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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 23, 2014 -> 06:36 PM) I've heard that Dysons are ok but are over-priced, might not last all that long and can have repair problems. OTOH if you go nuts and buy something like a Miele or an Electrolux, it really is supposed to be substantially better and last forever. But who the hell wants to pay that much for a vacuum? there was a reddit "AMA" by a vacuum repair technician a few months ago, http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1pe2...i_cant_believe/ We have an electrolux and love it.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jan 23, 2014 -> 05:10 PM) This winter has really made me want to move. Yes. Pretty fed up. And any minor transport snafu is sending me on edge with thoughts like "DON'T THEY KNOW ITS SUB ZERO AND PEOPLE CAN DIE OUT HERE"

Phegley with...a...positive...WAR?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 23, 2014 -> 03:16 PM) Yeah, the teams themselves aren't NFP, but the league is. Gotta question why, though, because the NFL certainly seems to make itself a ton of money, at least enough to pay Goddell close to $30M. Paying execs absurd amounts of money relative to their skill sounds exactly like a NFP to me.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jan 23, 2014 -> 03:51 PM) This is all true but they're still not going anywhere. I guess I'm bitter but I still find no joy in this. In the NBA, you rarely have a team that is going somewhere. Bulls will definitely be in playoffs and depending on draw will get in 2nd round again. Imagine being a DET or CLE fan right now, you would crap your pants and that's a disappointment here. I'd tell fellow Bulls fans to actually watch and enjoy Joakim Noah right now. He's averaging 11 points, 11 rebounds, 4 assists and a block and a steal per game. Yeah, he gets injured, many 7 footers (close enough) have had trouble with injuries playing a sport this brutal. There are a handful of centers better than Noah right now, you can either drool over them or just enjoy actually watching a good one play in your jersey.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 23, 2014 -> 03:38 PM) Yeah that sucked. Everytime Radwanska would go left, Cibulkova would crush it right. Like you said, exact opposite of the Azarenka match. Then it just looked like she gave up near the end. She came out really flat. My two favorites of the Open, Radwanska and Genie are out. Borchard could not get her first serve in for the life of her, and her second serve was getting crushed with a great backhand.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jan 23, 2014 -> 03:41 PM) I find Augustine very fun to watch. If they can be as entertaining as last year in a lost Year, I'll take it I guess. He's a much better pure PG than we are used to seeing, and especially since our offense sort of asks PG to score or shoot a lot and let bigs get put backs. But, I have yet to see a Bulls Cavs game where Irving was not outplayed by our PGs.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jan 23, 2014 -> 02:58 PM) Do what though? The tank is definitely dead but unfortunately there's still nothing to cheer for. Team has been pretty entertaining since DJ has come on and Noah has gotten healthy. Taj is having a really good year as is Snell. Team still plays hard every night and is has been winning like crazy.

If J4L watched bulls games like he watches other NBA teams: Taj Gibson is straight BALLIN. If he keeps hitting these jumpers he may take crown for GREATEST POWER FORWARD EVER

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Jan 22, 2014 -> 11:14 PM) apparently, it's true... participated in shoot around today http://www.suntimes.com/sports/25113944-57...d-shooting.html Speaking of, there's been a lot of press recently about how odd it is NFL athletes have recently been able to cut rehab times in half (see Crabtree, Michael), and even Kobe, known to be an athlete on "cutting edge" of medical science made ridiculous return. Meanwhile we haven't seen these for olympic athletes who have a very strict testing regimen. Derrick Rose really seems to have been on a normal person's recovery time. So, ethically, if you didn't have to know about it, would you have preferred some of the NFL treatments found their way to Rose and we get to watch him play, or prefer that we avoid cheating.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jan 22, 2014 -> 11:03 PM) It will cost them more in terms of money or talent the longer they wait to address it. But if we aren't going to make the playoffs next year, why artificially inflate several victories and drop team out of lower draft spot? That would get us cheaper talent in the long run, and would allow us to wait even longer.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 22, 2014 -> 12:52 PM) So far in conference play, Missouri is 2-3, Oregon is 1-4, and UNLV is 2-3. I thought Illinois played over their head in non conference play, but I guess their opponents just weren't as good as advertised. As far as I'm concerned, Missouri doesn't have a basketball team.

Give me Zito Oswalt Santana and a time machine, please.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 22, 2014 -> 12:25 PM) Hell of a match by Radwanska taking out Azarenka, some big time shots. Federer up two sets to one over Murray with an epic 2nd game going on, up to 26 points. Radwanska was incredible. That last set was insane, Azarenka just couldn't do anything that wasn't returned with an amazing shot. Which is great because I don't have to hear Azarenka's mario kart yelps. Looking forward to the semis. Great Aussie open.

So I'm guessing Paxson has smoothed things over with Thibs by these Augustin and Mike James signings. Nobody loves anything more than Thibs loves Mike James.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 22, 2014 -> 04:30 PM) If Theo is good at anything, it is back-breakingly bad FA contracts Was going to say, if there was anything Theo is terrible at it's contracts like these. They dodged a bullet.

Man, I'd say that's a terrible contract but what does it matter for them.

I forgot actual draft was postponed 2 weeks. Ugh.

What an incredible waste of my time.

I'm just glad Ferrer is out. I'm sure he wins matches somewhere to get that ranking, but not in opens I watch.

This is the worst.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 09:46 PM) Being a woman was just as much of a "lie" as having those degrees/job history. Even if she thought of herself as a woman her entire life, she didn't live as a woman all of her life. She was a male mechanic for years. Not a female scientist. And again, it's the truth! Why would we want reporters to suppress the truth just because it might embarrass someone? When has that ever been a good reason? I mean, no.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 12:05 AM) I think Simmons' piece is very-well done and I agree with just about all of it. Christina Kahrl's piece, on the other hand, is a bit ridiculous. I'm trying to think about the relationship between the fact that Vanderbilt was a transgender person and the fact that that's also what threw Caleb Hannan off her scent. I find them almost inseparable and therefore necessary to the story. I said as much Saturday. Do we, as a society, have a ways to go when it comes to accepting and learning to properly respect transgender people? Yes, absolutely. I think about the progress made with gay and lesbian folks and think about that same progress when it comes to transgender people. On the other hand, this trend we also seem to have as a society to celebrate faux outrage and morality dick-measuring contests is also quite bothersome. We're all so quick to trip over each other in an attempt to see who can be the most morally or politically correct Mother Theresa, and that usually happens shortly after the first person stands up and begins imparting blame (as we saw in this case). Frankly, if it took 56 hours for someone to do so, and then turned into an all-out cascade of criticism, I find that pretty compelling evidence. I shudder to think we may enter an age in publishing where a writer can't report an interesting story without fear of somehow offending someone for something. I disagree. I think Karhl's piece was very informative, but she made a mistake in how aggressive the first few paragraphs were (which may have turned you off). The last half of the article is very interesting in the history of transexual therapy and illuminates the issue well. If the advice you've heard once the transformation occurs is to start a new life, you can see how far the rabbit hole would go (especially if they have "conman" tendencies). The piece was compelling but could draw you down the line of everything is connected. And I think the narrative kind of pushed this idea that gender was one more thing she was conning everyone on. To include the gender switch as an important part of the story to include, they needed really good execution and understanding which they did not do. I appreciated Simmons sincere and honest apology (not "I'm sorry if you were offended") and Kahrl's interesting piece.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 04:37 PM) Then the Deng trade makes no sense unless they really felt they were better without Deng. If Rose comes back and Deng is not there, what happens. Could the Bulls reacquire Deng at the deadline? The Deng and Teague trades put the Bulls comfortably below the luxury tax. That is why they traded him. They specifically avoid the repeater tax and are, once again, hoping for a big fa offseason.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 04:33 PM) Agreed. R.I.P. #teamtank November 13 - January 14 Really sad about Teague trade. I was developing an amazing musical modeled after the producers where bulls brass realizes a flop season could get them more success than a hit, and the only way to pull it off was to utilize Teague's unique ability to make team worse. Tank Commander Teague was really gonna be somethin. Alas.