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My personal evaluation for my performance review is due tomorrow. I am approximately negative 17.6% complete with it. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 12:22 4
- “Best gymnast and box office analyst in the company.” -- nm - The Allfather Dec 9, 12:23 3
  - Area for improvement: Writing personal evaluations -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 12:27 2
    - "and figuring out where my cat is" -- nm - prayformojo Dec 9, 12:36 1
      - Needs Improvement -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 12:37
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo Dec 9, 12:01 [Attachment] 10
- Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Dec 9, 12:01 [Attachment] 9
  - Bonus question -- (pic) - prayformojo Dec 9, 12:02 [Attachment] 8
    - 1/2 -- nm - JaxSean Dec 9, 12:10
    - Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Dec 9, 12:02 [Attachment] 6
      - 1/2. Completely brain farted on the first one. (spoilers) -- (edited) - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 12:22
      - 2/2! Take that, geography! -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 12:21
      - 1/2 -- nm - JD Dec 9, 12:06
      - 1/2 -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 9, 12:04
      - 1/2. Dammit, the bonus question got me :( -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 12:03
      - 1/2 -- nm - decline Dec 9, 12:03
Rumor: Losers to be a show on Amazon prime with JDM returning to the role he had in the movie -- nm - Remlik Dec 9, 12:00 8
- Some of that cast is more affordable than the rest. -- nm - The Allfather Dec 9, 12:21 3
  - Chequebooks Out -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 12:35 2
    - Bank Trek: Beyond -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 12:37 1
      - Sonic the Bankteller 2 - Beryllium Dec 9, 12:40
- and Skippy from IT Support! Is he returning? -- nm - Pippy Dec 9, 12:05
- I will watch the hell out of that -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 12:01 2
  - word -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 12:03
  - word -- nm - decline Dec 9, 12:03
I keep getting what I term 'Democrat/liberal twitter grifters' in my feed b/c people I know follow them. Posts like this. Ugh. -- (pic) - ty97 Dec 9, 11:57 [Attachment] 2
- BOOM! -- nm - decline Dec 9, 12:04
- And Jon Cooper is a main offender too -- nm - ty97 Dec 9, 11:59
TOO MANY LETICIAS! -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 11:57 2
- Bye, Letitia. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 12:06
- The Too Many Cooks sequel too an unexpected turn. -- nm - ty97 Dec 9, 11:58
Rumor: Letitia Wright Reputedly Done With The Marvel Cinematic Universe because she won't get vaxed -- (link) - Remlik Dec 9, 11:53 9
- I’m 99% sure there’s no source, just blind speculation that could prove correct. - The Allfather Dec 9, 12:22 1
  - I agree with you -- nm - Remlik Dec 9, 12:30
- Ill fix it *pew pew, collects EGOT* -- nm - Lon Chaney as Shuri Dec 9, 11:56
- This is really going to put a strain on the writers -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 11:54 5
  - I already provided them a solution. If they don't want to use it, that's on them. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 12:08 1
    - My vote is for Terence Howard -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 12:29
  - Would the studio consider scrapping the film entirely, I wonder? How much principal photography had already been done? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 11:55
  - Not to mention her run for Governor. -- nm - Qale Dec 9, 11:55 1
    - heheh -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 11:56
SITWAP: Jeff Hardy released from WWE. refused rehab -- (edited) - Remlik Dec 9, 11:49 2
- The funny part of this is he was just on Stone Cold show saying how he regretted turning down rehab back when he was having a run few years ago -- (edited) - eag Dec 9, 12:37
- did he say no, no, no? - decline Dec 9, 11:52
I had a crazy thought last night while falling asleep about asking my boss (company pres) next year about making me CIO - oblique Dec 9, 11:48 6
- Buy me four homes and give me $20 million signing bonus and I'll consider being your CISO -- nm* - ty97 Dec 9, 11:52 1
  - Amanda, look, ^^^^ short term goals! -- nm - ty97 Dec 9, 11:54
- Pocket all the $$$, pawn off the work. Brilliant. -- nm - budice Dec 9, 11:50 1
  - except boss will give the title and minor pay raise but not the 3 underlings so he'll have both jobs and just some flunky intern to 'help' -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 9, 12:18
- sounds like you also need a CISO -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 11:49 1
  - *nods* (as said by the person currently reviewing our progress on the CIS controls :) -- nm - oblique Dec 9, 11:50
Pat McAfee Show gets $30M per year in FanDuel deal -- nm - Remlik Dec 9, 11:47 3
- He got 2.5M for his last season with the Colts. 8 seasons for $13,481,764 plus $1,058,280 signing bonus. -- (edited) - Spawn Dec 9, 12:11
- Ex-player who is on the radio here referred to him as "the punter without sleeves. - zunk xometimes Dec 9, 12:01
- Thank you ARodgers!!! -- nm - Pat Dec 9, 11:51
I think we can all agree that the best thing about HTML was the blink tag. -- nm - ty97 Dec 9, 11:42 2
- There was a showdown around this recently. It was epic. The Angle Bracket Champion: "a" -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 9, 11:46 1
  - Fitting -- nm - ty97 Dec 9, 11:49
Graceland seems low at #16, I think. -- nm - znufrii, boosted Dec 9, 11:35 4
- I cross referenced the Rolling Stone list to try to guess some of the top 10. - Volnelk Dec 9, 11:45 3
  - There will be Zeppelin. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 11:51
  - I fully expect Bruce to be #1 -- (edited) - znufrii, boosted Dec 9, 11:47 1
    - But I don't understand how they ranked The Wild the innocent and the E street shuffle above Darkness on the Edge of Town. -- nm - pmb Dec 9, 12:08
I'm wrapping up my giving for the year and I have my standard charities, but I ask you ST: What charities should I be considering? -- nm - ty97 Dec 9, 11:29 12
- I support the non-profits that I'm familiar with and can see where the money goes. -- nm - Meg Dec 9, 12:24 1
  - The only one that's really what I think of as a 'charity' is the Southwest Indian Foundation that supports people on the Navajo reservation. - Meg Dec 9, 12:29
- Smaller local ones that could really use the help. - spamlet Dec 9, 12:12
- May I suggest the FTPADANTSFOITOWTBS, or the Fund To Preserve All Delis And Nuke Times Square From Orbit (It's The Only Way To Be Sure). -- nm - con_carne Dec 9, 12:00
- The Human Fund (me). Nah, same as some of the others; local food banks always need help. -- nm - VMan Dec 9, 11:47
- World Central Kitchen, Doctors without Borders, St Judes are three of my standards. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 11:44 2
  - we do Shriners since they took care of my little brother when he was born with weird hips and needed wood diapers for a year -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 9, 12:13
  - thumbs up for these as well -- nm - prayformojo Dec 9, 11:49
- Definitely pick one that will spend all of your donation trying to get you to give them more money. -- nm - znufrii, boosted Dec 9, 11:43 1
  - That seems to be every charity alas -- nm - ty97 Dec 9, 11:50
- Refugees International, Mercy Ships and Global Medical Relief Fund. They all do outstanding work. -- nm - prayformojo Dec 9, 11:41
- our local food bank gets my $ every year. -- nm - mud Dec 9, 11:33
I had my intake meeting today with spam's money guy. spam is not fired, he's pretty great. - amanda jeans Dec 9, 11:26 8
- I'm sure they took notes on that! - spamlet Dec 9, 12:06
- Spam is pretty great? Or his dude is pretty great? Also, what are my short term goals? - ty97 Dec 9, 11:27 6
  - I mean I think we all know the answer to the first two questions. - spamlet Dec 9, 12:07
  - honestly I think this is why we need a money dude: to get us thinking about what we really want to do and how to make it happen. - amanda jeans Dec 9, 11:43
  - Short term goals: tendies. Long term goals: with secret sauce. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 11:30 3
    - My local CFA is doing a 12 days of Christmas thing. Today was a free chicken sandwich. Confession: - oblique Dec 9, 11:32 2
      - buwhaaaa -- nm - Pippy Dec 9, 11:39
      - Short term goal: accomplished -- nm - ty97 Dec 9, 11:33
Ugh, it's already election ad season -- (link) - ty97 Dec 9, 11:23
"And it’s 10 times as insane." - mud Dec 9, 11:15
Senate passes the debt ceiling fix bill 64-36 -- nm - spamlet Dec 9, 10:47 10
- Guess they don't fear Trump anymore -- nm - eag Dec 9, 11:19 6
  - Should be under Jovian -- nm - eag Dec 9, 11:20 5
    - So, you are a bottom. -- nm - Spawn Dec 9, 11:21 4
      - You can top from underneath, Spawn. Sheesh. -- nm - Qale Dec 9, 11:48 3
        
        But then the right hand rule comes into play for determining orientation and I was told there would be no math. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 12:07 1
        
        And lets not even get into the whole "crossing the streams" thing. -- nm - Spawn Dec 9, 12:17
        
        "Because I was...inverted" -- nm - oblique Dec 9, 11:49
- Surprised Ernst was a Yes. Here are the other Rs voting yes -- (link) - Jovian Dec 9, 11:11
- and.....BBB? -- nm - ty97 Dec 9, 11:03 1
  - *twitch* -- (edited) - znufrii, boosted Dec 9, 11:07
Apparently at this point only one NFL team has been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. Can you name the team? -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 10:38 12
- Texans I would assume. cause Detroit is too easy of an answer. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 9, 10:44
- If its not Detroit then that is amazing -- nm - Jovian Dec 9, 10:43 1
  - their tie puts them ahead of some teams if they happen to win out and the others lose out -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 10:46
- The Lions are the obvious choice so probably not it. Jacksonville? -- nm - spamlet Dec 9, 10:41
- Houston -- nm - budice Dec 9, 10:40 7
  - This is correct. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 10:44 6
    - You're welcome! -- nm - Colts Dec 9, 11:07
    - "So what you're saying is...there's a chance." -- nm - Jaguars Dec 9, 10:52 4
      - That's what not mathematically eliminated means. Don't you understand math? Oh wait, you're from Jacksonville. -- nm* - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 10:56 3
        
        Realistically, we understand it's more likely that a pregnant penguin could land on a mosquito's eyelash in a hurricane. -- nm - Southern Statistics Dec 9, 11:17 1
        
        But there's always hope! You might win out. Could happen. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 11:24
        
        I believe the reason that Houston is eliminated and Jacksonville is not (yet) is because Jacksonville has played two fewer conference games. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 11:01
Tom Holland does Hot Ones -- (link) - budice Dec 9, 10:36 [youtube]
Mop: The NY AG, Letitia James, is not running for governor (any more) -- (link*) - ty97 Dec 9, 10:30 8
- She also got fired from the MCU. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 10:55 1
  - OK, that was funny. -- nm - Mop Dec 9, 10:57
- Aka Jovian's post. -- nm - Diva Dec 9, 10:33 1
  - Diva sass is the tastiest sass -- nm - ty97 Dec 9, 11:03
- why ya'll killfiling me -- nm - Jovian Dec 9, 10:33 2
  - Because you won't shut up about foosball. We get it! You like foosball! -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 11:25
  - I've been busy, I didn't see! -- nm - ty97 Dec 9, 11:02
- deBlasio clearing the way! -- nm - spamlet Dec 9, 10:31
Starbucks union ballot count is beginning now. - Buffalo Stores voted by mail. Final results should be known by Tomorrow -- nm - budice Dec 9, 10:25 1
- Final Tally at one Store: 19-8 in Favor of Union (only need one store) -- (link*) - budice Dec 9, 10:44
TNF: PIT @ MIN. No slouch of a matchup and relevant to playoffs -- nm - budice Dec 9, 10:22 2
- MIN should play well, to continue their streak of playing up or down to their competition. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 9, 10:29 1
  - yup. I picked them; then read an article about them; almost flipped but then figured if I did they would win. so either way I'm just sticking with it -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 10:30
Cobra Kai. Season 4 trailer. -- (link) - Volnelk Dec 9, 10:19 8
- Who’s the ponytail guy? -- nm - J Dec 9, 11:14 5
  - He's the bad guy from Karate Kid III. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 9, 11:23 4
    - Ah ok, never did see that one -- nm - J Dec 9, 11:30 3
      - "Then he suffers some more." -- nm - Strongbad Dec 9, 11:47
      - And this is why you fail. -- nm - Spawn Dec 9, 11:31 1
        
        Isn’t it terrible? -- nm - J Dec 9, 11:59
- Well, I now have my NYE plans set. -- nm - Spawn Dec 9, 11:11
- Lets gooooo -- nm - Jovian Dec 9, 10:24
Well I hope this is part of the reason she has suspended her campaign for Governor. -- (link) - Jovian Dec 9, 10:17 1
- Interesting. -- nm - znufrii, boosted Dec 9, 10:37
Oh, Bery. Here's another one for your list: Kickstarter says it’s switching to crowdfunding via the blockchain -- (link) - oblique Dec 9, 10:14 3
- Yep. I'd already planned to never use them again, though. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 10:19
- Remlik beat you to that one. - Spawn Dec 9, 10:18
- Should've searched that one. Guess it came up yesterday -- nm - oblique Dec 9, 10:15
I had to pop to my local jewellers for a tiny repair (which they did for free) - it's named Charles Dance. So they get a double thumbs up from me. -- nm - LMS Dec 9, 09:50 2
- did they have a little Asian boy locked in the basement? -- nm - groiny Dec 9, 09:57
- A Lannister Always Pays His Debts -- nm - budice Dec 9, 09:56
“Who’s next on the countdown?” -- nm - znufrii, boosted Dec 9, 09:47 1
- Yes they were. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 9, 10:18
Minnesota Vikings star running back Dalvin Cook will play against the Pittsburgh Steelers barring a pregame setback -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 09:43 4
- I read that as "barring a pregame attack" and thought wow, they're really considering all possibilities there. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 09:54 3
  - pregame snack attack -- nm - prayformojo Dec 9, 09:55 2
    - pregame jack jack attack -- nm - Strongbad Dec 9, 10:43
    - Mrs. Kim will not be permitted to enter the facility. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 10:22

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