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Little Steven pitches a portable device that lets bands digitally record their rehearsals/gigs. Anyone know/remember the name of this device? - con_carne Jul 6, 08:58 4
- A tape recorder? -- nm - Mop (still 235lbs... on a good day) Jul 6, 09:00 3
  - See, I specifically made the editorial decision to include the word "digitally" in order to... oh never mind :) -- nm - con_carne Jul 6, 09:02
  - don't get over technical now. -- nm - decline Jul 6, 09:01
  - Heh. -- nm - Subversive Jul 6, 09:00
best wine store promotion ever... - znufrii Jul 6, 08:58 6
- I have a 12 bottle fridge, they really do come in handy. -- nm - decline Jul 6, 09:01
- That's awesome, I want that! -- nm - MDH Jul 6, 09:00
- wow. that is good. best one here is buy 6 bottles, get 20% off, and 20cents/litre off your next gas purchase (which usually works out to about 20%). -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 09:00 3
  - and with 10% off per 12-bottles, you can pay off the fridge in 8 or 9 months - znufrii Jul 6, 09:01 2
    - your gas stations sell wine, so why not the other way around? -- nm - decline Jul 6, 09:02 1
      - they do? -- nm - znufrii Jul 6, 09:08
Manny Ramirez reveals our true attitude about baseball's drug war. -- (link) - Don Homer Jul 6, 08:51 1
- It seems clear, now, that sports articles even make the scribes at Slate spew unintelligible nonsense. -- nm - Mop (still 235lbs... on a good day) Jul 6, 08:56
The South Carolina serial killer looks like a cross between Kevin Costner and Billy Bob Thornton. -- (link) - Max Jul 6, 08:42 4
- He actually does, hmmm -- nm - MDH Jul 6, 08:50
- Not to be anally technical, but he's probably best defined as a spree killer. -- nm - Mop (235 lbs) Jul 6, 08:46 2
  - "In college they used to call me anal girl" -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 6, 08:52 1
    - That one still makes me laugh out loud. -- nm - Mop (still 235lbs... on a good day) Jul 6, 08:54
My long national Chris Davis Nightmare is over. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 6, 08:38 2
- I just wanna know why it took 3 months to figure out he's overmatched. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 6, 08:50 1
  - The Jeff Francouer Effect, 3 months of 2008 where he de-stroyed every pitch he didn't miss. - musubi Jul 6, 09:01
Morning successfully tackled. Onto ST...Movies in the last week: The Ruins...D. - Mel Profit Jul 6, 08:37 39
- God, The Ruins was awful. And I liked the book well enough. -- nm - Callisto Jul 6, 08:43 1
  - I loved the book and ultimately returned the movie unwatched because I've heard such bad things about it -- nm - decline Jul 6, 08:59
- I liked the ruins because (spoils) - Loyola Jul 6, 08:39 22
  - I loathed it for...(spoilers) - Mel Profit Jul 6, 08:43 21
    - I don't know, I didn't reallt care about that for some reason, although I see your point. I saw it as more a story of survival between those (spoils) - Loyola Jul 6, 08:49 2
      - and oddly...this never bothered me in Cloverfield. - Mel Profit Jul 6, 08:50 1
        
        Me too apparently :) -- nm - Loyola Jul 6, 08:51
    - M. Night took it upon himself to explain it in his movie. -- nm - Mop (235 lbs) Jul 6, 08:47 4
      - this might be a killing blow to my complaint given how badly received The Happening was. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 6, 08:53 3
        
        I think it's easy to get hung up on storytelling "rules" - if it works use it. - Reagen Jul 6, 08:58 2
        
        I agree that M. Night, by the sounds of it, shouldn't be following the rules for "The Happening" if he's so unskilled a story teller... - Mel Profit Jul 6, 09:06
        
        "We find out the killer suffers from multipler personality disorder. So he's really the cop and the girl! All of them! Isn't that crazy?!" -- nm - Don Homer Jul 6, 09:00
    - I don't really agree. Unexplained evil is kind of a staple in horror writing. -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 08:46 1
      - Right. Makes me think of the end of Gordie's story in Stand by Me. - Don Homer Jul 6, 08:49
    - I disagree that everything needs to be explained. Sometimes you just have to accept something in the movie for what it is; how/why it happened isn't - Don Homer Jul 6, 08:46 6
      - Oh look...a friendly flying shark with a monkey rider...who's wearing a dress and Nixon mask... - Mel Profit Jul 6, 08:48 5
        
        *takes notes* -- nm - David Lynch Jul 6, 08:54 1
        
        make the monkey a midget...who speaks gibberish. - Mel Profit Jul 6, 09:07
        
        If that was the bad guy, I would hope they don't explain it. -- nm - Don Homer Jul 6, 08:49 2
        
        Heh -- nm - con_carne Jul 6, 08:53
        
        Does Point Break 2 really need any explanation? -- nm - Roger More Jul 6, 08:51
    - IIRC the book didn't either -- nm - Beaker Jul 6, 08:45 3
      - it didn't. But that sort of added more creepiness to it. - Callisto Jul 6, 08:46 2
        
        I did enjoy the creepy though. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 6, 08:49
        
        I've yet to see the movie but liked the book well enough -- nm - Beaker Jul 6, 08:47
- I first saw GBG with my mother - she thought the accents were "over the top". - kelly Jul 6, 08:38 13
  - you guys just hang out with a better class of people than me! - Mel Profit Jul 6, 08:40 12
    - I swear, I hear folks like that sitting next to me at Fenway!! :) -- nm - kelly Jul 6, 08:41 7
      - The bleachers are like another world. - Mel Profit Jul 6, 08:46
      - you go to baseball games? - TFox Jul 6, 08:43 3
        
        Umm... - kelly Jul 6, 08:44 2
        
        Stop combating my sick burns with silly things like facts. It's unbecoming of a lady. -- nm - TFox Jul 6, 08:45 1
        
        ...burn? Oh, *that's* what that was? Huh. -- nm - kelly Jul 6, 08:50
      - Drunk CQ doesn't count. -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 6, 08:42 1
        
        snoring has an accent? - Mel Profit Jul 6, 08:45
    - any clips on youtube? I want to hear. -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 08:41 3
      - Here are the first five minutes. -- (link) - (500) Days of Dano Jul 6, 08:47 [youtube]
      - not sure. We can look tonight. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 6, 08:44 1
        
        I found a couple. Have definitely heard accents that strong many times. -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 08:45
So it took less than 72 hours, the Real World DC showed up at one of my fav bars Friday night, and I had to leave it got so crowded - MDH Jul 6, 08:27 29
- LYC: this is the cast -- (link) - MDH Jul 6, 08:36 2
  - But you hate them, right? You're not into them at all... -- nm - Mop (235 lbs) Jul 6, 08:48 1
    - Haha I hate that they clog areas I like, but it is "my city" so I have to be excited -- nm - MDH Jul 6, 08:56
- I'm gonna get my friend Kevin to follow me around with a camera as we hang out in Dupont Circle. -- nm - Mop (235 lbs) Jul 6, 08:33
- Related, some Real World alumni still use their old job title for media appearances. What I don't get is, who actually cares to go see them? - Hotkiss Jul 6, 08:32 2
  - I went and saw Danny from New Orleans speak, but that was like 12 years ago. -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 6, 08:40
  - They used to book them yearly at UMD they stopped my sophomore year since no one cared anymore - MDH Jul 6, 08:33
- hey, where is the house? My friends and I were discussing it and no one know. -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 08:28 21
  - 20th and S right on the corner - MDH Jul 6, 08:29 20
    - And what could be more "real" than that??? nm - Jim Jul 6, 08:31 1
      - Yes. -- nm - MDH Jul 6, 08:32
    - *exasperated look* what quadrant? -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 08:30 17
      - Come on you are a DCer, by default NW. And do you really think they'd put them anywhere but there -- nm - MDH Jul 6, 08:32 16
        
        hey, I work in SE. And I figured NW, but I wanted to be exasperated at you. :) -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 08:33
        
        What's up with the NW? -- nm - Hotkiss Jul 6, 08:33 14
        
        The only "non-ghetto" quadrant. Yet people think NW is the only place with bars as well - MDH Jul 6, 08:35 12
        
        I wonder why the neighborhoods around central government areas are typically so ghetto. -- nm - Hotkiss Jul 6, 08:39 9
        
        I understand "white flight" was a national phenomenon. NMBWikilink -- (link) - con_carne Jul 6, 08:46
        
        have you been to Boston? it's the opposite. -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 08:39 7
        
        True, but Indianapolis, New York, and Chicago are -- nm - Hotkiss Jul 6, 08:41 5
        
        Of the cities I know, I'd say nice neighborhoods are more typical. -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 08:50
        
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        Someone told me the apts around the Brooklyn Bridge are low income housing and rife with violence. -- nm - Hotkiss Jul 6, 08:49 2
        
        You move a block or two in NYC, you're in a radically different neighborhood. -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 08:53
        
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        Of course, there they just leveled entire poor neighborhoods to build government buildings... -- nm - znufrii Jul 6, 08:41
        
        ghetto and black are not the same, you know. -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 08:36 1
        
        I know, NE to many my age is considered very Hipster populated yet still a ghetto area -- nm - MDH Jul 6, 08:49
        
        basically, it's the only white area. -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 08:33
The Big Picture: Obama's first 167 days. -- (link) - Don Homer Jul 6, 08:26 7
- #8 makes me laugh. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 6, 09:02 1
  - yeah. -- nm - Don Homer Jul 6, 09:02
- I know this sounds silly, but that note to the kid's teacher is one of the coolest things ever. - JaxSean Jul 6, 08:44
- the official white house photostream is one of the coolest things on flickr these days. -- (link) - mafic Jul 6, 08:38 [flickr]
- Also, "The Dairy Godmother" is a fricking brilliant business name. -- nm - Subversive Jul 6, 08:35
- Man, that dude is photogenic. -- nm - Subversive Jul 6, 08:31
- That dog looks like he's on drugs. -- nm - Loyola Jul 6, 08:28
the only rule I'm breaking is my racist grandmother's, so it doesn't count. -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 08:25 24
- Amy is older than me, so there is that. - Spawn Jul 6, 08:41
- My wife is nearly 8 years younger than me, so I suppose I was breaking some people's 'age' rules when we started dating. - Subversive Jul 6, 08:32 3
  - hey - Andie Jul 6, 08:33
  - some people say you robbed the cradle, but I prefer to think she robbed the grave. -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 08:32 1
    - Hee. You should hear my wife's mom tease her dad about his age these days. Good times. -- nm - Subversive Jul 6, 08:33
- I suppose the only rule I broke then was that she was female. -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 6, 08:26 4
  - well, that's just *sick.* -- nm - Andie Jul 6, 08:27 3
    - She didn't even pay me $1000. -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 6, 08:29 1
      - so what, only like $300 then? -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 08:29
    - Wicked sick, bro! -- nm - Max Jul 6, 08:28
- every time I date someone who is not a super strict catholic, I am violating my mother's rule. - loosilu Jul 6, 08:25 13
  - is your sister married to someone who is divorced? - Andie Jul 6, 08:26 12
    - no, her step son was born out of wedlock. Oh god, my mom was a nightmare to deal with over that. - loosilu Jul 6, 08:27 11
      - but is everyone cool with everyone now? -- nm - Andie Jul 6, 08:28 10
        
        My SIL converted. My BIL avoids my mom when he can because she still doesn't like him. - loosilu Jul 6, 08:29 9
        
        eta: Dating a divorced person has never happened. I can't imagine. To her it's the same as dating someone who is married. - loosilu Jul 6, 08:32 8
        
        what about a divorced and annulled person? theoretically that's ok, since the marriage never happened, right? -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 08:33 7
        
        I'd get a letter from the Pope, just to be sure -- nm - Roger More Jul 6, 08:34 5
        
        seruiously you guys, just thinking about it gives me a headache. I dread the day I ever have to tell her I'm dating a divorced guy. - loosilu Jul 6, 08:36 4
        
        You should invent a new boyfriend, based on Steve Carell on 40YOV -- nm - Roger More Jul 6, 08:47 1
        
        heh. you know what's even less hassle? Telling her nothing. :) -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 08:55
        
        You're 40? Congrats, you don't look it. - Subversive Jul 6, 08:44 1
        
        heh, thanks. 41. -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 08:55
        
        annuled is good. Divorce does not exist. -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 08:34
Giving you the heads-up a couple of weeks in advance but IMO the series Being Human is Life on Mars, Jekyll good. -- nm - LMS Jul 6, 08:23
Warner picks up assets for Mortal Kombat, Spy Hunter, Joust, others from Midway at bankruptcy court. So... what to do with them? -- (link) - Mop (235 lbs) Jul 6, 08:22
My work conference later this week will consist of a string of speaker presentations 8:30am - 4pm. How many times will I fall asleep? -- nm - Hotkiss Jul 6, 08:20 4
- I'm lost as soon as they turn the lights out. -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 08:26 1
  - They *turn the lights off*???! Then there's no hope. - Hotkiss Jul 6, 08:29
- 11 -- nm - znufrii Jul 6, 08:24
- more than once, less than fifty. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 6, 08:23
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- So in other words, you get more women than men -- nm - con_carne Jul 6, 08:24
- Neither do I. Are you sure gay marriage isn't legal in NY yet? -- nm - Mop (235 lbs) Jul 6, 08:23
- worst gay ever - Ha - I kid. - Epiphany Jul 6, 08:22
Turns out you can meet 2012 efficiency standard for lighting while still using incandescent bulbs. -- (link) - znufrii Jul 6, 08:13 18
- It's all a stopgap for LED bulbs. -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 08:20 17
  - could be, but proves that all the hysteria about efficiency standards taking away your right to choose your lightbulb was just that. - znufrii Jul 6, 08:22 13
    - "your right to choose your lightbulb'? really, people were upset by this? -- nm - Andie Jul 6, 08:23 12
      - yes, I feel my lightbulb choosing rights have been violated and that it is the first step on a slippery slope - decline Jul 6, 08:28
      - well, iirc, Michelle Bachmann was, at least, and others of that ilk. - znufrii Jul 6, 08:25
      - There was a pretty strong misinformation campaign out there about them. -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 08:24 8
        
        oh, i can see being upset by misinformation, but i'm not sure we have the 'right to choose' our lightbulbs. - Andie Jul 6, 08:25 7
        
        I demand the right to choose antiquated and inefficient technology. carbon filament or nothing, baby. -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 08:28
        
        well at some point they won't be manufactured. - Reagen Jul 6, 08:28 1
        
        phased out between 2012 and 2014, iirc. -- nm - znufrii Jul 6, 08:28
        
        they apparently think the government has no place telling companies what they can and cannot manufacture. -- nm - znufrii Jul 6, 08:27 3
        
        "i am going to make a machine that makes cancer causing smoke. that's all it does. try to stop me!" -- nm - Andie Jul 6, 08:32 2
        
        It's not the nicotine that kills, it's the smooOoooke. -- (link) - Subversive Jul 6, 08:38 [youtube]
        
        *lines up around the corner to buy one* -- nm - The American Public Jul 6, 08:33
      - people really were. some here even. -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 08:24
  - i find LED *too* bright. (what are the new really blue-white light headlights? they are TOO bright too!) -- nm - Andie Jul 6, 08:21 2
    - those are halogens. - Reagen Jul 6, 08:23 1
      - right, halogens. (hate those.) -- nm - Andie Jul 6, 08:24
Fifth for my lonely and... -- nm - TFox Jul 6, 08:13
*calculates the odds of getting my ass kicked by the boss today* - loosilu Jul 6, 08:13
Fifth for Norwegian strippers coked out of their heads. -- nm - Loyola Jul 6, 08:13
Fourth for neutron dancing -- nm - Pointer Sisters Jul 6, 08:12
Third for neuterability. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 6, 08:10
Second for neutrality. -- nm - mara Jul 6, 08:09
First for normality -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 6, 08:09

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