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HP bringing back Windows 7 -- (link) - Reagen Jan 20, 11:40
So do we think that I can get away with a 2 hour lunch today? So as to see the Everton match..... - JD Jan 20, 11:24 1
- See, that's where we're different (the only thing, really) I'd stay at my desk top watch the match. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 20, 11:41
Canada's freestyle skiing team begs for their own ESPN Magazine body issue. -- (link) - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 20, 11:21 1
- O-Face Canada. -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 11:23
Drake was high during Degrassi audition -- (link) - zork Jan 20, 11:20 1
- Method acting! -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 20, 11:23
According to my account activity report, my top search is "Virginia Madsen". - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 20, 11:18 1
- IIRC that was due to peglegpete. -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 11:21
Cars keep killing pedestrians in NYC. So, of course, the NYPD is ticketing..... -- (link) - ty97 Jan 20, 11:09 21
- we get a lot of jaywalking deaths here, too -- nm - peglegpete Jan 20, 11:23 4
  - Hard to believe traffic ever moves fast enough for that :) -- nm - Meg Jan 20, 11:27 3
    - none of the deasths are on the strip. mostly on streets without any crosswalks for miles -- nm - peglegpete Jan 20, 11:30 2
      - Though that's based on the current strip configuration with all the pedestrian overpasses - JD Jan 20, 11:32
      - that happened a few years ago to a niece - she made a full recovery - Pippy Jan 20, 11:32
- ST Poll: Have you ever received a jaywalking ticket? - con_carne Jan 20, 11:18 3
  - I was stopped last week. -- nm - Guigue Jan 20, 11:23
  - Once, sorta...Vegas 2004. More like a citation. I don't even think that counts. -- nm - Mel Profit si Jan 20, 11:21
  - Nope and I do it constantly. -- nm - Krusty Jan 20, 11:20
- Which, if it's jaywalkers getting hit and killed, makes perfect sense. Stay out of the dam road, dumbasses. -- nm - TWuG Jan 20, 11:17 2
  - I know at least one was but two were the fault of the drivers. -- nm - Krusty Jan 20, 11:19 1
    - 50 points! -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 11:34
- Better than shooting them. -- nm - spamlet Jan 20, 11:13 4
  - too expencive in bullets just take the keys -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 20, 11:16
  - Don't go mixing up your big city police departments now - con_carne Jan 20, 11:15 2
    - Our cops have been doing a good job of shooting innocent civilians as well. -- nm - Krusty Jan 20, 11:17 1
      - Planters too. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jan 20, 11:18
- Yup, just saw more cops walking around the UWS in the last hour than I ever have. I'd be pissed if I got a jaywalking ticket. - Krusty Jan 20, 11:12 3
  - When I moved to Chicago, I was told they don't even have a jaywalking law so you can't get ticketed. - ty97 Jan 20, 11:13 1
    - Haha! That's some people's luck. -- nm - Krusty Jan 20, 11:15
  - But I'm also not stupid enough to jaywalk on 96th and Broadway. -- nm - Krusty Jan 20, 11:13
So, say I was going to drive down the west coast to Disneyland ... what scenic places should I hit on the trip? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 20, 11:09 9
- If only someone had a bunch of blog entries that covered this very topic... -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 20, 11:41
- Pismo Beach. Consider approaching LA via highway 1 instead of the 101. That drive is fantastic, but it will add time -- nm - con_carne Jan 20, 11:37
- Santa Cruz is neat, although a little out of your way. -- nm - Reagen Jan 20, 11:32
- Hearst Castle -- nm - peglegpete Jan 20, 11:24
- Stockton! - IrishStephen (Master of The Filthy Jockstrap) Jan 20, 11:20 2
  - And coastal -- nm - JD Jan 20, 11:26 1
    - at least they have a hockey team -- nm - Beryllium Jan 20, 11:28
- Oregon coast, Redwood county, Monterey/Carmel/Pebble Beach, Hearst Castle. - Meg Jan 20, 11:16
- The Goonies House in Astoria, OR -- nm - ty97 Jan 20, 11:10
Swiss TV is fun -- (link) - marcel Jan 20, 10:56 1
- uups -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 20, 11:18
Capital Weather Gang has upped its forecast for tomorrow for DC. 4-7" -- nm - MDH Jan 20, 10:53 7
- Wait, we're getting snow tomorrow? -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 20, 10:54 6
  - POLAR VORTEX 2!!! - Spawn Jan 20, 11:07 1
    - Oh, I knew cold was coming, just not snow. - Will Hunting Jan 20, 11:22
  - Significant snowstorm Tuesday, with widespread 4″ or greater amounts -- (link) - MDH Jan 20, 10:58
  - Our forecast did the same thing. Yesterday: no snow Tuesday. Today: 4-8 inches of snow Tuesday -- nm - ty97 Jan 20, 10:58
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    - French Toast Alert: Extremely High -- nm - timPhone Jan 20, 10:57
Famous movie locations, then and now -- (link) - con_carne Jan 20, 10:53 5
- That's cool. I like doing these myself. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 20, 11:08 1
  - In a sick game of "caption this", Mop posts a picture of his own junk -- nm - oblique Jan 20, 11:12
- They missed The Professionals set....... -- (link) - Meg Jan 20, 10:58 [flickr] 2
  - These aren't LA-only... but interestingly they all seem to be from fanboy type movies. Heh. -- nm - con_carne Jan 20, 11:00 1
    - I plan to include this one again on the road trip in May. -- nm - Meg Jan 20, 11:06
LYC: I'm eating my first bowl of cereal with milk in years. I don't remember milk tasting so *salty* - con_carne Jan 20, 10:48 5
- You're not doing it right. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 20, 11:09
- Uhm, milk that old will not taste right. -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 11:08
- you sure you did not milk a steer? -- nm - groiny Jan 20, 10:53
- um, you sure it's milk? -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 20, 10:53 1
  - IKR? There's little sugar in my cereal, maybe that has something to do with it -- nm - con_carne Jan 20, 10:57
@BatmanWI Hundreds of people now blocking the 94th st bridge to LaGuardia airport, fighting to raise wages for airport workers - ty97 Jan 20, 10:43 1
- now getting arrested -- (link) - znufrii Jan 20, 10:56
Google bans two Chrome extensions purchased to deliver malware -- (link) - con_carne Jan 20, 10:38 1
- That's the two mentioned in the previous article you linked. I hope it's limited to just those. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 20, 10:43
I didn't even think it was possible to *have* a favourite page of a freezer manual… -- (link) - marcel Jan 20, 10:36
There were a record 1.087 billion international tourist arrivals globally in 2013. Were you one of them? -- nm - ty97 Jan 20, 10:33 5
- Sadly, no. I really want to be one. -- nm - Krusty Jan 20, 11:14
- yes -- nm - marcel Jan 20, 10:37
- Technically, yes. -- nm - spamlet (droid) Jan 20, 10:35
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- yes. -- nm - znufrii Jan 20, 10:34
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- "someone dropped a wrapper on the stage we are faking this...so we have to make shit up at this point" -- nm - Beaker Jan 20, 10:43 1
  - "Carl. Carl! Get your f***ing donut off the ... oh shit." -- nm - Beryllium Jan 20, 10:44
- Everything we've learned so far makes Mars look a lot more amenable to terraforming - TWuG Jan 20, 10:28 4
  - There’s no point acting all surprised about it. - marcel Jan 20, 10:43
  - what did Mars do to us to deserve that? -- nm - Reagen Jan 20, 10:31 2
    - If it didn't want to be terraformed, it should have dressed more modestly. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 20, 10:36 1
      - That's your terraform culture talking! -- nm - spamlet (droid) Jan 20, 10:38
19-yr-old UPenn track star jumps to her death. -- (link) - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 20, 10:25
LIR - Thanks Trish! - JenBro Jan 20, 10:24
Happy birthday Walt Disney!! -- nm - kelly Jan 20, 10:18 5
- Happy B -Day Indeed -- nm - JenBro Jan 20, 12:02
- Happy birthday! -- nm - zork Jan 20, 11:19
- Happy birthday, Walt_Disney! Woo hoo! -- nm - Krusty Jan 20, 11:16
- Happy birthday! -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 20, 11:14
- (ST's Disney, not the dead frozen one) -- nm - kelly Jan 20, 11:02
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- Whoa, I'm probably late to the party, but I had no idea post now included link elements. Cool! -- nm - Guigue Jan 20, 10:24
- It is -- (link) - TWuG Jan 20, 10:22 2
  - That doesn't sound like a French name at all anyway -- nm - Guigue Jan 20, 10:31 1
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MDH - how's your grandfather doing now? - kelly Jan 20, 10:10 3
- Just spoke to my mother. Still trying to get bp a little up, but looks to be doing better. -- nm - MDH Jan 20, 10:28 2
  - Glad to read this. Sending good and healthy thoughts for your grandfather. -- nm - Krusty Jan 20, 11:27
  - Good! -- nm - TWuG Jan 20, 10:29
Picked up a breakfast sandwich on the way home from the med. center - I've never seen Mojo get so excited over people food. - Meg Jan 20, 10:06
Apparently, an ironic subreddit donated $30,000 to the Jamaican bobsled team for the Olympics. One user donated 20K -- (link) - con_carne Jan 20, 10:06 8
- ...in a random electronic currency that no one actually uses. -- nm - znufrii Jan 20, 10:42 4
  - Read the news article, smart guy -- nm - con_carne Jan 20, 10:43 3
    - It's a random internet currency no one uses based on another random internet currency no one uses and an internet meme. - spamlet Jan 20, 11:13 2
      - In a way -- nm - con_carne Jan 20, 11:19
      - Plenty of people use bitcoin, otherwise it wouldn't be valued so highly. - Beryllium Jan 20, 11:16
- Gotta say, I'm tempted to start a slackertalk coin ... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 20, 10:25 1
  - it'd be the only one I'd ever trust -- nm - Pippy Jan 20, 10:47
- News article -- (link) - con_carne Jan 20, 10:12
catching up on B2 a little ... hey MDH ... positive thoughts heading to you and your family.... - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 20, 10:06
LYC: I follow a few trans women on Twitter because they're magic players. The discussion of that Grantland article was...weird. -- nm - Tim Jan 20, 10:03
I suddenly have an urge to crash on the couch for a little while, slip on the headphones, and just listen to ... - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 20, 10:00
Enjoy modding Skyrim on your PC? Great! There's a Zelda mod for it. -- (link) - Shaun Jan 20, 09:51 [Image]
Looking at the tv in our office showing the news, looks like Peter Berg is downstairs. -- nm - LMS Jan 20, 09:49
Sherlock spoilers for last night - LMS Jan 20, 09:39 6
- the one with (spoilers) - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 20, 09:55 1
  - As well. Spoilers - LMS Jan 20, 09:59
- I thought it aired in the UK way before it did here. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda, 778 Jan 20, 09:49 3
  - Depends on your definition of "way." They first aired in the UK less than a month ago. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 20, 10:02 1
    - Also - DVD/Blu-ray is out today in the UK. -- nm - LMS Jan 20, 10:03
  - It did, but I'm going by US schedule. -- nm - LMS Jan 20, 09:58
What I will say is that Michael Crabtree just became a slam dunk keeper in any league. - David Jan 20, 09:36 9
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  - Even so, tell me if you disagree with the logic. -- nm - David Jan 20, 09:41 6
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      - It's fine that you're wrong! - David Jan 20, 09:53 1
        
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      - Yeah, his attempt to build his trade value will not work on me. -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 09:47 1
        
        I already have too many WRs. What would I need with you? - David Jan 20, 09:54
  - *pats his Julio Jones* -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 09:39
Also of note from the NFC totle game: Pam Oliver looked like a cheap hooker. -- nm - Shaun Jan 20, 09:36 2
- And what was with her interview with Harbaugh? She really wanted him to be devastated. She acted like someone in her family died. - jnine Jan 20, 10:09 1
  - this -- nm - Beaker Jan 20, 10:44
Maria Conchita Alonso quits play after protests over TV ad supporting GOP Assembyman -- (link) - con_carne Jan 20, 09:34 1
- *watches the door hit her in the ass* -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 09:36
After suffering through losing seasons in 7 out of 8 seasons from '2 to '10, I'll gladly "suffer" through a few years where they fall just short of - IrishStephen (Master of The Filthy Jockstrap) Jan 20, 09:33 3
- right. "Super Bowl or bust" is a recipe for continual disappointment for fans. -- nm - Reagen Jan 20, 09:37
- I think you guys have to finally breakthrough next year -- nm - eag Jan 20, 09:37
- I'm disappointed we aren't going but I think we had a great year. - Pippy Jan 20, 09:36
alternative cheeses to velveeta (good suggestions in case you need them for Superbowl food) - JenBro Jan 20, 09:33 5
- The first three are made up... No, all of them. All of them are made up -- nm - con_carne Jan 20, 09:59 1
  - heh -- nm - JenBro Jan 20, 10:27
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  - Really? Might need to check into that. - spamlet Jan 20, 09:42 1
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- :( -- nm - Pippy Jan 20, 09:35
- Damnit. -- nm - IrishStephen (Master of The Filthy Jockstrap) Jan 20, 09:35
- That was a nasty injury. - Jelly Jan 20, 09:33
Paramount to stop releasing its major movies on 35mm film in the US -- (link) - con_carne Jan 20, 09:28 1
- Wolf of Wallstreet was digital only. -- nm - Spawn Jan 20, 09:29

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