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SITWAP: Singing the National Anthem at the Las Vegas Bowl this year: The Hoff. -- (link) - TaurusII Dec 17, 11:09 2
- but ... the national anthem doesn't have burgers -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 11:10 1
  - or talking Trans-ams. -- nm - Eight Tiny Vermin Dec 17, 11:12
When I saw "it affects patient care..." that means it's serious... - Mel Profit Dec 17, 11:06 2
- But Mel, they are just the patients. It's not like a matter of life or d... oh fuck. -- nm - TFox Dec 17, 11:09 1
  - Luckily, it's not life or death... - Mel Profit Dec 17, 11:12
SITWAP: Might need some more bailout money before the next party: AIG may have another $30 billion in writedowns on the books. -- (link) - TaurusII Dec 17, 11:02 1
- Let's see ... a trillion is how many hundreds? -- nm - mint worker Dec 17, 11:07
Hulu lies! There are no episodes of Leverage available. -- nm - Amy Dec 17, 11:02
Will Hunting, let me know if that fix addresses your issue adequately. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 11:01 10
- ok -- nm - Don Homer Dec 17, 11:04
- I have no clue what is causing it, it's hit or miss so...who knows? -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 17, 11:02 2
  - It looks like they're all happening within mere seconds of each other, so the fix should prevent it - of course, you'll get the ugly error notice, but - Beryllium Dec 17, 11:04
  - i just forced a dup post, and it works. -- nm - TFox Dec 17, 11:03
- he will -- nm - Amy Dec 17, 11:02 3
  - That was awesome. Everyone should try a duplicate post. -- nm - Amy Dec 17, 11:03 2
    - Oh crap. -- nm - Beryllium's gmail account Dec 17, 11:05
    - spoils - TFox Dec 17, 11:04
- fixes what now? -- nm - TFox Dec 17, 11:02 1
  - niiiiice. well played sir. -- nm - TFox Dec 17, 11:02
oh. my. goodness. B in financial engineering for corporate strategy. *thank the gods.* - candy canes love mandy lane Dec 17, 10:59 13
- noice -- nm - TFox Dec 17, 11:11
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  - I'm not even sure what I learned. but I beat class average, whatever it was! -- nm - candy canes love mandy lane Dec 17, 11:11
- I had some really hard grad skool classes. -- nm - loosi si Dec 17, 11:07 1
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- yay! -- nm - Amy Dec 17, 11:03
- And merry Christmas to you. :) -- nm - sheba Dec 17, 11:02
- Wuzzah!!! -- nm - TaurusII Dec 17, 11:01
- sweet! -- nm - Beaker Dec 17, 11:00
- yippee -- nm - CQ draped in tinsel and I hate tinsel! Dec 17, 11:00
- Nice!!! Drink up! -- nm - Shaun Dec 17, 11:00 2
  - seriously I just might. holy *shnikes.* (how do you spell that??) -- nm - candy canes love mandy lane Dec 17, 11:01 1
    - looks good to me. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 11:01
Good news! My brother sent me season 1 of Burn Notice. Not so goos news. He also sent season 1 of The Sarah Connor Chronicles. - sheba Dec 17, 10:57 1
- It's good not great. Less actiony than you might expect. Definitely worth a watch if you're a Terminator fan. - Cuzzin Toddnog Dec 17, 11:00
SITWAP: That oughta calm things down: Russia sends 10 free MiG-29 jets to Lebanon. -- (link) - TaurusII Dec 17, 10:56
Okay, commencing test. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 10:55 7
- test -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 10:55 6
  - *BOOM* -- nm - Slacker Talk Dec 17, 10:56
  - Well, looks like it works ... -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 10:56 4
    - (ALso, the FAQ got some very slight updates at the same time) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 10:56
    - *starts blinking and fading out* -- nm - Slacker Talk Dec 17, 10:56 2
      - CLEAR!! -- nm - sheba Dec 17, 10:57 1
        
        So... cold... -- nm - ST Dec 17, 10:58
from B2, hehe. Jeffrey on Top Chef *is* the evil Prince from Shrek! - Jovian Dec 17, 10:55
I'm t hinking of doing a code test on ST, so brace yourselves ... if it ends up breaking posting, I should get a lot of automatic emails. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 10:53
Radio: No Canadian Idol in 2009 due to advertising slump, but will return once economic slump is over. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 17, 10:53
Read a rumour that Guy Ritchie is getting $76 mil from Madonna...anyone else see that? -- nm - Beaker Dec 17, 10:50 4
- Yup, 76 - 92 million... that's like 45 Guy Ritchie movies. -- nm - secretslacker Dec 17, 10:55 1
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- 82 million actually I read. Mostly in assets. nm - Jovian Dec 17, 10:51
- well, it was $92 Million yesterday. but both their sides claimed that was an incorrect number. - El Fandie Dec 17, 10:51
Marly and Me wasn't bad.. I think women will like it... and Jax Sean.. but not in the same way. -- nm - secretslacker Dec 17, 10:48 3
- Women like ML? -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09 Dec 17, 11:11
- I'm reading the book now so I have an "excuse" to go see the movie. - JaxSean Dec 17, 10:54 1
  - Well, it is PG... there is some sexuality but PG sex... I think most kids would get bored except for the physical humor and poop jokes - secretslacker Dec 17, 10:55
SHAR AQUOS 42" 1080p 120hz with bluray player 1074$ with free shipping -- (link) - zeitgeist Dec 17, 10:43 2
- Pretty good deal. Sharps are real good. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 17, 10:43 1
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The minute I posted about the home keyboard working fine - the net stopped working. (again.) grr. -- nm - kelly Dec 17, 10:42
NCIS and The mentalist both hit series ratings highs last night -- nm - Beaker Dec 17, 10:42 6
- Last night's Mentalist was the 2nd one I've seen. It's as bland as a show can be. - Mel Profit Dec 17, 10:50 4
  - his backstory makes it for me, plus how they are parcelling it out slowly. -- nm - Beaker Dec 17, 10:51 3
    - Isn't he supposed to be amazingly perceptive or hypnotize people or something? -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 17, 10:54 1
      - he was a TV pyschic - show spoils - Beaker Dec 17, 10:57
    - plus the red head is drop dead amazingly hot -- nm - Beaker Dec 17, 10:52
- good. Liked NCIS...got me a little misty eyed. -- nm - Remlik Dec 17, 10:44
MIA ttrs, have we seen Fembot? aka glory? FM? (I know he sold his port but didn't post now and then?) Over the Top? -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 17, 10:40 1
- Glory has checked in once or twice. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 17, 10:42
Canucks to retire Trevor Linden's number tonight -- (link) - Beaker Dec 17, 10:38
I missed the damn beer poll. Anyhoo, my fave beer is the Pumphouse's Scotch Ale. - Shaun Dec 17, 10:38
nobody cares: this is the professor for whom i TA. -- (link) - candy canes love mandy lane Dec 17, 10:37 4
- he is *such* a Norm. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 17, 10:42
- He's hot. -- nm - dawson si Dec 17, 10:39 1
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- tongue ass? -- nm - CQ draped in tinsel and I hate tinsel! Dec 17, 10:39
The Sports Guy loves The Wrestler and especially Mickey Rourke's performance (warning - spoils) -- (link) - Beaker Dec 17, 10:31 2
- I wonder if Simmons knows that Nic Cage was supposed to star in this movie and backed out? -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 17, 10:36
- LA Times didn't like it... -- (link) - Remlik Dec 17, 10:34
What is one thing at work that you actually love doing? - El Fandie Dec 17, 10:30 23
- Giving presentations and reviewing business plans -- nm - Walt_Disney Dec 17, 11:01
- My job, basically. Finding what others can't figure out. "We're stuck!" "Here, fix this and this and you should be good to go." - JaxSean Dec 17, 10:58
- Not having to go anymore. -- nm - Cuzzin Toddnog Dec 17, 10:48
- Getting a paycheck. - kelly Dec 17, 10:44
- Anything that doesn't involve customers. -- nm - Tiny Tim Dec 17, 10:43
- I love buying the new stuff. I don't like checking backlist. -- nm - Amy Dec 17, 10:38
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- looking at hot bikini clad women -- nm - CQ draped in tinsel and I hate tinsel! Dec 17, 10:33
- writing promos. which is pretty much my job. perhaps only until tomorrow, though. reorg. :( -- nm - kare Dec 17, 10:32 1
  - oooh, scary indeed. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 17, 10:34
- Forecasting. -- nm - TFox Dec 17, 10:31 1
  - Oh, more than that: presenting strategic analysis to upper management in meetings. - TFox Dec 17, 10:34
- Hitting "submit" to run a SAS program. So sexay. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 17, 10:31 7
  - SAS Worldwide HQ is less than a mile from where I work. -- nm - HdnAgnda Dec 17, 10:40 1
    - Yeah, we drove by the campus when we visited friends last year. Supposed to be a really nice place to work. Great bennies too. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 17, 10:42
  - *goes for a walk to the Dunkin Donuts 3 towns over, comes back, waits another 20 minutes for SAS to finish* -- nm - DHsi Dec 17, 10:32 4
    - No way man, my programs run fast (well, reasonably so, considering the size of the files). -- nm - Don Homer Dec 17, 10:34 3
      - I always know when my friend Mark is running his SAS code, b/c he won't leave my cube. - TFox Dec 17, 10:35 2
        
        Our networks are fairly fast here. I can run a quick data step on a file with, say, a million records in just a few seconds. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 17, 10:38 1
        
        We are in the process of building a new data warehouse, and things will be much different (and better) when it launches next year. -- nm - TFox Dec 17, 10:39
- Color Grading. I don't get to do it very often though - Guigue Dec 17, 10:30
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  - should have clarified - a WORK task at work. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 17, 10:30
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- I see they've not given up on the whole, *open mouth, say something stupid* mode of governing. -- nm - sheba Dec 17, 10:31
50 cent talks about his little run in with Floy Mayweather at WRestlemania last year.... -- (link) - Remlik Dec 17, 10:25 4
- One of the few fights where I would root for Mayweather to win. -- nm - TFox Dec 17, 10:38 2
  - I don't think I could pick a side. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 17, 10:51 1
    - I'll take the dude who's been shot over the girl. - Will Hunting Dec 17, 10:53
- I can't wait to see Pacquiao beat the ever lovin' bag out of Mayweather. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 17, 10:27
I have a question about Illinois govenor Blagowhatever... - Cuzzin Toddnog Dec 17, 10:21 1
- like he's the only politician to get elected with strange hair -- nm - zork Dec 17, 10:23
Do bears poo in the woods? -- (link) - znufrii Dec 17, 10:21 1
- Please say yes. Please say yes. Please say yes. -- nm - Guy si Dec 17, 10:24
Maybe Drew wasn't excited because it was a setup to build viewership for the show - Gwaahjo Dec 17, 10:18 19
- His whole hosting on the show is terrible, not just that moment -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 10:21 2
  - agreed, he is terrible -- nm - Gwaahjo Dec 17, 10:26
  - I've seen bits here and there and I'd agree. At first, I thought he just had to get comfortable in the role. - Cuzzin Toddnog Dec 17, 10:23
- It's been around for like 40 years +; I don't see them throwing away that legacy with a stunt that pays out $55k. - Will Hunting Dec 17, 10:19 12
  - Bight side ... being in triplicate makes you look all formal and legal. :) -- nm - sheba Dec 17, 10:20 2
    - i wonder what the cut off age is for kids (so to speak) to know about carbon paper -- nm - zork Dec 17, 10:21 1
      - I still see carbon paper occasionally. Usually with some sort of work order that you have to sign, for say a cable installer, plumber, etc. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 17, 10:25
  - Hmph - my signaling button was sticky. -- nm - Diva Dec 17, 10:20
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    - Ya know what I do hope gets triple-posted? - Will Hunting Dec 17, 10:21 5
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        And we're the idiots for cutting him instead of paying him $4mil! - Will Hunting Dec 17, 10:32
      - (I'm working on a fix for repeat posting) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 10:21 2
        
        But what about when it's done on purpose for effect? - Cuzzin Toddnog Dec 17, 10:26 1
        
        I can't even get it to work properly yet, so we'll have to see. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 10:40
    - I think he's just doing it to get attention. -- nm - Cuzzin Toddnog Dec 17, 10:20
- It's been around for like 40 years +; I don't see them throwing away that legacy with a stunt that pays out $55k. - Will Hunting Dec 17, 10:19
- It's been around for like 40 years +; I don't see them throwing away that legacy with a stunt that pays out $55k. - Will Hunting Dec 17, 10:19 1
  - haha, I was just throwing an argument in favor of Drew!! - Gwaahjo Dec 17, 10:20
ST Poll -- Who (politician or other public figure) would you want to throw a shoe at? - znufrii Dec 17, 10:16 8
- Al Sharpton -- nm - Jovian Dec 17, 10:50
- Al Sharpton -- nm - Jovian Dec 17, 10:50
- Caroline Kennedy -- nm - CQ draped in tinsel and I hate tinsel! Dec 17, 10:22
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- Mats Sundin -- nm - Beaker Dec 17, 10:21 1
  - i predicted that he will get injured by mid-Feb. Seems all those dickwads who hold out or take this long to decide always get sidelined -- nm - zork Dec 17, 10:24
- Bono - don't know why, just something about him. And George Lucas. -- nm - Cuzzin Toddnog Dec 17, 10:18 1
  - yes, Bono while he's doing that clap ... clap ... clap thing -- nm - zork Dec 17, 10:25
*bids $1* -- nm - Tiny Tim Dec 17, 10:14
*glad the keyboard at home seems to be working fine* -- nm - kelly Dec 17, 10:14 2
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  - you would be the type to enjoy using an annoy-a-tron on someone. -- nm - zork Dec 17, 10:17
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*makes the trip from B2 to B1* -- nm - zork Dec 17, 10:13

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