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[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

I cannot believe they found Drew Peterson guilty.

Me either. But fuck, that piece of shit deserves to be in jail.

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

I cannot believe they found Drew Peterson guilty.

You can't? He convicted himself.

[Ksyrup]

Ha! So true.

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Caillou is the Canadian Ralph Wiggum.

[Grover]

Bought the domain for Inherently Meaningless | Poems and Other Assorted Writings by Justin W. Grover today, and also created a Facebook page for it.

It feels good to be productive.

[JediKooter]

Shame on you vegetarians and vegans...shame on yoU!!

Plants cry for help when an attack can be expected

[Suburban Rhythm]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

Shame on you vegetarians and vegans...shame on yoU!!

Plants cry for help when an attack can be expected

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by Suburban Rhythm

Haha!

This reminds me that I am less than an hour away from eating a nice piece of prime rib and broccoli.

[Rizon]

Did the infidelity thread get deleted?

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Ha! So true.

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Caillou is the Canadian Ralph Wiggum.

Caillou is awesome man.

[Grover]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

Shame on you vegetarians and vegans...shame on yoU!!

Plants cry for help when an attack can be expected

Bill Clinton is our leader.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I moved from New York to Detroit last year. One thing I can no longer understand here in my hometown is how people drive to bars... You have to drive home afterward! And if you don't go because this makes no sense, everybody else acts like you're from Mars.

[Grover]

Update Your Browser | Facebook

Shameless plug, give me a 'like!'

[cartman]

For all of the crap that is generated by The Internet, every once in a while something happens make it all seem worthwhile.

Internet Pulls Together 1,200 Cars For Terminally Ill Boy

[Coffee Warlord]

So I'm on call this week. Get called while trying to make dinner, have to scramble to get the oil off the burner, remote access is screwed up because some idiot decided to change security policies without telling us...get it fixed. Get called 5 minutes later by my coworker, scramble to turn off the burner AGAIN, find out more shit is broken.

Get that resolved, make dinner in record time so my kid can eat at a normal time...get called again after dinner about a problem I can't do anything about. ...then get called again about it at midnight (waking me up). Then my kid wakes up crying about 2am.

And of course, I had a doctor's appt this morning. I'm shocked when they tell me my blood pressure was high. Shocked I tell you.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Rizon

Did the infidelity thread get deleted?

Looks that way. I'd make a "people lost posts!" joke, but that's not really important.

Hope he's doing alright.

[Passacaglia]

I'm looking for a new phone, that can do video chat without a bunch of lag, that doesn't cost too much. I've got T-Mobile, and don't get a discount on phones at their store. Any suggestions?

[spleen1015]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

Looks that way. I'd make a "people lost posts!" joke, but that's not really important.

Hope he's doing alright.

It was mentioned a few times that it may be a bad idea due to it being evidence of some sort. Or she may have found out about it and part of the healing process is getting rid of it.

I wish him lots of luck moving forward.

[Passacaglia]

I think it's just that he didn't like the advice he was getting.

[Vince, Pt. II]

Originally Posted by JeeberD

Y'all worked for some bad companies...I've never had that problem. I would MUCH rather be slightly short handed than have a sick server or cook in the building. I do usually ask them to try and see if they can find someone who wants to work in their place, but I'm not going to make them come in.

And we give doubles breaks, with 50% off meals before or after a shift.

Only 50% off meals for people working a double? Jeez. At CPK it was 50% off for servers on regular shifts (free meal for hosts/bussers/bartenders) and 100% for working a double.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

I'm looking for a new phone, that can do video chat without a bunch of lag, that doesn't cost too much. I've got T-Mobile, and don't get a discount on phones at their store. Any suggestions?

The Galaxy Nexus from Google Play store at $350 is the best value to price unlocked unsubsidized phone. There's some decent t-mobile prepaid phones astound $200 as well.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

I think it's just that he didn't like the advice he was getting.

Perhaps we should have all lied and told him he was overreacting, take it easy & she's right.

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by M GO BLUE!!!

Perhaps we should have all lied and told him he was overreacting, take it easy & she's right.

Or we could give him a break and realize he's going through a tough time.

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by stevew

The Galaxy Nexus from Google Play store at $350 is the best value to price unlocked unsubsidized phone. There's some decent t-mobile prepaid phones astound $200 as well.

Thanks! Can a prepaid phone be used just like a monthly-billed phone?

[stevew]

Yeah. You just have to make sure it's an unlocked phone. Also you want to make sure it supports tmobile 3G if you're using data. Most of the unlocked phones only support AT&T

[stevew]

This actually looks like a really good deal here. Older phone, but effective cost of 169.
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/p...y-S-4G-Prepaid

Unsure if it does video chat, but I'd imagine.

[Passacaglia]

Looks like it does, thanks! I'll have to check that one out.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

Or we could give him a break and realize he's going through a tough time.

I thought we were... he wanted advice. We gave it to him. Whether it is followed or not is his choice. It's tough on him. I just hope he knows that people are there for him

[Chief Rum]

I was just pleasantly surprised to discover that if someone leaves their gum in one of those waterless toilets and you blast it around the bowl, you can get a little bit of a minty scent out of the toilet.

[stevew]

The Amish, specifically their on-road transportation, really test my limits of religious tolerance. They should be kicked off the road

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Grover

Shameless plug, give me a 'like!'

Alright, done.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by stevew

The Amish, specifically their on-road transportation, really test my limits of religious tolerance. They should be kicked off the road

Shouldn't this be in the Pet Peeves thread?

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[MacroGuru]

There are certain people that should be thankful I am no longer an angry person that loses his temper...because I would be serving jail time after the shit that was pulled tonight.

[Ron Mexico]

I want to wear a Falcons Mexico #7 jersey to the Eagles-Falcons game this season, but the NFL Shop still has it banned.

[britrock88]

Can you grab a generic #7 and have someone else put "Mexico" on there?

[korme]

Originally Posted by britrock88

Can you grab a generic #7 and have someone else put "Mexico" on there?

I believe you can do this at Cardboard Heroes, it's one way many people around here use to get a Pete Rose jersey

[booradley]

I'm toying with the following Personal Challenge - throw myself into my job 100% for one year and see what dividends it reaps. Don't get me wrong, I do a good job now, but I definitely pursue "life balance." What if I didn't? If I went absolute balls-to-the-walls, I'd have a major impact on my company. Transform it. But there'd be a major hit to time spent on games, girls, sports, socializing. Basically, I'd be a tunnel-visioned beast. Does anyone else here wonder what would happen if you made your job the end-all-and-be-all of your life? Just for a while? No? Well, this IS the thread for random thoughts, right?

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by booradley

I'm toying with the following Personal Challenge - throw myself into my job 100% for one year and see what dividends it reaps. Don't get me wrong, I do a good job now, but I definitely pursue "life balance." What if I didn't? If I went absolute balls-to-the-walls, I'd have a major impact on my company. Transform it. But there'd be a major hit to time spent on games, girls, sports, socializing. Basically, I'd be a tunnel-visioned beast. Does anyone else here wonder what would happen if you made your job the end-all-and-be-all of your life? Just for a while? No? Well, this IS the thread for random thoughts, right?

I wonder this sometimes...

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Originally Posted by Ron Mexico

I want to wear a Falcons Mexico #7 jersey to the Eagles-Falcons game this season, but the NFL Shop still has it banned.

How about an Eagles 7 Mexico? VT?

[Ron Mexico]

Originally Posted by M GO BLUE!!!

How about an Eagles 7 Mexico? VT?

"Mexico" is a banned word, so it won't matter for an Eagles #7 (although I wouldn't be caught dead in an Eagles jersey-- even for a joke)

Didn't think about VT, and I'll have to give the Cardboard Heroes thing a shot.

Tried to link the image, but I do have a t-shirt of Vick in a sombrero with a caption of "I'd hit it". The jersey would be far better though.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

How about a Falcons 7 with "Woof"

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Mxeico

Then you get out the scissors, needle & thread.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by booradley

I'm toying with the following Personal Challenge - throw myself into my job 100% for one year and see what dividends it reaps. Don't get me wrong, I do a good job now, but I definitely pursue "life balance." What if I didn't? If I went absolute balls-to-the-walls, I'd have a major impact on my company. Transform it. But there'd be a major hit to time spent on games, girls, sports, socializing. Basically, I'd be a tunnel-visioned beast. Does anyone else here wonder what would happen if you made your job the end-all-and-be-all of your life? Just for a while? No? Well, this IS the thread for random thoughts, right?

I've wondered what would happen if my wife died and that's the only thing I could come up with. That said, my marriage is pretty much infinitely more important than my job so we won't know barring something awful happening

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[Ron Mexico]

Worst part is by the time the game comes he'll either be a) hurt or b) benched

[Matthean]

Going from 0 hours of math in my life to 24 hours in a week just to stay afloat in my 8 week college class has been a wee bit more of a jump than I was expecting. Granted, I thought it was a typical 16 week one and I figured it was "only" precalc. It is, but it's been so long that getting back into it has been a bigger struggle than expected.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Matthean

Going from 0 hours of math in my life to 24 hours in a week just to stay afloat in my 8 week college class has been a wee bit more of a jump than I was expecting. Granted, I thought it was a typical 16 week one and I figured it was "only" precalc. It is, but it's been so long that getting back into it has been a bigger struggle than expected.

I'm dreading taking math. I already passed it a bunch of years ago, but they won't count it cause they are dicks.

Also not digging the foreign language requirement.

[cartman]

I haven't taken a decongestant with pseudo-ephedrine in a few years. I took one last night, and have they changed the formula or something? It is only one step removed from straight crystal meth. I only slept a couple of hours last night, and am still wide awake right now. Pseudo-ephedrine has never affected me like that before.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by cartman

I haven't taken a decongestant with pseudo-ephedrine in a few years. I took one last night, and have they changed the formula or something? It is only one step removed from straight crystal meth. I only slept a couple of hours last night, and am still wide awake right now. Pseudo-ephedrine has never affected me like that before.

Decongestant rules for me are simple: Psuedoephedrine during the day (Claritin D is my drug of choice), good old fashioned Benadryl at night. Both work really well as decongestants and that way you mitigate the side effects as you want to be awake during the day and asleep at night.

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[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by Matthean

Going from 0 hours of math in my life to 24 hours in a week just to stay afloat in my 8 week college class has been a wee bit more of a jump than I was expecting. Granted, I thought it was a typical 16 week one and I figured it was "only" precalc. It is, but it's been so long that getting back into it has been a bigger struggle than expected.

I'm taking an online machine learning class through Coursera, and even thought I've done a lot of 3D math programming since school, it's amazing how much linear algebra I'd forgotten when it comes to giant matrices and vectors and the math operations you can do. I think I'm finally over the hump, though.

[Honolulu_Blue]

This morning I was reading my town's little free weekly newspaper. I enjoy reading it, mainly for the entertaining "crime watch" reports or whatever local "scandal" is going on. I like my small town dramas.

One of the cover articles this week was about a woman in my neighborhood who got the West Nile Virus from a mosquito bite. It turns out it was our next door neighbor.

OUTSIDE. BANNED.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

i just fanboy'd out on somebody that called pt anderson overrated. DO YOU KNOW WHAT UNCANNY IS!?! of course you don't you fucking dullard

then i felt bad and apologized. then we bonded over agreeing that maya rudolph was a good choice for a wife and heather graham was super hot in boogie nights

i get mad at people that espouse opinion as truth then i do the same thing