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In 10 minutes SpaceX tries again to land a rocket so it can be reused. -- (link) - Ender Apr 13, 13:23 4
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- *walks across control terminal keyboard* -- nm - cat Apr 13, 13:30
- No go. They just called a hold. -- nm - TWuG Apr 13, 13:30
- sky rockets in flight....afternoon delight -- nm - zeitgeist roaming the dark galaxy Apr 13, 13:25
every thousand dollars of a home's purchase price is how much per month on a 4ish % mortgage? when I bought - amanda Apr 13, 13:14 13
- I see them hugging 4 now, 15y is usually less -- nm - zeitgeist roaming the dark galaxy Apr 13, 13:20
- And it's a little less than $5 per thousand at 4%. -- nm - spamlet Apr 13, 13:18
- $5/thousand @ 4% (on a 30) -- nm - decline Apr 13, 13:18
- You should be able to get sub 4 on either 15 or 30. I think last I looked it was 3.25 and 3.75 -- nm - spamlet Apr 13, 13:15 9
  - thanks will. now, can you move the house I love to the right about two blocks? thanks, that'd be great. - amanda Apr 13, 13:16 8
    - (weirdly the house I love has a tax assessment $1500 below anything else I've loved. and we verified with the county that it's current. - amanda Apr 13, 13:27 7
      - it's really a tax break for building the house on that old Indian graveyard -- nm - decline Apr 13, 13:29
      - Woohoo! -- nm - spamlet Apr 13, 13:28 5
        
        (I think I am making an offer after work. is this super weird and super fast?) - amanda Apr 13, 13:29 4
        
        after months, years of looking? you know what you want, can afford, pull the trigger -- nm - zeitgeist roaming the dark galaxy Apr 13, 13:34
        
        woo! -- nm - Andie Apr 13, 13:33 1
        
        jonathan has video of the living room and dining room on his phone. we are trying to extract. -- nm - amanda Apr 13, 13:36
        
        If you like the house, why not? - spamlet Apr 13, 13:29
Olivia Munn is Psylocke. -- (link) - mud Apr 13, 13:14 1
- nice -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 13, 13:20
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- Even his last name sounds depressing. -- nm - Max Apr 13, 13:06
wow . . . okay, so i just heard a version of the song "Desperado" by the Carpenters . . . - call me Ishmael Apr 13, 13:04 5
- I think I've only known the Ronstadt version. -- nm - Max Apr 13, 13:05 4
  - Eagles! -- nm - Andie Apr 13, 13:06 3
    - Seriously. I mean, I knew there was a Ronstadt version, but to be unaware of the Eagles version seems unpossible. -- nm - TWuG Apr 13, 13:07 2
      - You haven't heard the song til you've heard Lynda Carter's version! -- nm - ???? Apr 13, 13:10
      - Now that I think of it I guess I've heard it, but I can't switch the station fast enough when an Eagles song comes on. - Max Apr 13, 13:08
Mark Buehrle got his 200 win, and another milestone that only 16 other pitchers have done. What is it? The other 16 pitchers are in the IM. - Inigo Apr 13, 12:57 6
- (spoils) - Inigo Apr 13, 13:37
- Giving up 3,000 hits? -- nm - spamlet Apr 13, 13:35
- Clemens does not have a * next to his name -- nm - amoxy Apr 13, 13:33 1
  - The dot is for Hall of Famers. -- nm - Inigo Apr 13, 13:35
- he got a * next to his name! -- nm - decline Apr 13, 13:10 1
  - He did! -- nm - Inigo Apr 13, 13:19
MOOOOKKKKIIIIEEE! -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 13, 12:53 4
- this is now the soundtrack of my life. -- nm - diva Apr 13, 13:05
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- the kid is magic -- nm - CQ Apr 13, 12:59 1
  - I'm going to enjoy the heck out of this kid both in real fandom and fantasy fandom. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 13, 13:00
local conservative radio station WIBC drop Rush Limbaugh in July -- nm - Remlik Apr 13, 12:48 17
- They're tired of his left wing politics. -- nm - David Apr 13, 13:18
- Today I Learned: There's such a thing as a conservative radio station -- nm - con_carne Apr 13, 12:58 10
  - As far as talk stations go, it's either conservative talk or sports. - TWuG Apr 13, 13:13 2
    - Of course there are liberal stations...they're called "all the stations that aren't conservative." nm - ???? Apr 13, 13:18
    - Sounds like an opening in the mark...damn. -- nm - Air America Apr 13, 13:14
  - most am radio is either sports or right wing ranting, I am of course including Jesus radio and those that rant about the goddamm aliens -- nm - zeitgeist roaming the dark galaxy Apr 13, 13:12 1
    - America is weird. -- nm - Andie Apr 13, 13:14
  - every town has them! -- nm - Remlik Apr 13, 12:59 4
    - We have a liberal radio station too! -- nm - pmb Apr 13, 13:08 3
      - Sure, every town has NPR too. -- nm - Ender Apr 13, 13:11 2
        
        KPFA peace and freedom in major market, Nor only seems liberal on that they are not foam at the mouth rightwing, they think fox is too liberal -- nm - zeitgeist roaming the dark galaxy Apr 13, 13:15 1
        
        NPR not nor. damn you cortana -- nm - zeitgeist roaming the dark galaxy Apr 13, 13:24
- 21 year old me used to watch his tv show and thought he was good. 21 year old me was very politically naive... - Walt_Disney Apr 13, 12:55 2
  - No, there was a time when he was good, and not vile like he is today. It's just been a long, long time since that was true. -- nm - Scots-IrishStephen Apr 13, 13:00 1
    - As a tree hugging hippy freak, I've never cared for Limbaugh's message...but you're right, back in the day, he used to make valid points. - ???? Apr 13, 13:08
- still have never heard his show -- nm - Strongbad Apr 13, 12:49
- man, he's dropping like flies -- nm - decline Apr 13, 12:49
ST #shredded Poll: Name an item and link it as the approved item that you would buy if replacing it and no other -- (link) - oblique Apr 13, 12:47 8
- when I get my next car this would be fun -- (link) -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 13, 13:00
- I would replace you with Kate Upton - con_carne Apr 13, 12:55 2
  - you didn't provide a link -- nm - oblique Apr 13, 13:00 1
    - I would sweeten the deal by letting you switch places so you can be a titty model -- nm - con_carne Apr 13, 13:03
- Pencil sharpener. There are none better than the self-feeding Boston Champion - TWuG Apr 13, 12:52 2
  - I had one of those, a grip came out to clamp on the pencil at a constant and correct pressure -- (link) - zeitgeist roaming the dark galaxy Apr 13, 13:41
  - continuing the IM: "Not sure if they are still made" -- nm - TWuG Apr 13, 12:53
- Best stapler... -- (link) - budice Apr 13, 12:51
When companies pay their employees shit, they tend to go on public assistance. This costs taxpayers about $153 billion a year -- (link) - con_carne Apr 13, 12:42
Can I mini-gripe please? I own a shredder. I have owned said shredder for a few years. - ty97 Apr 13, 12:31 18
- Sure. However, you're not cute enough to use nouns as verbs in casual conversation -- nm - con_carne Apr 13, 12:45 2
  - yes he is. -- nm - diva Apr 13, 12:46
  - I've been verbifying nouns since before it was cool, kid. -- nm - ty97 Apr 13, 12:45
- There are companies here (I'm sure there as well) where you can have them come to your house with essentially and industrial shredder and just toss in - pmb Apr 13, 12:37 4
  - I need that -- nm - oblique Apr 13, 12:38
  - Great for dead bodies too -- nm - professor smartbrain Apr 13, 12:37 2
    - they do the job.. but, are a bitch to clean out, I mean it would be a major tear down to get in the hammer housing, get in between the spacer washers - zeitgeist roaming the dark galaxy Apr 13, 13:31 1
      - oh I know, grind up a few pine trees just to have a reasonable explanation for that pines ol smell -- nm - zeitgeist roaming the dark galaxy Apr 13, 13:58
- is it one of the new cards with metal inside of the plastic?? -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 13, 12:35 2
  - It was not a chip card. The replacement card that I just activated is a chip card and warns about metal/not to shred. - ty97 Apr 13, 12:43
  - Yeah, the chip cards will kill your shredder. - spamlet Apr 13, 12:40
- or, you could grab a pair of scissors -- nm - decline Apr 13, 12:33 2
  - seriously. -- nm - amanda Apr 13, 12:38 1
    - there is an odd satisfaction to taking a scissor to a credit card. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 13, 12:49
- Our mid-size shredder wasn't enough to handle everything I wanted to get rid of: accounting docs from 1996-2008 - Max Apr 13, 12:33 2
  - Suck it IRS! -- nm - professor smartbrain Apr 13, 12:39
  - we've been doing a complete cleanout of old docs here and in storage. I think we're over 25 fullsize garbage - decline Apr 13, 12:34
- how ironic it'd be if you used the credit card to pay for the replacement shredder . . . -- nm - call me Ishmael Apr 13, 12:31
MOOOOKKKKIIIIEEE! - Mel Profit Apr 13, 12:30 2
- that was a great play. he didnt pause a beat -- nm - prayformojo Apr 13, 12:33 1
  - this was on one play? - Mel Profit Apr 13, 12:44
In which it finally becomes clear that New York Magazine if run by 12 year old girls -- (link) - ty97 Apr 13, 12:27 1
- The old issues from the 70s on Google books have some fantastic writers and subjects -- nm - professor smartbrain Apr 13, 12:30
Did you know? The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light. -- nm - Beaker Apr 13, 12:14 4
- how do we even *know* this stuff ???? -- nm - call me Ishmael Apr 13, 12:26 1
  - Dr Doolittle -- nm - professor smartbrain Apr 13, 12:27
- Correction, I am a very *uncommon* goldfish -- nm - Hans Gluber Apr 13, 12:20 1
  - if you eat 20 million blood worms and out grow your aquarium, they will find you, that is, unless they think they - zeitgeist roaming the dark galaxy Apr 13, 12:37
Check out this IndyCar pit lane accident that happened yesterday in Louisiana. -- (link) - Max Apr 13, 12:03 7
- did he died? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 12:08 6
  - no, just lost two-tenths for not sticking the landing -- nm - dogbert Apr 13, 12:15 2
    - well, technically you can't see his landing. maybe he nailed it -- nm - oblique Apr 13, 12:17 1
      - true, but then he has to lose something for landing out of bounds -- nm - dogbert Apr 13, 12:22
  - Nope, just a cut on his leg. -- nm - Max Apr 13, 12:12 1
    - snitches get stitches -- nm - professor smartbrain Apr 13, 12:26
  - Only six stitches. Not bad. - Beryllium Apr 13, 12:11
i love this - ebola workers add photo stickers of their faces to their white safety garb to humanize them for their patients. -- (link) - Andie Apr 13, 12:00 7
- This is awesome. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 13, 12:42
- wait a minute... you're not brad pitt -- nm - patient Apr 13, 12:03 1
  - I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner and it worked because I believed it. -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron Apr 13, 12:06
- ::tapes on RDJ face:: -- nm - Ultron Apr 13, 12:03 1
  - *casually tapes an Elephant Man picture over top* -- nm - professor smartbrain Apr 13, 12:06
- What was the tv show where a photo artist cut up her shots then taped them back together and blamed someone for copying that style? - Max Apr 13, 12:01 1
  - That vaguely sounds like something I remember from Six Feet Under. -- nm - TWuG Apr 13, 12:02
All I have to say it better be misdirection. She better not pull a 'Purple Kelly' -- nm - Jovian Apr 13, 11:57 3
- Damn right...it might just ruin the season for me. Though, my final 4 predictions are still intact - ???? Apr 13, 12:01 2
  - who do you have? -- nm - amanda Apr 13, 12:18 1
    - (spoils) - ???? Apr 13, 12:34
guys, GUYS. We finally have the true purpose for Kickstarter revealed. -- (link) - spamlet Apr 13, 11:53 7
- this really makes my head hurt . . . -- nm - call me Ishmael Apr 13, 12:28
- Awesome! I want to see how bad the sequel is.... - amoxy Apr 13, 12:12 2
  - Think the movie with no money. But also without Nic Cage phoning it in. - spamlet Apr 13, 12:13 1
    - No 6 million dollar man special effects? No cameo by Laura Dern? - amoxy Apr 13, 12:15
- I was hoping it was a sequel to Psychonauts. -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron Apr 13, 12:02
- Stop Hillary Kickstarter? -- nm - ty97 Apr 13, 11:56 1
  - WAY, WAY BETTER -- nm - spamlet Apr 13, 11:56
What if an electromagnetic pulse wipes out all electronics? I'll have my books and you will have an expensive rock -- nm - Beaker Apr 13, 11:52 10
- But then we'll break your glasses so you can't read them. Mwahahahaha! -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron Apr 13, 11:58 1
  - I resent that, sir. - Henry Bemis Apr 13, 12:31
- In the realm of poissible things that would ever happen, that's vanishingly small. -- nm - TWuG Apr 13, 11:57
- conversely there could be a fire, or a flood or tiny bugs who chew up all your books. Mine are in the cloud. They will be there forever! -- nm - decline Apr 13, 11:55 4
  - Or until the format changes. -- nm - spamlet Apr 13, 11:59 3
    - or Amazon deletes them on you -- nm - Beaker Apr 13, 12:10 1
      - or a hacker changes your password -- nm - zeitgeist roaming the dark galaxy Apr 13, 12:40
    - I doubt there will be a lock of conversion tools if that were to happen. -- nm - TWuG Apr 13, 12:01
- Plus, in The Day After Tomorrow... have fun burning those tablets to keep warm! -- nm - Ultron Apr 13, 11:53 1
  - or using them as toilet paper! -- nm - Beaker Apr 13, 12:15
Agents of SHIELD thoughts w/spolers - TWuG Apr 13, 11:49 9
- Thoughts (spoils) - eag Apr 13, 11:54 8
  - Possibly (spoils) - TWuG Apr 13, 12:00 7
    - More thoughts (spoils) - eag Apr 13, 12:04 6
      - Spoils - TWuG Apr 13, 12:06 5
        
        spoils - eag Apr 13, 12:11
        
        the rumour I've read was - spoilers - Beaker Apr 13, 12:11 3
        
        Got an idea (posible spolis) - eag Apr 13, 12:21 1
        
        I'd like the spinoff to be - Beaker Apr 13, 12:25
        
        I know I would like to spinoff with Mockingbird. -- nm - Jovian Apr 13, 12:17
Milk, milk, lemonade... -- nm - Ultron Apr 13, 11:39 6
- Everyone heard this rhyme when they were a kid, yes? -- nm - Max Apr 13, 11:51 3
  - I am not aware of it, no. -- nm - CQ Apr 13, 11:53 1
    - no, wait. I remember. yeah yeah yeah -- nm - CQ Apr 13, 11:55
  - It was in my first Mother Goose book. -- nm - Ultron Apr 13, 11:53
- This is an interesting new form of roulette. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 11:41 1
  - I have a newsletter. -- nm - Ultron Apr 13, 11:41

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