Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It looks like winning debates is a black job!

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

“But what about the lurkers?”

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. Do not congratulate. This is not business as usual.

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  1. 1.

    Maude

    What the hey do we talk about?
    The intertubes at the library have been going down at times and no one knows why.

  4. 4.

    Brachiator

    Apple iPhone comes to Verizon. AMD chief kicked to the curb after the CES show in Vegas. Tech Wars.

    Who wants glassless 3D TV more, dogs or cats?

  5. 5.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    I do not LITERALLY want to see a catastrophic, career-ending injury on Nick Fairley of Auburn. I did wish such a thing out loud to my wife last night – a number of times, in fact, in a number of fairly grotesquely detailed scenarios – but I did not really mean it. It was just rhetorical hyperbole. I just want to make this clear to everyone.

  7. 7.

    Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)

    Just read Cindy Sheehan’s op-ed piece on Al Jazeera’s English site declaring that Obama = the third term of George Bush. I’m off to club the person who insisted I at least skim al jazeera’s site over the head.

  8. 8.

    Larry Signor

    Martin Luther King Day is 6 days hence. What a day. A day to look forward. A day to forgive. A day to remember. A day to dream. A day to laugh. A day to weep. A day to grieve. A day to rejoice. A Day for All people.

    Wouldn’t the good Doctor be proud.

  9. 9.

    PurpleGirl

    Tunch pictures, please. Also, too, Lily and Rosie pictures. Aminals, lots and lots of aminals.

    (That’s how my now 30-something niece said animals when she was a small fry.)

  12. 12.

    Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)

    @Brachiator: Too bad I need a GSM phone for international travel. I’ll just have to stick with my GSM iPhone on the AT&T network in the US. I wonder how much reworking they had to do to make it CDMA compatible for Verizon.

  16. 16.

    Chyron HR

    John’s house is a very, very, very fine house
    With two cats in the yard
    No, it’s just Tunch and his lard
    La la la la la la la

  20. 20.

    Brachiator

    The floods in Australia are awful:

    Brisbane, Australia’s third-largest city, braced for its worst flooding in 35 years on Tuesday as floodwaters racing toward the eastern coastal city of two million people claimed at least 10 lives. Officials urged residents to flee to higher ground.
    __
    Five children were among the dead as the deluge tore through Toowoomba and other parts of the Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane, late Monday, upending cars and ripping buildings from their foundations.
    __
    Some 78 people were still missing late Tuesday, and the police warned that they had “very grave fears” for 18 of those missing. At least 20 people have been killed in the floodwaters that have swept vast areas of Australia’s northeastern Queensland State since November. Brisbane is the state’s capital.
    __
    After enduring a decade of one of the worst droughts in Australian history, Queensland residents are now facing billions of dollars in costs from the floods, which have razed hundreds of homes and businesses over the past several weeks.
    __
    The disaster has also brought the region’s lucrative coal and agricultural industries to a virtual standstill. Queensland produces roughly one-third of the world’s supply of coking coal, used in the production of steel. Industry analysts say global prices of coking coal and thermal coal, used to supply power plants, are sure to rise because of the flooding in Queensland.

  22. 22.

    JPL

    The state of GA decided that cutting DOT was a good idea. Truckers have been stranded on our highways in the Atlanta area for days. There was a trucker interviewed who was stuck and his $60,000 shipment of cattle hadn’t been fed in two days. Before long folks might release their lack of spending causes real damage… nah… The mayor of Atlanta mentioned in a news conference that most of the cities level one and level two roads have been clean but unfortunately the state owned stretches hadn’t been touched. Many of you have probably heard of Peachtree St.. well that’s state owned and has been highlighted all over the national media. The mayor said he was not placing blame just mentioning. hahaha The mayor of Atlanta is a democrat.
    My city north of Atlanta has not been touched.

  24. 24.

    suzanne

    Once again, I today engaged in the folly of attempting to wear a shirt for more than ten minutes. How much more laundry must I do before I learn?

    The new kitten is working out quite well, as you can see. Kittens are annoying. That’s why God made them cute.

  26. 26.

    Martin

    Oh look, social programs to benefit workers aren’t all job killers.

    California’s landmark Paid Family Leave program didn’t amount to be the costly “job-killer” businesses initially feared and has resulted in significant economic, social and health benefits for both male and female workers, economic and labor researchers found in a study released today.

    Will we learn from this? Most certainly we will not.

  29. 29.

    funluvn

    I’m really beginning to like this woman that I’m dating, and she is pretty open to the beginnings of a relationship. Should I duck and run, or just go with the flow and see how it works out?

    She seems to be non-wingnut

  30. 30.

    Tim O

    @Brachiator, 3D without annoying glasses? Sign me up!

    Also, “Live music is better!” bumper stickers should be issued.

    And finally, watch out, you have a surveyors symbol on your back!

  31. 31.

    Brachiator

    @Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people):

    I wonder how much reworking they had to do to make it CDMA compatible for Verizon.

    Well, apparently it was quite an effort.

    Apple had to create a new version of the iPhone 4 for Verizon because its network uses a technology known as CDMA, as opposed to the GSM technology used in all existing iPhones.
    __
    As with other CDMA phones, the iPhone 4 on Verizon will not let users make calls and surf the Web simultaneously. But Mr. Cook said he did not think users would mind. “I think people place emphasis on different things,” he said.
    __
    Mr. Cook said the phone would operate on the company’s older, third-generation wireless network rather than its new 4G LTE network. Making the phone run on LTE would have “forced design changes we wouldn’t make,” he said. “And Verizon customers told us they want the iPhone now.”

  33. 33.

    schrodinger's cat

    @Lolis: George Town has many great options so does the area near Dupont Circle, what type of food are you interested in?

  34. 34.

    joes527

    Who wants glassless 3D TV more, dogs or cats?

    I’m just not getting this whole 3D rage. Sure, I went to see Avatar in 3D. It was the whole novelty thing, and I enjoyed it. But by the end of that movie I had had my fill of 3D and it was getting tedious.

    I have no interest in seeing another bit of 3D content as long as I live. It isn’t the spawn of the devil … it is just dull after the first 10 minutes, and a bit annoying. Don’t get me started on the whole 3D surcharge at the theatres though…

    In any case … why would anyone want that (beglassed, or glass-free) in their house?

    Back on to the original question: My guess is cats. Dogs probably think that the glasses make them look cool.

  36. 36.

    Annie

    Having a little ice rain in DC. Stopped at the grocery store, got food and a fairly expensive bottle of Malbec to help me relax tonight and get over a pretty awful day at work.

    Slipped on the ice while walking into the house. Food everywhere and broke the bottle of wine.

    Oh crap!

  38. 38.

    Cat Lady

    Things I have learned today:

    ED Kain and glibertarians are who I thought they were.
    DougJarvis Green-Ellis is too. :-D
    I’m not getting out of this boat.
    There’s not enough accountability.
    There’s no such thing as too much Tunch, only not enough Tunch.

  42. 42.

    PurpleGirl

    Waiting for the snow to start here in NYC. National Weather Service says to expect 5 to 9 inches. While I was at the hospital clinic late this afternoon they were passing out guidelines for a snow storm.

  45. 45.

    Tractarian

    For non wingnut bullshit only.

    Do you mean that this thread cannot contain any wingnut bullshit? Or do you mean that the thread is only for bullshit that is non-wingnut? Either way, I like the ambiguity. I think it should be a BJ tagline.

  47. 47.

    EnfantTerrible

    I’ve finally gotten around to renting and watching the HBO series “John Adams”, and I swear to Gawd, I get misty-eyed when George Washington or Ben Franklin are in the scene. Awesome doods, them guys was.

    Pathetic fanboi or patriot? You make the call.

  48. 48.

    PurpleGirl

    @joes527: The economy needs us to buy 3D-TVs. They figure the market has already reached all the flat screens that can be sold. (They forget that there are the unemployed who probably haven’t bought a flatscreen might still want one.) So they need something new to sell us…. voila, 3D-TVs for the home theater, ya know.

  49. 49.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @Cat Lady:

    There’s no such thing as too much Tunch, only not enough Tunch.

    I dunno about that one – I think if you’re actually Tunch, there could be too much Tunch.

  51. 51.

    Cat Lady

    @Mark S.:

    Don’t be sorry, that’s a righteous rant. I remember exactly where I was when I watched that in real time, and without having a dog in that hunt, and I was all LOLWUT? WIN! More of that plz!

  52. 52.

    Brachiator

    @joes527:

    I’m just not getting this whole 3D rage.

    Neither are a lot of consumers. On the other hand, at the CES show, not only were 3D TVs a big deal, but apparently there were even some 3D laptops. And there might be some interesting things done with gaming, especially when combined with things like Microsoft’s Kinect.

    @Tim O:

    3D without annoying glasses? Sign me up!

    Toshiba was doing a demo of this:

    The glass-less TV uses an LCD shutter and lens added to the tradition LCD. Moving the shutter and magnifying with a lens, it shoots out 3D-like visuals to the viewer. Japanese TV manufacturers have admitted defeat to Korean manufacturers, and Toshiba has changed its strategy to ultra-highend products. The nine-channel, all-knowing, all-seeing and recording monster TV, Cell Regza, was quite successful even when priced at US$10,000.

  54. 54.

    merrinc

    We’ve discovered that our youngest rescue cat, Tigger, absolutely LOVES the snow. We got two inches on Christmas night; here he is the following day.

    Since the wee hours on Monday morning, we’ve received 4-6 inches of snow. Our other cats were quite appalled but Tigger romped merrily through the white stuff before playing hide and seek with my daughter. If I could get him to watch the dog sledding video posted upthread, I’m sure he’d give it a try too!

  55. 55.

    AAA Bonds

    Go see White Material if you haven’t. It won’t be in theaters for long and it is mesmerizing to watch Christopher Lambert play an understated, complex character, although the real force of the movie is elsewhere.

  56. 56.

    Skepticat

    @funluvn: If you have to ask us this question, perhaps it’s she who should duck and run.

    @Annie: Now that is truly sad. However, if you had JC’s luck, you’d have fallen on the bottle shards and slashed yourself to ribbons.

  59. 59.

    Blogreeder

    Just discovered my cat loves green olives. Wierd. In fact, so much, that when she smelled it on my finger proceeded to bite it thinking it was a tasty olive. I’ll have to put green olives in the same place as Ben Gay in my house.

  60. 60.

    Cat Lady

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Of the four teams that played last weekend, I only picked one winner – the Pack. Of the four teams that played last weekend, I only wanted to be wrong about one of the ones I picked to win – the Pack.

    /HUGE Pats fan.

  61. 61.

    Mnemosyne

    @piratedan:

    There’s an interesting story on the Tucson hospital’s head of trauma, Dr. Peter Rhee. Giffords was lucky enough to end up with a doctor with 24 years of trauma and gunshot wound experience.

    Though how one goes from the US Navy to the middle of the Arizona desert, I do not know.

  62. 62.

    sukabi

    @joes527: my right eye felt like it was going to fall out of my head after watching 3D avatar…. didn’t like THAT at all…

    also, meh on the 3D… now when they get smellavision we’ll talk…

  66. 66.

    WyldPirate

    @Evolved Deep Southerner:

    I do not LITERALLY want to see a catastrophic, career-ending injury on Nick Fairley of Auburn.

    Hope you’re not an NFL fan. You’ll have plenty of opportunity to wish for it in the future. He’s starter material now and you’ll have the opportunity to see him around for a while most likely unless his thugishness gets him in trouble (something I would rate as highly probable listening to him talk).

    Maybe there will be double benes and the Steelers won’t draft him and Fairley can take the commish’s eyes off the Steeler D wrt to fines for defensive hits.

  68. 68.

    kdaug

    I am so sick of this false equivalence you people are putting up between Dr. Who and Star Trek.

    Kirk was not a fucking Time Lord. Pretending he was doesn’t make it so.

  70. 70.

    piratedan

    @Mnemosyne: well it could be after all that time at sea, he was looking for the largest city in the US that doesn’t have any continous above ground water source ;-)

    although I will say that the actual climate here is great, mid 60’s today, we’re surrounded by lots of picturesque mountains and nature that draw quite a few visitors and we’re a big location for cycling and celebrity rehab. We’re also a damn sight bluer than the rest of the state.

  71. 71.

    Barb (formerly Gex)

    @Blogreeder: That’s so funny you mention that. As far as I know, ALL cats like green olives.

    When I first moved in with my girlfriend she insisted her cat wouldn’t eat them. So I called the cat over, presented the olive, and you can guess the rest.

  73. 73.

    Barb (formerly Gex)

    @sukabi: This is why 3D will always be a fad-type phenomenon. I guess there are two different focusing techniques used by the eye, and 3D is achieved by tricking them. So the eye strain seems inherent until they find some other way to make things look 3D.

  74. 74.

    lamh32

    Okay, I’ve been sick with flu for the past 5 days. During that time, I watched a lot of Lifetime (damn if they don’t seriously make some addictive movies. You catch a glimpse while channel surfing, and pause for a sec, and somehow get sucked it to watchin Tori Spelling in “Mother May I Sleep With Danger).

    So after almost a week of Lifetime, I started asking silly questions of my friends.

    how many if ya’ll have ever been set-up on a blind date? How did it go?

    have u ever been on a date with someone a friend set you up with & thought why the heck would they set you up with this idiot?

    would it be in bad taste to date ur ex-BF friends? Is it better if it’s been a long time since u and the ex broke-up? Or is it never ok?

    Is is against the friend code to buy expensive gifts for your BFF current girl/boy or even for your BFF ex-boy/girl? I say it’s weird either way!

    Has anyone ever really lived the fairy tale? I.E. Prince Charming, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty? At what age should women give up trying to find the fairytale?

  78. 78.

    Mr. Blink

    @alwhite: Those comments are awesome! Always nice to see a Star Wars reference on a food website. The good Star Wars too, not the lame, new Star Wars. Are there any reference-worthy quotes from the new SW? I don’t think so. Only references to the stupid lines, which are abundant…

  79. 79.

    WyldPirate

    @Blogreeder:

    Just discovered my cat loves green olives.

    I had a cat once that loved fermented black beans and lived to fetch the big thick rubber bands from stalks of broccoli. Her other favorite pastime was to climb to the top of the interior door frames and fling herself off into space across the room.

    Best pet I ever had. I miss old Spot a lot.

  81. 81.

    suzanne

    @Mnemosyne: Awww! Your kitty is adorable.

    As to how Dr. Rhee ended up in Tucson… it’s a nice place to live if you’re rich. And the UMC is a really good hospital. For a while, it was the only Level I trauma center in southern AZ. It’s also a big military town.

  82. 82.

    burnspbesq

    @Lolis:

    Belga Cafe on Eight Street Southeast. Fantastic Belgian food and too many great Belgian beers to name.

    Or if you really want to splurge, Kinkead’s at 20th and Pennsylvania, NW. This is where God goes when he wants good seafood.

  83. 83.

    asiangrrlMN

    @trollhattan: Holy crap. That’s just frightening.

    @lamh32: Give up the fairytale immediately. It doesn’t usually happen that way in real life. Go out. Do things you enjoy. Meet people. Mundane? Yes. But, more likely to get results in the long run than waiting for ‘the one’ (in which I don’t believe. By the way, that’s advice I need to give myself, too. The getting out and meeting people part. I am not good at that).

  84. 84.

    Mr. Blink

    Glad this thread is here. I am with Cole. Pretty much fed up with the world at the moment.

    Playing with my new, FREE, USB 3.0 – 1.5 TB Seagate external hard drive. It might not sound like fun, but it is. I promise.

  85. 85.

    burnspbesq

    @funluvn:

    Take the shot. Worst thing that can happen is that it doesn’t work out. If you don’t take the shot, you’ll never know.

  88. 88.

    goblue72

    Some afternoon back-of-the-envelope brought on by being completely fed up with the selfish pricktards in our society and realizing that if Lenin were alive today and offered me a rifle, I just might join up:

    $42,500 – 2009 per capita California income

    $1,572,650,187,000 – 2009 total California personal income

    $25,000,000 – California budget gap

    1.59% – California state income tax increase needed to close the gap

    Clinton-era top marginal tax rate (federal): 39.6%

    Bush-Obama era top marginal tax rate (federal): 35%

    Capital gains rate cut history – don’t even get me started.

    Remember that when they tell you we don’t have the money to keep our libraries & parks open, our streets safe and the poor & seniors cared for.

    P.S. Google co-founder Larry Page just bought a $45 million yacht today.

    .

  90. 90.

    Lolis

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I like spicy food, especially Ethiopian, and veg friendly stuff. I love falafel and most hippie foods.

    Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. I can’t wait to be back in DC.

  91. 91.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @suzanne:

    And my house backs on an elementary school. Heh.

    There’s a huge fundy Christian elementary school looming over my house; their newly-built-without-proper-permits-or-review playground has a fabulous view right into my kitchen windows. I still walk around in my skivvies (although never less than that). I just figured if they don’t get sex ed, at least they could use some basic anatomy lessons.

  94. 94.

    Brachiator

    @kdaug:

    Kirk was not a fucking Time Lord.

    Yes he was. The City on the Edge of Forever and The Naked Time. And wasn’t his ship the USS Tardis?

  95. 95.

    Mnemosyne

    @asiangrrlMN:

    He is pretty awesome. He’s driving G nuts right now because he wants us to play with him all. the. time. and G’s trying to get things done on the computer. So I’m forced to play with him instead. Le sigh. ;-)

  96. 96.

    Cat Lady

    @WyldPirate:

    the big thick rubber bands from stalks of broccoli.

    My barn cat who came in one day to be the Awesomest. Cat. Evah. (a/k/a Woody) is crazy for rubber bands. CRAZEE for rubber bands. He hoards them. One place he “saved” them is under the corner of a rug until I couldn’t take it anymore cuz they fucked up the vacuum cleaner. Now he puts them all in his food bowl until he breaks them, then he leaves the broken ones for me. Currently he has 7 at the bottom of his bowl. He even leaves a couple for my other cat Finney, who is all like WUT? Woody FTMFW.

  100. 100.

    Comrade Luke

    I’ve asked this before but don’t remember getting a response…

    Wasn’t this site supposed to be rebuilt/redesigned? Whatever happened with that?

  102. 102.

    burnspbesq

    @Lolis:

    If you like Ethiopian food, by all means check out Zed’s, at 28th and M NW. When I worked at 20th and M, it was practically our office cafeteria.

  103. 103.

    Jade Jordan

    HELP!!!! We just hired some “Jake and the Fatman” loser coach named Brady Hoke because our football program didn’t suck enough.

    Hey Pizza Man you hired a national search firm to find a high school coach with a losing record, who looks like Chris Christie!

    Yikes!! BringBackRichRod.com

    MichiganFootballWillSuckForeverNow

  105. 105.

    Phyllis

    @kdaug: Try Charlotte, where the same street changes from King, to Queen, back to King, and then to something else I can’t remember.

    Or it could be Queen, then King, then back to Queen. Cornwallis didn’t call the place The Hornet’s Nest for nuthin.

  107. 107.

    burnspbesq

    @Jade Jordan:

    Relax, it’s a good hire. Anybody who can win at San Diego State can win anywhere.

    Any time your school hires a coach and your first reaction is “who?,” remember that Duke basketball fans had precisely that reaction in 1980.

  110. 110.

    Anonymous At Work

    While the BCS championship game was incredible and I’m glad it was played but still prefer a playoff system of at least 4 teams, I do, as an SEC-fan (if Arkansanan), say that I am glad the SEC Trophy stayed within the SEC this year.

  111. 111.

    Ripley

    @Mr. Blink: Thoughts on USB 3.0? Fast or supermegafast? Curious ’cause I’m gonna buy a netbook, wonder if I should wait for this to be standard.

    Also, regarding DC food, a resounding second on Ben’s Chili Bowl. Half-smoke with chili, chili cheese fries, enormous Dr. Pepper; good stuff.

  113. 113.

    frosty

    @Mnemosyne: Wasn’t it Odysseus who put an oar on his shoulder and walked inland until he got to a place where no one knew what it was … and that’s where he made his home.

  114. 114.

    WyldPirate

    @Cat Lady:
    LOL. Spot was a rubber band hoarder, too. Her stash spot was behind the couch and chairs. Every time my ex and I cleaned behind the furniture or moved it, we would pull dozens of them out.

    It’s funny how animals can get all OCD about things just like people can. I’ve often wondered if their OCD is governed by the same biochemical pathways as those in humans. Most likely they are.

  115. 115.

    goblue72

    @srv: Heh, indeedy. The rest of the numbers (and the math) was correct. My errors are limited to fat thumb typos and not broken calculators.

  116. 116.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    What’s all this talk about Scotsmen with nae trews today? Is that really appropriate?

  119. 119.

    askew

    @lamh32:

    Mother May I Sleep With Danger is the best made-for-TV movie ever. While I understand it deals with a serious subject, it is so freaking cheesy that you can’t stop laughing at it.

  122. 122.

    Dennis SGMM

    @Mnemosyne:

    Though how one goes from the US Navy to the middle of the Arizona desert, I do not know.

    If you’d served in the Navy you would know. There is a very old joke about a retiring sailor. His friends asked him where he was going to settle down. “Well boys,” he replied, “I’m just going to put an oar over my shoulder and walk inland until someone asks me what it is.”

  123. 123.

    merrinc

    @Cat Lady:

    Tigger the snow cat has a fetish for ponytail holders. It was cute at first but now I have to hear my daughter wailing, “Mom, the only ponytail holders I can find have cat slobber all over them!” I bought him his own pack from the Dollar Tree for xmas.

  124. 124.

    Brachiator

    @kdaug:

    No, cudlip. Joan Collins fucking died. The Doctor would never have let that happen.

    The singing babe in the Doctor Who Christmas Carol special dies. Happily ever after, in an odd way.

  128. 128.

    WyldPirate

    @Blogreeder:

    fermented black beans? I’ve never heard of those. Are they good?

    Well, me, my ex and the cat liked them. Used them in Chinese dishes and got them in the “oriental section” of a regular old shitty grocery story in a little tiny town in Tennessee in the 80s and in NC in the early 90s.

    They have sort of a tangy, nutty flavor to dishes. Gives an interesting texture to dishes as well. I haven’t used them in years, though.

  130. 130.

    Jade Jordan

    @burnspbesq Unfortunately Hoax is no stranger. He has prowled campus before and did absolutely nothing but be a toadie for Carr.

    He is a loser and had a losing record at a glorified community college.

    Hey top recruit I have an offer you can’t refuse–lets lose together, or you can take that call from Saban, Miles, Jimbo, or Tressel.

    More time to volunteer in the community next fall. Brady Hoax Epic Fail!

  131. 131.

    burnspbesq

    Can someone explain to me why “Once Around” by The Autumn Defense was not on every pop music critic’s 10-best list for 2010?

  132. 132.

    JGabriel

    @Comrade Dread:

    Dalek (not a real robot I know, but close enough) vs. Data vs. Cylon vs. R2.

    I’ll assume one each, with Cylons represented by a Toaster — the humanoid variant wouldn’t stand a chance.

    Dalek’s are wiped out first. Individually, they’re not that strong.

    Cylon’s are next. Data & R2, being the types that can negotiate and co-exist peacefully, join together to beat the Cylon.

    Final result: tie, because Data & R2 refuse to fight each other as part of the pact they made to take on the Cylon.

    Brought to you by: Geek Central ™.

    .

  133. 133.

    Mr. Blink

    @Ripley: Too soon to tell regarding actual USB 3.0 throughput. This is going to be used as a backup drive. I am transferring 270 GB of data from my old 300 GB USB 2.0 drive to the new drive, so I am limited by the old drive speed right now.

    My new server has 2 2TB SATA 6.0 Gbps drives (the new standard) in a RAID 1, so I am hoping to greatly reduce the backup window. I won’t know about the speed until Friday when I compare time stamps from the backups.

    I just realized how sad my life is…

  134. 134.

    burnspbesq

    @Jade Jordan:

    The thing y’all need to understand is that MIchigan is no longer a top program. Hoke is the best y’all could do. If he fails, y’all are headed for the Duke/Vandy/Rice stratum of futility. So y’all might was well hope he succeeds. Just sayin.’

  137. 137.

    Mr. Blink

    @Blogreeder: My GF won it by leaving some comment on notebooks.com. Seagate was giving 5 of them away supposedly. We thought it was a scam, but the drive showed up yesterday! It even had a business card from a Seagate rep inside the box. Totally strange and random, but I will take a free $120 drive any day!

  139. 139.

    AliceBlue

    We had freezing rain Sunday night and most of Monday in west Georgia. Today the temperature got up to 35, the sun came out briefly and it all melted off the trees and power lines in about 15 minutes. It sounded like a heavy rain storm. Best of all, we never lost power.

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    Mike in NC

    @burnspbesq:
    @ Lolis:

    If you like Ethiopian food, by all means check out Zed’s, at 28th and M NW. When I worked at 20th and M, it was practically our office cafeteria.

    I’m certain that a blind date chose that place for us. The restaurant was quite memorable, the date not so much.

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    Lolis

    @MikeJ:

    I’ve been to Ben’s Chili Bowl. I guess overall I am looking for cheap to moderate prices. Last time I did splurge on Oyamel. But this time I will be meeting up with friends on a tight budget. I want to know about places that may not be in a guide book and places that have cheap happy hour food specials.

  143. 143.

    Jade Jordan

    @burnspbesq, After today we will never be a top program again. We are Duke. We should have been on the road back.

    They hired a “smart” AD from a third rate pizza chain and he brings us Brady Hoax:

    “As a head coach Brady Hoke had one good season at Ball State after 5 losing seasons, and ran to SD ST where he had one OK Yr. out of 2 (at a JUCO level). Huh?”

    Time To Cheer for Texas my other alma mater. They won’t stay in the tank long.

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    Blogreeder

    @WyldPirate:

    Used them in Chinese dishes and got them in the “oriental section” of a regular old shitty grocery story..

    Ha! Maybe they weren’t fermented when they started out!

  151. 151.

    burnspbesq

    @Jade Jordan:

    We are Duke.

    Maybe in football futility. Overall? You wish. When you’ve won 12 national championships in five different sports, we’ll talk. You’re currently eight spots behind us in the Director’s Cup standings, and you’re not going to make up any ground in the winter or spring.

    I was in Cameron the last time Duke and Michigan played. The Michigan players did a little dance on the Duke logo during introductions. A certain Duke player from Detroit Country Day didn’t approve. It was 34-2 after 10 minutes.

  154. 154.

    kdaug

    Anyone else’s formatting buttons on comments suddenly disappear?

    Firefox 3.6.13.

    Been poking around with Collada/WebGL in the Firefox 4 beta, so I probably did this to myself, but wanted to see if anyone else is getting this too.

  157. 157.

    Jade Jordan

    @burnspbesq, then again there is that football Duke, ouch!

    BBall wolverines took #3 Kansas to overtime Saturday. The BBall team is on the upswing, so don’t speak too soon. Next year should be a good one.

    Maybe we can trade football for a woman’s sport to comply with title 9.

  158. 158.

    madmommy

    @Anonymous At Work:
    Yeah but did it have to be Auburn?? I stayed up way too late watching the game, but ended up getting an unexpected nap this afternoon thanks to a sick kid that needed to be picked up from school.

  159. 159.

    WyldPirate

    @Blogreeder:

    LOL. Never thought of that, but they did claim to be fermented on the label. I never remember checking the date on them, though.

    I remember now that they were really salty as well, so maybe that was what the cat liked about them. At any rate, like most store-bought, massed produced Chinese condiments, they probably had so much MSG in them that they were incapable of supporting microbial growth.

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    frosty

    @lamh32: I had a blind date once in college that may have been the best date of my life. When it came up I begged off, but my friend told me his girlfriend had gone through the lookbook with her friend (the blind date), described the guys to her, and she picked me. So I figured what the hell.

    Boy did we hit it off, laughing, talking, coming up with private jokes the others couldn’t figure out. Couldn’t keep our hands off each other, either.

    She flew back to the east coast, I wrote maybe a dozen letters, never got a response, never saw her again.

    Good date, though. Do it.

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    Ben

    @Lolis:
    I second the Ben’s Chili Bowl rec. If you want to splurge on a bar go check out the Round Robin at the Willard Hotel–a lot of DC power brokers hang out there, and they make a mint julep that’s well worth the $15 it costs. Otherwise, my favorite bar in DC is the Hawk and Dove on Pennsylvania Ave SE.

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    Annie

    @MikeJ:

    I agree Local 16 is a nice spot. A bit more expensive but extremely good in DC is Founding Farmers on Pennsylvania. Food is to die for! Good neighborhoods to roam — Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan.

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    Mr. Blink

    @Ripley: Super lame regarding the USB 3.0 drive. Well, it’s not the drive’s fault, but:

    I am using it on VMWare server 2.0.2. Apparently, it supports USB 2.0, but not USB 3.0. I’m running Windows 7 x64 as the host OS, with VMWare server on top. The host OS sees the drive fine, and recognizes that it is a USB 3.0 drive. VMWare server does nothing when I check the box to pass it through to my Windows Server 2003 virtual machine. It goes through the motions, but the box will not remain checked, and it never shows up in the guest OS.

    Some research shows that VMWare server 2.0.2 supports USB 2.0 devices, with no mention of USB 3.0. It could also be a driver or some other limitation on my Server 2003 VM. If I plug the drive into a USB 2.0 port on the host, and pass it through to the VM, it works fine. So I guess I can be happy with the increased space, and the fact that the drive was free, but i doubt I will see any performance gain. :-(

    Oh, and I tried leaving it on the host OS only, and sharing it over the network. The mechanics worked, but transferring data between VM’s in this manner was horribly slow, so I had to ditch that idea.

  167. 167.

    xyzxyzxyz

    Here in Seattle the news was bracing us for a “significant accumulation” of snow. That’s anything greater than a quarter inch around here. So far, the news is wrong….no snow.

    The news is also bracing us for a Seahawks win. On this point they will not be wrong. Love me some Pete C.!

  169. 169.

    Ruckus

    @lamh32:
    At what age should women give up trying to find the fairytale?
    Twelve.
    But then I’m one of those guys that probably would never be the object of the fairytale so there’s that.

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