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Something called Big Time Rush has reunited and is doing a large summer tour: - MDH Feb 25, 08:30 2
- They had a show on either Disney or Nick when the kid was a tween. Hockey players or somesuch. - spamlet Feb 25, 08:31 1
  - Yeah, this seems very misguided. -- nm - Qale Feb 25, 08:38
I finished the last two books of The Interdependency yesterday. Good series. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 08:29
My crazy earworm of the day is Pop Goes My Heart from the movie Music and Lyrics with Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant...(link) - Walt_Disney Feb 25, 08:25 [youtube] 5
- " Everybody knows the world is full of stupid people" - is my ear worm today -- nm - St. Epiphany Feb 25, 08:40 1
  - (every day) - Spawn Feb 25, 08:40
- And now mine is Pop Goes the World by Men Without Hats. - Reagen Feb 25, 08:32
- I adore that movie -- nm - JD Feb 25, 08:27 1
  - yup -- nm - prayformojo Feb 25, 08:34
OK, Deep Tracks, I do love the song but I don't know how Superstition by Stevie Wonder meets your criteria. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 25, 08:25
Medvedev is the 5th different #1 ranked Men's tennis player since Federer became #1 on 2/2/04. How many different Women have been #1 during that time? -- nm - Dano Feb 25, 08:24 9
- The answer was 17 so since I didn't specify Baron wins CTTP and Bery wins PIRR. -- nm - Dano Feb 25, 08:41 1
  - I forfeit my half-win in protest. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 08:42
- 3? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 08:30
- 23, but only 4 when you get rid of the Russians. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 25, 08:27 3
  - I'm confused about this -- Novak won a 100 level, and still has 2 GS wins and a GS Finals on his resume - Will Hunting Feb 25, 08:31 2
    - A goose egg in a Grand Slam hurts a lot. Medvedev gets 1200 points on Djokovic in the Australian Open alone. -- nm - Dano Feb 25, 08:34 1
      - Medvedev also makes up points on volume. He has 7 more countable tournaments than Djokovic does. -- nm - Dano Feb 25, 08:40
- *throws a dart* 20. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 25, 08:27
- all....of them? -- nm - prayformojo Feb 25, 08:26
5.3 earthquake in (middle-of-nowhere) Russia -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 08:23
For those playing at home, Sting tickets would be 113 each. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 08:19 7
- He's a man called Sting. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 25, 08:45
- No brainer. I have loved every show I have seen (five, four solo IIRC). -- nm* - Spawn Feb 25, 08:28
- He sold out here in 5 minutes -- nm - Remlik Feb 25, 08:25
- That's kind of reasonable -- nm - JD Feb 25, 08:22 3
  - til he announces that the show is only playing Spirits in the Material World over and over - prayformojo Feb 25, 08:24
  - Cheaper than Foo Fighters -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 08:22 1
    - He is a solo Policeman. They are still a squad of fighters. -- nm - Spawn Feb 25, 08:42
Czechia and Poland also closing their airspace to Russia - Reagen Feb 25, 08:18 1
- It's not irony. It's strategy. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 08:22
A look at Rey igniting and then swapping out the "real" lightsaber aboard the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser -- (link) - budice Feb 25, 08:08 4
- Uhhhh? Why is this ... a thing? - Will Hunting Feb 25, 08:12 3
  - It's BTS footage. There's probably some CGI editing reason behind all this - Reagen Feb 25, 08:16 2
    - No. This is an actual preview for influencers and other invited guests.This is what youll get for $6000/night -- nm* - budice Feb 25, 08:19 1
      - For 6k a night, they should hire someone with choreography talent. - Will Hunting Feb 25, 08:33
Phish tix: requested. -- nm - znufrii Feb 25, 07:49 1
- No thank you. Once was way more than enough. -- nm - Spawn Feb 25, 08:28
DTL folks: since I can't do any real work, help me prioritize my recruits - CinnaBaron Feb 25, 07:44 7
- Okay, I get a mixed bag of rankings -- all depends on what you trust more. - Will Hunting Feb 25, 07:59 2
  - Thank you very much. Just writing it out helped clarify the situation, and I arrived at the same priority you did. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 25, 08:11 1
    - Oh boo, the VPN is back. Guess I have to work now. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 25, 08:13
- Here's how I've got them - spamlet Feb 25, 07:58 2
  - Thanks for the input. You're right on Livingston. St. Louis is getting a boost in my rankings from his excellent rebounding - CinnaBaron Feb 25, 08:09 1
    - I moved back to 50% my rankings, 25% L31, 25% the regressions - spamlet Feb 25, 08:24
- Give me a few minutes to update my database and I'll let you know. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 25, 07:48
"Eff you and your mom." "We're twins!" -- nm - Classroom Transcripts Feb 25, 07:36
fun fact: I could tell you how much platinum is in Russia, because I ran the resource estimate on their major deposit last year. - mafic Feb 25, 07:20 8
- (I love ST knowings) -- nm - Max Feb 25, 09:26
- Sia has the best Titanium though. -- nm - Qale Feb 25, 08:40
- as always, mafic remains the geopolitical puppetmaster -- nm - prayformojo Feb 25, 07:56 1
  - mafic often lulls me into believing he is just a regular, everyday person, not some exceptionally smart international expert. - ReluctantCynic Feb 25, 08:19
- No wonder theyre into Heavy Metal -- nm - budice Feb 25, 07:37
- good to know -- nm - St. Epiphany Feb 25, 07:34
- Yeah, it didn't break down the type of titanium so I assume you're right as this is your area of expertise. -- nm - Krusty Feb 25, 07:26
- We're Number 4! We're Number 4! -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 07:25
I was in the queue at 10 am. When my turn came up 15 minutes later, McCartney was sold out. - loosilu Feb 25, 07:19 3
- What’s your favorite song of his, from the last decade or so? Or fav album 💿? -- nm - Flavorize Feb 25, 08:01 2
  - I liked McCartney iii. -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 08:26
  - My teeth smell like VapoRub. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 25, 08:03
remarkable video, I havent "triple-confirmed" -- (link) - mud Feb 25, 07:17
Speaking about the current situation to my colleague in our Poland office, who has traveled extensively in the Ukraine, is both grim and educational. - znufrii Feb 25, 07:13 2
- Aw. Clicked for a grim and educational IM. Was disappointed. -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 07:14 1
  - The grim part is that Ukraine is done for, and a lot of people are going to die to keep it that way. -- (edited) - znufrii Feb 25, 07:18
OTD 50 yrs ago, "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake -- (link) - mud Feb 25, 07:09 5
- OTD 30 yrs ago: "Little Earthquakes" by Tori Amos: -- (link) - mud Feb 25, 07:10 4
  - Ouch. That one makes me feel old. -- nm - Dano Feb 25, 07:13 3
    - you can imagine how the first post makes me feel, then. -- nm - mud Feb 25, 07:43 1
      - I saw a photo of his headstone, and it looks old. That kinda freaked me out. -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 07:47
    - Don't crucify yourself over it. When it comes to mainstream success, she's been pretty silent all these years. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 25, 07:29
Kremlin inviting Zelinsky to come to Minsk have some laughs -- (edited) - eag Feb 25, 06:54 3
- LOL -- nm - Mop Feb 25, 08:11
- Going that badly for them, huh? -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 07:19 1
  - Well I mean there troops were told to Go F# Yourself - eag Feb 25, 07:27
"Russian warship, Go fuck yourself." RIP those 13 guards. -- nm* - Shaun Feb 25, 06:52
Indy people. Two questions. Have some time to kill this morning. Best place to shop/mall? Pete: are you in Avon or Castleton? -- nm* - oblique Feb 25, 06:45 4
- neither. my day off from the store. I'm at WTTS today 92.3. For shopping...Castleton Mall and Keystone Mall -- nm - Remlik Feb 25, 06:54 3
  - Massachusetts ave has the Bottleworks and lots of great shops and restaurants -- nm - Remlik Feb 25, 06:55 2
    - Thanks! We are staying downtown so are walking over there. We were too early for the circle mall -- nm* - oblique Feb 25, 07:07 1
      - circle mall is a shell of what it was -- nm - Remlik Feb 25, 07:26
I was wrong about Boris' willingness to lose Russian money. - spamlet Feb 25, 06:42 4
- "Aw man! I wanted to nuke Russia, but the others said no!" -- nm - Mop Feb 25, 08:14
- That disappoints me but doesn't surprise me about Biden and other world leaders. -- nm - Inigo Feb 25, 07:02 1
  - It had been mentioned that Germany and Italy would be the ones that would resist they have too much money tied up with Russia through Swift -- nm - eag Feb 25, 07:06
- Although getting to talk tough knowing he won't have to back it up is exactly his style. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 06:47
So it seems our VPN to connect to the campus network isn't functional this morning. Guess I'll just twiddle my thumbs. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 25, 06:30 3
- SNOW DAY! -- nm - decline Feb 25, 06:34
- Ours finally came up about 9:30 yesterday. -- nm - spamlet Feb 25, 06:31 1
  - I can connect to the web-based email so I can report that our Covid census dropped from 77 last week to 64 this week. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 25, 06:36
Did everyone that subscribes get that Universal Yums email this morning? (Spoilers I guess.) Email inside - Andie Feb 25, 06:16 8
- I want to switch. - Will Hunting Feb 25, 06:20 5
  - They’ve already bought whatever is going out so it’s no more support than last week. -- nm - spamlet Feb 25, 06:26 1
    - for sure, i get that. -- nm - Andie Feb 25, 06:27
  - Really? Huh. I figure at this rate, it’s UY losing money. They couldn’t help this. -- nm - kelly Feb 25, 06:26 1
    - (Plus, we’d be switching to a box we’ve already received) -- nm - kelly Feb 25, 06:27
  - I WAS torn - i don't want UY to lose money, but also, yeah, your IM. -- nm - Andie Feb 25, 06:25
- Putin didn't factor on this! -- nm - Mop Feb 25, 06:20
- ha - just saw below -- nm - Andie Feb 25, 06:16
#Worldle #35 1/6 (100%) - crash davis Feb 25, 06:06 5
- Wordle 251 6/6 (and I was lucky to get it). Now I need to try nerdle. - ReluctantCynic Feb 25, 07:16
- nerdlegame 37 4/6 - crash davis Feb 25, 06:07 3
  - Canuckle in 3. Should've been 2. - CinnaBaron Feb 25, 06:14 2
    - that is one game I'd expect I'd bomb out on -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 06:15 1
      - The theme helps (spoilers from a few days back) - CinnaBaron Feb 25, 06:40
I have to do a video interview today (weird but whatever) and one of the questions is "tell us about a time you solved a problem. how did you solve - amanda jeans Feb 25, 05:58 3
- “In a meta example, I solved the problem of how to answer this question by deciding my entire body of work was just too awesome to tell you about.” -- nm - znufrii Feb 25, 06:13
- "This one time we were having a pizza party at the office and this one employee would just eat and eat and eat. Using advanced analytics I had - decline Feb 25, 06:01
- Is it easier to think….” How did I delegate to solve it or how did I personally solve it”? - Pippy Feb 25, 06:01
President Joe Biden is nominating federal appeals court judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, -- (link) - decline Feb 25, 05:53 2
- 👍 👍 "presidents are not kings" -- nm - mud Feb 25, 07:56 1
  - The election is just 3 years away and we should let the voters decide who should nominate the next SCOTUS unless it's a democrat -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 11:00
Jesus -- (link) - Jovian Feb 25, 05:39 2
- That’s horrible—there are different angles of that too. -- nm - Flavorize Feb 25, 06:01 1
  - He survived apparently! -- nm - Jovian Feb 25, 07:55
McDonald’s is a week early on the filet o’fish deals. - spamlet Feb 25, 05:33 8
- Lenten Creep killed it at Rock Fest a few years ago. -- nm - Krusty Feb 25, 06:23
- What are the deals on Filet O Fish? -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 06:18 5
  - My app says it's a BOGO deal. - spamlet Feb 25, 06:29 4
    - Thanks. I know they aren't very good, but still, very occasionally I will get a strange hankering for the ole Filet O Fish -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 06:32 3
      - Oh I get it. Sometimes a Quarter Pounder is all I want. -- nm - spamlet Feb 25, 06:39 2
        
        Quarter Pounders > Big Macs. I will brook no dissent on this. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 25, 06:42 1
        
        I don't like thousand island dressing so no dissent here. -- nm - spamlet Feb 25, 07:00
- They actually started a couple weeks ago here. - Dark Callisto Feb 25, 05:39
pfm, I got that email this morning too. Are you going to switch or keep the box? - kelly Feb 25, 05:24 5
- i am switching the two i gave as gifts (my mom and my brother) - Andie Feb 25, 06:17
- yes, keep. I appreciated the way they handled that. BTW, this past months box? - prayformojo Feb 25, 05:33 3
  - This month’s box has been one of my absolute favorites. -- nm - kelly Feb 25, 06:07 2
    - Those onion balsamic chips were incredible. (I was the only one who liked them though) -- nm - kelly Feb 25, 06:10 1
      - I thought it was a really strange flavor combination, but wow did that work -- nm - prayformojo Feb 25, 07:18
5/6 - znufrii Feb 25, 05:20 1
- spoiler spoiler - amanda jeans Feb 25, 05:55
Wordle 4 - Diva Feb 25, 05:16 8
- painstaking 6, mostly grey - rollo Feb 25, 08:03
- This was a battle. 5/6 - Marlowe Feb 25, 06:51
- A methodical 4 as well. - CinnaBaron Feb 25, 06:13
- 4 - crash davis Feb 25, 06:05
- 5 - decline Feb 25, 05:59
- 4 - Shaun Feb 25, 05:49
- 3/6 - oblique Feb 25, 05:43
- 4 as well. - Inigo Feb 25, 05:35
Bron Steiner is strong. The NXT guys did a powerlifting contest. He benched 2-reps at 455 lbs. - Will Hunting Feb 25, 05:14
F1 cancelling the Russian Grand Prix -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 05:00
Good morning. Spelling Bee. -- (pic) - prayformojo Feb 25, 04:58 [Attachment] 5
- CUD DOMINION -the name for the Empire of Cows -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 06:36
- UMMM... CONDI - Bill's response regarding regrets about things he did not do. -- nm - VMan Feb 25, 05:34
- When Limp Bizkit played Woodstock it became an ICONIC MUD moment. -- nm - spamlet Feb 25, 05:24 1
  - not to mention, a veritable CONDOM CONDOMINION -- nm - prayformojo Feb 25, 05:35
- MUIDONC - really stubborn -- nm - . Feb 25, 05:10
TV PSA: Blacklist, Undercover Boss, Penn & Teller, Shark Tank, Gold Rush, Smackdown, AEW Rampage, Magnum PI, Blue Bloods, Vikings: Valhalla (NF), -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 04:33 4
- RuPaul, Afterparty (Apple), Fame Game (NF), A Madea Homecoming (NF), No Exit (Hulu), Last One Laughing Canada (Amazon), Servant (Apple), -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 04:33 3
  - Suspicion (Apple), Marvelous Mrs Maisel (Amazon), Severance (Apple), Love is Blind (NF), Reno 911 (Roku), Bellator MMA, Graham Norton, other stuff - Beaker Feb 25, 04:34 2
    - Ep 3&4 of Maisel were there last night. it was weird. -- nm - Andie Feb 25, 07:57
    - 1: Vikings. I'll probably watch Last One Laughing Canada too as I've heard it is very funny -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 04:38
Champions League final moved from St Petersburg to Paris -- (link) - Reagen Feb 25, 04:23 3
- The dropped the ball in my opinion on Russia's team. They only have to play at neutral venues. - Volnelk Feb 25, 04:40 2
  - Agreed. They need to be isolated from the world stage. -- nm - Krusty Feb 25, 04:45 1
    - Strip them of all the 2022 Olympic medals -- nm - . Feb 25, 04:49

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