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"We need this done by end of day tomorrow"....took me 5 minutes to do it...how long should I wait to send back? - Beaker Jul 13, 06:59 4
- Send it back after a 2 beer lunch. -- nm - Shaun Jul 13, 07:00 3
  - my brother's biggest complaint when he moved from Hali to a smaller town was he couldn't just skip work at lunch to go to a bar for a couple hours at lunch -- (edited) - Beaker Jul 13, 07:02 2
    - #fwp for sure. -- nm - Shaun Jul 13, 07:05 1
      - oh definitely -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 07:05
Half of my 298 minutes of watched time on my youtube this week have come from Finland -- nm - Bacon Jul 13, 06:52 1
- That sauna-pr0n isn't going to watch itself. -- nm - Shardik the Baron Jul 13, 07:04
DC has a long running joke about the last Christmas tree to be discarded/picked up. I took a picture of one yesterday! -- (link) - MDH Jul 13, 06:48 1
- This is why Marvel wins. Their jokes are funnier. - TWuG Jul 13, 07:07
This is practically in my back yard. I used to live just down the street from that farm - decline Jul 13, 06:47
**David Alert** Acuna to AAA. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 13, 06:46 2
- wanna see something interesting? Look up a Rockies prospect Ryan McMahon - groiny Jul 13, 06:57
- (19 years old, started the season in high A ball, possible he sees his majors debut by the end of 2017) -- nm - Strongbad Jul 13, 06:49
Speaking of AA, they're the cheapest flight I could find but it's in economy and it seems that I can't carry on a bag. Are carry on bags really - Krusty Jul 13, 06:46 10
- *double checks his tickets to make sure he didn't buy Basic Economy fares by mistake* - znufrii Jul 13, 07:06
- where are you going? -- nm - amanda jones state university Jul 13, 06:51 3
  - I'm looking at different places and trying to see what the flights and hotels will cost. - Krusty Jul 13, 06:55 2
    - The south is much cheaper than out west so that's likely where I'll head but I'm not sure where yet. - Krusty Jul 13, 06:58 1
      - What made me post my original post was a flight to Tennessee for $120 round trip. That seemed really cheap, too cheap. - Krusty Jul 13, 06:59
- your last sentence - its a way for them to make even MORE money -- nm - Epiphany Jul 13, 06:48 4
  - So it just looks like they're offering cheap flights but in reality no one can really use them. - Krusty Jul 13, 06:51 3
    - It's for that large swath of people who just jump on a plane to visit another city and return in the same day. - Max Jul 13, 07:30
    - "looks like" that is the new pricing model. -- nm - Bacon Jul 13, 07:00
    - They've gone to a nickel and dime mindset - Strongbad Jul 13, 06:57
Who’s the Sexiest Shakespeare Ever? -- (edited) - LMS Jul 13, 06:45
AA ends codeshare agreements with Qatar and Etihad over claims of illegal subsidies -- (link) - znufrii Jul 13, 06:41
Library Today: Saga TPB volumes 5 and 6 (giggity) -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 06:40
Alexa control of Fire TV sticks and an updated Harmony skill. My talking to my TV has just improved greatly :) -- nm - oblique Jul 13, 06:33
YDC: I like Bruno Mar's song - Chunky better than Versace on the floor - there, I've said it. -- nm - Epiphany Jul 13, 06:30 4
- I don't really like the slow jams, I miss stuff like Locked Out Of Heaven. (nm) - Tim Jul 13, 07:02
- That album is golden. Perm is awesome. -- nm - Shaun Jul 13, 06:33 2
  - most of the songs feel very James Brown to me - while the last one felt Michael Jackson. I love me some Bruno -- nm - Epiphany Jul 13, 06:38 1
    - Oh wait, I don't think I ever told you this about the charity auction I went to where they auctioned off a box for his concert. - MDH Jul 13, 06:51
STIS: Are cashew butter or almond butter safe to put in sandwiches in a peanut-free school? (I don't know if those fall under the peanut category for - kelly Jul 13, 06:29 13
- I was kinda shocked to realize this year that Abby's school wasn't peanut-free - prayformojo Jul 13, 06:57
- If it's just peanut-free and not nut-free then those should be just fine to use in his lunch. -- nm - Krusty Jul 13, 06:39 11
  - Peanuts aren't nuts so from what I'm reading most nut spreads are just fine. -- nm - Krusty Jul 13, 06:41 10
    - Just called to clarify - it's a nut-free school. No nuts at all. Sunbutter is okay. - kelly Jul 13, 06:52 9
      - Then I'd say you can't send almond butter or the like. That sucks but I understand the caution. -- nm - Krusty Jul 13, 07:03 1
        
        Nutella should be OK though -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 07:05
      - "nut-free" school. I can't even with that. -- nm - MDH Jul 13, 06:56 6
        
        it is an all girls school. -- nm - groiny Jul 13, 07:00
        
        If the other option is kids potentially dying, I can see why they would make that decision. -- nm - znufrii Jul 13, 06:58 4
        
        younger I agree, once they hit grades 6+ they should be able to handle it (their needle, staying away from it etc). -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 07:01 3
        
        From what I've read, for some they're so sensitive to it that the peanut/nut dust in the air is enough to cause an allergic reaction. - Krusty Jul 13, 07:05 2
        
        *shrug* they have to get used to it sometime cause not every place they ever go with be nut free -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 07:06 1
        
        (fwiw I have a nephew with severe nut allergy; very careful growing up, now just deals with it) -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 07:10
MLB Commish on Gambling, wants to "shape what the new regulatory scheme looks like" -- (link) - Strongbad Jul 13, 06:17
Patriots owner Bob Kraft getting on board with the e-sports. -- (link) - Shardik the Baron Jul 13, 05:57
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- At least they're being totally forthcoming about how much they hate the poor, helpless and infirm. The quicker they all just die the better. - Diva Jul 13, 06:36 3
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  - at least they won't be poor any more. -- nm - prayformojo Jul 13, 06:37 1
    - the American Dream. -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 06:41
Winter has come! -- (link) - Shaun Jul 13, 05:40 [Image] 2
- Yep, I've taken that bus route. -- nm - LMS Jul 13, 06:15 1
  - *eyes LMS warily, hand on his dragonglass dagger* -- nm - Shardik the Baron Jul 13, 06:25
As an astronaut, an engineer and a woman, Julie Payette will make her mark as the next Canadian Governor General -- (link) - Beaker Jul 13, 05:36
Vox: Rand Paul sounds ready to kill the Senate health care bill -- (link) - Strongbad Jul 13, 05:34 1
- He's a dope but whatever the reason I'll be happy if this bill dies. -- nm* - Krusty Jul 13, 05:38
Google's DeepMind AI taught itself to walk. -- (link) - Shaun Jul 13, 05:32 [youtube] 4
- I think it taught itself how to walk while being posessed by Lily Tomlin. -- nm - Reagen Jul 13, 06:42
- Best QWOP player ever. -- nm - Shardik the Baron Jul 13, 06:31
- I think I'm gonna start beating my chest like that, walking around the office. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 13, 05:36 1
  - my brother -- nm - Matthew McConaughey Jul 13, 05:38
Have a great birthday, jnine! -- nm - prayformojo Jul 13, 05:25 1
- Thank you! -- nm - jnine Jul 13, 07:36
L5. Nutt dropped that lawsuit on Freeze the day before Ole Miss' turn at SEC Media Days. That is so awesome. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 13, 05:05
Happy Birthday jnine! - Beaker Jul 13, 04:30 10
- HBD -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 11:16
- Thanks all! -- nm - jnine Jul 13, 07:36
- Happy birthday!! (NM) - Marlowe Jul 13, 07:04
- happy birthday!!! -- nm - kelly Jul 13, 06:31
- Happy birthday! -- nm - LMS Jul 13, 06:16
- Happy Birthday! Woot! -- nm - Epiphany Jul 13, 06:06
- happy birthday! -- nm - Hotkiss Jul 13, 05:32
- Hope you have a great day! -- nm - Strongbad Jul 13, 05:25
- Happy birthday, jnine! Woo hoo!!! -- nm - Krusty Jul 13, 05:24
- Happy happy! -- nm - Diva Jul 13, 04:30
TV PSA: America's Got Talent, Beat Shazam, Boy Band, Battle of Network Stars, Penn & Teller, Big Brother, Flip or Flop, Hooten and the Lady, Zoo, -- nm* - Beaker Jul 13, 03:30 1
- Million $ Listing, Married at 1st Sight, Love Connection, Tunnel, Wall, Gong Show, Queen of the South, Mist, Night Shift, Alone, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 03:31
Up at 2am trying to find just the right motor/propeller combos for a submersible ROV - Beryllium Jul 13, 01:59 1
- So far this is the best one I've found. Also the most stylish. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 13, 02:02
... time to start The Living Daylights. Yeah, I think this is one of my favourites. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 23:49 1
- definitely a good one--my fav Dalton flick -- nm - Flavorize Jul 13, 01:31
If you're going to defend Trump, write better headlines. There is a word right after Ukrainian that sinks their argument. -- (link) - crash davis Jul 12, 23:28 2
- and the politico article they link pretty much says "Russia: big deal; Ukraine: not really." -- nm - mafic Jul 12, 23:45
- But they don't realize that, because they are xenophobes. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 23:34
This morning I showed our museum visitors an unripe black walnut and peeled the outer skin with my thumb..... - Meg Jul 12, 22:30 3
- we never get any from our tree, the squirrels get every one...tried cutting coke bottles to put over them -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 12, 23:28
- We had three black walnut trees when I was growing up. That black stain took forever to get off - Amoxy Jul 12, 23:00 1
  - Yep we had two and they made a huge mess in the yard every year -- nm - Bacon Jul 13, 06:20
Hmm! Other people like to talk to food, too. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 12, 22:22
"Do you have a best friend? Is he smarter than you? Would you trust him with your life? That's your Chief of Staff." -- (edited) - President Bartlett Jul 12, 22:18 1
- I miss President Bartlett -- nm - Amoxy Jul 12, 23:01
I don't see that this was posted - "the tick" trailer was released today. (amazon prime.) nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Jul 12, 21:56 3
- What the world needs now, is us, sweet us. -- nm -- The Tick (aka Spawn) Jul 12 '17, 16:27 -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 22:06
- I'm not 100% sold on the tick himself, but they seem to have done Arthur perfectly. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 22:05
- Non-region-restricted (yet) version on youtube -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 12, 22:04 [youtube]
I'm bored. Can I answer programming questions for anyone? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 21:43 25
- How good are you at R? -- nm - Strongbad Jul 13, 05:01
- Can Mr. Robot halt and catch fire? And can you show me how to do this? -- nm - Mop Jul 12, 22:34 1
  - No. No. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 22:48
- Is programming in a/s/l more memory efficient than in an OOP language? -- nm - Mop Jul 12, 22:33 1
  - Yes, by about a billion times - but the burden of maintenance makes it difficult to work with in all but the most - Beryllium Jul 12, 22:44
- Could Tron really have defeated the MPC? -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 22:20 14
  - I haven't seen any of the Tron movies. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 22:23 13
    - next time, just say yes or no :)))) -- nm - peglegpete Jul 13, 00:20 1
      - Yes. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 01:05
    - You can no longer be my programer until you remedy this. - Spawn Jul 12, 22:26 10
      - I haven't seen this film since it was in theaters but even *I* know it was M-C-P, not M-P-C. -- (edited) - howie Jul 12, 22:42 2
        
        Yeah, he was great on South Park. -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 23:04 1
        
        I don't watch South Park much, so I don't know what this is a reference to. Did I miss a funny? (nm - howie Jul 12, 23:13
      - I also haven't seen Goonies. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 22:32 3
        
        I am fine with that. But look at what you do for a living! -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 22:35 2
        
        It's clear the Goonies could not have accomplished what they set out to do without programming. - Mop Jul 12, 22:38 1
        
        And hockey. -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 22:40
      - I usually turn my nose up at people who say 80s movies haven't aged well, but the original Tron *really* hasn't. - Max Jul 12, 22:29 2
        
        I wrote the HWDYK for it and it is soooo thin in story that I barely had enough stuff for a quiz. - TWuG Jul 13, 05:28
        
        Oh, I will never rewatch it. But my memories of it and the game will not be tarnished. -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 22:36
- what is on HBO at 9 pm eastern sunday night? -- nm - peglegpete Jul 12, 22:00 1
  - Cheeky. I have no idea, though, in my home HBO is more of an abstract concept that does not obey the arrow of time. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 22:05
- why aren't I better at it? -- nm - mafic Jul 12, 21:44 2
  - But seriously, there are plenty of resources for learning new things. One thing that helps boost skill ... - Beryllium Jul 12, 21:56
  - Because in australia, all the bytecodes are upside down, and this makes the vast number of tutorials useless. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 21:45
Whoa. Tronc (stupid name!) which owns Chicago Tribune, LA Times, others, was trying to buy the Chicago Sun-Times. Were outbid by an alderman+unions -- (link*) - ty97 Jul 12, 21:28 4
- Man, there's a lot going on in that story. -- nm - Mop Jul 12, 22:32
- Ferro , of Tronc, was the idiot who destroyed the SunTimes so he could create columns about the celebs of Chicago so he could become one of them. - . Jul 12, 22:12
- That sounds pretty good to me. - Krusty Jul 12, 22:01 1
  - I'm truly surprised, Eisendrath must've found an angel because the word was he was way off of the top bid. -- nm - . Jul 12, 22:16
I love my parents. But being at their house means - ty97 Jul 12, 21:13 3
- which I guess is slightly better than not. maybe. -- nm - mafic Jul 12, 21:27
- Isn't that better than ... - zork Jul 12, 21:21 1
  - Barely, maybe, no. -- nm* - ty97 Jul 12, 21:28
Not me -- (link) - ty97 Jul 12, 21:10 1
- Lol -- nm - Epiphany Jul 12, 22:07
The Big Brother producers must love Paul as much as they hate Cody. Spoilers - Mop Jul 12, 20:52 3
- Only seen the first ep so far. Is Cody the guy with the totally lifeless face that looks like Jason Behr in Roswell? -- nm - GregW Jul 12, 21:23 2
  - That's him. -- nm - Mop Jul 12, 22:12 1
    - Either he has 0 personality, or suffers from some PTSD issues... or both. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 13, 06:18
Everyone knows batman's backstory - just like Spider-Man. If they feel the need to broach the subject, they can just do a musical cue and maybe - Beryllium Jul 12, 20:49 1
- Dem pearls. -- nm - Shaun Jul 13, 05:51
Captain America at Disney talking to a guest in sign language -- (link) - zork Jul 12, 20:44 4
- That's great. -- nm - Mop Jul 12, 20:47
- He's saying "hail hydra" -- nm - Beryllium Jul 12, 20:47 2
  - 25 Spawn Points are being withheld until you see Tron. -- nm* - Spawn Jul 12, 20:56
  - [snork] -- nm - mud Jul 12, 20:48
I post this for ty. -- (link) - Spawn Jul 12, 20:40 12
- Also of slight note: brother and his partner landed at the ORD L gates around this time. -- nm - ty97 Jul 12, 21:33
- Planes can absorb lightning strikes in general. Checks might be needed afterwards, but they are designed for it. - ty97 Jul 12, 21:11 7
  - On the ground they're rather insulated by the tires. -- nm - Mop Jul 12, 22:13
  - I was on one that was struck on final approach. pilot mentioned it after landing (I saw it at the time as well). he was totally unfazed. - mafic Jul 12, 21:26 3
    - I haven't been on one that I know of. I was a plane that landed in STL once - ty97 Jul 12, 21:31 2
      - bird strike on takeoff was my most unpleasant commercial flying experience. - mafic Jul 12, 21:37 1
        
        flying into Reno during a storm, wind blew the plane sideways, I swear it seemed we fishtailed going down the runway before all the wheels were down -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 12, 21:43
  - tires might be needed afterwards -- nm - peglegpete Jul 12, 21:22
  - Pics or it didn't happen. -- nm - Spawn Jul 12, 21:14
- "If I'm lying, may God-- never mind." -- nm - Mop Jul 12, 20:45
- I can't believe the lazy ground staff won't work in that. -- nm - mafic Jul 12, 20:43
- wicked -- nm - mud Jul 12, 20:42

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