Texsox

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 12:30 PM) Lol, yes. 3/3, 3 hrs. I do not know why I found that so damn funny

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 03:00 PM) Being your own boss is amazing. I'm the only one at my client site this week so while I'll be working a lot of hours I also have full flexibility in the sense I can work those hours in whatever fashion I want (if i want a 2 hr lunch or to come in super early and in return leave early I can). And truly being your own boss, as in owning your own company, you can come in super early leave super later and pay yourself waaaaay under minimum wage, at least in the beginning I know a few around here will recognize that. There is something to be said for someone else worrying about making payroll, etc.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 02:52 PM) Clothing and shoes will always do well in brick and mortar - online only works so well for fitting. Also anything that tends to be bought with a need for expertise. For example, Tex, if some guy decided he wanted to start backpacking, he's probably going to want to go to REI or something to ask some advice. And the clerks at REI will tell you a lot of people will ask questions, try on, set up, aply and then walk out, log on, and buy on-line. There was a very cantankerous argument at backpacker.com's about that subject. Some said if you ain't gonna buy, never walk in and bother the clerks. Others, myself included, said walk in and at least give them a chance to sell you something. Maybe you'll buy the sleeping bag at campmore, but you may buy some other stuff at their store.

Kenny has to talk to the media. the ticket office is begging him to give the fans good news and help them sell tickets. Who could have predicted E-Lo shooting up, or crashing down? Same with those three. We could have a twenty game winner in that crowd. Or they may combine for twenty. If they were on Detroit, we'd be shivering in our boots, calling them the greatest back end rotation in baseball, but they're ours so they potentially suck.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 02:31 PM) Lol, I worked at a Michaels arts and crafts store.... and I have no clue what you two are talking about. Good classes over there. Come on, you have to have some beautiful women walking in?!

QUOTE(Soxy @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 02:28 PM) The most beautiful women WORK there. Hmmm, now that you mention it.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 02:12 PM) then I guess I am a little confused by your definition of local in this conversation. Local as in Mom n pop stores? Or local as in: Jewel is local where I live, and is still a "national" grocery store, but you cannot find Jewel in Texas as the local grocery store because of (insert store name, Dominicks, Schnucks, Kroger, Cash n Carry, Rite Aid, Publix) I consider Walmart to be in the national category, never the local category. I meant as in being able to walk in and buy stuff. The thought came out of the CompUSA thread when several figured those types of stores will get crushed by internet suppliers.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 01:26 PM) I think that crafting stores (JoAnn's, etc) will also survive because no one wants to order a lot of that stuff online (particularly for clothing and home decorating) because you have no idea of true color. I forgot about them, if Hobby Lobby closed, I'd be really sad. And, just an observation, the most beautiful women shop at craft stores. You know, just sayin'.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 01:13 PM) What about when "Catch all" stores like Walmart knock those out of business? The internet and "combination" stores do a lot of damage I guess I considered WalMart in the grocery and clothing store category. Their electronics department, by contrast, may be much smaller.

*&^%#*^$% It looks like I missed an A in one class by two points (900 pts possible). I had two formatting errors on papers, either one would have been the difference. Damn

What kinds of stores will fall at the blade of the internet and which will survive. I'm thinking three stores will probably always be around on a local basis, grocery, clothing, and building supplies.

I'm sitting here thinking that 50 years ago, someone going to prison over the death of dogs, would be unimaginable. I wonder if some future society will look at mouse traps with scorn, wondering how we could have condoned such behavior.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 11:22 AM) No sir!! Their first year football coach Randy Shannon has laid down the law!! He is kicking ANYBODY who is convicted of a felony off the team immediately. (And no, I'm not kidding. That's an ACTUAL policy there now, it's amazing they need it, but the new policy helps support my point since the team no longer has felons on it). he's gone in three and the new guy believes in redemption and forgiveness Somewhere, someone, will take a chance on his "young" football body. Fresh legs, etc.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 11:13 AM) Most techies I know don't even bother going into stores anymore. Everything is ordered online. And CompUSA wasn't going to be competitive with the PC and hardware companies, or the amazon's and buy.com's of the world. What few people buy this stuff in stores now go to Best Buy, or Abt or the like - glitzy electronics stores with wonderful toys. This was inevitable. I disagree, technies are the guys that have to have it now. A card goes out, they are upgrading, etc. It's the average consumer that walked away because of Best Buy, etc. I liked CompUSA because they price matched and gave a store credit instead of a rebate. I always walked in there with Best Buys ad.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 11:17 AM) That's not how it works here. Since this is a federal case, he has to serve at least 85 percent of the sentence, which in the case of 23 months, 85 percent is at least 19 and 1/2 months. He could, in theory, serve the last month of that in a halfway house, and he did start his jailtime about 3 weeks ago, but the earliest Vick could realistically even be a free man is the summer of 2009. Now, of course, by then he will not have played an NFL game in almost 3 years, be 29 years old (which isn't young by NFL standards) be nowhere near in playing shape, and not be on any team since sometime after June 1st (at the latest) of 2008, the Falcons will cut him to save the cap hit. Unless Bruce Weber coaches an NFL team, I doubt he plays in the NFL again when you consider all that and other than good ol' Bruce, I'm unaware of many (or any) convicted felons who are on the roster of major athletic squads. Miami

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 10:53 AM) The minute they built a Fry's in Downers Grove I forgot that Comp USA even existed. Hell Microcenter > Comp USA. Speaking of computer stores shut down, who here remembers ElekTek. Now that shutting down made me sad. I knew they were toast when I walked into a CompUSa needing an I/O card for a PC and the clerk didn't have clue, nor did the manager. I miss Egghead Software

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...&refer=home I remember in the early 1990s hanging out there looking at all the cool tech.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 10:29 AM) So he will serve less than a year, and be back in the NFL for the 2009 mini/training camps. Wonderful. beats the house arrest I was expecting or 2 years probation.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 10:00 AM) Wow 23 months!! That's almost 14 dog years!! /obligatory So much for him getting off easy because he's famous, damn. I hope he enjoys the clink and finds a nice boyfriend though. I will put the over/under on the angry "that's racist" columns on espn.com at 7, starting of course with Jemele Hill and Scoop Jackson. potm worthy

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 09:45 AM) Blue Moon is no world-class beer to be sure, but it's easily the most interesting beer the Coors company has ever produced. It's actually not an altogether terrible megabrew Belgian witbier interpretation, but I think it's a little too perfumy and not quite acidic enough to be considered fully authentic. I'll drink it in a pinch, and happily so if the only alternative is adjunct-loaded megaswill. The rotten lime flavor you allude to is likely the bittter orange peel added to the boil, and the coriander also gives citrusy notes. If you try a Belgian Hoegarden or a Wit, or an American Allagash White or a Lost Coast Great White and don't find them enjoyable, it's priobably more of a stylistic impasse than Blue Moon's lack of merit. Who took my FlaSoxxJim to English dictionary? I need it, this seems important!

In the Vick gets sentenced thread QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 10:00 AM) Wow 23 months!! That's almost 14 dog years!! /obligatory

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 05:49 AM) I think its kind of funny that people get all worked up when Ozzie or Kenny say these sorts of things. What do you expect them to say? My guys suck?! Heck, if anything, this tells me its likely that one of Danks or Floyd might get moved in a trade. Ding Ding Ding

QUOTE(Vance Law @ Dec 9, 2007 -> 10:37 PM) Seriously, Olajuwon had a f***ing cannon in right field. and a hell of a reach.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Dec 9, 2007 -> 07:09 PM) I think I would like Rosetta Stone for Spanish. And a new job. Maybe teaching English. In Korea. Learn Spanish, to teach English, in Korea?

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Dec 10, 2007 -> 01:24 AM) If this person/people are serious I wouldn't think they'd write down a date and a place and then actually go to that place on that day. Anyways, stay safe and hopefully nothing whatsoever comes of this. Amazing as it seems, some do. Sometimes it is a friend figures out the scheme and alerts police. Other times they are mentally sick and for whatever reason call it in. Small percentage for certain, but it does happen. What you have to be careful of, for example, in bomb threats, in areas with high violence terrorists have called in a bomb threat to a building, waited for the building to empty, then bombed the people outside.