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Theory: Chris Christie only wants to be President so that people will call him "Mr. President" instead of "Mr. Christie" - Beryllium Jan 9, 08:21 7
- Tangent but Related: I am now an uncle on both sides of the family. This wasn't an issue in Australia, but now I'm "Uncle Ben" for the rest of my life -- nm - Roger More Jan 9, 08:24 3
  - Both sides of the family? - Spawn Jan 9, 08:27
  - You'll have to change your name. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 9, 08:26
  - Better work on your risotto skills -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 08:26
- NY Post head: CHRIS IN A JAM. NY Daily News: FAT CHANCE NOW, CHRIS - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 9, 08:24 2
  - Good old dependable Mop. -- nm - Ender Jan 9, 08:24 1
    - *posts a news story from 14 years ago* - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 9, 08:25
I am much less excited about the PS1/2/3 compatibility announcement now that Sony has said there is no way to verify if you purchased the old games. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 9, 08:17 8
- There's no way only in the sense they didn't program it. They could have if they wanted, like Vudu's disc-to-digital. That would have been great. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 9, 08:22
- Have they actually said that about the digital PSN versions of the games? -- nm - Ender Jan 9, 08:19 6
  - I think I read that somewhere yesterday. - Strongbad Jan 9, 08:22 1
    - It COULD be a different situation. I suspect they're being mum about that type of thing because they plan to figure it out during the Beta. -- nm - Ender Jan 9, 08:23
  - So far they've seemed pretty mum on specifics about the pricing/subscription model. -- nm - Ender Jan 9, 08:20 3
    - I sort of saw it as a paid type of rental service. But I haven't read too much into it yet. Another reason to perhaps get a Vita. -- nm - Shaun Jan 9, 08:21 2
      - A expect it to be akin to Netflix for Playstation. All that games for a monthly fee. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 9, 08:22 1
        
        This is what I sort of expect as well. -- nm - Shaun Jan 9, 08:24
Rob Rejects the Kardashian Name ... and Other Acts of Rebellion From This Week's Tabloids -- (link) - Beaker Jan 9, 08:14
REB5: FTR, the NY Post went with "CHRIS IN A JAM" and the Daily News went with "FAT CHANCE NOW, CHRIS" -- nm - Ender Jan 9, 08:12 3
- I am disappointed with both. The Post went boring and the Daily News went with (ugh) a fat joke -- nm - ty97 Jan 9, 08:13 2
  - Disappointed ... but not surprised. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 08:19
  - Mind you, I wish the Post was less sensational and more boring regularly, but this is the one day they choose to tone it down? -- nm - ty97 Jan 9, 08:19
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- I am in awe of people who can get up earlier than required in order to go to the gym. - ty97 Jan 9, 08:20 1
  - Yeah, I'm not a morning exerciser. I'll occasionally go for a surf, but nothing more strenuous. -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 08:22
I demand all hotels provide me with a hitching post out front! -- nm - Ender Jan 9, 08:05 6
- I demand all hotels provide me with a hitching post in the bedroom. -- nm - Spawn Jan 9, 08:06
- I miss the free hooker delivery service -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 08:06 4
  - aka Turn Down Service. -- nm - Spawn Jan 9, 08:26
  - "I'd like some... *extra pillows*... in my room tonight." -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 9, 08:17 2
    - I have a friend who goes to -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 08:19 1
      - Dammit, again? ... Saudi fairly often. At the hotel there's a secret bottle of booze stashed above a ceiling tile. -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 08:21
so, I have 2 herniated discs and 2 bulging discs in my neck....... - groiny Jan 9, 08:03 8
- fvck ... sorry groiny :( -- nm - JenBro Jan 9, 10:00
- F-! -- nm - Spawn Jan 9, 08:24
- Oh wow. Sorry man. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 9, 08:16
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- damn, have fun with that. sucks -- nm - CQ Jan 9, 08:04
- Kim rehabbed her compressed neck effectively. -- nm - David Jan 9, 08:04 1
  - that is my hope. nm -- nm - groiny Jan 9, 08:05
- ugh, sorry dude -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 08:03
I think I may have waited a little too long, but the twins finally got their first haircuts today. -- nm - CQ Jan 9, 07:59 5
- mohawks? -- nm - decline Jan 9, 08:05 1
  - I would have loved to, but I wouldn't have been able to sleep in my own home. -- nm - CQ Jan 9, 08:14
- Nice! Did they have the mullet thing going on? Kieran had that for a while. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 08:05 2
  - The Finch looked like a feral white trash redneck and the Grinch had a whatever going on -- nm - CQ Jan 9, 08:13 1
    - Kids look older after a haircut. Heh. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 08:18
God, I hate doctor's offices. - David Jan 9, 07:58 8
- I love scratching out the field for SSN on those forms. They don't need my SSN. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 9, 08:17 2
  - actually, sometimes they do and your info is likely more safe with them than with anyone else - including banks and credit cards. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 08:22 1
    - They can't compel me to give it to them. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 9, 08:27
- ooh, I dread when my doctor retires, which I think is coming in the next year or so. nm -- nm - groiny Jan 9, 08:07 2
  - Our Dentist just brought in another Dentist in her 30s, so I figure he's due in a few years. -- nm - Ender Jan 9, 08:14
  - Ours caught us off guard. I had no idea she was in her mid-60s. -- nm - David Jan 9, 08:07
- New year = new (same old) paper work! -- nm - Spawn Jan 9, 08:00 1
  - *growls* -- nm - David Jan 9, 08:01
REB2 decline: I am with you. Tomb Raider was my fave game of 2013. I am seriously considering buying the PS4 version as well. -- nm - Shaun Jan 9, 07:56 4
- I own it on PS3, but I haven't gotten around to playing it. Wish it were a Cross-buy. -- nm - Ender Jan 9, 07:58 3
  - I'd sell the PS3 version and then buy the PS4 version, if I were in your boots. -- nm - Shaun Jan 9, 08:00 2
    - The PS3 version is digital. -- nm - Ender Jan 9, 08:00 1
      - Ahh. Maybe they'll announce some form of upgrade option. -- nm - Shaun Jan 9, 08:03
I assume any amenity in a hotel that isn't profitable should be axed. They're not in the charity business. - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 9, 07:54 17
- if a hotel can't make money selling $5 peanuts they should give up -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 07:58 9
  - but if noone buys them, and they have to store stock, check for refills that they don't need etc, it's not helping their bottom line in any way. -- nm - Andie Jan 9, 07:59 8
    - oh for sure, if no one uses it get rid of it, but I suspect the free toilletries would be a much marger cash drain that a mini-bar - Beaker Jan 9, 08:01 6
      - I think toiletries should be kept at the front desk and you should have to ask. maybe charge $1 for a bottle or something. - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 08:03 3
        
        No toiletries is a pain. You don't travel with soap just like you don't travel with bed sheets. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 9, 08:20
        
        I know we always took stuff and then donated it to local food banks and woman shelters - Beaker Jan 9, 08:05 1
        
        Yup, this is what I do as well. -- nm - spamlet Jan 9, 08:09
      - i have never, once, drank something from a mini bar. i never use PPV. - Andie Jan 9, 08:02 1
        
        Hotel PPV used to be one of my favorite things in life prior to streaming. -- nm - David Jan 9, 08:03
    - also spoilage on food items. someone has to check the dates... -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 08:00
- the thing is that they're not profitable enough. but again, allowing users to self-select what amenities they'd like ensure greater use of same - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 07:56 4
  - You sound like a damn dirty libertarian! -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 08:10
  - In essence, that's what they'll do. Carrie's hotels are extended stay, Candlewood and Staybridge Suites... - Jim Jan 9, 07:59 2
    - in march, I stayed in some horrible hotel in harrisburg that had *no* services (besides being next to LBC) because I honestly just needed a bed. - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 08:02
    - right. high end hotels will stay cater to those customers. but if there is a market for the less amenities, they should serve that market. -- nm - Andie Jan 9, 08:00
- If they come for the mini-bar...they will eventually come for the butler. Draw The Line, Mop. Draw.It. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:55 1
  - It's our God-given right to be exorbitantly over-charged for tiny bottles of vodka and cashews! -- nm - Ender Jan 9, 07:57
Amazon Prime has secured "exclusive online streaming rights" to all three seasons of Veronica Mars -- (link) - Ender Jan 9, 07:53
You think the polar vortex sucks for you? Iqaluit got hammered with hurricane-force winds yesterday. -- (link) - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 9, 07:52
SB and Ender: the statement as presented says it is a potential consequence of global warming. I don't see a train to don't that. But for that matter - Reagen Jan 9, 07:49 7
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- Not to mention that the polar vortex has always existed. I took a meteorology class in college and we discussed it then. - pmb Jan 9, 07:54
- It is amusing to me, in light of the mocking of the "it's cold! Where's your global warming now?" crowd - Strongbad Jan 9, 07:52 3
  - The researchers aren't actually saying "It's cold! And it might be because of global warming." - mara Jan 9, 08:03 1
    - I agree that the researchers have models and some data supporting their conclusions. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 9, 08:13
  - if it's just an assertion, maybe. But with an explanation backed up by evidence? -- nm - Reagen Jan 9, 07:56
- "a reason to doubt that". yeesh, autocorrect. -- nm - Reagen Jan 9, 07:50
spam and zeitgeist... - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:47 3
- I'm launching now. We will avenge you. -- nm - spamlet Jan 9, 07:48 2
  - if you need me, get me here. Good luck. Avenge me. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:51 1
    - I land in about 25 minutes, I'll let you know. -- nm - spamlet Jan 9, 08:10
speaking of hotels, I am having hotel weekend this weekend! -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 07:46 8
- in fabulous, downtown Harrisburg! -- nm - decline Jan 9, 08:06 1
  - at least no PA teams are in the playoffs this year. the hotel bar get *rowdy* if they are. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 08:13
- tell us everything. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:49 4
  - it's so glamorous I can't even stand it. sheep judging? meat goat judging? -- (link) - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 07:52 3
    - I see Wine stuff. Wine. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 08:02 2
      - it's PA wine, so that doesn't really count. I'll only be there for a little bit on saturday, so my options are verrrrrry limited. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 08:11 1
        
        It's not Jail Toilet Wine I'm sure. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 08:23
- congrats! -- nm - Andie Jan 9, 07:48
ML, you have to watch with people getting wounded. They'll start panicing in combat and won't be able for cool stuff later. - spamlet Jan 9, 07:43 2
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  - He was Captain and a medic so he was in every battle but his will score by the end dropped so low from taking hits... -- nm - spamlet Jan 9, 07:48
That Hotel Amenities story on B2 is the most depressing thing I've read today. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:41 31
- They're doing a pretty good job of making the likes of airbnb more appealing -- nm - con_carne Jan 9, 07:55
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  - Revolution! -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:50
- I love that they're getting rid of services *and* raising rates. - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 07:46 5
  - All because some egghead doesn't like the percentage INCREASE in profits. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:48 4
    - Exactly. It is the type of business practice that diminishes a brand. -- nm - David Jan 9, 08:01
    - but please understand that I think that many of these changes are a long time coming. I *lived* in hotels for nine months three years ago - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 07:55 2
      - All jokes aside (*briefly, I've had espresso)...I get the business aspects to all of this. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:59
      - Smart phones have placed all manner of services within reach at reasonable rates when you are in a strange place -- nm - con_carne Jan 9, 07:59
- Also, I will not check in with a machine at a hotel. I won't do it. I will burn something down first. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:42 15
  - You don't travel for a living...and let's face it, your business is not what they're worried about. - Jim Jan 9, 07:53 14
    - I *love* not having to talk to people. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 07:57 1
      - I love the brief, formal interactions. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 08:12
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    - And...the highes end hotels will always have these services. But larger hotel companies will pull them from their mid-level chains. - Jim Jan 9, 07:55 10
      - Fascists! Socialists! Any Bad Political Name I Can Think Of! *begins the Molotov Cocktail Assembly Line* -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:56
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        Further, I'd expect room service to be the first to go. Mini bars may stay awhile, because there's not a lot of cost associated with maintaining them - Jim Jan 9, 07:57 7
        
        The last few hotels I've stayed in haven't had mini-bars. And really, who uses mini-bars (or phones) at the inflated prices hotels charge? - Roger More Jan 9, 08:17
        
        A lot of hotels I've stayed in now have menus from local restaurants that deliver instead of room -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 08:15 1
        
        sfek... service -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 08:16
        
        I would think that minibars would be one of the more expensive in-room services to maintain. everything has to be counted every day. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 08:00 2
        
        couple people making mimimum wage wouldn'tr be too bad and alot of them now have automatic counters that know when you use something and do it automat -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 08:02 1
        
        I feel like Indie at the beginning of Raiders with those things. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 08:03
        
        agreed -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 08:00
- they mention the Hilton in NY -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 07:42 5
  - Give me hope, man. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:45 4
    - This isn't going to happen at any hotel where customers are prepared to pay for the service. -- nm - Roger More Jan 9, 07:49 3
      - Good. If I can't get an Irish Whiskey for me and a Jack and Ginger for Diva delivered to my suite while in my hotel bathrobe - I will start cutting - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:53 2
        
        *slaps myself* ...a dry Martini, 3 olives for Diva. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:54 1
        
        *slaps myself again* Grey Goose Martini, dry, 3 Olives... -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 08:00
Fantasy Golf reminder: Rosters lock in a little over an hour. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 9, 07:37
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- Great column. I now expect David Carr's draft stock to fall. -- nm - David Jan 9, 08:26
- Nice article. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 9, 07:46
- that's pretty well done -- nm - prayformojo Jan 9, 07:39 1
  - word -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 07:47
ST Poll: WWE's new channel, will you be getting it? How do you think this will play out for them? -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 07:31 19
- I'm considering it; I think it does well enough for them to consider it a break even pretty quickly. - Will Hunting Jan 9, 08:32
- I expect it to be great at first but then people will quickly tire of it. -- nm - David Jan 9, 07:59 1
  - To some degree. I can't see spending a huge amount of time with the catalogue, though I like its availability. But I tend to do about 6-8 of the ppv - pmb Jan 9, 08:07
- Does Vince have any of the New Japan or overseas old shows? That would be a great addition to increase foreign sales I'd think -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 07:43
- yeah I will. Love the all access across platforms. I think they break even 1st year... -- nm - Remlik Jan 9, 07:39 1
  - It Doesnt Matter What You Think ! - eag Jan 9, 07:41
- I don't watch wrestling. -- nm - Krusty Jan 9, 07:35 3
  - But I expect it'll do well. I'm always surprised by how many adults watch wrestling, especially here. -- nm - Krusty Jan 9, 07:36 1
    - This. -- nm - MDH Jan 9, 07:43
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- It's an easy yes. You get all of the ppv's for the cost of 2/year, along with everything else. If you do the ppv's at all it's a no brainer. - pmb Jan 9, 07:35
- No, but I think it will be good for them. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 07:34
- I hope not. Please NOT THAT!!! America is in decline already -- nm - Bacon Jan 9, 07:32
- No and I think it does well for them (especially overseas) -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 07:32 5
  - and do we know if their are limits on signing up? - Beaker Jan 9, 07:35 4
    - Doesnt start till Feb 24th -- nm - eag Jan 9, 07:39 1
      - Though im suprised they arnt taking preorders -- nm - eag Jan 9, 07:42
    - 6 month commitment. -- nm - Remlik Jan 9, 07:38 1
      - that makes sense. thanks -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 07:41

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