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MLB Factoid: At least once in the last five seasons, each of the five NL West teams have appeared in the playoffs. - musubi Oct 5, 14:38
Avatar Extended Collector�s Edition DVD and Blu-ray details for the November 16th release. -- (link) - Qale Oct 5, 14:24 4
- Maybe the Avatar tattoo guy (up to 6 now) will get an idea for a new one. -- nm - sycor Oct 5, 14:33
- I saw Avatar once in the theaters, I have no desire to see it again -- nm - amoxy (4-0 in Cavemen) Oct 5, 14:30 1
  - I'm looking forward to immersing myself in the making of docs much like the LotR and PotC trilogies. -- nm - Qale Oct 5, 14:33
- Looks like I finally need a Blu-ray player. -- nm - Qale Oct 5, 14:28
And suddenly Zombie John Lennon becomes a viable Halloween costume. -- (link) - pmb Oct 5, 14:23
Wait! Where are you going? I was going to make espresso... -- (link) - amoxy (4-0 in Cavemen) Oct 5, 14:21 [youtube] 1
- sigh, your team is the only thing between me and 1st place in Cavemen. - tRuMaN Oct 5, 14:26
Calling it like it is: Wiki's current events page has a section called "Armed conflicts and attacks" -- (link) - con_carne Oct 5, 14:21 1
- Heh. I thought you meant the ST wiki. That might make for an entertaining page. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 5, 14:23
Not sure I like that the forecast has dropped 8 degrees for Saturday since the last time I checked. - Will Hunting Oct 5, 14:16 3
- do you have any winter clothing with you? -- nm - peglegpete Oct 5, 14:18 2
  - Lord no.....it'll be fall-chilly instead of wintry - Will Hunting Oct 5, 14:25 1
    - sunny and cool is the best weather in NE. -- nm - loosilu Oct 5, 14:26
Left 4 Dead 2 is currently $6.79 on Steam. L4D1+L4D2 = $10.19 ... and L4D2 is available for the Mac now -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 14:10 1
- although I'm hearing that L4D2 for Mac requires 10.6.4 and ditches support for X1600 graphics ... - Beryllium Oct 5, 14:14
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- c. take pictures, sell them to tabloid magazines. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 5, 14:27
- send Hannity and Ed Schultz overboard to assist -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 5, 14:19 3
  - Can we get O'Reilly and Maddow too? -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 5, 14:26 2
    - I debated Maddow but was under the impression she was one of the more level-headed of the pundit class. - Dr.Vermin Oct 5, 14:31 1
      - Well, we gotta be fair and balanced here. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 5, 14:46
- *cut my finger and drip blood over the side* - Will Hunting Oct 5, 14:08
- Nuke it from orbit -- nm - amoxy (4-0 in Cavemen) Oct 5, 14:06
- c) throw it between them and start filming. -- nm - loosilu Oct 5, 14:05
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Newt Gingrich urges GOP to argue against Food Stamps in this years election -- (link) - amoxy (4-0 in Cavemen) Oct 5, 14:00 4
- "Shall we continue to build palace after palace for the rich, or shall we ascribe to a more noble purpose and build decent housing for the poor?" - znufrii Oct 5, 14:09
- I'm not against an adjustment of the program to make sure they're used for nutritional food items and going to the right people. But not axing it. -- nm - Qale Oct 5, 14:03 2
  - That seems to be closer to Newt's actual suggestion. -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Oct 5, 14:22
  - He's not suggesting it be axed though. It's about defining Republicans as job creators and Democrats as spending your tax dollars -- nm - Roger More Oct 5, 14:20
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- The description of the modern West Wing schedule in the current New York Magazine is insane. -- nm - Max Oct 5, 14:18
- And half black too! (nm) - Political correctness gone wrong Oct 5, 13:59
- Presidentin' is hard -- nm - znufrii Oct 5, 13:59
Poll: Majority now favor marijuana legalization in CA Prop 19 -- (link) - con_carne Oct 5, 13:58 2
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  - Yeah, I misread the news -- nm - con_carne Oct 5, 14:01
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- No, they're not. - nubby Oct 5, 14:26 2
  - In your face, ML! (nm) - musubi Oct 5, 14:29
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- sales dropped 11% since they were introduced... -- nm - Beaker Oct 5, 14:20 2
  - *wow*. That's startling. Especially since I really liked the commercials for 'em . -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 5, 14:23 1
    - I like the sunchips, but those bags were nuts -- nm - amoxy (4-0 in Cavemen) Oct 5, 14:25
- WHAT? -- nm - loosilu Oct 5, 14:01
- Mop is still right to hate you. (nm) - musubi Oct 5, 13:56 1
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Just got my first Google Voice call! - Mop (222 lbs) Oct 5, 13:53 2
- Phones are dead! -- nm - FoxtoFail Oct 5, 13:55 1
  - Settle down, zippy. You're trying too hard. -- nm - Mop (222 lbs) Oct 5, 14:04
A decent table comparing the content available on Google TV vs. Roku vs. Apple TV, etc. -- (link) - oblique Oct 5, 13:40 2 1
- iTunes Store FTW! -- nm - Steve Jobs Oct 5, 14:08
- Heh, I had to comment on the "X"s. nice matrix, but I wonder if the boxes will be useful in Canada with so many content restrictions? - Beryllium Oct 5, 13:46
Man, ADT really *are* dicks. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 5, 13:37 2
- This reminds me, the other day I was at home with mooselette sick, and a guy came to my door trying to sell an ADT subscription. - musubi Oct 5, 14:02
- though the ingenuity in this hack is clever -- nm - crash davis Oct 5, 13:44
I watched L&O: UK last night, It gets a season pass. -- nm - crash davis Oct 5, 13:33 2
- already from ep. 1, it's interesting thinking of our laws, and how sometimes that is not enuf in the UK to prosecute - peglegpete Oct 5, 13:35 1
  - I like the way they can be simultaneously politer and ruder -- nm - crash davis Oct 5, 13:45
Mop, I would use this sticker -- (link) - oblique Oct 5, 13:33
don't see that everyday - Mayor of Ottawa (Canada's capital) admits that his first two years on the job were a "disaster." -- (link) - Andie Oct 5, 13:28 2
- I thought we lived in Canada's capital? -- nm - Roger More Oct 5, 13:49 1
  - We live in the centre of the universe. It's different. -- nm - Andie Oct 5, 13:54
Tripadvisor presents the 2010 Dirtiest Hotels -- (link) - ty97 Oct 5, 13:24 2
- Frank Frazetta is dead. no reason for anyone to go to #5 ever again. -- nm - peglegpete Oct 5, 13:33
- Yikes. I clicked on one of them; some of the reviews make it seem worse than hell. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 5, 13:29
LIR - Ceregon - I'm a couple of miles up the road from Costa Mesa. CY's about the same. Budice is somewhere in the county, and - MojaveMeg Oct 5, 13:20 4
- BAD, I knew I was forgetting someone... Hope he doesn't hate me. :) -- nm - con_carne Oct 5, 13:44
- Not sure if I'd be able to get away, there's always stupid evening stuff scheduled and a couple coworkers are going so I can't just bail. -- nm - ceregon Oct 5, 13:35 2
  - You have to eat sometime - and we promise to be discrete in front of your co-workers ;) -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 5, 13:41 1
    - They are weird faculty types, if I didn't have to go to the stupid banquet and get an award, there's no way I'd eat with these people. -- nm - ceregon Oct 5, 13:46
nobel prize in physics goes to discovery of thinnest material ever -- (link) - Reagen Oct 5, 13:20 16
- That guy also won an Ig Noble a few years back for his work levitating a frog with a magnet. -- nm - TWuG Oct 5, 13:41 4
  - Step 1: get frog to eat a magnet - znufrii Oct 5, 13:44 3
    - Did the frog eat the magnet? I thought they just used a superpowerful electromagnet to hijack the frog's natural iron content. - Beryllium Oct 5, 13:47 2
      - Here's the frog: -- (link) - TWuG Oct 5, 13:57
      - *shrug* - znufrii Oct 5, 13:49
- "Wouldn't it be great if they made a 3D movie about these guys?" is the winning comment -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 13:26
- Hey, thin's my middle name. -- nm - Det. Roger Murtaugh Oct 5, 13:25
- loosi's skin? -nm - FoxtoFail Oct 5, 13:21 7
  - Okay, I laughed. -- nm - nubby Oct 5, 13:34
  - nice. -- nm - znufrii Oct 5, 13:26
  - *cries* - loosilu Oct 5, 13:25
  - Today's winner of Internet volleyball... -- nm - Reagen Oct 5, 13:25 2
    - it was a team effort. -- nm - FoxtoFail Oct 5, 13:37 1
      - Exactly. (nm) - musubi Oct 5, 13:47
  - heh. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 5, 13:25
- Kate Moss? -- nm - Dano Oct 5, 13:21
holy crap! mara will love this. Elephant orphanage! -- (link) - ty97 Oct 5, 13:18 3
- my brother and parents went to one in Kenya. Loved it. -- nm - Andie Oct 5, 13:20 2
  - There's the possibility I'll take a weekend in Colombo while working in India. I'd love to get out to the orphange -- nm - ty97 Oct 5, 13:23 1
    - awesome. -- nm - Andie Oct 5, 13:26
Please help me find stickers (not signs) to put on a door that say the room is monitored by a webcam (not CC and not security cam). Thanks! - Mop (222 lbs) Oct 5, 13:16 12
- There are post its now that have the glue all over the back. -- nm - lileve Oct 5, 13:35 1
  - But you'd have to hand-write it. -- nm - mara Oct 5, 13:36
- how does monitored by a webcam != is under surveillance - decline Oct 5, 13:19 7
  - maybe nobody is watching the webcam feed? -- nm - znufrii Oct 5, 13:29
  - Wikipedia says that surveillance is... - Mop (222 lbs) Oct 5, 13:29 4
    - so it is surveillance. -- nm - FoxtoFail Oct 5, 13:30 3
      - no, its monitoring -- nm - Broom Oct 5, 13:31 2
        
        "This room is checking you out." -- nm - Max Oct 5, 13:33 1
        
        "We would explain why what is happening in this room isn't surveillance, but they don't make stickers that big. So, just, watch out." -- nm - FoxtoFail Oct 5, 13:37
  - Dictionary.com says that surveillance is... - Mop (222 lbs) Oct 5, 13:28
- I'll bet you could have created one by now in paint.net and printed it on a sticker -- nm - oblique Oct 5, 13:17 1
  - Microsoft Office + Avery Labels -- nm - Andie Oct 5, 13:19
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- I hated having to fire people. worst part of being a manager. -- nm - znufrii Oct 5, 13:16
- how much did that cost? nm -- nm - groiny Oct 5, 13:15
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  - but training people over and over gets old. -- nm - Remlik Oct 5, 13:20
well then screw you Groiny! - Remlik Oct 5, 13:13
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- that Robin costume is just wrong -- nm - crash davis Oct 5, 13:25
- The grunge description is hilarious. -- nm - FoxtoFail Oct 5, 13:15
dude! -- nm - ty97, who lives in Chicago Oct 5, 13:13 3
- I got the feeling you mostly lived out of a suitcase :) -- nm - crash davis Oct 5, 13:13 2
  - this :) -- nm - oblique Oct 5, 13:16 1
    - you use me for sexual favors and then forget about me? -- nm - ty97 Oct 5, 13:19
A visual representation of who's suing who in the mobile business... -- (link) - Don Homer Oct 5, 13:12 2
- the shocking thing is that no one's suing Microsoft. -- nm - Reagen Oct 5, 13:26
- This is what happens when Mutual Assured Destruction fails. -- nm - Mop (222 lbs) Oct 5, 13:23
What I learned on B2: Will Hunting is pre-zombie -- nm - oblique Oct 5, 13:10 6
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  - I get the feeling that she already wants to crack open skulls, but not so much with the feasting -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 13:15 1
    - does it cure headaches? -- nm - kelly si Oct 5, 13:16
- word that is kind of odd. - Epiphany Oct 5, 13:14 1
  - Oh, I fully understand it wasn't normal. - Will Hunting Oct 5, 13:17
- he prefers the term "proto-zombo sapiens" -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 13:13
Groiny, good luck in the position. Sounds like a great one -- nm - amoxy (4-0 in Cavemen) Oct 5, 13:09 11
- You forgot the "Will Hunting SI" -- nm - oblique Oct 5, 13:10 9
  - see! other people think Will has an opinion on groiny's positions -- nm - crash davis Oct 5, 13:11 8
    - But Kilbo's only saying that to throw us off the track that him and limpy might be carpooling soon. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 5, 13:13 7
      - We may cross paths somewhere on the commute but we are moving in opposite directions entirely -- nm - oblique Oct 5, 13:16
      - they could fight over whether to listen to a pro-Cubs or a pro-White Sox radio station -- nm - crash davis Oct 5, 13:15 4
        
        They can reminisce over the 1 world title in the city in the last 200 chances. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 5, 13:19 2
        
        unfortunately, that is 1 more than Seattle -- nm - crash davis Oct 5, 13:21 1
        
        With 150 more chances! -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 5, 13:26
        
        there are no pro Cubs radio stations here. - groiny Oct 5, 13:16
      - did you remember to set aside a row of seats at the wedding.... - groiny Oct 5, 13:14
- yes - this. sorry I did not mean to sound all negative nelly - go for it dude! -- nm - Epiphany Oct 5, 13:10
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- It's OK Mysun -- nm - amoxy (4-0 in Cavemen) Oct 5, 13:10
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- 10 bucks for second place in a beauty contest would make anyone smile -- nm - crash davis Oct 5, 13:14
Booyah! -- nm - Qale Oct 5, 13:08 1
- Do'h! -- nm - Qale Oct 5, 13:08
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Oct 5, 13:08

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