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roll -- nm - Beaker Nov 9, 04:24
Curse the Bacon Curse!!! May the Ducks forever lose in a complete blood bath the rest of the season!!! - JenBro Nov 9, 03:27
You know, you don't necessarily need Too Many Cooks to get bleary eyed late at night. I'm watching an old SVU episode with elf ears and peg legs. -- nm - Qale Nov 9, 01:18
testing -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 23:54 4
- FAIL -- nm - Spawn Nov 8, 23:54 3
  - beta site's running on that slightly-faster code now -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 23:55 2
    - Yeah, but that doesn't change the fact that I am totally sucking at spinning tonight! -- nm - Qale Nov 9, 00:21
    - (it also contains some rather sweeping changes to some internal stuff, so I can't run it on the main site yet) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 9, 00:00
some's got to win, some's got to lose. goodtime charley got's the blues -- nm - [email protected] Nov 8, 23:31 3
- ~/ too many cooks / spoil the broth /~ -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 23:51
- Cosmic Charlie, how do you do, strutting in style along the avenue. -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 8, 23:51 1
  - No one here dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 9, 00:30
Artist forestalls pipeline development by copyrighting his land. -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 8, 23:16
Lol, well, I found one source of ST slowness. - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 8, 22:21 7
- Do you ever put that keyboard down? :) - Meg Nov 8, 22:40 3
  - as for the keyboard - vacations are for relaxing. Pure coding relaxes me. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 22:42 1
    - You should meet my son-in-law...you have a lot in common :) -- nm - Meg Nov 8, 22:48
  - heh, since I'm a Shaw customer, I get free wifi most places in Victoria (heck, even here at the cottage) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 22:41
- that's seems to more security than any financial institution -- nm - [email protected] Nov 8, 22:27 1
  - No, it's not any more secure than doing it once. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 22:37
- Whatever it takes to keep Pixie out must be working -- nm - Bacon Nov 8, 22:23
this bet was the most impressive one i though in last night's "Wetten Dass" - DaneDukeNuuk Nov 8, 21:41 [youtube]
so, who wants to hear a depressing pet story that I experienced / heard about while at work tonight? be warned potential tear-jerker , , , - i'm not dead yet ! Nov 8, 21:39 2
- Very sad. Did you get the sense that economics played into it at all? And even so they'd have been better off going to a regular vet... - Meg Nov 8, 21:48 1
  - yeah, sorry, i did forget to mention that point . . .more details IM . . . - i'm not dead yet ! Nov 8, 21:52
Hopkins is getting destroyed. -- nm - David Nov 8, 21:34 2
- About time; he is almost 50 and Kovalev is a legit badass. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 8, 21:57 1
  - The 12 Round got interesting... - Mel Profit Nov 8, 22:40
Currently on a three-night vacation. today was awful. just awful. This whole week had a large chunk of awful. - Beryllium Nov 8, 21:15 16
- i'd love to help, but I got nothin :( -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 8, 21:32 5
  - this is one of those things that time heals handily, so it'll be all good -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 21:32 4
    - actually your day isn't that bad. this guy's day, well, go read :) -- (link) - Peglegpete Nov 8, 21:59 3
      - Shut your mouth! Just talkin' about Shaft! -- nm - Qale Nov 9, 00:24
      - yeowch. Could've been worse, though. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 22:02 1
        
        it's on the local news. everyone he ever knew will know :( -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 8, 22:10
- I'm mostly (but not entirely) over my cold. Head is still feeling congested, but that's apparently a near-constant reality of the past four years. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 21:22 2
  - Is any of that Aaska storm going to hit you guys, or is it going over the top of you? -- nm - Bacon Nov 8, 21:25 1
    - A huge arctic front moves in on tuesday, taking the overnight low down to -1C -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 21:27
- Sucks. Sorry you're going through that. Fingers crossed it will get better and you'll get a chance to enjoy. Try to remember that you're on vacatio -- nm - JD Nov 8, 21:18
- Away from home? Or a staycation? -- nm - Meg Nov 8, 21:17 1
  - Slightly away - about two hours north, at a cottage -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 21:18
- Sorry to hear. My week was pretty brutal. I slept 14 hours last night :) not kidding - Bacon Nov 8, 21:16 3
  - Sleep is the answer -- nm - Bacon Nov 8, 21:17 2
    - What sleep? -- nm - Beryllium, with a 4 year old and a pregnant wife Nov 8, 21:18 1
      - Yeah, cat naps lot's of cat naps -- nm - Bacon Nov 8, 21:20
Sigh. Internets out now. Arg -- nm - Truman Nov 8, 21:14 1
- Relatedly: Fucking Comcast is adding public wifi to private customer's modems to provide a layer of Wifi to neighborhoods. What's up with that? -- nm - Qale Nov 8, 21:38
The Google Doodle for the Berlin Wall is beautiful. -- nm - Mop Nov 8, 21:13
Serious injury to a Utah player. I hope he's okay. -- nm - Bacon Nov 8, 21:12
All moved, still unpacking but the new House is getting set up slowly -- nm - Karl_S Nov 8, 21:08 2
- Beware of lupus. -- nm - Qale Nov 8, 21:42
- which rooms are the ghosts in? :) -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 8, 21:09
Sorry, JenBro. -- nm - TWuG Nov 8, 21:04
LSU/Bama now 4 hours long. -- nm - budice Nov 8, 21:01
LSU/Bama..the game that refuses to end...4 hours now -- nm - budice Nov 8, 21:00
Lucked out -- nm - Bacon Nov 8, 20:48
I saw big hero 6 today with a bunch of children I know. sometimes it's kind of great knowing children. it was mostly super. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Nov 8, 20:47
Idiot Kicker! -- nm - Bacon Nov 8, 20:43
Ok. Practical ST sourcing: Need some ideas/sources of ideas for basic, easily performed basic science experiments. Goal is to perform said experimen - JD Nov 8, 20:43 18
- clean old copper pennys with salt & vinegar -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 8, 21:07 1
  - Heh, I remember in high school science class using mercury to coat a copper coin so it would look like a silver one :/ - Meg Nov 8, 21:30
- make a fruit or vegetable battery -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 8, 20:59 2
  - There's a thought. Different electrolytes (i.e. different fruits/vegetables). Different anodes/cathodes. Compare/contrast outputs - JD Nov 8, 21:05 1
    - and with the enw energy efficient bulb, you can use a 100 instead of a regular 25 -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 8, 21:08
- impregnate Jennifer Lawrence -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 8, 20:57 2
  - Mmmkay. So biology at one of the most basic principles? - JD Nov 8, 21:25 1
    - you could get fancy, and include the alcohol effects on her experiment to this :) -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 8, 21:29
- suck an egg into a coke bottle -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 8, 20:56
- honestly dude, just google. Apparently you were hired as a teacher. Apparently you were told to do labs for free (which is bullshit). - loosi at home Nov 8, 20:54 3
  - *g* Just trying to be a good a friend. Adult student - JD Nov 8, 21:03 2
    - do you have twins in your class? you can show the effects of alcohol! -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 8, 21:10 1
      - *snicker* We could try differing body weights but if were to participate, my nearly alcoholic but literal lightweight self would skew the results -- nm - JD Nov 8, 21:13
- not to be oblique. there are many websites that can help you -- nm - loosi at home Nov 8, 20:49 3
  - Indeed. Was hoping that some of the educator types of ST, could chime in and directly recommend 8-) - JD Nov 8, 20:52 2
    - they're homeschoolers aren't they? dude I'm sorry but you cannot teach science without a minimum of lab equipment. You can't. -- nm - loosi at home Nov 8, 20:56 1
      - tha'ts my opinion as an educator. you can make do, and your kids will suffer for it. I saw it over and over. I wish you the best. -- nm - loosi at home Nov 8, 21:03
- bill nye science guy -- nm - [email protected] Nov 8, 20:47
MSU, WHY WHY WHY? -- nm - Bacon Nov 8, 20:33
Sure. Why wouldn't LSU be given a late game chance to pull out a late game situation? -- nm - JD Nov 8, 20:31 1
- And why wouldn't they kick it out of bounds... -- nm - JD Nov 8, 20:43
Utes just faked a punt on their own 20 and didn't make it. UH OH! -- nm - Bacon Nov 8, 20:28
About time MSU, quit trying to make the Ducks win look worse? -- nm - Bacon Nov 8, 20:19
46 days 22 hours until the next Doctor Who -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 8, 20:00 4
- ooh ooh, now do the countdown till the next Sherlock! -- nm - Qale Nov 8, 20:17 3
  - multitask on a saturday night? -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 8, 20:18 2
    - You're right. Plus it'll just make people sad. -- nm - Qale Nov 8, 20:25 1
      - Countdown to the Danger Zone! - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 8, 20:29
Mop, I feel so jaded about our system right now I can't get outraged about the Rolling Stone article you posted on Facebook -- (link) - amoxy Nov 8, 19:52 2
- how is it that a confidentiality agreement is valid in protecting criminal activity, a lawyer afaik has to protect a clients secrets but... - [email protected] Nov 8, 20:46
- It's because people are so jaded that outrages like these are permitted to pass. - Mop Nov 8, 20:07
WOW!!! Oregon got a gift!! -- nm - Bacon Nov 8, 19:51 1
- Almost like he did it on purpose. -- nm - zunk via drone Nov 8, 19:56
Ok this is an epic bone headed play -- nm - JD Nov 8, 19:51
9 wins and 4 losses is only good enough for 2nd place in the Atlantic Division... behind Tampa Bay! -- nm - Mop Nov 8, 19:25 1
- The Tampa Bay Whowhutzits? -- nm - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 8, 19:34
GO UTES! -- nm - zunk via drone Nov 8, 19:19 3
- What is a Ute? -- nm - Judge Chamberlain Haller Nov 8, 19:33 2
  - Holden makes them -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Nov 8, 19:56 1
    - Heh, flashbacks......although ours was a station wagon :) -- nm - Meg Nov 8, 20:01
Someday we'll get an explanation for what the Empire had against proper building codes. -- nm - Reagen Nov 8, 19:16 2
- It's the Sochi syndrome. With oligarchs in charge, you can build big and spectacular, but you can't build quality. -- nm - Mop Nov 8, 19:23 1
  - a lot of Saddam Hussain's places were really shabby, chinzy and as well made as a theatrical set -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 8, 19:27
Dr. Who (spoilers) - amoxy Nov 8, 19:15 1
- HAHA! -- nm - Remlik Nov 8, 19:37
Birdman: B, Laggies: A-, Nightcrawler: A -- nm - The Danodook Nov 8, 19:04
Big Hero 6 was spectacular. There's a couple of huge money shots early on that made me think "OK, that's awesome"... - Mop Nov 8, 18:56 2
- It's a marvelous cocktail of like 6 different great movies. -- nm - David Nov 8, 19:00 1
  - Did you catch the cameos? (spoilers) - Mop Nov 8, 19:29
I'm giving up being subtle with this individual !!!! - Meg Nov 8, 18:55 11
- do you want fries with your turkey? -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 8, 19:57 1
  - Is anybody bringing gravy for the turkey? -- nm - Mop Nov 8, 20:02
- I think he wants turkey. -- nm - Mop Nov 8, 19:36
- English! Do you speak it?!? no #%*#^ turkey -- nm - JD Nov 8, 19:32 3
  - I so wish I could....but his feelings are easily hurt ;) -- nm - Meg Nov 8, 19:36
  - But... can we have turkey? -- nm - Mop Nov 8, 19:35 1
    - Listen, Flock of Seagulls..... -- nm - JD Nov 8, 19:38
- turkey sandwiches? -- nm - The Danodook Nov 8, 19:31 1
  - Last year he and another member brought sandwich platters. I believe he kicked in a check and the other person picked them up. -- nm - Meg Nov 8, 19:35
- well, there are pre-cooked turkeys you can buy (honeybaked ham has them) -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 8, 19:25 1
  - But they'd still need to be picked up and kept warm on site. We're not planning on using warming pans and won't have sides. - Meg Nov 8, 19:30
I'm still waiting for oblique's podcast ... -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 8, 18:53 8
- We should start a radio station. Slacker radio is taken so it'll have to be ... - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 8, 18:55 7
  - We have the collaborative playlist on spotify everyone forgot about. -- nm - droidlet Nov 8, 19:41 1
    - Really? I'll have to look that up. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 8, 20:12
  - Episode 1: We all make fun of each others' weird accents. -- nm - Roger More Nov 8, 19:37 3
    - Episode 2: everyone talks over each other because lag -- nm - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 8, 19:40 2
      - Episode 3: Bery spends a half hour interviewing himself -- nm - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 8, 20:11 1
        
        Episode 4: It's Sweeps! Epic call-in guest Drunk Jack Dawson is Epic. -- nm - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 8, 21:09
  - I'd totally be up for that. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 8, 18:57
So obviously Shake It Off is flat out, but I can play Welcome to New York right? - Qale Nov 8, 18:53 2
- No, you can play Jay-Z And Alicia Keys, or Frank Sinatra. - ty97 Nov 8, 18:55 1
  - But ty.... Boys and boys and girls and girls!! -- nm - Qale Nov 8, 19:00
Toronto's winning? The TV must be lying to me. -- nm - Beryllium (scream.) Nov 8, 18:53
Nightcrawler is the awesome. -- nm - The Danodook Nov 8, 18:51
Dennis Rodman says that he played a crucial role in bringing imprisoned American Kenneth Bae back home from North Korea -- (link) - zork Nov 8, 18:43 1
- too late for this years Nobel -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Nov 8, 19:17
As an Aggie, I extend my heartfelt thanks to Bacon for securing our victory. -- nm - ty97 Nov 8, 18:42
Dr. Who (spoilers) - amoxy Nov 8, 18:32 5
- Let me guess. The TARDIS usually can solve it all but for some maguffin reason, it can't this time? -- nm - Mop Nov 8, 19:31 1
  - Nope (spoilers) - amoxy Nov 8, 19:46
- spoilers - amoxy Nov 8, 18:41 2
  - Spoiler - amoxy Nov 8, 19:04 1
    - yeah it did. -- nm - Remlik Nov 8, 19:29
Oops, Notre Dame just turned over the ball again. -- nm - GregW Nov 8, 18:23
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- O-bama! -- nm - Mop Nov 8, 19:26
Do Premier League games just start at random times? Seems like they are all over the place. - Volnelk Nov 8, 18:16 1
- when the arena is filled up and the players are back from the pub!!! -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Nov 8, 18:53
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- *feels nothing* -- nm - Phoenix Nov 8, 18:11

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