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Effie went to Target a couple of months back and passed a lady with a child. Child says, "is that a cracker?" The mother said yes. WTF?
And no, they were not in the triscuit section.
- Eban Crawford
Hi @Eban wondering why you are following http://friendfeed.com/gailhel... Just found her but can't find anything gravitating and maybe I just misunderstand.
- Roger Kondrat
To be honest, it was probably just a reciprocal follow. I don't recall actually following her. I used to reciprocate quite a bit, but have been more choosy lately.
- Eban Crawford
This is why I was asking - http://www.gailhelmer.com/worksho... She is going to shit in my back yard and I am worried it will smell. Fingers crossed that is not the case, but I have researched her today and I am not confident. Its why I tracked down some of her followers to see what they had to say. Thanks for replying by the way.
- Roger Kondrat
Another Faith Healing Death (let's just call it "faith-based murder" and be done) - http://friendlyatheist.com/2009...
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"17-year-old Zachery Swezey died of a ruptured appendix a few months ago… his body got warmer, he began vomiting, and he suffered from severe diarrhea. What did his parents do about all this? During those three days, aunts, uncles and grandparents came to his bedside to pray. On March 17, his father did not call a doctor or an ambulance. Instead, he called elders from their church. They came to the house and anointed Zakk with olive oil, and prayed for him as Zakk’s family waited outside in the hall. Members of the Church of the First Born, the Swezeys believe in faith healing. At midday on March 18, Zakk told his mother he loved her, and asked for his father to come to his bedside. Shortly before 1 p.m, his breathing slowed. His hands got cold and turned a bluish color. With both of his parents at his bedside, Zakk Swezey died."
- Neal Jansons
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I swear we're slipping back into the 7th century.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
This is an example of why it is I don't find fundies just "laughable".
- James (!?)
No, just a fraction of America is. It was an inevitable part of the American experiment, if you think about it. Allow groups to naturally form sub-cultures in distinct geographical regions. Those who are uncomfortable with traditional ideas move to progressive regions while those uncomfortable with progressive ideas move to conservative regions. Then, with each generation, those values...
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- Neal Jansons
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I know someone who had their appendix rupture while on a cruise and almost died. That is no way to go. My friend, she seriously suffered. Luckily, she did get to a hospital in time. I will never understand how people can just let someone suffer and die like this. Faith healing has less to do with faith than it does with insanity.
- Eban Crawford
Faith: believing something despite lack of evidence and contrary evidence that is old, believed by many, and traditional. Delusional: believing something despite lack of evidence and contrary evidence that is not old, believed by many, or traditional.
- Neal Jansons
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Why am I just now discovering Bombay Sapphire?
Morton Fox, Ben Hanten, Derrick and 3 other people liked this
This what wonderful would taste like if wonderful were clear.
- Matthew DeVries
Have you tried Hendrick's?
- joey
Have you tried Tanqueray Rangpur Gin yet?
- Peter Ghosh
Not usually a gin drinker. My friends however were going through my whiskey's (my truest love) far too quickly when it was my turn to buy, so I searched my drink loves for something they didn't like, and gin it was. Didn't want Tanqueray, and that blue bottle was so cool looking.
- Matthew DeVries
Don't worry about the when, just enjoy the now. Bombay Sapphire is one of my favorite treats.
- Eban Crawford
Hey +10 to Joey for the Hendrick's recommendation.
- Ben Hanten
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Well, if you have to leak, the bathroom is better than the carpet. I keep telling my dogs that. ;-)
- Eban Crawford
Just set this up. Now I have even less excuse to not keep my blog updated. WordPress for BlackBerry http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009... - http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009...
I guess I like it so much I had to leave the link twice. The good old 'double glitch'
- Eban Crawford
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Google Reader - Be careful whom you follow. You can't freaking remove them (been trying for 2 days), all you can do is hide them.
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This is a bad feature. I even went to the extreme of burning them out of my gmail contacts, and still they persist.
- Matthew DeVries
I didn't realize I was being THAT irritating, man!!!
- Akiva Moskovitz
You can remove them in the Sharing Settings... "You are follwing X people" pop-up(?)
- LogEx
No, no you can't. That is where you can "hide" them. But they're there for ever
- Matthew DeVries
And GReader doesn't know any Akivas anywhere
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew... mind if I try to add you then delete you?
- LogEx
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3482... LE is this the dialogue you're talking about?
- Matthew DeVries
That's the one. I guess it's not working then? Maybe you have to Show first, then Unfollow?
- LogEx
Sort of a demonic take on "you can choose your friends, but not your family, except now you can't anymore." Grammar be damned!
- Eban Crawford
Sometimes the universe is self balancing: yesterday coming back from the truck stop we see a car crawl all over someone's rear bumper in the fast lane. They cut over 2 lanes of traffic and then speed past the car they were tailgating. That car, however, just happened to be an unmarked trooper. Blinky lights ensued.
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That's hot
- Mistletoe Glen
Whenever someone is tailgating us, I always wish something like this would happen to them. That must have been fun to watch.
- Eban Crawford
Dave and I laughed way more than appropriate =D The best part is that the car made the worst pull over I've ever seen: instead of pulling straight into the emergency lane on the right he careened through it at at 30 degree angle or so, winding up with three wheels in the grassy area off the road. There's a chance he might have had to get a tow to get it out....
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Sigh. I have three ginormous ribeyes that I have to cook tonight or they'll go bad. And I was so looking forward to PB&J.
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Pffffft. Hate you.
- Admiral Anika
HA HA HA HA
- Josh Haley
I wonder if I should marinate them.
- Mistletoe Glen
In salivary juices while you eat them, yes.
- Josh Haley
cook ribeyes store, and eat PB&J , great now I want a PBJ pfft
- Kim Landwehr
Oooh, I have the fixins for PB&J!!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Pffffft. Hate you, Tina.
- Mistletoe Glen
The harshness of the problem facing you tonight is earth shattering. The only real question is pink or bloody. And ribeyes, no marinating. That is a terrific cut. Salt and pepper to taste, that was our answer back when I used to work at a butcher shop.
- Eban Crawford
I get that a lot, Glen =( I also have the materials for a muenster grilled cheese, which also sounds tempting.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I could put'em on a bun and have a ribeye sandwich? Maybe some cheese…
- Mistletoe Glen
Eleventh Circuit: Repeatedly Tasering a Sobbing Man Sitting By the Road is Constitutional | JONATHAN TURLEY - http://jonathanturley.org/2009...
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“The video ... shows a sobbing man who simply fails to comply with orders to stand up and get into a cruiser. He does not threaten or wrestle with the officer. Yet he is repeatedly tasered as a type of punishment for failing to comply...”
- Anthony Citrano
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this is sad... kind of makes me want to go sit on the side of the road and cry, but after watching this i think i'll just go home and curl up in the fetal position
- Chris Heath
At first I thought I was being silly thinking like this, but who the hell got the bright idea to give tasers to cops? With guns, they know the repercussions of shooting. Not so with this, "non-lethal" torture device. Add to this the pregnant lady in Vermont, I think, that was hit in her backyard during a baptism party along with her elderly grandfather, and the 76 year old man driving a...
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- Eban Crawford
@Chris - I felt the same way. (Also: save yourself now and don't watch the Deacon Wiliams video in my feed) ... what a story.. and there are so many. I've been doing some research today on Taser and "less lethal" force. I'm really sick over it. No words. How did we get here?
- Anthony Citrano
We got here because we allowed ourselves to get here.
- WorldofHiglet
video removed :/
- Mattb4rd
@Matt - the video works fine from here. It's at: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Anthony Citrano
Thanks Anthony. Yeah, this is pretty sad. The cop should have called an ambulance and Baker acted the guy. He's clearly in severe mental duress.
- Mattb4rd
thanks for the heads up anthony
- Chris Heath
sure Chris - I expand a bit more on *why* on the Deacon Williams thread. it's stomach-turning to be sure. well, actually - no, it's not stomach-turning - it's soul-turning. :-/ @WoH: totally agree with you.
- Anthony Citrano
tasers need to be outlawed.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
i wonder if tasers fall under any kind of 'cruel and unusual' see also: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Chris Heath
Peggy Noonan: ‘You Are Terrifying Us’ - WSJ.com - http://online.wsj.com/article...
"The passions of the protesters, on the other hand, are not a surprise. They hired a man to represent them in Washington. They give him a big office, a huge staff and the power to tell people what to do. They give him a car and a driver, sometimes a security detail, and a special pin showing he’s a congressman. And all they ask in return is that he see to their interests and not terrify them too much. Really, that’s all people ask. Expectations are very low. What the protesters are saying is, “You are terrifying us.”"
- Eban Crawford
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I need to write a blog post. Complaining about AT&T's inadequacies as a company is hard at 140 characters. Too many damned flaws.
"ATT = teh suks (plus it's the original monopoly)." Finally, something I can get to under 140 chars!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
You actually summed up everything I have to say in one phrase. Tina = win!
- Eban Crawford
LOL! My very first blog post on a site since deleted was a rant about AT&T when the iPhone first came out, specifically about how odd it was for Apple (the "innovation and not a monopoly" company when compared to MS) to team up with the original monopoly. Made me lose some respect for the fanbois who trot out the "Apple's not a monopoly" line but still ponied up for their iPhone.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Finally got someone to help with the problem. Turns out I am not signed up for a 2 year agreement that I did not agree to. They sent out an auto respond email that is out of date. They no longer even offer 2 year agreements on DSL. That is a fail, sending out an email that is no longer valid that ruins my Saturday and takes hours to straighten out. Nice job AT&T.
- Eban Crawford
Our 5th anniversary is next year & we're halfway considering a vow renewal and party for a pretty selfish reason: we didn't have a wedding and as a result got shafted out of wedding presents </kinda greedy> OTOH I didn't want a wedding because I didn't want the headaches that come with one; can't help but think a renewal would be full of 'em too.
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Vegas
- Johnny Worthington
Vegas won't give us presents, Johnny, she's just a little puppy dog! ;-) Plus we're going next month, not to mention none of our family would go with us.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Your Right. I got Married in Vegas and it didn't give me any presents.
- Brent - Loving Life
We got a ton of stuff at our wedding. If you can swing a second chance at it, I would recommend it.
- Alex Scrivener
Me an my wife renew our wedding every year - keeps the marriage nice and flexible without having to deal with the rules we started out with 16 years ago. Good choice on your part, well the prezzies are always fun - but this also gives you a chance to really take a look at your relationship and work out what's next.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
We also got a ton of stuff (including a dart board). and our 5 year is also next year (we however, will not be renewing - we'll be going to Vegas!)
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
If he knocks you up between now and then, is there such a thing as shotgun vow renewal?
- Matthew DeVries
Gee, what some people will do for a toaster. ;-) I say get it while the getting is good. Toast rules.
- Eban Crawford
Yup, that's the deal. You plan everything, hire the hall and the band, feed us, and we bring the presents!
- Edward Zwart
Knocking up = not an option. Wonder if we can register for a vasectomy? Honestly, that's about the only thing we could actually use now: we've got all the other "present-y" stuff. I think we may have missed our opportunity =(
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
As I understand it presents are neither required nor should be expected at a vow renewal ceremony. You might find most people don't show up with gifts, Tina.
- Soup
I'll send you a gift anyhow.
- Nation Hahn
It's more the two of us joking around more than anything, Soup. Several of our family members were displeased with how we chose to marry and the lack of gifts felt like a 'punishment' of sorts for not having an actual wedding. We were tossing around the idea of a vow renewal to try and appease those family members but realize that we'll have all the headaches of an actual wedding but none of the "payoff" so to speak.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Your family registered displeasure with how you chose to marry? WTH? How rude of them. I'm sorry they did that - they should have just been happy for you.
- Soup
It's because we got married without telling anyone or having a ceremony, essentially we eloped without leaving town. I was leaving the country for a month for work and we realized he'd have no rights to visit me in a hospital if something happened: we'd talked about getting married at length already so it just seemed like the right thing to do. Apparently everyone else felt like they missed out, though...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
20th anniversary next month. Going to spend 2 weeks in Key West.
- Andy Dustman
Minimum wage set to rise to $7.25 on July 24 - Jul. 24, 2009 - http://money.cnn.com/2009...
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And WHY pray tell is the minimum wage simply defined as a hard number, rather than a complex algorithm designed to find the inflection point between job elimination, job sustainment, job availability, cost of living, GDP, inflation, etc, such that it's dynamic and adapting to current situations in near real time?
- Matthew DeVries
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probably because its easier to implement across hundreds of thousands of small business owners this way.
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Because if it was, it would just be called "the prevailing wage" and there wouldn't be a lot for grand-standing officials to do.
- Alex Scrivener
There would though Alex, and they'd get to be intelligent in doing it, as they'd be pushing for changes in the algorithm's constants and multipliers based on their mathematical projections.
- Matthew DeVries
You bring up a great point. There are some jobs, in some places, that are not worth $7.25 an hour. Likewise, this is reversed in other jobs in other locations. One size fits all is as ancient and silly as actually opening an encyclopedia for information. A book that was probably written before you were born and not update-able. +1 to Matthew.
- Eban Crawford
I just did some online window shopping, piling everything I could want from this site into my shopping cart. I will now proceed to pare everything down as much as possible, and then I'll just stare at the cart and talk myself into NOT checking out. Please confirm that I'm not the only crazy person who does this.
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I would love to but ...
- Brent - Loving Life
I have many books in shopping carts in many websites waiting for me to click the next button
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
I do find that if I force myself to not checkout online immediately, I start to develop spending guilt and usually don't make purchases. I save a lot of money that way.
- Eban Crawford
Just yesterday. It felt good to close my browser.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
It's good to know I'm not alone in my craziness =D
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
i do this ALL THE TIME. mostly with music and music-making related items. i could easily spend our yearly income on instruments and recording equipment in an afternoon.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
You're not alone.
- Anne Bouey
Meanwhile elsewhere in the world, desperate site admins pour over their logs trying to determine what, exactly, they are doing wrong which causes people to abandon such large and profitable orders...
- DGentry
I've been doing this for years, but more in the last month or so. Closed a browser just this morning, after having it minimized for about an hour. Finally said to hell with it, don't need all that nonsense and called it a day. :)
- pea
I do that, too. It's also how I shop offline, especially at Target.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
I often do online shopping that way. Especially if I have a coupon or there is a sale.
- Rachel Lea Fox
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i do that with places like thinkgeek.com and amazon
- Imabug
You are not alone in this. Amazon must hate me.
- coldbrew
I do this all of the time. It gets really bad when books are involved.
- Katy S
http://www.emarketer.com/Article...: "According to an e-tailing group survey, nearly 60% of US online retailers survey are seeing cart abandonment rates of over 20% this year. A study by PayPal and comScore found 45% of US online shoppers had abandoned shopping carts multiple times in just three weeks. Most importantly from the merchants’ point of view, the average cost of abandoned goods in those shopping carts was $109."
- ⓞnor
Yep, do this all the time. Do it regular-shopping, too, if I have a shopping cart. Drives Shawn nuts, but it gives me time to decide what I really want.
- Alix Whitmire
I do this all the time too
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Isn't this what everybody does? ;)
- Bonnie Foster
As expected, my right hamstring is tight this morning, and a little tender. I'm going to try to take it easy on it at practice; maybe the fundraising aspect will earn me a bit of a bye today...
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I say you try to flip another 300lb guy today. That which does not tear your hamstring only serves to make you stronger, or, sore the next day. ;)
- Eban Crawford
Well, I got the "sore the next day" down pat. We'll see about the "stronger" bit... And no, I'm not flipping another 300 lb guy today.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Just rub some dirt on it and "man up"
- BryanSchuetz
In my family the phrase is "put on your big girl panties and get over it". Which I did: stretched at home and made it through an hour of practice until I fell and popped said hammy. My weekend will be full of compression bandages, ibuprofen, ice, and epsom salt baths. Should've just laid out of practice and stretched all day.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
The Mac vs. PC arguments are funny. Computers are tools, nothing more, nothing less. Most get the tool that works for the job at a price that is reasonable for them. I make my living behind a keyboard and my current tools do everything I need them to do. Get what you need and want and be done with it. Like arguing Fender vs. Gibson, there is no win
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Or Moog and.. Wait. Moog trumps all.
- Tsali, The Native of FF
Only Moog can come close to creating the South Park "brown note" And yes, Moog does trump all.
- Eban Crawford
Eban, what you say may have been true when most computer users owned their computers for a purpose (generally out of geekerie). Now every moron and his sisterwife has a computer, one finds that they tend to own whatever computer their local retailer was "pushing" that week, rather than whatever is most suitable for them. Most people who would probably be happier with Macs end up with...
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- Slappy Line
The people that buy whatever the retailers are pushing that week tend to be those that are looking for price over specs, in that arena Macs don't really come into play. Macs are boutique, in the same vein as BMW's vs. Hondas. If someone is going for price, which usually means cheap, Mac will lose every time.
- Eban Crawford
I disagree. As I said, most of the morons get sold way overspecced (and consequently) overpriced computers when they would really be happier with a nice, simple, straightforward Mac that they won't need me to come and fix every damned week.
- Slappy Line
Sounds like you need new friends. More geeks in your inner circle. ;-)
- Eban Crawford
Nice.
- Slappy Line
Bojangles' Famous Chicken - http://brightkite.com/objects...
Dude - I want - get me a Cajun Filet Biscuit and an extra packet of texas pete. TYIA
- Chris Heath
Oh, and i'm stuck at work - so if you could just drop it off that would be cool. thx
- Chris Heath
Wayne! What have you done? I am now seriously jonesing for some crispy bird goodness. Might pan fry some today with my grandmother's old recipe.
- Eban Crawford
Teen Cheyenne Cherry taunts animal activists after guilty plea for killing kitten in oven - http://www.nydailynews.com/news...
Total human waste. Makes me sick.
- Eban Crawford
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Celebrating refinance and lower mortgage payment with a nice tall Guinness.
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Cheers!
- Eban Crawford
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http://discuss.gdgt.com/altec-l... Case in point. How in blazes are you supposed to read that without a pad of paper to mark who spoke to whom when?
- Matthew DeVries
Flat threads, newest on the bottom (or top). You want to address a specific post, freakin quote it.
- Matthew DeVries
Just making sure, you are not on the fence about this, right? ;-)
- Eban Crawford
No, I think I'm pretty well set on how this sort of thing should be done :)
- Matthew DeVries
I am in agreement, sometimes it is just too much headache to read when the comments are a mess. Although it is kind of funny, in a non-funny way, when the comments are on a heated subject and people start replying to others with the wrong intent because things were so hard to follow and chaos ensues.
- Eban Crawford
I just don't see how anything but chronological makes any sense at all. No one thinks in that tiered insanity
- Matthew DeVries
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Thanks for the share, liked that.
- Eban Crawford
No real bruise on my knee, just the noticable lack of skin. I am unbreakable!! (No, not really, and I promise I'm not taunting the happy fun ball)
And yes, that is the hole in my leggings where my leg + wooden skating rink = intense friction.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Owieee!
- Shannon
That's hot! (Well, it was at the moment of contact.)
- CAJ, somewhere else
Wow, road, or rink, rash. That is suffering for your sport. Still, bet you are having a blast, at least hoping you are. Best, or worst advice comes from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, put some Windex on it! (Just for the record, that is probably worst advice)
- Eban Crawford
Pretty much, Curtis: the lycra material of the leggings has some slightly melty spots around that hole. And no Windex on this =P I took some ibuprofen when it happened, iced it for a few minutes, and then skated another hour and a half. Iced it for about 30 minutes before bed last night.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Well, you can certainly say you're making sacrifices!
- CAJ, somewhere else
Fierce!Tina is Fierce!
- Yolanda
Wondering if I'm the only one who's not interested in Microsoft Office 2010? I'm already web based with google docs FTW.
Kind of selfish, but I would only be interested if I was one of the few chosen to get the loner laptop and a free version of Office 2010. Have not actually used office in years between Google Docs and Open Office.
- Eban Crawford
With the promise of open source tools for the future, and what we have available now, I don't blame anyone for not being interested in office 2010.
- professor daddyo
I agree. Looks like MSOFT dropped the ball on this one big time. They forgot that the world wouldnt stand still long enough for them to catch up with the cloud and open source models that are out there. Google is one of the threats but I have been using Open Office now for about 2 yrs and havent looked back; oh well...
- Benin Brown
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Lady just walked halfway into our office before she realized we're not the law firm. You know, the lawfirm that has the big sign on their door...
Laura wishes you peace., Yolanda, Alfredo and 7 other people liked this
Come on, you know that big sign is just there for misdirection. ;-)
- Eban Crawford
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