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WUT -- (link) - ty97 Feb 16, 06:50 5
- *rolls over in his grave* -- nm - Edmund Burke Feb 16, 06:55
- Cancel Culture -- nm - Dano Feb 16, 06:54
- This is where this thinking is coming from -- (link) - Reagen Feb 16, 06:53 1
  - They really are very terrible people. -- nm - Diva Feb 16, 07:14
- yup -- nm - prayformojo Feb 16, 06:52
I legit keep watching for the frigid Texas weather in our local forecast and it...never arrives -- nm - ty97 Feb 16, 06:45 2
- Cost of electricity is 100x normal in some parts of Texas -- (link) - budice Feb 16, 06:56
- This is fine. -- (link) - budice Feb 16, 06:53
speaking of rare occurrences.....there was a dignan sighting yesterday afternoon - prayformojo Feb 16, 06:35 3
- dangit, how did he get out of my basement again... -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 16, 06:46
- And me without my digiball -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 16, 06:45
- Oh s**t! Nice! -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 06:38
LYC: Daughter had her day of interviews / auditions for Butler yesterday. Thought they went very well. The one with Jazz studies ended with "We look - oblique Feb 16, 06:34 11
- Yonh!! -- nm - Diva Feb 16, 07:09
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 06:45
- Nice. Where does that rank on her list? -- nm - spamlet Feb 16, 06:45 1
  - Hard to tell but I think it is climbing. My gut says this is where she ends up - oblique Feb 16, 06:56
- *jazzhands* -- nm - budice Feb 16, 06:44 1
  - that's 2nd year -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 06:45
- Nice! -- nm - Remlik Feb 16, 06:42
- give 'em hell, hobblette! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 16, 06:40
- nice -- nm - decline Feb 16, 06:39
- Fantastic! -- nm - znufrii Feb 16, 06:39
- Awesome! -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 06:37
Attention CO and TX: I will be travelling to you next week. Please turn up the heat before I arrive. -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 06:29 2
- CO never got this cold. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 16, 06:30 1
  - Denver, where it can be 60 on Monday, 20 with a foot of snow on Tuesday, and 80 on Thursday. -- nm - ty97 Feb 16, 06:30
The Beach Bum Who Beat Wall Street and Made Millions on GameStop -- (link) - Beaker Feb 16, 06:27
I can’t get email or internet, at work, because of the Texas power outages. Turn down the heat and put on a sweatshirt, you big babies. - Flavorize— Feb 16, 06:25 6
- they are starting rolling blackouts here. - tRuMaN Feb 16, 06:30 5
  - In Missouri or have you traveled to Texas for work? - Krusty Feb 16, 06:43 3
    - Missouri. we are part of a 17 state Southwestern power pool - tRuMaN Feb 16, 06:45 2
      - This is all related to the cold weather? Has this happened before? - Krusty Feb 16, 06:55 1
        
        yes weather, not happened before, well sorta. I think if there was a seriously bad heat wave a similar thing would happen. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 16, 06:57
  - Our Dallas office is offline -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 06:30
check this sentence. "We are seeing a very high number of errors due to part-time exempt appointments being assigned multiple types of pay accounts - amanda jeans Feb 16, 06:21 6
- note: the director of comm for our new financial system wrote that. so.... -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 16, 06:32
- Wait until faculty get paid the wages of a part-time cafeteria worker. That'll wake em up -- nm - budice Feb 16, 06:26
- that sentence needs a snack break in the middle of it. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 06:25 3
  - A period. And an 'As a result' or 'This caused/causes' would do a lot here. -- nm - ty97 Feb 16, 06:28
  - Surely the Germans have a word for the situation this sentence describes. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 16, 06:27 1
    - I'm pretty sure even the Germans would be scared of parsing that sentence. -- nm - spamlet Feb 16, 06:30
Happy Fasnacht Day, everybody! -- nm - decline Feb 16, 06:17
guys MUG lost connection to my phone. very scary few minutes as we panicked to come back together again. -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 16, 06:03 7
- It’s uploading all your drink choices to big brother. You’ll start getting Swiss Miss and Starbucks ads on your Facebook suggests, any day now - Flavorize— Feb 16, 06:20
- I think it is time to set up a MUG twitter account for more up to the minute information -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 06:07 1
  - Now Playing: Taylor Swift -- nm - MUG Feb 16, 06:16
- You mean your phone lost connectiion with *ME*. -- nm* - MUG Feb 16, 06:05
- thinking of you during these trying times -- nm - decline Feb 16, 06:05
- Connected. -- nm - MUG Feb 16, 06:04 1
  - This was all that hussy Alexa's doing, I just know it. -- nm - MUG si Feb 16, 06:19
from the Celebrating Little Victories file: I have been able to use the same bottle of super glue about 10 times over the course of 6 months - prayformojo Feb 16, 05:58 12
- what type of magician are you? -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 16, 06:19
- Related: I went to buy that spray on Gorilla Glue that woman used on her hair but it was sold out. I hope the people that bought it were not planning - Krusty Feb 16, 06:13 5
  - "Gorilla Glue Ice Bucket Challenge" -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 06:17 4
    - I hope we start to see some people with buckets stuck to their heads -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 06:19 3
      - Red Solo Cup Guy tried. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 06:55
      - isn't that bucket head dude like premier of the UK or something? -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 06:28 1
        
        Ha! -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 06:44
- I just ordered some super glue to pick up tonight with our groceries (screw you Walmart and your broken website last night - I'm going to Jewel) - oblique Feb 16, 06:08 1
  - Yeah, fuck you Walmart! - Krusty Feb 16, 06:12
- That's definitely in the top 3 of most uses for a single super glue bottle. I think my record is 3 or 4 uses. -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 06:02 2
  - I'm thinking I should take this thing on tour. Book signings, late night talk shows, the whole deal. - prayformojo Feb 16, 06:05 1
    - Gotta do Conan. He'd love you and your glue. -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 06:11
Marriott says CEO Arne Sorenson died after battle with cancer -- (link) - budice Feb 16, 05:57 2
- That's a very, very Norwegian-sounding name. - orio Feb 16, 13:45
- Very sad -- nm - ty97 Feb 16, 05:58
The West: cold. The South: Cold. The North: Cold. - ty97 Feb 16, 05:27 8
- It's cold out there - oblique Feb 16, 05:36
- I'll happily take winter over what happens in Florida in the spring and summer. Also, flying cockroaches. You suck Florida. -- nm* - Krusty Feb 16, 05:30 4
  - Also, Floridians. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 05:34 3
    - Yup. - Krusty Feb 16, 05:55 2
      - Screw all y'all. Pest control and air conditioning exist for a reason. - JaxSean Feb 16, 06:19 1
        
        Are they holding you hostage? We can get you and your family to a safe state where they won't find you. -- nm* - Krusty Feb 16, 06:40
- The visual. -- (link) - budice Feb 16, 05:29 1
  - I just want it to stop raining. Can we get some snow please? -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 05:50
Pedro Pascal: Narcos (Netflix), We Can Be Heroes (Netflix), The Mandalorian (Disney+), Game of Thrones (HBO), WW84 (HBO Max), House of the Dragon (HBO Max) -- (edited) - Mop Feb 16, 05:11 5
- semi-related. I'm sure I missed the "Weekend viewing" poll from yesterday: The Map of Tiny Perfect Things: A - oblique Feb 16, 05:20
- Last of Us too (didn't realize he'd been cast in House of the Dragon...) -- nm* - Beaker Feb 16, 05:15 2
  - That’s my bad. He was in Game of Thrones, but won’t be in House of the Dragon. -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 05:16 1
    - That should have been The Last of Us (HBO Max) -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 05:30
- To say nothing of Triple Frontier (Netflix) and the fact that he’s constantly “the other guy” in: The Great Wall, Kingsmen 2, etc. - Mop Feb 16, 05:14
School closed here today for the kids due to the storm we are getting -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 04:46 24
- We are virtual today due to ice and parents are pissed. They have jobs, you know! - kelly Feb 16, 05:17 2
  - This last year has made it very clear that parents are indeed some of the worst people. If it's that bad there no one should be on the roads and - Krusty Feb 16, 05:28 1
    - I have found it very interesting. A lot of people are like "schools are super vital, kids must go in person! Open them up" but when it comes - James Bond (aka Igor) Feb 16, 06:00
- Have they considered - now hear me out - teaching classes in some remote, online, distanced way? - Mop Feb 16, 05:07 19
  - teacher's want the snow days. You'll take them away over their cold dead hands -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 05:16 16
    - I'm so sad this year we are WFH because we'd have had four snow days already. I really wish the university would just give us off. -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 16, 06:04
    - We’re on the third “snow day” of the last two weeks but they’ve all been remote learning days. - spamlet Feb 16, 05:22 5
      - If my kid was doing well I'd tell them it's a snow day and go out and play or do whatever they want. Kids need to be kids. -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 05:24 3
        
        While my kids have totally lost the socializing with friends while at school, I find they have more free time since they’ve been learning at home. - Mop Feb 16, 06:01
        
        I don't know what the guidance is for younger kids but for the HS each class shouldn't give more than 15 minutes of work so kids are done in three hrs - spamlet Feb 16, 05:43 1
        
        That's not bad and at least the kids still get a lot of time to go outside but I think I might give my kid the day off if they were doing well. -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 05:54
      - I expect if we'd had to go to 2nd Phase at any point this school year they'd make these remote days - Reagen Feb 16, 05:23
    - Teachers have no control over this part. It's all the board. Here, they added a bunch of extra unpaid days into the school year to account for them - Reagen Feb 16, 05:20 8
      - We had our 2 weeks of inclement weather days taken away so we could start 2 weeks late this year, giving teachers to prepare for virtual - kelly Feb 16, 05:27
      - (also snow days are a major headache for continuity and curriculum) -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 05:21 5
        
        Meh. It's one or two days, like a weekend. -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 05:25 4
        
        we've gone to a two classes/day schedule to limit class changes - Reagen Feb 16, 05:29 3
        
        (and whee: 16 cm predicted for Friday) - Reagen Feb 16, 05:32
        
        I see how it can be an issue. I still want kids to have snow days. -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 05:31 1
        
        don't get me wrong, I recognize why they have to happen. It just creates a big headache on the other end. - Reagen Feb 16, 05:33
      - We had extra school days added so teachers could get vaccinated. That was a bit of a mixed bag of reactions -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 05:21
  - Let them have their snow day! -- nm - ty97 Feb 16, 05:09 1
    - This. -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 05:10
- closed here in anticipation of freezing rain. *stares out window* -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 04:53
F'n lake effect snow. -- nm - . Feb 16, 04:45 1
- It's the worst. -- nm - Diva Feb 16, 06:35
Such a weird storm here. From my house to work we probably get 5-6 inches overnight. Almost nothing during the day. Work was snowing all day. South - oblique Feb 16, 04:29 1
- I got at least a foot, maybe 18 inches. North of the city, near the lake. -- nm* - . Feb 16, 04:46
TV PSA: NHL/NBA, To Tell the Truth, Two Sentence Horror Stories, Young Rock, Kenan, Resident, Oak Island, Trickster, This is Us, Prodigal Son, Big Sky -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 04:26 1
- black-ish, mixed-ish, Temptation Island, Nurses, Queen Sugar, Real HW, Bad Habits Holy Orders (Hulu), other stuff -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 04:28
Daily Aha from NYT: The name of what widely spoken language consists of four consecutive U.S. state postal abbreviations? -- nm - prayformojo Feb 16, 03:43 4
- Took me 15 or so seconds. Haven't checked, but pretty sure I have the right answer. (Spoiler) - orio Feb 16, 13:42
- 1/1 (it was actually the first one I thought of) - Dano Feb 16, 05:20
- spoils -- (edited) - Reagen Feb 16, 03:47 1
  - very good -- nm - prayformojo Feb 16, 03:50
It's some pretty motivated reasoning that people can believe shit like "wind turbines require helicopter de-icing" and "one helicopter running for an - Reagen Feb 16, 03:40 4
- don't worry, the turbine graveyard will be next -- (link) - oblique Feb 16, 04:30 3
  - This comes up in mining circles a lot. The resources you need to have a sizeable portion of generation renewable are pretty staggering. -- nm - mafic Feb 16, 05:48
  - Wait, metal is recyclable now? -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 04:41 1
    - "recycled or sold" -- (link) - oblique Feb 16, 05:08
I want to congratulate Oko, Thief of Crowns to become banned in every format but Commander in Magic: The Gathering. Of course, if you play Oko... - IAmQale Feb 16, 03:02 2
- He’s not as good in commander, really. -- nm - Tim Feb 16, 04:50 1
  - I assume he still will give you pariah status if you use him as your Commander. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 16, 04:54
see, listen to my buddy crash davis - he gets it -- (link) - prayformojo Feb 16, 02:23 [Backboard]
Snap! I’ve got the power. A bit under 26 hour outage. Likely will not last as I am hopeful we’re at that rolling blackout as planned at least. - Qale Feb 16, 01:53 6
- This bullshit just reminds us how vulnerable our power grid is and the sooner we move to a distributed system, the better. - Mop Feb 16, 05:55 1
  - the problem though is you will always need transmission lines cause not everyone will be able to afford the solar/wind starter costs -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 06:11
- CHARGE ALL THE THINGS! Good luck. -- nm - Andie Feb 16, 05:42
- Nice! I hope it stays on. -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 05:01
- If you get sick from it and spike a fever, just remember that it will keep you warm :) -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 04:31 1
  - I imagine it wouldn't give me a fever, just relegate me to the smallest room in the apartment. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 16, 04:54
Oops, left night shift off and accidentally wrote 300 words of what will become a 750 word blog post (and then maybe edited down to 600) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 01:00 2
- Anyone remember PointCast? :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 01:02 1
  - Yep. Flash in the pan. Everyone had it for about a month. Push notifications of... what was it...? News headlines? -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 05:00
~Hima! Himalaya is my old time stompin ground. Mani! Manitoba better snows I've never found~ -- nm - con_carne Feb 15, 23:07
Local newspaper post: Infection rates down 30%... comments: see, as soon as the election was over it would go away -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 15, 22:50 1
- Still, we'll probably reach 500k cumulative deaths by the end of the week. -- nm - Max Feb 16, 02:13
Aw man. I love that some STers besides me know who Clutch is. In celebration, I link their most fortuitous, hard rockinest, ebleviounest track -- (link) - con_carne Feb 15, 22:41 [youtube] 2
- I just know "Electric Worry" - my main Oslo haunt plays it every now and then -- nm - orio Feb 16, 13:43
- youtube doesn't like that link (at least in canada) - here's spotify -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 15, 22:46 [spotify]
David Boreanaz & Amy Acker continue the anti-Joss Whedon parade. -- (link) - Mop Feb 15, 22:33 6
- Although Amy's is "nothing bad happened to me, but I'm sorry for anyone who it did happen to". -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 02:56 1
  - Yep. As Bery pointed out, Boreanaz isn’t very substantive, either. A lot like the messages of support from the Justice League cast, too. - Mop Feb 16, 05:05
- Since I'm only watching with half an eye, have the statements reported verbal abuse only, or also any physical abuse? - Max Feb 16, 01:23 2
  - Summary: Multiple people confirmed that the set was "toxic" and the Joss is "casually cruel". No one has specifically claimed physical abuse except - ralph wiggum Feb 16, 02:00 1
    - I won't be alone in a closed room with a student, just as a matter of policy. - Reagen Feb 16, 05:15
- His statement is ... well, it's what Giles should have said, but it's lacking in detail. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 15, 22:40
It checks out -- (link) - ty97 Feb 15, 22:19 3
- ... -- (edited) - Beryllium Feb 15, 22:22 2
  - Could they change that “Ercot” name? That’d be great. -- nm - Disney Feb 15, 22:29 1
    - They could change it to ERGOT, would that help? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 15, 22:39
Something we hadn't heard from Texas. Covid vaccines at risk when freezers lose power. -- (link) - Meg Feb 15, 22:02
heh. Okay, but why is AOC investigating Twitch? I though they were just a normal above-board amazon holding? - Beryllium Feb 15, 21:59 1
- Pssttt - . Feb 16, 05:00
I can hear blue Monday callin' but this old hangover just won't let me go...I feel like I'm just goin' down slow. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 15, 21:38 2
- How does it feel, when you treat me like you do? -- nm - Mop Feb 15, 22:28
- ... this isn't the Frasier I remember -- nm - Beryllium Feb 15, 21:58

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