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Lincecum and Greinke. - Will Hunting Jun 30, 13:15 4
- I think Haren and Vazquez have valid arguements over Lincecum. (nm) - musubi Jun 30, 13:17 2
  - Lincecum's 2nd in ERA, behind Haren, with more K's and yes, more wins. - Will Hunting Jun 30, 13:18 1
    - And thats not counting at least a half dozen other NL pitchers who are as good this year -- nm - eag Jun 30, 13:24
- *pets them both* -- nm - Mel Profit Jun 30, 13:16
MN Senate Race: Coleman concedes to Franken -- (link) - budice Jun 30, 13:11 9
- autonick -- nm - lileve Jun 30, 13:42
- Grab your parkas on your way down to hell, folks! - David Jun 30, 13:21
- This is one of those hoax news websites, isn't it? -- nm - con_carne Jun 30, 13:19
- And now its time to get down to work. *Shuffles papers* Oh lookit that. Summer recess! -- nm - Franken Jun 30, 13:16 1
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- �I congratulate Al Franken in his victory in his election.� -- (link) - budice Jun 30, 13:15
- Good for him -- nm - amoxy Jun 30, 13:13
- *phew* -- nm - znufrii Jun 30, 13:13
Jesus Christ will my SIL ever leave? -- nm - Beaker Jun 30, 13:11 7
- Sorry. Can't help. I did my thing for humanity already. -- nm - JC Jun 30, 13:14
- Really? Which cliched TV trope is she? -- nm - con_carne Jun 30, 13:11 5
  - she keeps asking if her 3 year old is ready to go...I want my fucking supper dammit -- nm - Beaker Jun 30, 13:12 4
    - it's ... 4 in the afternoon. -- nm - loosilu Jun 30, 13:15 2
      - 5 in the Atlantics. But he's still late for the early-bird special -- nm - Roger More Jun 30, 13:17
      - Maybe Beaker is older than we thought. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jun 30, 13:17
    - and yes we invited them to stay -- nm - Beaker Jun 30, 13:12
i love book talk. -- nm - Andie Jun 30, 13:07 2
- I'm supposedly the big reader in my family, yet I don't come close to keeping up with you guys -- nm - con_carne Jun 30, 13:09 1
  - I used to be the big reader ... but somewhere I broke my brain. -- nm - loosilu Jun 30, 13:13
Is this why we had the makeupless Mariah earlier? Mariah Carey as Eminem -- (link) - con_carne Jun 30, 13:05 1
- I really like this song though, I can totally see her getting another #1 -- nm - MDH Jun 30, 13:08
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- If everyone had it to do all over again, they would have taken less money from HD-DVD and let the consumers' choice win. - David Jun 30, 13:07
ST Poll -- What's on your reading list that you haven't gotten to yet? - znufrii Jun 30, 12:55 18
- A bunch of books by Lindsey Davis. Part of her Falco (Roman detectivish) series is out of print and difficult to find. - Stephen Jun 30, 13:23
- Corsair by Cussler, new Rollins, new Preston-Child, Clan of the Cave Bear series -- nm - MDH Jun 30, 13:13 1
  - new Preston-Child was quite good - decline Jun 30, 13:17
- Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry -- nm - decline Jun 30, 13:05
- Hot, Flat and Crowded by Tom Friedman and Blindsided by Michael Lewis - musubi Jun 30, 13:04
- Bret Easton Ellis is next up. -- nm - nubby Jun 30, 13:01
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  - I read "Moby Dick" during first-year algebra (B-, iirc, the book much better). Zafon has a new novel in translation this summer; also David Mitchell. -- nm - second gary Jun 30, 13:01
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    - It's Moby that he has a problem with... -- nm - znufrii Jun 30, 12:58
- So much stuff, it's embarrassing. I used to be such a reader. -- nm - Subversive Jun 30, 12:56 6
  - same here. -- nm - loosilu Jun 30, 12:57 5
    - My reading has declined as my internet usage has gone up -- nm - amoxy Jun 30, 13:14 4
      - it suits my adult attention span. -- nm - loosilu Jun 30, 13:16 1
        
        I agr-Look a puppy! -- nm - amoxy Jun 30, 13:18
      - Ditto -- nm - lileve Jun 30, 13:16
      - this is very true. -- nm - znufrii Jun 30, 13:15
- Odd Hours -- nm - Beaker Jun 30, 12:56
i'm getting back into this library thing, everyone recommend a book for me to put on my list. - Andie Jun 30, 12:36 58
- Non-Canlit: have you read Haruki Murakami? I've read twelve of his books in the last 18 mos.; first was "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle." -- nm - second gary Jun 30, 13:06
- Canlit: Peter Behrens (The Law of Dreams), Joseph Boyden (Through Black Spruce), Miriam Toews (The Flying Troutmans) -- nm - second gary Jun 30, 13:04
- Lanark by Alaisdair Gray. This is a great modern classic that's virtually unknown on our side of the pond. -- nm - loosilu Jun 30, 12:59
- the cabinet of curiosities - preston/child -- nm - dogbert183 Jun 30, 12:58 2
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    - word -- nm - Beaker Jun 30, 13:13
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  - awesome! i have a whole summer of reading mapped out. -- nm - Andie Jun 30, 13:00
- Storm Front - Jim Butcher -- nm - Beaker Jun 30, 12:57 1
  - The Graphic Novel! -- nm - Remlik Jun 30, 13:01
- World War Z. -- nm - Remlik Jun 30, 12:51 3
  - I really really hope they do not screw up the movie -- nm - amoxy Jun 30, 12:54 1
    - you and me both. -- nm - Remlik Jun 30, 13:01
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- Bookicabra -- nm - Redmond on a phone Jun 30, 12:46
- Sex for Dummies - dug Jun 30, 12:45 5
  - does that exist? i'm going to google. -- nm - Andie Jun 30, 12:53 4
    - of course it does - in many editions! -- (link) - Andie Jun 30, 12:54
    - he knows -- nm - Roger More Jun 30, 12:54 2
      - he was the subject of the book! -- nm - Remlik Jun 30, 13:02 1
        
        until they tried to get him to have sex. -- nm - loosilu Jun 30, 13:02
- watership down (i need to reread that this summer) -- nm - prayformojo Jun 30, 12:45 3
  - Frithrah! -- nm - loosilu Jun 30, 12:52 1
    - Gezundheit -- nm - con_carne Jun 30, 13:02
  - i read that *last* summer! -- nm - Andie Jun 30, 12:46
- fiction: Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith & Perfume by Patrick Suskind. - decline Jun 30, 12:45 1
  - oh, i wanted to read Perfume! excellent reminder. - Andie Jun 30, 12:47
- the Ninth Gate -- nm - peglegpete Jun 30, 12:40 1
  - Club Dumas, or something else? -- nm - nubby Jun 30, 13:01
- love in the time of cholera. -- nm - mafic Jun 30, 12:38 12
  - i already own that one. :) -- nm - Andie Jun 30, 12:39 11
    - then something else by gabriel garcia marquez. 100 years of solitude. or memories of my melancholy whores. -- nm - mafic Jun 30, 12:42 10
      - Both terrific; also "The General in his Labyrinth." -- nm - second gary Jun 30, 13:07
      - 100 YoS is fantastic. -- nm - znufrii Jun 30, 12:43
      - ive never read that last one. -- nm - Andie Jun 30, 12:43 7
        
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        *takes notes* -- nm - znufrii Jun 30, 12:50
        
        i've read everything by Allende. love House of Spirits! -- nm - Andie Jun 30, 12:48 1
        
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        thx -- nm - Andie Jun 30, 12:48
        
        it's short, ~100 pages, but I really liked it. - mafic Jun 30, 12:46
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  - wow, the library doesn't have it according to the search engire (The TPL has 99 branches, this is odd.) i'm going to live chat with a librarian, i've - Andie Jun 30, 12:46 1
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  - interesting -- nm - Andie Jun 30, 12:40 2
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      - cool. -- nm - Andie Jun 30, 12:43
- Lowboy -- nm - znufrii Jun 30, 12:37 7
  - also, Nation, by Terry Pratchett -- nm - znufrii Jun 30, 12:37 6
    - I actually ordered this from the library then forgot to pick it up. What did you think? - Roger More Jun 30, 12:41 2
      - I thought it was fantastic. As good as any of his better Discworld novels -- nm - znufrii Jun 30, 12:43 1
        
        Thanks. Reordered -- nm - Roger More Jun 30, 12:45
    - and The Book of Lost Things -- nm - znufrii Jun 30, 12:38 2
      - also, On Bullshit, if they have it. -- nm - znufrii Jun 30, 12:46
      - added -- nm - Andie Jun 30, 12:40
- The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) - JaxSean Jun 30, 12:37 1
  - The exec producer of that movie HATES us. - David Jun 30, 12:41
I agree Greinke's been better so far this year. If he still is at the end of the season, I'll be quite surprised. - Subversive Jun 30, 12:36 8
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  - There is simply no way a flyball pitcher like Grienke keeps up a 3% HR/flyball rate. - musubi Jun 30, 12:41 4
    - They're not that far apart right now, and Halladay's performance is right there with what he has done before. - Subversive Jun 30, 12:44 3
      - Halladay's been spectacular. But Grienke's been better. - musubi Jun 30, 12:47 2
        
        I think a bet might be in order. - Subversive Jun 30, 12:48 1
        
        I'm a Grienke skeptic (ask Will), so I'm not gonna bet on him. But I won't bet against him either. (nm) - musubi Jun 30, 12:50
  - Yeah, I almost said that in reply to DH on b2. -- nm - David Jun 30, 12:38
  - Me too. I actually think Lee's was the more unlikely of the two, to be honest. - Subversive Jun 30, 12:37
SITWAP: Private garbage collection services make CUPE Local 416 a sad wittle union. - Subversive Jun 30, 12:35 6
- ... if IT workers ever unionize, every company and government on the planet will tremble in fear. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 30, 12:39 4
  - my brother used to talk about this. he figures the window for that closed when the .com bubble burst. -- nm - mafic Jun 30, 12:44
  - "Striking IT workers pickett.....city officials relent and give in to their demands in the face of a complete inability to print" -- nm - Subversive Jun 30, 12:41 2
    - *creates a picket sign that says "PC LOAD LETTER? WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?" -- nm - Beryllium Jun 30, 12:44 1
      - "Sings the binary solo from Flight of the Conchords while marching in the pickett line" - Subversive Jun 30, 12:46
- the thing is, the neighbourhood drop off centres, where anyone can take their trash, are NOT busy, and there really isn't much at them. i'll try to - Andie Jun 30, 12:38
Halladay's run support in losses and NDs: 2.8. Grienke -- nm - Shaun Jun 30, 12:32 19
- Greinke's already lost a 1-0 game this year. - Will Hunting Jun 30, 13:12
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  - fo sho -- nm - Wang Jun 30, 12:34 1
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- sfek. Grienke: 4.17. Damn Jays offence. -- nm - Shaun Jun 30, 12:32 14
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    - Well, it's better than Quality Starts, but that's about it. (nm) - musubi Jun 30, 12:35 11
      - Actually, I like quality starts. nm -- nm - groiny Jun 30, 12:38 4
        
        see my post below. (nm) - musubi Jun 30, 12:39 3
        
        I did, but you give me a SP with 34 starts, and if 25 of them are QS - groiny Jun 30, 12:41 2
        
        The problem is a QS iirc can easily equate to a 4.50 ERA - Will Hunting Jun 30, 13:17
        
        QS are not bad things. But they are not informative stats. Johan Santana and Livan Hernandez have almost the same number of QS's. - musubi Jun 30, 12:44
      - I think QS is one of the best determinations of a team's starter quality. - David Jun 30, 12:38 4
        
        huh? nm -- nm - Randy Wolf Jun 30, 12:39
        
        QS as a general measure of a total staff's overall quality has some merit. As an individual pitcher measure, it's just about useless. (nm) - musubi Jun 30, 12:39 2
        
        I don't get this. nm -- nm - groiny Jun 30, 12:42 1
        
        QS's from the backend of a rotation are much more informative than from the front end. (nm) - musubi Jun 30, 12:45
      - Holds are the best! -- nm - Shaun Jun 30, 12:35
    - I just go back to my post earlier today. All he needs is 3 runs. That's it :) -- nm - Shaun Jun 30, 12:35
Two-day earworm: Roxette - Dressed for Success. - Reagen Jun 30, 12:31 3
- any mention of roxette gives me a "the look" earworm. -- nm - mafic Jun 30, 12:40
- Listen to your Heart is an awesome song -- nm - eag Jun 30, 12:36
- Whatcha gonna tell your mother? -- nm - Mop Jun 30, 12:34
Board 2 Summary - David Jun 30, 12:30 1
- that sounds dirty. -- nm - loosilu Jun 30, 12:31
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/cheats on B2 -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jun 30, 12:30 1
- You ... you ... YOU HUSSY!! -- nm - B2 si Jun 30, 12:30

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