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PSA: Next week is National Donut Day. Dunkin is giving away donuts. -- (link) - TFox May 28, 10:46
Depeche Mode to resume touring next month following removal of low-grade malignant tumour. -- (link) - Andie May 28, 10:46 1
- I like their new single. - Stephen May 28, 10:53
speaking of deadly pitchers, how many birds have been sacrificed to major league baseball? There was a homerun bird strike, wasn't there? -- nm - Max May 28, 10:46 6
- I only recall the Randy Johnson fastball one. (nm) - musubi May 28, 10:48
- Dave Winfield killed a pigeon? in Toronto and I think the authorities got involved in some form. - Will Hunting May 28, 10:48
- Randy Johnson vs. Pigeon is still my favorite youtube clip of all time. -- nm - TFox May 28, 10:47 3
  - In fact, I'm holding back obscene amounts of laughter, just remembering it. - TFox May 28, 10:49 2
    - I always love the hitter and catcher in that clip. - Will Hunting May 28, 10:50 1
      - It's that, and the Looney Tunes-esque "that bird flew so fast it left all its feathers behind" poof cloud. -- nm - TFox May 28, 10:52
David wrote a doozy of a Box Office Trivia quiz. Even if you get smoked on it (like I did), there's some very intersting facts in it. -- (link) - prayformojo May 28, 10:44
TT Computer geeks: I've been having issues with my laptop. It seems that the system clock is bonkers. It won't do an auto internet time sync. - musubi May 28, 10:44
Glau would be perfect for Dollhouse. -- nm - nubby May 28, 10:43 4
- Whedon said he wouldn't want to bring her in as an active though. -- nm - Ender May 28, 10:45 1
  - *brainsplosion* - nubby May 28, 10:46
- Jessica Alba? -- nm - Max May 28, 10:44
- agreed. But I suspect she'd be a guest star. -- nm - Remlik May 28, 10:44
ST Poll: Have you ever torrented? - Dano May 28, 10:41 21
- No. -- nm - lileve May 28, 10:52
- Yes, but mostly when there was stuff like Napster and LimeWire and something else. - JaxSean May 28, 10:48
- never. -- nm - Jovian May 28, 10:47
- yep. movies, tv shows, music, computer manuals -- nm - zork May 28, 10:46 1
  - speaking of... - JaxSean May 28, 10:49
- A couple of times but I am not good at it -- nm - Walt_Disney May 28, 10:46
- It's how I watched the first 3 seasons of BSG and the first season of Burn Notice. (nm) - musubi May 28, 10:45
- No. -- nm - pmb May 28, 10:45
- Nope - just hasn't seemed worth figuring out. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 28, 10:44
- Yes but I vastly prefer to order legally. I wish I had that option more often. -- nm - David May 28, 10:44
- Never. I'm not sure I even know how. -- nm - kelly May 28, 10:44
- all the time -- nm - decline May 28, 10:43
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- once. the devil mandy made me do it. -- nm - Max May 28, 10:42
- nope. but i've watched streaming video online of lots of things. -- nm - Andie May 28, 10:42
- Nope -- nm - con_carne May 28, 10:42
- Yes, but generally only TV shows (usually not software, and I don't think I've torrented a movie, except for a legal one) -- nm - Beryllium May 28, 10:42
- nope -- nm - Beaker May 28, 10:42
- nope -- nm - TFox May 28, 10:41
- yes -- nm - tRuMaN May 28, 10:41
- All the time. -- nm - nubby May 28, 10:41
Backboard hit n' run - David May 28, 10:40 30
- Is the name thing over how to pronounce Sotomayor? - Stephen May 28, 10:43 13
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    - I've heard Soto-Mi-er, Soto-may-or, Soto-my-or -- nm - Stephen May 28, 10:48 3
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        I'm sure you would - Stephen May 28, 10:52
      - ~Sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, pederasty~ - con_carne May 28, 10:50
  - El Justico. -- nm - TFox May 28, 10:45
  - Judge Yankee Fan is all I need to know... -- nm - Aliens SI May 28, 10:44
  - Like it's spelled, really, with a Spanish accent. - nubby May 28, 10:44 2
    - Yeah, I don't pronounce Mayor like My-or :) - Stephen May 28, 10:46 1
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  - So-to-my-OR, as I understand it. -- nm - Reagen May 28, 10:44 1
    - Correct. NPR pronounces it correctly, from what I've heard. -- nm - con_carne May 28, 10:46
  - I have no idea. It's from Hyde's Twitter feed. -- nm - David May 28, 10:44
- Pedro's career can't match the longevity of the other 3....even if his short-term brilliance (99-00 was best I've ever seen) - Will Hunting May 28, 10:43 4
  - An AL pitcher with a drug-free ERA under 2 is special. -- nm - David May 28, 10:43 3
    - What makes you think it was drug-free? -- nm - Don Homer May 28, 10:48 1
      - He's got huge swingers. -- nm - nubby May 28, 10:52
    - Not arguing that at all. Just his peak was like 4 years and then he fell off quickly. - Will Hunting May 28, 10:46
- If I had one game and the life of the planet hung in the balance I think I'd pick '99 Pedro. - Mel Profit May 28, 10:42 9
  - Koufax 63. -- nm - Don Homer May 28, 10:49 2
    - Give me Pedro any day of the week. - Will Hunting May 28, 10:51
    - or 65, really any of this peak years. Though it's like arguing "super awesome" vs "mega awesome". -- nm - Don Homer May 28, 10:50
  - He'd be my choice for that scenario. -- nm - Will Hunting May 28, 10:44 3
    - I feel lucky to have watched that entire season... - Mel Profit May 28, 10:46 2
      - Don Homer has nightmares about the wild-card game 5 in 1999. -- nm - Will Hunting May 28, 10:47 1
        
        Not anymore, but really game 4 was worse when they got absolutely buttpounded. 23 runs. -- nm - Don Homer May 28, 10:52
  - That would be the best part. Not only would we win, but the aliens we dismissed would be like "Fuck that Pedro guy." -- nm - TFox May 28, 10:42 1
    - "Let's just go pick on another planet..." -- nm - Aliens SI May 28, 10:44
- Steve Zahn, next Star Trek villain. -- nm - Max May 28, 10:41
My house lights dim periodically and my computer makes a static noise when they do. I think I have a short somewhere, but it's the whole house! -- nm - CrankYanker May 28, 10:38 3
- We had the same thing happened at our house. I think my mom called DWP and they came out to do fix it. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) May 28, 10:47
- any spaceships hovering outside? -- nm - marcel May 28, 10:40
- Could be a poltergeist. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 28, 10:39
palm pre will sync with itunes. -- (link) - tRuMaN May 28, 10:37
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- you're supposed to anticipate his needs and read his mind! -- nm - Beaker May 28, 10:37 1
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I just ate 150g of jelly belly jelly beans. Yikes. -- nm - Beryllium May 28, 10:36 14
- I hate that despite the fact that metric is a much better system, I still have no intuitive concept of what metric measurements are. - musubi May 28, 10:37 11
  - I'm sort of biunital - Reagen May 28, 10:41 7
    - yeah, I'm the same way. distance in metric, height and altitdue in imperial. -- nm - mafic May 28, 10:52
    - "Imperial"? - con_carne May 28, 10:43 1
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      - and like, I know my weight and height in kilos and metres, but really I weigh pounds and stand feet and inches. -- nm - Reagen May 28, 10:46 2
        
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        Celsius for weather temperatures but Fahrenheit for oven temps. -- nm - zork May 28, 10:48
  - IIRC an American dollar bill weighs one gram -- nm - con_carne May 28, 10:41 2
    - So bery ate like 6 jellybeans? -- nm - Will Hunting May 28, 10:42
    - $150 of jellybeans is a shitload of jellybeans! -- nm - TFox May 28, 10:41
- Effin amateur. -- nm - Will Hunting May 28, 10:36 1
  - *laughing* -- nm - kelly May 28, 10:37
sitwap. gallery of zune hd photos -- (link) - tRuMaN May 28, 10:35 3
- sexay. If they can just beat the snot out of the prices for iPod touches, they'd rock. -- nm - JaxSean May 28, 10:39 2
  - yeah, I am really hoping they offer at a great price piont. - tRuMaN May 28, 10:40 1
    - Yup -- nm - JaxSean May 28, 10:51
Kare, re B2 plants. when you got them, and if you subtracted their value from the rent, the plants are the landlords. if not, take them with you - peglegpete May 28, 10:33 5
- i've never taken them with me - marcel May 28, 10:39
- This is so going to wind up on The People's Court. -- nm - Dano May 28, 10:38
- I don't think I would like having plants as landlords -- nm - decline May 28, 10:34 2
  - I, for one, would like to welcome our new Plantae landlords. -- nm - JaxSean May 28, 10:37
  - you're doing photosynthesis for me today or you are out on your ass! -- nm - Plant Landlord May 28, 10:35
Michelle Bachman Comic has been made -- (link) - Remlik May 28, 10:32
LYC: An economist at a large Canadian banks has refered to the next decade as "The Teenage Years" Please dont let this be the 10's catchphrase!! -- (link) - Walt_Disney May 28, 10:29 2
- Canada has banks? *erases large igloos with ice vaults out of mind* -- nm - JaxSean May 28, 10:30 1
  - *throws away hair dryer* -- nm - Canadian bank robber May 28, 10:33
Fran Tarkenton goes on local station to "clarify some things" from his last rant....and ends up ranting even more -- (link) - Beaker May 28, 10:28 3
- Perhaps something is lost in translation to typed words, but that didn't sound all that angry, or ranty. -- nm - Stephen May 28, 10:38 2
  - but he dissed Breet Favre! -- nm - Beaker May 28, 10:40 1
    - I think that's pretty much what it boils down to -- nm - Stephen May 28, 10:53
So I guess I should catch Brian Matusz in the next month...he likely won't be pitching here much longer. - Will Hunting May 28, 10:27
US TV shows now available on ITunes in Canada -- (link) - Beaker May 28, 10:27 16
- Lame. Just torrent them for free. -- nm - Shaun May 28, 10:30 15
  - *gasp* Illegal! -- nm - Beaker May 28, 10:35 14
    - I think technically no, here. - Reagen May 28, 10:37
    - You know, I've never torrented a thing. Don't even really know how one would do it. -- nm - TFox May 28, 10:36 12
      - me too -- nm - Beaker May 28, 10:41
      - ditto...I don't have a clue. -- nm - Mel Profit May 28, 10:38
      - it's extremely easy if you ever want to know. -- nm - Reagen May 28, 10:38 9
        
        I have BitTorrent but never really used it....Reagan should do a webinar on Torrenting Basics :P -- nm - Walt_Disney May 28, 10:44
        
        Meh. I watch almost nothing on the computer. Thanks though. -- nm - TFox May 28, 10:40 2
        
        Neither do I. I stream it through my Xbox. -- nm - Reagen May 28, 10:42 1
        
        or burn to a cd or dvd and play through a dvd player -- nm - zork May 28, 10:45
        
        I've found it to be a pain in the ass. -- nm - JaxSean May 28, 10:40
        
        I'm afraid to start. - con_carne May 28, 10:40 2
        
        this is sort of where I am with it. - Mel Profit May 28, 10:42 1
        
        exactamundo -- nm - Beaker May 28, 10:43
        
        *raises hand* -- nm - Mel Profit May 28, 10:39
Rant: One effing scanner in this whole company, and of course it's out of order right now. - con_carne May 28, 10:26 4
- mmhmm. *makes notes* -- nm - Scanner Safety Inspector May 28, 10:28
- I wish I had a scanner at work. -- nm - lileve May 28, 10:27 2
  - My receptionist just offered to buy me one a couple weeks ago too, and I refused. *smacks forehead* -- nm - con_carne May 28, 10:28 1
    - I had one, it shit the bed. I almost have to beg for one now. -- nm - lileve May 28, 10:53
tru - you don't like rice milk? -- nm - Guy May 28, 10:18 17
- There's no such thing as rice milk because there are no rice breats. -- nm - CrankYanker May 28, 10:36 2
  - BREASTS! -- nm - CrankYanker May 28, 10:37 1
    - *does the tiny milking motion* -- nm - Ben Stiller SI May 28, 10:38
- too many carbs for me. -- nm - loosilu May 28, 10:23
- I've tried rice, soy, and goat....i'll stick with good old regular moo milk -- nm - Stephen May 28, 10:23 8
  - I like the almond milk (although I prefer cow milk). -- nm - kelly May 28, 10:24 2
    - Oh really? hmmmm. -- nm - con_carne May 28, 10:26
    - Hazelnut milk is good too -- nm - Guy May 28, 10:25
  - cow milk is like kryptonite for me now. Yet, I grew up on it -- nm - con_carne May 28, 10:24 4
    - See, I was allergic to milk growing up. I kid you not, in my cereal I used to have to use... - Stephen May 28, 10:27 3
      - i still gag a little remembering the time i was 4 and tried my Rice Krispies with grape juice (the purple variety) -- nm - Guy May 28, 10:30 2
        
        Yeah, it sucked...on the other hand I do have lots of "be thankful, when I was your age..." stories to tell my kid(s to be) -- nm - Stephen May 28, 10:34 1
        
        Might as well bore em to disobedience early -- nm - Will Hunting May 28, 10:36
- I havent tried it recently - tRuMaN May 28, 10:21 3
  - i like Rice Dream (especially the chocolate). i haven't cooked with it, but the consistency is similar to soy - Guy May 28, 10:24 2
    - gotta watch the sugar in the flavored ones, I think it can get highly caloric. -- nm - loosilu May 28, 10:25 1
      - its about the same as lowfat chocolate milk -- nm - Guy May 28, 10:38
Hmmm .. Crash Davis? -- (link) - marcel May 28, 10:17 1
- That dress isn't very flattering on him -- nm - Stephen May 28, 10:21
Neat. Amazon now has a Movie/TV trade-in site. Doesn't take everything, and doesn't give much for a lot of stuff, but may be easier than ebaying. -- (link) - Don Homer May 28, 10:14 4 1
- Kijiji is my choice these days. Local transactions rule. -- nm - Shaun May 28, 10:23
- Can't be worse than Rasputin, trying to give me $1.50 for some tv series -- nm - Stephen May 28, 10:22 2
  - Well, how much could a used copy of The Simple Life really go for? -- nm - TFox May 28, 10:23 1
    - That's the other thing...they won't take unopened copies of anything. - Stephen May 28, 10:29
*barks* -- nm - ceregon's dog May 28, 10:14

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