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rowech · 03-16-2013, 10:11 AM

I'm addicted to going to realtor.com and just looking at the run-down houses from bigger cities. It's amazing how much history you can see in some of these houses and how trashed they really are. There's more than a part of you that will look at them and want to buy the houses and then fix them up. Then sanity hits you.

thesloppy · 03-16-2013, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by B & B

I watch a lot of sports on television. This week with Ncaa tourneys probably around 70-80 hours.

Due to overexposure of commercials, it feels like Im on a first name basis with Joe Theismann's super beta prostate.

You'd have to take 3 BILLION saw palmetto capsules to get as much beta-sitosterol as you can get from just gazing upon a single super beta prostate gelcap.

bob · 03-16-2013, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

ISO 8583 is the spawn of satan.

Furthermore, any document that contains this...

...should be burned, and its writer shot.

I feel your pain...which financial company do you work for?

Suburban Rhythm · 03-17-2013, 09:00 PM

My son scored his first mite level goal tonight. I swear he jumped two feet off the ice afterwards. And hugged his coach when his shift ended.

I met him coming off the ice, he was screaming "I SCORED!!"

He's on cloud 9 now...not even close to ready for bed.

Awesome night all around.

spleen1015 · 03-17-2013, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Suburban Rhythm

My son scored his first mite level goal tonight. I swear he jumped two feet off the ice afterwards. And hugged his coach when his shift ended.

I met him coming off the ice, he was screaming "I SCORED!!"

He's on cloud 9 now...not even close to ready for bed.

Awesome night all around.

That's awesome! How old is he?

DaddyTorgo · 03-17-2013, 09:53 PM

I think I've overdosed on Vitamin C. I juiced 8 oranges and drank them after dinner, and I probably had like 4 other oranges yesterday.

Hehehe.

Suicane75 · 03-18-2013, 12:57 AM

Do you look like this yet?

Suburban Rhythm · 03-18-2013, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by spleen1015

That's awesome! How old is he?

He's 6. Mite league is 6-8.

korme · 03-18-2013, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Suburban Rhythm

He's 6. Mite league is 6-8.

So your six-year old son can skate better than I can, cool.

Suburban Rhythm · 03-18-2013, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by korme

So your six-year old son can skate better than I can, cool.

Without seeing your form....yes.

But probably not by much. There are kids who can flat out fly.

stevew · 03-19-2013, 12:10 AM

I hate that shit where you need like 3 feet of trim to finish a project, yet you search the scrap pile and you're all out. Now I gotta wait until the morning when Lowe's opens...I could easily finish this job now.

korme · 03-19-2013, 08:52 AM

Lil Wayne passed Elvis Presley as the male with the most entries on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, 109 songs as of 9/27/12

Chief Rum · 03-19-2013, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by korme

Lil Wayne passed Elvis Presley as the male with the most entries on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, 109 songs as of 9/27/12

I am guessing that includes songs where he is featured, too, but not the primary artist?

Matthean · 03-19-2013, 11:42 AM

Ohio School Shooter TJ Lane Laughs, Gives Finger at His Sentencing - Yahoo! News

Something tells me I'm glad I'm not a parent in Ohio.

stevew · 03-19-2013, 12:37 PM

Just execute him

rowech · 03-19-2013, 07:12 PM

I really wish the media would stop accidentally making heroes out of these would be or actually are killers.

Lathum · 03-20-2013, 08:01 AM

Pretty cool story

Dropkick Murphys Singer Kicks the Crap Out of Skinhead Doing Nazi Salute on Stage During St. Patrick's Day Concert

Coffee Warlord · 03-20-2013, 08:40 AM

Colorado prison chief found dead - CNN.com

Though I never directly spoke with him, I spent 4 years writing code indirectly for the guy. (CDOC was one of our clients at my prior job). Odds are, if they promote in house, I'll personally know his successor. Sad, and kinda weird.

Lathum · 03-20-2013, 08:46 AM

Sad story.Surprised we don't see more of this stuff. Lots of angry ex-cons out there

RendeR · 03-20-2013, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

Pretty cool story

Dropkick Murphys Singer Kicks the Crap Out of Skinhead Doing Nazi Salute on Stage During St. Patrick's Day Concert

Awesome.

Coffee Warlord · 03-20-2013, 08:48 AM

About guarantee that's what it was, too. Some of those guys out on parole are angry and/or very crazy folks.

Lathum · 03-20-2013, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

About guarantee that's what it was, too. Some of those guys out on parole are angry and/or very crazy folks.

When I was in high school a buddy of mines dad was a correction officer and he would run into guys all the time that were ex cons. I have a cousin who is a cop and he also has stories about seeing guys he arrested when he is at the mall with his kids, etc...

Coffee Warlord · 03-20-2013, 08:57 AM

Yeeeeep. It's not all that hard for a motivated and angry ex-con to find out where correction officers / parole agents lived.

And frankly, since I designed a big portion of the monitoring system, there's more than a few holes in how it works (one of the reasons I quite was the fact that I wasn't given the support needed to actually make it stable & good).

stevew · 03-21-2013, 03:23 PM

I've been doing a lot of demo work in various places throughout the house lately. Stuff like ripping up carpet, lots of side projects, throwing out the mountain of shit that the old owner left in the attic*, etc. Anyways since we have limited trash service, I can only work as much as filling up our individual can each week. This gets frustrating.

Anyways, the other day I called to see how much it would be for extra bags of trash, as I finally have just about tossed all of the old stuff in the attic and want to get done. They tell me it's 4$ a bag. I estimate that I have maybe 4 bags of their shit left, and go about the procedure of getting the tag/informing the driver. The lady then tells me that a 16 bag bulk pickup is only a total of 8$. Now I'm pissed I didn't know this sooner and could have chucked all their junk a long fucking time ago.

*as to the mountain of old owner junk, we bought a foreclosed home with little to no walk through several years ago and only recently discovered these specific storage attics which were packed full of absolute junk like candle holders and moldy baby clothes.

korme · 03-21-2013, 03:42 PM

I still standby the fact that today is called the "2nd Round" is one of the dumbest sports things ever.

Honolulu_Blue · 03-21-2013, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by korme

I still standby the fact that today is called the "2nd Round" is one of the dumbest sports things ever.

I concur wholeheartedly.

molson · 03-21-2013, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by korme

I still standby the fact that today is called the "2nd Round" is one of the dumbest sports things ever.

I wonder what the NCAA thinks would happen if they called the Dayton round the "preliminary round", or the "play-in round"? Do they think college basketball would implode? Would TV ratings and attendance for those Dayton games collapse? I think this is what happens when you employ too many people and they all have to justify their existence with powerpoint presentations with wacky ideas.

JonInMiddleGA · 03-21-2013, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by molson

I wonder what the NCAA thinks would happen if they called the Dayton round the "preliminary round", or the "play-in round"? Do they think college basketball would implode? Would TV ratings and attendance for those Dayton games collapse?

You mean would the ratings suck any more than they already do? They're already doing a fairly pathetic 0.4 A18-49, and that's with 14% growth over last year.

JediKooter · 03-21-2013, 04:18 PM

Is today the first day of Spring? I'm too lazy to Yahoogle it.

molson · 03-21-2013, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by JediKooter

Is today the first day of Spring? I'm too lazy to Yahoogle it.

I asked Jeeves and he said it was yesterday.

Lathum · 03-21-2013, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by JediKooter

Is today the first day of Spring? I'm too lazy to Yahoogle it.

I think yesterday wa.

JediKooter · 03-21-2013, 04:51 PM

Thanks guys. So much for Plan A...

sabotai · 03-21-2013, 06:13 PM

Today is the first full day of spring. Spring officially started at 7:02 (EDT) AM yesterday.

JediKooter · 03-21-2013, 06:28 PM

Ah, well, there we go!

cuervo72 · 03-21-2013, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by molson

I asked Jeeves and he said it was yesterday.

I asked SportsDigs and they said March 7.

spleen1015 · 03-21-2013, 07:49 PM

Nicky Flash!

Critch · 03-22-2013, 10:46 AM

I dont think he's famous enough in the US to have his own thread but:

James Herbert - we hardly knew ye. "Rats", "Fluke", "Lair", "Fog", you were the king of the One Word Title Horror Novel With Random Sex Scene genre. You were my favorite author when I was 14 (along with Harry Harrison and Sven Hassel). You'll be missed.

molson · 03-22-2013, 10:54 AM

I miss SportsDigs. Even though I don't really know what it was. Except that it was always very timely.

rowech · 03-22-2013, 06:04 PM

My lifetime streak of not having the flu has officially ended. No wonder everyone hates this.

sabotai · 03-22-2013, 08:05 PM

I was driving to Cherry Hill a little while ago and thought I saw a meteor that went overhead. The sky flashed a few times, and then I saw this white dot go across the sky for a second and disappear.

Thought I may have just been seeing things, but my google-fu is turning up reports or a major meteor event (in which case, I guess I missed the main event) in my area. Guess that white dot was a tiny fragment or something.

sabotai · 03-22-2013, 08:06 PM

dola,

Meteor reported flashing across N.J. sky | NJ.com

Kodos · 03-25-2013, 08:31 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Reason

Interesting. Found this when I was seeing if we had a National Atheist Day.

Chief Rum · 03-25-2013, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by sabotai

I was driving to Cherry Hill a little while ago and thought I saw a meteor that went overhead. The sky flashed a few times, and then I saw this white dot go across the sky for a second and disappear.

Thought I may have just been seeing things, but my google-fu is turning up reports or a major meteor event (in which case, I guess I missed the main event) in my area. Guess that white dot was a tiny fragment or something.

Last September, Labor Day early morning, I was driving two drunk friends home when I saw a floating white light in the sky in front of me (and a little to the left). I was in Yorba Linda driving toward Fullerton, and the light seemed to be descending toward the Santa Ana river bed (urban river, it's really more of a stream most of the time). One friend was completely passed out so she was no good, and my friend in the back seat was awake but he has the hearing of Helen Keller and the attention span of a mollusk (and he was inebriated), so by the time he looked it up it was gone.

Still trips me out thinking about it. I searched for it on the Internet, but I guess no one else saw it (or reported it, at least).

stevew · 03-25-2013, 10:45 AM

Was looking at an ESPN Madden article and this jumped off the page

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Ever wonder why elite punters never had a high rating in "Madden"? Ratings guru Donny Moore breaks it down: "The funny thing is, we couldn't put a punter at 99 overall because of franchise mode. The way the logic worked in the franchise draft, if you had a punter at 99 overall, you would have a team spend a fifth- or sixth-round pick on Shane Lechler. So no matter how good of a punter you were, we would artificially need to keep your rating down. It sounds silly, but that's just how it was. We finally fixed the logic, so now Lechler is where he belongs at 99."

No wonder the game engine is/was always shit.

cartman · 03-25-2013, 10:49 AM

I never realized that the song 'Badge' by Cream was co-written by George Harrison.

sabotai · 03-25-2013, 02:43 PM

What a craptastic day. Time to open the wine bottle. See you in the drunk guy thread.

sabotai · 03-25-2013, 10:49 PM

I think I should stop drinking.

britrock88 · 03-25-2013, 11:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cartman

I never realized that the song 'Badge' by Cream was co-written by George Harrison.

Doesn't that realization add something to it?

Draft Dodger · 03-26-2013, 06:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cartman

I never realized that the song 'Badge' by Cream was co-written by George Harrison.

similarly, I just recently discovered that Clapton played on While My Guitar Gently Weeps

MacroGuru · 03-26-2013, 08:59 AM

Sure, we would love to repair your projector for you at no cost since you purchased it from us. Oh, what was that, you didn't purchase that projector from us.

Sorry, we will no longer be able to service that projector. You must go back to your original vendor.

Yeah, that was my call this morning to one of my clients. It pisses me off that they go with low bid sometimes and then expects me to clean up their mess for free.

03-17-2013, 09:00 PM	#11154
Suburban Rhythm Pro Starter Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Pittsburgh	My son scored his first mite level goal tonight. I swear he jumped two feet off the ice afterwards. And hugged his coach when his shift ended. I met him coming off the ice, he was screaming "I SCORED!!" He's on cloud 9 now...not even close to ready for bed. Awesome night all around. __________________ "Do you guys play fast tempos with odd time signatures?" "Yeah" "Cool!!"

03-19-2013, 11:42 AM	#11164
Matthean Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Aug 2008	Ohio School Shooter TJ Lane Laughs, Gives Finger at His Sentencing - Yahoo! News Something tells me I'm glad I'm not a parent in Ohio. __________________ Board games: Bringing people back to the original social network, the table.

03-19-2013, 07:12 PM	#11166
rowech Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2006	I really wish the media would stop accidentally making heroes out of these would be or actually are killers. Last edited by rowech : 03-19-2013 at 07:12 PM.

03-21-2013, 03:23 PM	#11174
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	I've been doing a lot of demo work in various places throughout the house lately. Stuff like ripping up carpet, lots of side projects, throwing out the mountain of shit that the old owner left in the attic, etc. Anyways since we have limited trash service, I can only work as much as filling up our individual can each week. This gets frustrating. Anyways, the other day I called to see how much it would be for extra bags of trash, as I finally have just about tossed all of the old stuff in the attic and want to get done. They tell me it's 4$ a bag. I estimate that I have maybe 4 bags of their shit left, and go about the procedure of getting the tag/informing the driver. The lady then tells me that a 16 bag bulk pickup is only a total of 8$. Now I'm pissed I didn't know this sooner and could have chucked all their junk a long fucking time ago. as to the mountain of old owner junk, we bought a foreclosed home with little to no walk through several years ago and only recently discovered these specific storage attics which were packed full of absolute junk like candle holders and moldy baby clothes. Last edited by stevew : 03-21-2013 at 03:24 PM.

03-21-2013, 04:18 PM	#11179
JediKooter Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego	Is today the first day of Spring? I'm too lazy to Yahoogle it. __________________ I'm no longer a Chargers fan, they are dead to me Coming this summer to a movie theater near you: The Adventures of Jedikooter: Part 4

03-16-2013, 10:11 AM	#11151
rowech Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2006	I'm addicted to going to realtor.com and just looking at the run-down houses from bigger cities. It's amazing how much history you can see in some of these houses and how trashed they really are. There's more than a part of you that will look at them and want to buy the houses and then fix them up. Then sanity hits you.

03-17-2013, 09:53 PM	#11156
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	I think I've overdosed on Vitamin C. I juiced 8 oranges and drank them after dinner, and I probably had like 4 other oranges yesterday. Hehehe.

03-18-2013, 12:57 AM	#11157
Suicane75 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NJ	Do you look like this yet?

03-19-2013, 12:10 AM	#11161
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	I hate that shit where you need like 3 feet of trim to finish a project, yet you search the scrap pile and you're all out. Now I gotta wait until the morning when Lowe's opens...I could easily finish this job now.

03-19-2013, 08:52 AM	#11162
korme Go Reds Join Date: May 2001 Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio	Lil Wayne passed Elvis Presley as the male with the most entries on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, 109 songs as of 9/27/12

03-19-2013, 12:37 PM	#11165
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	Just execute him

03-20-2013, 08:01 AM	#11167
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	Pretty cool story Dropkick Murphys Singer Kicks the Crap Out of Skinhead Doing Nazi Salute on Stage During St. Patrick's Day Concert

03-20-2013, 08:40 AM	#11168
Coffee Warlord Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Colorado Springs	Colorado prison chief found dead - CNN.com Though I never directly spoke with him, I spent 4 years writing code indirectly for the guy. (CDOC was one of our clients at my prior job). Odds are, if they promote in house, I'll personally know his successor. Sad, and kinda weird.

03-20-2013, 08:46 AM	#11169
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	Sad story.Surprised we don't see more of this stuff. Lots of angry ex-cons out there

03-20-2013, 08:48 AM	#11171
Coffee Warlord Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Colorado Springs	About guarantee that's what it was, too. Some of those guys out on parole are angry and/or very crazy folks.

03-20-2013, 08:57 AM	#11173
Coffee Warlord Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Colorado Springs	Yeeeeep. It's not all that hard for a motivated and angry ex-con to find out where correction officers / parole agents lived. And frankly, since I designed a big portion of the monitoring system, there's more than a few holes in how it works (one of the reasons I quite was the fact that I wasn't given the support needed to actually make it stable & good).

03-21-2013, 03:42 PM	#11175
korme Go Reds Join Date: May 2001 Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio	I still standby the fact that today is called the "2nd Round" is one of the dumbest sports things ever.

03-21-2013, 04:51 PM	#11182
JediKooter Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego	Thanks guys. So much for Plan A... __________________ I'm no longer a Chargers fan, they are dead to me Coming this summer to a movie theater near you: The Adventures of Jedikooter: Part 4

03-21-2013, 06:13 PM	#11183
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	Today is the first full day of spring. Spring officially started at 7:02 (EDT) AM yesterday. Last edited by sabotai : 03-21-2013 at 06:13 PM.

03-21-2013, 06:28 PM	#11184
JediKooter Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego	Ah, well, there we go! __________________ I'm no longer a Chargers fan, they are dead to me Coming this summer to a movie theater near you: The Adventures of Jedikooter: Part 4

03-21-2013, 07:49 PM	#11186
spleen1015 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003	Nicky Flash! __________________ Why choose failure when success is an option?

03-22-2013, 10:46 AM	#11187
Critch lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Herndon, VA	I dont think he's famous enough in the US to have his own thread but: James Herbert - we hardly knew ye. "Rats", "Fluke", "Lair", "Fog", you were the king of the One Word Title Horror Novel With Random Sex Scene genre. You were my favorite author when I was 14 (along with Harry Harrison and Sven Hassel). You'll be missed.

03-22-2013, 10:54 AM	#11188
molson General Manager Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Mountains	I miss SportsDigs. Even though I don't really know what it was. Except that it was always very timely.

03-22-2013, 06:04 PM	#11189
rowech Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2006	My lifetime streak of not having the flu has officially ended. No wonder everyone hates this.

03-22-2013, 08:05 PM	#11190
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	I was driving to Cherry Hill a little while ago and thought I saw a meteor that went overhead. The sky flashed a few times, and then I saw this white dot go across the sky for a second and disappear. Thought I may have just been seeing things, but my google-fu is turning up reports or a major meteor event (in which case, I guess I missed the main event) in my area. Guess that white dot was a tiny fragment or something.

03-22-2013, 08:06 PM	#11191
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	dola, Meteor reported flashing across N.J. sky \| NJ.com

03-25-2013, 08:31 AM	#11192
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Reason Interesting. Found this when I was seeing if we had a National Atheist Day.

03-25-2013, 10:49 AM	#11195
cartman Death Herald Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas	I never realized that the song 'Badge' by Cream was co-written by George Harrison. __________________ Thinkin' of a master plan 'Cuz ain't nuthin' but sweat inside my hand So I dig into my pocket, all my money is spent So I dig deeper but still comin' up with lint

03-25-2013, 02:43 PM	#11196
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	What a craptastic day. Time to open the wine bottle. See you in the drunk guy thread.

03-25-2013, 10:49 PM	#11197
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	I think I should stop drinking.

03-26-2013, 08:59 AM	#11200
MacroGuru Coordinator Join Date: May 2003 Location: Utah	Sure, we would love to repair your projector for you at no cost since you purchased it from us. Oh, what was that, you didn't purchase that projector from us. Sorry, we will no longer be able to service that projector. You must go back to your original vendor. Yeah, that was my call this morning to one of my clients. It pisses me off that they go with low bid sometimes and then expects me to clean up their mess for free. __________________ "forgetting what is in the past, I strive for the future"

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