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QUOTE (Rooftop Shots @ Jan 20, 2012 -> 02:38 PM) geez, you guys want to talk about HERE being snowmageddon? Check out this link and your tune may change Justtttttttt a tad! The REAL snowmageddon Sure that's a lot of snow, but there's not nearly as many people trying to get around in it. Valdez, Alaska population = 4,020 Chicago, Illinois population = 2.7 million

QUOTE (PorkChopExpress @ Jan 20, 2012 -> 12:25 PM) Even when it's written I still have trouble understanding what he is trying to say. That's because he writes exactly the way he talks. Also he's never heard of spell check.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 20, 2012 -> 10:19 AM) They lend each paid copy once at a time. I'm ok with that for music downloads as long as only one paid copy is being listened to at a time. Libraries do not buy one copy and then make 50 copies for their borrowers. Not true for ebooks.

There are actually some high schools that have started just giving the students iPads instead of textbooks and it's saving them tons of money.

I remember when we could buy a pass for all 3 days for $35 with no hotel reservation. They doubled the prices when they changed hotels.

I wonder who the moron is that came up with the idea of charging people $131 to stay Friday night at the hotel and still not allow them into Soxfest itself.

QUOTE (Felix @ Jan 16, 2012 -> 04:20 PM) I was underwhelmed by Bridesmades. Went in really wanting to love it but came away lukewarm. I'm not the biggest Kristen Wiig fan in the world, though. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 16, 2012 -> 06:17 PM) That's how I felt about it. It had moments, but it wasn't nearly as funny as it was made out to be. This actually makes me feel better. I was afraid I was the only one. I finished it last night and it didn't get much better. It got a couple of smiles out of me but no real big laughs. Also, Melissa McCarthy has a really annoying voice. Almost reminds me of Rosie O'Donnell.

I watched the first half of Bridesmaids last night and haven't been impressed with it so far. It really hasn't been funny and some parts were pretty awkward and hard to watch.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 11, 2012 -> 11:00 AM) I know what virtually all of those are. And I thought you were an iSeries programmer, right? So most of the upper section should be pretty familiar for you. Are you an RPG guy, or COBOL, or something else on the 400? I worked in the iSeries world for a long time, if you want any info send me a PM. No, I'm a COBOL programmer. Did PL/1 for about 11 years which is almost identical to COBOL. I had some RPG classes in college but no real world experience.

QUOTE (Palehosefan @ Jan 10, 2012 -> 12:24 PM) Here's a solid website that tracks the trends in programming languages. I have experience with about 10 languages, and I barely make a dent in the list. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/pap...tpci/index.html On another note, I get extremely frustrated with the splintering of new languages. Everyone and their mom wants to create the new "IT" language. The only languages on the list that I even have a minuscule amount of knowledge about are VB and C++. I took a couple of classes for each one in college and have forgotten most of it since. That's interesting to see Pascal on the list. I remember seeing it in the catalog when I was in 9th grade but they took it out the next year because it was considered out-dated even then. Then I took Cobol in college and have been programming in it and other similar languages since then...

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 10, 2012 -> 11:28 AM) That was my thought. I've talked to a few other people and they've NEVER heard of anything like that. The only person in the department making more than everyone else is the department head. I've never heard of that in any business anywhere. The closest I've ever heard was somebody spending so long at one company that they actually maxed out their raises. It didn't matter if they worked another 20 years, they couldn't get any more raises. Meanwhile the company could hire people off the street at a starting wage near what the person with the experience was maxed out at. That's almost as bad, although it was retail and they probably don't expect people to stay there that long without moving up into management or something.

QUOTE (SOXOBAMA @ Jan 10, 2012 -> 10:54 AM) AJ PK Thornton Crain Ohman Beckham Floyd Alexei Danks I'd hope for some of these players we would get some great young prospects into this organzation. Peavy gone after this season and with all the money that the Sox saved, they can use it on next year free agency You're just playing along with this to get some discussion going during a boring off-season right? You can't possibly be serious. Right?

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Jan 9, 2012 -> 01:47 PM) Thanks for the input on King's new book. I think maybe I'll make that my new read since I've had it on my Kindle since it came out but haven't started it yet. I've noticed that some of his stories tend to start slow and pick up steam as you continue on. This one really hooked me from the first few pages. It also helps if you've read IT before this as some of the characters and places from that book make an appearance.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 9, 2012 -> 10:03 AM) Best Buy will charge sales tax so Amazon will give you about a 7.75% discount. Note: Technically you are still responsible to pay the sales tax, however, 98% of the population does. I know about the sales tax but typically when we are purchasing a big-ticket item, it's because the one we had a home broke and we need a new one. TV, fridge, computer, washer/dryer, etc... We usually don't have the money to pay for it outright and don't want to put it on a credit card. The 12-month or 18-month no interest deals work out great for us.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Jan 7, 2012 -> 01:39 PM) I haven't read Steven King in years, but I asked for "11/22/63" for Christmas, as it seemed to have an interesting premise. I'm not far enough into it to have an opinion yet. I've got about 40 pages left to read, but I pretty much know how it ends because I'm a sucker for spoilers. At 800+ pages it's one of his longer books but I've really enjoyed it. I've heard people complain that the middle part gets boring but it technically "starts" in 1958 and 5 years is a lot of time to cover. I can also see the reason he made the time span so long. I keep thinking of Back to the Future when I read it but even thinking of the time that's passed from when those movies were made until now is amazing. Marty McFly never missed not having a cell phone or the internet when he time travelled. I've also heard that it's one of his best endings and after I read it for myself, I think I will agree. QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Jan 7, 2012 -> 01:39 PM) And I feel like a real heathen for saying this, but "The Road" bored me silly. Ditto

I actually like Best Buy if only because they are the only place I know of that still offers 0% financing. I use that on nearly all my big-ticket purchases. As far as I know, that's not something I can get from Amazon. This doesn't sound right. I just returned a DVD to Best Buy last week with no problems at all.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 5, 2012 -> 08:11 AM) Did they finally change that? They were charging $70 per pass in addition to the $300+ for the room. Looking at the official website, no they didn't. Also, it's $75 per pass. Based on that last bolded line, you may not be able to get another weekend pass. A 2-day pass for Sat/Sun at $70 may be the best you can do.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jan 4, 2012 -> 12:47 PM) Well coming out of undergrad is a bit different too, the expectations are quite different. That's actually an interesting point though, the company I work for was having in depth discussions on how to market open positions, managers want to list every single program an employee may use as a requirement, thinking that in this economy they can atrract a specific candidate that does everything they want. That position is a little silly since IT unemployment was sitting under 4% last I heard (this past summer), and I work in IT security (Identity and Access Mgmt to be specific) and that was even lower. I know we scared away a ton of candidates from the amount of requirements we put on the job description. I've found that a lot of programming languages are fairly similar. Once you learn one, it's not all that difficult to pick up more. When I was unemployed I just started applying for anything that was even remotely close to my skill-set. I figured whatever I didn't know I'd figure out along the way. With my job now even though I'm using the same basic languages I used at my previous job things are just different enough that it took me a little while to get comfortable.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jan 4, 2012 -> 08:24 AM) I should've been a CS major instead of an IT major, because apparently if you're a CS major with an outgoing personality you can get a job anywhere. Depends on what languages you know. I've read the requirements for some programming positions and never even heard of some of it. Here's one for example that I just got in my email: I couldn't even start to tell you what half of that is much less have any experience with it.

We've been watching a lot of movies the past few weeks and have noticed a theme that we did completely by accident. First we watched Dolphin Tale, about the dolphin that had it's tale amputated and had to get an artificial one added. Then we watched Soul Surfer, about the girl that got her arm bitten off by a shark while surfing. Finally we watched 127 hours, about the hiker that got his hand stuck under a rock when he fell and had to cut it off to free himself. Not sure how we ended up watching three movies that envolved some sort of dismemberment and were based on real-life events. The first two movies were actually pretty good. 127 hours wasn't that great IMO. I knew it was mostly going to be the main character alone after he got stuck but they didn't do a very good job explaining what was happening to him. I guess he was having flashbacks and premonitions but it was pretty confusing. The first two also had a bunch of extra stuff on the DVD about the real-life people. The last one had no extra stuff at all. We also watched Zookeeper. Pretty horrible considering the actors involved.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Dec 29, 2011 -> 12:26 AM) About an hour later I check my facebook and saw that she took off her relationship status with me. I'm so glad Facebook wasn't around when I was dating. Breaking up with somebody by changing your status just seems odd to me. I acutally heard somebody say "He changed his status on FB to single. That means it's official now!"

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Dec 22, 2011 -> 10:24 AM) "The manufactured insolvency crisis is the result of the Postal Accountability Enhancement Act (PAEA) passed in 2006, which requires that USPS pre-fund 75 years of retiree health benefits within a ten-year period beginning in 2007. Is there really any sane reason for funding retirement benefits for people that haven't even been born yet?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Dec 16, 2011 -> 02:38 PM) Other countries only claim to not like us, because it's fashionable to do so. In reality, they love us. They also have the very modern "short attention span syndrome", and people conveniently allow them to forget the past. I mean, after all, the excuse that "we've changed our wayward ways" only goes so far, in that not long ago these same countries that look down upon us did some of the most unforgivable/heinous s*** the likes of which we still haven't come close to touching. And the only reason many of them aren't still doing it, is because at some point in the past, they lost some rather important wars. And people have the right to be "ignorant about Islam", or the Quran, or Catholicism, etc. Far be it for me to say, but just because YOU decided to care about Islam and read up upon it, don't point fingers at others for "being ignorant". It's not ignorant to NOT read up on something that exists, because I have to tell you, there are religions out there that YOU'VE never heard of, thus you're ignorant, too, by your own definition. Look, we only have so much time in our lives, and just because a person doesn't decide to educate themselves on something (or EVERYTHING), that doesn't mean their ignorant. It just means they have different priorities than you. If you spent your ENTIRE LIFE studying religions, both past and presently existing, and lived to be 100, you'd die well before you got half way through knowing much about religions. I think the ignorant part is thinking something about a certain group of people without actually taking the time to learn about them. If you've never heard of a religion then you can't form an opinion about the people that practice it.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Dec 14, 2011 -> 03:16 PM) Use your debit card, hippy. I actually don't use cash much except when I buy gas. I can't pass up a 12 cent discount/gallon.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Dec 14, 2011 -> 11:36 AM) I actually find myself paying with my debit card even when I have enough cash, just to avoid getting pennies. ===== Eliminating pennies and dollar bills is a good start, but I'd go further. Eliminate dimes, half-dollars, ten dollar bills, and fifty dollar bills. All the currency you need are nickels, quarters, dollar coins, fives, twenties, and hundreds. Though unnecessary, I would keep the $2 bill around to appease the people who hate coins so much. Also may want to consider putting the $500 bill back into circulation due to inflation. So if I buy something for $4.30 and give the cashier a $20 I'll get 3 fives 2 quarters and 4 nickels. That's 1 extra bill and 2 extra coins than what I would get now.