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mckerney · 03-31-2013, 01:26 PM

While Google chose to feature a devout follower of Christ who has been hailed as a model for Catholics while Bing opts to insult Christians and promotes a symbol of pagan fertility celebrations.

stevew · 03-31-2013, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by B & B

The time when I could visit ESPN.com with my speakers on seems so long ago...............

agree but its possible the Weather Channel is the worst when it comes to noise.

DanGarion · 04-02-2013, 12:54 PM

Well the job search saga continues. Last month I had an interview at my former employer (TWC) for a supervisor position in another department. I interviewed with the hiring manager and then with his director. I thought it went great. In fact they are both people I know from the company and that I have worked with as a peer at some point or another. Three weeks went by and no word (even though I was promised I would be called regardless of the outcome). I email my recruiter for the position and she tells me they haven't made a decision and that she thinks the position is on a temporary hold (it's not a customer facing position, those typically get held up).

In the mean time I've been applying for other positions at TWC and outside of TWC. I get contacted by a different recruiter for another supervisor position in different function under the same department I put my name in for. The recruiter tells me that they want to interview me and he just has a couple questions. I come to find out that this position is also under the same manager and he wants me to come in and interview. According to the recruiter for this position I will only be interviewing with him and not the director and he will be making a decision within a week of the interview.

I think this is positive news. Any of the hiring managers around here have any thoughts? I've worked with this guy before, heck most of the first interview with him was just talking and seeing how things were going and what I've been up to.

stevew · 04-02-2013, 01:59 PM

I know someone has probably made the comparison, but Arby's sauce and Horsey sauce are like a 2 part sandwich bliss epoxy. Either one on the sandwich, meh. Combined they join forces like voltron.

ISiddiqui · 04-02-2013, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by jeff061

I love the backlash. It's amusing, getting angry over it though? People need more real tribulation in their lives.

I never understood why some of my fellow Christians want special treatment from Google. AFAIK, Google doesn't honor any religious holiday with its doodle.

And Chavez was a big time Catholic

.

DanGarion · 04-02-2013, 03:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PilotMan

AOL is always available or:

I prefer FinderSpyder

britrock88 · 04-02-2013, 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevew

I know someone has probably made the comparison, but Arby's sauce and Horsey sauce are like a 2 part sandwich bliss epoxy. Either one on the sandwich, meh. Combined they join forces like voltron.

Agreed.

Matthean · 04-03-2013, 10:19 AM

Where did all the money go? How $700 million in Katrina relief money went missing | Power Players - Yahoo! News

Lathum · 04-04-2013, 08:02 AM

I will never purchase another GE product again if I can help it.

Our 4 month old dishwasher broke, causing water to spill out all over the kitchen floor in our newly built house. Called our builder who arranged for GE service to come out. Service came and left yesterday, wife turns dishwasher on, water everywhere again. Calls service and tells them about it and they tell her they can't get someone out until Monday. Wife informs them unacceptable and the tech needs to turn around and return, nope, they say can't do it. Wife has to go back to work. So now she has to take another day off work, and is also 8 months pregnant, so the water stood until I got home.

Dreadful customer service, they should have had the tech turn right around and come back to my house.

claphamsa · 04-04-2013, 08:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by B & B

The time when I could visit ESPN.com with my speakers on seems so long ago...............

Chrome will block videos for you

DougW · 04-04-2013, 11:05 AM

All my life, I have bought and eaten

But, then, Hostess went under, or w/e they did. So, I tried

And it was just as good. Dumb move Hostess, even if/when you come back, I'll stick with the Sunbeam now.

MacroGuru · 04-04-2013, 11:18 AM

I hate Windows 8 so far...

Lathum · 04-04-2013, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by MacroGuru

I hate Windows 8 so far...

Its fucking horrible, I'll move my mouse and all of a sudden some group of windows randomly opens. The photo steam is also dreadful, can't stand it.

mckerney · 04-04-2013, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by MacroGuru

I hate Windows 8 so far...

Get Start8, it will make everything better.

Stardock also put out a program that lets you run Modern apps in a Window. Though i can't say there's anything I'm the Windows 8 store I've been interested in other than Skulls of the Shogun (which not having a windowed mode was kind of a deal breaker for), but I'm just going to wait until that comes to Steam.

stevew · 04-04-2013, 11:38 AM

Windows 8 is fine, I don't mind it all.

stevew · 04-04-2013, 11:38 AM

So i was looking at the wikipedia-

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The song contains the erroneous reference to King's shooting as "Early morning, April 4", when it actually occurred after 6 p.m. Bono acknowledges the error and in live performances he occasionally changes the lyric to "Early evening...".

QuikSand · 04-04-2013, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by stevew

So i was looking at the wikipedia-

more related research

PilotMan · 04-04-2013, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by stevew

Windows 8 is fine, I don't mind it all.

This is me. It takes time to get retrain yourself. I don't use the start page much at all, but it has tremendous potential.

MacroGuru · 04-04-2013, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by stevew

Windows 8 is fine, I don't mind it all.

Well, I use Windows Phone 8, I am used to the UI, but I guess it's part of me learning how to use it with a mouse or getting to where I need to and with the new machine I have now, it's just going to take me a little longer to get used to it.

stevew · 04-04-2013, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by QuikSand

more related research

Happy birthday. How does 45 look? I still have a few more years to go.

Izulde · 04-04-2013, 01:56 PM

I actually kind of like 8, now that I've gotten in the habit of pinning my most used programs on the taskbar. I just stay in desktop mod; the apps do nothing for me.

Draft Dodger · 04-04-2013, 06:58 PM

Happy birthday robot man

cuervo72 · 04-04-2013, 07:47 PM

There's a FB group devoted to alumni of my high school who have passed. I can barely stand to read it - not because of the personal tragedies, but because of the grammatical ones. I swear these people are barely literate.

#schoolpride

cuervo72 · 04-04-2013, 08:48 PM

Wasn't someone asking for advice concerning an upcoming trip to the US? I can't find the thread.

stevew · 04-04-2013, 08:54 PM

Icy and Groundhog (but not together)

cuervo72 · 04-04-2013, 09:13 PM

Ah thanks - I was thinking of Groundhog's. Was wondering if he or one of his buds wrote in to this week's KSK Sex & Fantasy Football Mailbag.

(should have figured Groundhog, but brain couldn't come up with the list of our Aussie contingent

)

stevew · 04-04-2013, 09:24 PM

It took me like 6 different articles to figure out how the dude from Buckwild Shain something died. I give it an 8/10 on the redneck death scale, not quite look ma no hands.

M GO BLUE!!! · 04-04-2013, 09:47 PM

I wish my dog would stop eating string. I am tired of having to pull it out his ass when it won't all come out and there is a turd just dangling...

INDalltheway · 04-04-2013, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by stevew

It took me like 6 different articles to figure out how the dude from Buckwild Shain something died. I give it an 8/10 on the redneck death scale, not quite look ma no hands.

Kid had a heart of gold. Can't help but feel bad.

BYU 14 · 04-05-2013, 09:58 AM

Car will by paid off in 2 months......Minus the house payment and related bills will then be totally debt free

finketr · 04-05-2013, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by cuervo72

Wasn't someone asking for advice concerning an upcoming trip to the US? I can't find the thread.

21c is as well

korme · 04-05-2013, 01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevew

It took me like 6 different articles to figure out how the dude from Buckwild Shain something died. I give it an 8/10 on the redneck death scale, not quite look ma no hands.

Facebook'd

korme · 04-05-2013, 02:18 PM

ESPN's ticker reads something like: "Former Ravens LB Brendon Ayenbadejo tells ESPN that at least 4 current NFL players are considering coming out as gay."

Doesn't that seem like a non story in 2013?

In reality, there's probably 100.

mckerney · 04-05-2013, 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by korme

ESPN's ticker reads something like: "Former Ravens LB Brendon Ayenbadejo tells ESPN that at least 4 current NFL players are considering coming out as gay."

Doesn't that seem like a non story in 2013?

In reality, there's probably 100.

I think it's still a story since there hasn't been an active player in the NFL to come out yet. After the first and maybe the few who immediately follow I doubt it will really be one though.

JeeberD · 04-05-2013, 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Ah thanks - I was thinking of Groundhog's. Was wondering if he or one of his buds wrote in to this week's KSK Sex & Fantasy Football Mailbag.

(should have figured Groundhog, but brain couldn't come up with the list of our Aussie contingent

)

Possibly one of his friends, but Groundhog has a girlfriend, so I doubt it was him...

M GO BLUE!!! · 04-05-2013, 09:40 PM

Found out a cousin died. Didn't really know her & she lived in a group home (she was mentally retarded.) A woman in a group home dying isn't anything to make note of really, until I heard how... She slipped & fell. Landed on an oddly shaped planter and was impaled. Didn't die immediately, but from complications due to fluid buildup thanks to the the planter going through a lung. Damn.

M GO BLUE!!! · 04-06-2013, 10:09 AM

google will not let you create a gmail account that uses "fuck" in the address.

britrock88 · 04-06-2013, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by M GO BLUE!!!

google will not let you create a gmail account that uses "fuck" in the address.

Sucks to be you, Fred Uckman...

bhlloy · 04-06-2013, 03:36 PM

Do we have any mortgage experts in the house? I have a 30 year FHA loan that I put down just under 10% on, I want to know if the changes going in June 1st mean I will be paying MPI for the life of the loan or if I'm still good once I get 22% down and 5 years.

Getting a shit ton of spam that is obviously trying to scare me into refinancing ASAP but also looking online I'm unable to get a clear answer.

DanGarion · 04-06-2013, 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bhlloy

Do we have any mortgage experts in the house? I have a 30 year FHA loan that I put down just under 10% on, I want to know if the changes going in June 1st mean I will be paying MPI for the life of the loan or if I'm still good once I get 22% down and 5 years.

Getting a shit ton of spam that is obviously trying to scare me into refinancing ASAP but also looking online I'm unable to get a clear answer.

When did you get your loan?

I think this explains it the best of what I've read so far.

How To Beat The April 1, 2013 FHA MIP Changes

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Refinance An Existing FHA Mortgage From Before June 1, 2009

The FHA rewards its long-time customers with low MIP rates.

If your current FHA-insured mortgage pre-dates June 1, 2009, the FHA will allow to you use the FHA Streamline Refinance program and not require you to pay the new, higher MIP rates.

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All FHA Purchases, And Refinances Of An Existing FHA Mortgage From After June 1, 2009

For new FHA purchase loans, and for refinances of an FHA-backed mortgage from on, or after, June 1, 2009, the federal agency applies a different series of mortgage insurance premiums.

First, the FHA will continue to assess an upfront mortgage insurance premium of 1.75% of the loan size for all new borrowers, or $1,750 for every $100,000 borrowed. This is the same rate at which the FHA currently assesses UFMIP.

Suburban Rhythm · 04-06-2013, 04:45 PM

This pains me to say.

I've never been one of those people to be overly dependent on my phone. I checked email, texts, even FOFC fairly regularly, but mostly out of boredom, not necessity.

Thing morning my Galaxy SII bit the dust, only 8 months old, so it's covered under the warranty still. But, now I'm without a phone...and I feel helpless!

Can't find my old Galaxy...best I have right now is my mom's previous flip phone.

bhlloy · 04-06-2013, 07:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanGarion

When did you get your loan?

I think this explains it the best of what I've read so far.

How To Beat The April 1, 2013 FHA MIP Changes

I'm less concerned about the rates, and I'm more concerned about having to pay the MIP over the lifetime of the loan rather than just for the first 5 years. I've scoured that particular site and haven't got a good answer.

FTR, our loan is from August 2011

Matthean · 04-06-2013, 07:51 PM

Not like I ever had a chance with the girl, but someone posted pics from her bachelorette party on FB and there was that moment of "Damn it."

Scoobz0202 · 04-06-2013, 08:01 PM

Heard sirens as I was sitting down for dinner about an hour and a half ago. Didn't think anything of it. Neighbor lady knocks on the door about fifteen minutes ago saying they found the body of a child in the creek at the end of our road. So sad.

M GO BLUE!!! · 04-06-2013, 10:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scoobz0202

Heard sirens as I was sitting down for dinner about an hour and a half ago. Didn't think anything of it. Neighbor lady knocks on the door about fifteen minutes ago saying they found the body of a child in the creek at the end of our road. So sad.

JeeberD · 04-07-2013, 12:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by M GO BLUE!!!

google will not let you create a gmail account that uses "fuck" in the address.

Schmidty found that out a couple of days ago...

korme · 04-07-2013, 11:30 AM

It's officially baseball season. I just canceled a movie date because the Reds are playing at the same time.

JonInMiddleGA · 04-07-2013, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JeeberD

Schmidty found that out a couple of days ago...

Hell, fuckingSportsDigs (.com) knew that weeks ago

korme · 04-08-2013, 10:47 AM

Very happy for Bernard King

MacroGuru · 04-09-2013, 05:20 PM

So I had a couple of thoughts...

1) Anyone else as intrigued as I am about the red head on the Wendy's commercial...I am thinking her in a black cat suit..

2) Just finished reading The Forever War and found out Ridley Scott is going to direct a movie on it.

04-02-2013, 12:54 PM	#11253
DanGarion Coordinator Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The Great Northwest	Well the job search saga continues. Last month I had an interview at my former employer (TWC) for a supervisor position in another department. I interviewed with the hiring manager and then with his director. I thought it went great. In fact they are both people I know from the company and that I have worked with as a peer at some point or another. Three weeks went by and no word (even though I was promised I would be called regardless of the outcome). I email my recruiter for the position and she tells me they haven't made a decision and that she thinks the position is on a temporary hold (it's not a customer facing position, those typically get held up). In the mean time I've been applying for other positions at TWC and outside of TWC. I get contacted by a different recruiter for another supervisor position in different function under the same department I put my name in for. The recruiter tells me that they want to interview me and he just has a couple questions. I come to find out that this position is also under the same manager and he wants me to come in and interview. According to the recruiter for this position I will only be interviewing with him and not the director and he will be making a decision within a week of the interview. I think this is positive news. Any of the hiring managers around here have any thoughts? I've worked with this guy before, heck most of the first interview with him was just talking and seeing how things were going and what I've been up to. __________________ Los Angeles Dodgers Check out the FOFC Groups on Facebook! and Reddit! DON'T REPORT ME BRO!

04-03-2013, 10:19 AM	#11258
Matthean Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Aug 2008	Where did all the money go? How $700 million in Katrina relief money went missing \| Power Players - Yahoo! News __________________ Board games: Bringing people back to the original social network, the table.

04-04-2013, 11:18 AM	#11262
MacroGuru Coordinator Join Date: May 2003 Location: Utah	I hate Windows 8 so far... __________________ "forgetting what is in the past, I strive for the future"

04-04-2013, 01:56 PM	#11271
Izulde Head Coach Join Date: Sep 2004	I actually kind of like 8, now that I've gotten in the habit of pinning my most used programs on the taskbar. I just stay in desktop mod; the apps do nothing for me. __________________ 2006 Golden Scribe Nominee 2006 Golden Scribe Winner Best Non-Sport Dynasty: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty) Rookie Writer of the Year Dynasty of the Year: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty)

04-04-2013, 06:58 PM	#11272
Draft Dodger Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Keene, NH	Happy birthday robot man __________________ Mile High Hockey

03-31-2013, 01:26 PM	#11251
mckerney Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000	While Google chose to feature a devout follower of Christ who has been hailed as a model for Catholics while Bing opts to insult Christians and promotes a symbol of pagan fertility celebrations.

04-02-2013, 01:59 PM	#11254
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	I know someone has probably made the comparison, but Arby's sauce and Horsey sauce are like a 2 part sandwich bliss epoxy. Either one on the sandwich, meh. Combined they join forces like voltron.

04-04-2013, 08:02 AM	#11259
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	I will never purchase another GE product again if I can help it. Our 4 month old dishwasher broke, causing water to spill out all over the kitchen floor in our newly built house. Called our builder who arranged for GE service to come out. Service came and left yesterday, wife turns dishwasher on, water everywhere again. Calls service and tells them about it and they tell her they can't get someone out until Monday. Wife informs them unacceptable and the tech needs to turn around and return, nope, they say can't do it. Wife has to go back to work. So now she has to take another day off work, and is also 8 months pregnant, so the water stood until I got home. Dreadful customer service, they should have had the tech turn right around and come back to my house.

04-04-2013, 11:05 AM	#11261
DougW High School Varsity Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Downriver, MI	All my life, I have bought and eaten But, then, Hostess went under, or w/e they did. So, I tried And it was just as good. Dumb move Hostess, even if/when you come back, I'll stick with the Sunbeam now.

04-04-2013, 11:38 AM	#11265
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	Windows 8 is fine, I don't mind it all.

04-04-2013, 07:47 PM	#11273
cuervo72 Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Maryland	There's a FB group devoted to alumni of my high school who have passed. I can barely stand to read it - not because of the personal tragedies, but because of the grammatical ones. I swear these people are barely literate. #schoolpride __________________ null

04-04-2013, 08:48 PM	#11274
cuervo72 Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Maryland	Wasn't someone asking for advice concerning an upcoming trip to the US? I can't find the thread. __________________ null

04-04-2013, 08:54 PM	#11275
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	Icy and Groundhog (but not together)

04-04-2013, 09:13 PM	#11276
cuervo72 Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Maryland	Ah thanks - I was thinking of Groundhog's. Was wondering if he or one of his buds wrote in to this week's KSK Sex & Fantasy Football Mailbag. (should have figured Groundhog, but brain couldn't come up with the list of our Aussie contingent ) __________________ null Last edited by cuervo72 : 04-04-2013 at 09:15 PM.

04-04-2013, 09:24 PM	#11277
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	It took me like 6 different articles to figure out how the dude from Buckwild Shain something died. I give it an 8/10 on the redneck death scale, not quite look ma no hands.

04-04-2013, 09:47 PM	#11278
M GO BLUE!!! Pro Starter Join Date: Sep 2005	I wish my dog would stop eating string. I am tired of having to pull it out his ass when it won't all come out and there is a turd just dangling...

04-05-2013, 09:58 AM	#11280
BYU 14 Coordinator Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The scorched Desert	Car will by paid off in 2 months......Minus the house payment and related bills will then be totally debt free

04-05-2013, 02:18 PM	#11283
korme Go Reds Join Date: May 2001 Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio	ESPN's ticker reads something like: "Former Ravens LB Brendon Ayenbadejo tells ESPN that at least 4 current NFL players are considering coming out as gay." Doesn't that seem like a non story in 2013? In reality, there's probably 100.

04-05-2013, 09:40 PM	#11286
M GO BLUE!!! Pro Starter Join Date: Sep 2005	Found out a cousin died. Didn't really know her & she lived in a group home (she was mentally retarded.) A woman in a group home dying isn't anything to make note of really, until I heard how... She slipped & fell. Landed on an oddly shaped planter and was impaled. Didn't die immediately, but from complications due to fluid buildup thanks to the the planter going through a lung. Damn.

04-06-2013, 10:09 AM	#11287
M GO BLUE!!! Pro Starter Join Date: Sep 2005	google will not let you create a gmail account that uses "fuck" in the address.

04-06-2013, 03:36 PM	#11289
bhlloy Coordinator Join Date: Nov 2003	Do we have any mortgage experts in the house? I have a 30 year FHA loan that I put down just under 10% on, I want to know if the changes going in June 1st mean I will be paying MPI for the life of the loan or if I'm still good once I get 22% down and 5 years. Getting a shit ton of spam that is obviously trying to scare me into refinancing ASAP but also looking online I'm unable to get a clear answer.

04-06-2013, 04:45 PM	#11291
Suburban Rhythm Pro Starter Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Pittsburgh	This pains me to say. I've never been one of those people to be overly dependent on my phone. I checked email, texts, even FOFC fairly regularly, but mostly out of boredom, not necessity. Thing morning my Galaxy SII bit the dust, only 8 months old, so it's covered under the warranty still. But, now I'm without a phone...and I feel helpless! Can't find my old Galaxy...best I have right now is my mom's previous flip phone. __________________ "Do you guys play fast tempos with odd time signatures?" "Yeah" "Cool!!"

04-06-2013, 07:51 PM	#11293
Matthean Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Aug 2008	Not like I ever had a chance with the girl, but someone posted pics from her bachelorette party on FB and there was that moment of "Damn it." __________________ Board games: Bringing people back to the original social network, the table.

04-06-2013, 08:01 PM	#11294
Scoobz0202 Pro Rookie Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Dayton, Ohio	Heard sirens as I was sitting down for dinner about an hour and a half ago. Didn't think anything of it. Neighbor lady knocks on the door about fifteen minutes ago saying they found the body of a child in the creek at the end of our road. So sad.

04-07-2013, 11:30 AM	#11297
korme Go Reds Join Date: May 2001 Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio	It's officially baseball season. I just canceled a movie date because the Reds are playing at the same time.

04-08-2013, 10:47 AM	#11299
korme Go Reds Join Date: May 2001 Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio	Very happy for Bernard King

04-09-2013, 05:20 PM	#11300
MacroGuru Coordinator Join Date: May 2003 Location: Utah	So I had a couple of thoughts... 1) Anyone else as intrigued as I am about the red head on the Wendy's commercial...I am thinking her in a black cat suit.. 2) Just finished reading The Forever War and found out Ridley Scott is going to direct a movie on it. __________________ "forgetting what is in the past, I strive for the future"

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