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When I click through, it told me the event was over. But it makes me wonder about the IQ of TiqIQ.
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Zambian soccer team FTMFW.
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That’s a fantastic story. Absolutely awesome.
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 13, 2012 12:15 PM EST up reply actions
I tweeted it last night, but (strictly from a persona perspective) if the Drogba who showed up for these CAF showed up in the EPL I doubt he’d nearly be as disliked. Joking around with the Zambian keeper who held the ball in one moment, after he was consoling a Zambian defender who was in tears in being subbed off. Game was fairly blah save for those, but the kicks portion was amazing to watch.
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by Bald Pollack on Feb 13, 2012 12:53 PM EST up reply actions
Good morning, everyone.
Hard to believe it’s Monday already, but it certainly has been an information-packed weekend.
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Well, Whitney died, the Grammy’s happened, The Caps lost. I couldn’t keep up with twitter, so I played a video game instead.
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Speaking of videogames, FF XIII-2 so far has been mostly level grinding to beat over-powered bosses. The story isn’t exactly gripping either. “Yeah, we’ll just say the end to the first game was a dream and have the characters time travel to change history around!”
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Interesting. I saw 13-2 at GameStop yesterday and was wondering how it was. I pretty much maxed out my guy in Skyrim so I picked up Resistance 2 and went on a Chimera killing spree for a few hours.
by bathwithtoaster on Feb 13, 2012 8:57 AM EST up reply actions
I still haven’t played Skyrim yet. I’ve spent the time since Christmas playing both Batman games, and now I’m back into NHL 12.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 8:58 AM EST up reply actions
the FF series lost me when it became a movie with some fighting built in. I like the old school RPG’s. Dragon Warrior, Dragon Quest and the original FF’s. DQIX: Sentinel of the Starry Skies was a great throwback game.
It doesn’t really bother me too much (although Namco’s Xenosaga trilogy took it to ridiculous heights), I mostly hate how Square keeps coming up with a new complicated battle system each time. And because it’s so complicated, you’re just as better off not bothering with trying to figuring it out and just level grind your way through.
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What did you think of the fighting system in 12? I enjoyed it, however that was the first FF game that I had played so I wasn’t used to the turn based fighting style.
by bathwithtoaster on Feb 13, 2012 9:33 AM EST up reply actions
12 is the gambit, pseudo real time one, right? It wasn’t too bad, although I rarely did much tinkering with the gambits. I think my main problem was with the pseudo RT part.
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Yep, that’s the one. I think that is still the longest time that I’ve spend on a game. I put ~120 hrs into killing all the marks and finishing the missions by the time I was done
by bathwithtoaster on Feb 13, 2012 9:42 AM EST up reply actions
I hated the system for 12. If you want me to use your gambit system and program AI, give me all the controls (like in Dragon Age). Don’t make me grind up AI bits.
Also, I hated the level-up grid, because I had no idea which direction I was going. I like building up characters, but they hid what each bonus was, so I couldn’t really plan out what I was building towards.
The first FF I ever played was X and I loved the Sphere Grid.
That genre still exists – it’s called JRPGs.
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 13, 2012 12:17 PM EST up reply actions
I watched my GF spend hours on the stupid slot machines in that game over the weekend. I will definitely not be playing that one. I did get her Reckoning: Kingdoms of Amalur for V-Day, so I hope she switches over that one.
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That’s the series returning to it’s roots. The first few games had no story that was gripping, and it was level grinding to beat over-powered bosses. XIII was really the first to go for story before level grinding, and you still had an element of it, but it had no exploration. Still on the final bit (Level grinding to cap my characters just to do it).
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 13, 2012 12:17 PM EST up reply actions
Nope – just a 3 minute long credit roll when you crossed a bridge you couldn’t skip or accelerate. And those three minutes felt like an eternity when I was trying to reach the town that I knew was infested with Pirates.
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 13, 2012 12:32 PM EST up reply actions
The Archivist of the United States himself is here. Shit just got real.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 8:36 AM EST reply actions
Don’t tell me he’s got everything on a 5GM jump drive?
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He’s a pretty short dude. Not tiny, but he looks to be pushing 5’ 8.
There’s a whole um…“issue” going on with the Records Centre that I’m not really at liberty to discuss, but it’s pretty big.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 8:40 AM EST up reply actions
Where’s that damn Constitution? Did Sasha take that again for show and tell? Shit. Last time she got Cheetos on it.
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That reminds me of when Costanza got strawberries all over Babe Ruth’s uniform.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 8:46 AM EST up reply actions
I hope you’re in the clear. And, HEY, I’m 5’ 4’’. The dude’s a GIANT.
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Yeah I’m okay. It’s just going to pretty much level the entire top branch of the agency I think. Especially with those in Congress looking to do some big-time election year posturing.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 8:45 AM EST up reply actions
I hate it when they do that. It just makes everyone look stupid.
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There’s an entire political party out there that’s built an entire doctrine of “the Government is the problem”. It’s not to be unexpected.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 8:55 AM EST up reply actions
really? REALLY?
Believe me, I’m ready for a good government-toppling scandal. I’m eagerly awaiting further developments.
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And now we’ve got people from the White House here. Hoo boy.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 8:54 AM EST up reply actions
say “Hi” for me :) he and my dad played hockey together growing up
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ha ha ha. 2 minutes and Howler Monkey was already howling about something. Le Sigh.
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I know, right? Btw, I see you as the puppy not the kitty.
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I slept funny and have one very angry strained neck/back muscle. not helping my mood.
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I fell asleep on my sofa with the light on last night. I woke up at 2:30 am, had to put on my jammies, wash up, let the dog out…thoroughly waking myself up, then went to bed properly. I went back to sleep, but two three hour naps are not the same thing as a solid six hours.
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I hear ya. I don’t remember the last time I got a solid 6 hours. Something woke me at 4 am (bad dream? Cat howling out back?). whatever tweaking I did to my muscle, I did it after 4 am. At 6 I rolled over and screamed in pain, waking up a very frightened Mr. B. totally awesome way to start a Monday!
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eeep.
My ex used to wake up in agony with periodic Charlie Horse pain. It’s awful to wake up to your spouse screaming like that.
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Snow here in the STL. Starting right now. Of course, starting on the day that I have to stay home to get the kids off to school and am will be right in the teeth of rush hour.
Then, as if the devil himself was in charge, the snow is expect to stop mid-day and then pick back up for the evening commute. Argghh.
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Mornin’ Spidey. We got some snow here over the weekend. A whopping 1/4’’ or so…
by bathwithtoaster on Feb 13, 2012 8:59 AM EST up reply actions
Morning Music Check
Monty Alexander – Call Me Irresponsible
Nothing quite like a laid back morning with Jazz and a nice cup of coffee.
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*sigh*
A PhD candidate just came by my office. He’s freaked out because one of his fellow TAs sent a 5 page rant/letter out to all of their students advising them to hire lawyers because of all the ‘dangerous’ chemicals they are handling in the lab classes.
Uh, it’s the same stuff they always do and they are standard, undergraduate experiments.
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Had that TA never done any of these experiments/worked in the field?
I like Laich, but I <3 Green
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 13, 2012 11:14 AM EST up reply actions
That is…bizarre…
I like Laich, but I <3 Green
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 13, 2012 11:30 AM EST up reply actions
Gang, if you’re a beerhead, I’m inviting you to come check out DC Brau’s very limited release Oaked Penn Quarter Porter at Churchkey tonight. I will be there prior to the game, as DC Brau is one of my favorite partner organizations. I come and hand out “Taxation without Representation” bumper stickers, they give me free beer.
If you miss tonight, we’ll be doing it all over again at The Passenger, on 7th Street across from the Convention Center, next Monday.
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1137 14th St NW. Logan Circle neighborhood.
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Ok. I might come, thought it was a little closer to the VC. Too bad it’s not tomorrow, because I will be down there in that neighborhood!
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yeah, it’s a total pain in the ass to get to. I wouldn’t go except they asked if I would come with bumper stickers.
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I’ll be there at 6. Keg gets tapped at 6:30.
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what up kids
our intramural floor hockey season got off to a flying start last night, before our first game the captain of the other team asked the refs what the mercy rule was. we didn’t take too kindly to that and beat them 17-0 (via mercy rule, ironically)
I had my first ever career shutout between the pipes, although I didn’t really need to make a lot of difficult saves, they only had a few good scoring chances, one of which I did have a nice kick save on.
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Heya Wisco. Good stuff on the game. What team name did you end up with?
by bathwithtoaster on Feb 13, 2012 10:00 AM EST up reply actions
the official team name is Everyday I’m Byfuglien although I guess the guys in charge are a little more lax then we thought on offensive names, one team in our division’s name is Jerry’s Kids.
that aside, the one nice thing about this semester is that we’re all seniors and we’re playing a lot of freshmen and sophomores that we’re bigger and faster than, plus we know what we can get away with, the bounces in the gym, that kind of stuff. wonderful advantage.
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Nice shutout. How do the rules work for this league? Is it co-ed?
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thanks, yeah actually this year was the first year they tried to have girls involved because there aren’t enough girls to make their own league so the men’s league is now co-ed.
other key rules: no slapshots, no sticks in the crease (may seem dumb but as a goalie I love them, I have literally no padding and have been hit in the face, chest and man area more times than necessary.)
also swearing is a two minute penalty but they’re pretty lax on that.
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We played in a Co-Ed one two summers ago. We had to have 1 Rover (could go all over the court) and 2 Defense and 2 Offense. 1 of each O and D had to be a girl. D couldn’t go into O-Zone and O couldn’t go in D-Zone. I hated it.
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positions in our league are completely up to you, although it’s 4 v 4.
we play a diamond, one true offensive player up front, two wingers that track back on D and one true defenseman. it actually has improved our play a ton.
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no, if we lose badly sometimes we’ll go to the bar afterwards though. I do a lot of stretching before games anyway.
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A 1-2-1 Neutral Zone trap!
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 13, 2012 12:21 PM EST up reply actions
Good morning, and congrats, and what name did you guys finally go with?
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Never mind the third bit. I saw the answer after I posted.
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thanks, and yeah. each year we pick a new team name, our four names through the years:
-Modo Hockey (Swedish Elite League team, coincidentally where Forsberg and the Sedins got their starts)
-EHC Wolfsburg Grizzly Adams (German Hockey League)
-University of Phoenix online
-Everyday I’m Byfuglien
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Good morning, and so am I!! OMG, he’s scorching hot in that shot, and you guys look great together. Netminder Dad better watch himself. ;-)
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Now…you notice he’s still a bit taller than me in that pic and I’m easily 5’10’ in heels. So…there is the proof.
I know lots of people seem genuinely distraught at Whitney Houston’s death, but I am not one of them and I really don’t care to hear her belting out “and I will always love YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!” in the office. Put some fucking headphones on. Or close the fucking door to your office. Inconsiderate fucking jackass.
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I actually really love that song, and I love how she did it. I’m sorry about how messed up she was.
That said, I’ve heard far too many Whitney tributes already.
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I should have inflicted my impromptu Bruce Boudreau memorial service on the office by replaying my favorite scenes from 24/7 on the office. “Make ‘em come to us! Ah, fuck ’em! Let’s go boys!”
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I am rather diplomatic when it comes to people making jokes about Whitney Houston’s death: It’s not right but it’s okay.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 13, 2012 11:03 AM EST up reply actions
Not to be a douchebag; I really didn’t know she was still alive. Sucks that she’s dead, but this was unfortunately a long time comin’. Don’t do drugs, kids!
Meanwhile, Bobby Brown is still alive and well. /sigh.
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 13, 2012 12:22 PM EST up reply actions
But their daughter has been hospitalized twice since her mother died. Bobbi Christina is not doing well at all.
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That’s more sad than Whitney passing, I think. I seriously did a double take, because I thought she died a long time ago. This is just the world we live in – a lot of people do terrible things to their bodies at young ages, and then die (relatively) young, and we’re surprised and saddened that they’re gone. I can’t say I’m a huge fan of Whitney’s, and I’m not trying to be callous at all, because it’s sad when anyone passes away, but once they’re gone, they’re gone, and she was fortunate enough that she’ll live on through an aural means. Best of luck to Bobbi Christina, but this is another unfortunate situation where we put people into the echelon of their immortal because of their accomplishments, and then are shocked when we find out they just aren’t.
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 13, 2012 12:31 PM EST up reply actions
LOL, please read this.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/greatest-note-ever-left-dented-car/?fb_ref=like&fb_source=home_oneline
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*sigh* RIP David Kelly
http://gossip.thedailywh.at/2012/02/13/rip-david-kelly-at-82/
He was in Fawlty Towers, Waking Ned Divine and played Charlie’s uncle in the Johnny Depp remake of Charlie & The chocolate factory.
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Honestly, I don’t have a visual of him in my head.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 13, 2012 11:09 AM EST up reply actions
Ah I see, it was a one-episode role, I thought he was a regular cast member.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 13, 2012 11:11 AM EST up reply actions
I haven’t watched it in so long, I had to look him up on IMDB, tbh.
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I remember him in Waking Ned Devine. He’s the old guy who rides his motorbike naked through the village.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 13, 2012 11:16 AM EST up reply actions
So since my boyfriend got a free VIP ticket to Casino night, for valentines day he bought me a jersey and got it signed by the entire team. He is awesome. Gave it to me right after the event since he was excited about it and didn’t want to wait.
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 13, 2012 11:06 AM EST reply actions
I was never really upset with him, just that my plans got ruined last minute AGAIN. But yes.Most Definitely.
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 13, 2012 11:32 AM EST up reply actions
Fantastic job. I need a boyfriend like that.
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 13, 2012 12:23 PM EST up reply actions
Want to get infuriated at other people being stupid?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 11:32 AM EST reply actions
Last week I wrote here than one employee was sitting at his mother’s bedside waiting for her to die. Well, she died on Saturday.
The visitation is this afternoon/evening. I am not good with funerals. I hate them and avoid them at all costs.
I will be spending most of today psyching myself up to go, because it’s absolutely the right thing. I’m dreading the open casket in particular. I’ve only been to one of those, and I could barely get myself into the room.
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I honestly not asking this to be a smartass, but I have never been to an open-casket funeral. Is it mandatory for those who attend an open-casket funeral to approach the casket?
by Rather Bengt on Feb 13, 2012 11:52 AM EST up reply actions
I don’t think so, but you at least should stop by the aggrieved party and give your condolences.
Of course, nothing creeps me out more than those who take pictures next to the casket. GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 11:55 AM EST up reply actions
Now that I think on it, I don’t think I’ve ever been to a funeral that WASN’T open casket. Even my cousin’s girlfriend, which was one of the five most terrible experiences of my life, because nothing is more sad than a teenage funeral.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 11:56 AM EST up reply actions
I am the opposite. I have never been to a funeral with a casket present. I did have a long term relationship with a woman who was an undertaker though.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 13, 2012 12:00 PM EST up reply actions
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Did she throw you off the top of the Hell in a Cell?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 12:03 PM EST up reply actions
Only when she wasn’t calling me “Dude Love”.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 13, 2012 12:09 PM EST up reply actions
When you visit again, I’m going to have to fight to not call you that just on general principles.
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And he has a kick ass theme song
I defy you to try and escape from singing that to yourself the rest of the day.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 12:19 PM EST up reply actions
One of my favourite funeral stories I heard from my ex-girlfriend is as follows:
This brother and sister and their elderly father came in one day to arrange for their mother/wife’s funeral at the funeral home where my ex-gf worked. It went well. But as these things sometimes happen, the father died a month later and since the children were so impressed with the service held for their mother, they went back to the same funeral home to have a service for their father.
The children’s father was a big buyer of scratch tickets. So the brother and sister decided as part of the funeral that they would hand out scratch tickets to all attendees of the funeral at the door.
During the eulogy, the son said to the crowd, “As you will see, we have handed you all scratch tickets. We did this because as many of you know Dad loved his scratch tickets. If you win say $10 or $25 dollars, treat yourself and think of Dad. That would have made him happy. If you win a lot, please remember my sister and I are now orphans.”
by Rather Bengt on Feb 13, 2012 12:21 PM EST up reply actions
Looking back, a good childhood friend of mine was killed in a car wreck back in ‘04. His mother insisted on an open casket, and they did a lot of work on him to make sure it happened. Not to gross people out, but the heat from the lamps to light up the casket did bad things to the reconstructed face. I don’t know if she would do it again.
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 13, 2012 12:25 PM EST up reply actions
That’s how my cousin’s girlfriend looked. They did a LOT of work.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 12:33 PM EST up reply actions
Having grown up on the West Coast, where casket funerals are pretty rare unless you’re in one of the Catholic enclaves, I just don’t understand them. So much money and freaky stuff to go through.
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I remember as a kid, I kinda knew what death was (My dad’s parents died when I was very young), but I didn’t really get the finality of death until I saw my great grandfather’s open casket when I was 13. They’d made me a pall bearer, and I just remember crying, bawling, for a man who the only interactions I had with were sitting and watching baseball together until someone found out I was in his room, and him handing me twenties as I left our family vacations to Illinois where he’d say to buy something for my mother on the ride home.
While they are very sad, I don’t know if I don’t approve. There’s something to the finality you get.
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 13, 2012 12:40 PM EST up reply actions
Thanks for all the replies. The only one I went to, I stood in the back of the room with my back to the casket. I explained to the person whose Dad had passed why.
Looks like I’m not alone in this. Some people just function better or worse in these situations. One of my team told me that she kissed her grandmother good-bye in the casket. Just doesn’t bother her at all. Good for her, but it creeps me out.
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Yeah – I was weirded out when someone patted my friend mentioned above on the chest as he got up. Good luck, sir.
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 13, 2012 12:41 PM EST up reply actions
same here. I don’t deal with death very well. my grandfather’s funeral was open casket; I wasn’t forewarned and had a complete meltdown. Couldn’t even go in the room. When Mr. B’s other great grandmother died (the one we all liked) she died at home, surrounded by everyone she loved—which is what she wanted. But, again, totally creeped me out. And in that bed she remained for 2 more hours, so everyone could say goodbye (she was to be cremated, so I get that, but, still). I stayed in a kitchen and wished desperately that there was some whiskey to get me through it. no such luck—Salvation Army christians are seriously strict teetotalers.
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I am reminded that I have been to one funeral that had a casket, but it wasn’t open. It was, however, exceptionally catholic, and the Priest was at great pains to let all of us in the seats who were NOT Catholic know we were going to hell.
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Good luck with that. :-)
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not meaning to be an ass, but this absolutely boggles my mind. I’m 15 years younger than you and I’ve been to a 6-7 at least.
they’ve all been open casket too, except my cousin who died as a newborn. I saw my first open casket at like age 2 or 3 so I guess it doesn’t bother me.
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except my cousin who died as a newborn
When I read about how Santorum and his wife took their stillborn child home to “meet” their other kids, it was about the creepiest, most horrifying thing I ever read.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 2:44 PM EST up reply actions
That is bizarre indeed. Was the child full-term?
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I believe so.
A severe prenatal development led to his very early delivery, and Gabriel died two hours after his birth
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 2:56 PM EST up reply actions
no. 20 weeks, if I remember correctly. Basically, it was induce labor and the child dies within hours of birth, or attempt to go full term, in which case the child still dies and the mother’s life is at increasing risk the longer she stays pregnant.
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Heaven forbid if something like that happened to me, I don’t know what I would do. I mean, there’s a fine line between holding your baby that just passed away, and the act of physically carrying the child out of the hospital, driving it home, and bringing it to show your kids. I can understand what he was doing in the context of his and his wife’s (severe) Catholicism, but I just can’t fathom that type of thinking. And, I don’t want to say Santorum’s mentally unstable, but at the same time I’m fairly sure a person that would think that way probably shouldn’t be President.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 3:04 PM EST up reply actions
Besides the fact that I don’t think I could ever bring home the corpse of my child and snuggle with it, it really burns me up that Santorum gets up there on his high horse and does his best to restrict options for women who are in similar situations: women whose lives are at risk to continue a pregnancy, or whose fetus has terrible defects and will have, at best, a few terribly painful hours to live. Rick Santorum can practice his religion as he sees fit for himself, but he needs to let the rest of us life our lives according to the principles we live by. And for some of us, that means making the painful decision to end a very wanted pregnancy because we wouldn’t want our child to suffer, and we do not want to run the very real risk of our own death.
If Rick Santorum wishes to practice an extremely conservative form of Catholicism, hey, go right ahead. All I ask is that I and everyone else in this country be allowed to make the decisions that we feel are best for ourselves. But that’s much too difficult a concept for ol’ Ricky to understand.
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by RedBirdie on Feb 13, 2012 3:15 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
You aren’t being an ass.
First, I’ve been fortunate in that very few people around me have passed.
Second, I’m Jewish. We don’t have open caskets, and we put people in the ground as soon as possible.
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Will be thinking about you. Didn’t grow up attending many funerals and didn’t attend an open casket funeral until a similar work situation to yours above. Been to a few, not something I like doing;. If it makes you more comfortable, I don’t think you have to walk by the casket; as others recommended, sit near the back.
I think this is just a visitation, with no service, because the hours are posted as 4 to 8. I’m assuming I can say my condolences and then leave after a bit.
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You know I would if I didn’t have class. We need to hang again!
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 13, 2012 1:13 PM EST up reply actions
I could toss in one or two for tonight. I want to go but can’t seem to find someone to go with me.
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by caps_shutterbug on Feb 13, 2012 12:39 PM EST up reply actions
Still have my extra ticket tonight. Head on down. @ green turtle now.
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by highslot84 on Feb 13, 2012 5:11 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Between my phone and my Nook, I just don’t see any need to buy a PS Vita.
Although I’ve wanted to play MLB The Show for years, I’m not buying a portable console for just one game. And my wife has put the proverbial foot down about me getting a PS3.
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I have too many unfinished games for my PSP (not counting non-handhelds console game) to think about a PS Vita at this time.
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I don’t see it doing anything but crashing and burning. There’s too many people who will just go “why?”
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 12:20 PM EST up reply actions
Well, I hate touchscreens, so a handheld with actual buttons is useful to me. And the PSP lasting this long is pretty impressive considering the track record of Gameboy competitors, but AFAIK, there’s no way to put UMD games on the Vita.
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I would wait for the 2nd version of the Vita to inevitably come out. I never buy the first-run on electronics, just like I never buy the first model year for a car.
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This can be good or bad advice, though, depending on your wants and wishes. I’m glad that I had a first generation PSP, but that was because I liked having a portable Super Nintendo, and I didn’t have any PSP games.
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 13, 2012 12:46 PM EST up reply actions
I do have the original PS3 model though, just for the backward compatibility.
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by bathwithtoaster on Feb 13, 2012 12:59 PM EST up reply actions
MLB The Show is the only baseball video game worth buying that isn’t Mario Super Sluggers or some other goofy kids thing. EA getting out of the baseball game absolutely killed two series – 2K just stopped trying.
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 13, 2012 12:26 PM EST up reply actions
It kills me that it’s PS only. Kills me.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 12:34 PM EST up reply actions
Trust me, I know. Looking back, I wish I’d have bought a PS3, because I’m realizing that’s the only exclusive I play.
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 13, 2012 12:42 PM EST up reply actions
We have all 3 consoles in our house, and the Wii and 360 just gather dust.
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Nice. My wife is not a gamer, but she loves the Wii. That’ll never collect dust. The reason I ended up going with 360 over PS3 was because I preferred the controller. No kidding. If they made a PS3 controller that was the boat of the XBox one, I’d get a PS3.
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 13, 2012 12:45 PM EST up reply actions
My hands are fairly big too, but I have been holding a PS controller since the 90’s so I am just used to it. They do make 360 knock controllers for the PS3 now, even with the backwards d-pad and stick.
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 13, 2012 12:39 PM EST up reply actions
Shuffled. I’ll be here in limited capacity. Not at all tomorrow (I’m taking the day of in celebration of me).
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 13, 2012 12:40 PM EST up reply actions
Thx. ’Rents were here over the weekend for celebration stuff.
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 13, 2012 12:42 PM EST up reply actions
I had no idea Mike Comrie’s family was worth close to $500 million.
I’m almost as surprised as when I found out Julia Louis-Drefyus’ family was stupid wealthy.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 12:22 PM EST reply actions
I think it was PD that talked about the Comrie money when he married Duff. Said the prenup would protect him more than her.
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
Yeah I was just reading that on PD. Very interesting.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 12:32 PM EST up reply actions
to be honest, I always wondered what the attraction was. He’s not a good looking man.
yes, I’m a cynical ass.
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He’s certainly not very good looking now.
Oof.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 12:55 PM EST up reply actions
is that really him?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 12:59 PM EST up reply actions
damn, he could give Mike Green lessons in chunking up while injured.
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Given your background, I’m sure you know that it’s bad enough for some athletes when they retire and stop burning all the calories they were, but add in an injury resulting in retirement and it can be even more limiting and result in weight gain, etc.
Always a bit taken aback when I see Mark Tinordi these days, but then I put it in this context.
Has Mark Tinordi ballooned a bit?
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I think there were some pictures from when his son was drafted someone might be able to dig up, FYI.
Again, IIRC, he retired because of back and ankle injuries so those are going to impact one’s conditioning along with the general changes in activity due to retirement and one’s general body type.
Oh Tinordi puffed up like a poppinjay. I didn’t even recognize him at the draft.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 2:45 PM EST up reply actions
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OK, that made me chuckle out loud.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 3:04 PM EST up reply actions
sorry I didn’t get to answer sooner (work stuff); you’re right. It’s a huge (and I don’t mean that as a joke) problem for a lot of girls to transition from the highly restricted diet and very structured life of being a high level athlete to suddenly finding yourself turned loose in the candy aisle. Doesn’t help that frequently you go from stick thin with an unhealthy body fat percentage, so even 5 pounds looks like you’ve ballooned. You see almost as many eating disorders with the retired ones.
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For those who weren’t following hockey or prospects or or other team’s players, if you go back further, his family situation has followed him throughout his career in terms of his reputation. including the time when he had his contract dispute with the Oilers, his hometown team/the team which drafted him.
I’m not familiar with his contract dispute. what happened?
I really don’t know much about him at all, except he’s married to Hilary Duff, seems to have been injured his entire time in Pittsburgh, and has that huge jaw.
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Heir to a Canadian fortune gets drafted in the third round by the Oilers in 1999. Scores 33 goals in his first full season. Chooses not to re-sign with the Oilers as a restricted free agent in 2003. The Oilers opt to trade him to the Anaheim Ducks for “prospect Corey Perry and a first-round draft pick,” according to the LA Times, but GM Kevin Lowe wants Comrie to pay the Oilers $2.5 million as a condition for the trade.
Traded to the Philadelphia Flyers for a package that included a first-round pick, in a move that left everyone unhappy save for Comrie.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 1:00 PM EST up reply actions
oh Hilary Duff. 13 year old me loved her.
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Not feeling very well
I may be going home soon. I’m feeling nauseous.
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Tired? Bloated? Gassy? Gassy? Gas? Is it gas? It’s gas isn’t it?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 13, 2012 12:57 PM EST up reply actions
Feel better. BTW, I picked up another new CD over the weekend. I think you might enjoy it. The band is called Blind Pilot. Similar vibe to Murder By Death and The Head And The Heart. Good stuff.
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 13, 2012 12:59 PM EST up reply actions
Thanks guys. I’m home now. I’ve been informed that stomach flu is going around the building. ::sigh::
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Sounds awful. Feel better.
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 13, 2012 1:40 PM EST up reply actions
Yes. It should. One of the most common grammatical/usage mistakes in the US.
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God, I would kill for a chance to work in space.
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 13, 2012 1:43 PM EST up reply actions
Right, but vacuums still allow waves to travel through them, and if there’s something to have the wave bounce off of, wouldn’t it return to you? This crap is nearly impossible to test, though.
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They need a medium since sound, well, makes sound by vibrating matter. Space is a near vacuum so there wouldn’t be an adequate amount of matter to allow sound to be heard.
Same thing goes for lasers — you can see them, sort of, on Earth depending on conditions. In space there would be absolutely no report of lasers be it light or sound.
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If it start getting into stuff like the interstellar medium and solar wind though, you do have super sonic material…but all of that is due to the fact there are actual particles.
Where the “shocks” are labeled are where the materials go from supersonic to subsonic.
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 13, 2012 2:18 PM EST up reply actions
It’s still a near vacuum — the distance between matter is too great for sound to occur. It’s like hearing something underwater, then popping up above the surface and hearing it again. Except in space, you’re on the opposite end of water on the spectrum.
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Didn’t Voyager or Pioneer recently cross the “boundary” without really detecting much? We’re talking something that’s really minimal here.
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Correct. But it was interesting to note.
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 13, 2012 2:40 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, there are definitely particles out there but it only comes into play when you’re traveling at extremely fast speeds over long distances — the armoring on probes is nominal at best. It’s not until you start chasing asteroids or you’re leaving it in low Earth orbit that you need Whipple shields or other armoring. There’s just not that much floating around to be concerned about in unmanned probes. Plus radiation shielding tends to be sufficient for them anyway.
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Also, on the note of lasers and space: the ultimate weapon in space would be sand. Assuming you’re capable of space flight, you’re capable of getting a bunch of sand up as close to near-relativistic speeds. Kind of like how anti-aircraft missiles work now — they explode just before impacting and allow for kinetic energy kills. Except in space, you’d just blow it up even earlier to create a cloud of sand that would rip apart damn near anything.
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I like this. So simplistic.
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 13, 2012 2:24 PM EST up reply actions
Video games, Wisco’s floor hockey team, open casket funerals and the physics of sound in space. Just another day on the JR OTOT. :)
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by apk3000 on Feb 13, 2012 2:58 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
ok if you are a DBA and have your MCP for SQL and you fail to put any sort of retention or expire timeframes on your SQL backups and the drive fills up because there are backups going back to Oct. 2008 then we have problems. So glad that guy is gone, we have found so many problems. Also DON’T PUT MAINTENANCE PLANS UNDER YOUR F’ING ACCOUNT SO THAT WHEN YOU LEAVE ALL KINDS OF SHIT BREAKS.
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there I feel better now.
I have no idea what you just said, but I’m glad you feel better.
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basically someone who thought they were some big deal Database Administrator who got a microsoft certification wasn’t. Turns out they kept making entry level mistakes and their work was questionable but while they were here they were fixing things before anyone else was made aware of them thereby hiding the lack of experience and/or skill.
What he said was a) don’t forget to save important stuff; b) don’t overwrite important stuff; c) don’t put everything under a password only you know, just in case you leave the company.
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thank you for translating. I usually do a decent job but I was a bit riled up. Caused a full outage for a CRITICAL (yes all caps and bolded level of critical) business application for about 35 minutes before I was able to cleanup his leftover mess. I’m still pissed off about it. Just no excuse for that kind of laziness.
Good idea: going home when you feel queasy and have stomach flu symptoms
Good idea: laying down on the sofa in your jammies
Unforeseen unfortunate problem: not feeling better because the dog has toxic gas and the whole house stinks because of it.
GAAAAHHHH.
I have candles burning and burnt some sage to try to help the situation, but it isn’t ideal.
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