Steven Perez

"Twice-baked potatoes are a great holiday meal. To be honest, they're great for any day and are super tasty and filling. Potatoes with cheese, bacon, green onions, and more cheese? How can that be wrong? They're also super easy to make. Aside from the baking of the potatoes, these only take about 15 minutes or so of work to make." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Yummy! Now I'm hungry! - Jan Ole Peek

dalek = ? - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

LMGTFY http://www.google.com/search... - Andrizzle Gizzle

i dunno what's going on here.... but i like it! - Mike Chelen

That's an insult to Jedi everywhere! :P - Lo

o_O - Miss Elle

Interesting threesome. - CW™

Oh no! Perez had to actually lift a finger to stop some life-sized G.I. Joes. Somebody give a cookie to the dude that is picked on by action figures. - Amber, Random Time Lord

"What we have is a comparison of Barack Obama's approval ratings on the economy to his approval ratings overall. It includes all polls in the Pollster.com database that asked about both approval of Obama on the economy and his overall job performance -- a total of 109 polls dating back to the start of his term. I've then drawn in some LOESS curves to illustrate the trend." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"No vampire could be as terrifying as the worst merchandise tying in with the Twilight phenomenon. To help you collect holiday gag gifts that will horrify your friends, we've gathered the craziest and most ridiculous Twi-crap in existence." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

What's more disturbing is that the photo must be an adults room. I've raised 2 teenage girls and neither of their rooms were ever as clean as that photo. - Threepwood

It's probably made in photoshop this is pretty common for artists to do so you can see the art in a room setting. Not that I consider that art but, you know. - Andrizzle Gizzle

"The next time your screen freezes up, instead of getting angry and mashing the CTRL+ALT+DEL keys, take a deep breath and get yourself something to drink. Let the CTRL+ALT+DEL Cups Set reset your mood while you sip iced tea and wait for your computer to boot up. There's no CMD version for Macs, but maybe that's because we've never heard a Mac user complain about their computer freezing. Do they even have an CMD-ALT-DEL equivalent? $24" - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

want! - tiffany

Fill with booze and hit your mental re-set button... I like. - SAM

"They'd taken a SCAR assault rifle, and put a "black box" inside the handgrip, networking it with the soldier ("with a kind of Bluetooth" according to the PR guy), and also to home base. The grip is a sealed, 10-year unit that logs the number of bullets fired and remaining ammo a la Aliens. They're also working on pairing to specific soldiers, perhaps using biometrics. Deactivating it if the Taliban get it, for instance? "In the near future," said PR man enigmatically." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"Rick Perry is out of control. Even as the controversy over his execution of an innocent man goes unresolved, last night the Texas Governor rejected a rare clemency recommendation from the state Board of Pardons and Paroles for a man facing execution for a murder he did not commit." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Texas makes Florida look sane. - rowlikeagirl

"The jury ordered the company on Thursday to pay punitive damages of 244 million dollars and compensatory damages of 55 million dollars to Cindy Naugle, an ex-smoker suffering from severe emphysema. "Cindy admitted her fault to the jury," her attorney Robert Kelley said in a statement. "But Philip Morris refused to accept any responsibility for her emphysema, even though she was an addicted customer for 25 years." Philip Morris rejected the ruling in a statement and said they would seek further review." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

She's suing about her particular instance not what Philip Morris did prior to when she took up smoking. In fact, unless the case is about something very different than the article talks about, she doesn't have legal standing to be a plaintiff in anything suing Philip Morris for things they did in the '20s or any date prior to when she became a customer. Using the figures in the article,... more... - Spidra Webster

Res ipsa loquitur. - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Res ipsa loquitur, sed quid in infernis dicit? - Stephen Mack

"ProFORMA uses a fixed video camera to allow on-line reconstruction of objects held in a user’s hand. Partial models are generated very quickly and displayed instantly, allowing the user to plan how to manipulate the object’s pose in order to generate additional views for reconstruction. We demonstrate how augmented reality can be used to assist the user in view planning, guiding the user to collect new keyframes from desirable views in order to complete and refine the model." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"Conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Michael Savage frequently employ rape metaphors when discussing progressives or progressive policies. For example, Beck said that New Yorkers are "being raped by [their] government," while Limbaugh, during a discussion of health care, told his listeners: "Get ready to get gang-raped again." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

It's their fantasy. I'm sure Freud would've had a field day with them... - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

How many seconds after it starts will DYSP start his first rant? - WorldofHiglet

Why did Derrick destroy my hopes and dreams of going to a kegger tonight, and those of Amber seeing my super hot and sexy wife? #DYD Damn You Derrick! Much <3 - Tsali, The Native of FF

"If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create. At least that’s the message from the Motion Picture Association of America. It’s spelled out in a Thursday memo to the Senate Judiciary Committee, urging lawmakers to support the Obama administration’s efforts toward negotiating an intellectual property agreement with more than a dozen countries." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

I'll promise to hate Hollywood if the MPAA gets that thing signed and ratified. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

"The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) says it expects to restart the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by this weekend after more than a year of repairs. The 27 km (17 mi) particle accelerator was launched last year, but suffered a failure from a faulty electrical connection, damaging 53 of the smasher's 9,300 superconducting magnets. Repairs are now completed, and the plan is to begin injecting protons into the LHC this weekend, on the path to search for particles such as predicted-yet-unobserved Higgs Boson. Collected below are some photographs of the repairs, and of the LHC and some of its experiments in various stages of construction. (30 photos total)" - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"Mother Nature may have sneaked off with a sought-after slice of Thanksgiving. Recent heavy rains in the Midwest are putting pumpkin pie in short supply this holiday season. On Tuesday, food giant Nestle, which controls about 85% of the pumpkin crop for canning, issued a rare apology and said that rain appeared to have destroyed what remained of a small harvest this year and that it expected to stop shipping the holiday staple by Thanksgiving. Supermarkets say supplies are tight, depending on the store." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"Kellogg Co. says there will be a nationwide shortage of its popular Eggo frozen waffles until next summer because of interruptions in production at two of the four plants that make them." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"This week The Pirate Bay confirmed it would shut down its tracker for good, instead encouraging the use of DHT, PEX and magnet links. This move confounded many BitTorrent enthusiasts, who although wishing to adapt, were confronted with hard to grasp terminology and technology. Time for some explaining." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday. The shooting in busy Nisoor Square left 17 Iraqis dead and inflamed anti-American sentiment abroad. It touched off a string of investigations that ultimately led the State Department to cancel the company's lucrative contract to guard diplomats in Iraq. Iraqis have said they're watching closely to see how the U.S. judicial system handles the five men accused of unleashing an unprovoked attack on civilians with machine guns and grenades." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Nice choice of words, Senator. [/sarcasm] - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"Health officials say a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu has spread between hospital patients. Five patients on a unit treating people with severe underlying health conditions at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, were infected. Three appear to have acquired the infection in hospital. They are thought to be the first confirmed cases of person-to-person transmission of a Tamiflu-resistant strain in the world." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Heh +1 See-ming I wonder if Roche's Rohypnol packages are similar. - Victor Ganata

"No longer are our families guaranteed a healthy livelihood, not in the face of the current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimers and allergies. We need a new food system." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"Putting aside its concerns, AstraZeneca would continue its relationship with Reinstein, paying him $490,000 over a decade to travel the nation promoting its best-selling antipsychotic drug, Seroquel. In return, Reinstein provided the company a vast customer base: thousands of indigent, mentally ill residents in Chicago-area nursing homes. During this period, Reinstein also faced accusations that he overmedicated and neglected patients who took a variety of drugs. But his research and promotional work went on, including studies and presentations examining many of the antipsychotics he prescribed on his daily rounds. The AstraZeneca payments, filed as exhibits in a federal lawsuit, highlight the extent to which a leading drug company helped sustain one of the busiest psychiatrists working in local nursing facilities." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"Tracy Barker has been awarded almost $3 million by an arbitrator in assault charges against a U.S. contractor and former Halliburton subsidiary, after claiming she was raped in 2005 by a State Department employee in Iraq, the Associated Press reports. "It took me a long time to get here. I'm happy about the award," she told the AP. But it's not over for her yet. KBR has appealed the ruling and intends to shrink its payout to $300,000, according to Barker's website. Barker filed the suit in May 2007, but her case was dismissed the following year and relegated to be settled through arbitration rather than courts, as per a prior agreement with her employer. "They are still dragging it out," the AP recorded her as saying. "They didn't win and now they want to amend the award. You can't with binding arbitration. How is that fair?"" - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"Ohio filed a suit Friday against global rating agencies, claiming they provided misleading information ahead of the financial crisis that caused nearly 500 million dollars in losses for state funds." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet