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here come the motions to quash -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 22, 08:51 2
- that didnt take long. -- nm - Jovian Feb 22, 08:55
- "what fresh hell is this" -- nm - mud Feb 22, 08:52
Variety: ‘House of the Dragon’ S2 not until summer '24 .. :-( -- (link) - mud Feb 22, 08:46 1
- bastards! -- nm - decline Feb 22, 08:49
I get Jovian's anger and focus, because this is the stuff Florida is doing. It's hard to fault him when attacks like this are an almost daily - TWuG Feb 22, 08:38 1
- No no no. its fine its fine. The GOP is only just rolling back the clock to the 1950s, starting with Florida. Its fine. Also Hannity giving MGT a -- (edited) - Jovian Feb 22, 08:43
ST Poll: The AVClub has a slide show with 18 Man vs Beast movies. Name them. - Beaker Feb 22, 08:37 59
- Jurassic park -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 08:49 1
  - no -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:50
- hints - Beaker Feb 22, 08:49 15
  - Teen Wolf, the Movie -- nm - decline Feb 22, 08:53
  - The Grey -- nm - Spawn Feb 22, 08:53 2
    - 15 -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:54
    - Oh I thought this was The Edge. Good call. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 08:53
  - White Dog -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 22, 08:53
  - Beethoven -- nm - Charles Grodin si Feb 22, 08:52
  - Piranha -- nm - Dano SI Feb 22, 08:51 1
    - 14 (Piranha 3D technically) -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:51
  - Turner & Hooch -- nm - decline Feb 22, 08:51
  - Monkeybone? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 08:50
  - Monkey Shines? -- nm - Spawn Feb 22, 08:50 1
    - 6 (i remember this movie cause of the sex scene when I was a teenager....) -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:51
  - Outbreak -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 08:50 1
    - no -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:50
  - Planet of the Apes -- nm - decline Feb 22, 08:50
- Congo -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 08:48 1
  - no -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:49
- The Day of the Animals! - Jovian Feb 22, 08:47 1
  - Remlik? -- nm - Spawn Feb 22, 08:47
- Revenant -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 08:47 3
  - no -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:47 2
    - Slither -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 08:47 1
      - no -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:47
- The Ghost and the Darkness -- nm - decline Feb 22, 08:45 2
  - 9 (I've always loved this movie) -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:46 1
    - it is really, really good :) -- nm - decline Feb 22, 08:47
- Alien, Aliens -- nm - mud Feb 22, 08:44 2
  - animals, not aliens -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:45 1
    - *we* are the animals! -- nm - Spawn Feb 22, 08:46
- Arachnophobia -- nm* - decline Feb 22, 08:44 1
  - 7 -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:45
- Deep Blue See, Crawl -- nm - prayformojo Feb 22, 08:44 1
  - 11, no -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:44
- Cujo -- nm - JD Feb 22, 08:43 1
  - #4, beat Spawn by 1 second -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:44
- The Birds -- nm - Spawn Feb 22, 08:43 12
  - #1 -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:43 11
    - Cujo -- nm - Spawn Feb 22, 08:43 10
      - Anaconda -- nm - Spawn Feb 22, 08:44 9
        
        10 -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:44 8
        
        COCAINE BEAR!!! -- nm - Spawn Feb 22, 08:44 7
        
        18 -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:45 6
        
        Snakes on a Plane -- nm - Spawn Feb 22, 08:45 5
        
        13 -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:45 4
        
        Beast, Lake Placid -- nm* - Spawn Feb 22, 08:46 3
        
        17 -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:47 2
        
        Lake Placid -- nm - Spawn Feb 22, 08:48 1
        
        12 -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:49
- Day of the Animals -- nm - Remlik Feb 22, 08:42 1
  - no -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:43
- Jaws, The Edge -- nm - Dano Feb 22, 08:40 5
  - Beauty and the Beast -- nm - decline Feb 22, 08:42 3
    - no -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:43 2
      - but it's in the Title!! -- nm - decline Feb 22, 08:44 1
        
        Uhm... doesn't she, like, *do* the Beast? -- nm - Spawn Feb 22, 08:49
  - #2, not included (pretty sure the list is in date of release order, not ranking order) -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:41
Slides is fine to get a quick presentation off, but you can't do anything complex in it. -- nm - Reagen Feb 22, 08:29 2
- I haaaaaaaaate Slides. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 22, 08:30 1
  - Bear in mind that I'm mostly screen snipping textbook pages or problems and dropping them in - Reagen Feb 22, 08:34
South Side cancelled by HBO after 3 seasons -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:27
A mysterious metal sphere has appeared on a beach in Japan. Its origins are unknown, but authorities are investigating = ALIENS! - decline Feb 22, 08:22 3
- Obviously it's a Godzilla egg....oh no, there goes Tokyo -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 22, 09:57
- Kaiju egg -- nm - JD Feb 22, 08:27
- I blame U2 -- nm - Dano Feb 22, 08:25
Boston Strangler | Official Trailer | Hulu March 17th -- (link) - Beaker Feb 22, 08:21 [youtube]
Here is what $200 Million gets you in the Caribbean these days -- (link) - decline Feb 22, 08:19 1
- Wow that view is pretty spectacular. -- nm - sycor Feb 22, 08:22
ST Poll: predict the RT score for Cocaine Bear. -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:18 7
- 312.50% -- nm - Spawn Feb 22, 08:41
- 18% -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 22, 08:36
- 87%. -- nm - Andie Feb 22, 08:35
- 82% -- nm - TWuG Feb 22, 08:30
- 69% -- nm - Dano Feb 22, 08:25
- 100% -- nm - decline Feb 22, 08:20
- 76% -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:18
The Super Mario Bros. Movie apparently runs 92 minutes long. -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:10 4
- That’s perfect considering the audience. -- nm - Qale Feb 22, 09:04
- 92 minutes too long -- nm - Krusty Feb 22, 08:20
- Cocaine Koopa -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 08:12 1
  - Oh, that one is 95 minutes. It's Evil Dead Rise that was 92 minutes. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 22, 08:14
This winter has been the windiest I can remember here. - Dark Callisto Feb 22, 08:01 7
- The idiots in a building across from us are using a crane today. You can see it swaying while they are loading equipment to build - Will Hunting Feb 22, 08:19
- It's been really crazy -- nm - decline Feb 22, 08:14
- Who's peeking out from under a stairway, calling a name that's lighter than air? Who's bending down to give me a rainbow? -- nm - Dano Feb 22, 08:14 3
  - I quoted The Association just over a week ago. That makes us the only two people on this board who probably will ever do that. - Dark Callisto Feb 22, 08:31 2
    - I shall cherish our quotes. -- nm - Dano Feb 22, 08:34 1
      - That is the word. -- nm - Dark Callisto Feb 22, 08:54
- I may never complain about wind again. Iceland was a whole 'nother level of windy. The passport guy on our way out of the country made a joke about - oblique Feb 22, 08:03
Five Must-Watch Keiji "The Great" Muto Matches -- (link) - Beaker Feb 22, 07:59
Tax Act is sending me near daily emails asking me why I haven’t completed my return. Um. It’s because I apparently owe $170. I’m in no hurry. -- nm - Qale Feb 22, 07:49 8
- I’ve done my federal and Delaware, need to send in PA on paper apparently because their online application is stupid -- (edited) - znufrii, promoted Feb 22, 08:31 2
  - Man I'm glad my stuff is not complicated like this. -- nm - sycor Feb 22, 08:34 1
    - *shakes fist at his employer* -- (edited) - znufrii, promoted Feb 22, 08:37
- I started doing mine last night. So far so good and getting a good refund. - sycor Feb 22, 08:12 3
  - bought TurboTax last night after an email for 15% off from them. Plus another 2% back from Rakutan. We get till the end of April for our taxes though - Beaker Feb 22, 08:17 2
    - I've never paid for TurboTax, probably since I don't itemize. - sycor Feb 22, 08:21 1
      - I do the PIL taxes too. the 8 return one with taxes was like $38 -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 08:22
- I had fear that the tax date was 3/15 and I was preparing to scramble but then I realized it was 4/15 (actually 4/18 this year) -- nm - oblique Feb 22, 08:00
Poll: how much of your 15 gb of Google storage have you used? - sycor Feb 22, 07:46 17
- 230%-ish. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 22, 09:06
- 96%, mostly in photos. - znufrii, promoted Feb 22, 08:33
- 1.02 GB on my school drive. 1.2 GB on my personal account. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 22, 08:29
- 0% -- nm - Jovian Feb 22, 08:16
- 64% of 17gb. 6.4gb Gmail, 4.6gb Drive, 0% photos. (Photos are on Amazon) -- nm - JaxSean Feb 22, 08:14
- All of it.I have to use multiple places to store files. -- nm - Krusty Feb 22, 08:04
- 77% -- nm - ty97 Feb 22, 08:02
- More than 15 gb. - Dark Callisto Feb 22, 08:00
- 78% -- nm - oblique Feb 22, 07:59
- 27% -- nm - decline Feb 22, 07:54
- 90 -- nm - budice Feb 22, 07:53
- About half. -- nm - TWuG Feb 22, 07:51
- 0.32 -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 07:51
- 77%. I know this because i was getting warnings last week that i was somewhere in the high 80's. I spent some time cleaning it all out. -- nm - Andie Feb 22, 07:50 3
  - Wow. I think the highest I got maybe around 10 GB -- nm - sycor Feb 22, 08:02 2
    - i edit our quarterly condo newsletter and i have a ton of drafts of articles and photos etc in my drive. that's a bunch of it. & i never delete emails -- nm - Andie Feb 22, 08:04 1
      - Good point. I keep most of my stuff on my home computer so there is not much in the cloud. And I use my old Pixel 1 for uploading photos. - sycor Feb 22, 08:11
NFL Top 5 Cap Space-> Bears- $99M Falcons- $56M Raiders- $48M Giants- $47M Texans- $38M -- nm - budice Feb 22, 07:30 2
- Giants money is gone as soon as they sign Danny Dimes and Barkley -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 07:30 1
  - You hate to see it…. Ahahahahahahhahahhaahha -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 22, 08:22
Bruce Campbell hitting 22 locations for his Bruce-O-Rama Tour starting in April -- (link) - Beaker Feb 22, 07:22 2
- He's coming here but tickets were more expensive for decent seats than I could afford at the time. -- nm - sycor Feb 22, 08:03
- Closest he gets is 2.5 hours away. - Dark Callisto Feb 22, 07:58
PSA: It is Shamrock shake time! Gotta get myself over to a McD for my annual half shamrock half chocolate shake - oblique Feb 22, 07:06 1
- Sorry, the machine is broken. -- nm - MickeyD's, probably Feb 22, 07:26
The Pope's Exorcist trailer (R Crowe) -- (link) - budice Feb 22, 07:04 [youtube] 1
- Looks great!! -- nm - Epiphany aka sneaky link Feb 22, 08:02
Adidas has ceased sponsorship of Dustin Johnson and Sergio Garcia (both LIV tour golfers) - MDH Feb 22, 07:01
LIR Beaker thanks for the Party Down article, that was fun. I just watched that show recently and it was great. Looking forward to the new season. -- nm - sycor Feb 22, 06:50
sycor REB2: Sheets is free, my personal spreadsheets don't require the power of Excel (Sheets is fine) and I can access anywhere -- nm - ty97 Feb 22, 06:45 11
- I prefer Excel but Sheets is fine for most things. Now Slides is horrific compared to Powerpoint. Not acceptable as a substitute. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 22, 07:10 2
  - I haven't even tried Slides. - ty97 Feb 22, 07:35 1
    - me either. and i use Powerpoint less-than-yearly. it's not in my normal repertoire. I took a free online course in Powerpoint during the pandemic and it was pretty helpful -- (edited) - Andie Feb 22, 07:37
- Fair point. I have Office that my mom wanted to buy and dad still uses some. If it wasn't free to me than I probably would use Google docs. -- nm - sycor Feb 22, 06:51 3
  - This is kinda my situation. We have Office for the family so we all get a big OneDrive, etc. so I primarily use Office/OneDrive vs. Docs/Drive - oblique Feb 22, 06:55 2
    - on mobile, sheets is MUCH faster to load. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Feb 22, 07:06
    - The 15 GB limit on google is a bit annoying. I've stopped using them for photo backups and switched to Amazon. I don't use Onedrive at all. - sycor Feb 22, 07:01
- At work, I use Office -- nm - ty97 Feb 22, 06:45 3
  - *high fives* -- nm - Andie Feb 22, 06:46 2
    - I mean, samesies. also very honestly sheets is almost as robust as naked excel these days. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Feb 22, 06:48 1
      - I make my excel wear clothes -- nm - decline Feb 22, 06:49
from B2, work stuff is all Word/Excel, but my personal stuff is mostly in Google Drive. Just easier to have it whenever i want it. and all in one - Andie Feb 22, 06:43 2
- Work was MS all the way. Personal is LibreOffice -- nm* - mara Feb 22, 07:25 1
  - the company for whom I work sells google products and integration services. some customers are moving to google products because of cost. - judge indianapolis jones Feb 22, 07:29
A friend of mine started using Discord for the first time yesterday. - Strongbad Feb 22, 06:41 2
- Yes, it has some similarities for sure. -- nm - Dark Callisto Feb 22, 07:00
- Yep, definitely -- nm - ty97 Feb 22, 06:44
Speaking of excel, 30% of published genomics papers have errors because of Excel autocorrect and some notations have been changed to avoid it. -- (link) - spamlet Feb 22, 06:37
re: google docs, I think it was bery who said that it was nonsense that GS has tabs in worksheets but GD doesn't have a way to have tabs in docs. I - judge indianapolis jones Feb 22, 06:34
How Canada helped Ukraine learn to stop fighting wars the Soviet way -- (link) - Beaker Feb 22, 06:28
Hump -- nm - Beaker Feb 22, 06:28

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