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my gmail weather-tuned background says it's snowing outside. When I came to work it was 60 degrees. -- nm - Max Dec 16, 11:13 4
- weather-tuned background? -- nm - JaxSean Dec 16, 11:15 2
  - it's one of the themes you can set. it changes from sunny to rainy to stormy etc depending on your local weather. -- nm - Max Dec 16, 11:19 1
    - i love it. -- nm - Andie Cane Dec 16, 11:21
- oh, so they've screwed up the whole area. I have the same thing. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 16, 11:14
Roy Disney has passed.... -- (link) - Remlik Dec 16, 11:12
ST Pizza Poll -- do you prefer your pepperoni to be arranged geometrically equidistant on the slice, or randomly scattered? - znufrii Dec 16, 11:10 10
- I prefer that the entire surface area of the pizza be covered by overlapping concentric rings. - TWuG Dec 16, 11:16
- don't care. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 16, 11:15
- n/a -- nm - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 11:13
- I can sincerely say I don't care -- nm - con_Kringle Dec 16, 11:12
- I don't want to see any cheese through that pepporoni! -- nm - psilotum Dec 16, 11:12
- I generally rearrange it before baking (DiGourno, Papa Murphy's) before baking if not properly distributed. - Eight Tiny Vermin Dec 16, 11:11 3
  - We had a DiGourno the other night...ugh. Talk about a bland pizza, the crust had no flavor at all. - SCeire Dec 16, 11:13 2
    - Yeah, we generally add a lot of spices and extra toppings to ours when we get it. - Eight Tiny Vermin Dec 16, 11:15 1
      - Heathen. - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 11:15
- scattered -- nm - Beaker Dec 16, 11:10
aw man, I just realized I swallowed half the label on this apple I'm eating. -- nm - Max Dec 16, 11:09 1
- fiber -- nm - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 11:09
10 Best Games for PS3....per MSNBC... -- (link) - Remlik Dec 16, 11:08 1
- DJ Hero? Seriously?! -- nm - Ender Dec 16, 11:14
signing off. (my plane did not crash or anything) -- nm - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 11:08 1
- There's always next time. -- nm - nubby Dec 16, 11:09
going into work to get fingerprinted and data entry my background packet...its 22 pages, took me over 8 hours to fill out. -- nm - Stacy Dec 16, 11:06 5
- *it's* (starts all over again) - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 11:07
- For what? -- nm - lileve Dec 16, 11:06 3
  - She is going to be a spy. -- nm - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 11:07
  - a TSA job at SFO airport -- nm - Stacy Dec 16, 11:07 1
    - Cool. -- nm - lileve Dec 16, 11:08
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- Or as Jim Carrey said in Liar Liar - Jim Dec 16, 11:09 1
  - Now, now. We want ML to have clients. :) -- nm - con_Kringle Dec 16, 11:10
- Your client is just a simple caveman. Your legal world frightens and confuses him. -- nm - Max Dec 16, 11:08
- Don't let pixie read this. He'll stop rubbing you. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 16, 11:02
As the only one in my family that has any money, I'm not going to inherit anything, but relatives have already figured out I don't have any kids... - ceregon Dec 16, 10:57 4
- money.....? Hey, how about a newly skinny husband, cutie? *bats eyes* -- nm - adventy97 Dec 16, 11:02 2
  - sorry, I have "issues" remember. - ceregon Dec 16, 11:08 1
    - please, ty has a subscription. He'd still be good for you 'cuz he's awesome. :) -- nm - Diva Dec 16, 11:10
- *Applauds* -- nm - MDH Dec 16, 11:01
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- Of that 47%, how many don't support it because it doesn't go far enough? How many of the status quo folks feel it's preferrable to the current bill, - TWuG Dec 16, 11:00 2
  - 98% find themselves continually frustrated with the way Congressional procedures mangle anything of value into a contorted mess. -- nm - psilotum Dec 16, 11:12
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- heh - since the status quo is pretty much unsustainable, that 41-44% is in unicorn-land (or is sick of the issue and want it to go away) -- nm - Roger More Dec 16, 10:59
- I saw a graph in The Economist that said we spend about as much public money on health care as other countries relative to GDP. - Dano Ho Ho Dec 16, 10:59 4
  - And our results in many areas are actually lower. We aren't getting better outcomes. -- nm - TWuG Dec 16, 11:00 1
    - I don't buy this at all. -- nm - Eight Tiny Vermin Dec 16, 11:12
  - i believe you spend a higher percentage than a lot of them. -- nm - Andie Cane Dec 16, 11:00
  - Yes, you'd theoretically save public money just by switching to a Canadian single-payer plan. -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 11:00
- i don't prefer the status quo but i don't want this bill in the form it's taking shape - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 10:58 15
  - I think for political reasons, something needs to be passed. - Reagen Dec 16, 10:59 14
    - Dear Obama, if you backpedal and support the GOP plan (a darn good start), I promise not to ever rub it in your face. - Eight Tiny Vermin Dec 16, 11:05 2
      - Ugh. -- nm - nubby Dec 16, 11:08
      - they already have a GOP plan, functionally -- nm - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 11:06
    - fuck em. if Joe stays, i go -- nm - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 11:01 9
      - If they continue to allow him to chair a committee and caucus with them, I'll give serious consideration to every Republican candidate on the ballot - TWuG Dec 16, 11:04 8
        
        i'll just stay home, not that that matters in California -- nm - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 11:05
        
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        They *don't* need him. They need his vote. He says they can't have it. So... Why keep him? - TWuG Dec 16, 11:09 5
        
        Isn't it fear of a filibuster? How long could those things last anyway? -- nm - Loyola Dec 16, 11:13 2
        
        indefinite. They don't make people actually talk anymore. -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 11:14 1
        
        That's insane. -- nm - Loyola Dec 16, 11:15
        
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        Only if they need 60 votes to get it to the floor. That's a self-imposed restriction. Remove it and he can be left - TWuG Dec 16, 11:18
    - That's pretty much where I am. -- nm - mara Dec 16, 11:01
Pixie and one of the stars of Caprica...that girl is workin it! -- (link) - Remlik Dec 16, 10:56 [flickr] 2
- makes me long for the good old days of Galactica 80 -- nm - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 11:01
- Hmm. Her and Alison Lohman should be in a movie together. - Eight Tiny Vermin Dec 16, 10:58
You know what's good about hot dogs? You can eat them any time of day -- nm - CQ draped in tinsel Dec 16, 10:52 1
- They are really good if you chop them up and make them with scrambled eggs. -- nm - Dano Ho Ho Dec 16, 10:53
i'm passing over indiana now - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 10:45 18
- no wodner I feel like throwing up. -- nm - Remlik Dec 16, 10:51 2
  - morning sickness -- nm - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 10:52 1
    - that was earlier today when I took the Browns to the Super Bowl. -- nm - Remlik Dec 16, 10:55
- I knew I sensed a foul disturbance. -- nm - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 10:48 8
  - i'm sure amy is cheesed at you for something - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 10:49 7
    - Not at all. I let her go to her belly dance party last night. - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 10:50 6
      - "let her go" - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 10:51 5
        
        he's learning. I'm getting him out of his whipped mode. -- nm - Remlik Dec 16, 10:52 4
        
        if amy's going to a belly dance party, i don't think i'm staying home that night - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 10:53 3
        
        Spawn has plenty of picture of the rest of them. -- nm - Remlik Dec 16, 10:54 2
        
        Oddly, only half are of actual performances. - Will Hunting Dec 16, 11:08 1
        
        There is more truth to this than you know. -- nm - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 11:14
- release the lavatory cube! -- nm - Max Dec 16, 10:47
- You are passing over the dog? -- nm - amoxy Dec 16, 10:47
- How much is it costing you to post this? -- nm - JaxSean Dec 16, 10:46 3
  - de nada! google is making wifi free on virgin through the holidays -- nm - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 10:46 2
    - WHat's it costing everyone else? -- nm - con_Kringle Dec 16, 10:47 1
      - who cares? *downloads HD versions of every movie ever made* -- nm - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 10:48
ST Poll: How would rate me doctor appointment experience? - Jovian Dec 16, 10:43 17
- sounds about average. There really isn't anything they can do about the noise. I can understand his being reluctant to prescribe Ambien. - Loosi Lou Who Dec 16, 11:14
- I recommend that instead of aradio you use a table fan, knocks me the hell out. -- nm - Remlik Dec 16, 10:58 2
  - agreed, we have an oscillating fan going every night as background noise. -- nm - Beaker Dec 16, 11:05
  - I've slept with both for the past couple of years. definitely experiment, jov. -- nm - b.festive. Dec 16, 11:00
- He might have been running late. I can see getting the test in first to rule out things before dicussing stuff that won't matter after the test. But - lileve Dec 16, 10:56
- I like my pcp to be warmish, but I don't need that from specialists. - b.festive. Dec 16, 10:50
- I am kinda surprised he wrote the script. -- nm - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 10:50
- I would say this is a 5 or 6. Not unexpected at all. - Callisto Dec 16, 10:48 3
  - I guess its just all very new to me, and having a hard time coping/adapting to it. -- nm - Jovian Dec 16, 10:53 2
    - yeah, I can understand having deal with sudden onset like that would be very rough. - Callisto Dec 16, 10:56
    - I'm sorry, man. I can understand that. - b.festive. Dec 16, 10:55
- 2 Bedside manner is a lost art. -- nm - Loyola Dec 16, 10:46
- /rates the patient experience at 2/ - Jovian's doctor Dec 16, 10:46 1
  - oh for fucks sake.. -- nm - Jovian Dec 16, 10:47
- well, he *should* have talked with you more, but doctors don't like being told they have to prescribe something. -- nm - Andie Cane Dec 16, 10:45 2
  - well to be fair to me, I really didnt 'demand'. But I told him that the last few nights were some of the worst in my life in regards to sleeping - Jovian Dec 16, 10:47 1
    - no doubt, it would drive me mad. but, he is the professional and he probably sees a LOT more serious situations than yours, which, will, hopefully, - Andie Cane Dec 16, 10:48
Jakob better win SYTYCD. -- nm - Dano Ho Ho Dec 16, 10:40 9
- He's far and away the best one. it's almost ridiculous. -- nm - Diva Dec 16, 11:06
- LYC: You know, I always wonder what those people are going to do when they get old -- nm - con_Kringle Dec 16, 10:42 2
  - Dancers that can, dance. Dancers that can't, choreograph. -- nm - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 10:44
  - become choreographers -- nm - Dano Ho Ho Dec 16, 10:44
- or else. -- nm - Max Dec 16, 10:41
- No way. - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 10:41 3
  - great dancer. Has he ever been in the bottom this season? -- nm - Dano Ho Ho Dec 16, 10:44 1
    - That doesn't matter that much. Week-to-week, there is no real drop-off in voting. - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 10:47
  - He's the Brandon of this season, though not nearly as annoying. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Dec 16, 10:42
I don�t understand how science and religion became antonyms. -- nm - adventy97 Dec 16, 10:39 39
- Just as a point of note, because I don't want to be lumped in with the "religion can do no good" folks, my B2 post - TWuG Dec 16, 10:56 2
  - I'm not saying religion does no good, either. I don't think any of us are. It came from "if there were no religion in the world tomorrow" idea. - JaxSean Dec 16, 11:01 1
    - Except you do have a glimpse at this "enlightened" world where the self interests of the first world trumps the abject poverty much of the world lives - Loyola Dec 16, 11:03
- Probably because, on the surface, it seems like they're approaching the same problem from diametrically opposite angles. - Beryllium Dec 16, 10:48
- I don't think they're antonyms, but they are certainly different ideas that share many similarities. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 16, 10:44
- i don't think they *have* to be. but when certain small, but vocal, religions object to teaching evolution, etc, it colours how people see the - Andie Cane Dec 16, 10:43 3
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    - to elaborate just a bit on that theme... - znufrii Dec 16, 10:48
    - IM: Well said. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 16, 10:46
- You and Dan Brown. (nm) - David Dec 16, 10:43
- the understanding can probably be found from reading Aquinas or some such. -- nm - Max Dec 16, 10:42
- I have never thought of them as such. -- nm - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 10:42
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  - Safe sex. -- nm - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 10:44 15
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      - I think your IM applies to the majority of moral teachings by religious "authorities". -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 10:49
    - Yeah, they've got blood on their hands, particularly in Africa, over this. -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 10:45 12
      - I understand superstition plays a large role in that, though -- nm - con_Kringle Dec 16, 10:50 11
        
        'having sex with a virgin' = 'AIDS cure' is still a semi-popular belief, last I heard. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 16, 10:51 2
        
        including babies. it's one of the most horrific, backwards, ignorant things going on in the world. -- nm - b.festive. Dec 16, 10:53
        
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        *waits for it* -- nm - Roger More Dec 16, 10:51 3
        
        Damn you. :) -- nm - con_Kringle Dec 16, 10:55
        
        heh. that too. -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 10:52
        
        nice. -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 10:51
        
        a role, but you've got Catholic leaders there outright saying that condoms don't work. -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 10:51 3
        
        I think that's more a reflection of the church's political role in that culture, than the religious authority of the church itself. -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 10:52 2
        
        oh, that makes it better. -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 10:55 1
        
        I'm not making an excuse, if anything it ties into my broader criticism that churches are more political institutions than religious ones. -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 10:56
- I don't get the mutually-exclusive thing myself. -- nm - b.festive. Dec 16, 10:42
- Because sciences is explaining every mystery that religion chalked up to a supreme being? - Cuzzin Todd Dec 16, 10:41
- cause one is about faith and the other is about testing observable things -- nm - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 10:41
- Grr. -- nm - zombie Galileo Dec 16, 10:41
- because they each focus on two diametrically opposed realities? - znufrii Dec 16, 10:40 5
  - Not necessarily. Science could be explaining religion. -- nm - Dano Ho Ho Dec 16, 10:43
  - And because some people see a zero sum game - the more we know/see/learn through science, the less room for religion -- nm - Roger More Dec 16, 10:42
  - which explains why there are no religious scientists. oh, wait.... -- nm - adventy97 Dec 16, 10:42 2
    - I never said they were mutually exclusive, just opposed. -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 10:43
    - people can be both religious and scientific. the fields, however, don't overlap -- nm - mr. squiggles at 30,000 feet Dec 16, 10:43
You may say that I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 16, 10:39 2
- I was *just* singing Happy Christmas outloud. -- nm - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 16, 10:40
- *earworm alert* -- nm - Loyola Dec 16, 10:40

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