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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 29, 2008 -> 12:46 PM) Taylor Hanson? "What? That's insane. That's impossible. . . Oh God. Oh my God! I've got all these magazines. Oh God!!"

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 28, 2008 -> 06:18 PM) Here it is... Do your best/worst, Busterites. With our Powers combined, we are. . . Dance-Zilla!!

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ May 29, 2008 -> 12:30 PM) Nest thing there will be monkeys with frickin laserbeams on thier heads To be followed by a Gy-Gor army.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 29, 2008 -> 10:54 AM) Great minds think alike And so do you two.

I just read that story on CNN. Really cool stuff.

That is Clarke's brilliance from The Sentinel right there, and Kubrick didn't get to abstract/psychedelic until after this crucial point in the film. The criterion for allowing the human race to move on to the next level had to be more than tool manipulation, language, civilization, etc. The ante' had to be at least the capacity for short-range space travel, and the ability to sustain human life in space (like the moon bases) at least long enough to be able to unearth the moon monolith that had been buried there 4 million years earlier. I just saw 2001 on Blu-Ray for the first time a few months back and it was phenomenal. The film remains an absolute cinematic masterpiece.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 28, 2008 -> 03:50 PM) What you said is probably correct as well. I don't know I guess. But whatever a given robe or head-dress is called, I just don't see eye to eye on Alpha trying to deride it. It is just a robe, or just a scarf or whatever. Lots of the muslim scarfs and head-dresses look a lot like the habits the Catholic nuns wore back when they were sending me to the principal's office.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 28, 2008 -> 03:44 PM) Actually I was told that a hijab is the thing that covers a woman's hair. Which is my basic understanding as well – that it has come to refer to the head-dress and not a robe as Alpha suggested. The term isn't used to describe any single item of clothing in the Quran though.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 28, 2008 -> 03:28 PM) I wonder if the hijab will be the next fashion trend co-opted by the west. Hey, it's just a robe. Technically, I don't think hijab isn't any one type of covering, like a burqa, khurmur, or a jibab. As i understand it, it is a broader reference to Islam's directive for personal modesty or privacy.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ May 28, 2008 -> 12:40 PM) Im sure FlaSoxx will weigh in on this soon, and give a totally reasonable scientific explanation. Then KidGleason will come by and say it has something to do with Plan 9 from Outer Space Well, I for one think it's pretty obvious what it is.

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 28, 2008 -> 02:06 PM) i dont know... it's a hard situation to be in. does the guy have a family he needs to support? if so then he's got to worry about how losing his job would affect them. it's hard to ask someone to give up their job for any reason, even one as deplorable as this. i just wouldn't go so far as to call him an asshole. Hmm, I thought our profanity filters wouldn't actually let me call Scotty an asshole. I'm glad I was wrong. Scotty is an asshole. From the Iraq runup to Plamegate to the administration's Katrina response, McClellan was, at best, blindly parroting the laughably flimsy BushCo lines or, more likely, knowingly lying to the press on behalf of the president. Now the guy is blasting the press corps for being too accepting of the bullsh*t he was feeding them from the podium for 3 years, making a buck off of it, and trying to come out of it as the only one not at fault. Unbelievably self-serving and disingenuous.

McClellan would have had a whole lot more integrity and credibility if he had resigned as press secretary, rather than spending three years parroting the administration lines that he now finds so disagreeable. A$$hole.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ May 28, 2008 -> 10:30 AM) Can you get Sweetwater in FL? Very limited distribution in the northern part of the state. The only thing I've had from them is the 42- pale ale.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ May 28, 2008 -> 10:13 AM) I like the beer idea, but so many small breweries are regional. I live in St. Louis and people who live 2 miles away in Illinois cannot buy Fat Tire without crossing the river. That would be part of the fun for me is seeing what kind of regional craft stuff people are into. It would be an odd set of final results compared to something like movies where everybody pratty much has access to everything. Maybe the better thing would be to have it boil down to a top 5-10 with national or near-national availability and then we could all go out and buy those and taste and rate. Or maybe each of our top choices in a dozen or so style categories. Pretty much I'm just looking for an excuse to drink.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ May 27, 2008 -> 04:09 PM) It was just the beginning, and there are plenty of dark story arcs. Im sure that road will be traveled down the line I don't know how much of the canonical Tony Stark history they'll care to put into films, but the Obadiah Stane arc with a homeless, penniless Tony certainly qualifies as dark.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 27, 2008 -> 01:25 PM) So you could list some micro brew that no one has ever heard of before? No, so I can help to educated the unwashed masses and lift them up out of the beer mire.

Thanks for the swell birthday wishes, all. Other than the lack of a White Sox winner, the day was very enjoyable and included ditching the kids for a nice dinner with the missus. You're only 30 once, so you might as well enjoy it, right?

I wasn't near a computer yesterday and missed this thread. Thanks to all who have served and sacrificed for this nation. My grandfather was turned away twice for being too old when he tried to enlist during WWII. Finally they took him on his third try because they knew he'd just keep coming back until they did. He died in 1978 before I was old enough to really grasp the greatness of his generation.

Belated Birthday Greetings to you ALL. May Birthdays Rawk! :headbang

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 27, 2008 -> 09:33 AM) Best beer would also be a fun one. ^^^ That's the one!

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QUOTE (jackie hayes @ May 23, 2008 -> 02:45 PM) Same here. In fact, I don't think I've bought anything BUT drip at Starbucks in years. I wasn't really trying to start anything, just saying that, to me, "old school" coffee should cost a buck or less. You still find that at some local donut shops, but not really anywhere else. And I like both DD and Starbucks coffee (although I rarely buy any coffee now, just use my coffeemaker 98% of the time). I had the coffee angels smiling down on me yesterday when i went into Starbucks to get a venti regular coffee and the machine was broken so I got an espresso Americana for the same price. At home, if I want to take the time my favorite café Cubano is either Pilon or Bustello or, better still, the premium (silver) Italian Cafe Kimbo, espresso grind in the foil pack (a friend from Naples sends it). All of those are brewed a cup at a time in a stove top espresso pot, and if I'm doing Cubano I'll add the sugar to the espresso pot for authenticity. if I'm short on time I'll do Pilon instant espresso, which makes a passable drink. I loves my coffee.

For that matter, the female ensembles from Buffy and Angel were pretty easy on the eyes.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 23, 2008 -> 02:39 PM) My daughter, the really hard working smart one has wanted to attend NU for years and is now close to graduating (entering senior year). she has a 4.0 in the International Baccalaureate program, etc. But she worries it still is not enough? Anyone with experience to share? Her class rank is 25/400 My brother got his MBA there. If that meathead can do it anybody can.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 23, 2008 -> 01:00 PM) What are you offering? A date with Mandingo.