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Oh fun. I just had to ask our QA Manager for the name of his supervisor. - con_carne Sep 23, 11:15
Well, the doc had good news! It's stil way way way way early, but as of now, the wife is preggers. -- nm - CQ Sep 23, 11:14 21
- start sleeping late then it won't be long before thats a luxory :) - Danedukenuuk Sep 23, 11:24
- congratulations! -- nm - crash davis Sep 23, 11:24
- Congratulations on the new job at the bowling alley! (nm) - musubi Sep 23, 11:19
- Don Homer!! Best wishes for the CQling! -- nm - mara Sep 23, 11:19
- Yay! Yay! Yay! -- nm - Redmond Sep 23, 11:19
- that's terrific! good thoughts ongoing for smooth and happy times ahead! -- nm - b. Sep 23, 11:18
- Great. But what's the good news? -- nm - BB Sep 23, 11:17
- Excellent, nice job CQ. -- nm - Loyola Sep 23, 11:17
- Wow, congratulations! -- nm - Roger More Sep 23, 11:16
- Congratulations, and here's to a healthy and happy family! -- nm - con_carne Sep 23, 11:16
- Awesome news. -- nm - Inigo Sep 23, 11:16
- Woo Hoo! Keeping them all crossed until it's official. -- nm - Krusty Sep 23, 11:16
- Congratulations & positive thoughts! -- nm - CovingtonCat Sep 23, 11:16
- Whoo! Coors Light on you tonight! -- nm - Shaun Sep 23, 11:15
- congrats ... and still keeping stuff crossed -- nm - Danonormal Activity Sep 23, 11:15
- yay! -- nm - ty97 Sep 23, 11:15
- that's *awesome* news. congrats! -- nm - Andie Sep 23, 11:15
- Woohoo! Good thoughts, good thoughts! -- nm - lileve Sep 23, 11:15
- Congrats! -- nm - MDH Sep 23, 11:15
- YES!!! -- nm - Don Homer Sep 23, 11:14
- congrats!! -- nm - TFox Sep 23, 11:14
I'm looking at some of your photos on flickr. Epiphany is hot. -- nm - Loyola Sep 23, 11:10 12
- who's heart doesn't skip a beat at the thought of her? -- nm - zork Sep 23, 11:21
- Welcome to the Pippy Party. I've known that for EVER! -- nm - Redmond Sep 23, 11:17
- you really didn't know this till now? -- nm - dogbert Sep 23, 11:15 2
  - Dude you are big. -- nm - Loyola Sep 23, 11:15 1
    - I prefer to be called girthy -- nm - dogbert Sep 23, 11:22
- I didn't know there was an ST flickr page. -- nm - Inigo Sep 23, 11:13 3
  - You do now brother. -- nm - Loyola Sep 23, 11:15 2
    - link? -- nm - lileve Sep 23, 11:15 1
      - Here; -- (link) - Loyola Sep 23, 11:16 [flickr]
- znufrii, you look *exactly* like I imagined :) -- nm - Loyola Sep 23, 11:11
- She's stunning. - ty97 Sep 23, 11:11
- Well, duh. -- nm - Inigo Sep 23, 11:10
Massachusetts governor turns up heat on Hyatt to rehire housekeepers. -- (link) - CovingtonCat Sep 23, 11:06 11
- I'm with the hotel here. It's not like they're outsourcing the jobs to India. They just found local people who will do it cheaper. -- nm - Ender Sep 23, 11:18 10
  - So it's morally OK for companies to fire everyone just to improve the bottom line? - CovingtonCat Sep 23, 11:23 3
    - It's called business. If my department's job can be done just as well by somebody else for half the cost you can be damn sure we'd be outsourced. - Ender Sep 23, 11:27
    - Who said anything about being morally ok? -- nm - Jim Sep 23, 11:24 1
      - I think Hyatt had a moral obligation to work with the housekeepers to try and keep any who wanted to stay. - CovingtonCat Sep 23, 11:32
  - I'm not thrilled with the manner in which they did it...but I'm with you. -- nm - Jim Sep 23, 11:23
  - Okay. But to have them train them the replacements was pretty scummy. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 23, 11:20 1
    - Bah, knowledge transfer's just standard procedure whenever an outside contractor takes over anything. -- nm - Ender Sep 23, 11:22
  - though if they would had outsourced to India, I'd be greatly interested in the technology that allows them to do that -- nm - crash davis Sep 23, 11:19 2
    - Robo-maids operated using virtual reality technology. -- nm - Ender Sep 23, 11:21 1
      - dang, I was hoping for teleportation portals -- nm - crash davis Sep 23, 11:22
someone call a doctor, i've got a case of love bipolar. -- nm - b. Sep 23, 11:02 2
- for some reason, - prayformojo, xynastic Sep 23, 11:07 1
  - it seems hit/miss for other songs, too. - b. Sep 23, 11:15
NY Times Magazine article about "Coming Out in Middle School". -- (link) - Don Homer Sep 23, 11:00 12
- 13 to me is High School, maybe not that young to know it, but really young to out yourself though -- nm - MDH Sep 23, 11:08 2
  - I turned 14 during 8th grade finals. I was one of the later birthday, if I recall. - ty97 Sep 23, 11:09 1
    - I was 13 when I started 9th grade but, yeah, I think of it as "middle school age". -- nm - Don Homer Sep 23, 11:09
- middle...school? - ty97 Sep 23, 11:01 8
  - I know a guy who claims to have known since he was 6. -- nm - Reagen Sep 23, 11:08 4
    - in hindsight, I've known /should have known "all my life". - ty97 Sep 23, 11:09 3
      - Yeah I know for sure I knew at least no later than January 26, 2009. - Danonormal Activity Sep 23, 11:12 2
        
        *2009*? late bloomer -- nm - Andie Sep 23, 11:14 1
        
        eh, 1979 -- nm - Danonormal Activity Sep 23, 11:15
  - Looking back, I would say I knew then. More accurately I should have known then. - Danonormal Activity Sep 23, 11:06 1
    - Same here...but still, wow -- nm - ty97 Sep 23, 11:07
  - ...in Oklahoma! -- nm - Don Homer Sep 23, 11:04
tru, the UPS truck pulled up here 20 minutes ago and now I have "the precious" as Trish called it - crash davis Sep 23, 11:00 19
- put the wife to work! -- nm - Remlik Sep 23, 11:11 1
  - I really hope im there when you two finally meet - eag Sep 23, 11:14
- in case Trish ever needs an avatar -- (link) - zork Sep 23, 11:07 1
  - thanks! I'll point this link out to here -- nm - crash davis Sep 23, 11:10
- it shouldnt take you more than 7 hours to finish in on normal. - tRuMaN Sep 23, 11:01 14
  - crash, on normal i only died once until the last act of the game. - tRuMaN Sep 23, 11:04 6
    - Must be a lot easier. My buddy and I died a pile of times playing on Legendary. -- nm - Shaun Sep 23, 11:06 5
      - or possibly I am just better than you :P - tRuMaN Sep 23, 11:10 3
        
        You probably are :) Enemy snipers have *great* aim, I will just say that much. Also the pistol is amazingly useful in ODST. -- nm - Shaun Sep 23, 11:11 2
        
        actually, that is something I meant to say. ODST makes you be a better sniper - tRuMaN Sep 23, 11:12 1
        
        The zoom on the pistol was very nice. -- nm - Shaun Sep 23, 11:13
      - Legendary is Bungie speak for "crash, you need a friend or two to help you here" -- nm - crash davis Sep 23, 11:09
  - can I give you a little bit of constructive criticism on your review? - crash davis Sep 23, 11:04 6
    - I already fixed the stars bit. yeah, I have a meeting, but I will see if I can explain that bit a bit later. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 23, 11:05 5
      - ok crash, just for you, I fixed that and added stuff for you. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 23, 11:10 4
        
        also..."grafted with medal" shoule be "metal" -- nm - Remlik Sep 23, 11:13 2
        
        blame crash. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 23, 11:15 1
        
        but of course! -- nm - Remlik Sep 23, 11:16
        
        :) -- nm - crash davis Sep 23, 11:12
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- Maybe they should have done this before the ACORN vote. - CovingtonCat Sep 23, 11:09
- And if you read the details....this is committe vote, not full vote...AND........ - ty97 Sep 23, 11:04 5
  - What good is that? It's not inflamatory at all. (nm) - musubi Sep 23, 11:20
  - It's easy to get outraged that "they don't read the bills!" but the amount that they go in blind is vastly overstated. - Reagen Sep 23, 11:16
  - this seems reasonable. -- nm - TFox Sep 23, 11:09
  - Does it mention death panels? - BB Sep 23, 11:08
  - details schmetails. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 23, 11:05
- 72 hours for the GOP to stoke populist outrage by spreaduing more false information about the bill's contents? - znufrii Sep 23, 11:01 33
  - So you're actually ok with not knowing what's in the bill before the vote? - Stephen Sep 23, 11:09 12
    - You were real worried about this when the Patriot Act was up for a vote. - BB Sep 23, 11:14 1
      - I certainly didn't advocate hiding the details of the bill before a vote. - Stephen Sep 23, 11:21
    - personally, yes. I have neither the time nor inclination to read the bill before they vote. - znufrii Sep 23, 11:12 9
      - at least the option of transparency is a good thing, imo. -- nm - b. Sep 23, 11:20
      - I think the campaign promise was a noble, and worthwhile promise. - Loyola Sep 23, 11:14 7
        
        pity indeed, but again, that's not what we're talking about ere at all. -- nm - znufrii Sep 23, 11:15 6
        
        If you think it's a pity, would it be fair to say you disagree with a Dem vote not to make them public? Irrespective of whether or not you personally - Loyola Sep 23, 11:20 5
        
        we're talking about two different points of the process here. -- nm - znufrii Sep 23, 11:22 4
        
        It was a simple question. -- nm - Loyola Sep 23, 11:23 3
        
        then the answer to your question is "no", for the reason I just gave. -- nm - znufrii Sep 23, 11:24 2
        
        It's a pity it's not being implemented, but you agree with the vote. Thanks. -- nm - Loyola Sep 23, 11:25 1
        
        correct. - znufrii Sep 23, 11:26
  - Wouldn't publicizing the *actual* information be a way to combat false information? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 23, 11:08 5
    - how many people would actually read it, instead of just believing whatever the media says about it? -- nm - znufrii Sep 23, 11:09 3
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        well, at least they have assistants to do it for them. I don't have that luxury. - znufrii Sep 23, 11:15
      - Why not find out? - Dr.Vermin Sep 23, 11:11
    - YOU LIE! -- nm - Redmond Sep 23, 11:09
  - Relatedly... "We still don't understand how fringe conservatism went mainstream." -- (link) - Don Homer Sep 23, 11:02 13
    - Glenn Grenwald had some interesting insights on this issue -- (link) - znufrii Sep 23, 11:07 12
      - holy crap, those are rapidly becoming my least favorite two words on ST. -- nm - TFox Sep 23, 11:08 11
        
        you don't like it? dont' read it. - znufrii Sep 23, 11:16 1
        
        ok -- nm - TFox Sep 23, 11:17
        
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        I actually pronounce it in my head "Wenb Weengwaowd". - TFox Sep 23, 11:13 7
        
        We get it. You hate znufrii, so why don't you stop responding to his posts. - Don Homer Sep 23, 11:14 5
        
        i'm very sorry it bothers you. and i don't hate z. he just frustrates me sometimes. - TFox Sep 23, 11:15 4
        
        you're currently at the top of my list of people I want to punch in the face, so... - znufrii Sep 23, 11:17 3
        
        if that's the prerequisite we need to get by to just enjoy a good beer, so be it. -- nm - TFox Sep 23, 11:18 2
        
        you should take it as a compliment. :) - znufrii Sep 23, 11:21 1
        
        as should you take most of my frustration as a compliment. - TFox Sep 23, 11:25
        
        *snort* -- nm - Stephen Sep 23, 11:14
- So dark the con of man... -- nm - Loyola Sep 23, 11:00
- Why propose that just for this bill? Why not for all bills? - ty97 Sep 23, 11:00 11
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    - Wouldn't that be a resolution? -- nm - mara Sep 23, 11:17
    - a bill honoring the Steelers for anything is much worse -- nm - Danonormal Activity Sep 23, 11:10
  - Even if they are, so what? Isn't that what Obama promised the people? -- nm - Stephen Sep 23, 11:01 6
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      - heh -- nm - Stephen Sep 23, 11:06
    - no, it's not. -- nm - znufrii Sep 23, 11:02
    - Obama promised the people games? -- nm - ty97 Sep 23, 11:02 2
      - No, he promised this.... -- (link) - Stephen Sep 23, 11:05 1
        
        fair enough, he broke that promise. This vote is unrelated to that - ty97 Sep 23, 11:06
  - silly ty -- nm - Don Homer Sep 23, 11:01
- It's always better to sneak it though and find out the horrible details after it's law. -- nm - Redmond Sep 23, 11:00 1
  - Through -- nm - Redmond Sep 23, 11:00
bery, i don't believe a decent person could have treated people like she did even as an act. plus someone (forget who) said that they had some busines - zork Sep 23, 10:59
i really need to find some replacements for this hockey league - Guy (The Hammer) Sep 23, 10:59
ST Flip-A-Poll: What one member of your preferred gender would cause you to 'switch sides' if they were the only member of your preferred gender left - ty97 Sep 23, 10:59 16
- Pelosi. My mother in law. The girl in Oprah's 'Precious' movie. - Dr.Vermin Sep 23, 11:10
- way too many yucky guys out there to mention - 'lia Sep 23, 11:06
- GWB. -- nm - kelly Sep 23, 11:04 1
  - *shudder* Darth Cheney would be okay though? ;) -- nm - Don Homer Sep 23, 11:06
- Like the anti-so great, I'd switch?........ - Will Hunting Sep 23, 11:03
- Rosey O'Donnell, but I would only switch for $1000 and being filmed in a porno. -- nm - Redmond Sep 23, 11:02 8
  - what if I just paid you $1000? Or is being filmed a bonus? -- nm - Roger More Sep 23, 11:02 7
    - He'd do it for $1.99 and a side of chicken wings -- nm - ty97 Sep 23, 11:06
    - It's an old argument I had with Ty that I have turned into a punchline. -- nm - Redmond Sep 23, 11:04 5
      - I know - it was just funny the way you said it. "I'll take the grand, but it must be filmed and available on PPV!" -- nm - Roger More Sep 23, 11:08 4
        
        Yeah, well without the filmed part I thought it would be to vague for Ty to get. -- nm - Redmond Sep 23, 11:09 3
        
        Spicy Buffalo Wings............. -- nm - ty97 Sep 23, 11:10
        
        I'm sure ty would have picked it up. He's a smart guy and... - Roger More Sep 23, 11:10 1
        
        I would need a guy with a better taste in clothes. -- nm - Redmond Sep 23, 11:18
- ST poll: What's the most confusing poll question ever? - zork Sep 23, 11:00 1
  - *awards you one tri-sexual point* -- nm - ty97 Sep 23, 11:01
Go ahead and start a conversation to get things moving. -- nm - BB Sep 23, 10:57
Have you ever watched The Wizard of Oz synced with the Dark Side of the Moon? - Don Homer Sep 23, 10:56 6
- Nope. -- nm - Krusty Sep 23, 11:07
- no -- nm - znufrii Sep 23, 10:59
- Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? -- nm - Joker Sep 23, 10:58 1
  - yes, but only one time. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 23, 11:00
- I'll be happy to take a look when someone uploads the synched video on youtube. -- nm - Max Sep 23, 10:58 1
  - i saw that some site had it but forget where it was. probably taken down by now anyway. -- nm - zork Sep 23, 11:01
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