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PSA - High Roller........Spawn and PLP please note........ - Meg May 14, 23:11 5
- what time will you all be at the burger bar, I might not be there till 11ish -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 23:25 2
  - p.m.? It might be closed by then. check the website. This is my problem too as I land after 9 p.m. -- nm - Mop on Samsung Galaxy S3 May 14, 23:28 1
    - Yep, I'm really not planning the Burger Bar - I'll probably grab something on the way back. -- nm - Meg May 14, 23:31
- I was thinking of going to the Excalibur after 5 to meet up and all go together -- nm - peglegpete May 14, 23:13 1
  - Okay - there'll be five of us for the ride, but may be others just to hang out. We'll figure that out tomorrow :) -- nm - Meg May 14, 23:16
Does Shelly Sterling own any of the Clippers or is she just talking about the 50% she will get after the divorce? -- nm - Under the Influence May 14, 23:08 2
- she is part of the trust owning the team -- nm - peglegpete May 14, 23:10 1
  - OK she's just talking up the price. Just watching her in an interview is almost as bad as watching her husband. - Under the Influence May 14, 23:32
The low temperature tonight is 50. *breaks back out the space-heater* What the hell Texas. Seriously, what the hell? -- nm - Qale May 14, 22:47 12
- 9 months of the year...that's our HIGH for the day... -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 23:27
- Geez, what a whiney-cat. We're still in the 30s at night. Monday night it was 27. - trish May 14, 23:19 2
  - B- But I'm right next to Mexico! And it's mid-May! -- nm - Qale May 14, 23:23
  - Hey you...miss you.....so wish you could join us in Vegas this weekend....we may drunk-dial :) - Meg May 14, 23:22
- our hi is gonna be 100 friday. come on out! -- nm - peglegpete May 14, 23:09
- Eh, only 15 degrees lower than Vegas....next time you *will* join us!! -- nm - Meg May 14, 22:55 6
  - And I'm packing for a tropical cruise at the end of the month, so I expect you to warm things up by then!! :) -- nm - Meg May 14, 22:57 5
    - That's after you visit Houston right, because I plan on hiding in your luggage and all. -- nm - Qale May 14, 23:15 4
      - Right, one night in Houston on the way to Galveston and one night on the way back....... - Meg May 14, 23:18 3
        
        What is the actual date you're wanting to get together. I need to request that off! -- nm - Qale May 14, 23:24 2
        
        We're arriving Houston late afternoon on May 31st, back around noon on June 8th. Spending the night both times. -- nm - Meg May 14, 23:29 1
        
        Nice. I'll nab them both just in case. Then it's workapoloza until I take time off end of June in preparation for either moving into this new slum - Qale May 14, 23:32
TSA liquids question...I have a small 3.5 oz bottle of sunscreen lotion but its only half full, are they dicks and go by the label or close enough for - zeitgeist May 14, 22:11 2
- Yup. They go by the label. -- nm - Mop on Samsung Galaxy S3 May 14, 22:32
- It's gone. -- nm - TWuG May 14, 22:15
Thought Shield ratings would do better than a 2.0 but it was still great for me - eag May 14, 21:49
So, Montreal... that happened. I guess I can go pack now. -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) May 14, 21:48 3
- Packed! -- nm - Mop on Samsung Galaxy S3 May 14, 22:33 2
  - Packed, except for the ice chest. Will load in the morning...hotel trips are so much different to my regular camping weekends.... - Meg May 14, 22:47 1
    - Maybe they'll let you camp in your hotel room? -- nm - Mop on Samsung Galaxy S3 May 14, 23:29
My calendar just emailed me, reminding me tomorrow is Vegastravganza :) - Meg May 14, 21:20 5
- Have fun - eag May 14, 21:50 4
  - I may have to go back in the fall - keep piling up points in this damn game ;) -- nm - Meg May 14, 21:55 3
    - I actually had points set for the trip and needed to get those points refunded - eag May 14, 21:57 2
      - Let us know when you're ready and we'll make it happen. -- nm - Meg May 14, 22:10 1
        
        Long needed California trip will hopefully be late summer ,early fall - eag May 14, 22:18
Game 7 .. yeah! -- nm - budice May 14, 21:18
I'm reading Under the Skin. So far I think "suggested by" is the best way to describe the movie instead of "adapted from" -- nm - Dano May 14, 21:04
This rescue cat incident shows me one other big thing: people's skepticism triggers are set way too high and are going after the wrong things. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 20:55 1
- I just want to see the cannon they shot the cat out of. -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 21:04
No Underwear Under There Seattle - Meetup group just announced May 14, 20:46
There are 6 LGBT headlines currently on Drudge. It's like he's obsessed with us. -- nm - Qale May 14, 20:36 3
- You *are* trying to destroy the America he loves (and that never was). -- nm - TWuG May 14, 21:35 1
  - Worse, I'm now doing it from a city that has a lesbian Mayor! -- nm - Qale May 14, 21:57
- Maybe he just likes sandwiches. -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 21:03
not that I want to go into details right now, but that whole thing of "for better or worse" ? . . . - i'm not dead yet ! May 14, 20:28 4
- That's not good. If you cannot convince her that she needs help and you want to be there with her to get through all that - TWuG May 14, 21:38
- Hope things work out. Sounds like a bad situation. -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 21:02
- Nope. - ..... May 14, 20:33 1
  - bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (which sounds like a case of codependency to me) -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 20:49
Groiny, the Vegas paper today has an article about Sausage & his tattoo'ing -- (link) - peglegpete May 14, 20:15
Hours of work elapsed at my new accounting job before I heard the phrase "just do it like we did last year": 23 -- nm - con_carne May 14, 20:02 2
- Chubby Checker works there? -- nm - Qale May 14, 20:10 1
  - drinks at the Peppermint lounge, on us!! -- (link) - Joey Dee and the Starlighters May 14, 20:26
Ooohhh Amy Sedaris & Jon Hamm on bravo's warch what happens live -- nm - JenBro May 14, 20:00 1
- Are you "preconditioning" your liver for Las Vegas? -- nm - ..... May 14, 20:45
I just got an email from a person named "Dreux" (first name). No. Just....no. nm - ralph wiggum May 14, 19:37 22
- Is he from Louisiana? -- nm - ..... May 14, 20:40
- Today I worked on a file for a customer named Abner - con_carne May 14, 19:59 3
  - Yokum? -- nm - peglegpete May 14, 21:32
  - Ravenwood? -- nm - Bacon via Google Nexus 10 May 14, 21:13
  - Was he li'l? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 14, 20:01
- dres (local dialect here for Andreas) -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk May 14, 19:53
- Right up there with Siouxzy or Siouxsie -- nm - Meg May 14, 19:50 7
  - why do you hate early english post-punk? siouxsie sioux is spinning in her grave. - mafic May 14, 19:54 6
    - Still alive -- nm - ..... May 14, 20:13
    - She's so goth she's dead. -- nm - Qale May 14, 20:11 3
      - post punk -- nm - ..... May 14, 20:15 2
        
        Don't mince genres with me young lady! -- nm - Qale May 14, 20:18 1
        
        They were the last punk band to release a record. - ..... May 14, 20:20
    - I first heard it in association with a local news reporter. -- nm - Meg May 14, 19:56
- how do you even say that? in french, or drey-ux, or drux? whatever. it's worse than charleun. -- nm - mafic May 14, 19:42 7
  - No idea. The person is based in North Carolina, so maybe it's a "fancy -- nm - ralph wiggum May 14, 19:44 3
    - ..version of Drew. nm - ralph wiggum May 14, 19:44 2
      - It's probably short for 'Landreaux' which is an old southern name. - howie May 14, 19:47 1
        
        More likely it's someone who just doesn't want to be associated with Drew Cwry. - Roger More May 14, 20:00
  - I'm guessing "Drew" -- nm - Roger More May 14, 19:43 2
    - oh god. you're totally right. -- nm - mafic May 14, 19:48 1
      - Hot Shots: Part Dreux -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 14, 19:55
"Finding Vivian Maier" A Wonderful movie about a very private person - amoxy May 14, 19:37 2
- An article about her and the industry surrounding her work -- (link) - ..... May 14, 20:07 1
  - Don't know where it went wrong but it's by Deanna Isaacs in the Reader on April 29 -- nm - ..... May 14, 20:11
Did any ST Trophy Wife fans watch Dream Job on ESPN? - the wrong element, bad guy May 14, 19:34
AP - Missouri lawmakers send governor a bill requiring women to wait 72 hours before abortions. -- (link) - budice May 14, 19:24 7
- UGH! -- nm - Pippy May 14, 21:36
- after becoming pregnant? -- nm - peglegpete May 14, 19:28 5
  - nope. here is the story. it's after they see a doctor -- (link) - peglegpete May 14, 19:33 4
    - I'm surprised they don't pass a law requiring you wait 72 hours before having sex -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 19:56 3
      - mandatory reverse viagra for all! -- nm - mafic May 14, 20:16
      - That would be more cost effective amongst other things. -- nm - ..... May 14, 20:16 1
        
        the county permits dept would be making mad stacks, yo. (bumper sticker, when sex is outlawed, only outlaws will have sex -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 20:44
Tanaka is the real deal. Great start tonight. -- nm - Krusty May 14, 19:15 2
- Did you see the Sports Science clip on him? It's fascinating. -- nm - David May 14, 19:18 1
  - Nope but I'll check it out. Thanks! -- nm - Krusty May 14, 19:50
So this trip is going to jettison me ahead in the ranking for how many ST'ers I've met. From 3 to maybe 20? - JenBro May 14, 19:14 13
- I am currently at about 15-20. A few more if you count some *very* short-lived posters (El-Vee! No clue why I remember that handle) - Banzai! May 14, 23:30
- you forgot Shay. who rarely posts anymore, but is a wonderful person -- nm - peglegpete May 14, 20:09 7
  - yes, shay is awesome. -- nm - Strongbad May 15, 03:50
  - Oops! I don't believe I know Shay from the ST boards ... cool! -- nm - JenBro May 14, 20:19 4
    - Shay and Meg will corrupt you. Beware of them -- nm - Bacon May 14, 20:40
    - as I said, she rerely posts, but is a sweatheart of a person. Shay lives in Dallas and will be here with Pippy. -- nm - peglegpete May 14, 20:23 2
      - rerely?? -- nm - peglegpete May 14, 20:27 1
        
        What the A? -- nm - ..... May 14, 20:27
  - Yep, she was my roomie on two previous trips. -- nm - Meg May 14, 20:13
- Looks like I'll be adding 3 - Banzaii, JenBro, and Ender. Brings my total to 68. -- nm - Meg May 14, 19:30
- Peegpete???? -- nm - peglegpete May 14, 19:23 2
  - Faaaaack ... Typo - sorry - D'oh - I forgot Zeit! Hahahaha -- nm - JenBro May 14, 20:18
  - What the L? -- nm - ..... May 14, 19:54
I'm about to rage after seeing CBS' fall schedule. Idiots are killing off CSI -- nm - MDH May 14, 19:13 7
- I have no problem with this. -- nm - mafic May 14, 19:25 5
  - I have no problem with CSI either, but I think it's well past its heyday. -- nm - mafic May 14, 19:28 4
    - It's been better than the past few seasons. Danson helped out a lot. -- nm - MDH May 14, 19:31 3
      - IMO Shue as well. On a completely biased basis, I've got a huge TV crush on Elisabeth Harnois -- nm - JD May 14, 20:25 2
        
        she is lovely :) -- nm - peglegpete May 14, 21:00
        
        It's back to being the dark comedy it's always been. - ..... May 14, 20:44
- Maybe slackertalk can guest star on CSI: Cyber -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 19:14
Charlie just texted me asking if I want salad lunch on Friday. "Let us lettuce!" I replied. - Amanda May 14, 19:11
Stop me if you've heard this one :) If I don't knock out a newsletter column tonight I'll be working on it in the hotel room :/ -- nm - Meg May 14, 19:00 2
- use this: on vacation. see you next issue. -- nm - peglegpete May 14, 19:02 1
  - I wish.....and we don't have any pretty pictures to fill out the page - that's always a plus :) -- nm - Meg May 14, 19:08
Zac Efron as Daredevil....hmmmm I like him better as Danny Rand aka Iron Fist. -- nm - Remlik May 14, 18:54 9
- Oh fuck. Next you are going to tell me that Ben Afflack is going to be the new Batman -- nm - Bacon May 14, 19:10 1
  - Master Wayne has a sad. -- nm - McCauley Culkin as Alfred si May 14, 19:13
- Oh, this is real? Son of a bitch. nm - Dignan May 14, 18:56 6
  - he's meeting with Marvel for something. we don't know what though at least according to Latino Review -- nm - Remlik May 14, 19:08 2
    - (Who has a worse batting average than Jeff Francoeur.) -- nm - David May 14, 19:09 1
      - very true. so I take them with a heavy grain of salt. -- nm - Remlik May 14, 19:16
  - Don't worry. It's at least two rehabs away. -- nm - David May 14, 18:58 1
    - Excellent point. nm - Dignan May 14, 18:59
  - this. dear Lord this. -- nm - Beaker May 14, 18:56
My brain won't stop mulling over the idea of wtboard as a Disqus replacement... -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 18:53 6
- I tried reading your blog post, but I don't speak programmer, so I gave up. -- nm - mafic May 14, 20:18 1
  - Yeah, it's not an approachable topic (except for a very small subset of people) -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 20:33
- Semaphore would be an improvement over Disqus -- nm - TWuG May 14, 19:06 2
  - Which sounds like damning wtboard with faint praise and that was not my intent. -- nm - TWuG May 14, 19:07 1
    - *waves arms erratically* --nm - Beryllium May 14, 19:08
- ... I mean, at least I wouldn't be a dick and clickjack *every* link on the page. Just ones in comments. :-D -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 19:02
the handshake line is the best -- nm - Beaker May 14, 18:51
Go Kings Go! -- nm - budice May 14, 18:49 1
- yes! -- nm - budice May 14, 19:02
Volnek re: Survivor (spoilers) - David May 14, 18:47 10
- The only way the vote and play tonight makes sense and it's wicked flimsy...but (spoils) - Jim May 14, 20:34 3
  - Spoilers - David May 14, 21:04 2
    - Well, I said it was flimsy. One decent thing...(spoils) - Jim May 14, 21:21 1
      - I see it as a 50/50 chance. (Spoilers) - David May 14, 21:35
- spoilers - the wrong element, bad guy May 14, 19:14 1
  - Spoilers - Volnelk May 14, 19:17
- I can't think of everyone but I agree. - Volnelk May 14, 18:59 3
  - That's a gold star IM. Well done. -- nm - David May 14, 19:00 2
    - Very word. -- nm - Amanda May 14, 19:16
    - Thank you. Thank you. -- nm - Volnelk May 14, 19:11
Big Papi x2! -- nm - budice May 14, 18:46
Ugh -- nm - J May 14, 18:42 1
- when that happens, you just know that it wasn't in the cards -- nm - prayformojo May 14, 18:43
I hate pro hockey -- nm - prayformojo May 14, 18:42
Refs. -- nm - Spawn Lord May 14, 18:38
Gentlemen, start your alcohol! -- nm - David May 14, 18:30 5
- Achievement unlocked - JD May 14, 18:48 1
  - Your liver must look like Keith Richards' groin. -- nm - David May 14, 18:50
- and ladies! -- nm - Beaker May 14, 18:36
- you're late..it's Loosi's birthday. we started at midnight eastern time :) -- nm - peglegpete May 14, 18:35
- *already lapping them* -- nm - Spawn Lord May 14, 18:31

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