StrangeSox

That does suck. Sounds like a "meeting with the Bobs."

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 25, 2011 -> 11:36 AM) Kalapse, Had to look up with Gallifrey was and Im not sure what the question was. ---- Game of Thrones has been great, they could have given a little back story to start, but maybe they didnt want it to seem to much like Lord of the Rings. Just something about the families, etc. It's intentional in the books. More and more backstory is revealed and characters are developed that way. AGOT started the same way as the show did, with the prologue.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 25, 2011 -> 11:25 AM) Does the show follow the books? I'd like to read them, but don't want to spoil the show. More or less so far. Some of the character portrayals are modified a bit, but the main story is the same so far. The younger characters are all a few years older than they were in the books, probably because it'd be weird to have a 13 yo Danaerys getting pregnant. There's currently four books (about 4000 pages probably), a fifth due this summer and two more in the future. I'd say the show would spoil the books more than the other way around.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 25, 2011 -> 10:08 AM) I repeat. Game of Thrones is fantastic. the books are better But the show is good.

Eric Cantor: Disaster relief must be offset So, we can't pay for disaster relief without cutting spending somewhere else, but YOU BETTER NOT TAKE AWAY OIL SUBSIDIES!@!!!!!

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 25, 2011 -> 10:03 AM) The term "judicial activism" as it is used in American politics is a wholly empty use of words. Completely meaningless. When politicians use the phrase, it almost invariably has a different meaning: "judges doing things I don't agree with". Oh I know. It's just funny to me when the people who rail against judicial activism and claim to base their judicial philosophy on textualism readily embrace making rulings fit desired outcomes. You know, like all those terrible liberal judges who ruin America do.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 24, 2011 -> 03:11 PM) Batting averages in May: Quentin: .190 Dunn: .214 OBP in May: Quentin: .278 Dunn: .330 OPS in May: Quentin: .659 Dunn: .741 Thanks to this post, I decided to bench Quentin on my fantasy team yesterday.

going to bed. oh well. edit but also f*** Lebron and f*** Miami. Hope Dallas finds a way to dominate them.

Wow. What happened to the Bulls team from Game 1?

haahahahahaaa

so much negativity for going into the 4th up by 5

DERREK.ROSE!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 24, 2011 -> 08:32 PM) The bulls are getting open shots and missing them. The benefit of another scorer is that he'd help generate open shots for these guys. Open shots don't matter if no one can make them. The benefit of another scorer would be maybe they could hit some of the many open shots they're getting

they can't make a shot

lebron flailing and traveling and jumping all over, no calls

they need to stop throwing the ball into the middle where there's 5 heat guys

Glenn Greenwald had some interesting comments on that: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_gr...rael/index.html Not sure why Obama's getting so much flak for taking a pretty mainstream stance on the 1967 borders.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ May 24, 2011 -> 05:00 PM) Yes, you can. You can especially blame the person when he's made quite a few bad moves and signings in the recent past. But the Dunn signing itself was not a bad move from just about any reasonable perspective when it was made. I'm right there with you on wanting a lot of change in the organization, I just don't think you should fault people for making what is an analytically good move that just doesn't pan.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 24, 2011 -> 04:28 PM) Aaaaaaaaaagrreeeeeeddddd. yep

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ May 24, 2011 -> 04:56 PM) Who is forgetting it? Everyone is aware that it was backed. Just because it was backed by the fan base does not mean that Kenny gets away with it since it's turning out to be a bad move. You can't fault someone for making what is by all appearances a good move if it doesn't pan out. Like playing poker and getting beat even after making all of the right moves because some ass got lucky on the last card.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 24, 2011 -> 04:02 PM) But their "ereader" is a lot more expensive than the kindle, but they justify it with more features. "Editor's Choice" –CNET, 11/23/2010 Stunning full color touchscreen Enhanced books, magazines, newspapers, & interactive kids books Fun social features + surf the web NEW! Popular Apps, Email & Enhanced Web $249 The nook color is stupid imo and I don't know why it exists. edit 2: The nook color is more like a tablet than an eReader due to its screen. Rumors are 3M shipped already. edit: the original nook was $149 or $159 when I bought it last September, now you can get it for $119.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 24, 2011 -> 02:47 PM) The Kindle is adding library checkout support and I head in passing yesterday that the Kindle is adding ePub support. Only a few years late! I think B&N has something like 25% of the e-Reader market.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 24, 2011 -> 02:44 PM) i don't get the nook for the price. It's like they are going halfway b/w kindel and ipad. bad comparison, an e-reader isn't a tablet and a tablet isn't an e-reader. Different markets for different purposes. I went with the nook because it allowed me to read open-source books, like stuff off of project gutenberg and borrowed library books. The Kindle doesn't (or at least didn't).

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 24, 2011 -> 11:15 AM) The free books I check out from the library are easy to handle and have that nice book smell to them. I can borrow books from the library on my nook!

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 24, 2011 -> 10:59 AM) I've played with the first-gen and i found it to be clunky, slow and hard to use. You suck at technology? They released an update a while ago for faster screen refresh.