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I still rock out to every PJ album there has been, with the exception of one political abomination (Riot Act). IMO, Yield was still possibly my favorite offering of them (its too easy for people to say 'The best was Vs or Ten') Binaural was fantastic, one a lot of folks didn't like, and IMO Backspacer has been very solid.

Finished "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline. It was pretty interesting, I don't think it held my attention as much as 11/22/63, but nonetheless, it was a solid read if you're an 80's pop culture and gaming geek junkie. Up Next: "Forbidden" by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee. Not sure of much about it, other than it was suggested to me by B&N after buying 11/22/63. That, and it was only $2.99.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 10, 2012 -> 12:06 PM) I've been reading a lot more since I bought my Nook Tablet. Mainly, because it's super easy to download books for free for Kindle and Nook. Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline, was an absolute blast to read. Anyone who enjoyed Ender's Game would absolutely adore that book. I just started the new Stephen King last night and am geeking out over it. The first 100 pages flew by and I cannot wait to finish that quickly. It is rather scary how alike some SoxTalk members are. I read 11/22/63, then looked for similar to it. Barnes and Noble recommended 'Ready Player One'. I am about 180 pages into it right now, and the sheer amount of 80's Pop Culture references are worth the read to me, alone. I'm enjoying it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 8, 2012 -> 01:59 PM) Please let me know what you think. I have been going back and forth on buying it. I bought 11/22/63 as my first book on the Christmas gift Nook Tablet. It was a long read, and an enjoyable one. The premise of anything involving history + time travel immediately appeals to me. I read it in probably 3 days time, finding it hard to ever put down. I haven't read any King stuff since Regulators/Desperation, so it was nice to get back into his stuff with a solid book.

Alshon won't run a 4.4 or 4.5 at the combine, I can bet whatever on that. But, he may still be around at 15-20th I think.

I love how Bo Pellini, a tremendous douchenozzle btw, thinks his team was the 'better' team today, despite being held scoreless for the last 47.5 minutes.

Representing my home state so well! And WYFF is our local NBC channel. We've got some smart folks down here.

South Carolina's schedule, roughly... East Carolina Georgia UAB Wofford at Kentucky at Vanderbilt at LSU Missouri Arkansas Tennessee at Florida at Clemson Doable, but at LSU is probably going to be a suckfest.

Just sayin, 3 years of absolute domination of Clemson makes my weekend all around fantastic. 10-2 season, with a 5th string RB, backup QB, backup LT....who said Spurrier lost his touch?

Even though it probably should be LSU-Alabama...man, thats going to be the most boring title game ever.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Nov 15, 2011 -> 10:09 AM) Going to see Guns 'N Roses after work tonight at Allstate Arena. Ticket says the show starts at 9, so I'm hoping they hit the stage before midnight. Only half kidding about that. Either way, been hearing some pretty positive reviews about this tour overall. Hoping that this time around they focus a lot more of their "new" (3 years old) material, unlike the last two times they came through here. I missed the show here locally, but I would have went had I known. I had a coworker there. He said he left at 1 AM, and they were still playing. They played past 2 AM here....38 freakin' songs. That is a show.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 13, 2011 -> 11:03 AM) K-Cup is convenient. I'm not arguing that. But anyone that claims -- or attempts to claim -- that it's a quality cup of coffee is delusional at best...either that or they're trying hard to convince themselves. It's quick brew trash with fine ground coffee inside, coffee that may have once held the true characteristics necessary to make a quality cup, but once in those cups, the oils are gone... Nothing beats opening a bag of beans and seeing the shiny oil covered fresh beans...and K-Cup will never have that. Ever. Also, for a person that claims to care about the environment -- congratulations, you choose the Exxon of coffee making pollution creation. May as well drink water out of plastic bottles and fill up the local landfills while your at it. http://www.coffeehabitat.com/2011/09/k-cups-recycling/ Any "recycle" programs people talk about with K-Cup are BS...so don't try. Sounds to me, your mind is made up to think that, no matter what. Personally, I have no problem with Keurig cups for coffee. It is a complete waste of time and coffee at our place, to sit and make a pot of coffee, so it can sit around and scald on the bottom, in hopes someone drinks it. Nevermind the fact that it is going to sit there for hour(s) just hanging out. Single cup brewing, on the other hand, with a s***ton of choices so I don't have to keep 17 1-lb. bags of coffee at my house, wins any day of the week.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 9, 2011 -> 04:12 PM) I have a tassimo and I just dont like the flavor of it for whatever reason, Im just looking for an alternative to walking across the street to starbucks. Or, as my favorite T shirt to wear, says...

Monday night brought the Foos with Social D and The Joy Formidible to Atlanta. Damn, that show just goes and goes. I think it was 3 hours for the Foos, and an hour or so for Social D. Speaking of Social D, I forgot how damn long those guys have been around!!

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 9, 2011 -> 11:58 AM) Nah, I've had the little packets/cups/whatever machines and i dont like them. I like fresh ground fresh brewed coffee. You might be surprised. We use and abuse our Keurig, more than most people should. I wouldn't do coffee/tea any other way now.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Oct 30, 2011 -> 04:43 PM) I absolutely love Dooley. I really want him to succeed b/c he's just the man. But I do highly question some of his in-game coaching decisions. Then again, he is working with no room for error. With a healthy offense, he can get away with some of those "questionable" decisions. With a healthy Bray, Tennessee wins that game last night. That's what just f***ing pisses me off about losing our 3 best players so far this year. We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. SOS said he shut the passing game down in the 3rd quarter, when it was obvious that inside runs would work all the way down the field. That defense has given up 21 points total in the last 4 SEC games.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Oct 29, 2011 -> 11:59 PM) It's called a letdown win from a team overperforming the week before. See Michigan State. Also, just realized this: USC is 6-1 with all their games against BCS conference teams and their only loss on the road to a ranked team. However, they are unranked. What world at we living in that USC is horribly underrated? Edit: nevermind didn't realize the polls couldn't vote for them due to sanctions. AP has them 20. That still seems low. Seriously, wtf was that game about?? It is one thing to suffer a hangover after a huge win (see us last year losing at Kentucky by 3 after beating #1 Bama). But...that wasn't even remotely a game..

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Oct 29, 2011 -> 10:58 PM) That play clearly changed the game. And Waggner not scoring on his INT return killed. I told the guys I was watching the game with that Worley was going to throw a redzone pick and one play later it happened. Those 2 plays kept 14 points off the board. Well, you got Worley some game experience, but he isn't ready for that really. It sucks, because Dooley is my 2nd favorite coach in all of football, and I really hope he wins somewhere.

Basketball/football failboat there, SS2k5

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Oct 25, 2011 -> 12:13 AM) That's sort of the same thing I said about us losing Justin Hunter. I thought it would be great for Bray since he wouldn't just be able to throw it up to Hunter every play and expect it to be caught. He'd have to play smarter and involve the other guys... then I realized quickly that I'd give just about anything to have Hunter back. Regardless, I get your point. It could help the offense in the long-run without having Lattimore be the guy on just about every play. And frankly, it's a shame that the QB play has been so inconsistent for yall b/c Alshon Jeffrey is unbelievable. Can't imagine what he'd do with a stud QB throwing to him. And looks like Simms has been benched for a freshman. Uh, we'll see how that goes, but I'm not expecting great things. Worley is a talent, just ask Clowney...Worley's team ran over Southside last year with Clowney there. But, I do have to kind of question why Dooley pulls the redshirt on week 8 of the season. Sometimes it can't be helped, though. We both know that Simms is....in no way his father or even his brother. He looked rough.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 02:55 PM) Good thing Lane Kiffin told him he couldn't fit in a pro-style offense even though he had been committed to Tennessee. Looks like he'd fit in just about any style offense with the way he's playing right now. Not a huge deal b/c I like Tyler Bray, but it would be nice to have both players (especially now with the awful Matt Simms playing QB). I'm excited about our game next week. With Lattimore out, I feel like we have a chance. Though, unless Matt Simms starts playing better, we won't be able to put up any points. Boy, Matt Simms....he needs some monumental improvement in a hurry. I know this will sound weird and homerish, but I'm kinda happy to see the offense this week, without Lattimore in there to scheme against. He had really struggled in the last 3-4 games, because it was easy to scheme against a QB with limited exposure to throwing the ball.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 12:32 PM) I haven't watched a single game of Clemson this year but are they really that good or do they benifet from being in the ACC? Their offense is a load to deal with, Tajh Boyd is deadly accurate. Their defense, on the other hand, is average at best. If a team that plays slow, drawn out methodical offensive drives, like Georgia Tech for example, can limit how often Clemson's offense is on the field, thats the way to handle them. We'll have our shot in November, but....not feeling quite as good about it as I once did.

The kid had a LOT of problems, and we can leave it at that.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Oct 2, 2011 -> 12:26 AM) South Carolina's Melvin Ingram is my favorite non-Tennessee player. He's just fun to watch. Today's stats for the defensive lineman: 9 tackles, 5 TFL, 3.5 sacks, 1 INT... And to think he doesn't even get the most pub on that defense (see: Jadeveon Clowney). He is playing himself into the NFL, on this season alone. Unfortunately, we're stuck with a 5th year senior QB, that is playing this team into mediocrity, and himself into a great career in retail.

Hell, my order is in on it either way. With that being said, I'll still probably buy the next iPad that is released, but the Kindle Fire is at a price point and functionality level that it is, IMO, WELL worth talking a $200 shot on.