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Olivia Newton-John's daughter - budice Jul 14, 07:33 8
- She looks like she's had a lot of work. Face and body. -- nm - pmb Jul 14, 07:46 1
  - those lips/boobs ain't real. -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 07:47
- She obviously has an amazing body, but ONJ's face is infinitely prettier. Even now. -- nm - Inigo Jul 14, 07:42 1
  - she looks like she's had a fair bit of plastic surgery. am I wrong? -- nm - unbreakable mandy jones Jul 14, 07:46
- They all float down there. -- nm - TorBaron Jul 14, 07:38
- looking at her instagram account, that seems to be her favorite mode of dress -- nm - decline Jul 14, 07:36 2
  - and she appears to have something seriously wrong with her spine. -- nm - Reagen Jul 14, 07:41 1
    - So, career as a comic book superheroine, then? -- nm - prayformojo Jul 14, 07:47
It occurred to me last night that if the ticket ends up being Trump/Pence, that would sound like a tax placed on English peasants long ago - prayformojo Jul 14, 07:32 2
- Pence looks like a Grandfather Ken doll. His hair looks plastic. -- nm - pmb Jul 14, 07:47
- ha! -- nm - Diva Jul 14, 07:34
WSJ: Viacom in talks to sell Paramount Pictures stake to Chinese group -- nm - Strongbad Jul 14, 07:31
WSJ: Ginsberg apologizes for Trump comments -- (link) - budice Jul 14, 07:17 2
- nice job, RBG -- nm - ÜMLaut Jul 14, 07:43
- Damn...I mean she did the right thing, but I hate that Trump will now Crow about this again and again and again -- nm - amoxy Jul 14, 07:21
I just figured out how to sort my Pokemon and I am a very happy man. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 07:15
Also, with Pence missing from the RNC convention speakers list, does this mean he's Trump's VP candidate? -- (link) - decline Jul 14, 07:13
Oh hell. "The Longest Time" by the Schuyler sisters before their final show. Damn -- (link) - oblique Jul 14, 07:12 [youtube]
work thing? ok, work thing. we are moving to shared suite space in 240, as you may or may not know. - unbreakable mandy jones Jul 14, 07:12 3
- clearly you need to print off a giant banner and hang it from the wall - Strongbad Jul 14, 07:38
- female sex panther? -- nm - Epiphany Jul 14, 07:19
- just spray Kimberly with lysol everytime she walks by while blasting Metallica from your computer -- nm - decline Jul 14, 07:15
in the past week, Trump's odds have jumped from 22% to 34%. -- (link) - decline Jul 14, 07:11 4
- It's pretty obvious that the FBI's findings hurt Hillary in the short term. -- nm - Inigo Jul 14, 07:32 1
  - I would have been shocked if they didn't -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 07:36
- Man, at that rate it should be like 400% come November? -- nm - Strongbad Jul 14, 07:22
- SMoD's time is coming -- nm - ÜMLaut Jul 14, 07:15
So, the Olympic Flame... -- (link) - budice Jul 14, 07:09
Old conventional wisdom: Van Gogh cut off his ear. Newer CW: Only the earlobe. Newest CW: No, really, the whole ear. -- (link) - mara Jul 14, 07:06
EW: Dark Tower Cover and Article -- (link) - budice Jul 14, 07:03 4
- *pees a little* -- nm - TorBaron Jul 14, 07:15
- spoiler for The Fireman/Dark Tower - Epiphany Jul 14, 07:09 2
  - Well, technically Hills books are inter-related too. NOS4A2 had an It connection. -- nm - Ender Jul 14, 07:19 1
    - I didn't catch that one. I'm okay with one line stolen, but its used too much - the same line in the same new book - Epiphany Jul 14, 07:21
Ghostbusters not to be shown in China? -- (link) - amoxy Jul 14, 07:01 2
- They are apparently afraid of those ghosts -- nm - decline Jul 14, 07:04 1
  - heh -- nm - Diva Jul 14, 07:07
the mr robot soundtrack is amazing. -- (link) - unbreakable mandy jones Jul 14, 06:59 [spotify] 1
- . -- (edited) - budice Jul 14, 07:02
EW: Jude Law and Charlie Hunnam in King Arthur -- (link) - budice Jul 14, 06:55 5
- Oh Yeah, another King Arthur movie -- nm - amoxy Jul 14, 07:00 3
  - Quick quick make another Sherlock Holmes movie -- nm - Bacon Jul 14, 07:02 2
    - Then Robin Hood -- nm - Flavorize Jul 14, 07:59
    - I do have a higher chance of watching such an endeavour. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 07:25
- eh - not what I was expecting - Epiphany Jul 14, 06:56
SITWAP: Pokemon GO is officially in the UK now. -- nm - Shaun Jul 14, 06:50 2
- #Pokexit -- nm - budice Jul 14, 06:52
- And the real reason for David Cameron's departure becomes apparent. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 14, 06:51
Nolan is using real naval destroyers instead of CGI. -- (link) - Shaun Jul 14, 06:48 3
- How does one go about renting a destroyer? Do they make you buy the fuel up front and waive collision insurance? -- nm - pmb Jul 14, 07:51
- his love for practical effects is akin to oblique's love of chipotle -- nm - ÜMLaut Jul 14, 06:52
- LOL. He probably still has a landline and a fax maxhine. -- nm - mara Jul 14, 06:50
I'm a bat. -- (link) - Shaun Jul 14, 06:45 1
- Heh. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 06:51
I've found my favorite song on this soundtrack -- The World Turned Upside Down -- - Will Hunting Jul 14, 06:41 15
- welcome to my life for the past....6 months? :) -- nm - oblique Jul 14, 07:06
- nm ty is right -- (edited) - ÜMLaut Jul 14, 07:05 7
  - It's actually "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Town)" -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 07:15
  - I still have a very special place for One Last Time. It embodies the greatest expression of America and what the President should be. Once you listen - oblique Jul 14, 07:08 5
    - indeed on both -- nm - ÜMLaut Jul 14, 07:09 4
      - The first half of the show is what grabs you on first listen but it's the nuances of how he brings the themes back in the 2nd half that catapult it - oblique Jul 14, 07:10 3
        
        hamilton soundtrack spoil - Diva Jul 14, 07:16 2
        
        this - oblique Jul 14, 07:18 1
        
        the amount of emotion he's able to pull thru those lyrics - sick. -- nm - Diva Jul 14, 07:24
- (Yorktown) -- nm - Diva Jul 14, 06:45
- It is one of my consistent favorites though. Not surprised they chose it for the Tonys. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 06:43 3
  - That's where I'd first heard it...couldn't recall it until I heard the line - Will Hunting Jul 14, 06:46 2
    - spoils - ÜMLaut Jul 14, 07:07 1
      - It has at least 3 "That's awesome" moments that you can see the theatre actions in it - Will Hunting Jul 14, 07:20
- The song you have on repeat will change about once a week. - ty97 Jul 14, 06:42
What is seen cannot be unseen -- (link) - ÜMLaut Jul 14, 06:28 3
- Planet of the Apes -- nm - Beaker Jul 14, 06:38
- What am I looking at? -- nm - amoxy Jul 14, 06:37 1
  - pictures -- nm - decline Jul 14, 06:37
Well, that call from a producer ended abruptly (Ridley was on the other line) -- nm - LMS Jul 14, 06:25 2
- Daisy or Scott? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 06:55 1
  - The latter -- nm - LMS Jul 14, 07:21
Gas dropped 4 cents overnight and we get that great beer deal starting today... - Beaker Jul 14, 06:22 2
- ysmm -- nm - Diva Jul 14, 14:22
- All the Alpine! -- nm - Shaun Jul 14, 06:26
But man, the technical glitches they still need to work out. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 06:20 7
- yeah, i froze about three times last night, in an hour. That said, technically i shouldn't even be playing yet. -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 06:28 2
  - Filthy pirate! -- nm - Shaun Jul 14, 06:32 1
    - they'll wipe out all your progress when they go live here! -- nm - Beaker Jul 14, 06:33
- From an IT perspective, I can't really imagine how they did not build this to scale properly. they seem to be dealing with it pretty well - oblique Jul 14, 06:22 3
  - I don't think they anticipate the scale and expect they are running around freaking out to keep up right now. - ty97 Jul 14, 06:23 2
    - well, plus whole continents jumped the gun and side-loaded the app -- nm - decline Jul 14, 06:34
    - I just look at companies today and with the availability of the various public clouds, it seems that it shouldn't be an issue - oblique Jul 14, 06:29
Apparently a guy I went to college with is going to be Chicago's Hamilton - znufrii, dad. Jul 14, 06:15 3
- At this rate, we're all going to know someone in the Chicago cast. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 06:22
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  - Right? - znufrii, dad. Jul 14, 06:20
I received this promoted tweet from a homebuilder. Tell me this pool isn't dumb -- (link) - ty97 Jul 14, 06:09 3
- not dumb at all. one is probably a hot tub -- nm - decline Jul 14, 06:35
- *jumps in the hot tub* *jumps in the plunge pool* repeat. -- nm* - Andie Jul 14, 06:27
- I think that's a large hot tub and a small pool. - Will Hunting Jul 14, 06:15
DJ, Rory, Zach, Grace (Day, Stenson, Rose, Charl) -- nm - Strongbad Jul 14, 06:08
So, i'm already Level 5 (Go Team Valor) and i have zero idea what i am doing still. - Andie Jul 14, 06:07 26
- Same. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 06:15
- basics - oblique Jul 14, 06:10 14
  - how on earth do i 'transfer back'? (and apparently a Jynx is an 'epic' Pokemon? i have one already.?) -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 06:13 13
    - When you're on your map, click on the Pokeball. Then click on Pokemon, then click any Pokemon you have captured. Scroll the screen down - Jim Jul 14, 06:15 12
      - ah, thanks. -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 06:17
      - There's no reason to hold on to duplicates? Transfer them all? -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 06:16 10
        
        Evolving them gets a good amount of XP so you might want to do that. Generally though from what I'm seeing with my son who is a much higher level - oblique Jul 14, 06:20 3
        
        but catching them gives you a minimum of 100 stardust - which is essential to evolving your better pokemon -- nm - decline Jul 14, 06:37 1
        
        "worthless" as in "worthless to keep" - oblique Jul 14, 06:49
        
        Thanks. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 06:35
        
        I've been transferring all except the Pidgey's...because of kilbo's double XP lucky egg scenario. - Jim Jul 14, 06:20 3
        
        It's well worth it. I went from level 9 to level 12 1/2 last night -- nm - decline Jul 14, 06:51
        
        you get one at level 8 I think as a reward -- nm* - oblique Jul 14, 06:21 1
        
        Yup, I got it last night. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 06:24
        
        Someone (kilbo?) mentioned that the dupes can be useful while doing the lucky egg / XP boost evolution trick -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 06:19 1
        
        Right. I'm hanging on to those but I'll transfer the others. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 07:02
- This is all beginning to remind me of The Game from ST:TNG -- nm - Strongbad Jul 14, 06:09
- I'm Level 8 and pretty much the same. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 06:08 8
  - Like, if I go to a gym, can I lose one of my Pokemon if someone beats me? - ty97 Jul 14, 06:08 7
    - No. They just get knocked out and you use a Revive to wake them up and Potions to heal -- nm - oblique Jul 14, 06:10 6
      - How do battles work? What's the algorithm for which Pokemon wins? -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 06:36 5
        
        Some Pokemon are better than others vs another Pokemon. And you can dodge side to side to try and avoid attacks - Bacon Jul 14, 07:01 4
        
        Yeah there are some obvious matchups (grass weak to fire, etc) but I don't really know what they all are to know the best matchups -- nm - oblique Jul 14, 07:03 3
        
        i just don't see myself ever doing battle. -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 07:44 2
        
        Yeah, it doesn't sound very appealing to me, which might mean the game will lose appeal pretty quickly. -- nm - mara Jul 14, 07:45 1
        
        There's really two "games" in it. One is just collection. The other is the gym battle part. - oblique Jul 14, 07:47
Boston Pokemon Go Map -- (link) - budice Jul 14, 06:02
So I've been listening off and on to the Hamilton soundtrack for the last 3 hours... - Will Hunting Jul 14, 05:56
So, I managed to find 2 gyms of my team color where I could install a Pokemon last night. A few hours later they were already kicked out and - oblique Jul 14, 05:52 3
- find who kicked you out and kill them -- nm - Beaker Jul 14, 06:07
- This game could really use some instructions. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 05:53 1
  - Indeed. I was surprised by the lack of notifications both for collecting the reward and for when I was beaten -- nm - oblique Jul 14, 05:56
Nintendo Classic Mini - AKA A $60 version of the original NES with 30 classic games loaded - coming on Nov. 11th - Inigo Jul 14, 05:52 12
- No Bomberman? No sale. -- nm - Ender Jul 14, 06:52
- I've seen Sega, Intellivision and Atari with similar things (around Christmas) -- nm* - Beaker Jul 14, 06:35
- TECMO BOWL FTW -- nm - Strongbad Jul 14, 06:13 1
  - *drafts Bo Jackson #1* -- nm - TorBaron Jul 14, 06:25
- that's great, and those are some great titles included -- nm - ÜMLaut Jul 14, 06:01
- I didn't grow up on the NES for whatever reason. I holds no real nostalgic value for me -- nm - oblique Jul 14, 06:01
- SOLD! TAKE MY MONEY! TAKE IT ALL! - Will Hunting Jul 14, 05:58
- Im just impressed with the emulators that exist, no consoles needed. Run straight from PCs and Phones. -- nm - budice Jul 14, 05:57 4
  - My guess is this NES box is just a very good emulator wrapped in nostalgic packaging. - Inigo Jul 14, 06:29 2
    - I wonder how the games will be displayed on a large display, like a 50" tv. -- nm - Shaun Jul 14, 06:34 1
      - Yeah, I was wondering that, too. The fact that it comes with an HDMI cable means they've thought of that problem, though. -- nm - Inigo Jul 14, 06:54
  - Yup. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 06:15
YDC, but I'm sitting in my parents house (with no Pokestops visible on the map at all) and Pokemon keep materializing. - ty97 Jul 14, 05:51 9
- the subway stations here are rife with them. -- nm - Diva Jul 14, 07:10
- I started playing yesterday. I've only been able to get Pokemon from my office at work. I walked around our neighborhood with the kids for 45 minutes. - Inigo Jul 14, 05:55
- The appearence of the Pokemon aren't related at all to Pokestops (other than when a lure is activated) -- nm - oblique Jul 14, 05:52 5
  - Understood, but at home I seem to need to walk to come across them. - ty97 Jul 14, 06:07 4
    - If you have the app open, but your screen has timed out, does your phone still buzz/vibrate if you are near one? - Andie Jul 14, 06:08 2
      - I think the screen needs to active. -- nm - Shaun Jul 14, 06:31 1
        
        i need to change my time-out time then, it's really short. -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 06:34
    - You've obviously overcaught your home area and need to repopulate :) -- nm - oblique Jul 14, 06:08
- Like mandy said on B2 - college campuses are apparently riddled with Pokestops...from my desk, I can see 27 on my map... - Jim Jul 14, 05:52
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Jul 14, 05:49

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