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wap? the chilean miner wasn't the only celeb. to run the nyc marathon - among others, ethan zohn and ryan sutter (hi, dano) did. nm but: -- (link) - b. Nov 8, 14:33 1
- They mentioned Meredith Viera and Al ROker, but missed Bobby Flay. -- nm - loosilu Nov 8, 14:34
heh, activists plan on moving Dubya's new biography to the crime section of bookstores -- nm - sneezy cat Nov 8, 14:28 3
- stretching the definition of "activist" there a bit. -- nm - TFox Nov 8, 14:31
- from science fiction? -- nm - peglegpete Nov 8, 14:29 1
  - juvenile -- nm - sneezy cat Nov 8, 14:30
Programming alert: Conan. Tonight. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Nov 8, 14:21 2
- is this the 1st one ever? on this network? time please -- nm - Epiphany Nov 8, 14:31
- and Amber Tamblin joins House -- nm - peglegpete Nov 8, 14:27
STIS: I am planning on making Christmas cookies as part of my gift to others this year. Included in the list of recipients is my brother's (Jewish) - kelly Nov 8, 14:18 23
- some kind of donut cookies. :) - - b. Nov 8, 14:32
- macaroons -- nm - con_carne Nov 8, 14:28 1
  - also yummy. -- nm - znufrii Nov 8, 14:31
- just make them in the shapes of the letters "J", "E", and "W". done and done. -- nm - TFox Nov 8, 14:22 2
  - *Laughs* -- nm - MDH Nov 8, 14:33
  - *laughing* or just have a sign hanging up that says Happy Christmas, but with a big red marker through Christmas and Holidays written under it. -- nm - Loyola Nov 8, 14:33
- no kosher problems, unless you put pork or shellfish in them. look for dradle or mennorah shaped cookie cutters -- nm - peglegpete Nov 8, 14:21 3
  - no cheeseburgers either -- nm - Roger More Nov 8, 14:24
  - that depends how kosher you mean, right? I have some jewish friends who would not eat cookies baked in a nonkosher kitchen. -- nm - loosilu Nov 8, 14:22 1
    - agreed. -- nm - peglegpete Nov 8, 14:23
- 1. Rugelach 2. Find out if she keeps kosher. -- nm - Diva Nov 8, 14:19 12
  - I've made these and they are frickin' awesome. I can send a recipe when I get home if you want. -- nm - zork Nov 8, 14:30
  - yes, and yes -- nm - znufrii Nov 8, 14:23
  - or Hamentaschen (sp). -- nm - loosilu Nov 8, 14:22 9
    - wrong holiday. those are for Purim, in the spring -- nm - peglegpete Nov 8, 14:24 8
      - someone should totally be shunned if they make 'em for chanukah. shunned right into sending them to me. -- nm - b. Nov 8, 14:35
      - didn't know! -- nm - loosilu Nov 8, 14:24 6
        
        They're obviously named for Haman - so it's clearly about Purim - Roger More Nov 8, 14:26 3
        
        silly me. -- nm - loosilu Nov 8, 14:28 1
        
        I know. I don't know how you could miss that. It's a serious lapse. -- nm - Roger More Nov 8, 14:31
        
        *obviously* -- nm - Reagen Nov 8, 14:27
        
        it's in the Book of Ester -- nm - peglegpete Nov 8, 14:26 1
        
        if my memory is right -- nm - peglegpete Nov 8, 14:26
Has anyone with a PS3 or PC tried DCU Online? -- (link) - Beaker Nov 8, 14:16
Pitcher Brad Penny is engaged to Karina Smirnoff (DWTS). He has dated Alyssa Milano and Eliza Dushku in the past. - Diva Nov 8, 14:16 2
- Based on what I know about DWTS dancers, they're easy. - Will Hunting Nov 8, 14:20
- yes his bank account is quite endowed... -- nm - Beaker Nov 8, 14:17
Popular this month at LibraryThing - ty97 Nov 8, 14:12
Reach daily challenges are super easy today - J Nov 8, 14:10 6
- whats the weekly challenge? -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 8, 14:12 5
  - 70 sniper kills on Nightfall on Heroic. - David Nov 8, 14:13 4
    - ok, so like maybe 30 mins to get all the challenges? -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 8, 14:14 3
      - I don't do the firefight stuff (though I'm trying one for the hell of it right now), but not even that for the other three. -- nm - David Nov 8, 14:24
      - i'd say a bit more than that... -- nm - J Nov 8, 14:15 1
        
        only if your name is spawn, or crash davis. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 8, 14:23
Mind you, it would be refreshing if someone had a crystal ball with regards to housing prices. - ty97 Nov 8, 14:08 4
- Zillow has told me in conversations that they do not expect a rebound for two years at least. - Kim Pine Nov 8, 14:37
- well the % of mortgages in 30/60/90 delinquency is still farily high, no? (hyde would know the answer) - sneezy cat Nov 8, 14:16
- I would be able to give you a decisive answer if the government would just deregulate the crystal ball industry. - Max Nov 8, 14:10 1
  - i hear you can get some on the "market" from canadian, but they require you to speak a strange language. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 8, 14:11
5 year old with leukemia...parents on verge of financial disater, kid loves to draw monsters...Aunt puts pictures up for sale on Esty...raises $30,000 -- (link) - Remlik Nov 8, 14:06 5
- man, it is dusty in my office. -- nm - loosilu Nov 8, 14:15 3
  - here is the MSNBC story.... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 8, 14:23 1
    - which I just read...Tyler Mane (Sabretooth in X-men and Micheal Myers in new Halloween) got in contact with them.... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 8, 14:25
  - You're a chick...you can admit you cried. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 8, 14:16
- See? Who needs universal health care? -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Nov 8, 14:08
The Pats and Jets are both 6-2, but the Jets hold the current tie-breaker due to their first head-to-head victory. Who you have winning the division? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 8, 14:02 2
- Buffalo. it's gonna be *crazy* -- nm - sneezy cat Nov 8, 14:05
- PS: I'm assuming their MNF matchup in early December will likely decide it. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 8, 14:03
if this is wrong, i dont want to be right. take two gummi bears, mash them together while making odd and strange noises, and then savagely - tRuMaN Nov 8, 14:00 6 1
- "yet I feel strangely attracted to you." "Of course you do. Druish bears are often attracted to money, and power, and I have BOTH, and you KNOW it." -- nm - Max Nov 8, 14:07
- I usually decapitate them with my teeth while screaming, "oh no!" in a baby bear voice. -- nm - CQ Nov 8, 14:02 1
  - I usually make the white ones lord over all the other ones, as they work to build a small pyramid of some kind -- nm - con_carne Nov 8, 14:03
- I'm pretty sure this is symptomatic of a psychotic break. -- nm - loosilu Nov 8, 14:01 1
  - hmm, but really, its tRuMaN, who could tell? -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 8, 14:07
- Are you trying to outcrazy your boss? -- nm - amoxy Nov 8, 14:01
Widespread fraud makes the extinction of the bluefin tuna nearly inevitable. -- (link) - mara Nov 8, 13:56 3
- International Conspiracy to Catch All Tuna -- nm - Roger More Nov 8, 14:19
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- those god damned hipsters need their effin trendy sushi. -- nm - CQ Nov 8, 13:59
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Sweet. WFMU has an app, so I can listen at work. - Kim Pine Nov 8, 13:54 1
- i always liked catching them when i was driving in and out of NYC -- nm - sneezy cat Nov 8, 13:59
Excel question - znufrii Nov 8, 13:53 6
- yes, you can do the row. apply the condition to the whole row, but make an absolute reference to the cell you want. - loosilu Nov 8, 13:58
- you need to use the formula is option. -- nm - TFox Nov 8, 13:58
- In 2007 you can. Just highlight the column, and make your statement relational to the first cell (or 2nd if there's headers). -- nm - JaxSean Nov 8, 13:55 3
  - this is 2003 -- nm - znufrii Nov 8, 13:56 2
    - It's the same. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 8, 13:58
    - What do I look like, a time-traveling Excel master? -- nm - JaxSean si Nov 8, 13:57
Would anyone happen to know of a website where it can test your computer and tell you what sort of graphics card would suit your computer best? -- nm - Loyola Nov 8, 13:51 2
- that's pretty subjective. there are ones that will tell you what you have now and other statistics. you have to then compare that to the card you are - zork Nov 8, 13:58 1
  - Thanks I'll google those I guess. I wish I could go into a computer shop and say I have such and such a model computer, give me a video card that's - Loyola Nov 8, 14:36
new villian for the Leverage crew....Goran Visnjic from ER.... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 8, 13:50 6
- yes - yes - more, more! -- nm - Epiphany Nov 8, 14:34
- oh, hello. -- nm - loosilu Nov 8, 13:54
- can he kill Clooney's italian girlfriend? - sneezy cat Nov 8, 13:52 3
  - You have never ever ever been more correct than you are right now. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 8, 13:55 2
    - maybe they can just write out her voice box somehow. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 13:56 1
      - Nah, she's such a terrible actress that it'd just be too plainly obvious why they're keeping her. - Will Hunting Nov 8, 13:58
We must have mice in our house. The past two days, our cats have been stalking the registers. -- nm - Reagen Nov 8, 13:50 2
- have you received any unusual packages from the Acme Corp. recently? -- nm - sneezy cat Nov 8, 13:53
- or they've been assigned to figure out how to shut them down, pass that along to the higher ups in Al-Cata so it can be used later in a plot to freeze - Mel Profit Nov 8, 13:52
dano had hero almost since i started law school -- nm - sneezy cat Nov 8, 13:49 1
- and almost as long as the Orioles have been out of the postseason -- nm - sneezy cat Nov 8, 13:51
Jax re the 5k look below Zork's post below (I must have mis-posted). -- nm - pmb Nov 8, 13:49
Kr�d M�ndoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire on Netflix Streaming now. - nm - JaxSean Nov 8, 13:42
The Game You Can't Stop -- (link) - mara Nov 8, 13:40 5
- 450 is my best score -- nm - amoxy Nov 8, 13:54 1
  - 960 -- nm - mara Nov 8, 14:19
- I stopped. After my second round. 150 points. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 13:46 2
  - I stopped in round 1. Not a very fun game. -- nm - Spawn Nov 8, 13:55
  - You CAN'T STOP!!! -- nm - JaxSean Nov 8, 13:47
typo of the day at work: from a lease i'm reviewing "Resplendent Day Spay" - sneezy cat Nov 8, 13:37
re: Kat Dennings. I saw her at TIFF last year and she snuck past everyone and into her car without anyone (else) noticing ... - zork Nov 8, 13:34 6
- Jax, from B2, the 5k was fun, but it was really overcrowded. There were too many people who were not runners (like me) in the race clogging things up - pmb Nov 8, 13:47 5
  - i guess they didn't do 'corrals' with the fastest people at the front and slowest at the back and various in between? they've started doing that for - Elf Andie Nov 8, 13:50 3
    - pmb's original post said there were only a few thousand the 1st year, and this (3rd) year there were 30,000. Sounds like it grew too quickly. - JaxSean Nov 8, 13:54 2
      - (heh, the picture of the starting line of the Gate River Run makes me nervous.) -- (link) - JaxSean Nov 8, 13:57
      - oh, wow. yeah, that would do it! -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 8, 13:56
  - Not sure why this wound up here. -- nm - pmb Nov 8, 13:48
Hmmm .. I think this will be a good post-townhouse upgrade. -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 8, 13:34
For those who care, YouTube is presently streaming James Blunt live. -- (link) - Mop (219 lbs) Nov 8, 13:30 [youtube]
The Mad Men clip on B2 deserves meme status. Filmed in one take. Brian Williams daughter. Pitch perfect music mash-up. It's all kinds of perfect. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Nov 8, 13:29 6
- That was great. -- nm - HdnAgnda Nov 8, 13:45
- How would it be a meme? -- nm - Reagen Nov 8, 13:32 3
  - Well, certainly not by *saying* it's going to be a meme, I would think -- nm - con_carne Nov 8, 13:45 1
    - stop trying to make "fetch" happen -- nm - zork Nov 8, 13:48
  - In my pants. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 13:34
- yep it's terrific. -- nm - Remlik Nov 8, 13:31
condolences to Dano and NWBR -- nm - zork Nov 8, 13:29 2
- nwbr - good thoughts to everyone. -- nm - b. Nov 8, 14:38
- best wishes to both. -- nm - Remlik Nov 8, 13:38
oh, this will be fun, I just got invited to a Kinect (XBox) 'yoga class' on Wednesday night. - Elf Andie Nov 8, 13:29 3
- I was at Best Buy the other day, watching two kids play with the Kinect. I was ... actually impressed. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 8, 13:31 2
  - If the Kinect can tell if a player accidentally... lets one out during yoga, then I'll be impressed -- nm - con_carne Nov 8, 13:34
  - i'll let you know how i like it. -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 8, 13:31
Walking Dead officially given 2nd season.... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 8, 13:28 6
- Question - amoxy Nov 8, 13:34 4
  - I sort of have a mancrush on his acting. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 8, 13:47
  - spoilers.... - Remlik Nov 8, 13:38 2
    - spoiler ? - sycor Nov 8, 13:50 1
      - after. -- nm - Remlik Nov 8, 13:54
- I'm definitely hooked for this season. Not sure if the love is multi-seasonal, though. Not like Castle ... :) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 13:29
mara: Only the *raggedest*. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 8, 13:28
Samara, you almost got it this weekend. The Jets just barely pulled it off -- nm - amoxy Nov 8, 13:25 1
- I'm still alive in this mega-league through a website, winner gets $5K, but I'm sure like 20 or so people will make it all the way through. -- nm - samara Nov 8, 13:29
World Champion SF Giants - amoxy Nov 8, 13:24 19
- B2 question about Cavmen. 5 guys on byes? but you were able to start all spots? Me too. And I had to pick up 3 more spots to do that. - Spawn Nov 8, 13:30 15
  - 1 QB, 1 RB, 2 WR (though one was R. moss) and a TE - amoxy Nov 8, 13:36 1
    - heh, Moss got me, too. - Spawn Nov 8, 13:39
  - I'm confused....which of the guys on byes were your starters? -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 8, 13:33 12
    - I can't catch a break in Vamps. Gates out, I sat Harvin b/c he was so gimpy, Collie got smashed again...and Gostkowski and J. Stewart got hurt too... - samara Nov 8, 13:39 10
      - I did a quick check last week in our league. Avg pts is 101.75 and I counted the # of tough luck losses... - Will Hunting Nov 8, 13:43 9
        
        Yeah, I've outscored TFox by around 160 YTD, yet he's gonna be two games up on me. This week, he's gonna score like 50 and still win. -- nm - samara Nov 8, 13:52 8
        
        you know why? because I'm awesome. -- nm - TFox Nov 8, 13:55 7
        
        Nice call starting that Seahawk D this week...that was awesome. -- nm - samara Nov 8, 14:08 3
        
        the only reason my opponent didn't get the penalty is because GB felt bad kicking a chipshot field goal up by 38. - TFox Nov 8, 14:20 2
        
        It was like desecrating a corpse at that point... -- nm - samara Nov 8, 14:23 1
        
        exactly! shouldn't there be a bigger penalty for "we got embarassed to score on you anymore"?! -- nm - TFox Nov 8, 14:26
        
        how is SheFox's team doing? -- nm - sneezy cat Nov 8, 13:59 2
        
        in the league we're both in, i am 7-1. she's the 1. that's all she cares about. - TFox Nov 8, 14:18 1
        
        let the women win -- nm - sneezy cat Nov 8, 14:27
    - All 5 that are on my bench this week.. -- nm - Spawn Nov 8, 13:38
- *American* Champion SF Giants - zork Nov 8, 13:28 1
  - if MLB was restricted to US players, you'd have something. -- nm - Reagen Nov 8, 13:59
- how many live in san fran or are from the bay area? -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 8, 13:26

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