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it's only been two weeks and three days but I'm just so much happier being at work full time. do you guys want to see the shitty view from my new wind - ow? -- nm amanda jeans Mar 10, 05:49 15
- Being happier is definitely a key. -- (edited) - spamlet Mar 10, 06:22
- I'm told it's a birch tree. -- (pic) - amanda jeans Mar 10, 05:57 [Attachment] 11
  - Birch, please. -- nm - IAmQale Mar 10, 06:14
  - I think it may be a silver bitch tree. -- nm - mafic Mar 10, 06:01
  - Someday this will all be yours! -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 10, 05:59
  - "View from a Minimum Detention Facility" -- nm* - budice Mar 10, 05:59 7
    - I said it was shitty! it's a window though! -- nm - ow? -- nm amanda jeans Mar 10, 05:59 6
      - where's the big a/c compressors? you can tell the temp outside by how loud they get -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 10, 10:48
      - It is a window 8-) I could only wish for a window -- (link) - JD Mar 10, 06:56 [youtube]
      - and that's why we don't subject wrap. -- nm - amanda jeans Mar 10, 06:00 3
        
        At least there's grass and sky, and the windows look like they open. I like it -- nm - JaxSean Mar 10, 06:14
        
        What you need are some frilly old lady curtains. -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 10, 06:00 1
        
        Gets 1 hour in that yard each day -- nm - budice Mar 10, 06:01
- 👍 -- nm - decline Mar 10, 05:55 1
  - nm -- nm - decline Mar 10, 06:37
Nationwide standby list for leftover COVID vaccine doses -- (link*) - znufrii Mar 10, 05:34 4 1
- Bonus: their About page is populated with hotties -- nm - con_carne Mar 10, 05:58
- Biden administration to buy an additional 100 million doses of J&J’s single-shot Covid vaccine -- nm - budice Mar 10, 05:55 1
  - how many did we already buy? if nobody wants them, what's the point? -- nm - ow? -- nm amanda jeans Mar 10, 05:59
- grassy ass -- nm - oblique Mar 10, 05:41
Ditloids - prayformojo Mar 10, 05:16 4
- That is such an unfortunate name - oblique Mar 10, 05:43
- 6 and 7 - znufrii Mar 10, 05:30 1
  - 8 - znufrii Mar 10, 05:31
- 7 - Reagen Mar 10, 05:17
"Wait, the Queen lives in England?" "Where... did you think she lived?" " I dunno, Quebec or something." -- nm - Classroom Transcripts Mar 10, 05:09 1
- She’s the Queen of Canada too, so that’s almost not unreasonable? -- nm - mafic Mar 10, 05:45
Happy birthday, Colin! Woo hoo!!! -- nm - Krusty Mar 10, 04:51 8
- happy happy!! -- nm - Diva Mar 10, 05:57
- Colin! God of sex! -- nm - oblique Mar 10, 05:45
- Happy b! (NM) - Marlowe Mar 10, 05:44
- Happy BDay -- nm - budice Mar 10, 05:34
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker Mar 10, 05:16
- birthday! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 10, 05:15
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - Pippy Mar 10, 05:07
- Happy birthday! -- nm - spamlet Mar 10, 04:56
Random Roles: Isiah Whitlock Jr “sheeeeeeeeeit -- (link) - Beaker Mar 10, 04:04
TV PSA: NHL, The Brier (curling), Riverdale, Masked Singer, Tough as Nails, AEW Dynamite, Chicago Med, Fire PD; Nancy Drew, WWE NXT, SEAL Team, SWAT -- nm - Beaker Mar 10, 04:01 2
- The Con, Game of Talents, Last Chance U: Basketball (NF), South Park: South ParQ Vaccination Special, Marriage Or Mortgage (NF), Dealer (NF), -- nm - Beaker Mar 10, 04:03 1
  - The Challenge, Good Trouble, Samantha Bee, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Mar 10, 04:04
I used part of my tax refund to prepay down my credit card bills for the month. Maybe not strictly necessary but it's a lovely gift for me next month. -- nm - Reagen Mar 10, 03:48
nm -- nm* - Strongbad Mar 10, 03:45
today marks one year since the first covid death in my county... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 9, 23:56 1
- Doom scrolling wasn't enough, now we're doing fond doom scrolling anniversaries. -- nm - con_carne Mar 10, 03:39
Rachel Maddow notes that GA has the same DA team that nailed a corrupt sheriff and those school teachers for RICO which is wider ranged there. - zeitgeist Mar 9, 23:23 1
- and that corrupt mayor had his successor killed. -- nm - Diva Mar 10, 05:57
Crazy chase tonight. Driver wanted for hit-and-run, damaged a number of other cars, finally stopped and there was a four hour standoff with - Meg Mar 9, 23:09
I've finally found an extension to make Slackertalk Beta not so glaringly white. It's for Edge called appropriately enough Dark Mode. -- nm - IAmQale Mar 9, 22:36 1
- #STsowhite -- nm - oblique Mar 10, 05:31
Who the hell voluntarily takes on the name "Scroobius Pip"? #Debris -- nm - Ender Mar 9, 22:20 4
- It's one of the more ridiculous names I've heard someone use. -- nm - Krusty Mar 10, 04:53
- Looking for a new podcast? -- nm - LMS Mar 10, 00:49
- A spoken word poet and hip hop recording artist. -- nm - . Mar 10, 00:40
- My uncle changed his name to Scroobius Pip. - Beryllium Mar 9, 22:35
We're expecting rain and cold tonight and the radar is already showing snow on Santiago Peak. That's between here and Hwy 15. Not that far away. - Meg Mar 9, 22:07
Examining the logs now. Originally I thought the downtime was due to maintenance, but the logs look suspicious. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 20:58 7
- Go figure our logs are sus. -- nm - IAmQale Mar 9, 21:19 1
  - I hope we can sus it out. -- nm - Mop Mar 9, 21:19
- Hmm, suspiciousness no longer looks suspicious. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 21:05 4
  - I'm suspicious of your saying it's not suspicious. -- nm - David Mar 9, 22:13 2
    - I’m suspicious of you knowing enough to be suspicious about that. -- nm - mafic Mar 10, 05:49
    - It looked like a whole flood of blocked connections... but it turned out to be just a typical average number after looking at older logs. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 22:18
  - Suspicion confirmed! -- nm - Mop Mar 9, 21:19
wazzup -- nm - psilotum Mar 9, 20:56 3
- Hi! -- nm - Pippy Mar 10, 05:15
- Hey hey!! -- nm - Krusty Mar 9, 21:47
- This guy looks familiar. That’s sus. -- nm - Mop Mar 9, 21:19
B16 (you heard me): My expensive wine story. I was at a work dinner with a price ceiling, and when it was determined we were way under the ceiling - rollo Mar 9, 20:15 11
- mel took me to London and Paris for a milestone bday. - Diva Mar 10, 06:06
- When I worked in diamonds there were some Nights. Almost the only thing I miss is the expense account. -- nm - mafic Mar 10, 05:48 1
  - If anyone knows what a cave tastes like... -- nm - oblique Mar 10, 05:49
- I once had a medium priced bottle of wine where the tasting notes included "barnyard". -- nm - Reagen Mar 10, 03:50 1
  - Another good fighting wine is Melbourne Old and Yellow, which is particularly heavy and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat. -- nm - con_carne Mar 10, 04:11
- I've had some generous tastes of a $400 bottle of whisky, and its less expensive relatives. -- nm - . Mar 10, 00:50
- I don’t know what caves taste like. -- nm - Mop Mar 9, 21:21 1
  - Dank. Grit. Moist. Guano. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 21:31
- Was at a holiday lunch ages ago and was offered an $80 snifter of cognac for "dessert". - zunk xometimes Mar 9, 20:33 2
  - Many years ago a local county official faced a hearing over his expense account. One item in question was for entertaining a group to lunch at - Meg Mar 9, 21:34 1
    - a 'bottle' for 100? how could it possibly be that cheap, or was this 30 years ago? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 9, 23:28
Was not expecting a full endorsement of Ted Lasso in the Penzey’s email I got today. - Tim Mar 9, 20:03 1
- Saw Ted Lasso ads on Fox Sunday night during Simpsons/Family Guy. Winning all those awards is making Apple bold. -- nm - Mop Mar 9, 21:20
Impact/Aew/NJPW twist.....CHampion vs Champion matches are coming - Remlik Mar 9, 19:55 1
- Are these all fully independent wrestling operations? -- nm - Mop Mar 9, 21:35
When my unread emails or support ticket queue gets short, things tend to go haywire at work. On Monday, both reached nearly zero. - Mop Mar 9, 19:34 7
- So you have an on prem Exchange server? -- nm* - JD Mar 9, 19:41 6
  - He said he can't disclose it. But that one is certainly causing a lot of headaches. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 19:42 5
    - Oof. This one sounds bad too ... -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 9, 19:45 4
      - ^ this is in Europe, ST is hosted in san francisco -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 21:06
      - And that's why you should host your own data and then there's the Exchange issue so then that's why you should be in the cloud -- nm* - JD Mar 9, 19:51 2
        
        And this is why I want a sailboat, so I can forget about all that for a while. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 19:52 1
        
        😆 -- nm - JD Mar 9, 19:55
Local charity silent auction tonight. People have money to burn and/or want to get out. I've never seen prices like this. -- nm - MDH Mar 9, 19:20 3
- Yup, I'm looking forward to our Barn Sale next month and wish we could raise our prices just a little. The old- timers won't go for it. -- nm - Meg Mar 9, 19:24 2
  - A zoom session on charcuterie board design went for $700. -- nm - MDH Mar 9, 19:48 1
    - How did it taste? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 19:50
There you go -- (link) - ty97 Mar 9, 19:15 4
- peak New York. - mafic Mar 9, 19:55
- So, Chicago bagels are the best because you eat them in Chicago. And Montreal bagels are... -- nm* - . Mar 9, 19:50 2
  - And San Francisco bagels? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 19:50 1
    - I go for sourdough there. ;) -- nm - . Mar 9, 19:51
Peacock is such a terrible app. -- nm - Remlik Mar 9, 19:10 1
- I think Paramount+ is like tied for terribleness. -- nm - IAmQale Mar 9, 21:20
RIP Roger Mudd -- (link) - Meg Mar 9, 18:59
Southern states are reporting an excess of vaccines because people don't want them :( -- nm - Meg Mar 9, 18:50 13
- Yeah, this is what I'm talking about. It's a serious concern. -- nm - David Mar 9, 21:21
- turning red states blue. -- nm - mafic Mar 9, 19:58
- I'll take them! -- nm - jnine Mar 9, 19:37 1
  - *ALL* the vaccines! FACT! If you take all three different vaccines, you’re 3x as immune. -- nm - Mop Mar 9, 19:41
- I wonder what the Venn diagram of “thank Trump for that vaccine, libs!” and “hell no I’m not getting it” is. -- nm - Tim Mar 9, 19:04 2
  - A perfect circle? -- nm - znufrii Mar 9, 19:04 1
    - What a bunch of pusifer tools. -- nm - IAmQale Mar 9, 21:21
- Cool. -- nm - Pennsylvania, still in 1A Mar 9, 19:00
- They’re *literally* killing themselves off. It’s such a strange flex. -- nm - Mop Mar 9, 19:00 4
  - What doesn't kill them ... makes them permanently excluded customers of the health insurance industry. - Beryllium Mar 9, 20:03 1
    - Maddow was saying tonight that in this stimulus bill is money to support and expand obamacare -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 9, 23:16
  - Darn...? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 9, 20:00
  - Apocalyptic death cults, ftw! -- nm - znufrii Mar 9, 19:01
the Gritty nude pic auction going about as well as you would expect... -- (link) - Beaker Mar 9, 18:50
The Equalizer gets season 2 -- nm - Beaker Mar 9, 18:40
The Oscars Reminder List of Eligible movies lists 366 titles and their Actors and Actresses. 1,040 unique Actors - guess how many Actresses? CTTP -- (link) - Max Mar 9, 18:33 5
- Answer: 794 women. Alison Brie was most prolific in 4 titles. Four men also had 4: Tom Holland, Rob Morgan, Dan Stevens, and Chris Messina. -- nm - Max Mar 10, 00:11
- 848 -- nm - Flavorize Mar 9, 19:42
- Jesus. You counted them? I’d say 800 actresses from the list I saw. -- nm - Mop Mar 9, 19:40 1
  - I converted the PDF to excel and added the list to my movie spreadsheet here -- (link) - Max Mar 9, 23:59
- 312.5 -- nm - Beaker Mar 9, 18:33
Disney CEO Bob Chapek on Gina Carano - Mop Mar 9, 18:28
All Alaskans over age 16 are now eligible for COVID-19 vaccine -- (link) - ty97 Mar 9, 18:15 3
- Some towns are already 90% vaccinated. - . Mar 9, 18:34 1
  - All around good news! -- nm - ty97 Mar 9, 18:39
- Cool. -- nm - Pennsylvania, still in 1A Mar 9, 18:18
I think this Gunnlaugson (Manitoba skip) is a character from Letterkenny. -- nm - mud Mar 9, 18:04
Christmas Eve and NYE are on a Friday this year. Is that good? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 18:03 3
- No. - znufrii Mar 9, 18:11 2
  - I shut down my office eve and day for both holidays, so I am screwed out of two days off. -- nm - Spawn Mar 9, 22:29
  - More opportunities to buy buy buy! -- nm - Max Mar 9, 18:28
Cool, my hometown college might be Dancin’ -- (link) - Will Hunting Mar 9, 17:56 1
- 👏👏 -- nm - Krusty Mar 9, 18:17
They replaced my Jeopardy host with Katie Couric. -- nm - Mop Mar 9, 17:47 6
- I've rather liked her so far. -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 9, 18:16 5
  - I watched tonight and thought she was fine. - Diva Mar 9, 18:48
  - NOOOOOPE. When she would give us the right answer, it was very much someone who is ignorant trying to tell us what's right. -- nm - Mop Mar 9, 18:30 2
    - Of the upcoming guest hosts, Mayim Bialik probably has the most general nerd cred. -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 9, 19:07 1
      - I expect Dr. Oz will make me want to gouge my eyes out. -- nm - Mop Mar 9, 19:33
  - I couldn't warm to her. Can't really describe why. -- nm - Meg Mar 9, 18:23
they had me at Cocaine Bear. -- nm - Beaker Mar 9, 17:45 1
- 😺👍 -- nm - crash davis Mar 9, 18:06
The country is expecting to start opening up in the next few days. The Gem Theater has already announced a show opening April 22. - Meg Mar 9, 17:42
wife made a New York pizza virtually tonight with a chef from NY (Mark Bello; Mark and Jenny Bello; guess they own a pizza place there) -- (edited) - Beaker Mar 9, 17:40 9
- Very cool! They don't have a pizzeria here just the school but it looks really interesting. I'd take the class. -- nm - Krusty Mar 9, 17:52 6
  - it was great fun. much different way to cook the za too. heated oven to 500F and the broil on high once goes in for a short time -- (edited) - Beaker Mar 9, 17:57 5
    - Sounds pretty good. I do know you want the oven as hot as possible and I've read about people using the broiler over the oven. - Krusty Mar 9, 18:19 4
      - the hot oven to start cooks the crust fast then the broiler cooks toppings just as fast. it was some damn good za and you HAVE to have a -- (edited) - Beaker Mar 9, 18:28 3
        
        I can try that. I have a pizza stone and pizza steel, of course. :-) -- nm - Krusty Mar 9, 18:35
        
        You're trying to convince me you actually call it 'za' and I won't have it. -- nm - Reagen Mar 9, 18:31 1
        
        trying to save letters is all :) -- nm* - Beaker Mar 9, 18:32
- nice -- nm - budice Mar 9, 17:42
- having it again for supper tomorrow night too! -- nm - Beaker Mar 9, 17:41
Hey everyone. Wife and I are cruising again winter 2022 after the holidays are in the rear view mirror. If anyone is interested in going? - Bacon Mar 9, 17:39 6
- Anywhere specific in mind? -- nm - Mop Mar 9, 17:49 2
  - Oh sorry too vague. Caribbean Cruise, 8 days. -- nm - Bacon Mar 9, 19:32 1
    - I can give the dates on Facebook or private email. Just don't advertise when we will be gone in a public chat. -- nm - Bacon Mar 9, 19:33
- Oh, I wish, but I don't think I'll be quite ready by then. Maybe next time :) -- nm - Meg Mar 9, 17:43 2
  - I'm actively planning the 5-day Columbia River cruise in June 2022. I'd be in Portland the weekend of June 17-19. -- nm - Meg Mar 9, 17:58 1
    - Awesome!! -- nm - Bacon Mar 9, 19:32
Harry & Meghan have announced the name of their daughter will be Edith. :) -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 9, 17:35 5
- 😬 -- nm - Krusty Mar 9, 18:45
- not Betty or Veronica? -- nm - Beaker Mar 9, 17:50
- That's mean. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 9, 17:39 2
  - Could be worse. -- nm - Enid si Mar 9, 17:48 1
    - (I might have just given every canadian an earworm.) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 17:52

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