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My soda intake is now going to be one can of soda per week, or less. - Beryllium Apr 20, 09:11 4
- After we were talking about losing weight/eating healthy yesterday, I realized last Monday I stopped drinking sodas on a daily basis. - JaxSean Apr 20, 09:14
- I'm trying to cut down, too (not very successfully so far, but still trying). -- nm - Callisto Apr 20, 09:14
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- I only drink soda at lunch at work, and it is diet. - groiny Apr 20, 09:12
WTF is this Facebook thing on the ika log-in page? -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 09:02 1
- WTF is at the login page now???? - Danedukenuuk Apr 20, 09:06
Whoever on ST is watching The Pacific remind me, when it's all done, to tell you what my trip to NY over Easter, a NJ turnpike rest stop and the show - HdnAgnda Apr 20, 08:52
Funniest yet most annoying thing about having a new pup inside. - Shaun Apr 20, 08:49 [flickr] 4
- Harley is very cute. Good luck with the new pup! -- nm - Krusty Apr 20, 08:54
- omgtheCUTE!!!! -- nm - znufrii Apr 20, 08:51
- Cooper is a Kardashian? -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 08:51
- awwww -- nm - zork Apr 20, 08:50
So Muse is touring the US again in summer. I think I have to make an effort to go the Charlottesville, VA show. -- nm - HdnAgnda Apr 20, 08:47 21
- Metric is opening for them on that date, it appears. - ty97 Apr 20, 08:55 15
  - I really need a co-worker to be on board with a road trip for this to happen. And I want it to happen. -- nm - HdnAgnda Apr 20, 08:56 4
    - If my work schedule were at all predictable, *I'd* make the road trip with you. - ty97 Apr 20, 09:02 3
      - Nope. Nothing odd to me. :) Tix go on sale this Friday IIRC. -- nm - HdnAgnda Apr 20, 09:14
      - You could even fly to Dulles/National if it were cheaper, its like a 2 hour drive -- nm - MDH Apr 20, 09:06 1
        
        And I betcha it is. Seriously, if you are so inclined, I can purchase a ticket in advance for you. -- nm - HdnAgnda Apr 20, 09:16
  - *continues to hope that Metric is on the local Lilith stop* - TFox Apr 20, 08:56 9
    - Lilith? -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 09:05 7
      - (it's going to rule.) -- nm - TFox Apr 20, 09:08 6
        
        It's a pretty impressive line-up. -- nm - ty97 Apr 20, 09:12 1
        
        It depends on who is at each stop, but if it ends up being something like Mary J/Clarkson/Loretta Lynn/McLaughlin/Corinne Bailey Rae... - TFox Apr 20, 09:14
        
        You are going to be like Garp attending his mother's funeral. -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 09:10
        
        Have you picked out your dress yet? -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 09:09 2
        
        like all the other womyn, he's going topless and not shaving his pits or legs -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 20, 09:14 1
        
        God bless the razor tasked with that endeavor. -- nm - TFox Apr 20, 09:14
    - they aren't. their news email says salt lake, denver, missouri, and minneapolis. -- nm - mafic Apr 20, 09:05
- Come let the revolution take it's toll. -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 08:50 3
  - Between this info that I just found out yesterday, Iron Maiden and Roger Waters, it is shaping up to be an unusual year of potential concert going. -- nm - HdnAgnda Apr 20, 08:53 2
    - Waters is touring? Nice. Saw him last go 'round. - Spawn Apr 20, 09:00 1
      - Yeah. He is doing The Wall in its entirety. Says it will definitely be political and tipping the hat towards current events. Apparently he even asked - HdnAgnda Apr 20, 09:12
- I'd like to check out a stadium show by them -- nm - ty97 Apr 20, 08:48
I was going to attend a Jays game when in Toronto, but they are on the road at that time. -- nm - ty97 Apr 20, 08:44
my response to the LIR poll ... I haven't touched anyone today. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:43 5
- *and the Divinyls earworm begins* -- nm - HdnAgnda Apr 20, 08:44
- Bad bus day? -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 08:43 2
  - Well, I meant, with my hands ... -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:45 1
    - If you meant a moon landing, however... -- nm - bery si Apr 20, 08:49
- (is it wednesday yet?) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:43
I need to run to the grocery before lunch to get sweet-n-sour sauce for my leftovers. What else will I end up buying? - oblique Apr 20, 08:43 4
- A day time hooker? (nm) - musubi Apr 20, 08:45
- an ipad -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 20, 08:44
- Cherry Coke Zero -- nm - ty97 Apr 20, 08:43
- Lunch. -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 08:43
In this day and age how do people not have an answering machine or voicemail? -- nm - sycor Apr 20, 08:42 18
- In this day and age, why do people still use physical answering machines? My voicemail emails my messages to my iPhone. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:44 15
  - no monthly fee and no password to remember? -- nm - zork Apr 20, 08:48 13
    - I suppose those are valid reasons. (And most answering machines have remote passwords, IIRC) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:50 12
      - few people using them (esp. *still* using them) access their messages remotely -- nm - zork Apr 20, 08:51
      - If anyone important wants us, they call our mobiles. -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 08:50 10
        
        Exactly. The fact that most people still have home phone lines (including me) is silly. :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:52 9
        
        With the Uverse package, it is pretty much free and includes long distance. I want it there for The Bub (soon). -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 09:01 1
        
        The "full" package for my digital phone has free long distance, but I barely ever use any long distance. - Beryllium Apr 20, 09:04
        
        not really. My wife works from home and has long conference calls, uses dial-up as a backup if the broadband connection is down, and their are extensi - zork Apr 20, 08:57 4
        
        I don't think dial-up would work on my phone line -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:57 3
        
        (And also, if the internet was out, so too would my phone line be :) ) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:58 2
        
        exactly, that's not much of a backup. -- nm - zork Apr 20, 08:58 1
        
        but since I don't technically own my iPhone, I'm not entirely comfortable ditching the home phone line -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:59
        
        I don't think I've had a home phone line since about 2001 -- nm - mafic Apr 20, 08:54
        
        (And, in my case, the old "it'll work in a power outage" doesn't apply. Sure, my digital phone modem has a UPS, but my cordless phone doesn't) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:52
  - We did until we switched to Uverse. We don't really get messages at home. -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 08:46
- By choice, man. By choice. -- nm - Kid hanging out at convenience store at night Apr 20, 08:43
- My grandma doesn't. -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 08:43
My Schatz came home from 3 days in the kennel and a bath with no apparent ill-effects. After her injury last summer, and a recent sensitivity to - MojaveMeg Apr 20, 08:42 2
- :) - kelly Apr 20, 08:52 1
  - I swear Schatz looks forward to it. She drags me to the door when we get there :) - MojaveMeg Apr 20, 08:58
Jack, re: Jays Attendence... Like Reagen said, it's clearly been identified as a rebuilding year, plus, it's hockey playoffs right now.... - Name Withheld By Request Apr 20, 08:42 6
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  - I would argue that at least 10% of the Jays typical attendance is comprised of casual sports fans. At this time of the year especially.... - Name Withheld By Request Apr 20, 09:05 1
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  - I think you're the first guy in history to underestimate hockey mania in Canada. -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 09:02 2
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    - *ding* -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 09:09
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- There is no reason to worry about the Marlins. At all. - musubi Apr 20, 08:56 1
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- Toronto will embrace the Jays again when they've got a shot at a winning season - Reagen Apr 20, 08:44 34
  - Yep, they ain't Cubs fans. - Will Hunting Apr 20, 08:57
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    - and I can't imagine that the Jays are attracting many people on road trips -- nm - zork Apr 20, 08:49 1
      - Nope. Traditionally one of three worst draws. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 20, 09:08
  - so when they leave the AL East? :) -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 08:45 29
    - you joke, but it's a possibility. - Reagen Apr 20, 08:46 28
      - I can't believe that a bigger deal isn't made about how patently unfair an unbalanced shedule is in baseball. (nm) - musubi Apr 20, 08:57 13
        
        C'mon...we like having 54 games vs 3 of the 6? best teams in baseball - Will Hunting Apr 20, 08:59 5
        
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        We play 18 games in division; 9? outside.... that's schedule imbalance - Will Hunting Apr 20, 09:02 3
        
        The imbalance i"m talking about could be 90% solved by getting rid of interleague play. - musubi Apr 20, 09:09 2
        
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        it's not like they have to take the train to travel and can really only play teams close to home -- nm - zork Apr 20, 09:14
        
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        I don't hear enough. I'm still pissed we start and end the season on the road in Boston. - Krusty Apr 20, 09:00 5
        
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        You're the CHAMPS! You shouldn't have to start on the road like that with that schedule. - Will Hunting Apr 20, 09:03 2
        
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        Yup. The banner should have been raised on the first day of the season not game seven of the season. - Krusty Apr 20, 09:05
        
        It should be simple, if you start the season on the road you end at home. - Krusty Apr 20, 09:03
      - I wasn't kidding...just made me smile -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 08:53
      - I really think the Red Sox and Yankees can't maintain their current paces without a stumble in the next couple of years. - Name Withheld By Request Apr 20, 08:49 12
        
        The Sox might not, but the Yankees can. Cashman now has control of the ship, and his pockets are *deep*. (nm) - musubi Apr 20, 08:58 1
        
        Yeah, they missed the playoffs once and he went out and spent 440mil on the best pitcher and hitter - Will Hunting Apr 20, 09:01
        
        Until you get a system where they can't just buy the top 3 free agents (ala New York last year), they shouldn't ever go more than 1 year stumbles - Will Hunting Apr 20, 08:50 8
        
        I'm one of the biggest opponents of a salary cap (in theory), but I see it looming on the horizon. - musubi Apr 20, 09:00 4
        
        I'm all for it given the nature of the disparities you see in the AL East - Will Hunting Apr 20, 09:05 3
        
        I'd much rather see a form of the Larry Bird Exemption in baseball though - Will Hunting Apr 20, 09:09 2
        
        I like it in theory, but I don't like the way it's been abused in the NBA for sign and trades. Rules need to be implemented to fix that. (nm) - musubi Apr 20, 09:11 1
        
        Yeah, modify as necessary. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 20, 09:12
        
        Yup. Too much money to buy young talent and established stars. - Krusty Apr 20, 08:57
        
        Riccardi screwed the Jays for about three years to come. -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 08:56 1
        
        Screw that asshat. -- nm - Shaun Apr 20, 08:59
        
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I consider the Pacers to be like the old Charlotte Hornets..... - Will Hunting Apr 20, 08:39 1
- you can count the competently ru basketball organizations on one hand...maybe 2 -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 08:41
The only organizations better at hiding profits than sports teams from Unions/Govt are movie companies from people with points -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 08:38 22
- According to Forbes, only 1 team in all MLB ran at an operating loss. You probably won't gues which team. (link) - musubi Apr 20, 08:43 11
  - And looky there; the Marlins have the largest operating profit in the game - Will Hunting Apr 20, 08:46 4
    - I'd suggest putting him into trash bags and dropping in the Gulf Stream. -- nm - Dexter Apr 20, 08:56 1
      - Probably a bad sign someone posts a "dump the body" post and the first 3 responses most charitable thing is he's a farce - Will Hunting Apr 20, 08:58
    - Loria is a farce. He's lucky he's got a good/creative GM that keeps them competitive on a shoestring. (nm) - musubi Apr 20, 08:50
    - Word to your IM. -- nm - Krusty Apr 20, 08:48
  - Makes a lot of sense given the economy, payroll and owner style. - Will Hunting Apr 20, 08:45 3
    - Also, they're also on the final years of a bunch of backloaded contracts (not to mention a couple albatross contracts). - musubi Apr 20, 08:49 2
      - Yeah, he seemed to know 140m isn't sustainable for them but he didn't care in the short-term if he could brighten Detroit's day last year/this. - Will Hunting Apr 20, 08:52 1
        
        Yeah, I assume they write it off as basically a loss leader for him. (nm) - musubi Apr 20, 08:55
  - I see two teams (one just under $0 and one way under), but yeah. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 20, 08:44 1
    - Whoops, yeah, your right, I missed one other team, because it was so close to even that I didn't see it. (nm) - musubi Apr 20, 08:46
- I don't buy that TV has anything to do with declining attendance at Jays games - Reagen Apr 20, 08:42 7
  - it was the same when cable starting becoming popular and lots of NFL games became available. Attendance at Argos game plummetted. Belive me, people .. - zork Apr 20, 08:47
  - It's just Toronto. They are a band wagon city (outside of the Leafs and a core Raptor/Jays/Argos audience) and will begin returning when the buzz.... - Name Withheld By Request Apr 20, 08:44 2
    - the Argos attendance seems to have almost nothing to do with their win-loss record. -- nm - zork Apr 20, 08:55
    - This sounds correct to me. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:48
  - Yeah, that's what makes archaic local blackout rules so infuriating. (nm) - musubi Apr 20, 08:44 1
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  - I agree, baseball is relatively cheap in TO compared to the Raptors (speaking of troubled teams) and Leafs -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 08:44
- We're dying here! How are we supposed to feed our families?! -- nm - New Line after LOTR Apr 20, 08:39 1
  - *ding* -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 08:41
Follow-up question: How long do you bake the potato wedges for? -- nm - ty97 Apr 20, 08:35 10
- Till they're as crispy as you want them -- nm - oblique Apr 20, 08:38
- Honestly, I don't usually time something like this. I go by how they look and what happens when I fork one. - Jim Apr 20, 08:36 1
  - seconds -- nm - idol Apr 20, 08:55
- until they stop feeling like apples when you poke them -- nm - zork Apr 20, 08:36
- Until they brown. -- nm - Ender Apr 20, 08:36
- (I was thinking 350 for 20 minutes?) -- nm - ty97 Apr 20, 08:35 4
  - I thinkwe do ours 400 for 20, flip after 10 (be sure to keep an eye on them) -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 08:36 1
    - 400 would probably be good for getting the outside golden delicious -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:40
  - Sounds ok. At 20mins, stick a fork in one of them. If it's soft, they are done. -- nm - Shaun Apr 20, 08:36 1
    - Yup. -- nm - Krusty Apr 20, 08:36
Mean work observation inside.... - Name Withheld By Request Apr 20, 08:35 3
- You want her. -- nm - HdnAgnda Apr 20, 08:49
- Just do your business and broom her quick. -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 08:38
- Not that I want to draw huge attention to it or anything....Whoops. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 20, 08:35

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