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QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 02:52 AM) Okay... You claim that you're prettier than Britney. And you date a guy who listens to SMOOTH F'N JAZZ. In NEBRASKA. (Got nothing against country here -- wouldn't someone in Nebraska kick this guy's ass?) It doesn't add up. (Ie, the LLN just failed to work.) It was college, he's cute, he's a musician (and plays far better choices than I had to listen to) and he's funny and really smart. He isn't much of a talker, so I imagine that's how he survived before out of NE. (And have you seen Britney without make-up/hair stylists--let's face it, it's not that hard to be cuter than her.)

I took my car in today for the usual: oil chance, tires rotated, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, the man that met me at the car (they usually meet you there, hold your door open, show you into the service area, whatever) says as I get out of my car, "Are you here to get serviced today?" I wasn't sure how to respond.

Firefox, but I will also occassionally use Opera to shake it up.

I really feel sorry for them. They're MLB's version of a Shakespearean tragedy--except not as fun to watch.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 05:36 PM) hmmmm, playboy did, when I was a frosh we were #3 To be honest, I think that's a rumor that goes around every campus. Allegedly, my school was ranked two in a similiar playboy thing. I think it's the college equivilant of an urban legend. . .

Conditioning and Learning Developmental neurobiology Music Perception Teaching: Discussion portion of multi-cultural psych

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 05:06 PM) Do tell... Dated a Nebraskan. His family (mostly mom) hated me, mother would do rosaries anytime she saw me, occassionally throwing me a nasty glance before or after she would dive in. And he was kind of spinless and boring. And he refused to listen to anything but crappy smooth jazz anytime we went for a car ride. And he wore leather gloves while drive Autumn through Spring.

Nebraska, at least Iowa is NEAR places that don't suck. I also, though, have a small grudge against Nebraskans.

QUOTE(CubsSuck1 @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 03:30 AM) What is facebook? It's a place where you can look up people at your school, see their picture, profile, join groups for people with similar interests. Some people are waaaaaaaaay too into it.

I am a proud (sometimes) graduate of St. Olaf College in Northfield Minnesota. I would recommend it for someone looking for a good, but academically intense, school with lots of social and service opportunities. I have no regrets about going there and I think I'm very well rounded academically--I definitely would recommend a liberal arts education. Now I'm a graduate student at Binghamton University. I like it (as much as anyone can *enjoy* graduate school), but I would not recommend it for undergrads--it has a good reputation, but I don't feel the students get the education they pay for here. You'll know the right college for you--don't pick one because your friends are going there (you will grow into different people and probably won't stay close) or because of a significant other or because your family says to go there. It's 4 years of your life so choose where YOU want to go because you're the one that has to live with that decision.

Saw Brian McComas and Deana Carter over the weekend at Spiedie Fest and Balloon Rally (local fest). They were pretty good, I only knew one of Brian McComas' songs, but his show had a lot of energy and was pretty fun--and he did a decent cover of Merle Haggard, so that was good. Deana Carter was also really good. Played a really nice mix of new stuff and old stuff. She also had a lot of energy and put on a good show. It was nice, smallish crowd, outside, good weather, good music. Definitely fun. Also, made me want to hunt down my copy of her first cd (I think. . .) Did I Shave my Legs for This?

QUOTE(knightni @ Aug 8, 2005 -> 12:29 AM) The Dixie Chicks. I'll second that. And the older I get the more I like Fleetwood Mac--so I would probably push those two along with Heart. But the Dixie Chicks are the only current female group I would consider worthy.

Article. I knew he had cancer, but I guess I didn't realize it was that serious. ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings Dies at 67 By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer 2 minutes ago NEW YORK - Peter Jennings, the suave, Canadian-born broadcaster who delivered the news to Americans each night in five separate decades, died Sunday. He was 67. Jennings, who announced in April that he had lung cancer, died at his New York home, ABC News President David Westin said late Sunday. "Peter has been our colleague, our friend, and our leader in so many ways. None of us will be the same without him," Westin said. With Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, Jennings was part of a triumvirate that dominated network news for more than two decades, through the birth of cable news and the Internet. His smooth delivery and years of international reporting experience made Jennings particularly popular among urban dwellers. Jennings was the face of ABC News whenever a big story broke. He logged more than 60 hours on the air during the week of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, offering a soothing sense of continuity during a troubled time. "There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe," he told author Jeff Alan. "I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially — sorry it's a cliche — a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive." Jennings' announcement four months ago that the longtime would begin treatment for lung cancer came as a shock. "I will continue to do the broadcast," he said, his voice husky, in a taped message that night. "On good days, my voice will not always be like this." But although Jennings occasionally came to the office between chemotherapy treatments, he never again appeared on the air. "He knew that it was an uphill struggle. But he faced it with realism, courage, and a firm hope that he would be one of the fortunate ones," Westin said. "In the end, he was not." Broadcasting was the family business for Jennings. His father, Charles Jennings, was the first person to anchor a nightly national news program in Canada and later became head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s news division. A picture of his father was displayed prominently in Jennings' office off ABC's newsroom. Charles Jennings' son had a Saturday morning radio show in Ottawa at age 9. Jennings never completed high school or college, and began his career as a news reporter at a radio station in Brockton, Ontario. He quickly earned an anchor job at Canadian Television. Sent south to cover the Democratic national convention in 1964, the handsome, dashing correspondent was noticed by ABC's news president. Jennings was offered a reporting job and left Canada for New York. As the third-place news network, ABC figured its only chance was to go after young viewers. Jennings was picked to anchor the evening news and debuted on Feb. 1, 1965. He was 26. "It was a little ridiculous when you think about it," Jennings told author Barbara Matusow. "A twenty-six-year-old trying to compete with Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley. I was simply unqualified." Critics savaged him as a pretty face unfit for the promotion. Using the Canadian pronunciations for some words and once misidentifying the Marine Corps' anthem as "Anchors Aweigh" didn't help his reputation. The experiment ended three years later. He later described the humbling experience as an opportunity, "because I was obliged to figure out who I was and what I really wanted to be." Assigned as a foreign correspondent, Jennings thrived. He established an ABC News bureau in Beirut, and became an expert on the Middle East. He won a Peabody Award for a 1974 profile of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. On the scene at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Jennings was perfectly placed to cover the hostage-taking of Israeli athletes by an Arab terrorist group. He and a crew hid in the athletes' quarters for a close-in view of the drama. Jennings returned to the evening news a decade after his unceremonious departure. In 1978, ABC renamed its broadcast "World News Tonight," and instituted a three-person anchor team: Frank Reynolds based in Washington, Max Robinson from Chicago and Jennings, by then ABC's chief foreign correspondent, from London. Following Reynolds' death from cancer, ABC abandoned the multi-anchor format and Jennings became sole anchor on Sept. 5, 1983. Starting in 1986, Jennings began a decade on top of the ratings. His international experience served him well explaining stories like the collapse of European communism, the first Gulf War and the terrorist bombing of an airplane over Lockerbie, Scotland. He took pride that "World News Tonight," as its name suggested, took a more worldly view than its rivals. Fans responded to his smart, controlled style. "When it's clearly an emotional experience for the audience, the anchor should not add his or her emotional layers," Jennings said in an interview with the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. Two-thirds of local broadcasters responding to a 1993 survey by Broadcasting & Cable magazine said Jennings was the best network news anchor. Washington Journalism Review named him anchor of the year three straight years.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Aug 7, 2005 -> 05:37 PM) The best performance in the film comes from the boiler room guy so that doesn't say much for the lead actors. That's Steve Buscemi, you need to get out more. The movie was horrible. Horrible writing, preachy, incoherent, and showed NO understanding of how the government funds scientific research. Absolutely unrealistic. Horrible. And, I doubt humans will be cloned.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 01:51 PM) I had read survivor before, right around a year ago, and assumed it would all come back to me. -- But I couldn't remember s***. I guess I should have re-read it. Eh, it's just really funny to me. Completely different from a book discussion that I would have with my girl friends. Kinda refreshing and nice, actually.

Prayers to that family--that's so terrible. But Jim Kell's charitable work for the disease have been so inspirational--he seems like a really classy guy and I really feel for them.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 01:06 PM) So I take it that we're gonna be reading the book Cheat picked ("The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Nighttime")? Give us 3 weeks from today -- have a wrap up discussion starting like the 26th of August? That work for everybody? Sounds good--how does that fit with people's school schedules? And I would also like to say I love this book club--but it's such a guy book club. We read a book, tell each other we read it, how good it was, and then move onto the next one without any like deep analysis or talking about bigger symbolism and issues. It's actually kind of adorable.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 01:42 PM) Or, say, Ross Gload? Oh, sorry, I meant to say *relationship* not *relations*.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 12:10 PM) WHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?? Explain this madness to me?? Why write instead of swipe?? When something is created in this world to make things more efficient, why neglect it? He's from Minnesota--they dont' have the credit/debit technology up there yet. (I kid because I love Minnesota.)

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 12:20 PM) Commercials for beauty products are just shy of individual soft porn video's trying to pry the $$'s we don't need to spend out of our wallets. No flippin joke. I can't even tell you the last time I picked up my old stand bys of Cosmo, Glamar, Elle, even Jane has gone right in the crapper. If I wanted to see Porn I would read a damn Playboy--at least they have good articles.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 12:50 PM) ::Surprised the Parents TV Council and other groups aren't saying that women in their underwear is dirty and obscene:: Won't somebody please think of the children? I have a few girl friends who are self-described "feminists". We went out drinking a few days ago and I was getting railed at for guys being shallow etc. etc. Working into the conversation, I said "Alright then, what do you look for in a guy?" These girls then rattled off "Well, I want a guy who is really hot, works out, has a great job, plays guitar..." and just this laundry list of stuff about what he looks like and material items he has. Yeah, we're shallow. (Haven't you people seen Average Joe? ) And it's a little bit more insidious (sp?) because women tend, a lot of the time, not to admit it. At least guys are like, she's got to have a great rack or butt or whatever. Although the more mature I get, the less looks matter and I would be happy to land a guy who was satisfied with his life and having me in it. Although it wouldn't hurt if he looked like Ewan McGregor.

Congrats! That's really awesome! And here's to a lot more years!

You know what also pisses me off? That stupid ass Ponds I think it is commercial that's like, 40 looks good, look out you 20 year olds. Something lame like that. What the hell? There's nothing worng with looking 40 if you are 40! It's just pathetic how people market to women based pretty much solely by making them feel like they have to look like someone else to be desireable. And, women's magazines--the fashion layouts on them? Jesus, it's pathetic! The women are all sprawled all over in come-hither poses that would probably make Hugh Hefner blush--expect that they're wearing some overpriced ugly ass dress. It's gross--I just want to see the dress not some provocative disgustingly posed model.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 05:14 AM) Nope, I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE cell phones. Or rather, I hate what people have done to the perfectly good IDEA of cell phones. People turn into giant ignorant f***tards with their stupid f***ing cell phones. I don't need MORE accessibility, I'm looking for LESS. ...my wife has one, but I never use it and she seldom does. We got it in case the car ever breaks down on I-90 when she's going to visit her Mom in Wisconsin. That's really true. I think with the invent of cell phones people have forgotten a lot of etiquette. I have one friend who will answer her phone and continue on talking and talking and talking even when she is with friends. I hate that. I also hate it when people talk on the phones while driving.

QUOTE(bmags @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 11:42 AM) why are they protesting soldiers death? They're attention whores with no soul or compassion?