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Meg, thanks for that news article about Avenged Sevenfold drummer. -- nm - Remlik Dec 29, 08:17
NIIIICE! MouseHunt disguises bot prevention as a reward program. HEH! -- nm - Capstern Dec 29, 08:04
So, the torch run was pretty cool this morning... - Andie Dec 29, 08:00 29
- anyone try and attack the runners like a couple days ago? -- nm - Beaker Dec 29, 08:16 2
  - was it a big bear with a hat and a shovel? -- nm - Capstern Dec 29, 08:17 1
    - protestor -- nm - Beaker Dec 29, 08:18
- How did you guys get involved in this? -- nm - con_carne Dec 29, 08:14 4
  - well... - Andie Dec 29, 08:19 1
    - Sweet -- nm - con_carne Dec 29, 08:19
  - i think they scored really high on the CAAB, right? - TFox Dec 29, 08:15
  - (I'm sure that's been covered before, so apoligies in advance) -- nm - con_carne Dec 29, 08:15
- awesome photos. -- nm - loosilu Dec 29, 08:10
- very cool. does the torch go 24/7 or does it sleep at night? also, did you see ... -- (link) - zork Dec 29, 08:06 [Backboard] 15
  - sleeps at night (and, in fact, gets trucked distances between cities, i learned.) And Jim, yes, we bought it. :) -- nm - Andie Dec 29, 08:11 14
    - This occured to me when I realized they'd taken it to Nunavut. They weren't running it up to Resolute Bay. - Reagen Dec 29, 08:16
    - if it gets trucked at night, yet the IOC takes away medals for cheating? -- nm - zork Dec 29, 08:15 6
      - what, you think they swim it over from Greece? -- nm - mafic Dec 29, 08:18 3
        
        not......anymore -- nm - prayformojo Dec 29, 08:19
        
        heh. that would be great, but I figured once it starts the national tour it should be all all human powered (except for water crossings) -- nm - zork Dec 29, 08:19 1
        
        you know how big Canada is, right? -- nm - loosilu Dec 29, 08:21
      - it stops at night. it arrived in Owen Sound last night (big public reception in the market square) and then went out of town this morning. -- nm - Andie Dec 29, 08:16
      - I wonder how long it would take to actually run it across Canada? -- nm - loosilu Dec 29, 08:16
    - Seeing the pics and how cool it is...that decision probably seems like a no-brainer now. Too cool!!! -- nm - Jim Dec 29, 08:12 5
      - the fact that he was first made it fantastic - the whole ceremony and drumming and being cheered by a crowd - awesome. -- nm - Andie Dec 29, 08:13 4
        
        is there video? -- nm - loosilu Dec 29, 08:14 3
        
        i took video (but honestly, *I* couldn't even get that close to the opening ceremony -too many people) - Andie Dec 29, 08:16 2
        
        check on youtube, someone else may have had a better shot. -- nm - loosilu Dec 29, 08:17 1
        
        oh, it was all recorded for us this morning (the whole thing is live on the net the whole way.) -- nm - Andie Dec 29, 08:19
- saw those. very cool. did he try to burn anything down? -- nm - mafic Dec 29, 08:02 1
  - heh, no. it was all very official and over FAST once the running started. -- nm - Andie Dec 29, 08:03
- that was today? awesome! I'll have to look later. -- nm - TFox Dec 29, 08:01
- the FB pictures are great -- nm - prayformojo Dec 29, 08:01
PIPPY - WTF its supposed to snow again today? What is the deal with this "warm" state you told me about? -- nm - Capstern Dec 29, 07:58
this is kind of an interesting blog post about mcmansions going out of style. - mary christmas Dec 29, 07:37 16
- A few miles down the road from me a guy is building a 30,000 sq ft house. Wonder how he'll sell if god forbid something happens. -- nm - lileve Dec 29, 08:14
- I'm thinking that banks just aren't giving out the loans needed for them like they were a couple of years ago -- nm - zork Dec 29, 08:02 1
  - that's part of it for sure, yep. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 29, 08:03
- I just wonder if it's because people are finally realizing that these are just really big houses and are rarely able to be transformed into nice - Jim Dec 29, 07:56 1
  - Ha, you're such an optimist. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 29, 07:57
- yeah, I don't think the obscenity has anything to do with it. I'd say that the kind of people that would buy mcmansions are the ones hardest hit by - mafic Dec 29, 07:52 6
  - ...or they all end up as paranormal investigators with awful websites, and can't make the payments. -- nm - TFox Dec 29, 07:58 1
    - "it's all purply" -- nm - con_carne Dec 29, 08:12
  - *ding* -- nm - znufrii Dec 29, 07:55
  - Yeah, they scream new money -- nm - con_carne Dec 29, 07:55 1
    - keeping up with the Joneses; who has the most toys wins; who has the biggest c*ck -- nm - Don Homer Dec 29, 07:58
  - right -- nm - Don Homer Dec 29, 07:54
- I read some little blurb on it a couple months ago, that suggested that smaller and technologically greener was just the new trendy 'it' home now. - TFox Dec 29, 07:40 2
  - Ironic statements to represent their wealth, my god, they're all becoming hipsters! -- nm - Reagen Dec 29, 07:49 1
    - "I like it, but could the closets be smaller? All my jeans are absurdly tight, so I don't need that much room." -- nm - TFox Dec 29, 07:52
- They're huge but always like 10 feet from the next huge one... that looks exactly the same. -- nm - Cuzzin Tauld Lang Syne Dec 29, 07:40
IMO, James Cameron will have the top two highest grossing films of all time (domestically, internationally, and worldwide). - Inigo Dec 29, 07:36 22
- Avatar wont even touch Titanic. Its good and women have liked Avatar but they wont see it 5-15 extra times like happened for Titanic. I bet Avatar - Capstern Dec 29, 07:55 11
  - For what it's worth, it wasn't just women/girls seeing Titanic multiple times. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 29, 08:00 1
    - It wasnt, but it was the majority driving factor and so many articles always touch on that. Hollywood "overlooks the female audicence" - Capstern Dec 29, 08:03
  - Replace the women with those in awe of the Fx and you have another group willing to see it multiple times. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 29, 07:55 8
    - The question is how much that falls off after the holidays once the x-factor of free time is reduced. - David Dec 29, 08:04
    - I think nerd factor for the ohhh visuals will and is part of reaching 450-500 but nothing like what Titanic had in the girl power audience. I - Capstern Dec 29, 08:00 6
      - I honestly think this is a myth. AFAIK, the breakdowns for the male/female split in Titanic's audience was pretty even. - Inigo Dec 29, 08:04 5
        
        I am trying to find old articles but I think you are right for the first month of release, it was the trailing legs I am more referring to. -- nm - Capstern Dec 29, 08:08 4
        
        Hopefully this link works, but this books says the audience was 60 percent female. -- (link) - Don Homer Dec 29, 08:10 3
        
        the teen girls were bringing their boyfriends so they could learn from Jack. - loosilu Dec 29, 08:11 1
        
        that a-hole stole my signature monogram. -- nm - TFox Dec 29, 08:13
        
        (click on contents and go to the chapter that begins on page 64) -- nm - Don Homer Dec 29, 08:10
- I think it gets to $300 million by Sunday. I'm not sure where the other $300 million is supposed to come from. - David Dec 29, 07:49 4
  - I'd say it gets to around $330 by Sunday. - Inigo Dec 29, 07:58 2
    - Focusing on the weekend to weekend dropoffs ignores the tremendous advantage of Christmas on a Friday. - David Dec 29, 08:02 1
      - It's not just the weekend dropoff. It's crazy high weekday numbers. - Inigo Dec 29, 08:11
  - I don't think it gets there - $500M seems somewhat realistic - but a big Oscar nomination haul will help like it did Titanic. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 29, 07:56
- Still can't believe the WOM Avatar is getting. - Cuzzin Tauld Lang Syne Dec 29, 07:42
- Imagine how big his ego will be on Oscar night if he wins again! -- nm - Don Homer Dec 29, 07:37 3
  - I don't thing he'll be able to get out of the auditorium. He barely made it out last time...which, I still say - Jim Dec 29, 08:01
  - I don't know why people have a problem with his ego. He's made some really great and commercially successful films. He should have a big ego. -- nm - ceregon Dec 29, 07:54 1
    - And his date should have huge tracts of land -- nm - Capstern Dec 29, 07:55
SITWAP: TMZ admits it was duped by JFK photo... -- (link) - znufrii Dec 29, 07:30
LYC - Cappy World Update - The Niece Part 2 (you were warned) - Capstern Dec 29, 07:29 32
- i kind of don't know how to reconcile you having issues with a teen drinking, but not with her dating a 40 year old. -- nm - Andie Dec 29, 08:31
- can you explain "sugar baby website"? -- nm - loosilu Dec 29, 08:08 2
  - it's where young women can find men willing to pay them sums of money to provide companionship. - znufrii Dec 29, 08:21 1
    - jesus. -- nm - loosilu Dec 29, 08:22
- fun times, fun times -- nm - CQ Dec 29, 07:50
- not "headed towards being an alcoholic" by any means. looks like she's already arrived. - znufrii Dec 29, 07:37 1
  - and you are likely right. But thats hard to admit in a family member I guess. I told her dad - Capstern Dec 29, 07:43
- wait. you're hooking up your 18 year old niece with your 39 year old best friend? I can't read past that. -- nm - mary christmas Dec 29, 07:31 24
  - this update actually contained significantly less madness then the last one. -- nm - TFox Dec 29, 07:38 12
    - Yeah. I feel the chaos leaving my house but still have a feeling like I failed my family.... - Capstern Dec 29, 07:41 11
      - like we said last time, any fix short of intensive therapy for multiple people involved isn't really going to scratch the surface here. -- nm - TFox Dec 29, 07:42 1
        
        Well my brother and his wife have agreed they ALL need to work on it together, just not with her living in their house.... - Capstern Dec 29, 07:44
      - you can not force your will on someone, if she wants to be a fuckoff, she will be a fuckoff. nm -- nm - groiny Dec 29, 07:42 8
        
        Yes. That was what Cass and I had to accept but you still feel like you failed. -- nm - Capstern Dec 29, 07:43 7
        
        You gave it a shot, which is more than many would do. nm -- nm - groiny Dec 29, 07:44 6
        
        word -- nm - Beaker Dec 29, 07:54
        
        thx man! -- nm - Capstern Dec 29, 07:44 4
        
        I have a similar situation with my wife's sisters kids. - groiny Dec 29, 07:47 3
        
        I hear ya. Thats admirable of you too. It just feels so easy that if you can just give people some stability and structure it should make - Capstern Dec 29, 07:49 2
        
        we always get along. - groiny Dec 29, 07:50 1
        
        You only get mad when I try to steal your helmet and push you off the short bus! -- nm - Capstern Dec 29, 07:51
  - no actually you missed the original post about this (inside info) - i did not do the hooking up - Capstern Dec 29, 07:36 10
    - yeah I can't read past that. I never want to see anything about this again. I might even switch to firefox to make it go away. (does that work here?) -- nm - mary christmas Dec 29, 07:39 9
      - and I even pasted it into word and ran spell check :P -- nm - Capstern Dec 29, 07:51
      - Well as soon as he leaves tonight for his job and she heads home they are done anyway from what I understand - so whew! - Capstern Dec 29, 07:47 7
        
        I was not a doomsayer; I don't care. I don't even make jokes. there's a difference between 18 and 33 and 18 and 39. - mary christmas Dec 29, 08:06 6
        
        To be honest my struggle was... - Capstern Dec 29, 08:14
        
        I have to agree, if a 39 year old friend of mine took up with an 18 year old, I'd have a serious talk with my friend immediately. - loosilu Dec 29, 08:12 4
        
        I did. But well he is an adult and made his own choice. I think fresh off divorce he was imparied. One thing I have learned at 39 - Capstern Dec 29, 08:21
        
        oh, and if the 18 year old is my niece? Hell no. -- nm - loosilu Dec 29, 08:13 2
        
        I like to think I wouldn't be friends with someone who'd screw a barely-legal member of my family. - mary christmas Dec 29, 08:16 1
        
        I would have a major problem with my friend. -- nm - loosilu Dec 29, 08:18
sitwap: 3 resorts at atlantic city, $20.10 per night. Harrah's, Snowboat, or Bally's, Jan. 3rd-March 31st, select nights -- (link) - tRuMaN Dec 29, 07:19
*double-checks last night's score to make sure it wasn't all a dream* -- nm - Cuzzin Tauld Lang Syne Dec 29, 07:18
Frosty! -- nm - CQ Dec 29, 07:17 4
- WOO!!! That little bastard eluded me for days. -- nm - Cuzzin Tauld Lang Syne Dec 29, 07:18 3
  - I just started at the comet yesterday. Figured I try for the 12 things -- nm - CQ Dec 29, 07:21 2
    - Good luck - had a friend start last Wednesday and got all 12 items in 4 days. -- nm - Cuzzin Tauld Lang Syne Dec 29, 07:24 1
      - I'm 6/12 so far -- nm - CQ Dec 29, 07:33
sitwap. bestbuy has a few action movie bluray discs for $9.99 -- (link) - tRuMaN Dec 29, 07:13
That Dallas/Philly game next week certainly has some large playoff implications now.... -- nm - Beaker Dec 29, 07:12
according to npr, we arent an average internet community site - tRuMaN Dec 29, 07:09 16
- actually, I think we do, more often than not. - znufrii Dec 29, 07:18 7
  - We all agree Sarah Palin is an idiot. It gets dicey after that. (nm) - David Dec 29, 07:31 5
    - and there's also a question of how much nuance should be accounted for in characterizing "agreement", sure. - znufrii Dec 29, 07:34 4
      - *puts bandaids and aloe on my eyeballs* -- nm - TFox Dec 29, 07:37 3
        
        It's like reading legalese jargon from The Neutral Planet. -- nm - David Dec 29, 07:50
        
        oh, shut up. -- nm - znufrii Dec 29, 07:42 1
        
        see? plain, simple communication! i love it. -- nm - TFox Dec 29, 07:43
  - "no we wouldn't" -- nm - Eric Palin Dec 29, 07:21
- like there is anyone average about this place well expect supposedly groiny -- nm - Capstern Dec 29, 07:14 2
  - is English your first language? nm -- nm - groiny Dec 29, 07:26 1
    - 4th -- nm - Capstern Dec 29, 07:50
- better. -- nm - Beaker Dec 29, 07:13 1
  - *ding* -- nm - SyrDragon Dec 29, 07:16
- is there a link to the npr story? -- nm - mary christmas Dec 29, 07:12 2
  - i heard it on the radio, let me look online. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 29, 07:14 1
    - here is the radio "article" I got this from -- (link) - tRuMaN Dec 29, 07:17
Semi Precious Weapons to replace Kid Cudi on US Tour with Lady Gaga. Who is that? -- nm - Hotkiss Dec 29, 07:04 3
- Semi Precious Weapons are a glam-rock band from New York City (per wiki). -- (link) - TFox Dec 29, 07:17
- Lady Gaga? She is a singer who wears funny costumes. -- nm - decline Dec 29, 07:10 1
  - "...but that's not important right now" -- nm - SyrDragon Dec 29, 07:17
The internet is a dangerous thing for drunks. Many a tweet and FB messages to delete this morning. -- nm - Hotkiss Dec 29, 06:59 3
- :) any hang over issues? -- nm - JenBro Dec 29, 07:11 2
  - I think I may still be a little drunk -- nm - Hotkiss Dec 29, 07:17 1
    - ahhh ... aspirin and water then ... with a little luck you won't feel a thing! -- nm - JenBro Dec 29, 07:24
Manchester United keeper Edwin Van der Sar given leave -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Dec 29, 06:48
Secret mobile phone codes cracked -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Dec 29, 06:47 5
- at&t is still tdma, right? and verizon cdma? *does not apply.* -- nm - mary christmas Dec 29, 06:49 4
  - i think it applys to both - Danedukenuuk Dec 29, 06:51 3
    - "ould allow anyone to decrypt signals from the billions of GSM users around the world," ?? - mary christmas Dec 29, 06:53 2
      - no you use land ned and a really really really really long line - Danedukenuuk Dec 29, 06:55 1
        
        I... have no idea. -- nm - mary christmas Dec 29, 07:02
G'morning ST -- nm - JenBro Dec 29, 06:41
Cappy, my comments were LIR but design a TCG sounds awesome -- nm - SyrDragon Dec 29, 06:34 3
- We are currently working on two projects ... - Capstern Dec 29, 07:01 2
  - Oooo... - SyrDragon Dec 29, 07:15 1
    - yeah this one - has card draw, resource mgmt (simple) screw your enemies and hilarity -- nm - Capstern Dec 29, 07:30
Jim DeMint is holding up the confirmation of the TSA chief because he might let screeners unionize? - Mop Dec 29, 06:31 5
- B is correct but for way more reasons than just this. (Frankly, on a side note, TSA is a worthless joke.) -- nm - Don Homer Dec 29, 06:32 3
  - My brother worked for TSA for a few years and totally agrees with you. -- nm - decline Dec 29, 06:47
  - HEY! -- nm - Stacy S.I. Dec 29, 06:33 1
    - did stacy get that job? -- nm - mary christmas Dec 29, 06:40
- B overrides A -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 29, 06:32
This is sickening... -- (link) - Don Homer Dec 29, 06:31 4
- thats wall - mart for you - Danedukenuuk Dec 29, 06:43 1
  - that's a good idea. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 29, 06:48
- yummy! -- nm - znufrii Dec 29, 06:36
- I see a pattern in your postings this morning. Let me know when I get to eat again. -- nm - Mop Dec 29, 06:33
You'll shoot your eye out. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 29, 06:30

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