StrangeSox

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Nov 1, 2010 -> 10:12 PM) My family had to put my dog to sleep tonight while I'm away at school. I'm a wreck. Never fun to deal with. We had to put down my fiance's 18 year old cat the other week. It's hard to loose someone you grew up with.

For national and governor races: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ Nate Silver of PECOTA fame's political polling blog. He does quite a bit of statistical analysis of the various polls and comes up with a composite model. His predictions for the 2008 races were really good. Not sure for local races. Might try checking the Trib and local news stations. You just don't see as much (if any) polling for state congress, judges etc.

Voted on my way in to work today. I have the luxury of my polling place being about 200 ft from my front door. why are superintendents and judges elected partisan positions?

It;s something like 25 D to 11 R for seats up for Senate in 2012. Not sure about the house.

I honestly don't get how anyone votes Republican.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 1, 2010 -> 12:07 PM) And yet, we're managing to pull data from the Genesis mission. Extracting data from a crash is a bit different than having a functional satellite.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 1, 2010 -> 09:39 AM) Can you imagin if something were to happen to one of those and it fell to earth? How about electromagnetic railgun-like launcher? Delicate satellites and scientific instruments, not to mention people, couldn't handle those accelerations.

If you liked TWD, you'd probably like "World War Z", either the book version or audiobook version. The audiobook has some voice actors like Rob Reiner and Mark Hamill.

stupid contrived objectivism and "balance"

"Funding AIDS" vs. "funding AIDS prevention" poor phrasing by obama. Bush did provide a lot of funding, but there were some dumb "abstinence only education" strings attached IIRC

"MAKE AWKWARD SEXUAL ADVANCES NOT WAR"

Marxists are subverting our Constitution?

Boo.

justin beiber! oh wait it's not MLB. edit: ah s*** that's worse.

"Oh, you're on Facebook"

Mick Foley, Reasonable Man. Who knew?

I love me some Tim Meadows.

Still can't believe the way Gallaraga handled that situation.

At least up to this point, this has been pointedly apolitical.

do I smell a Yusuf/Osbourne duet coming?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 30, 2010 -> 12:05 PM) If I did the math right and the guy wasn't lying when he said "14 million" (and he didn't mean 10^14), that jump was a similar energy release to a magnitude 2.5 quake. he said 14 trillion times less, so 8 orders of magnitude below the 1905 quake, not 6.

Didn't catch those. I'm just surprised there aren't big ads or banners at the rally itself.

I'm not seeing any sort of advertising or sponsors.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 29, 2010 -> 04:14 PM) Bah, there's a difference between having a team that is going to stomp everyone and having a team that will be competitive and win sometimes. Except for 96-97's vengeance...the Bulls always had a legit challenger. I'd liken it to making a roster full of 99 rated players in a video game. Yeah, it's fun for a few games, but then it just gets boring.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 29, 2010 -> 10:05 AM) You're just attracted to pregnant chicks. FYI for those that don't know this: Dee and Mac are married in real life and she is really pregnant. Also Charlie and the waitress are either married or dating....i forget which. married