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Thanks Meg - sent via money friend :) -- nm - JenBro Jan 7, 11:28 2
- muskpay!! muskpay!!! (I love "muskpay" so much that I have a category in my (very lame) finance spreadsheet just for it.) -- nm - loaner machine mandy Jan 7, 11:32 1
  - oops - missed the memo :) or ... meme -- nm - JenBro Jan 7, 11:39
here's a crazy question (based on an Apartment Therapy post) how many individual drawers are there in your home? - Andie Jan 7, 11:25 18
- I'm at 51 - or thereabouts :) -- nm - Meg Jan 7, 11:33
- Holy crap. A lot. In my head I'm counting about 62. I could be missing some. -- nm - pmb Jan 7, 11:31 1
  - Does one of them have a magnifying glass in it? -- nm - Max Jan 7, 11:32
- 24. it should come as no shock to anyone that five of those are for tights and four are for socks. - loaner machine mandy Jan 7, 11:31 2
  - and six of mine are these dumb little 4" x 4" drawers in the kitchen. -- nm - loaner machine mandy Jan 7, 11:32 1
    - Ooh, I think I missed two of those in the headboard. -- nm - Meg Jan 7, 11:34
- at least 60, probably a few more -- nm - Beaker Jan 7, 11:30
- 38 (if we're counting furniture drawers too?) -- nm - Nigel si Jan 7, 11:30 1
  - everything. -- nm - Andie Jan 7, 11:32
- Amanda has to count all her square drawers which get her close to triple digits I think. -- nm - Max Jan 7, 11:29 1
  - I donated them when I moved. boo yah. -- nm - loaner machine mandy Jan 7, 11:31
- around 15 maybe -- nm - decline Jan 7, 11:29
- 34 I think. -- nm - Shaun Jan 7, 11:29
- 11 -- nm - humbug Jan 7, 11:27 1
  - this one goes to eleven -- nm - Nigel si Jan 7, 11:29
- Just one but if I'm careful I can reverse then inside out then reverse then inside out and get through a OHHHHH, nevermind. -- nm - Max Jan 7, 11:27
- we are pretty low, 25, i think? -- (edited) - Andie Jan 7, 11:27
- 34 -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 11:26
Doctor Strange pics in Hi-Res -- (link) - budice Jan 7, 11:23
NFL: Colts hire Ravens LBs coach Monachino as DC -- (link) - budice Jan 7, 11:19 2
- Well, that'll fix everything! -- nm - Sith Lord Sexypants Jan 7, 11:21 1
  - Booty Sweat -- (link) - budice Jan 7, 11:30
billion dollar app idea: StradTracker (keeps violinists always in physical contact with their Strads) -- (link) - humbug Jan 7, 11:18 3
- Dude Where's My Strad? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 11:25
- STRadar. -- nm - Oswaldo MoBarony Jan 7, 11:20
- StradStrap. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 11:19
Ben Carson asks a group of Iowa fifth-graders "Who's the worst student?" in their class -- (link) - humbug Jan 7, 11:12 6
- *points at pixie* -- nm - Spawn Solo Jan 7, 11:15
- *points at pixie* -- nm - Beaker Jan 7, 11:13 4
  - lol. I had not refreshed. -- nm - Spawn Solo Jan 7, 11:15 3
    - *points at Spawn* -- nm - Beaker Jan 7, 11:17
    - *points at spawn* -- nm - humbug Jan 7, 11:15 1
      - Black Spy +1 - White Spy 0 - JenBro Jan 7, 11:31
New Funko for Captain America: Civil War - budice Jan 7, 11:09 1
- Bah, it's a Dorbz...not a Pop! -- nm - The Death Sceire Jan 7, 11:18
Remember, if you didn't max out your 2015 IRA contributions, there's still time! -- nm - Oswaldo MoBarony Jan 7, 11:09
and then I crashed the time tracking server.... -- nm - loaner machine mandy Jan 7, 11:07 7
- That's kind of how Weird Science started. -- nm - Max Jan 7, 11:29 2
  - mandy is Lisa? -- nm - humbug Jan 7, 11:30 1
    - That would explain this bra on my head. -- nm - Max Jan 7, 11:31
- People try to run these on barebones, but when you have 100s or 1000s of staff. Never good. -- nm - budice Jan 7, 11:11
- did it send you back to high school so you could do things different the second time around? -- nm - humbug Jan 7, 11:09
- Kronos judges you -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 11:08
- high-five -- nm - decline Jan 7, 11:08
Despite fans wanting to call the riot control Stormtrooper "TR-8R", the name FN-2199 names sense. Is this a spoiler? - Mop Jan 7, 11:06 4
- Here's an article that lays it all out (spoilers at the link) -- (link) - The Death Sceire Jan 7, 11:58
- spoils - Spawn Solo Jan 7, 11:07 2
  - Rule 34! -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 11:29
  - Nice. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 11:12
So - getting lunch - and the place has low background music playing ... the dulcet tones of Mick Jones singing "I'm all lost in the super market ..." - JenBro Jan 7, 11:04 2
- i'm not hyde, but here have a couple thousand HydePoints -- nm - humbug Jan 7, 11:08 1
  - oh? well thanks!!! *keeps humming the song* -- nm - JenBro Jan 7, 11:09
I thought it was a joke about someone saying Powerball affecting SWTFA's Box Office this weekend. -- nm - Beaker Jan 7, 11:02 5
- he's some weird troll that employs a fake pidgin English for attention. He often likes to predict disasters at the box office and at theatres- - Deeve Jan 7, 11:10
- My brothers and I postponed seeing it until next weekend, so my money's going to the lottery! -- nm - Max Jan 7, 11:04
- People don't joke about Star Wars box office. -- nm - Sith Lord Sexypants Jan 7, 11:03
- he says it pretty much any given weekend -- nm - humbug Jan 7, 11:03
- wait, what? -- nm - loaner machine mandy Jan 7, 11:03
Adele goes to the gym -- (link) - humbug Jan 7, 10:52 1
- good sign that she doesn't plan to lip sync her way through stuff - JenBro Jan 7, 11:07
Sony's VR stands to be about 3x more popular than the Oculus Rift in 2016. -- (link) - Shaun Jan 7, 10:51 17
- Even at $600, they are selling it at a loss. -- (link) - Shaun Jan 7, 11:26
- If they're saying the PS4 is currently capable of running a VR, that sounds like that experience is going to suck. - Max Jan 7, 11:01 2
  - It won't. But just like Apple products get designed for an specific piece of hardware, so will the Playstation VR. - Shaun Jan 7, 11:19
  - As I understand it, it's all about the graphics engine which the PS4 (and Xbox) are optimized for -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 11:02
- Completely makes sense. The Rift is great but the PC specs needed to run it now are very high end. It honestly might be their downfall - oblique Jan 7, 11:01
- I have to say that the price point of the Oculus Rift shocked me. - Sith Lord Sexypants Jan 7, 11:01 7
  - It's more that they've been saying for a while (as the article notes) that they were looking more in that 200-400 range -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 11:02 6
    - That's what I mean. The fact that they totally punted on that is maddening. - Sith Lord Sexypants Jan 7, 11:03 5
      - It comes with an Xbone controller. -- nm - Shaun Jan 7, 11:16 2
        
        Yes but not the Rift controller, which won't be out until the third quarter. -- nm - Sith Lord Sexypants Jan 7, 11:20 1
        
        How many more feet do they have to shoot? Jesus. -- nm* - Shaun Jan 7, 11:22
      - same. I'm completely jazzed about Valkyrie but I can't afford the Rift let alone the $400 graphics upgrade to run it. I'd rather get 2 4k monitors -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 11:04 1
        
        Yup. $600 + at least a $1000 PC to run it effectively. -- nm - Shaun Jan 7, 11:19
- How do things like the Samsung VR count into this? -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 7, 10:57 3
  - It's great if you have a current Galaxy/Note. Otherwise you're screwed. - oblique Jan 7, 11:05
  - That relies on a phone as the display though right? Can't compete with dedicated hardware. -- nm - Shaun Jan 7, 10:59 1
    - But seeing how people upgrade phones just about every 2 years or less, the phones will continue to advance. - JaxSean Jan 7, 11:04
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we just picked $24M for our office Over/Under for the Revenant. I picked Over. You all must go see it. -- nm - Andie Jan 7, 10:43 5
- I hear it's very good. However, this is just not for me. -- nm - Deeve Jan 7, 11:27
- trading at 68.63 currently -- nm - Beaker Jan 7, 11:00
- I don't think I could sit in a theatre to see that -- nm - J Jan 7, 10:49 1
  - So. Very. Word. -- nm - Spawn Solo Jan 7, 11:00
- I think you are safe. nm -- nm - Groindo (Green lives matter) Jan 7, 10:44
A Chinese drone maker has unveiled what it says is the world's first personal autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) -- (link) - Beaker Jan 7, 10:41 3
- (alternatively: a helicopter) -- nm* - ML Jan 7, 10:42 2
  - A pilotless helicopter -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 10:43 1
    - No, it has a pilot. Just not the passenger. - ML Jan 7, 10:44
Business: Nasdaq falls into correction territory, down 10% from July 20 intraday high. -- (link) - budice Jan 7, 10:40
today is officially get caught up on Serial day -- nm - humbug Jan 7, 10:40
Not only shouldn't ManRam get into the HoF he has no chance and not for the reason you think... - Gullible SW Fan Mel Jan 7, 10:37 23
- I think his actions detracted from his abilities. If he weren't such a knucklehead, he might have a shot. - Groindo (Green lives matter) Jan 7, 10:41 22
  - The thing is with him as opposed to say Bonds...we have no idea for when Ramirez started using - Will Hunting Jan 7, 10:47 15
    - We don't *really* know about Bonds. And there's a bump in performance for Manny around 98/99. -- (edited) - musubi Jan 7, 10:51 11
      - If it were just based on stats, Manny is a lock. His overall hitting stats are slightly better than Frank Thomas'. -- nm* - Inigo Jan 7, 10:55 10
        
        Manny's numbers are superficially better, but when you account for park effects, I think Thomas is the slightly better hitter. - musubi Jan 7, 11:00 7
        
        I think Thomas was a better hitter in his prime, but his prime didn't last nearly as long as Manny's did. -- nm - Inigo Jan 7, 11:05 4
        
        Manny's longevity is presumably at least partially due to his failed tests. - musubi Jan 7, 11:07
        
        Thomas was a scarier hitter than Manny. That's difficult to quantify, but Sheff and him had a presence that differentiated them from other sluggers. -- nm - Sith Lord Sexypants Jan 7, 11:07 2
        
        For a time, yes. But in 1998, 99, 2002, 2004, 2005 he was just a decent hitter those years. - Inigo Jan 7, 11:14
        
        Sheffield looked like he was wielding a weapon. - Mel Profit Jan 7, 11:11
        
        Thomas is 156 vs 152 for Manny in OPS+ so yeah. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 7, 11:01 1
        
        It's even closer in WRC+, 154 to 153, but the point remains - musubi Jan 7, 11:05
        
        wha???? -- nm - Groindo (Green lives matter) Jan 7, 10:56 1
        
        Manny had more HR, RBI, Runs, 2B, Batting Average, Slugging, and total bases. -- (edited) - Inigo Jan 7, 11:02
    - as I don't have stats in front of me, but I think you can probably see it in there. - Groindo (Green lives matter) Jan 7, 10:49 2
      - His first full season was over .300 30 plus homers and 107 RBI. - Inigo Jan 7, 10:53
      - He hit 17hr's in 300 at-bats at 22 years old. - Will Hunting Jan 7, 10:53
  - agreed. there were so many things that just irked everyone. - Gullible SW Fan Mel Jan 7, 10:45 4
    - the whole "Manny being Manny" thing was the worst thing that could have happened to him. - Groindo (Green lives matter) Jan 7, 10:47 1
      - RIght. at first it was funny and even endearing but then later, when things kept happening and the incidents became darker, it turned. -- nm - Gullible SW Fan Mel Jan 7, 10:52
    - He also... - Gullible SW Fan Mel Jan 7, 10:46 1
      - yeah, and that guy was old. -- nm - Deeve Jan 7, 10:50
  - this is my impression. half-asser -- nm - humbug Jan 7, 10:44
The rink was closed I guess. -- (link) - Shaun Jan 7, 10:37 1
- lol -- nm - JenBro Jan 7, 11:09
Ok, so you guys are the best for this kind of stuff, is there any awesome Star Wars TFA stuff that might have missed in the movie - musubi Jan 7, 10:37 14
- ha, V2 got the same mask - ML Jan 7, 10:38 11
  - I'm not saying I use it more than he does, but I will say that it fits me better. Just sayin'. - musubi Jan 7, 10:48 10
    - sexy role playing time! -- nm - Groindo (Green lives matter) Jan 7, 10:50 9
      - #BundyEroticFanFic -- nm - Sith Lord Sexypants Jan 7, 10:57
      - Groiny being Groiny. (nm) - musubi Jan 7, 10:53 3
        
        look at my sexy red lightsaber! -- nm - Groindo (Green lives matter) Jan 7, 10:54 2
        
        Now, make it telescope out... oh... it is? Huh. -- nm - Spawn Solo Jan 7, 11:05
        
        #BundyEroticFanFic -- nm - Sith Lord Sexypants Jan 7, 10:57
      - "Why don't real girls like me? You're my only friend, holographic Rey." -- nm - musubi in a Kylo Ren mask Jan 7, 10:53 3
        
        Rey's pretty hot. Just sayin', I wouldn't mind having a holographic Rey. (nm) - musubi Jan 7, 11:01 2
        
        Jeb!? -- nm - humbug Jan 7, 11:03 1
        
        The Jebi Order -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 11:11
- Have you seen the new spoiler feature. - Shaun Jan 7, 10:38 1
  - WHOA. Bery's been soupin' up this joint. - musubi Jan 7, 10:47
Honestly I'm surprised at Griffey getting such a high percentage despite his PED use. -- (link) - musubi Jan 7, 10:35 3
- you saw Canseco's congratulations to him, right? -- (link) - ML Jan 7, 10:37 1
  - That's 10 different kinds of awesome. - musubi Jan 7, 10:45
- I thought that was Peyton at first -- nm - Beaker Jan 7, 10:36
This lady is having an acid flashback. -- nm - Gullible SW Fan Mel Jan 7, 10:33 1
- Fitting for last night's screening of upcoming Meryl Streep/Hugh Grant movie.. -- (link) - budice Jan 7, 10:35
AP: Lottery official says estimated prize for Saturday's Powerball drawing is now about $700 million -- (link) - budice Jan 7, 10:31 5
- *buys Mega Millions ticket* No one will be playing. I'm sure to win! -- nm - oblique Jan 7, 10:33 1
  - I bought one last night as it was $165m -- nm - Gullible SW Fan Mel Jan 7, 10:38
- adrian needs to get focused on sunday and stop worrying about the danged powerball imo. -- nm - ML Jan 7, 10:33
- *goes shopping* -- nm - Andie Jan 7, 10:32 1
  - seriously. I didn't buy my boots yesterday because I am preparing to be hosed at tax season. if we win $700 mill, I am so buying those boots. -- nm - loaner machine mandy Jan 7, 10:36
tim! what color car will you get?? -- nm - loaner machine mandy Jan 7, 10:30 2
- I loved the color on my car but I can't get that again, right? -- nm - Tim Jan 7, 10:32 1
  - what are the odds???? -- nm - Groindo (Green lives matter) Jan 7, 10:32
J. - Andie Jan 7, 10:30 1
- I forgot about the FB page, Thanks! -- nm - J Jan 7, 10:33
Maybe I'm the minority, but I think Leslie Frazier's reputation far exceeds his performance. - ML Jan 7, 10:29
SITWAP : I had never seen this video before, from last year..... brutal.... - Groindo (Green lives matter) Jan 7, 10:29 [youtube] 2
- yeah, I'll skip that -- nm - JaxSean Jan 7, 10:30 1
  - people need to watch their fucking kids. -- nm - Groindo (Green lives matter) Jan 7, 10:31
Dirk Koetter emerges as front-runner for Bucs job -- (link*) - Beaker Jan 7, 10:28 9
- Timing seems in line, people started asking about him -- nm - budice Jan 7, 10:30 1
  - it woiuld be great if he left anyway -- nm - Beaker Jan 7, 10:31
- Well, considering they just fired their coach over the phone to keep him... -- nm - spamlet Jan 7, 10:29
- Giants should hire Lovie. For real. -- nm - Shaun Jan 7, 10:29 4
  - That might be a very good idea. -- nm - Deeve Jan 7, 10:42 2
    - I think he is a fine coach, as long as you have a good offensive coordinator. nm -- nm - Groindo (Green lives matter) Jan 7, 10:43 1
      - agreeance. -- nm - Deeve Jan 7, 10:44
  - I was thinking Browns -- nm - Beaker Jan 7, 10:29
- *shakes head* -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 7, 10:28
So. I bought this little desktop rack as part of the home recording studio project. I'm thinking now I need a UPS - oblique Jan 7, 10:27 1
- What can brown do for you? -- (link*) - Spawn Solo Jan 7, 11:02 [Image]
Business: Dow down 350 points -- (link) - budice Jan 7, 10:27
SW:TFA preorder $19 at Target with $5 gift card. -- (link) - spamlet Jan 7, 10:26

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