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Roll poll: I did a bad thing (no, not illegal) before I lleft my last job that made it impossible for my successor. What was it? - loosilu Apr 13, 16:47 10
- Set a specific password -- nm - JaxSean Apr 13, 17:12
- a great job? -- nm - Beaker Apr 13, 16:53
- Such an amazing job that they couldn't possibly replace you? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 16:52 4
  - Obviously, but that's a good thing. -- nm - loosilu Apr 13, 16:54 3
    - Other government employees may not think so. :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 16:55 2
      - That's where my sister usually gets in trouble. By doing a good job and making her lazy coworkers look bad in comparison. - . Apr 13, 17:03 1
        
        Very common. -- nm - loosilu Apr 13, 17:04
- Used your biometrics in two factor authentication and new person can't log in to anything you set up. -- nm - TWuG Apr 13, 16:50 1
  - Oh, I wish I I thought of that. In fact I will bookmark this thread for future ideas. -- nm - loosilu Apr 13, 16:55
- (actually several things so multiple answers apply) -- nm - loosilu Apr 13, 16:48
It's almost actually approaching warm outside -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 16:35 1
- (17C/63F and sunny) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 16:36
Accurate. -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 13, 16:33 1
- English Bay Geese are so sedate and well-behaved. -- nm - mud Apr 13, 16:58
Ok so The Nevers is set in the 1800s, but why is it filmed like a Jane Austen movie? -- nm* - Reagen Apr 13, 16:32 1
- It’s generally disjointed. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 13, 16:54
Mets..rally? -- (link) - budice Apr 13, 16:24
Muscle Memory is a thing - Mel Profit Apr 13, 16:16 5
- Hmmm. On my Chrome, the refrsh button is on the left. We did spend many years expecting it in the center here. -- nm - loosilu Apr 13, 16:45
- Part of my pc screen has missing pixels from dropping it. It's right where my back and refresh buttons are. I was constantly clicking in the void. - jnine Apr 13, 16:22
- Heh. I got very used to having it on the left during the experimental phase, as did others, so much that when I turned off the experiment... - Beryllium Apr 13, 16:19 2
  - auto-refresh -- nm - budice Apr 13, 16:22 1
    - Very difficult to implement in a way that isn't horrendous. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 16:34
Oakland driver goes over 100 mph in Maserati, collides with freeway underside, CHP says - JD Apr 13, 15:54 17
- Pfft! It doesn't even look like he got airborne. -- (link) - Ender Apr 13, 16:39 [youtube]
- My Maserati does 185 -- nm - Dano Apr 13, 16:08 5
  - Joe? -- nm - zork Apr 13, 16:46
  - AGE, not *number*! -- nm - prayformojo Apr 13, 16:09 3
    - "neither is IQ apparently" -- nm - budice Apr 13, 16:29
    - Next board we should do songs containing velocities in their lyrics. -- nm - Dano Apr 13, 16:25 1
      - Just a song before I go To whom it may concern Traveling twice the speed of sound It's easy to get burned -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 13, 16:46
- Maserati SUV. I just priced them. $78K is where they start, $160K is the top price for a loaded car from a dealer. -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 13, 16:06 1
  - I don't get Maserati SUVs. -- nm - zork Apr 13, 16:46
- How is he not dead?!? Wow. -- nm - Krusty Apr 13, 16:00 1
  - Looks like the driver's side isn't wedged. Luckily there was no passenger -- nm - JaxSean Apr 13, 16:06
- He destroyed his GF's Maserati? He may have survived the crash, but I'm thinking he's gonna be dead when she finds out. Or at least wish he was. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 15:57 2
  - oh shit. -- nm - Diva Apr 13, 16:03 1
    - This is why I want a follow up -- nm - JD Apr 13, 16:09
- is this guy still alive? -- nm - Diva Apr 13, 15:57 2
  - "The driver was taken to a local hospital due to a complaint of pain" -- nm - budice Apr 13, 15:58 1
    - Mr. T was driving? -- nm - Reagen Apr 13, 16:08
Picasso news -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 13, 15:53
Thanks to the ST Turntable crew for reminding me there's tons of music out there I like but never play on my own. Sharing music is teh awesome -- nm - con_carne Apr 13, 15:52 10
- I vaguely recall this. What is the current state of this? - Mel Profit Apr 13, 16:09 2
  - Go to turntable.fm and create a user. The Slackertalk room is at turntable.fm/slackertalk and the password is what Jax sez -- nm - con_carne Apr 13, 16:12 1
    - excellent! Thanks. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 13, 16:13
- all the young dudes. Mott the Hoople -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 13, 16:09 [youtube] 1
  - and Bowie -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 13, 16:09 [youtube]
- I'm still waiting for my password to join in, but looking forward to it. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Apr 13, 16:06 3
  - they opened it up pretty much to everyone now. The password is "speakeasy" -- nm - JaxSean Apr 13, 16:07 2
    - Yup, I just created a user at the Turntable home page. -- nm - con_carne Apr 13, 16:10
    - Ah! Well, then ... . And thank you! -- nm - ReluctantCynic Apr 13, 16:08
- Yep, thanks all. We should have theme days, like "all 70s", "all Covers", "Every Song has to have a Person's Name in it" -- nm - JaxSean Apr 13, 16:05
"Due to a combination of high gen outages. ERCOT may enter emergency conditions. We do not expect customer outages. " -- (link*) - ERCOT 1 hour ago Apr 13, 15:43 1
- *gets a 3,000 bill* -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 13, 15:50
So we now have eight of our Oscar Handicap series available... - Edward Havens Apr 13, 15:36
I haven't looked closely at the J&J stories, but as far as we know, there haven't been any deaths attributable to C19 vaccines, have there? -- nm - Max Apr 13, 15:33 4
- Moderna Dose 2 did to me exactly what they said could happen... - Mel Profit Apr 13, 16:41
- Mine gave me flu-like symptoms overnight, but weirdly without coughing and sneezing. Expected, nothing a bit of Tylenol couldn't ease -- nm - con_carne Apr 13, 15:55
- 1 woman died from the clots, 1 in critical condition. -- nm - jnine Apr 13, 15:40
- One -- nm - budice Apr 13, 15:40
77. happy birthday Jack Casady. here's some live acoustic Hot Tuna -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 13, 15:30 [youtube]
Now the NYPD and the ME are gone and the unit is sealed off by order of the NYPD -- nm - ty97 Apr 13, 15:22 7
- So you're saying there might be a unit opening up in your building? -- nm - Mop Apr 13, 16:06
- NOW they should lower your rent -- nm - JaxSean Apr 13, 15:48
- Yeesh. Sorry -- nm - Krusty Apr 13, 15:45
- Homicide, suicide, or just a suspicious dead body. Congrats! -- nm - loosilu Apr 13, 15:31 3
  - I'm sad, and a little freaked out, whatever it was. -- nm - ty97 Apr 13, 15:39 2
    - Time to move. - spamlet Apr 13, 15:41 1
      - Or at least renegotiate rent. -- nm - Dano Apr 13, 15:43
And, I love that the couple behind the songs in the "Frozens" also wrote the songs for WandaVision. -- nm - Diva Apr 13, 15:12 5
- really? that is cool. Some of those songs are great. -- nm - mud Apr 13, 15:19 4
  - I like 'Agatha All Along' and another that is earlier in the series - can't remember the name. -- nm - Diva Apr 13, 15:54 2
    - I had in mind "Into the Unknown", "The Next Right Thing", "For the First Time in Forever" and "Let It Go". Wanda stuff is fine, they're just ditties. -- nm - mud Apr 13, 16:07 1
      - yep. the Frozen tunes are solidAF. -- nm - Diva Apr 13, 16:11
  - There's a segment in Assembled: The Making Of WandaVision that is them discussing how they developed the themes for each of eras -- nm - JD Apr 13, 15:24
Pop Is Pissed. -- (link) - mud Apr 13, 15:10 3
- and we can back up the chain of events to just about anywhere to make it nuts that this happened - Reagen Apr 13, 15:16 2
  - quotas - Jovian Apr 13, 15:19
  - apparently George Floyd’s gf was Daunte’s teacher -- nm - mud Apr 13, 15:18
We are at an open air bar. Donald Belisario is here. We should start talking loudly about how much NCIS sucks, right? -- nm - amanda jeans Apr 13, 14:57 9
- I stopped watching years ago when it was obvious they were catering to Angry Old White Guys. - Mel Profit Apr 13, 16:08
- tell him I am still in love with Coates from JAG -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 13, 15:22
- "And Tom Selleck is the *real* Magnum P.I." -- nm - budice Apr 13, 15:09 2
  - and ONLY -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 13, 15:23
  - "Ron Moore is the real BSG" -- nm - budice Apr 13, 15:22
- Go pretend you are inhabited by Sam Beckett and kick his ass! -- nm - Spawn Apr 13, 15:02
- Go throw a drink on him and tell him he shoulda brought Sam Beckett home! -- nm - Dean Winchester Apr 13, 15:01
- "You know what I miss? Quantum Leap." -- nm - Reagen Apr 13, 15:01
- and then gush about how great Airwolf was and that it's time for a reboot - JD Apr 13, 15:00
From BB's regarding rainbow polar bears: Princess Disney found a "colourful zebra" a few years ago at tip to a zoo in the US.... - Walt_Disney Apr 13, 14:41 2
- Only white polar bears :( -- (link) - Meg Apr 13, 15:17 1
  - San Diego Zoo has all kinds of "Rainbow Sherbet animals - except Polar Bears :/ -- (link) - Meg Apr 13, 15:25
For anyone who likes true crime docs and/or recent Boston history, the Netflix series on the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum art heist is pretty good -- (link) - znufrii Apr 13, 14:26 7
- Binged it over the weekend. I liked it alot. - Mel Profit Apr 13, 16:13
- watched it. s'okay. -- nm - Diva Apr 13, 15:07
- I watched some this weekend. It's not bad. -- nm - amanda jeans Apr 13, 15:04
- True crime AND Vermeer AND Whitey Bulger? Everyone stand back. -- nm - loosilu Apr 13, 14:40 2
  - Spoiler - znufrii Apr 13, 14:47 1
    - Yeah I know. Not the point. -- nm - loosilu Apr 13, 14:48
- It was much better than I expected and had more details than anything else I'd seen before it. -- nm - Krusty Apr 13, 14:29
Now the Medical Examiner's office is here -- nm - ty97 Apr 13, 14:25 8
- Is it Tamara Tunie? She's stunningly beautiful. -- nm - IAmQale Apr 13, 14:52
- 😬 -- nm - Krusty Apr 13, 14:28
- What did you do?!? -- nm - decline Apr 13, 14:27 5
  - "Professor Plum in the Foyer with a Candlestick" -- nm - budice Apr 13, 14:29 4
    - Anything nepharious that happens in a Foyer would most likely be the doorman -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 13, 15:28
    - I was about to say THERE'S NO FOYER! but now I can't remember. I'm going to name as many Clue Rooms as I remember in the IM. - loosilu Apr 13, 14:43 2
      - I got 6/9. Correct answers in my IM. - loosilu Apr 13, 14:47 1
        
        I got them all but hall. Guess I mistook it for the foyer! -- nm - Spawn Apr 13, 15:04
When AMC's A-List becomes a problem -- (edited) - JD Apr 13, 14:20 26
- Frozen 2 was so bad I honestly don't know how an adult can sir through it more than once. -- nm - MDH Apr 13, 15:06 4
  - I was looking through my A-List history and found Teen Titans Go! to the Movies and I remember being the only single person (as opposed to being in a -- (edited) - JD Apr 13, 15:15
  - saw it twice in the theatre. once with my 5-year old nephew. we had a blast. -- nm - Diva Apr 13, 15:09 2
    - With a kid, totally see that. (I love seeing movies with the partner's nephews/niece) -- nm - MDH Apr 13, 15:22 1
      - Only since seeing it have kids on school field trips at the museum been able to identify ice tongs. I doubt if their parents even can :) -- nm - Meg Apr 13, 15:29
- We watched it seventeen days it a row when it came out on Disney+ -- nm - znufrii Apr 13, 14:37 3
  - 😂 -- nm - Diva Apr 13, 15:09
  - Did you sell the child on Day 18? -- nm - ty97 Apr 13, 14:38 1
    - “I’ve seen dark before, but not like this.” -- nm - znufrii Apr 13, 14:38
- I've only seen one movie more than 10 times (Blade Runner, ~16) The next four most would likely be Episode IV, Episode VI, BR 2049 & Alien (each 8-10) -- nm - mud Apr 13, 14:32 1
  - I can not even guess mine, but TESB was dozens. - Spawn Apr 13, 14:58
- Jebus. And I thought my 6 viewings of Endgame in the theater was excessive. - Spawn Apr 13, 14:28 3
  - That's interesting. I saw Infinity War more times than Endgame in theaters. -- nm - IAmQale Apr 13, 14:55 1
    - Having a wife and son really put a damper on some things. If AMC Stubs had been out when I was single, it would have been used 3x a week, always. - Spawn Apr 13, 15:02
  - Right? My five theater viewings of Home Alone feels perfectly fine now. -- nm - Krusty Apr 13, 14:39
- i still haven't seen Frozen 2. i guess i should. (I don't love Frozen, like, it's fine.) -- nm - Andie Apr 13, 14:28 4
  - It’s a very different film from the first one. -- nm - znufrii Apr 13, 14:48
  - I don't think I've seen it either. I only saw the first one as part of family night when my brother was putting me up -- nm - JD Apr 13, 14:46
  - I have not seen I or II. I am waiting for III to come out and I will binge them. -- nm - Spawn Apr 13, 14:29 1
    - Frozen III: Solid -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 14:49
- I don't even think I've seen The Neverending Story that many times. (I'm purposefully ignoring Rocky Horror Picture Show, of course.) -- nm - IAmQale Apr 13, 14:24 2
  - I'd be impressed if you've seen The Neverending Story even twice on the big screen. That's kind of the thing about that story: 31 times in a theater - JD Apr 13, 14:32 1
    - I have seen it twice on the big screen. Once as a kid, the second time was a Fathom event. And The Childlike Empress liked my tweet about it! -- nm - IAmQale Apr 13, 14:54
- This is exceptionally well typed for my daughter. -- nm - Reagen Apr 13, 14:22
- I haven't even seen Xanadu that many times. - Max Apr 13, 14:22 1
  - I've yet to see Xanadu even once theatrically 8( -- nm - JD Apr 13, 14:23
When Tom Morello met DMX, as he told on his radio show this week. - Spawn Apr 13, 14:05 2
- this is awesome -- nm - JaxSean Apr 13, 14:49
- 😆😆 -- nm - Krusty Apr 13, 14:21
Me: “please respond to the following list of outstanding items in your comments on this draft.” Them: “we have no further comments.” -- (edited) - znufrii Apr 13, 14:01 2
- ... per my previous email -- nm - rollo Apr 13, 14:27 1
  - “Did I f*cking stutter?” -- nm - znufrii Apr 13, 14:48
Does anyone have a suggestion for an Oakland hotel that doesn't have *heavily* mixed reviews? -- nm - ty97 Apr 13, 14:00 5
- this guy might -- (link) - znufrii Apr 13, 16:18 [Backboard]
- well that knocks out the Oakland Hilton -- nm - Pippy Apr 13, 14:04 3
  - The one by the airport? -- (edited) - ty97 Apr 13, 14:10 2
    - I stayed there a few years ago. It's ok. If you don't need to be by the airport, the Marriott City Center is good,if you're not going to walk outside. -- nm - jnine Apr 13, 15:49
    - Yes and don't even think about staying there. - Pippy Apr 13, 15:03
When I saw this claim on Facebook I was sure it was lefty misinfo but apparently it is true? -- (link) - ty97 Apr 13, 13:55 3
- ("If the news breaks *and* I voted yes for this I'd be seen as a hypocrite, and that would be bad." *NAY* "Make something of that, libs.") -- nm - Max Apr 13, 14:02
- That was what I had heard. -- nm - Spawn Apr 13, 13:56 1
  - I figured you saw it on FB too -- nm - ty97 Apr 13, 13:59
Don't tase me, dog! -- nm - Spawn Apr 13, 13:55 1
- Favor granted -- nm - rollo Apr 13, 13:58

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