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lol. my boss dials a phone numbers, its busy, he hangs up. picks another phone line, dials the same number, its busy, hangs up. picks the 3rd phone - tRuMaN Mar 4, 07:36
Jersey Shore Celebrity Jeopardy. Wow they are idiots -- (link) - MDH Mar 4, 07:04 [hulu]
portal got another update, this one changed the ending scene of the game. -- (link) - tRuMaN Mar 4, 07:01
Gillian Lee, 3:45 a.m. Mar. 4, 7 lb 2 oz, 19.5 in. - Reagen Mar 4, 06:24 49
- Congrats. Where do we send the Baby Bonds? - OAE Mar 4, 09:37
- Cool & Congrats! Very Pretty Name -- nm - JenBro Mar 4, 09:33
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- HOOAH! Congrats to you and your wife! -- nm - Stephen Mar 4, 08:06
- Congrats :) -- nm - Walt_Disney Mar 4, 07:44
- Awesomeness! -- nm - Redmond Mar 4, 07:29
- VNB! -- nm - mafic Mar 4, 07:27
- Great prairie girl's name. Congrats to the family. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 4, 07:20
- Spectacular. All the best to you. -- nm - pmb Mar 4, 07:18
- Congrats to you and the Mrs.! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 4, 07:15
- congrats :) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 4, 07:14
- Happy news! Congratumagations! -- nm - TFox Mar 4, 07:14
- Also, dear babies... - Inigo Mar 4, 06:56 2
  - There was, I'm sure, great comedy to be had from seeing my try to catch some sleep on the love seat sized couch they had in the room. -- nm - Reagen Mar 4, 07:02
  - We're just getting you ready for the middle of the night feedings. Or do you want us to re-schedule those too? - Dear babies Mar 4, 07:01
- Congrats and best wishes!! -- nm - Don Homer Mar 4, 06:55
- nice -- nm - Max Mar 4, 06:52
- That's great. I love the name. -- nm - Inigo Mar 4, 06:52
- Congrats! -- nm - scorpion Mar 4, 06:51
- great news, and congrats -- nm - CQ Mar 4, 06:50
- good job indeed and happy Birthday Gillian -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 4, 06:47
- woot! -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 4, 06:44
- Great news to start the day off right. - BAD Mar 4, 06:42
- woohoo! -- nm - decline Mar 4, 06:41
- Fantastic! Congratulations. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 4, 06:40
- congrats!!! -- nm - loosilu Mar 4, 06:39
- Beauty, eh! -- nm - zork Mar 4, 06:37
- Don Homer! -- nm - oblique Mar 4, 06:37
- Congratulations! -- nm - MDH Mar 4, 06:35
- Congrats! -- nm - Ender Mar 4, 06:34
- Yay! Contratulations! (Is this your first child?) - JaxSean Mar 4, 06:34 2
  - you believe anything Dignan says? - Reagen Mar 4, 06:48 1
    - Not usually. Congrats! (Get used to no sleep, btw.) -- nm - JaxSean Mar 4, 06:54
- Hooray! Congratulations! -- nm - Roger More Mar 4, 06:34
- Congratulations!!! -- nm - Jim Mar 4, 06:34
- woo-hoo!!! Congrats!!! -- nm - Diva Mar 4, 06:33
- Hooray! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 4, 06:33
- congrats! (love the name!) -- nm - kelly Mar 4, 06:33
- Hooray! Congrats and good wishes to all the family! -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 4, 06:31
- Awesome! Enjoy your little miracle...and well done Mrs Reagan! -- nm - SyrDragon Mar 4, 06:30
- Great news! Best wishes for family health and happiness! -- nm - HdnAgnda Mar 4, 06:29
- Awesome news! Congratulations! -- nm - ty97 Mar 4, 06:28
- CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! -- nm - TWuG Mar 4, 06:27
- Congratulations! -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 4, 06:27
- Gratzie! Yay! -- nm - landbeck Mar 4, 06:26
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- Yeah!!!! congrats - love the baby's name -- nm - Epiphany Mar 4, 06:25
- YEAH! congrats. gillian is a great name. -- nm - Andie Mar 4, 06:25
- Yay! So happy for you! -- nm - Callisto Mar 4, 06:25
Holycrap, the US Bobsled team is buff. -- (link) - nubby Mar 4, 06:23 3
- I find this kind of weird. I thought the bobsledders were the chubby ones in the unfortunate spandex. -- nm - mara Mar 4, 07:09 2
  - yes, exactly. - Callisto Mar 4, 07:13 1
    - and being inside the sled, it's not like they need those suits to reduce any wind resistance! -- nm - zork Mar 4, 07:20
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BBing: congrats to mara! i need to google/fb edit myself if i'm job-hunting i realize. and Percy Jackson is a C-. -- nm - Andie Mar 4, 05:56 18
- Thanks! I have to get my stuff framed properly now! Ack! (Going to a framing workshop next Saturday.) -- nm - mara Mar 4, 06:56
- mara's news is very cool. -- nm - Diva Mar 4, 06:34
- Very cool about mara, I've had to become the master of Facebook-cleansing, and what the heck is JaxSean still doing awake? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 4, 06:13 2
  - heh. I slept for about 4 hours. :) -- nm - JaxSean Mar 4, 06:33 1
    - (and have been back at work already for over an hour...) -- nm - JaxSean Mar 4, 06:33
- I have to go find the Mara news but The Box is a big fat F - please rent Triangle instead. -- nm - Epiphany Mar 4, 06:03 5
  - found it - congrats to Mara - that is exciting! -- nm - Epiphany Mar 4, 06:20
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    - I just now read a running email commentary from my friend who watched it last night *spoils* - Epiphany Mar 4, 06:19 2
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        I liked it a lot - I had most of it figured out - except the very last and then after I was like * ahhhh, okay that makes sense* - spoil - Epiphany Mar 4, 06:25
- Interesting. What didn't you like about it? (I'm guessing you didn't read the book.) - JaxSean Mar 4, 05:58 6
  - nope, never read the book. - Andie Mar 4, 06:01 5
    - Cool thanks. (spoiler) - JaxSean Mar 4, 06:04 3
      - oh, do you happen to know when it was written? - Andie Mar 4, 06:12 2
        
        both were published in 2005. -- nm - Callisto Mar 4, 06:27 1
        
        thx -- nm - Andie Mar 4, 06:28
    - oh, Percy Jackson spoilers above! -- nm - Andie Mar 4, 06:02
Newegg has Brutal Legend for the XBox/PS3 for $19.99 -- (link) - JaxSean Mar 4, 05:43 1
- the reviews were not so stellar -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 4, 07:36
What is the "scheduled" run time of the Oscars? 3 hours? -- nm - JaxSean Mar 4, 05:03 2
- yes, 8:30-11:30 -- nm - Don Homer Mar 4, 05:08 1
  - gracias -- nm - JaxSean Mar 4, 05:43
How to save $148 on an iPod Touch... -- (link) - Don Homer Mar 4, 04:33 3
- it took me a long time to figure out what was going on here. -- nm - prayformojo Mar 4, 04:50 2
  - The third comment has it right. If you want to look like the real owner, you need to post a reward *less* than the original owner is offering. -- nm - TWuG Mar 4, 05:21
  - It's evil, but funny. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 4, 05:08
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- Can someone C&P? I'd like to see the noms and I can't open 97's link at work. -- nm - Diva Mar 4, 06:03 4
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    - thx! -- nm - Diva Mar 4, 06:08 2
      - If the vote form doesn't work for you at work, e-mail me your vote and I'll submit it - ty97 Mar 4, 06:10 1
        
        okay - thanks! -- nm - Diva Mar 4, 06:19
- it's a great book. (I didn't nominate it.) -- nm - Callisto Mar 4, 05:58 1
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- Heh - I know you're half-joking, but I'm pretty sure znu nominated The Book of Lost Things (IIRC it was his pick for the Feb/Mar books) -- nm - Roger More Mar 4, 05:49
ty, nice job on the Book Club info and voting pages! -- nm - JaxSean Mar 4, 04:03 1
- Thanks to you for the tipoff about forms, they are really handy -- nm - ty97 Mar 4, 05:20
HBO picks up "A Game of Thrones" as a series. Think Rome and Deadwood, but with a medieval setting. - TWuG Mar 4, 03:43 5
- Hmm. Did the author ever finish the series? I seem to recall that we're in limbo for the next book -- nm - oblique Mar 4, 06:48 4
  - (spoilers) -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Mar 4, 07:06 [Backboard]
  - We are in limbo and it is unfinished -- nm - decline Mar 4, 06:58 1
    - damn that George Lucas! -- nm - Remlik Mar 4, 07:36
  - Maybe they'll do a Dexter and just continue it in any direction they want to. -- nm - mara Mar 4, 06:54
Hurt Locker gets sued by a soldier who says the movie is about him - Will Hunting Mar 4, 03:41
Duke Sucks. -- nm - stewie Mar 4, 02:48 3
- What happens if they end the regular season tied in conference (which is a good possibility)? Does Duke take #1 due to its overall record? -- nm - Don Homer Mar 4, 05:20 2
  - explanation - Strongbad Mar 4, 05:40 1
    - ah, thanks. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 4, 06:55
I am exhausted and i want to go to bed, but i have a nosebleed (trickle, really) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 4, 00:25
For serious, is Bery the little ST icon in my browser window and in my list of favorites? -- nm - Hotkiss Mar 3, 23:25 3
- no, that's the Fish Stick Kid -- nm - Beryllium Mar 3, 23:38 1
  - Ha! I never looked that closely but there he is! -- nm - SyrDragon Mar 4, 05:48
- (I should seriously get some sleep) I mean, in my browser tab and favorites link for ST -- nm - Hotkiss Mar 3, 23:26
Dakota Fanning sure is growing up trendy -- (link) - Hotkiss Mar 3, 23:10 5
- Why do they all dress as weirdos. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Mar 3, 23:15 4
  - isnt that how everyone dresses in LA? -- nm - Hotkiss Mar 3, 23:27 1
    - hehe.. absolutely not. Homeless dress like that. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Mar 3, 23:40
  - They have "stylists." -- nm - JaxSean Mar 3, 23:16 1
    - It costs a fortune to look like a bum just so -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 4, 00:27
Huh? Rain? And quite heavy. The sky was quite clear when I walked home from class a couple of hours ago. -- nm - MojaveMeg Mar 3, 23:07
Ooh, two weeks from today I'll be checking in to the Mission Inn in Riverside..... -- (link) - MojaveMeg Mar 3, 23:05
So...what's the new thing from TiVo? - JaxSean Mar 3, 22:31
I'm really liking Love Happens and I think it's too bad that it didn't do well in theaters. -- nm - Max Mar 3, 22:14
B2: Most of my friends still at UMD changed their last names this week (Career Center week) so employers couldn't find them online -- nm - MDH Mar 3, 22:01 3
- always a good way to start a career - 16 & pixie Mar 3, 22:07 2
  - Maybe eventually employers will realize when I'm not on the clock, I don't answer to you. (the Utopian nt.) -- nm - Qale Mar 3, 22:34
  - The real world sucks. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Mar 3, 22:12
Our long national nightmare is over: Sea lions return to Pier 39 ... (linky) -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Mar 3, 21:55
Not a good sign: While at the ER tonight (everything is fine), I heard the nurse inserting my IV say "wish me luck!" before entering my room. - kelly Mar 3, 21:45 8
- Sorry you had to go to the ER, but glad it turned out well. -- nm - pmb Mar 4, 07:21
- I get IV meds quarterly at the infusion center in the hospital...they are *pros*! Glad you're ok! -- nm - SyrDragon Mar 4, 06:33
- For my wisdom tooth extraction, the nurse had to try (and fail) several times on both arms before the surgeon took over. Heh. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 3, 23:12
- they took 6 try's to find my gf's vein for a blood test a while back, those big veins can be a pain to find -- nm - Karl Mar 3, 21:47 4
  - When I went for one of my routine blood test a few years back - eag Mar 3, 22:13
  - After the successful attempt to get the needle in, it did look like a crime scene near my bed. Blood *everywhere*. - kelly Mar 3, 21:49 2
    - Last few times I've needed an IV they've had a real paid getting them installed. I have great veins in my right arm, and they can use those to draw - MojaveMeg Mar 3, 21:52 1
      - Bah - paid = pain -- nm - MojaveMeg Mar 3, 21:52
I haven't heard anything. -- nm - David Mar 3, 21:25
maybe a teeny bit of worry ... but then again, I'm sure Mrs Reagen would probably kill him if he went online right now ... heh -- nm - Beryllium Mar 3, 21:06 14
- Though it is Spock we're talking about. I'm slightly surprised he's shared this much personal information already. nm - ralph wiggum Mar 3, 21:24 13
  - I wonder if my daughter still has the pics taken at the Godzilla gathering in KC in 1998(?) - MojaveMeg Mar 3, 21:28 9
    - g'damn TTers have awful taste in movies for these get togethers - 16 & pixie Mar 3, 21:30 8
      - add I,Spy to that one...that was a Banzai pick! -- nm - Remlik Mar 3, 21:43 3
        
        The universal hate for I, Spy makes me sad. nm - ralph wiggum Mar 3, 21:43 2
        
        there are moments when it's good and Murphy started to wake up. but...it still drags. -- nm - Remlik Mar 3, 22:42 1
        
        Banzai is *dumb* -- nm - 16 & pixie Mar 3, 22:50
      - I thought the point was to see bad movies with TTers. (The Longest Yard remake nt.) -- nm - Qale Mar 3, 21:39 1
        
        see! -- nm - 16 & pixie Mar 3, 21:40
      - OK, next good movie release, you get to organize an LApalooza :/ -- nm - MojaveMeg Mar 3, 21:37 1
        
        i could totally do an ST Film Festival between the Arclight, Egyptian, and New Beverly - 16 & pixie Mar 3, 21:56
  - Case in point: This is his third kid. nm - Dignan Mar 3, 21:27 2
    - I can't believe we couldn't talk him out of naming them Larry, Curley and Moe. -- nm - Qale Mar 3, 21:39
    - Do you remember your third kid? -- nm - Max Mar 3, 21:38
Pie! -- nm - peglegpete Mar 3, 21:02 1
- "Yes, Alex, I'll take Bye, Bye, Miss American _____" for $1000." -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Mar 3, 21:42

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