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can jewish delis be reformed? (this made me hungry.) nm but: -- (link) - b. Apr 14, 10:54
Also, the Pirate Latitutes book jacket claims that Crichton is the only one ever to simultaneously have the #1 book, tv show, and movie in the country -- nm - Dr.Vermin, full of fun facts. Apr 14, 10:53 2
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- Jurrassic Park and ER? -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 10:54
8 days after accident, The names of miners who died is still unknown -- (link) - amoxy Apr 14, 10:52 1
- I know what they're saying but isn't it kinda obvious who hasn't back to work yet or shown up at home for dinner? -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 10:54
Chicago event! 2.5 weeks away! You're invited, come to Chicago! -- nm - ty97 Apr 14, 10:49
Breaking Bad Season 2: A (such a great show) -- nm - Krusty Apr 14, 10:48 2
- Better Call Saul! (I have 5 episode left in s2) -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 10:49 1
  - When he showed up I knew I was in for some good television. - Krusty Apr 14, 10:51
Hope you didn't say anything stupid. Library of Congress acquires twitter archive of every tweet...all of them -- (link) - oblique Apr 14, 10:47 2
- This could be very useful for artificial intelligence research. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 10:51 1
  - that frightens me. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 10:53
There, the news box is 30% smaller than it was this morning ... -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 10:46
Bruce Pearl is all over the ESPN shows today. It's hilarious watching him bounce from program to program. -- nm - David Apr 14, 10:45 13
- Kim would love this. An ESPN intern has painted his chest orange and is following Pearl around. -- nm - David Apr 14, 10:55 1
  - That's fantastic. - Callisto Apr 14, 10:57
- who does he like for the Stanley Cup? -- nm - Reagen Apr 14, 10:46 10
  - The Predators of course. Who doesn't? -- nm - David Apr 14, 10:47 8
    - People who believe scoring goals is one of the ways to win hockey games? -- nm - Reagen Apr 14, 10:50 7
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      - How'd that Weber kid do at the Olympics? -- nm - David Apr 14, 10:50 5
        
        I was shocked beyond words to see that Steve Sullivan played a full 82 this year - Reagen Apr 14, 10:55
        
        A defenceman is you sniper? Case closed. -- nm - Shaun Apr 14, 10:52 3
        
        How many defensemen can shred a net? -- nm - David Apr 14, 10:54 2
        
        I'm not arguing his cannon, but he's not the key to winning the Cup. Hawks in 5. -- nm - Shaun Apr 14, 10:57 1
        
        *giggle* -- nm - David Apr 14, 10:58
  - ROUGHRIDERS!! -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 10:46
I only recently learned that Michael Crichton wrote a few books under a pseduonym. - Space Monkey Vermin Apr 14, 10:40 10
- the only Critchon books I've read was Prey and Rising Sun. and wow I totally forgot he was dead -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 10:43 9
  - Next (pleasantly) surprised me... and his posthumous Pirate Latitudes was also fun. - Dr.Vermin Apr 14, 10:52
  - Congo is a fun read. -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 10:48 7
    - Would love to see that movie remade. - amoxy Apr 14, 10:49 2
      - Amy say bad gorilla -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 10:49
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    - I enjoyed Jurassic Park and Sphere. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 14, 10:49 3
      - Sphere was such a great book, yet such a crappy movie. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 10:51 1
        
        *ding* -- nm - Strongbad Apr 14, 10:51
      - oh yeah I read Sphere too. loved it. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 10:50
What the hell. Poll: What are you reading? - Dignan Apr 14, 10:40 36
- Solar, by Ian McEwan. - Callisto Apr 14, 10:56 1
  - ahead of the curve, I see -- nm - Roger More Apr 14, 10:57
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. (just about to start it) -- nm - Jovian Apr 14, 10:51 2
  - I would imagine she would require an industrial strength lubricant -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 14, 10:58
  - I read Heinlein the opposite of most. I read the last five first and then Stranger in a Strange Land. I skipped the rest. -- nm - David Apr 14, 10:53
- I finished the Futurama/Simpsons crossover (very funny) and am now starting the Craig Ferguson book. -- nm - David Apr 14, 10:46
- Marley and Me. - MojaveMeg Apr 14, 10:46
- the Girl with the Dragon Tatoo -- nm - decline Apr 14, 10:45
- Plight of the Fortune Tellers by Riccardo Rebonato (very dense non fiction about financial risk) - ceregon Apr 14, 10:45
- Just about to finish Asimov's 1st book in the Robot trilogy, Caves of Steel -- nm - Strongbad Apr 14, 10:43
- Finishing up the Ferguson book and I'm also reading Red Rain by Michael Crow -- nm - Krusty Apr 14, 10:43
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  - "But that would require some sort of ... rebiggening machine, which is so crazy it makes me want to laugh!" -- nm - Reagen Apr 14, 10:47
  - stupid non-kindle books. I'm going to have to buy the physical copy to read this. -- nm - decline Apr 14, 10:44
- American On Purpose -- nm - ty97 Apr 14, 10:43
- The Strain. I just finished the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Interesting read. -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 10:42 3
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    - It was. It seems like one of those really important things that everyone should know that no one knows about -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 10:45
    - I suggested it last month for the club. I want to read it, too. - JaxSean Apr 14, 10:45
- I just finished The Girl Who Played With Fire. Undecided on what to start next. Maybe The Lightning Thief. Maybe Foucault's Pendulum. Maybe....? -- nm - TFox Apr 14, 10:41 8
  - Foucaults Pendulum is very interesting and one of my favorites -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 14, 10:50
  - the Lightning Theif is an easy two day read. - JaxSean Apr 14, 10:42
  - Have you read any of The Dresden novels? -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 10:42 4
    - nope -- nm - TFox Apr 14, 10:43 3
      - I bet you would dig them -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 10:43 2
        
        I will mentally queue them. -- nm - TFox Apr 14, 10:45 1
        
        Storm Front is the first one. -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 10:48
  - Oh, I could pick up The Strain. That might work. -- nm - TFox Apr 14, 10:42
- haven't been reading much of anything, going to get started on The Strain soon enough... -- nm - znufrii Apr 14, 10:41
- Nothing really. The most recent books I read last night were: The Bike Lesson, Flotsam, The First of Octember, The House in the Night, and Goodnight - Don Homer Apr 14, 10:41
- The Girl Who Played With Fire (about 100 pages left). -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 10:41
- The Fabulous Riverboat - Philip Jose Farmer - Space Monkey Vermin Apr 14, 10:41
- Myth Directions (trying to read through a bunch of the Myth inc series) also have the Shack to start. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 14, 10:41
- That unauthorized Simpsons history. -- nm - Reagen Apr 14, 10:41 1
  - Oh, also Anathem, although I should probably wait for the English translation. -- nm - Reagen Apr 14, 10:45
- Half way through Death Match (yuck) and have The Strain next up -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 10:40
Never be the first guy to fall alseep... -- (link) - Shaun Apr 14, 10:40 [Image]
I enjoy the John Sandford Prey novels. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 10:40 3
- awesome series. still boggles me that Rules of Prey hasn't been done/redone as a movie -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 10:41 1
  - agreed. that Eric LeSal movie was horrible. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 10:44
- I am reading one right now. Secret Prey, IIRC. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 10:41
Estimated 46% of Americans would rather have Dubya back as president (48% prefer Obama). -- (link) - Don Homer Apr 14, 10:40 19
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- Estimated 47% of Americans pay no federal income taxes -- (link) - Strongbad Apr 14, 10:43 13
  - Of course, that figure leaves out payroll taxes, state and local taxes, capital gains taxes, etc... -- (link) - znufrii Apr 14, 10:51 12
    - Which... doesn't make my original statement incorrect. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 14, 10:54 1
      - which I never said it was incorrect. -- nm - znufrii Apr 14, 10:55
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      - I understood perfectly. I'm just painting in the rest of the picture is all. -- nm - znufrii Apr 14, 10:55 5
        
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        That's some pretty light jumping on -- nm - Roger More Apr 14, 10:59
        
        defensive, much? - znufrii Apr 14, 10:59
        
        You're spinning, which is fine. The media does it all the time. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 14, 10:56 1
        
        what's being spun, exactly? you stated a fact, I stated a fact. -- nm - znufrii Apr 14, 10:57
      - This goes back to the link provided yesterday that the title is often misinterpreted as 'pay no tax' - ty97 Apr 14, 10:54
    - I don't believe any of those are federal income taxes -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 10:52 1
      - you are correct. my point is that the federal income tax is only a portion of total government funding. - znufrii Apr 14, 10:54
- In other news, Republicans like Republicans, Democrats like Democrats. -- nm - Reagen Apr 14, 10:43 1
  - Yep. That was the thing about the Obama victory. It meant only one side had a little more support than the other for a while. No big sea change. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 14, 10:47
- 46% of Americans need to have their heads examined. -- nm - Krusty Apr 14, 10:42
- Silly. nm - Dignan Apr 14, 10:41
Clive Cussler's another guy with 1 story and 25 versions of it. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 14, 10:37 5
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- Yeah, I got tired of the Dirk Pitt adventures. Also Ludlum is that way -- nm - amoxy Apr 14, 10:38 3
  - I got tired of them because they were such an obvious proxy for Cussler's personal fantasies - Roger More Apr 14, 10:44 2
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      - Book 1? -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 14, 10:56
goiny amuses me greatly. - tRuMaN Apr 14, 10:37 4
- I can count on one hand the # of enemies I killed with a melee attack. - Will Hunting Apr 14, 10:41 2
  - Besides Brick, Lilith should only really use melee attacks on a semi-regular basis, and only while phasewalking. -- nm - Shaun Apr 14, 10:44
  - its like he wanted to play Brick but picked mordecai instead. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 14, 10:43
- I'll play Borderlands more after this weekend's Relay. I have *zero* time this week. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 10:39
Confession: I have not read Dark Tower VII yet (had it for years) - I stopped early on - major, big-time spoils - Beaker Apr 14, 10:36
Any Jim Rome fans on ST? Anyone? - Strongbad Apr 14, 10:36 1
- *raises hand* -- nm - Chris Everret Apr 14, 10:37
ABC will devote 5 hours to the LOST finale (spoilers) - amoxy Apr 14, 10:36 2
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  - I'm so choked that actor was a dick. The character would have been an awesome addition to the shaking out going on right now. - Name Withheld By Request Apr 14, 10:49
lyc, 3 xp machines looked at - tRuMaN Apr 14, 10:36
ITunes needs a hibernate feature -- nm - ty97 Apr 14, 10:35 6
- bears never wake up -- nm - Sergio Apr 14, 10:36
- (SEK): Like: I want to keep this song, but at this point in my life I don't want to know/see/hear about it. - ty97 Apr 14, 10:35
- or a "not suck" feature. -- nm - Reagen Apr 14, 10:35 3
  - I hate to say it, but the Home Sharing feature of iTunes has made it the standard music system in my house now - oblique Apr 14, 10:36 2
    - I haven't tried setting it up yet (mostly because one of my 3 iTunes installations, the one with my purchased music, is at work) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 10:37 1
      - The only downside is that it only auto-syncs purchased music but it makes it super easy to manually copy all other music between units -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 10:37
You know what's a good show? Damages. - JaxSean Apr 14, 10:33 2
- it took them a while to get to the fireworks factory. but they definitely got there. spoils - prayformojo Apr 14, 10:38
- Gator 911 -- nm - TFox Apr 14, 10:33
The Stand is King's all time best (imo), Thinner is one of the freakiest, and for me The Long Walk was easily the most haunting. -- nm - Jovian Apr 14, 10:33 14
- The Stand is good, but in most of his books he suffers from literary elephantitis, like Gerald's Game... - ceregon Apr 14, 10:41 1
  - "Can I interest you in 150 pages from a dog's point of view?" -- nm - Reagen Apr 14, 10:44
- I enjoyed the first half of Dreamcatcher. then the story went to shit -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 10:39 3
  - literally. -- nm - Reagen Apr 14, 10:39 2
    - heh. I know. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 10:41 1
      - and the movie was somehow worse. - Reagen Apr 14, 10:41
- I've tried to read the Stand half a dozen times and never make it more than 50pages in. I don't know why -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 14, 10:36 4
  - the TV mini-series did a darn fine job on it, lost some side stories but still darn good -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 10:39
  - hunger? -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 10:37 2
    - Nah, there's books i know why I quit (LOTR boring ass crap) but this ain't bad. - Will Hunting Apr 14, 10:38
    - well, if he was hungry, he would probably eat more than just the first 50 pages ... -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 10:37
- Thinner was a good/bad King movie. - Reagen Apr 14, 10:35
- and Insomnia was the worst. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 10:34 1
  - definitely. My only King book I never finished. -- nm - Jovian Apr 14, 10:39
A handy guide to First Contact ... (ML posted it two days ago, but I saw it somewhere else this morning ...) -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 14, 10:32 [Image]
Funding is Readamental -- nm - ty97 Apr 14, 10:32
A story about a man/woman haunted by their past who can only be helped by a mysterious police/FBI agent with a past that haunst them as well. -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 10:32 6
- don't forget about the mysterious kitten dolls...and the box -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 10:33 3
  - "Caged Heat", by Rick Castle. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 10:35 2
    - (The story of a serial killer who offs his victims using their own farts as the murder weapon) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 10:35 1
      - saw a book at the store yesterday: I am Not A Serial Killer, looked interesting, obviously a Dexter clone of some sort though -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 10:38
- "James Patterson's 'Curds and Whey'" -- nm - Reagen Apr 14, 10:32
- there, I just summarized 90% of the books on the market for ST. -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 10:32

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