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Cowley...*ignore* As I tweeted to him last night: "seriously, Ozzie is gone. No more articles about your lover boy. Move on."

Video: Cutler’s Unkind Message For Martz

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 01:32 PM) Places like the "Bimini road" and underwater japanese pyramids are supposedly evidence of those. I think the Bimini road has largely been disproven as an actual road. I thought I read they think it's what's left of a ship port.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 01:31 PM) Hapgoods theory of crust displacement was the other thing he touched on, which I am not too sure about myself. Of course there really aren't any reputable links on it. http://www.crawford2000.co.uk/hapgood-pole...ctonic-slip.htm I dont buy too much into that either. I've seen the theory that Antarctica is really "Atlantis". Of all the theories I have seen, that's the biggest stretch.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 01:30 PM) But you're not just talking about a small settlement of 2000 people. You're talking about something substantial enough to have developed math and building power that literally reshaped civilizations around the globe 80 centuries later. A civilization advanced enough to do that would also wind up doing things like developing irrigation or maybe sanitation. They wouldn't confine themselves to the oceanfronts, they'd move up rivers seeking fertile agricultural land and hunting grounds. no doubt. I think there are very valid points for and against a "pre-civilization" civilization.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 01:17 PM) AFAIK there's nothing in the archaeological records that supports anything like that. It's pure speculation. There are many underwater structures that might have been built by humans when the oceans were lower.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 01:08 PM) With what I know now about the geologic record and how much work there has been done in excavations...it's really hard for me to buy that there was not just a large civilization somewhere that we don't recognize...but that this civilization was large enough to travel fully across the seas and interact with civilizations across much of the world, at a time of dramatic climate upheaval, without leaving any sort of substantial record. I can buy that we'd miss their main city, esp. if it was somewhere in Persia...but no substantive archaeological records at all? Absence of proof is not proof of absence...but that's not exactly far away. Many make the argument that a lot of civilizations grow around water/oceans. So, if a civilization existed near the water front during an ice age, most of it's structures were destroyed or drowned as the waters rose.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 12:57 PM) This is the book if you ever are bored. http://www.amazon.com/Fingerprints-Gods-Gr...k/dp/0517887290 I love Graham Hancock. He has some very interesting ideas. "The Message of the Sphinx" was a great read. I got part of the way through "Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization", but it was a very long and dry reading, so I just couldnt press on with it. but it WAS interesting.

Maybe it's just my phone, but i love how my android phone fades in the ringtone instead of going full on loud right into it. It's subtle, but very effective and less "jump out of your seat" jarring.

This might be my favorite Siri question and answer yet (nice nod to Monty Python):

Siri has a sense of humor:

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 09:30 AM) IIRC it's mostly due to nutritional changes, mainly that many humans now have constant adequate nutritional supply. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article....ller&page=2 that what I was find of thinking. We just eat more than we used to.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 09:24 AM) It's tidally locked with the earth. The moon orbits the Earth, but the same side is always facing the earth. It doesn't spin as it orbits, as the Earth does around the sun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 09:24 AM) That doesn't happen by chance. We call that being "Tidally locked". Through the fact that the Earth and Moon have tides, the energy that used to go into rotation of the Moon has dissipated over time. Tidally locked planets/moons should be fairly common around the universe. HUH! Thank you. Well, you learn something new everyday.

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 07:21 PM) Humans have gotten larger in just the last 200 years. The average man in the early 1800s was 5'5" and 145lbs. Now, I'd say 5'9" and 170lbs. I've always wondered why that is. It's not like the average man was 4'6" in 1532.

Not sure if this counts, but in 5th or 6th grade I had a teacher tell me the moon didnt rotate. Something didnt seem right. It does indeed rotate, but at the same rate it revolves around the earth, so the same side always faces earth. Which, seems almost impossible.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Oct 12, 2011 -> 12:55 PM) I was never able to come up with a good way to say "I am horribly underpaid and I want more money" when they asked me why I wanted to leave my current job. I always say something along the lines of "I decided I have reached the limit of how I could grow professionally where I am"

Now people are just getting silly: Stoudemire: We'll start our own league- One wonders why we haven't heard this earlier. Amar'e Stoudemire said [Tuesday] night if the NBA lockout wipes out the season, he believes the players will form their own league instead of trying to catch on in Europe. "If we don't go to Europe, we're going to start our own league, that's how I see it," the Knicks forward said. "It's very serious. It's a matter of us strategically coming up with a plan, a blueprint and putting it together. So we'll see how this lockout goes. If it goes one or two years, we've got to start our own league." Stoudemire, who spoke at the 34th street Foot Locker where he debuted his new Nike Air Max shoe, declined to say if there's financial backing in place.

Just got a call from a university I interviewed with several months ago, but was not chosen for the position. The head of that search committee called me to tell me another position had opened up, and that I should take a look and see if I am interested. Very interesting development... In my previous interview process, I got the impress I was the "runner up", at the least finished 3rd. So, this is a good thing that he went out of his way to tell me I should look at it.

I had a job interview yesterday. I thought it went well. Should know if I am getting an offer, or not, today. But I wanted to share a little advice I have learned. This whole experience has a been a really great learning experience. After each interview (I have had 5 so far), I feel more confident, less nervous, and better prepared. I have learned what to say, and when to not share too much (aka SHUTUP! lol) I have seen commonalities in questions that are asked, so each time I have better and better responses. My advice is to take every chance you have to interview for a position. I dont care if you dont think you would take the job, just do it. It's worth your time.

I am officially a T-Mobile user. Wife got a Samsung Galaxy S, I got a T-Mobile/LG G2x. I am loving the pure google experience on the G2x, excellent phone.

@DwyaneWade - STERN's "WORDS" 2day hurt the ppl who work at the AAA,other arena's,as well as local businesses &our fans..

I would not be offended or think less of Cutler if he demanded a trade after the season.

Random question (not related to me): I was talking with someone the other day and they said that it is illegal for an employer (anyone above you on the org chart) to ask you if you are looking for, or have interviewed for, another job. Is that true?

QUOTE (bozzie @ Oct 7, 2011 -> 03:32 PM) bozzie's hearing loyal ol' Jerry's leaning toward Ivan Calderon . . . . . . hopefully someone tells him soon that Calderon's dead . . . He'd be more animated than Herald.

Steve Jobs funeral is/was today