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ST Poll: when is the last time you've applied for a job (let's say with a different employer, so not internal moves?) - ty97 Jul 8, 10:01 3
- 14 years ago (and I was invited to this job so not sure how much the application was necessary to get it) -- nm - oblique Jul 8, 10:03
- 2012 -- nm - Shaun Jul 8, 10:03
- ask this again when the board rolls! -- nm - prayformojo Jul 8, 10:02
So yeah, you know that big new Microsoft printer exploit that they patched on Tuesday? The patch doesn't work -- (link) - oblique Jul 8, 10:01 1
- whoops. (and looking at the URL I thought they misspelled "printing") -- nm* - prayformojo Jul 8, 10:02
And speaking of dumb-dumbs. I went to get lab work done for my physical. Guy wearing a mask that said This mask is as useless as our government - sycor Jul 8, 09:54
i've realized as i have been casually job hunting that i have not looked for a job in almost a decade. i really don't know how systems work now. - chicken daddy Jul 8, 09:52
Moderna enters clinical trials for its mRNA based flu vaccine -- (link) - oblique Jul 8, 09:51
Think I mentioned Criminal Minds on here a few months back. Now I noticed randomly yesterday that the streaming service I am subscribing to, will drop - ori-o Jul 8, 09:47 1
- I use Vital Thrills. They have sections for all the main streamers and list what movies and shows are going to each one each month. -- nm - sycor Jul 8, 09:53
Set gossip... - Andie Jul 8, 09:47 5
- No idea what show you are talking about, but that stinks no matter what show. Hopefully your friend is able to maintain some sanity. - sycor Jul 8, 09:51
- That sucks, but i didn't know they were reviving that show! -- nm - Inigo Jul 8, 09:51 1
  - hence the secret title inside. -- nm - Andie Jul 8, 09:54
- i heard similar news from the narnia show shooting.. crew is stressed and upset by the lack of safety. -- nm - chicken daddy Jul 8, 09:50
- I'm squishing their (asshole) heads! -- nm - kelly Jul 8, 09:50
It's raining. -- nm - sycor Jul 8, 09:39
Solid run for the Tampa area. Sports-wise -- (link) - Volnelk Jul 8, 09:39
Got my hold for Project Hail Mary just in time for the NY trip. Plenty of time to read on the plane, etc. -- nm - oblique Jul 8, 09:37 11
- Oh that reminds me, I got my hold for Dune a couple days ago and haven't started it yet. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 8, 09:39 8
  - I am amazed you guys don't do ebooks from the library. No holds necessary!!! -- nm - Spawn Jul 8, 09:40 7
    - This IS an ebook, and holds ARE necessary on my library's ebook platform. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 8, 09:48 3
      - (Libby/overdrive) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 8, 09:49 2
        
        I just wish I wasn't locked into my hometown library system. We seem to have a sparse selection sometimes -- nm - oblique Jul 8, 09:49 1
        
        There's a few books I've looked for that they don't have. Dune was like my fourth choice. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 8, 09:55
    - No holds with Hoopla, some holds with Overdrive, not familiar with other systems. -- nm - mara Jul 8, 09:46
    - Um. My hold is for the ebook, boomer -- nm - oblique Jul 8, 09:45
    - Ours you have to hold ebooks. -- nm - spamlet Jul 8, 09:43
- Eh, I would go with, "This Book Is Really a Bomb". -- nm - Spawn Jul 8, 09:39 1
  - I had to rethink taking "A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away" onboard with me when I flew once -- (link) - prayformojo Jul 8, 09:43 [Image]
Underaged kids need to be talked to about how they feel. No. Really talked to. As suicides and self-harm risks dip lower than adolescence in 2021. -- (link) - Qale Jul 8, 09:37
LOL - rating EAS alarms for different countries -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 8, 09:36
Why are you so bad at your job? - Mop, Montreal Canadiens Fan Jul 8, 09:21 4
- "Works as designed. That's a feature, not a bug." -- nm - JaxSean Jul 8, 09:23 2
  - Oldie but goodie -- (pic) - Baronnoo Jul 8, 09:25 [Attachment] 1
    - heh -- nm - JaxSean Jul 8, 09:28
- It sounds like the constant for it breaking is *you*. -- nm - Spawn Jul 8, 09:23
Marvel Trailer for the What If series. so cool. -- (link) - budice Jul 8, 09:11 2
- What if Squirrel Girl fought Captain America? Does she win? Does it matter if he's shaved first? -- nm - Baronnoo Jul 8, 09:35
- I'm in. - Spawn Jul 8, 09:21
Did SITV mention this? Nielsen introduced a new streaming metric called The Gauge in June. They went from only measuring boxes attached to TVs to... -- (edited) - Inigo Jul 8, 09:03 6
- Nielsen has been working on this, but they don't make the data public so it's hard to really know if the data is of any use. -- nm - Mop, Montreal Canadiens Fan Jul 8, 09:14 5
  - I can see that, but the data the NYTimes gives out there is significant. - Inigo Jul 8, 09:21 4
    - There's a flaw in the data which hurts YouTube substantially. - Mop, Montreal Canadiens Fan Jul 8, 09:32 3
      - Agreed. If there was a legit measurement of streaming from all devices, Youtube would be king. - Inigo Jul 8, 09:45 1
        
        How many people are going to agree to installing a device that would have to pretty much monitor all the traffic going into a household? - JD Jul 8, 09:59
      - Meh, I watch tons of TV on my phone. I barely use our actual TVs. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 8, 09:38
GUYS. - amanda jeans Jul 8, 09:02 16
- Excellent! -- nm - pmb Jul 8, 09:44
- very nice! -- nm - sycor Jul 8, 09:42
- woo-hoo! -- nm - ty97 Jul 8, 09:33
- VNI! -- nm - mara Jul 8, 09:32
- Nice!!! -- nm - Krusty Jul 8, 09:31
- They see you. -- nm - Max Jul 8, 09:21
- ! -- nm - prayformojo Jul 8, 09:19
- yep. -- nm - Diva Jul 8, 09:13
- You're supposed to send thank you notes? Oh noes! -- nm - Qale Jul 8, 09:11
- Bring the thank you note with you when you go to the second - oh and donuts too -- nm - decline Jul 8, 09:10
- That's good, right? - spamlet Jul 8, 09:06 1
  - I mean yes -- nm - amanda jeans Jul 8, 09:14
- huck and mandy sitting in a tree... -- nm - oblique Jul 8, 09:04
- I thought so. -- nm - Spawn Jul 8, 09:04 2
  - this is insanity. -- nm - amanda jeans Jul 8, 09:04 1
    - Nah, they just came to their senses. You actually were in a dream last night, which was odd, so I figured things were moving in the 'verse for you. - Spawn Jul 8, 09:10
Animal Crossing Monopoly arrives in August -- (link*) - oblique Jul 8, 08:49 1
- The only way to win is to be Tom Nook. -- nm - Baronnoo Jul 8, 09:26
Something new & weird happeed today: Browser was lagging in the extreme. I thought about cursing both my laptop and my ISP. Did not think to curse - ori-o Jul 8, 08:47 4
- I've been having page-load problems for months and finally decided it was Chrome. I'm debating a complete switch to Edge. -- nm - Meg Jul 8, 09:17 3
  - COuld Windows be sabotaging the use of Chrome on their OS? I mean, Edge is their own, in a way - but it's like a skin on Chrome, someone told me. -- nm - ori-o Jul 8, 09:20 2
    - Both Chrome and Edge are based on Chromium, the open source browser built/sponsored by Google. Microsoft has some specific features they've added in - oblique Jul 8, 09:24 1
      - Kilbo, thanks - also, I noticed some issues very recently on the machine, after power-chord was unplugged in the middle of a session. - ori-o Jul 8, 09:26
LIR Max - this weekend I actually saw bags of Black Walnuts on the shelf at our Sam's Club in Traverse City. (they are great in banana bread) -- nm - JenBro Jul 8, 08:46 7
- I'm not sure I know those. I'm only familiar with...beige? walnuts. - Max Jul 8, 08:50 6
  - my mom used to pick up walnuts (from black walnut trees) shell them - dry them - crack them - and harvest the nuts inside ... they are delicious. you - JenBro Jul 8, 08:56 5
    - Just don't touch them with bare hands while you're shelling them. You'll have stains from the husks for a couple of weeks :) -- nm - Meg Jul 8, 09:20 4
      - This is our Black Walnut at Stanley Ranch. Started in 1971 from a cutting of one of the original ranch trees. -- (pic) - Meg Jul 8, 09:23 [Attachment] 2
        
        You spaced that out well. -- nm - Max Jul 8, 10:53
        
        wow! that's an incredible tree. -- nm - chicken daddy Jul 8, 09:53
      - yup - black walnut stain -- nm - JenBro Jul 8, 09:22
Jenna Dewan blessed the Sacred Timeline with self love -- (link) - budice Jul 8, 08:45 4
- Blessed be. -- nm - Spawn Jul 8, 08:50
- I clicked only to figure out who she is :) -- nm - oblique Jul 8, 08:47 2
  - (C Tatum's ex) Read Playboy for the Articles too. -- nm* - budice Jul 8, 08:48 1
    - Alternately to not define her by her past relationships, the star of Step Up -- nm - JD Jul 8, 08:54
LIR: Gettr. The site was also hacked on launch day -- (link) - oblique Jul 8, 08:33 11
- I love the "we got hacked cause the Libs are scared and we are making a difference!" reasoning. No moron. You got hacked cause criminals aren't stupid - Beaker Jul 8, 08:54
- my favorite thing people do is register "official" alt-right personality accounts before the real people can.. trolls got Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro -- nm - chicken daddy Jul 8, 08:39 9
  - Shapiro's got a high profile on SoMe, but this guy Kirk has never appeared in my recommendations, that I've noticed. - ori-o Jul 8, 09:19
  - Can't believe I read that as Charlie Sheen, the first two times. -- nm - ori-o Jul 8, 08:44 7
    - they both have weird faces, i guess? -- nm - chicken daddy Jul 8, 08:45 6
      - I don't even know this Kirk - never heard of. I know Shapiro. -- nm - ori-o Jul 8, 08:47 5
        
        take this quiz and you'll learn something. -- (link) - chicken daddy Jul 8, 09:00 4
        
        Who made this, anyway? - ori-o Jul 8, 09:16
        
        Well... -- nm - ori-o Jul 8, 09:09 2
        
        how'd ya do?? -- nm - chicken daddy Jul 8, 09:15 1
        
        I'll agree he has kind of a weird face - in a way- You feel he's like a "Manchurian Candidate", perhaps? -- nm - ori-o Jul 8, 09:17
SITWAP? MLB Home Run Derby will feature helmet cams courtesy of T-Mobile -- (link) - oblique Jul 8, 08:24 6
- so they will promise great coverage by miss every 7th pitch because of network issues? -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 8, 08:30
- they should put cameras in the balls too -- nm - decline Jul 8, 08:25 4
  - They juice the balls anyway for the event but they’re also not using the humidor. I could probably hit a few out this year. -- nm - spamlet Jul 8, 08:35
  - pervert -- nm - oblique Jul 8, 08:28 2
    - L3. NutCam -- nm - budice Jul 8, 08:37 1
      - You messin with deez nuts!?! -- nm - Spawn Jul 8, 08:40
AEW: So it’s Cien Andrade vs Evan Borne. Alrighty then. -- nm - Qale Jul 8, 08:17 5
- How do you pronounce Cien? -- nm - decline Jul 8, 08:20 4
  - SEE-en? -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 8, 08:28
  - I pronounced it NEEEEEW NXT Champion when I saw him at Wargames. -- nm* - Qale Jul 8, 08:22 2
    - Phonics? -- nm - Spawn Jul 8, 08:23 1
      - Hooked on ‘em. Worked for me. -- nm - Qale Jul 8, 08:24
MDH: More importantly, Dimitrov is playing the Citi Open again. -- nm - Dano Jul 8, 08:13
TIL: Hulu/FX is doing an Alien TV series that looks like it will focus on the Weyland/Yutani corporation -- (link) - decline Jul 8, 08:09 5
- Workplace comedy? -- nm - Reagen Jul 8, 08:16 2
  - "in this company we only run in straight lines!" -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 08:29
  - "Jesus it's like Iwo Jima out there." -- nm - Roger Sterling Jul 8, 08:18
- yes!!! -- nm - mud Jul 8, 08:13 1
  - I have a feeling my T-shirt will not fit anymore. -- nm - Spawn Jul 8, 08:31
Hey, anyone wanna get stranded? -- (link) - ty97 Jul 8, 08:06 2
- I have no complaints with my T-Mobile service. I get service when others have issues. -- nm - Krusty Jul 8, 08:08 1
  - but what about when others don't have issues? -- nm - decline Jul 8, 08:09
a Pegasus in the Olympics would be right on brand. -- nm - Reagen Jul 8, 08:06
I was looking back through the old Spelling Bees and I laughed that no one touched this one -- (link) - Reagen Jul 8, 08:05 [Backboard] 1
- "I notice we got a lot of mail while I was on vacation last week, was there HOLY-" -- nm - Editor Jul 8, 08:13
Illinois starts their COVID vaccine lotteries today. $1M to one person (7M eligible), three minors will get $150k scholarships. - oblique Jul 8, 08:04 9
- penn state isn't requiring vaccines but are entering us into a lottery if we upload vax proof. ONE winner get $1000. - amanda jeans Jul 8, 08:38 4
  - Seems like they could have offered a ton more than that if they partnered with local taco businesses for $50 gift cards. -- nm - Max Jul 8, 08:40 1
    - do not tempt me to yallah for lunch today. I have no time! -- nm - amanda jeans Jul 8, 08:41
  - We will pay your student loans off! - Will Hunting Jul 8, 08:40 1
    - They spent a lot of money on the abuse settlement. -- nm - jnine Jul 8, 09:00
- Now that the virus is running rampant in rural areas with vaccine rates in the teens, incentives to get vaccinated seem good to our governor. - spamlet Jul 8, 08:08 3
  - Oh but if it’s the Feds, they’re not welcome. -- (link) - spamlet Jul 8, 08:13
  - I'm marginally nervous about Black Widow tonight. The theater was nearly 100% booked when I got my ticket with no indications of blocked off seats -- nm - oblique Jul 8, 08:09 1
    - wear a hazmat suit -- nm - decline Jul 8, 08:10
So we have a new puppy at our office - Marley - 8 weeks! -- (pic) - JenBro Jul 8, 08:00 [Attachment] 16
- Holy crap that is one adorable animal. -- nm - mara Jul 8, 09:33
- so much fluff. We watched the Butler episode of Dogs Season 2 on Netflix last night. Super cute also -- nm - oblique Jul 8, 08:42 2
  - Love that dog! I don't care about Butler but I do follow Butler Blue on IG. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 8, 08:50 1
    - It's a nice episode that focuses equally on the handlers. Definitely worth the watch -- nm - oblique Jul 8, 08:51
- oh WHAT that's adorable -- nm - chicken daddy Jul 8, 08:40
- ack! so cute. -- nm - Andie Jul 8, 08:33
- That is just a stufie! -- nm - Spawn Jul 8, 08:21 1
  - right??? totally looks like a stuffed toy! -- nm - JenBro Jul 8, 08:57
- Awww. What a cute pooch! -- nm - Krusty Jul 8, 08:03 2
  - she has one blue eye and one brown eye! When she wakes back up I’ll try for better pics -- nm - JenBro Jul 8, 08:05 1
    - Yes, more pics! - Krusty Jul 8, 08:06
- "Office Puppies" sounds like a ploy to get people to come back into the office. - JaxSean Jul 8, 08:02 2
  - Puppies -and- Cake in the Breakroom? Fuuuuuuuuuuccck. -- nm - Qale Jul 8, 08:21
  - there is a Facebook post inviting clients to stop in to meet our newest team member! -- nm - JenBro Jul 8, 08:04
- breed is golden doodle Aussie -- nm - JenBro Jul 8, 08:02 1
  - I guess the eyes come from the Aussie. Sooo Cute! -- nm - Meg Jul 8, 08:39
whoopsie -- nm - decline Jul 8, 07:53
Tom Brady all set to toss Lord Stanley's Cup -- (link) - budice Jul 8, 07:53

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