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Library users poll: Do you ever browse the shelves without looking for a particular book? And/or do you go to the shelf for a particular book and - mara Jul 13, 15:01 17
- of course -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 16:56
- Yes, and that's why I've seen just about every book ever written about... - OAE Jul 13, 15:09
- It's happened, but the section has to interest me. Such a social science, or Latin America - culture/politics. Things like that. -- nm - facto Jul 13, 15:06
- I did before I began buying books. Now I browse on line. -- nm - CovingtonCat Jul 13, 15:05
- I browse a lot even if I know what I'm looking for. -- nm - Krusty Jul 13, 15:04
- I always browse to find something. I might pick out a certain category, but it's always a browse -- nm - CQ Jul 13, 15:04 3
  - And it's successful, generally? Or successful enough to keep doing it. :-) -- nm - mara Jul 13, 15:04 2
    - yeah, it's successful most of the time. It's fun to me -- nm - CQ Jul 13, 15:05 1
      - Nice, thanks! -- nm - mara Jul 13, 15:05
- The first part: not really, but I should do this more. The second part: yes. - ty97 Jul 13, 15:03
- Proptem by this article is about browsing, or the lack of it, or the pointlessnes of it, in academic libraries. - mara Jul 13, 15:02
- I have to do the former because sadly our library isn't very well funded so new copies of things have ginormous waiting lists. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 15:02 4
  - Sub-poll: Do you generall go to the library for new books? Do you ever go for a particular topic (say, how to build a deck) and thus don't care if - mara Jul 13, 15:03 3
    - I do go for new books but never expect them to be in stock. - Krusty Jul 13, 15:13
    - I do have a lack of deck currently. I go when I'm in the mood for fiction typically horror or fantasy that's 5+ years out. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 15:07
    - I go for a mix. I normally look things up on-line on the catalog first. - ty97 Jul 13, 15:05
- I sometimes browse but I never get anything. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 13, 15:01
I wonder how much the ratings of local newscasts goes down when every commercial becomes a political ad? -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 14:59
Alejandro parody (NSFW) -- (link) - CovingtonCat Jul 13, 14:55 [youtube] 3
- That song sucks so badly (the original), that I can't fathom why it was ever released.. I've gotten the appeal of all her other songs. Why can't I get - facto Jul 13, 15:04 2
  - Yes, to your 2nd question. - CovingtonCat Jul 13, 15:08 1
    - I've felt the same, but it just feels to syrupy, like it never really takes flight.. La Isla on the other hand, is like cotton candy. But, perhaps - facto Jul 13, 15:11
Get your nerd freak on: How Microbes Defend and Define Us - the complexity, power, and sheer number of microbes -- (link) - facto Jul 13, 14:43
Ricky Steamboat still not doing well apparently. -- nm - Remlik Jul 13, 14:41 4
- Sorry, I missed this. What happened? -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 13, 14:45
- So why isnt the WWE and the Nexus guys getting real heat for this ? -- nm - eag Jul 13, 14:42 2
  - Becuase they're unrelated. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 13, 14:43 1
    - So the beating he took had nothing to do with his health issues ? - eag Jul 13, 14:45
In Treatment, anyone? A Psychiatrist's Prescription For His Profession (NPR article) -- (link) - facto Jul 13, 14:32
Heh. I just spoke to a local AAA agent about wedding insurance. - kelly Jul 13, 14:31 22
- should have said "I do" -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 16:57
- My insurance agent gave us million dollar coverage for the day. Ask about it. -- nm - Remlik Jul 13, 14:39
- I never knew it existed. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 13, 14:33
- Okay, I'll bite. What's wedding insurance? Do you get paid a lump sum if you get divorced? -- nm - David Jul 13, 14:33 16
  - No, in our case it's if the event can't happen due to outside evetns - Will Hunting Jul 13, 14:37 3
    - get the insurance and ask about the 1 day coverage. -- nm - Remlik Jul 13, 14:41 2
      - The office was *just* about to close, and the agent had no idea re: what was involved (he was reading to me from a brochure) - kelly Jul 13, 14:42
      - We already got that aspect covered...... - Will Hunting Jul 13, 14:42
  - *scurries off to pen that screenplay* -- nm - chuckles Jul 13, 14:35
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    - Is it called Dawson Insurance in your area? -- nm - David Jul 13, 14:36 2
      - That assumes any insurance broker would be foolhardy enough to cover the risk -- nm - Roger More Jul 13, 14:37 1
        
        Here he was being helpful and informative and he got hit not once but twice. -- nm - David Jul 13, 14:38
  - basically - kelly Jul 13, 14:34 5
    - It sucks that you guys have to worry about this. We did as well for my first wedding. - David Jul 13, 14:37
    - it sucks that you have to think about this, but Pippy is right -- nm - Roger More Jul 13, 14:37
    - your IM won't - the Wedding Gods will smile on you - Epiphany Jul 13, 14:35 2
      - Let's hope so... -- nm - kelly Jul 13, 14:47
      - what pippy says. She knows stuff. -- nm - Remlik Jul 13, 14:39
  - for the ceremony I believe -- nm - decline Jul 13, 14:33
- "It's called a prenuptual agreement." - musubi Jul 13, 14:32
- for the ceremony or the marriage? -- nm - chuckles Jul 13, 14:32
Hey, Max is right about something. Carriers is pretty good. -- nm - David Jul 13, 14:26 5
- it is good - Crazies is shockingly good as well -- nm - Epiphany Jul 13, 14:34 3
  - Crazies is like Perfect Getaway in that it was so much better than I had expected. -- nm - David Jul 13, 14:39 2
    - hm, maybe i'll watch crazies. have you seen the romero one?....nm - x Jul 13, 14:42 1
      - I had not. I wasn't even that familiar with it. I know that Romero has said awareness was always an uphill battle for it. -- nm - David Jul 13, 14:47
- that seems improbable -- nm - chuckles Jul 13, 14:29
holy ef, Breaking Bad is so good. - Gwaahjo Jul 13, 14:19
The Army issued a comic book in 2001 designed to help rat out homosexuals in the ranks. - TWuG Jul 13, 14:19 5
- Here's the full comic, if you are interested. -- (link) - TWuG Jul 13, 14:39
- Without clicking the link, did Jack Chick write it? -- nm - Roger More Jul 13, 14:35
- Good to know our national defense priorities were in the right place in 2001. -- nm - ty97 Jul 13, 14:25
- ugh. -- nm - Remlik Jul 13, 14:20
- "Batman and Robin: Kandahar Bound" -- nm - chuckles Jul 13, 14:19
50 Days Until DragonCon!!! -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 14:15
Last call for August Book Club votes. Voting ends 10pm ET tonight -- (link) - ty97 Jul 13, 14:12 3
- that cave book looks kickass....nm - x Jul 13, 14:18 1
  - you could find a cozy one and hole up there until the rest of us kill each other off - chuckles Jul 13, 14:30
- darn - Danedukenuuk Jul 13, 14:14
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- Such a sad day. :-( First day I've felt well in two weeks and the news today has ruined it. -- nm - Krusty Jul 13, 14:33 5
  - Steinbrenner... ?? -- nm - facto Jul 13, 14:35 4
    - Yeah. - Krusty Jul 13, 14:40 3
      - Now that you put it that way.. Besides, he wasn't any Mel-level maniac, either, was he -- nm - facto Jul 13, 14:46 2
        
        He did a lot of shady s**t back in the day. He was involved with Watergate in some way and he paid a private eye to follow Winfield around - Krusty Jul 13, 14:54 1
        
        Bill Madden's book, by any chance? -- nm - facto Jul 13, 15:09
- You were going to suggest znu appear as Black Unicorn in the Avengers movie -- nm - Roger More Jul 13, 14:33
- your credit card # and expiration date -- nm - chuckles Jul 13, 14:11 1
  - Oh and your billing zip code and that three digit number on the back. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 14:14
- hmm, you're seven hours early for *hump* - ty97 Jul 13, 14:11
your timewaster of the day - Swerveball -- (link) - tRuMaN Jul 13, 14:08
new York St'er's in the acting biz....The Avengers Movie will be shooting in Manhattan & will need tons of extras.... -- (link) - Remlik Jul 13, 14:04
I guess I'm just thankful it didn't become a MFK. - TWuG Jul 13, 14:03 3
- I hope so.It's the cliente that always gives me pause.... - Remlik Jul 13, 14:05 2
  - They've dealt with the occassional unhinged fanboy in the past. I doubt it'll present a problem for them. -- nm - TWuG Jul 13, 14:15 1
    - that's cool. We always need more women in the industry. -- nm - Remlik Jul 13, 14:30
@ebertchicago: New today on DVD: "Greenberg." never knew who Ben Stiller was born to play, but now I do. -- nm - nubby Jul 13, 14:03
Follow-up from B2 feedback on the column I was asked to write.... - Walt_Disney Jul 13, 14:02 2
- But what does that have to do with you pay them $35 to proofread? -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 13, 14:05
- I still call shenanigans. -- nm - TFox Jul 13, 14:04
NYC no longer America's least "manly" city... -- (link) - znufrii Jul 13, 14:01 2
- Krust's relocation plan is on track? :) -- nm - ty97 Jul 13, 14:01 1
  - Are you questioning my manhood? - Krusty Jul 13, 14:32
sycor around? There was a free Andriod ringtone app that was mentioned when I first got my phone. Anyone know of a good one? - JaxSean Jul 13, 13:58
I don't know why, but it bothers me that Eli scored 11 points higher on the Wunderlich than Peyton. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jul 13, 13:55 1
- He used notes from Peyton to cheat. -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 13, 13:56
Mercedes from GLEE is singing the national anthem tonight at the all-star game? -- (link) - oblique Jul 13, 13:55 1
- this time it counts -- nm - chuckles Jul 13, 14:09
UFC tickets are *expensive*. -- nm - TFox Jul 13, 13:53 5
- I don't care if a wrestler is swing a chair at your head - STAY OFF THE SEATS!! -- nm - Epiphany Jul 13, 13:57 4
  - too soon to joke about this? -- nm - Epiphany Jul 13, 14:17 3
    - Is there such a thing as "too soon" with TFox? I bet he was on the phone five minutes after snapsite. -- nm - Roger More Jul 13, 15:04 1
      - "Dude, dude...my dick has purple ring around it. You should come over and check it out, yo." -- nm - Tfox SI Jul 13, 15:05
    - I think TFox would prefer this to the way he actually hurt himself. - Mel Profit Jul 13, 15:00
Facto, I call it soccer because when you say football here it means Gaelic Football. Australians call it soccer, because there football means Aussie - Loyola Jul 13, 13:50 6
- The John Cleese rant is still great, though :-) -- nm - facto Jul 13, 14:25
- you can all you'r baby what you want -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 13, 13:53
- Ironically, the English coined the term "soccer." -- nm - mara Jul 13, 13:53 3
  - association football -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 13, 13:54 2
    - "Near the end of 1863, Charles Wreford-Brown, who later became a notable official of the Football Association, was asked by some friends at Oxford whe - mara Jul 13, 13:59 1
      - I've had plans to check the wikipedia article for weeks, but kept forgetting. Now I don't have to, it seems. -- nm - facto Jul 13, 14:24
I have this vision of Jax counting out almonds ... getting interrupted ... and having to start counting all over again. -- nm - JenBro Jul 13, 13:50 1
- I had to start counting them or else I'd just sit there eating handful after handful. (which I did one day not paying attention.) -- nm - JaxSean Jul 13, 13:55
While I like Comic Book Guy: The Comic Book as a title, I would have suggested... - David Jul 13, 13:48 2
- Worst. Comic. EVER. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 13:48 1
  - It's CBG Leverage! -- nm - David Jul 13, 13:50
DDP no longer has the hot chick (Kimberly...though Fyre was my favorite), Perry Saturn had a strange life after wrestling.... - Remlik Jul 13, 13:46 7
- "...after a brief relationship with a Vileda Supermop -- nm - TFox Jul 13, 13:48 6
  - Imagine how much old news Supermop could post! -- nm - David Jul 13, 13:50 1
    - with New York Times links! -- nm - Remlik Jul 13, 13:51
  - MOPPPY! someone having fun on the wiki page. -- nm - Remlik Jul 13, 13:49
  - ^^^ is that a human, or an object? -- nm - TFox Jul 13, 13:48 2
    - yes -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 13, 13:50
    - Feels like a wiki-prank. Remember, he did a run where he had Moppy on RAW. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jul 13, 13:49
Chicago considers congestion pricing -- (link) - ty97 Jul 13, 13:44 4
- distasteful -- nm - Epiphany Jul 13, 13:56 1
  - I don't know if this stuff is a good idea or bad idea, but something has to give with that traffic. - ty97 Jul 13, 13:58
- *still pissed at Sheldon Silver, et al. for sinking the idea here* -- nm - znufrii Jul 13, 13:46
- *hate* -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 13, 13:45
At least for right now I have the high score on Bejeweled Blitz - amoxy Jul 13, 13:43 9
- where is this, facebook? -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 13, 14:12
- Gone! -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 13, 13:51 5
  - It is? - kelly Jul 13, 13:56 1
    - No, you'd beaten him by the time I got there. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 13, 13:58
  - yer a dirty dog -- nm - crash davis Jul 13, 13:52 2
    - PS, you got trade mail. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 13, 13:58
    - It was her! -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 13, 13:58
- and if you are worried about Will beating it, we could start a statistical argument on baseball that causes him to do a lot of research... -- nm - crash davis Jul 13, 13:51
- congrats -- nm - crash davis Jul 13, 13:49
I'm surprised that you've never been told before that you're lovely and you're perfect and that somebody wants you. -- nm - David Jul 13, 13:43 1
- sidenote: If you give it all away, everybody wants you. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 13:47
Must be a huge jar. Got an e-mail from the university: Hazardous Material Incident - Contained, with limited evacuation. Tissue preservation - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 13, 13:41 7
- The Thing - chuckles Jul 13, 13:53 1
  - It's clobberin' time? -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 13, 13:57
- Kinda surprised you are surprised. -- nm - Black Rabbit Jul 13, 13:49 1
  - Don't worry - it says INflammable -- nm - Dr. Bond si Jul 13, 13:57
- formalin, ethanol, etc. -- depending on where they were dropped, could be kaboom hazards, too. -- nm - b. Jul 13, 13:45 1
  - here's a msds for formalin, as an example - nm but: -- (link) - b. Jul 13, 13:48
- I think they aren't supposed to go airborne, due to their ability to cause cancer or something. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 13:43
Some people are just warped -- (link) - amoxy Jul 13, 13:40 1
- EuroTrip 2! -- nm - JaxSean Jul 13, 13:44
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Jul 13, 13:39 1
- mooz mooz -- nm - yxoma Jul 13, 13:41

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