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And..... -- nm - Jim Sep 8, 08:30
Qale...nice report on DragonCon. -- nm - Remlik Sep 8, 08:26 1
- I'm amazed how many people I know went to that. -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 08:29
LYC: first news I got this morning at work ... my cow orker (33, never smoked) has lung cancer. :( -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 08:25 2
- probably something in your office caused it. Have a great day! - oblique Sep 8, 08:26 1
  - he doesn't know yet what type. we are keeping fingers crossed. -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 08:27
DoE awards money to prototype solar roads -- (link) - oblique Sep 8, 08:24
Buffy S6 comments (spoilers) - con_carne Sep 8, 08:22
What happens when old commedians join Twitter -- (link) - oblique Sep 8, 08:20 [Image]
kelly: fyi Springsteen tix go on sale the 25th $68-98 -- (link) - MDH Sep 8, 07:59 5
- Woohoo - thanks! - kelly Sep 8, 08:02 4
  - (Actually - I didn't realize those were DC tix. Isn't he supposed to be in Baltimore in November, too?) - kelly Sep 8, 08:04 3
    - November 20 -- (link) - psilotum Sep 8, 08:11 2
      - Danke. - kelly Sep 8, 08:16 1
        
        It goes on sale the end of September so it should be posted within the next 2 weeks -- nm - MDH Sep 8, 08:21
The Onion's take on XBox 360 failures -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 8, 07:58
I knew about Terrell Pryor's pro-Vick eye black, but didn't see his quote till just now: "Not everybody is a perfect person in the world. Everyone kills people..." - Ender Sep 8, 07:58 6
- I'm guessing he was trying to go for the "nobody's innocent in this world" angle, but didn't have the brain power to articulate it. - Inigo Sep 8, 08:24 1
  - To be fair, he might just be a thief. -- nm - Ender Sep 8, 08:25
- Everyone kills people, murder people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever." - Danedukenuuk Sep 8, 08:20
- Man, the next day I go without murdering someone will be a red letter day. -- nm - Reagen Sep 8, 08:14
- Who have you killed - BB Sep 8, 08:02 1
  - Still working on it. Come back at lunch. -- nm - Marvin Harrison Sep 8, 08:08
lyc, more free batman arkham asylum downloadable content to show up next week. - tRuMaN Sep 8, 07:57 3
- Link? -- nm - Shaun Sep 8, 07:59 2
  - Found it. Sept 17th apparently. -- nm - Shaun Sep 8, 08:05 1
    - what is it supposed to be? -- nm - Remlik Sep 8, 08:15
The GOP rebuttal - BB Sep 8, 07:42 [youtube]
My Costco membership is expiring next month, so I'm deciding whether I want/need to renew. We are having a promotion at work where I can get a Sam's - kelly Sep 8, 07:38 17
- I think Costco has higher quality brands and products. That's both a plus and a minus. - Pippy's Bird Sep 8, 08:25 1
  - SFAN. -- nm - pmb Sep 8, 08:26
- I think they both have enormous buckets of pickles, and bigger containers of mustard than any human could use, yes? -- nm - TFox Sep 8, 08:05 7
  - Well - kelly Sep 8, 08:07 6
    - I think I'd feel safe saying Costco has higher quality meats (though I haven't checked Sam's). - pmb Sep 8, 08:27
    - I agree with your IM. I get most everything else via Amazon Prime -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 08:11 4
      - If we had a pantry it might be a different story. - kelly Sep 8, 08:13 3
        
        my friends built a really cool pantry in their basement. - decline Sep 8, 08:23
        
        You should never mix black beans in bulk with Will. - CrankYanker Sep 8, 08:21 1
        
        aka "foreplay"? -- nm - TFox Sep 8, 08:21
- You might want to check this out. Costco has started offering an online savings account. Currently 1.85%. -- (link) - psilotum Sep 8, 07:42
- Go visit yours and see (they will let you do this). We had BJs for a couple years, and then visited the Costco when it opened but stuck with BJs. - Don Homer Sep 8, 07:41 3
  - *giggle* -- nm - Reagen Sep 8, 07:43 2
    - I can't imagine you giggling - amoxy Sep 8, 08:06
    - chum -- nm - lileve Sep 8, 07:43
- You should take a visit to the Sam's Club. Here I prefer BJ's to Costco but I have a Costco membership. The parents dropped their BJ's membership. BJ' - lileve Sep 8, 07:39
- its sorta like the different between target (costco) and walmart (sams) really. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 8, 07:39
Is there a good listing/grid of what tv shows are scheduled for when this fall? - Will Hunting Sep 8, 07:37 6
- or here -- (link) - Max Sep 8, 07:50 1
  - ABC has an entirely new Wednesday? That's some good programming right there. -- nm - Reagen Sep 8, 08:14
- here -- (link) - Reagen Sep 8, 07:38 3
  - Thanks, perfect. - Will Hunting Sep 8, 07:46 2
    - What 4? -- nm - kelly Sep 8, 07:50 1
      - Bones, Office, 30 Rock and Supernatural. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 8, 07:52
Today in music: new Jay-Z, new Phish, new Raekwon, new TMBG kids album. - TFox Sep 8, 07:27 7
- Thanks for the reminder. Guess I have to head out to pick a couple up afer work. -- nm - Krusty on the BB Sep 8, 08:18
- They've already done ABCs and 123s. What could possibly be left to cover?! -- nm - psilotum Sep 8, 07:37 3
  - Here Comes Science -- nm - TFox Sep 8, 07:57 1
    - This Obama swerve made people miss the real threat to our children. - Inigo Sep 8, 08:07
  - Chaos theory -- nm - Inigo Sep 8, 07:50
- I'm really digging the new Raekwon -- nm - decline Sep 8, 07:29 1
  - Haven't picked it up yet, but I like that there are multiple guest verses from Inspectah Deck. - TFox Sep 8, 07:34
Giant rat discovered in Papua New Guinea; - Loyola Sep 8, 07:27 2
- 82 cm long??? -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 08:24
- ROUSes? I don't believe they exist. -- nm - Ender Sep 8, 07:42
Things I didn't know: Beyonce's younger sister, Solange, has a child and was married at 17 -- nm - MDH Sep 8, 07:24
Rate my fantasy team. 8 team league, I picked 6th. - Shaun Sep 8, 07:18 1
- Were the other people awake for the draft? - BB Sep 8, 07:52
Inigo: we have the same birthday? Nice. - MDH Sep 8, 07:16 4
- Yup. The 29th. Although, you're probably much younger. Bastage. -- nm - Inigo Sep 8, 07:30 3
  - ...and I'm going to a concert on the 29th too. U2 and Muse. -- nm - Inigo Sep 8, 07:32 2
    - Haha at FedEx? - MDH Sep 8, 07:35 1
      - Yup. -- nm - Inigo Sep 8, 07:38
The Simpsons Movie (2nd viewing): upgrading to A-. - TFox Sep 8, 07:16
The dangers of Taco Bell -- (link) - TWuG Sep 8, 07:16
LYC: I'm taking off Friday and setting up my apt all day - MDH Sep 8, 07:14
*glares at netflix* - tRuMaN Sep 8, 07:14 4
- I long for the day that Hulu appears on my Roku or my Wii -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 07:30 3
  - well, isnt playitnow (or whatever it is called) coming to the wii soon? -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 8, 07:36 2
    - yeah, but I'm not convinced that streaming Hulu from my PC to my Wii is going to result in a good experience or even be viable for long - oblique Sep 8, 07:41 1
      - I tried it (playitnow to ps3) and was disappointed -- nm - decline Sep 8, 07:45
If you have a child at school today, here are some of the classic signs of hypnosis; -- (link) - Loyola Sep 8, 06:59 7
- I was "hypnotized" once. I don't think it worked. -- nm - nubby Sep 8, 07:05 6
  - Some hypnotist started trying to be a regular at the bar we always go to, and my friends convinced me to let him try. - TFox Sep 8, 07:13
  - I can be "hypnotized", but I'm not suggestable. -- nm - Reagen Sep 8, 07:07 4
    - me too. -- nm - loosilu Sep 8, 08:23
    - I was hypnotized into thinking I was a teapot. nm - ralph wiggum Sep 8, 07:11 2
      - the weird part was when Earl Gray started coming out of your nose. -- nm - Reagen Sep 8, 07:14 1
        
        "Oh, I don't want her cured. We need the eggs." nm - ralph wiggum Sep 8, 07:16
With all this talk about space debris and crap hitting the shuttle/ISS, why can't they just send up a big satellite with a kind of plate in the front - oblique Sep 8, 06:49 39
- or put the plate on the ISS to begin with??? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Sep 8, 08:09
- well, technically, if you placed a couple of small but powerfull magents in a corrected orbit, they would eventually increase in mass and become - tRuMaN Sep 8, 07:28 6
  - Katamari Damancy. -- nm - Reagen Sep 8, 07:30 5
    - umm, sure. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 8, 07:32 4
      - I spelled it wrong, but is this game really that obscure? -- (link) - Reagen Sep 8, 07:35 3
        
        no. i just dont how we are gonna find a silly spacesuit small enough for mel. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 8, 07:39
        
        *Great* game. One of the more original games from this decade. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 8, 07:36 1
        
        Speaking of PS3 exclusives, Katamari Forever comes out in a few weeks. I'm excited. -- nm - Ender Sep 8, 08:00
- you'll run the risk of creating collision chain reactions, potentially endangering everything that's up there. -- nm - znufrii Sep 8, 07:07
- They need to send up Quincy, Rocket, and his Drum Thumper. -- nm - TFox Sep 8, 07:05
- Space is big & satellites are only about the size of a bus. The debris isn't just lined up in one big lane, it's scattered across all kinds of longitudes, latitudes, and altitudes. -- nm - Ender Sep 8, 07:00 1
  - Thrusters -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 07:01
- Several things: Larger debris is easier to track. Any "plate" heavy or dense enough to stop, catch, or destroy debris would likely be too heavy to put - TWuG Sep 8, 06:56 23
  - How about a giant fan to just blow it down to earth? -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 06:59 22
    - Fans only work in an atmosphere. A fan in open space would generate no thrust. -- nm - TWuG Sep 8, 07:05 14
      - What about a giant firehose? -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 07:07 13
        
        Unfortunately, all those water droplets would freeze and themselves become dangerous projectiles. -- nm - TWuG Sep 8, 07:10 5
        
        I know you're going to say "space *is* a vacuum", but what about a vacuum? -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 07:11 3
        
        or maybe a giant burlap sack. -- nm - Reagen Sep 8, 07:17
        
        Well, the problem is that a vacuum won't work in a vacuum. It operates through pressure differentials which you couldn't achieve in space. -- nm - TWuG Sep 8, 07:17
        
        "He's switched her from suck to blow." -- nm - TFox Sep 8, 07:16
        
        Or bring about a Piers Anthony-style apocalypse. -- nm - Reagen Sep 8, 07:11
        
        They should just laser it. With lasers. -- nm - Loyola Sep 8, 07:09 5
        
        I don't think sharks will work in space -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 07:09 4
        
        Monkeys thrive in space, I believe. -- nm - Loyola Sep 8, 07:11 3
        
        I'm going to nominate you to my board of directors for ideas like that -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 07:12 2
        
        Cool. Can I come to meetings barefoot? -- nm - Loyola Sep 8, 07:15 1
        
        That might be kind of tricky, since the meetings are in space. - BB Sep 8, 07:54
        
        I think it's time to cut you off from Looney Tunes. -- nm - Reagen Sep 8, 07:08
    - How would a fan work with no air to push? -- nm - Reagen Sep 8, 07:04 6
      - I, for one, applaud oblique's new quest to clean up space. -- nm - Loyola Sep 8, 07:06 5
        
        I'm kind of troubled that he thinks it's okay to dump the stuff back on Earth. We have enough problems dealing with trash and waste already. -- nm - TWuG Sep 8, 07:11 4
        
        No dumping, it will all burn up, see? -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 07:12 3
        
        and if it doesn't, there's still plenty of room in New Jersey -- nm - decline Sep 8, 07:12 2
        
        If New Jersey suddenly was redubbed "The US Space Debris National Conservatory", the planet would sing as one in gleeful harmonies. -- nm - TFox Sep 8, 07:15
        
        Besides, who wouldn't want to make a playground out of recycled space junk? -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 07:14
- or maybe a giant magnet. It could spin around the earth grabbing all that debris right up. -- nm - decline Sep 8, 06:50 2
  - A lot of it is stuff like paint chips. -- nm - Reagen Sep 8, 06:54 1
    - Ok, a giant lint roller type thingy then. -- nm - decline Sep 8, 06:55
ST Game Poll: You have a friend who's going to get a 360 and/or a PS3. They hate FPS games. What console exclusive would you recommend to them? - Shaun Sep 8, 06:48 16
- 360 - Fable 3! -- nm - lileve Sep 8, 07:53
- The worst thing about the xbox (I've always thought) is the lack of Formula One games. -- nm - Loyola Sep 8, 07:10
- DSi -- nm - TFox Sep 8, 07:06
- PS3: LBP, Ratchet & Clank, Infamous -- nm - Ender Sep 8, 07:03
- Little Big Planet -- nm - Inigo Sep 8, 06:57
- Dead Rising (360). -- nm - Don Homer Sep 8, 06:54
- I am that person, and I went with a 360. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Sep 8, 06:53 1
  - FAIL. -- nm - Shaun Sep 8, 06:54
- ps3: uncharted 1 & 2 (coming soon), ratchet and clank series. 360, fable series. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 8, 06:51
- 360. Playstation's era is over. -- nm - Loyola Sep 8, 06:50 3
  - You said console exclusive, rather than "console exclusive game". - Loyola Sep 8, 06:55 1
    - Oh I'm talking to myself now. Super. -- nm - Loyola Sep 8, 06:57
  - FAIL. -- nm - Shaun Sep 8, 06:51
- Wii -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 06:49 2
  - FAIL. -- nm - Shaun Sep 8, 06:51 1
    - FAIL fail. -- nm - nubby Sep 8, 06:52
Lady GaGa throws reporter out of press conference over hermaphrodite question -- (link) - Reagen Sep 8, 06:48 2
- Three weeks until I see her in concert, which I'm sure will be an experience - MDH Sep 8, 06:50 1
  - When is your birthday? Mine is three weeks from today. -- nm - Inigo Sep 8, 06:59
"The worst thing you can be is a liar....Okay fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but THEN, number two is liar. Nazi 1, Liar 2" -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 06:47
waaaaaahhhhhhh! -- nm - kelly Sep 8, 06:46

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