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Ye Gods! Microsoft has recovered Sidekick data! -- (link) - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 09:01
hmm, coworker says the show "ashes to ashes" is good. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 09:01
Garth Brooks is unretiring!! -- (link) - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 09:00 6
- I'll catch that show in a heartbeat. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 15, 09:03 1
  - Word. -- nm - Jim Oct 15, 09:04
- Wynn has been chasing Brooks to headline since the day Danny Gans died -- nm - peglegpete Oct 15, 09:02 1
  - That's a pretty ambitious jump in starpower to target. - Will Hunting Oct 15, 09:05
- I wonder how Chris Gaines feels about this.... -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 09:01 1
  - Angsty. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 09:01
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- It's less easy to justify without dependants, but it does make sense to give some thought to how you'd live if you were unable to work due to injury - Subversive Oct 15, 09:05
- Yes. I believe you're far more likely to be disabled or unable to work than killed (insurance wise) -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 09:03
- Doesn't your employer provide a policy? - decline Oct 15, 09:02
- check to see what your employer offers first. - znufrii Oct 15, 09:01 3
  - My gf was on LTD from her firm and it was 100% of salary for iirc, 18 months. -- nm - Krusty Oct 15, 09:02
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  - great point -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 09:02
- better to have it and not use it than need it and not have it...check around for prices though. -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 08:58
- You probably don't need it right now but it's something you should look into later in life. -- nm - Krusty Oct 15, 08:58 7
  - isn't this something that actually is more valuable (and more likely to be needed) now than when he's older -- nm - zork Oct 15, 08:59 2
    - I may be wrong, but my tihnking is that he's not likely to be disabled long term at his young age. -- nm - Krusty Oct 15, 09:00 1
      - IIRC, statistically that is much more likely than dying for him -- nm - zork Oct 15, 09:02
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    - are you sure you don't have some of this as a benefit at work already? -- nm - TFox Oct 15, 09:01
    - how much is it? if it's minimal, i'd probably do it. -- nm - Andie Oct 15, 09:00 1
      - Agreed, if the price is low. -- nm - Krusty Oct 15, 09:01
- liver? -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 08:58 1
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And now I know that the Mad Men season finale is Nov 8th. *sad* - HdnAgnda Oct 15, 08:56 2
- *already*? -- nm - Andie Oct 15, 08:57 1
  - Right? Too soon, IMHO. And you just know that (spoils) - HdnAgnda Oct 15, 09:02
Should I watch Hung? Did it get cancelled? -- nm - LMS Oct 15, 08:55 3
- I wouldn't call it great but I liked it well enough to stick with it. - HdnAgnda Oct 15, 08:58 1
  - She's my fave character on that show. -- nm - Deevil Oct 15, 09:01
- one of my favorite recent reviews: "Hung left me limp" -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 08:56
TV PSA - new series of The Sarah Jane Adventures started today. -- nm - LMS Oct 15, 08:55 5
- TV Premier PSA: 30 Rock -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 08:55 3
  - are you sure? I checked this morning and thought it was a repeat Halloween epi of Office..... -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 08:56 2
    - NBC website says Oct 15th -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 09:01
    - that could have been a local channel though. -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 09:00
- Me: The Mentalist, Survivor, CSI, Eureka -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 08:55
Ika: gotta agree with Mop. Hated the new version initailly (vocally), but am kind of digging it now - Beaker Oct 15, 08:53 5
- It's not nearly as bad as I expected. -- nm - Ender Oct 15, 08:57 1
  - Embrace the Mop. Welcome it. Bring it into your house and make it dinner. -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 09:02
- I have yet to use a spy. I just go in loaded for bear each time. - Spawn Oct 15, 08:56 1
  - double protection is retarted. ooooooh I get to save another 80! awesome! -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 08:57
- Woohoo! -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 08:55
Have you seen the hacked Big Mouth Billy Bass? -- (link) - mara Oct 15, 08:52
Deal News: JetBlue Sample Sale. 1-way fares starting at $24. -- (link) - con_carne Oct 15, 08:51
for all the money I've spent on cat stuff, nothing has ever topped the shoelace for keeping them entertained. -- nm - Reagen Oct 15, 08:48 13
- one of our dogs is completely obsessed with laser pointers -- nm - zork Oct 15, 08:53 3
  - My cats love them but I had to stop using them, I felt guilty since they couldn't actually catch it. - Krusty Oct 15, 08:56 2
    - Take your cats to a shrink. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 08:57 1
      - I think I need it more than the cats. They don't get frustrated, they seem to love it. - Krusty Oct 15, 08:59
- heh, so true. One of ours woke us up going batshit crazy on one during the night. -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 08:52 2
  - see also: blind strings. - Andie Oct 15, 08:52 1
    - thanks for the clarification - zork Oct 15, 08:54
- : ) Tallulah has a new sleeping place. The laundry hamper, which is pretty normal, but she's decided it's better to be IN the laundry than ON it. - Andie Oct 15, 08:51 3
  - mine are obsessed with laying on laundry, but I've never seen them do this. -- nm - Reagen Oct 15, 08:54 2
    - *yet* -- nm - Andie Oct 15, 08:57
    - I have a son that does this, but no cat. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 08:56
- heh. my aunt-in-law (that is a real thing, right?) works for a textile company here, and "invented" "Tabby Tape" a few years ago. - TFox Oct 15, 08:50 1
  - Next week on Shark Tank: "I'd like $500k for a 5% investment in my Tabby Tape company" -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 08:54
Am I the only one that doesn't like the new one long page version of the Gawker blogs? -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 08:46 2
- I don't know what that is. ::poses, smiles:: -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 08:48
- Never visit the site itself. Everything comes in through Google Reader/Feedly or Twitter -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 08:48
Monty Python to be on Jimmy Fallon tonight. -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 08:30 7
- along with Jethro Tull, Steeley Dan, and Max Webster -- nm - zork Oct 15, 08:37 3
  - Just added: The Beatles. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 08:47 1
    - you fail - zork Oct 15, 08:52
  - we can watch it in the back of my sleeper van. -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 08:47
- crap. that was last night. Tonight at 9pm you can see a Q&A with Python at IFC.com.... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 15, 08:36 2
  - watch the Fallon show here.... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 15, 08:38 1
    - Can someone please digitally remove Fallon from this so it is viewable? - Spawn Oct 15, 08:45
'Magnetic electricity' discovered -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Oct 15, 08:30 1
- It's almost like electricity and magnetism are actually the same thing! It should have a name, like maybe... - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 08:58
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- :-( -- nm - Krusty Oct 15, 08:43
Which will happen first in the NFL this season: The last undefeated team will lose or The last winless team will win? -- nm - Dano Oct 15, 08:22 14
- Unless there's tie, we'll have a maximum of 3 unbeatens after this weekend! -- nm - Shaun Oct 15, 08:35 5
  - No...there could be 4. There's 5 now and only 2 of them play...so only 1 is guaranteed to get a loss this week. - Jim Oct 15, 08:38 4
    - I missed the bye. -- nm - Shaun Oct 15, 08:45 3
      - Bye bye bye! -- nm - BSB Oct 15, 08:46 2
        
        I'm ashamed to correct you on this but... - Cuzzin Todd Oct 15, 08:47 1
        
        ::me laughs and points:: -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 08:48
- simultaneous! -- nm - zork Oct 15, 08:31
- Neither. We will have both an undefeated and a winless at season end. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 08:27 2
  - Denver and who? -- nm - Jim Oct 15, 08:29 1
    - Sorry, Denver will have one loss. - Spawn Oct 15, 08:43
- I'll go with the non-winners outlasting the non-losers. - Will Hunting Oct 15, 08:25
- Last winless team will win. The Rams and Chiefs could be in it for the long haul. -- nm - Jim Oct 15, 08:24 2
  - yay Missouri! -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 08:30 1
    - Throw in the Royals and the Cardinals implosion. A couple Blues losses back to back and Mizzou giving up 27 points to effing nebraska in the 4th - Jim Oct 15, 08:32
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- Phillies in 6. -- nm - Krusty Oct 15, 08:43
- Phillies. I think their lineup is too tough. And they've been there. -- nm - Jim Oct 15, 08:28
- Dodgers in 7 - znufrii Oct 15, 08:27 3
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    - that's a silly response. Not only are you predicting game 7, but that the first 6 will be split. Nothing wrong with thinking that. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 15, 08:28 1
      - I agree. It just means you expect a very close series. -- nm - Krusty Oct 15, 08:44
- phillies in 5 -- nm - prayformojo, xynastic Oct 15, 08:21 2
  - yep -- nm - decline Oct 15, 08:23
  - agreed. -- nm - TFox Oct 15, 08:22
free Amelia screenings -- (link) - zork Oct 15, 08:19 6
- hrmm, still only Montreal in Canada. -- nm - Andie Oct 15, 08:25
- Damn, no Howland Island. -- nm - Reagen Oct 15, 08:24
- I am doing the free screening of Vampire's Assistant next week -- nm - Epiphany Oct 15, 08:23 3
  - My assistant likes Vampire Weekend -- nm - con_carne Oct 15, 08:32 1
    - well then ... -- (link) - zork Oct 15, 08:38 [Backboard]
  - *blows on fingertips* - zork Oct 15, 08:30
Saying Barbie's figure isn't realistic: old news. New news: Saying it's because she's too fat. -- (link) - Reagen Oct 15, 08:13 2
- it figures a fashion designer would say that -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 08:40 1
  - reading further, I find it funny that CBS News would go to a plastic surgeon for a countering view -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 08:42
I think TO and MJD should be buds. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 08:13
Abby's daycare had its first confirmed case of h1n1 yesterday. - prayformojo, xynastic Oct 15, 08:07 1
- I am trying not to think about this. We are planning to go and get mist/shot (you can do both on the same visit that way) but Bub was sick and now - Spawn Oct 15, 08:17
Thanks for the info re: Halo ODST... I definitely would want to play the campaign stuff offline so that won't work. -- nm - secretslacker Oct 15, 08:05 2
- Halo 3 Campaign doesn't come with it, but ODST's own campaign can have up to 4 players co-op AFAIK -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Oct 15, 08:15 1
  - Oh, misread. Heh. Well - ODST's campaign is fine offline. In fact, I've heard that the music and atmosphere works better with just one player. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 08:27
Muslim extremists trying to destroy this country by placing interens on congressional committees! -- (link) - znufrii Oct 15, 08:03 11
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  - so are any other number of political advocacy organizations the washington political establishment fellates on a regular basis. your point? :) -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 08:09 7
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      - and is there any proof you can point to, to support that view? - znufrii Oct 15, 08:37 3
        
        Hey look, first Google result for "FBI CAIR". About a 15-year investigation into CAIR by the FBI. -- (link) - TFox Oct 15, 08:40 2
        
        now if you actually read that article, you'd see that the 15-year FBI investigation you reference was not into CAIR - znufrii Oct 15, 08:54 1
        
        yeah, eff you, FBI. prove it to me. -- nm - TFox Oct 15, 08:59
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        I blame ML -- nm - con_carne Oct 15, 08:17
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- It nearly worked on 24 -- nm - Roger More Oct 15, 08:04
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- I keep going back to Dallas running for ovr 250 on them...I think the PT Cruiser and Mike Bell will have huge days against the G-Men. nm - Jim Oct 15, 07:55 6
  - You could say similar things about the Miami/Indy game. - Spawn Oct 15, 08:06 4
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      - No, that the game could simply be an anomaly. If the two teams played 5 more times, it wouldn't happen again. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 08:11 1
        
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      - No, just the rushing totals. Miami put up 239 yards in their loss to Indy. -- nm - Shaun Oct 15, 08:09
  - Heh, no problem. I think the Giants are a better team and I think they win. -- nm - Shaun Oct 15, 08:04
For mandy, Follow Me stockings -- (link) - oblique Oct 15, 07:51
Microsoft recovers most, if not all, Sidekick data -- (link) - oblique Oct 15, 07:50
Programming error gives patients 8x the recommended dosage of radiation in CT scanner...for 18 months -- (link) - oblique Oct 15, 07:48 5
- That is *not* a healthy glow! -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 15, 07:53 1
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- well, that explains the extra arms they grew... -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 07:50
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- And then Magneto broke them all out of the hospital, and waged war against the humans? -- nm - TFox Oct 15, 07:49
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- Well...you gotta appreciate these guys sticking up for their coach. nm - Jim Oct 15, 07:48
- I'm more than willing to test his theory we don't have the right personnel here, but cutting his worthless ass. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 15, 07:48
*opens the window to cool things down* -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 07:45 2
- Hey you idiot!!! We are on a submarine! -- nm - Redmond Oct 15, 07:46 1
  - ooops *closes the window quickly before any more water gets in** -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 07:48
End the hatred!! For the children, think about the children. Oh, and Jack too. -- nm - Redmond Oct 15, 07:45
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If you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it. nm - Jim Oct 15, 07:44 6
- Just when I thought the Alvin and the Chupmunks 2 preview couldn't get any worse... - Inigo Oct 15, 07:46 4
  - For the record...this first was only intended to annoy David. nm - Jim Oct 15, 07:47 3
    - Unless you're involved in the production of that horrible squirrel sequel, we're good. -- nm - Inigo Oct 15, 07:51 2
      - It's really sad. My kids can't wait for it either. -- nm - Jim Oct 15, 07:56 1
        
        Luckily for me, the Bub listens to Dirk on XM Kids and does not like the trio for kicking him out. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 08:07
- This is one of the greatest firsts of all time. OF ALL TIME! -- nm - Subversive Oct 15, 07:46

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