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ST anxiety poll - what gets you anxious? last minute packing? financial issues? being called into the bosses's office? - Epiphany Jan 18, 11:34 19
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- and, ironically, singing a solo I've never sung before - znufrii Jan 18, 11:40
- Not much. Mainly if I have to worry about The Bub. -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 11:39
- Driving, screwing (anything) up. -- nm - Amy Jan 18, 11:38
- Infield errors. -- nm - David Jan 18, 11:38
- Financial issues and the Yankees. -- nm - Krusty Jan 18, 11:38
- I hate being late to anything. -- nm - CQ Jan 18, 11:37
- Work can get me very anxious when I know the next day is going to be rough. -- nm - Qale Jan 18, 11:37
- A late bus. The wrong kind of pot. -- nm - con_carne Jan 18, 11:36
- A crowded Coscto will make me claustrophobic. But lately, seeing the daycare on the caller ID is never good news. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 18, 11:35 1
  - And I have to sympathize with loosi. Not long ago, when I was ten minutes from leaving the office for a week... - Dr.Vermin Jan 18, 11:37
- fucking up -- nm - wonderpixie Jan 18, 11:35 6
  - One word too long. -- nm - nubby Jan 18, 11:42 1
    - up doesn't make me anxious -- nm - wonderpixie Jan 18, 11:43
  - That's interesting, because when I do that, I almost feel a bit of relief. I can handle screw ups usually after they've occurred. It's the before... -- nm - Qale Jan 18, 11:40
  - at work, yes. i can stress over tiny tiny work things. but my own personal life doesn't stress me much. - Andie Jan 18, 11:39 1
    - yeah, work -- nm - wonderpixie Jan 18, 11:41
  - this -- nm - znufrii Jan 18, 11:37
- my quarterback forgetting how to play the sport of football. -- nm - TFox Jan 18, 11:35
Joe Posnanski has a pretty good pair of stats in today's column. - David Jan 18, 11:32
Thanks for the thoughts everyone, they moved up my surgery by a few hours so I was home way earlier.... - Remlik Jan 18, 11:32 16
- Good to hear. - Spawn Jan 18, 11:41
- You need anything? Food, company, monkey butler? -- nm - Amy Jan 18, 11:34 5
  - "...monkey butter?" -- nm - what znufrii read Jan 18, 11:43
  - I'm cool...thanks! Prepped the house for food & upstairs xbox.... - Remlik Jan 18, 11:41 1
    - If you need XBox company, just let me know. -- nm - David Jan 18, 11:42
  - Rent-A-Friend is *fast* -- nm - wonderpixie Jan 18, 11:37
  - That's racist. - Chimpanzee Butler si Jan 18, 11:35
- what is all this about? I feel quite out of the loop. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 11:34 8
  - had a bone growth on my huge left toe. it grew there almost 2 years ago and 1st foot doc said nothing to be done... - Remlik Jan 18, 11:40 2
    - hah, nice. (I see the collarbone expl. on facebook now) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 11:41 1
      - I can't wait for that one! -- nm - Remlik Jan 18, 11:42
  - foot removed, attached to his head -- nm - Epiphany Jan 18, 11:34 4
    - they got it out of his ass successfully :) -- nm - peglegpete Jan 18, 11:35 3
      - you just passed Loosi on The List. - Remlik Jan 18, 11:41 1
        
        HEY! - loosilu Jan 18, 11:46
      - His head or his foot? -- nm - TWuG Jan 18, 11:37
If News Corp sells MySpace, who should buy it? - Mop (216 lbs) Jan 18, 11:30 11
- Universal, Sony, EMI or WB. -- nm - Amy Jan 18, 11:35 1
  - Yeah, pretty much -- nm - con_carne Jan 18, 11:37
- Nickelback! -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 11:35 1
  - +5 Qale Points. You'll dig your way out of that hole yet! -- nm - Qale Jan 18, 11:41
- I was going to say AOL even before I read the IM -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 18, 11:34
- Facebook -- nm - Strongbad Jan 18, 11:34
- Facebook to kill the compition and use their market data. -- nm - lileve Jan 18, 11:34
- Napster! -- nm - Remlik Jan 18, 11:33
- Block Buster -- nm - Epiphany Jan 18, 11:32
- Apple! -- nm - Beaker Jan 18, 11:31
- a big fat sucker -- nm - wonderpixie Jan 18, 11:31
Hyde, I have no idea why but out of all our streaming devices, the PS3 works the least. - David Jan 18, 11:28 7
- hm. i'm not a big troubleshooter, i like stuff that actually works without futzing. i'll likely just keep my disk plan.... - x Jan 18, 11:34 2
  - Do you have Blu Ray yet? I ask because a lot of Blu Ray players are Netflix enabled now. - David Jan 18, 11:37
  - Ah. I find that sad, but that's probably because I'm a born troubleshooter. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 11:37
- There's an app for that. :) -- nm - lileve Jan 18, 11:34
- *cough*Roku*cough* -- nm - oblique Jan 18, 11:30 1
  - I already treasure mine. - David Jan 18, 11:31
- Indeed, I would recommend not letting Sony screw up your foray into new technology. :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 11:30
mindless drudgery poll: what are you working on? (me: perfection of security interests in intellectual property) -- nm - wonderpixie Jan 18, 11:26 19
- the 2010 year end spread sheet showing our companies' share of the stats canada market share. (blah blah) -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 11:42
- Tonight's meeting. Year Ends are a bitch. -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 11:40 1
  - especially since the year ended two weeks ago - wonderpixie Jan 18, 11:43
- Just finished rooting my cellphone and now I'm flashing a new rom and messing with the phone. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jan 18, 11:36
- repacking. -- nm - loosilu Jan 18, 11:32
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- Just finished writing a mini-grant, now going to work on tomorrow's lecture. - nubby Jan 18, 11:30
- Manually checking all the data in a forecasting report on Excel to make sure it matches the database version. - con_carne Jan 18, 11:30
- Something that combines info available at another source into a format that I think is easier to use. - TWuG Jan 18, 11:30
- Patron request backlog. I have about 400 to go through. It takes forevah. -- nm - Amy Jan 18, 11:29 3
  - "special juice" -- nm - wonderpixie Jan 18, 11:29 2
    - For sure. I'm supposed to respond within a week. I'm working on December 12th right now. -- nm - Amy Jan 18, 11:31 1
      - a glorious day, that. -- nm - TFox Jan 18, 11:31
- MouseHunt -- nm - amoxy Jan 18, 11:28
- Just finished a report and asked for money I'm not going to get - Epiphany Jan 18, 11:27 2
  - ~ hey pippy baby i got ya money ~ -- nm - ol dirty groiny Jan 18, 11:29 1
    - I won't worry - Epiphany Jan 18, 11:32
- waiting for the green light to schedule a 3pm conference call -- nm - znufrii Jan 18, 11:26
- kings gauntlet -- nm - CQ Jan 18, 11:26
In other news: Target bows to legal pressure, will be known as Surveyor's Symbol in Canada. -- nm - TWuG Jan 18, 11:23 2
- L3 :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 11:25
- They are blood libel! -- nm - Sarah Palin Jan 18, 11:24
CY alert. Rumor: Rolls Royce Working On Electric Limousine -- (link) - con_carne Jan 18, 11:21 3
- Interesting. Some of my clients would buy it just for the novelty and to say "I have one" and others will think it's not really a Rolls. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 18, 11:24 2
  - wouldn't they just stretch a prius like they used to do VW bugs -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 18, 11:37
  - Sounds like the name of a seventies disco band. Electric Limozeen. -- nm - con_carne Jan 18, 11:35
Oh, this is good...the government guys here are arguing over religion, loudly. - Will Hunting Jan 18, 11:21 1
- you should bring up the separation of church and state -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 11:21
Cats are delicious! I like how the dog checks it out and is like, eh. -- (link) - mara Jan 18, 11:19 [youtube] 1
- Oh my, that dog looks just like Schatzee! -- nm - MojaveMeg Jan 18, 11:31
Pokerstars Home game - amoxy Jan 18, 11:19 7 3
- Thank you. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 18, 11:34
- can you post this again this evening? - Will Hunting Jan 18, 11:20 5
  - And I will post it for a couple of days -- nm - amoxy Jan 18, 11:26
  - Looks like we can do play money - amoxy Jan 18, 11:25 2
    - you are wonderful for doing this for us. -- nm - Epiphany Jan 18, 11:28 1
      - we did online poker years ago! -- nm - wonderpixie Jan 18, 11:41
  - mark in your favourites! -- nm - loosilu Jan 18, 11:24
Oh boy! It's the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity! -- (link) - Mop (216 lbs) Jan 18, 11:17
LBJ had unusually large nuts? -- (link) - mara Jan 18, 11:16 3
- If you ever had to deal with him in Congress, you would concur. -- nm - Mop (216 lbs) Jan 18, 11:18
- Yeah...the stories about him are pretty legendary. - Will Hunting Jan 18, 11:18
- Nuts Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist -- nm - wonderpixie Jan 18, 11:17
Plane crashes into RV park in North Myrtle Beach, kills pilot and person on the ground -- (link) - nubby Jan 18, 11:09 6
- Of all places it had to be where ST mentioned a possible golf vacation. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 18, 11:16 3
  - (and where I live, this may happen more often other places too) -- nm - nubby Jan 18, 11:19 2
    - I didn't connect that you lived there....scary when it happens but the odds very high that it happens at all. - CrankYanker Jan 18, 11:21 1
      - bad grammar....I meant that it doesn't happen often compared to the number of planes in the air, thank God. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 18, 11:23
- the wall mart version of 9/11? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jan 18, 11:15
- i miss Cherry Grove -- nm - wonderpixie Jan 18, 11:10
*chuckle* "strenuous weekend" -- nm - Mop (216 lbs) Jan 18, 11:07
Did somebody create a home game on Pokerstars? - amoxy Jan 18, 11:06
Is it crazy for me to think when my website hits its 10 year anniversary in March, to reboot it? Carrying around ten years of archives seems - Qale Jan 18, 11:02 7
- Archive the old and do a refresh. -- nm - lileve Jan 18, 11:07
- why not keep the current one as is, just let it sit and start a new literary-only site? -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 11:03 5
  - Let it sit like rot away? I'm not sure if I'd want to effectively double my website costs to keeping two up and running. -- nm - Qale Jan 18, 11:06 4
    - oh, that's true. could you hide the old site within a new one? like, you couldn't surf to anything as a visitor, but it would all be there with - Andie Jan 18, 11:09 1
      - Yeah. It could even be password protected if I wanted to take it that far. Not a bad idea there. -- nm - Qale Jan 18, 11:11
    - Take advantage of all the "freebies" out there. Facebook, Goodreads, Posterous. I'd think you can build a great online presence these days - oblique Jan 18, 11:09 1
      - I'll take a look at Posterous. I always have to be a bit more careful than most with those pesky Terms of Services though as you may recall. -- nm - Qale Jan 18, 11:12
this is LYC, lookatme stuff, I guess. Scramblng to get ready for last minute work travel and having a panic attack right now. - loosilu Jan 18, 11:02 17
- oh, you mean your PM was questioning expenses for a *planned* trip? I thought they were going over receipts and not wanting to pay for them. -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 18, 11:19 2
  - she was questioning the plane ticket. -- nm - loosilu Jan 18, 11:20 1
    - I think NetJets is very reasonable. ;-) -- nm - CrankYanker Jan 18, 11:25
- I sympathize. I hate last-minute trips. -- nm - mara Jan 18, 11:07
- Well whatever you do, don't forget that thing you need to remember. - Qale Jan 18, 11:06 2
  - shaddaaaaap. -- nm - loosilu Jan 18, 11:13 1
    - the anguished cries only make him more powerful. :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 11:13
- *shoots you with a tranq gun* -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 18, 11:05
- a literal panic attack, with a medical edge? Or just natural high anxiety because of the unexpectedness of the event? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 11:03 8
  - Don't get all House on us -- nm - con_carne Jan 18, 11:08
  - the second one. -- nm - loosilu Jan 18, 11:04 6
    - I'd hate for you to have a real one with palpitations, hyperventiling, chest pain, and tremors. - Trish Jan 18, 11:07 3
      - SheFox used to get *brutal* ones. - TFox Jan 18, 11:28 2
        
        Yeah, an ex of mine used to get them when driving. - con_carne Jan 18, 11:32
        
        UAI? -- nm - wonderpixie Jan 18, 11:31
    - understandable. Hopefully everything goes smoothly ... for the most part, you can buy anything you forget, if you need it, right? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 11:04 1
      - most things. it's the nonbuyables that stress me out. -- nm - loosilu Jan 18, 11:05
does hyde know there's a netflix streaming app he can dowload to his PS3? -- nm - wonderpixie Jan 18, 11:00 1
- I think that email got lost when krusty's account got hacked -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 11:01
LYC: Katy Perry should be announcing her tour tomorrow, perfect chance to see her in person. - MDH Jan 18, 10:58 1
- I read "...perfect chance to see her in prison." -- nm - lileve Jan 18, 11:00
Decide my movie: i have no plans tonight. there is a theatre attached to this building. movies are $6.75 on Tues. So, i think i'll go alone tonight - Andie Jan 18, 10:57 15
- No. See the Green Hornet. -- nm - con_carne Jan 18, 11:10
- Go to a different theater and see True Grit. - Trish Jan 18, 11:10 1
  - i've seen it. -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 11:12
- I'd see Green Hornet. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 11:01
- i won't be repsonsible for any of those choices -- nm - wonderpixie Jan 18, 11:01
- I'd pick The Dilemma if I was going solo. Comedy always works -- nm - oblique Jan 18, 10:59
- Green Hornet was fun so I kinda agree with your IM...Tourist was the kind of safe boring movie my mother loves -- nm - ceregon Jan 18, 10:59
- GH is the only one in that list that looks even slightly appealing to me... -- nm - znufrii Jan 18, 10:59
- Mrs.Vermin says The Tourist isn't bad. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 18, 10:58 6
  - It isn't due to the chemistry of the leads. I wish they'd chosen to do a different script together. -- nm - David Jan 18, 11:24
  - "I haven't seen it... I mean, no one has." -- nm - nubby Jan 18, 11:10
  - that's the torture porn one, right? - Beryllium Jan 18, 11:02
  - i can see it be totally passable. and, probably very pretty scenery-wise. -- nm - Andie Jan 18, 10:59 2
    - this is the perfect description of it. -- nm - Epiphany Jan 18, 11:37
    - at the GG it was listed in the Comedy/Musical category??? I thought it was marketed as an action/thriller -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 18, 11:08

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