My son used to watch that cartoon, "The Iron Giant" and I thought the character played by Harry Connick Jr. was cute. I'm sure it had a lot to do with Harry being his voice. - Trish R
When I was really young, I had a weird fascination with Woody Woodpecker's girlfriend. I was too young to understand it but something about her ponytail and her femininity was incredibly enthralling to me. I wouldn't call it a crush, though. I do, however, have a healthy crush on Erin Esurance now. Quote, buy, print! - Akiva Moskovitz
I always preferred Betty to Veronica. I think it was the girl next door thing rather than the hair color. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
@Patricia - sorry, I realised my comment looked like I was saying I had a crush on the cat, who isn't a cartoon character. I edited it. - Slippy Lane
Slippy Lane, Argh! Sorry to have caused confusion. Thats not what it looked like at all. I was meaning that the conversation about Wilma and Betty was the first thing I thought of when reading this post and that *I* had a crush on the Cat - who I am fully aware is not a cartoon character. - Patricia Hanrahan
Akiva, you are right. Erin Esurance is hot - RAPatton
Erin Esurance is smokin hot... I've also been waiting for Kim Possible enter college *nodself* - Michael W. May
Dave, the A-10 fires depleted uranium ammo from the 30mm gun; it explodes on impact and cuts through armor like a hot knife through butter, it doesnt carry cluster munitions - just some AGM-65 Mavericks - Jeff Quinton
Actually, Jeff, the hardpoints are not weapon specific and the A10 has a lot of them. So it could conceivably drop cluster munitions on targets, but of course that's not exactly what the plane is designed for. Cluster munitions are not usually a good thing to use in the Close Air Support (CAS) role for which the A-10 was singularly designed. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
I wasnt talking the hardpoints, but it's mission and usual load - Jeff Quinton
there was an A-10 air to air kill in Desert Storm with a Maverick against a helo - Jeff Quinton
my last unit was in the business of shooting down planes so I had to brush up on planes as much as I already knew about friendly and OPFOR ground vehicles... I was a tactical intel analyst. - Jeff Quinton
The video is interesting though. I've only ever seen videos of the gun being fired, not of the rounds hitting the ground. Definitely a study in probabilities and how if you throw enough lead (or in this case DU) at something fast enough you are bound to hit it. I can't remember the exact statistics of probability for the GAU-8/A Avenger gatling gun, but it's something like at 4000 meters, 80% of the rounds will hit in a 10 meter diameter area. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
Hehe, Jeff...when I was a teen I was big time into all things military. Had a big book of planes that my brother, Robert, got me at Costco. It had all kinds of info on the big boys of military aviation (A-10, F-16, F-15, F-14, etc.). Oh, and I was stationed at Osan Air Base in Korea for a year, which used to (not sure if they still do, as I know the AF is planning on phasing out the A-10 *idiots*) be home to an A-10 wing. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
Robert, I had those books too in high school. There was an A-10 wing at Myrtle Beach before it closed and you used to see them flying over the beach. - Jeff Quinton
plus the MD Air National Guard has an A-10 wing right across from the train station I leave from every morning. There's a reserve wing at Andrews too. - Jeff Quinton
Psst...Jeff...you just called me Robert. :) I'm the other Scoble...Hmm, is that like being the other white meat? - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
and I thought it would a guy who brought that up... :) - Zee at WeDoCreative
Has anyone scrolled down to the see the last "hole"? - Brian Sullivan
lol, yeah - i was gonna put it in here but the others were too impressive - Zee at WeDoCreative
can someone please explain the hole in the water? how/why does that occur? - Zee at WeDoCreative
There is no way I could swim/sail/boat over that blue hole. No way in Hell. - Timothy Griffin
They're created by water soaking through limestone fractures in the surface, Zee....a looooong time ago. http://www.blueholes.org has good information on them. - Candace Holly
and I thought this was about Golf... - Victor Ryden
Here's the Wiki on the second pic, the Great Blue Hole of Belize, The hole is circular in shape, over 1,000 feet across and 400 feet deep. It was formed as a limestone cave system during the last ice age when sea levels were much lower. As the ocean began to rise again the caves flooded, and the roof collapsed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... - Christopher Harley
I've been troubleshooting the wifi for the last 30 mins... rebooted the router/modem and rebooted the machine, had brief connections and drops and Vista networking has diagnosed/repaired with a different response every time - Jeff Quinton
just reconnected apparently, let VZAccess Mgr connect me to it and drop me from nationalaccess - Jeff Quinton
used afrin one time when I had to fly and had a lot of congestion, heard the pilots and flight crews swear by it - Jeff Quinton
The only problem is that the congestion will come back until you're well and you can only use Afrin twice a day max. I don't know what's in the stuff (I assume steroids) but docs are pretty serious about that. - Gregory Pittman via fftogo
yeah, my dad uses flonase full time, beconase was the last inhaler I had - Jeff Quinton
I could come up with a few here, but in recent memory, a book called "Remember When" by Fern Michaels. She was tryng to tackle race and romance at the same time and just FAILED miserably. She doesn't even mention that the male lead is black until a third of the way through the book--and then suddenly that becomes a huge plot point! And it's all about him being in love with a white woman who's spoiled and stuck-up, and then it turns out he's NOT black (what?) and she IS and didn't know it (huh?) and yeah, it just goes downhill from there. - Evangeline
@evangeline: i don't know, but i might have to read that book just based on your description. how can it be THAT bad and yet still have gotten published? i love trainwrecks, figuratively, of course. must investigate. lolz. - .LAGizmoto
I recently tried to read "American Psycho". I didn't even get to the gross parts. The writing was just so awful that I gave up a few chapters in. - Rochelle
I do not remember which one but I actually returned a Walter Mosley book back to Barnes & Noble. It was not one of the mysteries. Only time I ever returned a book. - Ruth Ferguson
@Rochelle American Psycho was one of the few books I actually threw across a room. (Love the film, though.) I remain baffled by Bret Easton Ellis' status in the world of lit. - Heather Cee
Heather, same here. Written like a damned Livejournal. For me, though, it was Anne Rice's 'Queen of the Damned'. When I got to the part where the girl killed her mother with a frying pan because her mother wouldn't let her go out to a concert, I threw the book into the trash. First, and last, time I ever did that. - Akiva Moskovitz
Y'know, I made it as far as Narcissus in Chains (which I didn't finish) before finally realizing reading Laurell K. Hamlilton is an exercise in futility. The only reason I stuck to the series so long was a) Obsidian Butterly = Edward, and Edward = ongoing wish that he'd finally behead Anita, and b) the sex scenes were so hilariously awful that I felt compelled to see just how bad they would get. And man, she did NOT disappoint. My mock button just got tired, I think. - Heather Cee
Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead. She's awful. Like a 13 year old who reads the first chapter of Thus Spoke Zarathustra and thinks they figured out the Good Life. - Mark Trapp
The Sound and the Fury - do not like Faulkner. - AJ Kohn
Oooh, Rand is a good one. And as long as we're slaying sacred literary cows here, I could write essays on how much I hate Hemingway. - Heather Cee
The Bible? JOKE oh crap im gonna fry - Geoff Schultz
I tried Atlas Shrugged, too ... it was gawd-awful. Only managed the first chapter or so. And for another sacred cow, I actually finished The Crying of Lot 49, but hated it; I never managed to make it through Pale Fire. - Nathan Rein
Snow by Orham Pamuk. How the hell did that win the Nobel Prize for Literature?! Was reading it for a book club and almost slit my wrists. This was the same book that the moderator ran out of the room crying because no one liked it. - Far
I don't like most 'classics'. Dickens, Faulkner, Hemmingway... - Akiva Moskovitz
Geoff: Watch for lightning storms in your area. :D - Ron
And God threw forth lightning to smite the pita Geoff, PEW PEW PEW. - Geoff Schultz
I never remember bad books. Well maybe my high school calculus book? ;-) - Michael Tefft
"Memnoch the Devil" by Anne Rice. It was complete and utter pish. - Grant Fitzgerald
"A Tale of Two Cities" - i get it's a classic but oy! can it be any more boring. I still try to go back to it but life is to short and there are other classics that are more engrossing. - Anna Lynn M.
@Heather Cee, @Akiva I just cannot finish any Hemingway. It puts me to sleep, no matter what it is. - Evangeline
@Nathan I love Atlas Shrugged because it's the only book where you can find 100 pages of uninterrupted monologue. How on earth did she think that was a good idea? - Evangeline
@Heather Cee the Anita Blake books are so terrible now, but I can't resist them. I think I still keep hoping that they'll get better, even though I know they'll only get worse. - Evangeline
@Grant I still think that book was Anne Rice's attempt to see if we'd buy a book with her name on it despite it having no real point/plot/substance. - Evangeline
Agree with Grant- Memnoch was....a ridiculous waste of time. And I really like her stuff generally. - Abby Martin
Wow, I thought I'd be the only one who thought of Ayn Rand. I could not get through a tenth of that book. I don't even remember which one it was. It may have been Fountainhead. - MiniMage
interesting most unliked books are those which are assigned reading. Is this why? wondering...Wanted to like Proust, but could not penetrate time barrier. - terra210
I have a 'condition' where no matter how bad (think Attack of Killer Tomatoes) the movie or book I HAVE to finish it.. so I've finished all the bad books I've ever started.. even War and Peace, the Scarlett Letter and even American Psycho..... urgh.. what a waste of time - Kim
...Of Mice and Men. It bored the crap out of me. There's more but that's the first one I thought of. - Heather
I had any inkling of literary appreciation destroyed by very poor English Lit teachers so I just cannot read any book written more than 60 years ago. The worst is Thomas Hardy's Mayor Of Casterbridge - a book about a man who committed a murder before the start of the book, who then goes on to live a boring, quiet life in another town. Page after page of mediocrity, the end. - Andy Murdoch
Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh. Threw it in the trash. Felt bad about throwing away a book. Picked it out again, skipped a few pages, and managed to finish it. - Thomas Brox Røst
I started Reading Dickens Oliver Twist years ago. Put it down after the first few pages - never made head or tail of it. - Roberto Bonini
oh, just remembered that tolsoys Anna karina was too confusing. but i'm tempted to go back and try again. - Roberto Bonini
Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell. This guy just repeats himself over and over. If I don't get your point after your 3rd attempt at shoving it down my throat, I definitely won't get it on the 23rd attempt. - Gabriel N.
anything by joyce carol oates, a novelist of the unquiet mind - Gregory Lent
Richard Dreyfuss and Harry Turtledove collaborated on an alternate history novel called "The Two Georges" that was amazingly, painfully awful. I read an extra 100 pages after I wanted to quit, just to see if it could get worse. It did. - Rob Sterling
your singing sucks! (I haven't heard it yet - just don't respond to people telling what I should or shouldn't do) :) - Jeff Quinton
Why can't he tell you what you should or shouldn't do if it has something to do with him. If I slap the hell out of you wouldn't you tell me not to do that to you? - Corvida via twhirl
I wouldn't put it past you Jeff, but the point is when someone does something that involves you and it's not positive, you certainly have the right to tell them not to and will sometimes say so as an automatic reaction. - Corvida via twhirl
Ok....but you need to gives us the link so we can check ourselves how good it is :) And I totally agree - get sick of ppl going 'Pfftt - that sucks' at things when they haven't tried to do it themselves. So there. - WorldofHiglet
and I certainly have the right to not honor someone's wishes either. Then again, the whole thing wasn't meant to be taken that seriously when I made the response. - Jeff Quinton
I don't expect everyone to think my singing is great. Hell, I watch my own videos and know I could have done better, but it's a freakin videos on YouTube. It's not in a studio, there were no do-overs, or punch-ins. Constructive criticism is cool, but the other comments are just pointless. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
"A month after the FBI declared that an Army scientist was the anthrax killer, leading members of Congress are demanding more information about the seven-year investigation, saying they do not think the bureau has proved its case.
In a letter sent Friday to Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Democratic leaders of the House Judiciary Committee said that "important and lingering questions remain that are crucial for you to address, especially since there will never be a trial to examine the facts of the case."" - Sean McBride via Bookmarklet
The tinfoil hat crowd -- yeah. Actually, the tinfoil hatters were any people gullible enough to believe the many false and now discredited conspiracy theories issued by Bush 43 and the neocons. By the way, the Ivins case would be laughed out of court if he were still alive. - Sean McBride
tinfoil hat crowd, Sean... at least get the term right - Jeff Quinton
Jeff - thanks for the edit. :) I tend to type much too fast. And please: call me on any mistakes you see, typographical, factual or interpretive. - Sean McBride
Prediction: the Ivins family will be in line for a much larger settlement than Stephen Hatfill -- and he is receiving nearly $6 million from the FBI for being the target of a false conspiracy theory promoted by the JDO (Jewish Defense Organization) and Barbara Rosenberg. - Sean McBride
actually, summize will find them without the tags, but the Ravens friendfeed room I set up has all the tweets with Ravens or #Ravens being imported - Jeff Quinton
Still listed as Ocho Cinco on Yahoo... and it's his legal name according to the League, they just don't accept it yet, sounds like the Army after a marriage or divorce. - Jeff Quinton
Luckily, I can FriendFeed and watch the Seahawks at the same time. I keep seeing my C++ and F# books out of the corner of my eye, though... - Akiva Moskovitz
I have willingly given the power to FF. Helps me deal with my control issues, it's like therapy =) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Akiva, my last C class all the projects were due on Sunday nights at 12, that was hell - Jeff Quinton
I had to leave the room where the computer is to get off FF and study. :/ - Alix Whitmire
The fact that when I'm viewing the TV listings at tv.yahoo.com and I do a search for 'Seattle Seahawks' and the first returned result is 'Grey's Anatomy' tells me that, yes, Yahoo!, you suck. - Akiva Moskovitz
Checking out meevee.com. Seems good so far! - Rochelle
It's also irritating when I go to a search box on ANY of these sites to see when, say, all of the NFL games are today and which teams are playing, I get a list of articles about the NFL, videos of users talking about the NFL, and maybe, if I'm lucky, a tiny box in the corner with some TV listings. - Akiva Moskovitz
Eric, tv.com's horrible. As far as I can tell, you can only get details on a handful of shows. So, for example, it has show x coming on at y time but you can't get any details of what that show's about, who's on it, etc. - Akiva Moskovitz
You wanted to read the comics in a newspaper... and drink coffee even though you don't like it... and eat hidden treasures cereal out of the box... and watch all the old cartoons, and... yeah :) - Brandon
