    - sorry sorta confused....by the comined posts... - Capstern Dec 24, 09:14 6
      - The Fire is an LED screen. It emits light. E-ink is not lit at all - TWuG Dec 24, 09:17 3
        
        got ya....makes sense. Yeah the flexability of the fire seems nice - Capstern Dec 24, 09:20
        
        you forgot to type "mandy, just buy a paperwhite already." -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Dec 24, 09:18 1
        
        mandy, just buy a paperwhite already. - TWuG Dec 24, 09:20
      - e-ink is different to a tablet. -- (link) - peggy ann mcamanda Dec 24, 09:16 1
        
        thx -- nm - Capstern Dec 24, 09:18
    - I feel like if you want to *read books,* an ereader is by far a smarter purchase. if you want to watch movies or browse wikipedia, tablet. nm - peggy ann mcamanda Dec 24, 09:14 1
      - well the flex of netflix, amazon digital movies (seems every dvd I ordered also had amazon digital copy) and web if I want is nice - Capstern Dec 24, 09:16
- Not at all and the HDX is a *superb* tablet (I just upgraded my old 7" Fire to HDX) -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 24, 09:00 14
  - Any suggestion on how to just move past the mental block part of not having a book anymore... - Capstern Dec 24, 09:03 13
    - No need for shelf space, no need for lugging around one huge book, no need for finding just the right way to prop the book for reading. - TWuG Dec 24, 09:15 1
      - Yeah I understand that and know I need to get with the times - Capstern Dec 24, 09:21
    - No, you don't save, not at all. The convenience is the selling point. When you can just buy and have the book in seconds (especially on vacation) it - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 24, 09:05 10
      - somtimes it's even more costly. *maddening.* -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Dec 24, 09:09 8
        
        hmmm that is a bummer guess it will get better as more people adopt. And I am sure - Capstern Dec 24, 09:11 7
        
        Also remember you can probably borrow books from your library for your dreaded. -- nm - Andie Dec 24, 09:20 4
        
        Ah yeah as far as I know Angie and I can share a library or have seperate and loan to each other (we read same stuff mostly) -- nm - Capstern Dec 24, 09:33
        
        dreaded? -- nm - Capstern Dec 24, 09:22 2
        
        iPad autocorrect. I assumed e-reader would be easy to figure out. -- nm - Andie Dec 24, 09:24 1
        
        I love how the ipad totally knows how to spell "ipad" but "ereader" is a foreignism. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Dec 24, 09:29
        
        I don't think it'll get cheaper. books are priced as the market will bear. obviously it has nothing to do with production or distribution. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Dec 24, 09:15 1
        
        What I meant is if the tech versions will come down eventually with wider adoption - Capstern Dec 24, 09:17
      - OK will see how it goes...someone should invent a usb device that makes book smell :) -- nm - Capstern Dec 24, 09:08
What is it with the Brits and mini webisodes? -- (link) - Spawn Dec 24, 08:57
From FB ad. All women stand like this in the bathroom, right? -- (link) - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 24, 08:56
Would love to see how ST does this: How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (link) -- (link) - Buzz Dec 24, 08:53 4
- Canadian accents must throw off that dialect map -- nm - Spawn Dec 24, 08:54 3
  - it'll probably think I'm from miami or boston. -- nm - mafic Dec 24, 08:55 2
    - I bet it thinks I live west of the Mississippi. -- nm - TWuG Dec 24, 08:56 1
      - I'm sure on a first try it will think Arizona and then if I adjust slightly it's closer with St. Louis. --nm - Kim Pine Dec 24, 09:00
Mel, here is a pretty good article about Showtime's ascension in the boxing world. -- (link) - David Dec 24, 08:50 1
- Thanks. I'll read this over the holidays. - Mel Profit Dec 24, 08:59
I do have 1 minor (not so minor to me) complaint in all of this Christmas festivities stuff .... people who turn on the oven light and then walk ,, - i'm not the ghost of Christmas past yet ! Dec 24, 08:47 3
- What if the meatloaf is afraid of the dark? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 09:18 1
  - Agreed. It must be at peace those last few hours or it will taste awful. -- nm - Spawn Dec 24, 09:19
- ... the light is a Christmas decoration. -- nm - Spawn Dec 24, 08:48
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If anyone is looking to make a Kiva loan - I just loaned to someone who has another $75 to go. - elf kelly Dec 24, 08:46 1
- Aww, I just loaned my credit a couple of days ago. No more until the middle of January. -- nm - Meg Dec 24, 08:53
I got my Amazon appstore credit but I really don't want to use it. The DRM on these apps is a pain in the ass. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Dec 24, 08:34 2
- in what way? I don't know that I've ever run into any DRM issues with appstore apps -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 24, 08:36 1
  - You have to update through the Amazon Appstore. Apps don't work if you're not authenticated with Amazon. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Dec 24, 08:40
I love how Coinstar just converts my change to a gift card code for Amazon and no percentage is taken. More holiday shopping! -- nm - CQ draped in tinsel Dec 24, 08:34 1
- Yup, good stuff -- nm - ty97 Dec 24, 08:36
A Christmas Eve Day sneak attack by EMP! Bastards. - Mel Profit Dec 24, 08:22 19
- show no mercy and destoy them to the atom -- nm - Remlik Dec 24, 09:13 2
  - this -- nm - Diva Dec 24, 09:19 1
    - I want his head on a plate. - Mel Profit Dec 24, 09:20
- Don't show them any kindness simply because this is a week of celebration and love. -- nm - David Dec 24, 08:30 15
  - Quite the opposite, actually. I expect us to destroy them. They don't have the #s to sustain battle through the holiday. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Dec 24, 08:32 12
    - Once this week is over, I suspect we'll turn up the violence. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 24, 08:36
    - Burn them to the ground! Do everything possible to prevent them from enjoying their holiday! -- nm - David Dec 24, 08:33 10
      - *puts up a poll on the BF boards about the playoff structure at 12:01am* -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 24, 08:35 9
        
        Don't waste that time on nonsense. Total strangers must be put in their place on a war game! -- nm - David Dec 24, 08:41 5
        
        Or spend your time obsessing over the sport played by Millionaires for the benefit of Billionaires. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 24, 09:01
        
        How dare you call the President of Beta a total stranger? - Will Hunting Dec 24, 08:49 2
        
        I'm only impressed if he's a wrestling journalist. -- nm - David Dec 24, 08:51 1
        
        He likely is as well. His credentials change frequently. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 24, 08:52
        
        But they are not total strangers On the other server WarMachine faces a boy who is the son of the richest man in Dubaii!. -- nm - Spawn Dec 24, 08:48
        
        *adds one about banning kickers* -- nm - mI Dec 24, 08:37 2
        
        *adds another about banning RC and Redmond from making trades* -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 24, 08:50 1
        
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  - we will burn them to the ground! SLACK is not to be trifled with. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 24, 08:31 1
    - Mercy is for the weak! -- nm - David Dec 24, 08:32
I so can't wait for my upstairs neighbors to move. when is august? - peggy ann mcamanda Dec 24, 08:20 5
- When I rule, and I will rule, Loud Upstairs neighbors will be dragged from their beds and flung out their windows onto the streets to be... - Mel Profit Dec 24, 08:25 4
  - zack has an old recliner that makes a horrible squeaking sound every time he moves. it sounds like a giant paper cutter. it bleeds through the floor - peggy ann mcamanda Dec 24, 08:31 3
    - I think you're move here is obvious... - Mel Profit Dec 24, 08:37 2
      - I don't think she is that into him. -- nm - Spawn Dec 24, 08:40 1
        
        Does she want the noise to stop or not... -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 24, 09:04
We hit 55 degrees. Suck it! -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Dec 24, 08:14 4
- Sorry it's so cold. -- nm - jnine Dec 24, 08:42
- We're at 33 degrees right now and heading south. It was 70 degrees on Friday. -- nm - David Dec 24, 08:16 1
  - Same. :-( But it was 70 on Sunday. -- nm - Krusty Dec 24, 08:16
- Oh, and Merry Christmas! -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Dec 24, 08:15
roughly 1 hr 45 minutes countdown to the begin of the annual Christmas Eve insansity - i'm not the ghost of Christmas past yet ! Dec 24, 08:13
The guy on CBS This Morning says that Odin is the origin of the Father Christmas myth. So, thank you Anthony Hopkins! -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Dec 24, 08:13 2
- Therefore the correct answer to which movie to see is indeed, Thor 2. -- nm - Spawn Dec 24, 08:32
- the only problem i have w/ this is that there are no favva bean traditions at Christmas -- nm - i'm not the ghost of Christmas past yet ! Dec 24, 08:14
I wanna go back to bed -- nm - Beryllium Dec 24, 08:06 1
- me too. so badly. -- nm - Diva Dec 24, 08:07
Gift wrapping tip: Pinch and run along each edge to give a sharp fold crease. Makes a huge difference in the appearance. -- nm - zork Dec 24, 08:02
Sherlock fans...the minisode is up -- (link) - Remlik Dec 24, 07:52 [youtube] 1
- oh, *hell* yeah. -- nm - znufrii Dec 24, 08:24
It's always nice to find a whale who is producing north of 150k wine a day. - Will Hunting Dec 24, 07:28
If the Yankees sign Papelbon I may not watch a single Yankee game this year in protest. I held my nose when they signed Clemens back in the day but I - Krusty Dec 24, 07:24 5
- LIES -- nm - ty97 Dec 24, 08:04 4
  - I just told Dawson I'll quit watching. I can't and won't root for him. I despise him. - Krusty Dec 24, 08:11 3
    - the Team needs you. -- nm - Diva Dec 24, 08:12 2
      - They need to get their heads out of their asses. No Papelbon. No. - Krusty Dec 24, 08:16 1
        
        *dances a jig* - Mel Profit Dec 24, 08:18
Happy Feast of Seven Fishes! Mangia! -- nm - Vincent Vega si Dec 24, 07:17 1
- The auto-nic kind of works. -- nm - Krusty Dec 24, 07:18
It's been far too eventful a day to be only 10 AM. -- nm - David Dec 24, 06:50
Canadian accents must throw off that dialect map - Reagen Dec 24, 06:46 16
- Hmm, that is rather impressive. I got Chattanooga, Louisville and Little Rock. -- nm - David Dec 24, 08:29 1
  - If I change a couple of answers to second choices (there's a few where I use words interchangeably but it's not an option)... - Kim Pine Dec 24, 08:44
- On the nose. I got Oklahoma City, too. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Dec 24, 08:15
- It nailed me perfectly. The 3 were Lincoln, Omaha and Des Moines. -- nm - GregW Dec 24, 07:59
- It thought I was from Arizona (all three cities). I've never even been to Arizona. -- nm - Kim Pine Dec 24, 07:46
- Heh. :-) It usually gets my accent right but just one of those questions is enough to tell where I'm from. The sandwich question gives me away. - Krusty Dec 24, 07:29 6
  - In Columbus we used "hero", "sub", "hoagie" and "grinder" almost interchangeably, but sub seems to be what I use most - TWuG Dec 24, 07:32 5
    - Yeah, I called it a hoagie (or even a hero) up until Subway became ubiquitous. Now it's just sub. -- nm - Kim Pine Dec 24, 08:02 4
      - The only person I ever heard use the word hoagie was Bill Cosby. - Krusty Dec 24, 08:14 2
        
        I had a teacher whose husband had a Hoagie business and her last name was Hostetler, so we called her Hossie Hoagie. - TWuG Dec 24, 09:00
        
        My dad called it a hoagie/hero, so that's certainly where it came from for me. -- nm - Kim Pine Dec 24, 08:46
      - growing up, I never heard anything but sub. other terms confused me at first when I encountered them. -- nm - zork Dec 24, 08:03
- I got a weird placing too…Where it put me, was where my parents are from, which could make sense -- nm - Flavorize Dec 24, 07:27 1
  - any chance you can log into ika.com? -- nm - Diva Dec 24, 09:26
- apparently I'm from Miami. back when it was the Harvard dialect survey it thought I was from upstate New York. -- nm - mafic Dec 24, 07:25
- Every city it linked me with was west of the Mississippi, though I've never lived West of Illinois. - TWuG Dec 24, 07:05
Has anyone here played Brothers: a tale of two sons? - Truman Dec 24, 05:53 1
- haven't played it but it's $7.49 on steam right now -- nm - stewie Dec 24, 05:59
Politicians should probably leave Twitter to the professionals... - znufrii Dec 24, 05:47
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- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker Dec 24, 05:51
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The legacy of the teen heroine -- (link) - LMS Dec 24, 03:53 1
- You'll never take me down, blondie. -- nm - Was Bar Was, Vampirates Primogen Dec 24, 07:10
For those wondering what Damien Lewis's singing voice is like - LMS Dec 24, 03:50
Trailer for HBO drama Looking -- (link) - LMS Dec 24, 02:58 [youtube]
Queen pardons Alan Turing -- (link) - CovingtonCat Dec 24, 02:33
Why The Desolation of Smaug Is Peter Jackson’s Phantom Menace -- (link) - Spawn Dec 24, 01:01 1
- this is written who either never read the books or has read them waay too much -- nm - Jovian Dec 24, 07:51
Candlestick park was a horrid place, they could not have put it in a worse place unless they choose under the GGB for weather conditions - ruddy the red nosed zeitgeist Dec 23, 22:51 4
- Your dumb. - IrishStephen Dec 23, 23:01 3
  - this -- nm - Bacon via Google Nexus 10 Dec 24, 06:39
  - *golf clap* - Trish Dec 24, 02:27 1
    - Hey, saw your message earlier. - CovingtonCat Dec 24, 03:10
Might solve a mystery or rewrite history... -- nm - Mop on Samsung Galaxy S3 Dec 23, 22:51 1
- Duck tales! Woo-ooh! -- nm - Beryllium Dec 23, 22:56
Jazz Icon Yusef Lateef, has played his last note at 93 :(((((( -- (link) - Black Peter Dec 23, 22:21
IKEA hazelnut chocolate bar says 3 servings. That's adorable. Also... why is it made in Germany? -- nm - Qale Dec 23, 22:20 4
- hazelnuts are big there (well popular) ikea probably bought some guy out and put their label on them - ruddy the red nosed zeitgeist Dec 23, 22:37
- outsourcing? -- nm - Black Peter Dec 23, 22:22 2
  - On the plus side, you don't need a packet of Ikea wrenches to put them together. -- nm - Trish Dec 24, 00:25
  - Who knows. It's quite tasty. Required disassembling. And didn't include any extra pieces. -- nm - Qale Dec 23, 22:29
START THE DRAFT!!! -- nm - Spawn Dec 23, 22:17 1
- Btw, thanks for your help. - Trish Dec 24, 02:52

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