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- OH C"MON! - Brian Cashman Dec 14, 06:44
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  - I saw that part of the report too and didn't post the "news" because of it. -- nm - Diva Dec 14, 06:50
  - i would hope so. it doesn't seem to make a lick of sense to me. -- nm - TFox Dec 14, 06:46
boston.com Love Letters: Afraid to Break Up With Him. - Diva Dec 14, 06:33 8
- Did she send in a picture, too? (I'd like to know why they got back together if their long term goals didn't match a year ago.) - JaxSean Dec 14, 06:47
- She should marry him and have about 12 kids -- nm - amoxy Dec 14, 06:45
- it's so all over the place I think it's *not* a plant. -- nm - loosilu Dec 14, 06:42
- she seems awfully immature for 27 -- nm - Epiphany Dec 14, 06:41 1
  - yeah, I can't exactly work out *why* she wants to marry him. he sounds like a dud. -- nm - loosilu Dec 14, 06:43
- I was her. It sucks, but it must end. -- nm - Hotkiss Dec 14, 06:37
- Deevs, she says it's her first letter. We just mistook it for her first letter to the columnist, not her first ever. - Will Hunting Dec 14, 06:36
- "He's not that into you" - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 14, 06:35
crazy morning is *crazy* -- nm - znufrii Dec 14, 06:32
I need someone to peek at my wishlist and tell him if the Silicon Dust HD HomeRun tuner is still visible to you -- (link) - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 14, 06:24 5
- /clicks link..."Wow, kilbo has a lot of the same stuff on his list that I do. Oh wait..." - decline Dec 14, 06:26 4
  - Doh. Public link -- (link) - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 14, 06:27 3
    - still visible -- nm - decline Dec 14, 06:28 2
      - yup -- nm - JaxSean Dec 14, 06:50
      - Thanks. I didn't expect anyone to get it because it's one of those things people don't know what it is - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 14, 06:29
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- you should get it fixed. - loosilu Dec 14, 06:44
- Mine only got down to 2 but my driveway is an ice rink. I put down a whole bag of salt last night and it appears to have done nothing -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 14, 06:22 1
  - salt doesn't work below a certain temperature, I think. -- nm - loosilu Dec 14, 06:47
there sure has been a lot of talk about how during this recession, consumers were "getting their houses in order" and paying down debt.... - x Dec 14, 06:12 1
- unfortunately for every household that is paying down I think there is probably one with 1 (or more) people unemployed increasing debt to stay afloat -- nm - decline Dec 14, 06:20
Just found out a very good friend of mine from college recently tried to commit suicide. From a mutual friend: - Hotkiss Dec 14, 06:07 4
- Get in contact and tell him, if you do, that you love him and would miss him terribly if he did succeed. -- nm - lileve Dec 14, 06:49
- "He and his ugly oldish girlfriend?" Well, hopefully he's not "hellbent." -- nm - JaxSean Dec 14, 06:19 1
  - it would explain why he tried to kill himself, I guess. -- nm - loosilu Dec 14, 06:45
- Sad. I hope he gets the help he needs. -- nm - znufrii Dec 14, 06:13
Golden Globe Best Picture Nominations: - JaxSean Dec 14, 06:03 16
- Here's all the nominations: - JaxSean Dec 14, 06:07 14
  - Strong list for Best Animated. Too bad two of them won't make the Oscar nom cut. -- nm - Was Bar Was Dec 14, 06:37
  - I just noticed the Piper Perabo nom for "Covert Affairs" love that show -- nm - MDH Dec 14, 06:35
  - I'm surprised by jeremy renner in The Town. He mostly just grunts in it. -- nm - Diva Dec 14, 06:25 3
    - Isn't that what Ledger did in Brokeback? Apparently, the academies love grunting. -- nm - Jim Dec 14, 06:31
    - And based on reviews for The Tourist you gotta think that is just to get that starpower in the audience. -- nm - HdnAgnda Dec 14, 06:29 1
      - Add up the RottenTomato scores for Tourist and Burlesque and they still don't get to a fresh rating. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 14, 06:32
  - No love for Justified at all. Shame! -- nm - HdnAgnda Dec 14, 06:25 1
    - No Breaking Bad for series either. -- nm - HdnAgnda Dec 14, 06:29
  - So glad to see The Big C and Laura Linney nominated. She was so good in a very awesome show. -- nm - Jim Dec 14, 06:10 1
    - I saw that. Along with Easy A, and The Walking Dead (and Burlesque), those are my surprises. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 14, 06:12
  - Wow, what a terrible group for Best Pic - Comedy/Musical. - Will Hunting Dec 14, 06:09 3
    - I am dying that Burlesque got multiple nominations -- nm - MDH Dec 14, 06:19 2
      - Alice in Wonderland? I feel like Seth Meyers...really? Alice in Wonderland?? Really? C'mon! Really? - Will Hunting Dec 14, 06:27 1
        
        So true. The only 1 of those movies with a possibloe Oscar Nom is "The Kids..." the rest are laughable. -- nm - MDH Dec 14, 06:43
- of the two I've seen - Inception is better than Black Swan -- nm - Epiphany Dec 14, 06:06
Isn't Amazon a publicly traded company? If they're so vague about their sales of the Kindle, don't they have records showing what they've sold? - JaxSean Dec 14, 05:59 24
- they've never released hard sales numbers on the kindle. and i don't believe there's anything in quarterly reports that dictates they'd have to....nm - x Dec 14, 06:06 18
  - It just seems odd that a company can do that. It's like Ford saying "Our top seller is the Ford Fiesta!" -- nm - JaxSean Dec 14, 06:10 17
    - It would be odd if that's all they sold, but with literally millions of items generating revenue it's not practical to specify individual items -- nm - decline Dec 14, 06:11 16
      - Well, they have to specify where their revenues are coming from, don't they? - JaxSean Dec 14, 06:15 2
        
        sure. 'Net Sales' where $7.56B 10K is a consolidated statement. Their annual report may contain a bit more details (like revenue from subsidiaries and - decline Dec 14, 06:22
        
        i'm no balance sheet expert, but i don't think a 10-k or 10-q requires this. probably it all just goes under retail revenue.....nm - x Dec 14, 06:19
      - yeah, i think it would get pretty ugly if amazon had to report hard numbers on each individual item they sold during the course of the year....nm - x Dec 14, 06:14 12
        
        Why should Kindle be singled out from among all their products for concern? - TWuG Dec 14, 06:19 11
        
        Well, people are concerned because there's a supposed e-reader war going on. -- nm - Ender Dec 14, 06:30
        
        mainly because they use the lack of hard numbers for their own "fastest selling device" bullshit marketing hype.... - x Dec 14, 06:25 6
        
        especially when the real numbers that have been seen, about the number of titles sold compared to actual books, are already bs. -- nm - TFox Dec 14, 06:45 2
        
        right. there's no reason to buy into any of this pap. it's all just marketing from a corporation looking to push the market the way they want it to... - x Dec 14, 06:49 1
        
        The Chevy Volt: The Best Selling Car in America! -- nm - Chevrolet Dec 14, 06:51
        
        Sue them for false advertising and get the numbers in discovery -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 14, 06:26 2
        
        i don't have any interest in suing. i just treat their marketing pronouncements like the horsehit they are... - x Dec 14, 06:28 1
        
        scales. off! -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 14, 06:30
        
        I don't know that people are concerned. I'd like to think that when a company (or any entity) makes a statement based on facts, it can be documented. - JaxSean Dec 14, 06:25 2
        
        When I hear "#1 seller" I always wonder what the qualifier is. Maybe the Ford Fiesta is the #1 seller "to men named Larry, on Tuesdays, in March, at - TWuG Dec 14, 06:40
        
        Preach on, brother! -- nm - Julian Assange Dec 14, 06:26
- You can be pretty vague about stuff in public disclosures -- nm - decline Dec 14, 06:05
- Their annual reports are online and interestingly, they lost 849 million in shipping costs in 2009 -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 14, 06:03 3
  - What I would love to see is their IT budget and infrastruction (it must be massive). Did you see this -- (link) - decline Dec 14, 06:18 2
    - Best AWS/EC2 commercial ever :). What's even dumber is LOIC doesn't even try to hide the attackers IP so you're basically shouting out - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 14, 06:21 1
      - They must have some serious eggheads working over there. It's a thing of beauty -- nm - decline Dec 14, 06:23
Easy way to find out if your Gawker info was in the hacked database: -- (link) - TWuG Dec 14, 05:44 2
- Got emails from LinkedIn and Digsby today warning that my email was found in the database and I should change my passwords - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 14, 05:58
- That's kinda awesome -- nm - ty97 Dec 14, 05:46
So....can we trace the entirety of what Philly's done in the past 2 years in regards to prospects to end up with Halladay, Lee and Oswalt? - Will Hunting Dec 14, 05:39 2
- Rumor now is they're going to try to trade Ibanez to shed some payroll. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 14, 05:46 1
  - Well, Blanton's on the block as well. - Will Hunting Dec 14, 05:48
heh. i won by .80pts -- nm - tRuMaN wahawahawaha Dec 14, 04:53 1
- err, 90pts -- nm - tRuMaN wahawahawaha Dec 14, 04:57
Mitt: Why tax cut is a bad deal -- (link) - Strongbad Dec 14, 04:52
Tax Compromise Bill draws wide support in the Senate -- (link) - Strongbad Dec 14, 04:47
5 years $120 million Cliff Lee to the Phillies is what I just heard on the TV -- nm - Beaker Dec 14, 04:23 9
- *cries tears of sadness* -- nm - Epiphany Dec 14, 06:08
- He must really hate the Yankees. He left $50 Million on the table with them -- nm - decline Dec 14, 05:54 5
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  - There's something to be said as well for not wanting to pitch in the AL East period. -- nm - Diva Dec 14, 06:14
  - Who's the last guy to leave Yankee $$ on the table like that? - Strongbad Dec 14, 05:56 1
    - Maddux and Bonds were the last 2 guys the Yanks wanted and didn't get. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 14, 05:56
  - Nah, only 30..they didn't top 150 apparently. The Rangers had a 7/161 apparently - Will Hunting Dec 14, 05:55
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- also has an easily reachable vesting option for a year 6 -- (link) - Beaker Dec 14, 04:39
Tron + Playboy = Perfection -- (link) - marcel Dec 14, 02:56 1
- Bah...if it ain't 13, I don't need to see it. -- nm - Jim Dec 14, 06:04
Almost better than winning is playing tables for 3 hours and walking away up 50 cents. - iNubby 4 Dec 14, 01:19 3
- WWND! -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 14, 06:05
- hee - what were you playing? - Epiphany Dec 14, 06:04 1
  - *rawr*! -- nm - znufrii Dec 14, 06:05
I really hope that a bit of water ingress doesn't turn a baseboard into a fire hazard. - Beryllium (iPhone) Dec 14, 01:14 1
- I hope my worries are unfounded. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Dec 14, 01:22
It took three days, but the kitchen is done. One down, eight to go. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Dec 14, 01:04 1
- you have 8 kitchens? nice house -- nm - CQ draped in tinsel Dec 14, 03:57
an order from Barnes^Noble has spent the week wandering around SC and kentucky, seems DHL dropped in the USPS to deliver to another of their stations? - double dose of zeitgeist Dec 14, 00:14 1
- KY to GA and back to KY who USPS'd it to OH and now its back in USPS - double dose of zeitgeist Dec 14, 00:20
footlong harnessed rats clearing mine fields. That's something right there -- nm - CQ draped in tinsel Dec 13, 22:35 7
- and when there's no more rats, move on to cats -- nm - pixmas Dec 13, 22:36 6
  - I doubt they're smart enough. rats are *clever* -- nm - mafic Dec 13, 23:32 1
    - Raccoons. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Dec 14, 01:05
  - I don't think they're cooperative enough as these rats are. -- nm - CQ draped in tinsel Dec 13, 22:42 3
    - You don't know what my cats will do for a small piece of fried chicken. -- nm - Trisha Dec 13, 22:59 2
      - Hang on, I've got a list of what i'll do for fried chicken right here on my iPhone 4 -- nm - Samwise Dec 13, 23:02 1
        
        *installs free fried chicken app* -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Dec 14, 01:05
I should go bet on the phillies before the odds go down. -- nm - iNubby 4 Dec 13, 22:30 7
- 6/1 for the WS, 9/4 for the pennant. -- nm - Reagen Dec 13, 22:34 4
  - Now I'm seeing 15/4 WS and 19/10 Pennant. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 14, 05:55 3
    - That sounds about right - Will Hunting Dec 14, 05:55 2
      - Red Sox are the favorite in the AL at 4/1 and 2/1 -- nm - Strongbad Dec 14, 05:57 1
        
        That's too low. Not saying they're not the favorites in the AL, but they ain't that favored. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 14, 05:59
- Dude you are on a lucky streak. Put a grand on the Pirates -- nm - Bacon on a phone Dec 13, 22:33 1
  - pixie? -- nm - iNubby 4 Dec 14, 01:20
That cruise I've been looking at for May continues to drop in price..... - MistletoeMeg Dec 13, 22:21 6
- They charge an extra $20 for every bump and bruise you receive while on the ship -- nm - Bacon on a phone Dec 13, 22:29
- cruise the seas with Soylent -- nm - pixmas Dec 13, 22:28
- Perhaps partly due to the bad press cruises have been running into lately. -- nm - Qale Dec 13, 22:26 1
  - Maybe - but I'm also seeing hotel rates dropping. The price on my Laughlin room for Christmas dropped after I booked it, and - MistletoeMeg Dec 13, 22:35
- going to Antartica? -- nm - loosilu Dec 13, 22:25 1
  - I wish :) -- nm - MistletoeMeg Dec 13, 22:36
know any college kids looking to intern ? - gort Dec 13, 21:45 8
- I was disappointed there wasn't a display at the paris car show in oct. -- nm - gort Dec 13, 22:03
- HELLO! -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Dec 13, 21:57
- My brother was recently in Beverly Hills and saw one of these parked on Rodeo. Even there it was turning heads. -- nm - Max Dec 13, 21:52 3
  - There is a dealership that parks nice cars on Rodeo and puts business cards on the cars. (Usually it just 1 car). -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Dec 13, 21:59
  - call off your spies, max -- nm - pixmas Dec 13, 21:54 1
    - "Is it safe?" -- nm - Max Dec 13, 21:56
- gort! -- nm - pixmas Dec 13, 21:46 1
  - what ? - gort Dec 13, 21:47
What percentage of American men answered "YES" to: Have you ever bought a pair of leather pants? -- nm - Mop Dec 13, 21:38 5
- "The lotion and the powder have made a paste!" -- nm - JaxSean Dec 13, 21:44
- *sweating* -- nm - Ross Dec 13, 21:41 1
  - "It's making a paste!" -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 13, 21:41
- 25% - pixmas Dec 13, 21:39 1
  - Ipsos says 6%. -- nm - Mop Dec 13, 21:40
alright wiggs, phase II of operation secret stalker deployed - pixmas Dec 13, 21:33
After Rafael Furcal, I don't believe anything until the contract is signed. (nm) - David Dec 13, 21:33 1
- A scratch?! Your arm's off! -- nm - King Arthur Dec 13, 21:39
Seems to be confirmed all around. Lee to Philles. After listening to people make fun of Heyman all day, I'm floored. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 13, 21:32
casting call (max!): real life "Maguyver" types wanted for cable show - pixmas Dec 13, 21:26 4
- Vicki! Throw me that coke! Now that grapefruit! -- nm - Max Dec 13, 21:29 2
  - i'm just wondering how being good with contraptions is going to help the host solve the real-life problems of the guests -- nm - pixmas Dec 13, 21:40 1
    - It's probably just a way to weed out the people with boobs who think a hex key is black magic. -- nm - Max Dec 13, 21:45
- I just started to watch a show, "Lost with Hackett" which sounds like this. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 13, 21:28
it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll -- nm - pixmas Dec 13, 21:24
Samara, Flip a coin with you to see which one of us gets to beat Tfox. -- nm - Chip Kelly (not kelly) Dec 13, 21:24 2
- well, hopefully it's me...because that means i'd be in the finals. -- nm - samara Dec 13, 21:34
- oh, i hope you do it, so i can play the lower seed! - both of you Dec 13, 21:27

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