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Well ... lots of schools closed here today - YAY Snow Day! I *just* told the Ecuadorian exchange student Tuesday about snow days ... she'll be happy! - JenBro Dec 9, 05:49
~ On my ninth day of Mouse Hunt, I did awake to see.... ~ - TFox Dec 9, 05:12 4
- WTG!!! I *just* got my first one ( had been hunting in the wrong spot ... oops ) Candy Cane Mouse so far ... wish me luck! -- nm - JenBro Dec 9, 05:35 2
  - be more patient than me, and you'll be fine. :) -- nm - TFox Dec 9, 05:38 1
    - me? patient? that's rich.. heh heh - you wonder WHY I got the King's Ransom twice last Saturday???? - JenBro Dec 9, 05:39
- WooHoo! -- nm - nubby Dec 9, 05:13
Fast food standards beat those for school lunches -- (link) - oblique Dec 9, 05:03 1
- to be fair, fast food standards are quite high. It all goes back to the Jack in the Box E.coli incident. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 05:35
ABC posts holiday specials online -- (link) - oblique Dec 9, 04:56
December 9, 7:20am: 71F -- nm - nubby Dec 9, 04:22 5
- I love Chicago. 3 inches of snow on the ground at home. Nothing at work. -- nm - oblique Dec 9, 04:45 3
  - We got about 5 inches but turning to sleet and rain -- nm - SyrDragon Dec 9, 04:55
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    - My kids are going to be sorely disappointed when they wake up. They were *really* hoping for what you got and no school -- nm - oblique Dec 9, 04:50
- Boo! :) -- nm - SyrDragon Dec 9, 04:25
Not taking my chances with the wintery mix -- nm - SyrDragon Dec 9, 03:59 1
- are you still in the Finger Lakes? -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 04:58
the water pipe to my parent's solar panels froze and busted. They just had them repaired last spring with a new brain put in, hopefully its guarantee -- nm - Stacy Dec 9, 01:01
NCAA investigating UT football for the zealous nature of our "recruiting hostesses". Our skanks are too high in quality and too low in morals, I guess - David Dec 9, 00:10 1
- �You don�t want to go to a college where they ain�t pretty,� -- nm - psilotum Dec 9, 00:19
"We�re sorry, the Netflix website is temporarily unavailable." Wow. -- nm - David Dec 9, 00:00 1
- I've encountered that a few times before at this hour. -- nm - Max Dec 9, 01:09
Did amanda design today's woot shirt? -- nm - adventy97 Dec 8, 23:51 2
- it's pretty fantastic -- (link) - Epiphany Dec 9, 05:38 1
  - Nice! -- nm - JenBro Dec 9, 05:40
the pipe to the washing machine froze, the stupid thing runs up the wall with very little insulation, I tried to wrap it with fiberglass... - Jesus Dec 8, 23:22 2
- wine wouldn't freeze so easily. just sayin'. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 23:25 1
  - sfan...took a minute to figure out WTF you were talking about, - zeitgeist Dec 8, 23:54
Question, smarties. It's raining in Chicago right now, but the temp will drop to 5 degrees within 24 hours, which means ice. - adventy97 Dec 8, 22:30 5
- I imagine they could use whatever they use for plane de-icing. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 23:01
- Ice storms can shut down airports. But O'Hare will be continuously clearing and treating the runways and their planes. - psilotum Dec 8, 22:44 1
  - it takes a hell of a lot to shut that place down. - 'lia Dec 8, 22:49
- here's what i had - 'lia Dec 8, 22:43
- Well, they would probably do the same thing they do to get ice off of roads. Or off of planes. Just on a larger scale :) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 22:37
Happy Birthday, H-Mogul!!! -- nm - JaxSean Dec 8, 22:23 8
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - adventy97 Dec 9, 05:42
- Happy B-Day! -- nm - JenBro Dec 9, 05:36
- Happy birthday H! -- nm - Jelly Dec 9, 04:47
- Happ b-day!! -- nm - Tickle-Me-Diva Dec 9, 04:35
- Happy birthday! -- nm - David Dec 9, 02:46
- Happy Birthday...have some of my ice cream with your birthday cake. -- nm - BAD Dec 8, 23:43
- Happy, Happy!! -- nm - MojaveMeg Dec 8, 23:27
- indeed, happy b-day, mogul -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 23:25
Loosi, where is National Harbor Md.? Peeps just opened a retail store there..thanks -- nm - peglegpete Dec 8, 22:19 1
- It's just over the Wilson Bridge on 95 North. -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 22:21
So there is this link on Drudge that goes to some site talking about Obama and schools and fisting and well I can't make it through the politics to - Qale Dec 8, 22:06
Quasi-unrelated to the discussion below, it occurs to me that if I ever end up driving from here to San Francisco, I'd like to be driving the ... - Beryllium Dec 8, 22:00 9
- do not recommend driving PCH in a 27 foot motorhome like I did...Everybody kept saying "oh look over there"...you don't take your eyes off the road - BAD Dec 8, 23:03 2
  - I'd be more concerned about the yuppies texting while powering their porches around the curves, but the big boxes don't leave much room in the lane... - zeitgeist Dec 8, 23:56
  - Indeed, not my idea of fun.... - MojaveMeg Dec 8, 23:11
- We've driven the PCH all the way from Astoria Oregon, to Mexico. It was a blast except for the bad fogs and mine (and Mark's) arms aching from driving - Trish Dec 8, 22:21 2
  - what did you do for gas stations, not many gas stations on PCH. -- nm - Stacy Dec 9, 00:58
  - I'm looking forward to doing it by train. I hope I'm not disappointed. -- nm - MojaveMeg Dec 8, 22:27
- i'd like to be in the back of a late 1930's Rolls with CY driving -- nm - peglegpete Dec 8, 22:11
- San Fran bay area is Beemer country Lexus, honda and toyotas if you're poor, the movie was filmed by folks from LA -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 8, 22:03 1
  - Kinda missing the point there -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 22:04
Quasi related to the discussion below, I filled a prescription for a child named Anakin yesterday. -- nm - Tim Dec 8, 21:49 5
- "Awww.......your parents didn't love you. How sad." -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 9, 03:59
- "Hi kid. You suck." -- nm - David Dec 8, 23:53
- "Let's see...antimidichlorials, an antipsychotic...wow, someone's got some mommy issues- ghk ghkahk - whoa, felt like I almost swallowed my tongue..." -- nm - Max Dec 8, 22:00 1
  - "The force is strong in this one ..." *waves hand* "This is not the dextroamphetamine you are looking for." -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 22:01
- No doubt named after the famed canadian bobsleigh champion -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 21:52
Mike Huckabee's heady is really REALLY too small for his body. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Dec 8, 21:48 1
- We were just watching that and I think he's gained back close to 100 pounds of all that weight he lost. - Trish Dec 8, 21:55
coconut! -- nm - psilotum Dec 8, 21:47 1
- lime! -- nm - Remlik Dec 8, 21:48
I want District 9 to get a Best Picture nomination. -- nm - adventy97 Dec 8, 21:36 2
- the movie was suprisingly better than i'd expected it to be ... a Best Pic Nom would be nice - i'm not dead yet ! Dec 8, 21:47 1
  - Totally. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 22:09
*does some coding* -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 21:32 1
- hint hint -- nm - Max Dec 8, 21:40
I'm too tired to run the West Coast Hour. Someone pick me up, while I go night night. later....zzzzzz..z.zzzz.z.zzz.z -- nm - Redmond Dec 8, 21:27 2
- is it still cold? -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 21:29 1
  - It is here. -- nm - psilotum Dec 8, 21:46
It's fun watching the dog jump and play in snow that's almost as deep as he is tall. - Cuzzin Todd Dec 8, 21:05 16
- Our dogs are dumb, they stand there and bark at snowflakes. Did I mention we had a new dog? - Trish Dec 8, 21:36 13
  - Yay for happy dogs! Good work, you guys. :-) -- nm - mara Dec 9, 04:50
  - awwww ... well done ... rescue pets are the BEST -- nm - JenBro Dec 9, 03:39
  - Crash Davis would never name a dog a hippy name from LOTR. He probably wanted to name it Lady Steele. I suspect the females of the house gave it that - Remlik Dec 8, 21:44 3
    - I had nothing to do with it. In fact, I refer to her as "Ugly dog". -- nm - Trish Dec 8, 21:53
    - and if it was a male he'd name it Bronson. Or McQueen. -- nm - Remlik Dec 8, 21:45 1
      - "Bullitt! Here, Bullitt!" -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 21:54
  - cool! do you have pics? -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 21:43 2
    - No, it's too damn cold to go out, besides you can't hear the barks on the pics. - Trish Dec 8, 21:48 1
      - I want to see pics of the frankendog. -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 22:02
  - Darwin is selectively smart. As in if you're holding a Cheetoh he know exactly what you're asking him to do and does it. - Cuzzin Todd Dec 8, 21:42
  - Heh, on the subject of geekitude, my good friends, who are most un-geeklike, have a young lab named Skywalker. He succeeds two - MojaveMeg Dec 8, 21:41 2
    - Ok, that's worse than Samwise, Boromir and Arwen. -- nm - Trish Dec 8, 21:43 1
      - Ooops, actually got that backwards. Solo is the new pup, Skywalker was lost to a liver tumor a year ago :( -- nm - MojaveMeg Dec 8, 21:48
- He'll get his snuggie wet...... - MojaveMeg Dec 8, 21:24
- He's not playing. He's trying to stay alive. -- nm - Mop Dec 8, 21:21
TFox - sent you a hunting group join request in MH. - Cuzzin Todd Dec 8, 21:02 4
- I saw that, wanted to ask: is my noobness going to hold y'all up at all? I can't catch the beasts y'all can. -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 21:07 3
  - No it shouldn't. There may be a couple we sign up for where you can't hunt in the "right" area but for now - Cuzzin Todd Dec 8, 21:09 2
    - ok word, i'll join. - TFox Dec 8, 21:12 1
      - Cool - Going to do two tournaments tomorrow. - Cuzzin Todd Dec 8, 21:44
7digital appears to be in a price war with Amazon. $4 mp3 album sale, with way, way better selection. -- (link) - TFox Dec 8, 21:02 2 1
- Nice. You need to post these each day, please. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 8, 22:22 1
  - Today's advent selection is boring: Feist's "Let It Die". -- nm - TFox Dec 9, 05:12
Stocking Mouse! -- nm - Redmond Dec 8, 20:59 2
- Whole set now? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Dec 8, 21:02 1
  - I need scrooge -- nm - Redmond Dec 8, 21:03
On the Big Bang Theory last night, I noticed that a Kindle was perfectly framed between Penny and Leonard. Product placement? -- nm - Mop Dec 8, 20:52 3
- phallic metaphor? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 20:59 2
  - *checks pants* Dude. Seriously. Get that checked out. -- nm - Mop Dec 8, 21:15 1
    - *thwack* - Beryllium Dec 8, 21:16
NBC Nightly News story on La Tour d'Argent: 427 year old restaurant?! It's almost twice as old as the United States! - Mop Dec 8, 20:51 12
- the British Monarchy -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 21:25
- Part of why I like traveling the world so much is that the world has cool old stuff. - adventy97 Dec 8, 21:25 3
  - So...did you go in and order a #1 combo with cheese? -- nm - Trish Dec 8, 21:39 2
    - Went to a Tapas bar for dinner last night. Great food. Copious Kingfishers. -- nm - adventy97 Dec 8, 21:42 1
      - find izakaya places when you're in japan. it's sort of japanese tapas. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 21:54
- bunch of german and belgian breweries are that old too. a lot of them in moasteries. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 21:15
- there's a swedish mining/forestry company that's been around since the 13th century sometime. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 21:13 2
  - I bet there's a lot of legacy companies stemming from the Baltic trading guilds. -- nm - Mop Dec 8, 21:18
  - Stora Kopparberg... I was just thinking about them. Founded in 1288. -- (link) - second gary Dec 8, 21:16
- 1526 Beretta guns -- nm - peglegpete Dec 8, 20:55
- the Catholic Church -- nm - peglegpete Dec 8, 20:52 1
  - But, Dad, I don't wanna go into the family business with you, I want to....Sing -- nm - Jesus Dec 8, 22:48
oh, and House spoils on the wilson episode - Beryllium Dec 8, 20:50 3
- I liked it. -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 21:03
- I only barely realized that's what they were doing. I appreciate an attempt at changing things up, but, well, hate the character so... yanno. -- nm - Qale Dec 8, 20:53 1
  - some characters are like that (spoils) - Beryllium Dec 8, 20:58
daaaaaaaamn dexter ended on a creepy note -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 20:48 7
- i'm expecting this finale to be the best episode yet. -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 20:58 2
  - yep. the build up is awesome. -- nm - Remlik Dec 8, 21:35
  - I'm scared of how it might turn out. heh. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 20:59
- I'm up to Dexter season 2 episode 4. - H-Mogul Dec 8, 20:52 3
  - I think Season 2 was my least-favourite season, fwiw. The other seasons are much better, IMO. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 20:55 2
    - Really? I liked it better than 1. - Cuzzin Todd Dec 8, 21:07
    - (It's still worth watching Season 2, of course - just, if you find yourself not liking it, keep slogging through :) ) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 20:55
TFox will be happy to know that Gammons isn't retiring. - the wrong element, bad guy Dec 8, 20:48 1
- Awesome. *Awesome*. -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 20:57
Ok so I figured out GB basicly costs 400 gold a piece - eag Dec 8, 20:46 1
- I'm switching to brie as soon as I run out of gingerbread, I think -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 20:59
*is jealous of CrankYanker* -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 20:45 2
- I can totally see you in this car. Not everyone appreciates an older car, even if it's a Rolls. -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 8, 20:47 1
  - I'm referring more to its owner. :) -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 04:59
great...Loosi jinxed Billy Corgan. -- nm - Remlik Dec 8, 20:41 2
- wha? -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 21:03 1
  - don't make him dip into the Hollywood Honeypot! -- nm - Remlik Dec 8, 21:41
Soderbergh's documentary on Spalding Gray to premiere at Slamdance. -- nm - Dano Dec 8, 20:41 2
- I would love to see this in a theatre - sadly I doubt it will play here ... maybe next Summers TC Film Festival if we're lucky. -- nm - JenBro Dec 9, 05:38
- Oh, that would be awesome. -- nm - nubby Dec 8, 20:43
Aw crap. SYTYCD didn't tape. -- nm - Dano Dec 8, 20:38 4
- i blame amanda -- nm - mr. squiggles Dec 8, 20:45 1
  - We did watch part of it from the car through a window in a bar. -- nm - Dano Dec 8, 20:48
- Weird - same thing happened here. Didn't notice until the end. - Cuzzin Todd Dec 8, 20:42
- SYTYCTIVO? Guess not -- nm - Redmond Dec 8, 20:42
The Terminator is on AMC ... man, i forgot how good the first one was -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Dec 8, 20:33

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