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I can't believe the Nationals manager still has a job. They're going to go down as one of the worst teams ever. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 09:05 11
- Maybe they tried to pink-slip him, but ended up giving him a pink-slap instead; or, they spelled his name wrong and pink-slipped someone else -- nm - Beryllium Jun 15, 09:14
- Of all the situations that are not the manager's fault, this is one. - TFox Jun 15, 09:11 5
  - Not true, they gave him 5 decent corner outfielders and 2 first basemen. - musubi Jun 15, 09:13
  - Yeah, this is pretty much entirely Jim "Leatherpants" Bowden's fault. -- nm - Ender Jun 15, 09:13
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  - They have the single worst bullpen I've ever seen. - Will Hunting Jun 15, 09:12 1
    - IIRC, they only have one pen member with and ERA under 4.5. That's staggering. (nm) - musubi Jun 15, 09:14
- Acta's a good hand in a horrible situation. They expected to suck. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 15, 09:08
- I think the Nats know that some other team would sign Manny Acta in a heartbeat if he were let go. - musubi Jun 15, 09:08 2
  - Some reports are saying he could be gone soon. -- (link) - Don Homer Jun 15, 09:09 1
    - I can only hope and pray he replaces Jerry Manual as soon as humanly possible. (nm) - musubi Jun 15, 09:11
Best and worst of your weekends, please. -- nm - Andie Jun 15, 09:02 34
- best - fantastic dinner cooked by my roommate Saturday night, and fantastic wine to go with it. - znufrii Jun 15, 09:14 1
  - worst, gf's out of town so the rest of the weekend was spent on the computer playing Civ -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 09:14
- best: Visiting my friends at the CouchSurfing apartment, worst: Missing the annual Puerto Rican Parade due to work -- nm - Hotkiss Jun 15, 09:14
- Best - Dinner at Japonais and kicking a soccer ball around with my daughter. Worst, getting rained out of golf on Saturday. -- nm - pmb Jun 15, 09:12
- best-lunch/movie date with heather on saturday in our old neighborhood; worst - seeing that most of our old haunts there are gone - prayformojo Jun 15, 09:11
- Best: seeing mom after the surgery Worst: seeing her cry cuz she has no muscle response in her arm yet. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 15, 09:09 3
  - How's she doing now? (best wishes, dude.) -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 09:10 1
    - She's doing about as well as expected. She's in therapy right now to try to get the left side working properly again, but the docs are very happy - Will Hunting Jun 15, 09:11
  - oh, i need to backboard. -- nm - Andie Jun 15, 09:10
- Best: Making a construction paper hat with moose jr. Worst: tie between Friday and Sunday Mets games.(nm) - musubi Jun 15, 09:09 2
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    - I fear, and truly do mean *FEAR*, that Johan is broken. - musubi Jun 15, 09:15
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- Best: getting to tour my new work building with my dad. Worst: there wasn't really. Great weekend. -- nm - TFox Jun 15, 09:09
- Movie Day with my best friend was the best. - Mel Profit Jun 15, 09:08 2
  - i think i'm mentally done at this job. i'm spending this week with bosses away cleaning up computer, files, etc and job hunting. -- nm - Andie Jun 15, 09:09 1
    - It's interesting when you reach that point. -- nm - Mel Profit Jun 15, 09:15
- Worst: woodticks after trail-walking. Best: drinking beer and IMing for 3 hours with a friend on Sunday afternoon. -- nm - mara Jun 15, 09:08
- Best: sitting in row 13 on the 1st base side at the Phillies game yesterday. Worst: not getting any of the errands done I needed to. -- nm - decline Jun 15, 09:05
- Best: Birthday party for a friend. Worst: My surround sound system is toast. -- nm - Ender Jun 15, 09:05
- Best: seeing my little bro, who is living in LA for the summer. Worst: Losing TV and leaving my headphones at my mom's house. -- nm - con_carne Jun 15, 09:05 1
  - This wouldn't happen if you had a big TV, like 52". It's hard to lose one of those. -- nm - Mop (235 lbs) Jun 15, 09:14
- Best: Celebrating my birthday with lunch at Chili's (yum), movie, and family time. -- nm - ty97 Jun 15, 09:04 6
  - Worse: Mother randomly crying because I'm crying. Worst: Being asked by my mother if I'd be the husband or wife in a relationship. -- nm - ty97 Jun 15, 09:04 5
    - well then... stop crying! :) -- nm - Andie Jun 15, 09:07 1
      - Dammit! Randomly crying because I'm *MOVING*. (I was not crying) -- nm - ty97 Jun 15, 09:07
    - What was your response? -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 09:06 2
      - That there are two husband (no wife) in a gay male marriage -- nm - ty97 Jun 15, 09:07 1
        
        CONGRATS!!! -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 09:07
- Saying a prayer over a good friend who was baptized on Sunday - amoxy Jun 15, 09:03
- Best: the chimps at the zoo. Worst: having to take care of Andrew at 2 last night. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 09:03 2
  - Your worst is some of my best/worst of raising kids - amoxy Jun 15, 09:05 1
    - Getting up during the night really sucks. Luckily it didn't take too long and he conked out after rubbing his back for a couple minutes. -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 09:06
- Best, having drinks with an old old friend and her neighbours on her back deck in my hometown, Worst: the mosquito bites i got there. -- nm - Andie Jun 15, 09:02
because ST is good at this kind of thing: interview tomorrow, and I have some of the questions. #1 "What attracted you to apply for this position?" - mafic Jun 15, 08:50 15
- Find positive things about the company that are different from companies you've worked for, and tell them you've been looking for such a company. -- nm - con_carne Jun 15, 09:01 2
  - honestly, they're a cashed up junior and I'm sick of working for the majors, but that's not a politically wise answer. -- nm - mafic Jun 15, 09:10 1
    - "I'm energetic, and I want to work for a young, hungry, energetic company." -- nm - con_carne Jun 15, 09:12
- good reputation in the industry? -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 09:00
- Well, why do you want to work for this company? Are they an innovative company? Have a great environmental record? - amoxy Jun 15, 08:59 2
  - problem is with junior exploration companies there aren't really answers to most of those. - mafic Jun 15, 09:08
  - they haz monies, he wants monies ... - Beryllium Jun 15, 08:59
- "I needed a change of pace after my last supervisor 'disappeared' under mysterious circumstances..." -- nm - Ender Jun 15, 08:54 2
  - "... in Darkest Africa ..." -- nm - Beryllium Jun 15, 08:55 1
    - "The horror" -- nm - con_carne Jun 15, 09:02
- Anything that the company is doing different than other companies? Telling them that you like their innovative approach or something would be good. -- nm - mara Jun 15, 08:53 1
  - not really. they're basically just a cashed up junior with a good joint venture partner. - mafic Jun 15, 09:03
- "Your reception is hot." -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 08:53
- Break out into the full song of "I collect rocks." -- nm - Beryllium Jun 15, 08:51 1
  - Video for those who don't know wh at I mean: -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 15, 08:52 [youtube]
Suck it, haters. (nm) - musubi, Laker fan Jun 15, 08:50 5
- shouldn't you be out burning a car or something? -- nm - colin Jun 15, 08:54
- My question, do you all vote the Memphis GM a share? - Will Hunting Jun 15, 08:53 3
  - It was highway robbery. All praise be to Mitch Kupchak. - musubi Jun 15, 08:56 2
    - I think it's Chris Wallace. If he was a former Laker guy, I'd think ya know, it was a favor..... - Will Hunting Jun 15, 08:57 1
      - hmm, kobe probably hooked him up with a hotel room in colorado... -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 15, 09:11
Phil Ivey is having a *very* good WSOP so far. - Will Hunting Jun 15, 08:43 9
- I hope you saw Matusz in Frederick while you had the chance. - the wrong element, bad guy Jun 15, 09:02 2
  - Yeah, he's merited it. And it looks like Hobgood is a quick sign as well. - Will Hunting Jun 15, 09:08 1
    - Yeah, Hobgood is supposed to be going to Baltimore this week or next to sign. - the wrong element, bad guy Jun 15, 09:14
- Are they still doing the final table for the main event in November? - amoxy Jun 15, 08:57 2
  - After last year's ratings and interest...hell yes. - Will Hunting Jun 15, 09:01
  - Never mind, just saw they are doing it again -- nm - amoxy Jun 15, 09:01
- they buried the lead. He won it, while playing in another simultaneous event, which he finished 22nd in. -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 08:47 2
  - Yeah, that's incredible. Dude is unreal good. - Will Hunting Jun 15, 08:49 1
    - I see Chan's in the Elite 8 of the 10k Heads-Up tourney. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 15, 08:52
British puppy survives being flushed down toilet -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 15, 08:40 4
- Re: Penny Arcade. Today's just isn't interesting. The other two have way more potential. -- nm - Tim Jun 15, 08:44 3
  - the art threw me. The helper looked the same as the woman on stage. -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 08:52 2
    - (and they both look how he draws his wife) -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 09:00
    - Yes, that was also odd. I think Lookouts would be the most fun to build on ... but Automata would be the most interesting. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 15, 08:59
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- *hopes this isn't hotkiss's real name* -- nm - mafic Jun 15, 08:42
- *waits a week, vanity-googles "Terryn", sees this post) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 15, 08:41
- Is "Terryn" znufrii? -- nm - Don Homer Jun 15, 08:39 2
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  - thank god, no. -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 08:41
- Worst. gay. ever, -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 08:37
Ika. - lileve Jun 15, 08:32
Now they want to take away voting rights....for zombies that is....in the Phillippines. -- (link) - Beaker Jun 15, 08:31 1
- It works in Chicago. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 15, 08:34
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- Why is anyone surprised? He's never said he was a supporter of gay marriage. He and McCain held basically the same position. -- nm - Dano Jun 15, 08:55 4
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    - Point of curiousity, how high up do these briefs go before they are submitted? - znufrii Jun 15, 09:09 1
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  - This goes far beyond "not being a supporter" -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 08:57
- Maybe not MSM, bit of there's quite a bit coverage of it in the blogosphere. - musubi Jun 15, 08:54 4
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    - Fair enough. - musubi Jun 15, 09:07 2
      - the only good thing I can see coming of this is to stoke the fires of activism within the movement itself to get this sh!t overturned in congress. -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 09:10 1
        
        (and even that is a stretch for me this time around) -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 09:10
- as a friend of mine put it on his livejournal, someday Obama will have to explain to his daughters why he was on the wrong side of history on this. - znufrii Jun 15, 08:45 1
  - I'll be quite unhappy if don't ask don't tell isn't remedied soon. It's a f-ing disgrace. - Don Homer Jun 15, 08:57
- Yeah this somehow slipped under the radar -- nm - MDH Jun 15, 08:38
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So 30 minutes was perhaps too long to wait to try to buy Paul McCartney at Citi Field tickets for my father. - Tim Jun 15, 08:27
~I got a feeling... that tonight's gonna be a good night... that's tonight's gonna good night... that tonight's gonna be a good good night~ - Cuzzin Todd Jun 15, 08:26
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- *shocked* -- nm - con_carne Jun 15, 08:22
- They're making me look good by comparison! -- nm - Harry Reid Jun 15, 08:19
- This like a grade school circus - ty97 Jun 15, 08:15 3
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    - Haven't read the whole thing yet, but here's a topical article discussing it -- (link) - ty97 Jun 15, 08:26
    - I'm guessing there's no appointment process for it, which is strange. Probably have to wait until 2010. -- nm - Tim Jun 15, 08:24
nmb Jelly (non spoilerish Ikiru comments inside) - con_carne Jun 15, 08:12
You know that movie, "Happy Feet"? And you thought that "Australia" was the worst thing Hugh and Nicole made together? -- nm - Mop (235 lbs) Jun 15, 08:10 2
- Aw I liked Happy Feet -- nm - MDH Jun 15, 08:12
- I thought it was cute. -- nm - Beaker Jun 15, 08:10
Iran appears to be in full revolt at this point. -- (link) - Reagen Jun 15, 08:09 28
- Can someone summarize what's going on over there? Last I heard there were elections going on. - JaxSean Jun 15, 08:23 20
  - the guy he stomped is claiming massive voter fraud, the losers supporters are mainly upper-middle class and university students -- nm - Beaker Jun 15, 08:24 1
    - the university students are currently protesting and getting pounded by the Army and the winners supporters (hard liners, alot of rural people) -- nm - Beaker Jun 15, 08:25
  - The elections have pretty much been laughed at as fraudulent - Will Hunting Jun 15, 08:24 17
    - but at the end of the day - as per the last 30 years - the ayatollahs will decide the outcome. - mafic Jun 15, 08:37 12
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        Taking sides in an Iranian election. What could possibly go wrong? -- nm - con_carne Jun 15, 08:49
        
        And mobilize the hardliners even moreso? - Will Hunting Jun 15, 08:44 7
        
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        Any involvement would be seen as proof of the hard-liners' accusation that the opposition campaign was a western-funded plot. -- nm - znufrii Jun 15, 08:50 5
        
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        YOu're not recognizing the reality of the audience over there. -- nm - Mel Profit Jun 15, 09:14
        
        You -- nm - Mel Profit Jun 15, 09:14
        
        It is, if it only serves to make things worse. - znufrii Jun 15, 09:01
        
        Does anyone here think Obama's supporting the Iranians oppression? - Will Hunting Jun 15, 08:55
      - "It works on any Ayatollah: Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi...even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmada and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating - prayformojo Jun 15, 08:42 1
        
        Disco Stu doesn't advertise. -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 08:48
    - Some of the state by state results are apparently about as plausible as "McCain wins Hawaii with 80%, Obama fourth behind Nader and Buchanan". -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 08:26 1
      - heh. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 15, 08:30
    - Of course it is a sham. They did not win 99.9 percent of the vote! -- nm - zombie Saddam Hussein Jun 15, 08:26 1
      - Kim Jong Il laughts at your 99.9%. -- nm - Beaker Jun 15, 08:27
- If they can't get the Army to back them, better off giving up now. -- nm - Beaker Jun 15, 08:18 1
  - Yeah, I hope it doesn't turn into a Tiamennan Square massacre -- nm - amoxy Jun 15, 08:30
- I love when a plan implodes so spectacularly. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 15, 08:16
- When the "Supreme Leader" is asking questions, you know he's worried. - Mop (235 lbs) Jun 15, 08:12 3
  - the whole thing is weird. The Presidency is sort of figureheady, so I can't understand why the Supreme Council would even concern itself with rigging - Reagen Jun 15, 08:16 2
    - Agreed, as far as I see, what the supreme leader says, goes -- nm - amoxy Jun 15, 08:26 1
      - but if he loses, then they might have to rethink their Israeli policies, then their UYS relations etc, is how I think they see it -- nm - Beaker Jun 15, 08:28
Lennox Lewis among a group inducted into the Boxing Hall Of Fame -- (link) - Beaker Jun 15, 08:06 2
- For some reason, I read this as Annie Lennox - amoxy Jun 15, 08:26 1
  - she had an incredible left jab. It's rarely talked about in interviews. -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 08:50
LYC, I just saw that those powerline ethernet things won't work through surge protectors. - Reagen Jun 15, 08:06 3
- That would be good. Easier than the other option. - Subversive Jun 15, 08:17 2
  - It's these guys -- (link) - Reagen Jun 15, 08:19 1
    - I've had good experiences with those. Hopefully they work for you. - Beryllium Jun 15, 08:36
Stop asking ST to decide your life and try Hunch instead -- (link) - TWuG Jun 15, 07:58 1
- But we know each other better. That site looks like another informaiton cache for marketing. -- nm - lileve Jun 15, 08:06
Why is it that the project you really want to stay dead and done, is always the one that gets periodically reopened and examined? - TFox Jun 15, 07:56
Remember the "broadcast flag"? It never came to be. As a result, digital TV is DRM free. Thank these folks. -- (link) - TWuG Jun 15, 07:54

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