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Rate your blog here (like movie ratings) I tried this page of ST and got rated G -- (link) - TWuG Jun 15, 07:34 6
- This board gets an R -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 15, 07:46 5
  - The words it used to get the R aren't even the worst words on that board - TWuG Jun 15, 07:50 4
    - when I loaded it, it said that the offending words were "vagina (3x) vulva (2x) knife (1x)". -- nm - Beryllium Jun 15, 07:53 2
      - That's my point. The words I list were also present, yet get no mention. - TWuG Jun 15, 07:55
      - (sexy) -- nm - TFox Jun 15, 07:54
    - 'dead' gets you a PG, apparently -- nm - ty97 Jun 15, 07:51
STIS -- What do we think of the idea of taking a loan from an 401(k) in order to pay down credit card debt? - znufrii Jun 15, 07:33 27
- No. If you lose your job (in today's economy, that more of a possibility) you have to pay the loan back in full immediately, or get hit with taxes - ty97 Jun 15, 07:46 2
  - Although, assuming the CC debt he paid off would leave him with room on the cards... - TFox Jun 15, 07:50 1
    - I don't think you can pay back a 401K using a credit card, but I could be wrong on that. -- nm - ty97 Jun 15, 07:52
- if you feel comfortable with your job security, and understand the taxation issue, there is absolutely nothing wrong with doing this - decline Jun 15, 07:44 5
  - that's good to know. thanks. - znufrii Jun 15, 07:46 4
    - also, I'm curious how they would handle a Roth conversion if there is a loan balance outstanding - znufrii Jun 15, 07:52 3
      - the loan would not transfer over and would be treated as a distribution -- nm - decline Jun 15, 07:54 1
        
        makes sense. thanks. -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 07:54
      - I doubt you could do a conversion on funds that have been borrowed against. - TFox Jun 15, 07:53
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  - since I'm borrowing the money from myself, I can't imagine the interest that is charged would be going to anyone else. -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 07:40 4
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      - 4.25% -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 07:45
      - normally the rates are right around prime (sometimes prime+1) -- nm - decline Jun 15, 07:44
    - the interest is paid to you -- nm - decline Jun 15, 07:41
- that's very generous of you. thanks! -- nm - dug Jun 15, 07:34
- never a good idea, since the penalty is so high.. -- nm - colin Jun 15, 07:34 9
  - there are no penalties -- nm - decline Jun 15, 07:40
  - there's no penalty for a loan, just a $50 application fee. -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 07:34 4
    - eh, still.. not a fan of touching that money.. -- nm - colin Jun 15, 07:52 2
      - it's far from an ideal situation, but then again, so is my credit card situation. - znufrii Jun 15, 07:53 1
        
        shoot me an email.. we're probably in the same boat right now.. -- nm - colin Jun 15, 07:58
    - at least, if there is I'm not seeing it in the fine print. -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 07:35
  - plus if he loses his job, he owes the loan back. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:34 2
    - no. if he loses the job, the loan becomes income and he pays taxes on it as if he took a distribution -- nm - decline Jun 15, 07:41 1
      - either way, it's in the "not good" category... - znufrii Jun 15, 07:42
- very very bad idea. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:34
oh, proventil, I forgot I had you. I can use proventil prior to exercise for exercise-induced-asthma, correct? -- nm - ty97 Jun 15, 07:28 2
- is that a standard inhaler? if so yes. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:29 1
  - google says it is albuterol. yes. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:29
Oh, happy day - both Brotherhood Season 1 and Dexter Seasons 1&2 are available to watch instantly through Netflix. - kelly Jun 15, 07:27 1
- Both are awesome. -- nm - TFox Jun 15, 07:27
SO I just found myself laughing about Dawson's Fire story again, I wish I had seen that -- nm - MDH Jun 15, 07:26
those that play halo might like this pie chart. -- (link) - tRuMaN Jun 15, 07:19 [Image] 1
- Hmm, it misses the ever-important "In the path of your newly-spawned sniper bullet" -- nm - Beryllium Jun 15, 07:22
What a weekend -- nm - Redmond Jun 15, 07:12 9
- hey there. so, I was curious, what the hell *were* you saying in your drunk voice mails? At first I thought it was a phone call - loosilu Jun 15, 07:15 8
  - That was a car full of women and me headed to a strip club. - Redmond Jun 15, 07:18 7
    - me, twice. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:18 6
      - Twice?? Must have been an accidental redial. Btw I wasn't driving, too drunk at that point. - Redmond Jun 15, 07:20 5
        
        one of them was quite ... long. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:22 4
        
        Yeah, just looked at my call log. Called you twice, nubby, and Amoxy too. Don't remember that one either. -- nm - Redmond Jun 15, 07:23 3
        
        oh, he does. :) -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:24 2
        
        I was drinking wine all night. Doing well with that because I drink it slow enough not to get into trouble. - Redmond Jun 15, 07:28 1
        
        you were shooting Patron? what a waste! -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:30
LYC: I am so tired it is ridiculous. want to go back to bed. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:09 3
- yeah, me too... - znufrii Jun 15, 07:11 2
  - ha! which Civ? I'm having a post flu fatigue relapse apparently. I napped on and off all weekend. the long walk yesterday was a bad, bad idea. -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:12 1
    - Civ IV: Beyond the Sword. - znufrii Jun 15, 07:15
Well, of the three proposed Penny Arcade miniseries, I definitely don't want to see more of Jim Darkmagic. - Beryllium Jun 15, 07:00
Man, those NBA puppet commercials were beyond terrible. What an epic marketing error -- nm - Beaker Jun 15, 07:00 2
- early on I thought they were funny -- nm - GWAA Jun 15, 07:07
- They have TV shirts with the puppets on the at NikeTown, Fail -- nm - MDH Jun 15, 07:06
I just got this travel advisory - ty97 Jun 15, 06:50 1
- but if they settle with the pilots, and not any of the others, those are still on. -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 06:56
Bonnaroo was the last NIN concert in the US. -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 15, 06:36 1
- probably not.. he's still got bills to pay. -- nm - colin Jun 15, 06:38
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- I believe the correct term is "Lakerfen." -- nm - mara Jun 15, 07:19
Movies seen this weekend: The Hanngover B+, L.A. Confidential A -- nm - MDH Jun 15, 06:21 38
- Ikiru - B -- nm - con_carne Jun 15, 07:42 1
  - Ooh, thanks for the reminder - it sits unopened. -- nm - Jelly Jun 15, 08:02
- I watched the last half hour of both H&K2 and Fred Claus. that was probably enough for both. Fred Claus was ok. -- nm - TFox Jun 15, 07:23 1
  - The worst thing about Fred Clause was you could sense the movie it *could* have been while watching it. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 15, 07:30
- Hangover, B -- nm - dug Jun 15, 07:13
- Rocky Balboa....B+. A very fitting end to the series. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 15, 07:11 4
  - the first 20 mins is incredibly depressing but I agree. -- nm - Mel Profit Jun 15, 07:34 2
    - Without that 20minutes though, you don't have the raison d'etre for the 2nd half of the flick. - Will Hunting Jun 15, 07:39 1
      - I agree...it was just...unremitting but necessary. -- nm - Mel Profit Jun 15, 07:41
  - ...end. Right. -- nm - Sylvester Stallone Jun 15, 07:16
- Angels and Demon...Ungradeable...I loathe the ending that much. - Mel Profit Jun 15, 07:03
- up, A-; tin cup, A- -- nm - prayformojo Jun 15, 06:51 1
  - Costner time and time again does the best sports movies. - Will Hunting Jun 15, 07:12
- Sex Drive (C), The Hangover (B+), Summer Hours (A-), Wolverine (C-) -- nm - Dano Jun 15, 06:50
- Marley & Me: C+ -- nm - Max Jun 15, 06:49
- Hangover: A-, Angels and Demons: C -- nm - Diva Jun 15, 06:38
- The Hangover - C, Freaks - B-, Legend of 1900 - B-, Cthulu - C+, Land of the Lost - C+ - colin Jun 15, 06:32
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- Gran Torino B-: Good, but felt sort of ham fisted at times. -- nm - Subversive Jun 15, 06:29 7
  - It was decent, but needed a script doctor for some of the dialogue. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 06:38 6
    - And someone to teach the boy how to act -- nm - MDH Jun 15, 06:43 3
      - *bangs on the screen* - Jelly Jun 15, 06:58 2
        
        Yeah, he wasn't great - but I could understand that. The Hmong youth were all first-time actors, weren't they? - kelly Jun 15, 07:02 1
        
        Very true. It was an excellent Clint-is-the-man movie, nothing more. -- nm - Jelly Jun 15, 07:05
    - *nobody* tells Clint Eastwood what to say! -- nm - colin Jun 15, 06:42 1
      - Chuck Norris: Script Doctor -- nm - Beryllium Jun 15, 07:12
- Handover (twice): A-, Land of the Lost: D+, Fired Up (well, 45 minutes of it): D- -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 15, 06:28
- Up B- -- nm - ty97 Jun 15, 06:26 7
  - Uh-oh... you might be in as much trouble as I was last year when I gave a similar non-glowing grade to Wall-E. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 15, 06:28 6
    - i think Up is better than Wall-E. there, i've said it. -- nm - Andie Jun 15, 06:35 3
      - Me too. -- nm - pmb Jun 15, 07:30
      - I didn't dislike Wall-E, it just never rose above "cute" for me. Plus the preachiness of the message was a bit heavy-handed I thought. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 15, 06:49 1
        
        i really liked it, but i wasn't as enthralled as some. -- nm - Andie Jun 15, 06:53
    - that's cause Wall-E was brilliant.. Up was just okay. -- nm - colin Jun 15, 06:33
    - Nah - ty97 Jun 15, 06:32
- Gavin and Stacey Season 1: C+, Gran Torino: C. -- nm - kelly Jun 15, 06:25
- Let The Right One In, A -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 06:24
- Valkyrie (B+), The Bourne Identity (A-), The Little Mermaid (A), Australia (D+). -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 06:22
STIS: Help me decide what to do - MDH Jun 15, 06:21 1
- leave early. -- nm - colin Jun 15, 06:37
so, i saw UP last night. I *loved* it. -- nm - Andie Jun 15, 06:18 16
- Pixar's best since The Incredibles, in my opinion. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 06:20 3
  - what elevated the entire movie for me was (spoil) - prayformojo Jun 15, 06:32 2
    - yes. For sure. An easy front-runner for best scene of the year. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 06:37
    - absolutely, it was - Andie Jun 15, 06:34
- non spoiler question - prayformojo Jun 15, 06:19 11
  - That is kind of like when I'd asked people who loved Dark Knight to tell me the plot a week after they'd seen it. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 15, 06:33 1
    - heh. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 06:37
  - yep - ty97 Jun 15, 06:26
  - Will and I were trying to think of (spoilers) - kelly Jun 15, 06:25 5
    - hmm, - tRuMaN Jun 15, 07:02 4
      - Danke. -- nm - kelly Jun 15, 07:02 3
        
        your velcome - tRuMaN Jun 15, 07:04 2
        
        I remembered that! - kelly Jun 15, 07:05 1
        
        I cannot remember what (spoilers?) - tRuMaN Jun 15, 07:08
  - sure - it's - Andie Jun 15, 06:21 1
    - ok, you all are way smarter than i am - prayformojo Jun 15, 06:32
Ooh, teh sexay: Flickr finally catches up with TwitPic and others, so you can link to your pics via Twitter -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 15, 06:11
How one man became Facebook.com/joseph by beating the Facebook clock. -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 15, 06:00 2
- Will's still got several other first names he can choose from -- nm - ty97 Jun 15, 06:03 1
  - will should take "willjoedanny" -- nm - loosilu Jun 15, 07:31
Nintendo outsells competition (again) in May. They sold 633,500 DS's *in May*?!? Wow. -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 15, 05:38 1
- Well, they did just release the new DSi. -- nm - Ender Jun 15, 08:03
it cannot be june 15th already. -- nm - prayformojo Jun 15, 05:10 1
- It is. Time does indeed seem to be flying the last couple months. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 05:11
country music blaring through my hotel room wall is not my favorite way to wake up. no, no, no. -- nm - the windy city loves mandy lane Jun 15, 05:10 9
- ~ What were they thankin'? ~ -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jun 15, 07:22
- You're in Chicago? - JaxSean Jun 15, 05:31 6
  - my TV is broken. I don't care enough to ask to be moved. otherwise mine would have been on. - the windy city loves mandy lane Jun 15, 05:44 5
    - *hate* changing rooms. such a hassle -- nm - ty97 Jun 15, 05:59 2
      - right? if worse comes to worst, I'll watch roku online or something. oh, speaking of, sean, I *have* damages S1 in avi. - the windy city loves mandy lane Jun 15, 06:10 1
        
        ok cool. I got the dvd's back from my mom yesterday. Where's HdnAgnda? - JaxSean Jun 15, 06:12
    - Neechay. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 15, 05:48 1
      - (the Chicago part, not the broken TV / blaring country music part.) -- nm - JaxSean Jun 15, 05:49
- yikes! -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 05:11
Australia is one of the most boring movies I've ever seen. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 04:13 2
- I liked the stampede scene. -- nm - nubby Jun 15, 04:22 1
  - So did I. -- nm - Diva Jun 15, 04:47
Anyone awake? -- nm - Stacy Jun 15, 04:10
heh, the description for today's amazon mp3 du jour is messed-up: - b! Jun 15, 00:24 2
- heh. I was just looking at that. It is the Moody Blues "Days of Future Passed" album for $1.99. -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 15, 04:11 1
  - Which is probably more than the album cost when first released. :) -- nm - secretslacker Jun 15, 05:00
Where's mafic? I just purchased my Vancouver Folk Festival tickets. 25 minutes remaining on the earlybird pricing. -- nm - psilotum Jun 14, 23:35 8
- heh, in australia for one. lineup looks decent, worth it for the weakerthans alone. great lake swimmers are also pretty good. - mafic Jun 14, 23:46 4
  - Oh, and I realize you are in Australia. -- nm - psilotum Jun 15, 00:02 1
    - I thought it might be a "get your tickets if you haven't already." kind of post. -- nm - mafic Jun 15, 00:41
  - It looks like our family accomodations may be bursting at the seams this year. Any suggestions on where to stay? - psilotum Jun 15, 00:01 1
    - I don't actually know all that much about places to stay in vancouver. UBC is good. very nice location, and will be pretty quiet in the summer. - mafic Jun 15, 00:32
- Here's the artist list. Any I shouldn't miss? -- (link) - psilotum Jun 14, 23:41 2
  - ruhroh. - b! Jun 15, 00:28
  - the ones I mentioned above. steven page will probably be good. basia bulat is decent, but better in the workshop things they have than with her band - mafic Jun 14, 23:53
i love when things like this show up: a description of an EPA video on bioremediation i found on youtube - dug Jun 14, 23:17 1
- heh -- nm - Omega Jun 14, 23:23
"Tell Mike it was only business. I always liked him." -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 14, 22:55
hi there -- nm - dug Jun 14, 22:38 2
- they think so small, they use small words. -- nm - b! Jun 14, 22:43 1
  - (i'm on my way i'm making it) -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 14, 22:44
Downtown LA... what a surprise there. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jun 14, 22:37

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