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Netflix coming to the Wii this spring, per an anouncement due today -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 13, 05:49
Rumor mill is saying that Netflix will launch Wii support this Spring via disc just like PS3 -- (link) - oblique Jan 13, 05:47 2
- I was really excited about this happening... until I got my Tivo, which covers my streaming needs admirably. - TFox Jan 13, 05:50
- grr -- nm - JaxSean Jan 13, 05:50
*takes in a deep breath* It's a new morning on Slackertalk. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 13, 05:03
I'm wondering about the wisdom of hiring a guy who in a year on the job has shown a passing familiarity with NCAA rules - Will Hunting Jan 13, 03:15 8
- No one would have a better view of the upside/downside of his recruiting violations than USC does. -- nm - David Jan 13, 05:09 4
  - upside = cheating is winning. downside = ncaa is toothless. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 13, 05:18 3
    - errr, that should be there is no downside since ncaa is toothless. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 13, 05:20 2
      - Jeremy Bloom and Michael Oher get randomly hassled while they can't even find Reggie Bush. It's hard not to laugh at the absurdity of it. - David Jan 13, 05:43 1
        
        True enough, definitely better after just 1 year. Best of luck to UT in its new head coach search, hope they get a good one. - Don Homer Jan 13, 05:45
- Cmon Will, this is USC we're talking about. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 13, 05:06
- seriously. But given it's history - including while he was there - I don't think USC cares. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 13, 04:41
- Yeah yeah, but can they win??? -- nm - nubby Jan 13, 03:56
Dano will enjoy Indiewire's review of Fish Tank: "but the camera fixes... on his long, muscular torso and ass arching out of low-slung jeans." -- (link) - LMS Jan 13, 02:54
An American Airlines plane from Miami was actually on the ground the Port-au-Prince airport during the quake. - ty97 Jan 13, 00:37
Zach Levi on Conan looks crazy skinny. -- nm - Mop Jan 13, 00:22
well, Duplicity and The International have at least one thing in common (spoils) - Beryllium Jan 13, 00:07 2
- The International did have the great gallery shooting going for it, though. -- nm - David Jan 13, 00:16 1
  - agreed. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 13, 00:18
Urban Meyer gets the news on live television... -- (link) - David Jan 13, 00:03 [Image] 13
- Can you give a quick summary of why this whole UT/USC thing is so amusing? - JaxSean Jan 13, 00:36 7
  - He's a scumbag who has committed numerous recruiting violations, and will likely continue to do so at USC. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 13, 04:40 1
    - And will likely continue to get away with it. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 13, 05:10
  - Lane Kiffin for five years was on USC staff - eag Jan 13, 00:53
  - He's a polarizing figure. - David Jan 13, 00:48 3
    - Ah, thanks. I was just reading an column linked on digg, but this is more informative. Thanks. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 13, 00:53 2
      - Shorter answer: he gets more publicity than Sarah Palin. This makes USC Fox News, UT Alaska and the media the American public...and the media. - David Jan 13, 00:57 1
        
        He's a younger, brasher and more arrogant Nick Saban -- nm - Strongbad Jan 13, 05:11
- Guy on ESPN thinks UT will go after Cutcliffe -- nm - eag Jan 13, 00:27 3
  - Gruden was the first call. When he inevitably says no (already has?), Muschamp and Houston Nutt are the next two. - David Jan 13, 00:33 2
    - Don't worry if it's Houston Nutt....you'll do well Year 1, then fail to meet expectations from then on. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 13, 03:16 1
      - He would enjoy getting Ed Orgeron's players again. That's for sure. -- nm - David Jan 13, 05:44
- That is outstanding. -- nm - Tim Jan 13, 00:05
Local news said UN compound in Haiti had collapsed. Many peacekeepers unaccounted for. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 23:55
More ramblings on my blog: Thunderstorm ... check it out! :) -- (link) - Beryllium.ca (Wordpress Auto-Blogger) Jan 12, 23:39 2
- oh, dangit -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 23:45 1
  - (I was just turning off comments ... darn thing) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 23:45
Long day. I interviewed an applicant today. He was pretty good. I learned to draw blood. Relatively easy (if you can find the veins). - James Bond (aka Igor) Jan 12, 23:24 1
- However, now I need to fill out an eval form for the applicant. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jan 12, 23:26
72 man USAR team expects to leave L.A. for Haiti within the hour. -- nm - MojaveMeg Jan 12, 23:05
a pic of the damage to the Haitian presidential palace ... -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 12, 22:23 12
- I had no idea it was the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. -- nm - ty97 Jan 12, 23:46 5
  - Seriously? -- nm - Mop Jan 13, 00:21 2
    - seriously. I knew it was poor, but so is Cuba, so are parts of Central America. - ty97 Jan 13, 00:24 1
      - (me either) -- nm - JaxSean Jan 13, 00:28
  - And, I suddenly feel sad that I've never gone there. It's so close (713 miles from Miami). -- nm - ty97 Jan 12, 23:49 1
    - It was pretty bad even before the earthquake. Our own little Somalia. -- nm - Mop Jan 13, 00:22
- Has anybody seen the President lately? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 12, 22:37 2
  - Late news says he and his wife are safe. -- nm - MojaveMeg Jan 12, 23:02
  - he looks like The Master :) -- nm - peglegpete Jan 12, 23:01
- Oh geez. This is going to be just awful. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 22:30 1
  - Yep. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 22:31
- the sixth photo in the set gives a better perspective -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 22:23
what I learned today: Babra Streisand and Neil Diamond were in their high school choir together. -- nm - mafic Jan 12, 22:15 1
- alert the SNL writers -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 12, 22:39
Great, now I want some Pizza Rolls -- nm - flavorize Jan 12, 22:12
woot takes on the NBC brouhaha tonight. -- nm - psilotum Jan 12, 22:01 2
- You are slow. -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 12, 22:04 1
  - I'm mellow. -- nm - psilotum Jan 12, 22:05
First you wanted the Lenovo, then the O�Brienvo, and now back to the Lenovo. - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 12, 22:01
NBC could just run a one-hour Comcast commerical from from 10-11 ET every night. -- nm - ty97 Jan 12, 21:52
Attitude boy on American Idol looks like a love child between Michael Ian Black and Bruce McCulloch. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 21:52
Things I did not know: Sean Murray is only 0.5 inches shorter than Michael Weatherly. (Mcgee and Dinozzo) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 21:44
Gotta dance, gotta dance, gotta dance! - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 12, 21:42
Toronto film ciritcs name Polytechnique top Canadian feature - lone canadian leafs fan Jan 12, 21:35 1
- suck it Toronto -- nm - fatsquatch Jan 12, 21:36
My preganant girl friend just broke off her engagement with her abusive, hot mess, worthless, bum of a fiance. *Hallelujah* -- nm - Hotkiss Jan 12, 21:32 18
- Just what the kid needs. A single parent that couldn't handle birth control. -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 12, 21:45 13
  - won't somebody think of the children! -- nm - mafic Jan 12, 22:17
  - beats having two of them. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 22:11 11
    - My experience with the domestic docket in court says otherwise. Unless the parent actually represents a serious physical threat to the child, the - landbeck Jan 13, 03:23
    - This is where we weep for the decline of social stigma. Nothing like a good scarlet letter to keep the majority on the straight and narrow. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 12, 22:15 2
      - actually most couples now have the baby first before getting married, for various reasons - zeitgeist Jan 12, 22:44 1
        
        you have a weird perspective on what happens in the majority of marriages. secretly pre-eloping *and* having a baby are pre-wedding norms now? -- nm - TFox Jan 13, 05:26
    - No, it doesn't. -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 12, 22:15 6
      - i have to respectfully disagree - 'lia Jan 12, 22:21
      - I was sidetracked by "abusive, hot mess, worthless bum" -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 22:16 4
        
        especially "abusive" -- nm - psilotum Jan 12, 22:17 3
        
        I have some trouble accepting what may or may not be true in the situation. If that is true, okay. -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 13, 05:46
        
        thank you -- nm - 'lia Jan 12, 22:21
        
        yeah, that did it. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 22:18
- i almost mis-read that.. . thinking you'd said your pregnant girlfriend... and i was like wait a second... -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 12, 21:40
- Did you both have a 2 for 1 coupon? -- nm - Redmond Jan 12, 21:33
- she going to Mexico too? -- nm - fatsquatch Jan 12, 21:33 1
  - *golf clap* -- nm - SyrDragon Jan 12, 21:49
Zach Levi is on Conan talking about online gaming and teabagging. Tom Brokaw is on theshow as well. -- nm - Remlik Jan 12, 21:25 5
- It would be fair for Chuck to give a shout-out to NBC for uncanceling chuck, I think, to counter the anti-NBC stuff that's been going around -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 21:31 4
  - uncancelling Reaper and Dark Angel would be cool too -- nm - lone canadian leafs fan Jan 12, 21:31 3
    - NBC uncancelling Reaper would be quite a feat. -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 12, 21:38 2
      - i thought it was on USA Network, which is owned by NBC? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 21:42 1
        
        CW -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 12, 21:44
STIS - got a solid wood bedroom set 2nd hand, any antique buffs know where I can find out the history? - SyrDragon Jan 12, 21:16 11
- what size bed? if it's queen it's after 1950. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 22:11 1
  - Hmm ... maybe I should be watching The Zero Effect instead of The International ... -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Jan 12, 22:14
- any dovetailing? any other markings which could identify the origin? -- nm - peglegpete Jan 12, 21:22 8
  - Yes the drawers have dovetailing...haven't seen any marks other than the Stanley with lines above and below, woodburned in the inside of the drawer -- nm - SyrDragon Jan 12, 21:25 7
    - This may be your manufacturer -- (link) - scorpion Jan 13, 05:52
    - if there is also glue in the joints with the dovetailing, it in not ancient -- nm - peglegpete Jan 12, 21:34 4
      - good point. I will have to get a pic tomorrow since it is in the kid's room -- nm - SyrDragon Jan 12, 21:48 3
        
        also, dovetailing that looks too perfect may also mean it is newer -- nm - peglegpete Jan 12, 21:55 2
        
        solid wood or multiple ply?, IIRC it was common for the back pieces to be different wood than the front -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 12, 22:46 1
        
        solid -- nm - peglegpete Jan 12, 23:30
    - got photos? Now I'm curious. But if you posted them to some antiques forum, you might get better feedback. -- nm - psilotum Jan 12, 21:30
who would you cast as DiNozo's mother poll? - peglegpete Jan 12, 21:13 11
- Jacqueline Smith. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 22:13
- They need Abby's Mother...who for Mcgee? -- nm - BAD Jan 12, 21:23 4
  - I'm stumped for casting Abby's parents. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 22:13
  - McGee's dad should be played by Don Bellisario. And his character should *not* get along with Gibbs. :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 21:33
  - I want the guy who played Murray Bozinski on Riptide as his dad. him or Robert Carradine. -- nm - Remlik Jan 12, 21:26 1
    - Bobby Carridine would be nice -- nm - peglegpete Jan 12, 21:35
- I did not realize Wagner was born in 1930. He doesn't look it. -- nm - Remlik Jan 12, 21:18
- DiNozo's mother is dead? -- nm - Redmond Jan 12, 21:15 3
  - I do not remember if they ever said either way -- nm - peglegpete Jan 12, 21:20 2
    - they said in tonight's ep. -- nm - loosilu Jan 12, 22:12
    - (spoils) - SyrDragon Jan 12, 21:23
All these contestants on American Idol sound like Kelly. -- nm - Redmond Jan 12, 21:11 1
- Is Will humping the tv? -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 12, 21:39
Christ. Google's going to war with China? You'd think they'd start smaller. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 21:07 3
- "Don't be evil." -- nm - nubby Jan 13, 03:58
- I'll take Google and the points. -- nm - David Jan 12, 21:07 1
  - that'll cost Google billions -- nm - Remlik Jan 12, 21:19
I'm noticing something with regards to reading habits, now that I've had the Kindle over two years. - ty97 Jan 12, 21:05
Got the wife to record Conan ... suggested recording Leno. Her response: "Leno's an asshole." - Beryllium Jan 12, 21:04 1
- I hope so, you married the woman. - Redmond Jan 12, 21:05
American Idol spoilers - Redmond Jan 12, 21:01 2
- Cara came across as a royal - Jovian Jan 12, 21:03 1
  - it's all about the ratings, babe... and i kinda saw something coming with that guy, ... - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 12, 21:42
Dear reviewers (professional and amateur alike): I ban you from using the term "tour de force" -- nm - ty97 Jan 12, 20:55
Leno: Mondays, Tuesdays Conan: Thursdays, Fridays. Wednesdays: Rosie O'Donnell. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 20:54 4
- Why do you hate Hump Day? -- nm - Fuzzy Jan 12, 20:56 1
  - The Tonight Show will have three daddies. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 20:57
- That's your idea of humpday? - ty97 Jan 12, 20:56 1
  - Humpday deserves a humpback. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 20:57
A lot of restaurants give vegetarians little respect, my ex used to get so pissed. Prime example, I'd order a subway roastbeef, she'd order a veggie - zeitgeist Jan 12, 20:53
Walk like an Egyptian.... -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 12, 20:51
meat is murder -- nm - fatsquatch Jan 12, 20:51 7
- life is murder. -- nm - mafic Jan 12, 22:19
- Eating veggies is killing a living thing too : ) -- nm - SyrDragon Jan 12, 21:18
- a properly grilled steak is heavenly - 'lia Jan 12, 21:08
- Justifiable murder. Yummy, yummy, justifiable murder. -- nm - Mop Jan 12, 21:00
- So are your posts -- nm - Redmond Jan 12, 20:58
- tasty, tasty murder. -- nm - kelly Jan 12, 20:56
- It was already dead when I found it! -- nm - Fuzzy Jan 12, 20:55
I think by now it's just a network's first instinct to dump anything with Andy Richter in it. -- nm - David Jan 12, 20:51 6
- I feel terrible for not watching AR Controls the Universe when it was on. - Cuzzin Todd Jan 12, 20:58 4
  - The episode where Byron is an accidental pimp is television at its finest. -- nm - David Jan 12, 21:00 1
    - I don't remember a lot of specifics - netflixed it when it came out on DVD. - Cuzzin Todd Jan 12, 21:08
  - ditto Andy Richter PI - fatsquatch Jan 12, 21:00 1
    - loved that show -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 21:01
- Dude is hilarious. -- nm - Redmond Jan 12, 20:54

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