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There is nothing on television right now.
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Vacation spots
Best way to cook an egg
Christmas gifts you want
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I’ve been watching a lot of puppy youtube videos.
I’m going to post up here just to show that I can…yes, I’m that powerful.
Fried in butter, over easy.
You had me at butter.
I’ve developed a habit of doing that (though in coconut oil) and then making a cheese omelette in the remaining oil for Yoenessa
I lof coconut oil
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poached
Shakshouka
Poached in salsa from Tito’s Tacos with some shredded cheese melted over them and then laid over Tito’s chips.
Breakfast Nachos, bitches.
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Trick question. There’s no wrong way to eat eggs.
Balut.
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Bless you.
raw, like rocky
yeah, that’s wrong. he hardly used any sugar at all.
How does someone selling a puppy include shipping in the price? WTF is that?
I would hella(tm) buy one of these and put it on space in Livermore if I could find it: http://www.thehomesdirect.com/homes/detail/golden-exclusive-662k
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Hawaii
Over medium
The Millennium Falcon
Take me to Hawaii with you.
no tops allowed
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Ew. No one needs to see that mess.
disagree.
circle gets the square.
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I love you.
I know.
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{MikeV is frozen in Carbonite}
…so if I’m doing the math right a thousand words is worth exactly one picture.
Thirteen hundred words if you’re in Canada.
Unless it’s a picture of me. Those are worthless.
Oh, Jennifer…you’re priceless.
Only suckers pay full retail
Is there anything on television now?
The sermonette and sign-off just finished, so basically no.
I don’t like tv anymore. I stayed up to watch the national anthem. I haven’t slept since the bush administration.
(Bed nods his head)
it looks like a penguin
Watching last night’s election results here in Arkansas was kind of like watching a Raiders game.
How about now…is there anything on television now?
That was my favorite show of 1982.
My favorite episode was the one with special guest stars Conrad Bain, Conrad Janis, and Conrad Dobler.
If I remember, Conrad Dobler bit the other two Conrads and hijinks ensued, until a cameo by Robert Conrad basically dropped the cow.
HOT CONRAD ON CONRAD ACTION!
I mean…is okay that I like crumpets?
I mean…is it okay that I like to start warehouse fires?
You burnt the crumpets, didn’t you?
Well, we did buy the toaster at Walmart.
Should’a bought a Land Rover Toaster.
It would’a burnt the crumpets more authentically.
I don’t think they sell those in Arkansas…we like all our products to be American made in Taiwan.
I mean…is it okay that I like Coldplay?
I mean…is it okay that I started the Franco-Prussian War?
You must have burnt Coldplay along with the crumpets.
Okay, I’m calling it early…Kay wins the lounge.
I mean…is it okay that I’ve just written ten consecutive posts?
Yes, but what’s not okay is the sixteen minutes of weird gesturing that followed.
That’s how I get my workouts in.
Work is banning alcohol at the Christmas party this year. I’m excited to see the reaction from all the drunk idiots.
I’m pretty sure Dr. Asshole finally went ahead with the divorce because of last year’s Christmas party. His divorce was final in May or June and he’s getting married again next month.
Next Wife Up.
Wife 2 is a bitch. And a nurse. She doesn’t even work with me and she got me in trouble last weekend.
Hopefully you’ll get along better with wives 3 and 4.
I dont understand people who get right back into a marriage or even a relationship. Of course I am the other extreme and will probably never get past a warm kiss on the cheek again. But it seems to me that you need time to evaluate and get to know yourself better.
He started dating wife 1 in high school. He’s literally never been single.
Hmm…since high school I’ve probably been totally free and single maybe about a year total. I’m just happier in a relationship…well, that and I need someone to do my laundry.
Exactly. As someone in a similar situation I knew I would need plenty of time before anything serious. Need to be comfortable with yourself and many folks simply arent. Big part of me doesn’t know if I could ever marry again. I dont want to put up with others issues, and I cant see why someone would put up with mine.
(And that is not some boo hoo-Ive made that comment before and it has been misconstrued as feeling bad about myself. I’m a helluva guy, but I am honest enough to know that if I was a wonderful woman I would think twice before putting up with my morning nose blowing, and whatever other bad habits I bring to the table..)
I’m easy to live with as long as no one looks me directly in the eye and I’m referred to as Der Kaiser.
Not Der Kommissar?
I’m no Kommie!
o, o, o
Sounds like a reality TV show about NFL coaches’ romantic lives.
Since there’s a nurse in here a quick medical question…why did they ever make a Bond movie with George Lazenby?
haven’t been to the doctor since 2006. thought I should go. Called the number on the back of my insurance card. It was out of service.
Maybe Jennifer can make a house call.
oh really?
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Yeah, you can’t call Klondike 5-6240 anymore…
He’s no Roger Moore.
Like most Americans I’m ready for the big Michael Bolton comeback.
He asked “How am I supposed to live without you?”
and although most of us found a way,
some of us could not carry on, once what we were living for was gone.
Ah, who am I kidding… Michael McDonald could kick Michael Bolton’s ass.
Well, to be fair Michael McDonald can kick pretty much everyone’s ass.
Yah Mo B There!
I celebrate his entire catalogue.
already happened
I want it on the record that I swear it was an accident the first four times I used the ladies room instead of the men’s room…the fifth time though is hard to explain.
twice for me. for realsies
Once. At traffic court. Didnt realize it until a lady walked in.
alcohol was involve both times
you’re drunk right now, aren’t you?
getting there
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i feel like we have had this conversation
I may be dead on the inside but at least I’m not the guy who made a Bond movie with George Lazenby.
He’s no David Niven.
I wonder if at any point there was a chance they were thinking about going by Oates & Hall?
I can never remember was it Mr. Mister or Mister Mr.?
It was Mister Mr. T.
They had a big hit called “Broken Chains”
Take… these broken chains…
and learn to pity the fool…
the fool who don’t live free…
and when we hear… the voices sing…
the book of fools will open up, and let us pity
That song would have been the biggest hit of 1984.
My favorite 90s band name aped from other things were
REO Speeddealer and Aimee man is a bastard
Eight dollars will buy you a Big Mac with fries and a Coke but it won’t buy you respect.
I beg to differ.
Excellent…seriously, well done.
When I originally clicked the link it said like 9.12. So to see the $8 pop up once the page opened I knew it was meant to be.
It made me laugh…which is something I always appreciate.
Things I don’t understand…Soy milk…why Bruce Springsteen talks with a southern accent…Excel 2013
I feel like a number and that number is 137.
1/alpha
Waco is for lovers.
The things I have to look forward to…my children growing up, traveling, and seeing Reggie McKenzie getting fired in a couple of months.
A quick legal question for Ed…why would anyone eat a Pop-Tart that wasn’t Frosted Strawberry?
because the frosted ones are gross
you monster
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you are lucky 47 passed. possession of a frosted pop tart is only an infraction now.
Unless you possess them for sale
So I can steal 500 boxes from you and it’s no big deal? Nice!
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Make sure you keep them all in one baggie, otherwise they might get you for intent to distribute.
That is, unless they’re of multiple flavors. That complicates matters.
too drunk to understand right now. glad you came back though. pass out time.
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I’m a little confused why A-Rod admitting to PED use is a story but at least it got ESPN to stop talking about early season NBA.
I may have taken last in the wet t-shirt contest but everyone agreed I showed real grit.
You shoulda taken hormones and grown those boobs out first.
Then again, that woulda taken down the grit factor a notch or two.
boobs
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I like to take hot candle wax…and let it cool before I do anything with it. Safety first boys and girls.
Laughter may be the best medicine but if it’s alright with you I’ll take the stitches for my head wound instead.
It’s time to get real, y’all…you never wear black shoes with a tan suit.
It works if you wear beige pantyhose along with.
The More You Know…
Like most Americans I lost my virginity to Bette Midler.
If I ever had a movie made of my life, I would totally fictionalize a part where my fifteen year old self loses his virginity to an old whore played by Bette Midler.
This is a movie I would watch.
This is a movie i would serve as technical advisor for, which means I would probably have to spend way too much time with Jonah Hill.
I think this might come out wrong but…marker playwright Toledo rugs balcony zippy $4.62 James K. Polk.
Did Bed have a stroke? Find out next time…Same Lounge Time…Same Lounge Channel.
Colbert’s Better Know A District segment today was CA-13 and Barbara Lee! And she was awesome of course. A’s hat in the background of her shot, and love for the Coliseum. She and Colbert did the wave. Then they hula hooped and had a silly string fight.
I can’t decide if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that the best news reporting these days is done by fucking comedy central and hbo. Stewart and Oliver are awesome.
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It’s both.
Probably.
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stewart sucks now.
you were into him before it was cool.
k.
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I mean he does the same false equivalency bullshit that they all do.
it’s entertainment and I chuckle when I watch it.
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Ooh, I’ll have to check that out. Thanks.
Nice!
Video Link
Felt a little awkward at first, but it got into a good flow after the first wave. Shouldn’t have used a Lester picture though :(
Today my 90+ year old great-uncle got in a fight in the Alzheimer’s unit where he’s a resident. With a lady who also has Alzheimer’s. The ER nurse said by the time they got to the ER, neither of them could remember what had happened.
So they can’t even have make up sex?
New information: my uncle thought he was fighting a man.
My initial response remains.
I don’t like football as much as I used to.
Become a Raiders fan, you can’t possibly like football any less after that.
Is that still considered football?
The NFL is going to be dead in 10 years.
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Me too!
The Raiders chose an earlier out.
Good.
Long Live the American Rugby League and Oz Rules America!
Last weekend they had a Rugby match on NBC with some Washington Generals American team vs the All Blacks. I really think I could get behind us having Rugby take the place of football. I still dont understand most of it, but it sure keeps moving.
It takes some getting use to, but when you do its probably more fun to watch that football.
agreed.
As a former player, I certainly agree it’s a lot of fun to watch. That said, style of play goes through transitions over time where you can have years in a row where it’s pretty boring (for example, a few years ago teams were very quick to go to the rugby version of punting the ball away, resulting in long stretches of very little open play). Of course, the same can be said for soccer, and fans seem not to mind.
Watch out batgirl, your Broncos are in for some serious pain on Sunday!
Are you going to get acupuncture together?
Is there really a single match up left for them that looks particularly favorable? The only two teams I could see them potentially beating are the Bills or the 49ers (only because they have a tendency to play flat so far).
{Warns Thomas, Thomas, Sanders, and Welker not to poke their eyes out when doing Mile High Salute on Sunday.}
The spring concert schedule came out today. I now have something to look forward to so I can make it through winter. I think I’m going to Michigan with the hitchhiker I picked up this summer.
8 hour drive together. I should probably get a weapon.
2 of them
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Why?
If he surprises you and says “give me your weapon” you still have one in reserve.
What if he says “give me your weaponS”?
first thing a cry-baby girl learns…
… is not to watch Johnny Depp movies.
waters is thicker than depp.
or something.
Edward Scissorhands
Sweeney Todd
Pirates of the Carribean
Corpse Bride
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Platoon
He’s been in some good movies…
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So?
So why would you say to not watch them
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If you’re a cry baby, watching his movies causes crying, ergo, the first thing you learn if you’re a cry baby is not to watch his movies.
Because I hate his face.
mean.
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I hate your face.
But I love your ass.
Dead Man – best of them all.
My favorite Depp movie is either Ed Wood or Donnie Brasco. He’s a talented actor when he wants to bring it.
Secret Window.
You applaud his use of language to try and best you. Hopefully this distracts him long enough for you to run away.
If your plan involves me running away, I’m already fucked.
You say “I only have this one” and pray he believes you.
I like how the EPL has no problem with the advertising banner of “bet365.com”
Being a Raiders fan is a soul crushing experience.
At least you didn’t just have 17 heart attacks like a Niners fan who is outwardly dismissive of our playoff hopes, but secretly hoping we get Smith/Willis/Bowman back and end us as a wild-card team who runs the table.
I’m watching the post-game show on channel 5 right now. Neither O’Donnel nor Jeremy Newberry have the guts to admit the Niners got something of a break on the Cox flop at the end of the 4th quarter.
Also, right now Raiders fans would GLADLY suffer the type of torture you just described. Hell, I’d be ecstatic if they could just win a FKing game.
If they called Boldin earlier, that was a penalty either way. Graham extended his arm to shove Cox away. Then Cox embellished.
Hope Harbaugh learned that you need to put your tallest receiver at the goal line in that situation. Shameful that Graham was allowed to catch it, even with the interference.,
Graham did enough to get the flag regardless of the faux-fall. If anything, falling helped keep Cox from hitting him as he stumbled and get a PI flag himself.
Yes, because it’s so awful watching exciting games your team wins…much better to be a Raiders fan.
#torture
It’s killing me…I know I’ve posted some BS posts that act like I don’t care…but I do care…way too much. For much of my growing up the Raiders had the highest winning percentage in all of professional sports…now they wouldn’t cut it in the SEC West. I’ve come to dread Sundays.
I’ve given up. And I feel horrible because of the way I feel about DC. I know he is a good guy and I think he is going to be the real deal (though I thought the same of David so I do temper my thoughts..). But it just makes no sense on days like today to sit for 3 hours and yell at the TV. Instead I went and changed lightbulbs, replaced a cracked light cover and fixed the kitchen sink. Still was ticked off checking the score on line, but it felt better accomplishing something.
I did nap during one of our losses…it was the best Sunday I’ve had all year. My main concern with Carr is he’s played worse as the season has gone on. He was awful today. Whoever our next coach is I hope he’s a OB whisperer. I still have hopes for Carr but he needs work and a lot of help. Seven more weeks and then we can be done with this shit.
Granted. Though after last week (and our season-long pattern of early leads blown late) it was a rough ride.
Even when the Raiders were great their games were roller coaster rides so I can relate to that…I fell in love with that kind of football where your team does something crazy to win it in the 4th quarter though…it’s never boring. 42-17…that’s boring.
They played a good first 20 minutes today. A few more ⅓s and they’ll have a win.
It was 10-6 Raiders and then a few minutes later it was a whole bunch to 6 Broncos. The defense played well for most of the first half. The offense continues to be an affront to God.
They just need to play a team that folds a little in the second half… like a red and gold team.
This fall has been very cruel to me so far:
Iowa State – 2-7
UC Davis – 1-8
Raiders – 0-9
Collectively 3-24
Football can go FK itself.
I think KU is 0-168 this season…KU fans ignore college sports until basketball starts.
KU beat Iowa State last Saturday – by three TDs.
Suck It Cyclones! I guess it’s kind of sad I didn’t even know that. I was just happy they fired Charlie Weis and I stopped paying attention to the games this year.
Too soon for you to bandwagon the Kings?
If I had time to watch the NBA I would be jumping on.
Interstellar is a movie that’s about half as smart as it thinks it is. Also, I think Chris Nolan is a great director but his last two films have had a horrible sound mix. Music often drowned out important dialogue and that’s unacceptable. Overall I give the movie a B-
Now ends the movie review portion by a bald guy, living in Arkansas, on an A’s related baseball blog. Up next DANCING!
I saw it last night too! I really enjoyed it a lot, even if I couldn’t make out the dialogue at a couple of key points. I’ll withhold opinions on how smart it is, but I’m certain that it is extremely beautiful and reasonably thought-provoking. One of those movies I was glad to walk into knowing absolutely nothing about other than that Matthew McConaughy starred (which is pretty much enough to get me in the door these days).
I enjoyed the middle act quite a bit. The first act is a little slow and the third act I found disappointing. The conclusion to the story just didn’t work for me. The acting and special effects are top notch.
One other thing about Interstellar…Jessica Chastain should be a movie star. Great actress and absolute smoke show.
What I liked about it was that it was a dystopian space adventure movie that wasn’t trying to be scary or gruesome, and it didn’t feature a bunch of unnecessary action set pieces despite a large budget and mad special effect skillz. It was a beautifully rendered and completely accessible popcorn movie about physics and metaphysics and the fundamentals of human nature. And despite being three hours long it never felt bloated to me. That’s hard to pull off.
I agree with a lot of what you said. And despite the near three hour length I wasn’t bored. My only problems are with the last twenty minutes. I loved that the robots were cool and not evil in any way. The Matt Damon part worked for the most part and although calling him Dr. Mann was laying it on a little heavy. Man’s worst problem is Mann. It’s a movie I want to see again and I’m still thinking about it a couple of days later.
Matt Damon was great as usual. Right before they unzipped him I got excited thinking it was obviously going to be someone famous, and then even more excited when it was him.
On the other hand, I’m still not sure what the point was of all the Casey Affleck stuff or what the kid from That 70s Show was doing in this movie.
Nolan could have cut a lot of the Earth based stuff. It would have made the movie tighter.
are you guys talking about the pentagon papers again?
I see the new Star Wars movie is called The Force Awakens…if the force is anything like me it awoke around 3 AM because it had to take a leak.
Gotta admit, I was waiting to see what you would do with this title.
Not disappointed.
It’s certainly a title that lends itself to many possibilities.
Okay, we get it… Jimmy can crack corn and you don’t care.
I see The Newsroom is back…only six more episodes to be disappointed by.
i loved newsradio
well buttafuoco to you too.
My relationship to NewsRadio was more casual.
Wait, really? Sweet!
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Aaron Rodgers with 6(!) 1st half TD’s against the Bears. Marc Trestman…rent, don’t buy.
Carson Palmer with torn ACL…tough break for the Cardinals. I wonder if Jake Plummer can make a comeback?
The Steelers have lost to the Bucs and the Jets this season. Do they play the Jags and the Raiders?
I’m a Belieber.
So, the moral of this story is don’t have Bible study with Canadians.
From what I hear it’s better to have Bette Davis eyes than Bette Davis breath.
Most of my worst decisions involve alcohol and cleavage. Most of my best decisions involve alcohol and cleavage.
Me too!
Heh.
From what I hear it’s better to have Clark Gable chest hair than Clark Gable crotch rot.
a. Thanks, Obama. Yes, the internet SHOULD be treated like a utility.
b. Ted Cruz is dumb.
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I like that b doesn’t have a link, that it’s just a statement of fact. It doesn’t really require anything new added to it or the additional support of a link.
yeah. It’s really more like a(1) in this case, though:
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Death Panels for Corporate Profits!
So… he apparently doesn’t know what the internet actually is or how’s been operating for some time now. Classic Dumbass.
I’m just assuming that it’s “Obama said X so I have to attack X”
Oh also Comcast is one of his biggest campaign donors. SHOCKING.
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This. If Obama said the sun rises in the east, Cruz would take the contrary position.
That’s because he’s a Kenyan Muslim Socialist Traitor. Cruz, that is, not Obama.
Unlike Obama, Cruz actually was born outside the USA. He’s obviously an agent sent here by Canada to destroy us from the inside.
That plays well with their disbelief that Americans would vote in favor of the GOP.
It’s a Masterpiece Maestro Monday and I have pulled out all the stops with an epic compilation (it took me the better part of 15 years to assemble it all) chronicling the endless genre of Music from Italian Westerns! All bearing the imprint of today’s birthday boy, 86 years young and still wielding the conductor’s baton like a man half his age. Yes, born this day in 1928 and responsible for more film soundtracks than any other human ever to live, let’s go West with Il Maestro Ennio Morricone!
Nice! A real legend.
The Southwest Airlines concourse at San Diego International Airport is a throwback to the 1970s, to be complimentary. Do not allow yourself to be stuck here for 2.5 hours. The only positive feature is 23 oz of Stone IPA (for $11.83 including tax but not a tip), and I’ll need at least 69 oz to make it to flight time.
TSA Pre Check works very well though; I don’t usually buy my way into a Lexus Lane, but no regrets about that one.
Ugh. It is awful. I felt like a cow. More than normal.
Moo.
I always liked flying out of the old terminal C at SJC, which was a throwback to the 1950s. Thankfully, I never had to walk out to an airplane in the rain. (One positive was that Alaska would board the airplane from both ends, so the boarding was a lot faster.)
Ever flown out of/into Long Beach? Now that’s a throwback.
I love that place.
Except the time I was carrying the two and half year old theo from the plane, and SLF and I were dueling over travel related issues. I left the “terminal” go to the baggage claim. (to those that have not been there, its outside the maybe 4000 sq feet of buildings that is the terminal, including 2 temporary buildings.)
I saw there was no luggage on the conveyor and did not realize there were actually TWO luggage belts so i said “Motherfucker” out loud right next to a woman nearly 70 years old waiting to pick up passengers. A woman who also happened to be my actual mother.
The one at Cincinnati/Kentucky has the external exiting. That was weird given how many times I’d flown without doing that.
IN Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport, they work hard, they play hard
i can’t be the only one hearing C+C music factory right this second.
bzzzzt. bzzzzt.
bzz-bzz-bzzzzt.
bzzzzt.
oh good. i figured out why.
now trying sitting in a “bagalry” in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport for an hour and a half with a person you barely know as you wait for a flight you may not be on to continue the nearly 24 hour trip from National to SFO right across from that mosaic and NOt have that
going through your head for the.entire.time.
before i get too deep into this fantastic scenario, this person sitting with me who i barely know…. is it my actual mother?
is your mother a VA doctor that was planning her wedding?
[puts it on list of things to ask mother to get to know her a little better.]
there was also another guy who was an engineer of some kind, going to stanford for a conference. He was from Rhode island. Super nice guy. had fun dining with him in the denver airport at our next stop.
He had the most ridiculous New england name, like chaise or blaise, but neither of those becuae it had multiple syllables.
I hope it was blasé
Hot stuff, comin’ through!
what is the matter with being at an airport in the 70s?
I have one of these outfits in my closet…I won’t say which one.
Catching domestic United flights by going through the international terminal pre-check line and taking the back stairs to terminal 3, I can get from BART train to gate in 3-5 minutes.
And there’s already a priority-pre-check you can buy.
Catching Virgin flights by having status or a non-coach seat puts you in their priority line, which protects you from big backups.
Clear is also not very expensive (though currently limited airports). If you have any visa signature card, you get 6 months free and ~110/year afterwards to skip lines entirely. That said, pre-check is a better deal assuming that signing up for it actually gets you pre-check on all your boarding passes.
Pre-check at $85 for 5 years is a reasonable deal especially if the current setup I saw at all three airports where I tried it were to stay the same for the 5 years (not terribly likely). In addition to the much shorter line, it’s the hassle-free 9/10/2001 airport security experience: throw your carryon bag on the belt and walk through the metal detector. None of the removing shoes, removing belt, take laptop out of bag, take liquids out of bag, pose in the full body scanner stuff. Southwest got the correct notation on all my boarding passes.
Yep. It’s a great deal, just to save the laptop/shoe removal.
I’m mostly convinced to give it a try, just need to get to the airport early enough to “interview” at the international terminal without missing my flight.
Though there are still many people who remove their shoes/belts/jackets/laptops in the pre-check line, slowing the whole thing up and earning the well-deserved scorn of the TSA agent.
I almost did that. Somehow the Virgin priority line sent me to pre-check so I was asking for laptop bins.
Approval isn’t instantaneous; I think it took about 10-12 days after I applied to receive the approval letter and traveler number. A full set of my digital fingerprints is now permanently on file, and I assume somebody looked at whatever info the FBI has on me, so if any of that causes a privacy concern one might think twice about it.
As I’ve mentioned, I got my pre-check as a side-effect of my global entry which United paid for, but Southwest refuse to honor it.
I loved domestic flights in NZ. There is no control whatsoever. None. Just like entering a subway or a bus.
TSA Pre Check represents everything that is wrong with America stacked into a shitty airport experience.
I think you mean TSA in general.
That’s a different point. I’m guessing DFA’s is more about the class dimension that Pre Check – and Clear – amplify.
I guess, but I don’t see a class dimension to Pre-Check (there obviously is for Clear).
Pre-check is a sale of personal information. They get my fingerprints, I get less security theater. I pay less than $20 a year (in an environment where the cost of a plane ticket is anywhere from 3 – 30+ times that per-flight, so we aren’t talking about a huge hit).
I find the whole idea of that to be BS.
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I find the whole idea of pre-9/11 security theater to be BS. Pre-check actually does help focus it a little.
The significance of the cost depends strongly on how often you fly alone, which in turn is highly class-correlated (citation needed).
Fair enough about multiple people flying together (though pre-check covers kids, so you’d only need one per adult)
I don’t how many fanboy-types we have on this site, but just in case, I’ll share this which showed up in my fb feed today.
I mentioned that somewhere last week or so.
I’m looking forward to it.
what are sounder fans chanting? sounds like darryl? or cheryl?
Seaaaaaaattle, I think.
Earlier I think they were singing:
Your football’s shite
Both day and night
Deep in the heart of Texas
but that’s the mocking chant. don’t they know that’s the mocking chant??
sounders has the worst color combo of any sports team i can think of. both are difficult colors already, and together they don’t work. at all.
i’m trying to play a designer’s google game. google a “category” that this color combo would work well with. the closest i get is natural toothpastes stuck between trying to be not too hippie and not too yuppie.
and the clash with the astro turf!
i’m still wondering if the streaky astro turf color is to make it look more natural, or just an indicator that it will never look natural.
From what I’ve heard it’s a weird optical illusion on TV and it actually looks OK in person.
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huh!
This astroturf is making me regret my vote last week.
right?
but seriously, nothing worse than grass fields with shitty drainage.
The older boy played all his practices and the majority of his games on the field turf. its fin for those kids
It is fine for the kids. Although I hate those little black tire pellets that get all up in my shoes and the cuffs of my jeans.
I voted against it… and against the competing measure.
I played on that field every summer for fucking weeks of terrible soccer camp. Its fine. Why spend the money there so adults can play their club games at night?
How recently? Because if it’s been years, the field has likely gotten worse, not better, since then.
Same colors as the Seahawks, right?
had to look that up and i guess you’re right. didn’t realize there was green in it.
sea hawks are darker, yeah?
I don’t think so. They just emphasize the blue more.
officially, they have two blues. and the reliance on navy blue as a base helps the two weird colors come together better.
if i was going to extrapolate some color theorem out of this, i’d say that two “weird” colors have to work perfectly together (in the math of the color wheel) to work together at all. but add a more normal base color that they both line up with, and the two weird colors become almost individually in harmony with the base, leaving their inter-relationship secondary, playful and cumulative to the overall effect, rather than necessary, precarious and possibly destructive of the whole thing.
kinda like paté and julienned pickled carrots sounds disgusting. but here comes french bread…
The combination of Seattle’s conservative play and Dallas horrific shooting has made this game kind of disappointing.
one of few games where the excitement lives in the back and middle 2/3s. once it gets to the front it’s like, ok, how will they defuse their own attack now?
This would have been a much more fun game if Seattle were the team needing to score.
donovan v dempsey…
Dallas seems insufficiently committed to getting the goal they need to stay alive.
Concert tickets on sale today! And freezing rain! Woo!
Whew. KS and MI down… with my hitchhiker.
Who are you going to see?
My current love, The Avett Brothers.
FUCK.
Thanks, and go As.
Wow, really? They must be lying about it just being a toe.
It’s turf toe.
Thanks, and go As.
Whole season (and theoretical playoffs) is a long absence for that.
turf toe is a lot worse than it sounds.
Thanks, and go As.
Right, but that’s 13 weeks. NFL players usually miss more like 4-6 with it.
Supposedly he’s been dealing with it for a long time, long enough that it’s the reason why people starting whispering the “Willis has lost a step Bowman is better” stuff last year.
Thanks, and go As.
Ick. Typical Athletics.
Meh, just cut the damn thing off. Who needs it, you have another foot a few other toes.
Oh wow, that really sucks.
When I was a TA at Iowa State, one of my students was a former football player from NW Missouri State. Turf toe forced him to give up the game entirely.
One Jimmy Rollins, please.
Thanks, and go As.
Seems like a no-brainer
just as it did 6 months ago.
or 12
I’ll take the whole MI of Rollins/Utley.
armistice time.
stupid minute.
fixed
yay editing! boo trench warfare!
Looks like this was shot before or after an A’s game. (Warning: Language)
can’t take it.
BART bridge hat is nice
whoso would be a hipster must be a synched nonconformist.
you know… the more i think about it, the less i like this article. hispsters (or members of any group really) don’t look alike… to themselves. yes there are signifiers of inclusion and that’s probably what he’s referring to, but deeper than that, inside the group, there are countless variations. but you have to be fluent in that language to see them as such. this faded black teeshirt is vintage and ironic while that faded black teeshirt is a re-loaded homage to the greatest music festival in history…
this came to me when waiting at a red light today and a bunch of, what without knowing what they actually do for a living i’ll call, “businessmen” walked across the crosswalk. i was sure, just sure, that they could tell subtle differences among their charcoal suits that spoke worlds to them about each one’s particular personality. but damned if i could tell the diff.
i’m not sure the parallel scene made it from the book to movie, but the biz card one illustrates pretty well:
hence, my re-evaluation, at some angle, all this paper actually does is admit the author othered a group of people. he doesn’t know the language from inside, so to him it’s all the same. amplified by the possibility that there is a member of that group who doesn’t look alike, but the author can’t read the language to see the outlier in the inclusion, and leaves him out of the group, reinforcing his own bias.
at best, it answers that it is possible to measure when
hipsterscontrarian subcultures can be most in synch. but not why.(totally aside but apropos, has anybody run into carruthers around berkeley? he lives in the elmwood. though i’m sure most of you might mistake him for alby grant or gavin belson.)
I think you’re looking at it from the wrong angle, which is partly the fault of the attention-grabbing headline and the lede. As sociology, yeah, it is strained to the point of being useless – it treats style as something that’s operating along a single axis, and conflates hipsterism with (attempted) non-conformity.
But it’s not supposed to be a sociology paper. The key point is made toward the end
On those terms, it’s a neat little piece of work. Not really ground-breaking, as it seems like at it’s heart it’s a fairly simple example of a feedback loop from control theory, but still interesting.
this is getting further away from me. first day, i pretty much got it. yesterday, i told you what i started thinking about it. today i’m like… what’s the point of a model for something that isn’t true?? how about a model for why the sky is pink??
(i’m kidding. i know what you said is right. i still don’t like the article.)
In the universe of blegs: the law firm that is (still newishly) mine is hiring one more.
If anyone knows good candidate, I’m all ears.
What better way to spend an afternoon than wrestling with latex about where to place my figures and tables … my how the hours fly by.
not sure if this means… the headaches are gone or you have a new one?
Cry-baby is on.
oh snap. that’s ed chigliak making out with hatchetface!
Happy birthday Colin!
happy birthday Colin!
Happy Birthday John Boy!
Thanks. I spent my birthday flying from SFO back to BOS, cutting it down to just 21 hours. I figure that means I don’t have to be 34 now.
Heyman suggested we could sign both Cabrera and Drew. Cabrera 2B Drew SS.
Thanks, and go As.
Well then.
Thanks, and go As.
Yes please.
Seconded. Along with the Heymanicannotbetrusted tweet.
Isn’t he the one who’s going to blow up all the Cuban spending records? Cespedes not withstanding, I don’t really see the A’s getting in on that.
Does he have a youtube workout video?
i’m so confused. which of H, N, or S stands for croatia???
oooohh, ice snacks.
what can i say? i miss sabella.
Is it Cyrillic?
Hrvatska
internationalska.
halftime report: jesús fuquin cristo… are #2’s superstars’ inability to finish, and their midfield cohorts’ to stop #14’s bench warmers, more or less embarrasing when the game is completely meaningless?
screw it. i’m going home to make a smoothie.
whew. at least they can score on accident via handball…
AND on a questionable penalty. my guys are back in shape!
I see Carlos Vela is back. Yikes.
i spoiled this one by accident but i’m still gonna watch it tonight.
Hello and welcome to Wednesday, and another birthday tribute to another iconic songwriter hailing from neighboring Canuckistan. Don’t let it bring you down! It’s 69 years since the advent of one Neil Percival “Shakey” Young… so let’s blog all over ourselves in celebration with two DVDs of two unsurprisingly stellar (and sadly, unissued) performances from BBC-TV in 1971 and the fabulous AUSTIN CITY LIMITS in 1984.
I’m pretty sure I gave this guy five bucks today so he could get something warm to drink.
He spent it on a rock.
Hopefully it kept him rocking in the free world.
A pet rock.
I had a Penthouse Pet Rock…We did things…dirty, dirty things.
Hey…the rock is getting a little rough here…DEUKMEJIAN!
You win the evening.
I don’t know why; I just know that you do.
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
For me Thanksgiving is the beginning of a stretch of two major holidays and birthdays for both the kids…Baby Phil is being a total diva with his demands for his first. There will come a time in a few years when December will be a very expensive month for me…uh…I meant it will be a very joyous month for me.
You should get him an ass whooping for his birthday. Stop that diva shit real quick.
I would but I’m pretty sure he can take me…this kid is growing fast.
He probably already has more hair than you.
pfft…heck he was practically born with more hair than me…we’ve had a couple of fuzzy kids…Swedish/Hawaiian equals fuzzy.
Sounds like us. The boys are on 11/16 and 11/26. This and the fact that they are 9 years apart makes it just a bit too much for one party for both of them. So it makes for such a fun time. The one break we sometimes get is when the eldest Ace has his birthday fall on Thanksgiving. Yea for pumpkin pie birthday time!
I hear you – mother, father, sister and grandfather in the space of 3 days in mid-December.
yup, I hear you me march, brother june, sister september and christmas in december. Its rough.
my wife and mom have the same birthday.
same name too, if you translate.
…wait a minute.
I have cousins (brothers, not twins), both born a on Christmas day.
Your Arkansas Weather Update:
IT”S FUCKING COLD!
It’s not getting any better.
It’s way too early for this garbage. We should both move to Jamaica.
…and muggy?
Nope…just cold.
I’ve read some dumb things in my life but the idea that Jim Harbaugh is going to coach the Jayhawks because his wife is from the area is the dumbest thing ever. Hey Jim…leave the NFL to come a 5th rate college football team at a basketball school. Come fill Charlie Weis’ shoes.
Top 10 Holidays
1. 4th of July…I luvs “Merica
2. Christmas…I luvs Jesus as long as it’s the Jesus that looks like he’s a member of Bee Gees.
3. Arbor Day
4. President’s Day…Let us all celebrate Gerald Ford
5. Thanksgiving…I’ll take some white meat.
6. (Insert a holiday here)
7. Halloween…gives me cover for when I want to dress up like Batman
8. Canadian Thanksgiving…I’ll take some hockey
9. New Year’s Day…A pretty good U2 song
10. Arbor Day…so nice I listed it twice…now what the hell is this day about again?
That’s the day when all the ships come sailing into the arbor.
Seems plausible.
1. Purim
2. Passover
3. Rosh Hashanah
4. Chanukah
5. Yom Kippur
Okay, we get it…your Lutheran.
Someone needs to bone up on his A Prairie Home Companion.
I’ll get around to that right after I finish everything else ever.
weird. i woulda sworn there was a horror movie called arbor day. was it a reference inside another movie?
at least i do remember saturday the 14th right.
i need to see this movie again. i didn’t know it at the time, but it had everybody!
on second thought, re-watching transilvania 6-5000 was pretty disappointing.
Sometimes it’s better to leave movies in the past.
1) too late. i found already found it.
2) only 10 minutes in and i actually laughed.
mom: everyone can see your dirty pillows.
daughter: “those aren’t dirty pillows mamma, they’re breasts.”
mom: “not those, those are titties.” [points to dirty pillows some guy is holding] “THOSE dirty pillows.”
daughter: “those aren’t mine, those are his dirty pillows.”
man: [proudly] those aren’t dirty pillows, they’re brrrreasts.”
did someone mention bachelor party?
I miss funny Tom Hanks. But I still prefer funny Michael Keaton.
Even though it’s freezing I had a frozen lemonade made with ice cream today at Chik-fil-A that changed my life.
My safe word is Deukmejian.
Last time I played, my safeword was “Cut me down. I feel like I’m about to pass out.”
I bought a pair of boots last week. I’m calling them the Gateway Boots. Now I’m looking at other boots to buy, and I *gasp* bought a pair of skinny jeans to wear with them. Yes, fat girl in skinny jeans.
They are gold boots, too.
I think you mean yellow.
I like them so much, I’m wearing them right now with sweat pants.
We’re twinsies!
I’m wearing a Christmas hoodie. I’m sexy.
DEUKMEJIAN!
i laughed.
Thanks, and go As.
Well, you make me laugh all the time so I owe you a few.
I’m wearing my Arbor Day hoodie…I’m much less sexy than you.
As a Lutheran, mine is a Tu B’Shevat hoodie.
I figured as much.
Isn’t having disposable income fun!
That phrase always makes me think of someone furiously shoving banknotes down the garbage disposal.
That phrase makes me think of my life before marriage and children.
The only left on my self improvement list is to go cold turkey on turkey sandwiches on my next trip to Turkey…well, that and stop killing hookers.
as long as you don’t quit falling off the wagon.
I promise to do better…well, about the turkey sandwiches at least.
I thought Bridget was doing all the hooker killing now?
We found our relationship goes smoother when we share.
That story Heart of Darkness is like a total ripoff of Apocalypse Now.
That story To Kill a Mockingbird is like a total ripoff of Bio-Dome.
“Hey Boo-ddy!”
Excellent. I’m still laughing.
Saddest entry in The Weasel’s filmography is a tie:
1996: Playboy: The Best of Jenny McCarthy, Himself
1997: Playboy: Jenny McCarthy, the Playboy Years, Himself
Hmm…well, that was back when her implants were still under warranty so at least he got in when the getting was good.
I would say the odds are always in favor of Jennifer listening to cooler music than me but I’m rocking out like it’s 1986 tonight with some Tears for Fears…why, yes…I do want to rule the world.
Now, I just need the haircut I had in 1986…first I’ll need hair…second I’ll need the sister of my girlfriend from 6th grade since she gave me the crop.
Cooler? Naw. Just like your own thing. As long as you like it, everyone else can fuck themselves.
Heck…those are words to live by.
today i stood on the scale just to see how the soup diet is going… i matched my first driver’s license.
MORE SOUP FOR YOU!
SOUP COMMIE!!
I’ve switched from a SOUP REPUBLICAN.
You got your first crop from your 6th grade girlfriend’s sister?!?
No wonder your safeword is Deukmejian!
It really does explain it all.
Something called a Kluber is your American League Cy Young.
He has a heck of a cutter.
For a second I thought that said Coors Butter.
I still have a loop of Sam Elliot saying “Coors Cutter” in the back of my mind.
Revenge is a dish best served with coleslaw.
Washington Generals >>>> Oakland Raiders.
Okay, it’s time to drive some traffic to http://www.freekraut.net…my next ten posts will be about the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Is “leafs” Canadian for “leaves”?
I think its a name of a fighting brigade. Like the detoit tigers or some such nonesense
something like this maybe?
The Confederate Army >>>>> Oakland Raiders
That lawyer who always lost to Perry Mason >>>>>> Oakland Raiders.
hamilton berger
Oakland A’s in the playoffs >>>>> Oakland Raiders.
Prairie Home Companion >>>>> Oakland Raiders
Damn straight. But now I kind of want to do a mashup of the Powdermilk Biscuit logo with the eyepatch guy.
Heavens they’re shitty!
If your family’s tried ’em, you know they’ve petrified ’em!
End scene…credits.
Kim Kardashian’s butt is beyond plastic surgery or photoshop. That thing must be CGI.
I don’t get the gawker media obsession with people and their asses. I don’t get the instagram photoshopped ass controversy because I don’t see why celebrities or internet ass celebrities take and publish pictures of their asses and why they alter the asses or why the alter asses look better than your standard ass.
A lot of young men, when they imagine having sex with internet ass celebrities, get aroused at the idea of really good smelling hair.
Christ, what ass prose.
I mean… You know me. I like boobs as much (OK, more) than the next guy, but…
Seriously?
Temporary implants?
Thanks, and go As.
Clearly the future is to leave a valve for inflation/deflation to taste.
The size changes how they taste?
Are you in mood for sweet nipples, or savory?
Yes
Cosmic.
Maybe you can run some simulations to test that theory.
I think even MikeV might be overwhelmed by exponential expansion.
They only last 24 hours? That’s not a vacation.
Obamacare Year 2 enrollment starts Saturday; available plans are listed on Healthcare.gov now. The gross premium on my current plan is going from $492 to $527 (+7.1%). However, by switching from Saint Mary’s to Anthem I can get an equivalent plan for $422 (-14.3%). Monthly out-of-pocket will drop from $156 to $82 (-47.4%) with the remainder covered by the tax credit. I don’t like Anthem, but with a surgery done earlier this year I don’t expect to have to deal with anybody but the primary care physician so (holds nose, prepares to switch back to Anthem).
In California, one can sign up for Medi-Cal or CoveredCalifornia on CoveredCA.com. If you make less than (approximately)$15,500/year-single $20,000/year-family, you qualify for Medi-Cal, which ends up being pretty cheap, although quality of care may vary (the good networks have Medi-Cal patient quotas, so sign up now!) If you make less than $45,000/yr-single $60,000/year-family, you qualify for partially-subsidized Silver plans.
If you need food stamps or county-level social services along with your Medi-Cal, sign up at calwin.org (it will redirect you to your county’s site), and you’ll get signed up for food stamps and other services all at once.
If you hate dealing with annoying government websites, there are many nonprofits that received grants to sign people up for healthcare, and you can get an appointment with an enroller who has gone through the process a jillion times and can smooth it out for you.
If you hate leaving the house, I can even enroll you by phone on your own smartphone (you’ll have to take pictures of documents and email them to me) or dumbphone + computer with scanner @ email. It can be a bit of a pain in the ass, but so is going to an enrollment event, or navigating an inefficient government website without 30+ hours of training on how to do so. I’ll gladly message my enrollment contact information to anyone who may need it.
I’m guessing most FKers have their healthcare taken care of, but pass this information on if you know others who may not have their healthcare taken care of.
Nevada is dumping the craptastic customized Xerox software which handled the enrollment and billing; enrollment has been outsourced to Healthcare.gov and billing will be handled by the insurance companies themselves. However, it’s still legally a state-based marketplace rather than a federally-facilitated marketplace, which is kind of a big deal if the Supreme Court decides that the tax credits are limited to those who purchase through state-based marketplaces. That’s a >$4,000 tax credit I won’t be losing due to a Supreme Court ruling. There are 34 states where people could get some real unpleasant news in mid-2015.
sorry mike.
LOL
http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2014/11/13/7214791/our-favourite-parts-of-the-fifa-report
This actually manages to make the Russia bid look worse than the Qatar bid.
GUYS, WE CHECKED IT OUT AND FIFA IS OK.
-FIFA
Thanks, and go As.
I’ve determined that I’m the least biased person I know!
Tagline!
When Ferguson blows up again, keep in mind that one of the most
agitatorsprotest leaders is somewhere around $4.5M in arrears on his taxes.credit is a sacred trust. it’s what our free society is founded on. you think they give a damn about their bills in russia?