November 24, 200816 yr WoW? You mean, World of Warcraft? :D Pete?! I thought I stabbed you and dumped you in the Ohio River to be fed to the giant catfish. You're alive?!
November 24, 200816 yr Well why don't you provide them? Don't you have the charts? I'm curious to see them even if I'm wrong. I'd like to see the last 5 years for this marketing area. Suuuuuuure. First, let me ask - can YOU keep me in the lifestyle I'm accustomed to living after I'm fired for violating my contract?
November 24, 200816 yr MTS, I need a deal with my cable/internet ... what can you do for me to stay with TW versus going to Dish Network? I'll be right over to install it! What, so youre saying you can't doing anything?
November 24, 200816 yr ^ Adam you're better off with Cincinnati Bell North Central Region: Performing particularly well in all five factors driving satisfaction, WOW! ranks highest with 702. Cincinnati Bell follows with 665, and Cox ranks third with 663. (Roadrunner doesn't even make the top 7). JD Power and Associates 2008 study http://www.jdpower.com/corporate/news/releases/pdf/2008236.pdf
November 24, 200816 yr ^ Adam you're better off with Cincinnati Bell North Central Region: Performing particularly well in all five factors driving satisfaction, WOW! ranks highest with 702. Cincinnati Bell follows with 665, and Cox ranks third with 663.- JD Power and Associates 2008 study http://www.jdpower.com/corporate/news/releases/pdf/2008236.pdf The hell with MTS and Time Warner ... I'm going with WoW. Probably better customer service at least. You've got representatives with TW, like MTS dropping F-bombs like its Hiroshima.
November 24, 200816 yr I have Comcast. "It's Comcastic!" I'm actually shocked I've had no problems with internet or television.
November 24, 200816 yr I have Verizon FIOS for my internet access and land-line phone, but I haven't turned on a television set in my house in more than two years so I've had no need for cable. Other TV options here are Comcast, sattelite, or an antenna (5 local broadcast channels including PBS). At least weekly I get mailings from Comcast and from Verizon trying to sell me television service. They go in the trash unopened. A few years ago one of Comcast's pushy door-to-door salesmen wasn't going to take "No" for an answer. I was being quite civil, and it wasn't working. Suddenly insane homicidal crazyoldman took charge and got in his face and started screaming. "Get away!" "Leave Me Alone!" "Didn't You Hear Me?" "You Want Me to Kick Your Ass?" Stuff like that. He started backing up and I stayed right with him. Once he started down the steps I had the high ground and I doubled my fury. He ran. Haven't had a Comcast rep at my door since then. I'm really very nice if people just take the time to get to know me. :angel:
November 24, 200816 yr I have Verizon FIOS for my internet access and land-line phone, but I haven't turned on a television set in my house in more than two years so I've had no need for cable. Other TV options here are Comcast, sattelite, or an antenna (5 local broadcast channels including PBS). At least weekly I get mailings from Comcast and from Verizon trying to sell me television service. They go in the trash unopened. A few years ago one of Comcast's pushy door-to-door salesmen wasn't going to take "No" for an answer. I was being quite civil, and it wasn't working. Suddenly insane homicidal crazyoldman took charge and got in his face and started screaming. "Get away!" "Leave Me Alone!" "Didn't You Hear Me?" "You Want Me to Kick Your Ass?" Stuff like that. He started backing up and I stayed right with him. Once he started down the steps I had the high ground and I doubled my fury. He ran. Haven't had a Comcast rep at my door since then. I'm really very nice if people just take the time to get to know me. :angel: "Still Sweet and Innocent!" you say?? :o
November 24, 200816 yr Anyone ever been to this restaurant? lol http://www.cheeseburgerinparadise.com/ it's called "Cheeseburger in Paradise" and it's as corny as it sounds. You walk in and it looks like you're on a fake tropical island with palm trees, cabanas and touristy signage. It's like Hooters taken to the extreme but with ugly waitresses.
November 24, 200816 yr I thought cheeseburger in paradise was pretty good. Their beer is really cold.
November 24, 200816 yr CNN: Mystery piano in woods perplexes police (CNN) -- Was it a theft? A prank? A roundabout effort to bring some holiday cheer to the police? Authorities in Harwich, Massachusetts, are probing the mysterious appearance of a piano, in good working condition, in the middle of the woods. http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/US/11/23/massachusetts.piano/art.piano.caper.jpg[/img] A police officer examines an oddly placed piano in the woods of Harwich, Massachusetts.http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/base_skins/baseplate/corner_wire_BL.gif[/img] Discovered by a woman who was walking a trail, the Baldwin Acrosonic piano, model number 987, is intact -- and, apparently, in tune. Sgt. Adam Hutton of the Harwich Police Department said information has been broadcast to all the other police departments in the Cape Cod area in hopes of drumming up a clue, however minor it may be. But so far, the investigation is flat. Also of note: Near the mystery piano -- serial number 733746 -- was a bench, positioned as though someone was about to play. The piano was at the end of a dirt road, near a walking path to a footbridge in the middle of conservation land near the Cape. It took a handful of police to move the piano into a vehicle to transport it to storage, so it would appear that putting it into the woods took more than one person. Asked whether Harwich police will be holding a holiday party in the storage bay -- tickling the ivories, pouring eggnog -- while they await word of the piano's origin and fate, Hutton laughed. No such plans. Harwich police have had some fun, though. Among the photos they sent to the news media is one of Officer Derek Dutra examining the piano in the woods. The police entitled the photo "Liberace."
November 24, 200816 yr Kind of creepy if you came upon that piano at night. It would be like a scene out of a horror movie.
November 24, 200816 yr I wish parks had pianos that the public could play. Here at U of M, they place a few around campus in the lobbies of busy public areas. You can walk right up and start playing if you like, but you have to be very good, that's the only rule. It's really nice around this time, especially when students play holiday music. And they are always very talented. It feels like a department store rather than a campus building. I guess pianos in the park might be a bad idea since they'd probably be vandalized. Here's one I found in an abandoned highrise in Detroit. I wonder why it's out of tune? hmmmm In the Detroit photography world, I shouldn't have posted this. It's an incredibly cliche photo for people who have visited Detroit's vacant structures. Just go to flickr and search "piano abandoned detroit"
November 25, 200816 yr Canada's Creme de la Creme: (where all the 'celebrities go') America's Creme de la Creme:
November 25, 200816 yr 'Truman syndrome' patients fear lives are on TV Tuesday, November 25, 2008 3:00 AM By Jennifer Peltz ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- One man showed up at a federal building, asking for release from the reality show he was sure was being made of his life. Another was convinced his every move secretly was being filmed for a TV contest. A third believed everything -- the news, his psychiatrists, the drugs they prescribed -- was part of a phony, stage-set world with him as the involuntary star, like the 1998 movie The Truman Show. =
November 25, 200816 yr Do La Guardia have free wireless or did I just pick up some random signal for free on Thursday?
November 25, 200816 yr ^^ Damn, David ... that is one of the most interesting things I have read in a long time!
November 26, 200816 yr Dad raped daughters for 27 years (CNN) -- A British man was jailed Tuesday for raping two of his daughters and fathering nine children over 27 years, a case with echoes of Austria's Josef Fritzl. The two daughters were made pregnant 19 times; there were nine births, five miscarriages and five terminations. Seven of the children are alive but suffer genetic deformities. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/25/court.rapes/index.html
November 26, 200816 yr Controversial columnist Ann Coulter has reportedly suffered a broken jaw and had her jaw wired shut. although we didn't think it would be possible to silence Ann Coulter, the leggy reactionary broke her jaw and the mouth that roared has been wired shut Source: nypost.com Coulter's broken jaw has reportedly forced her to postpone the recording of the audio version of her latest book, The New Ann Coulter. Many of Coulter's political opponents are enjoying having the bombastic columnist silenced at least for a month or two. No word yet if Coulter has found a way to blame her injury on liberals. http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/ann-coulters-jaw-wired-shut
November 26, 200816 yr I think the comedy has only just begun with this. Who could do the voiceover for Coulter?
November 26, 200816 yr Dad raped daughters for 27 years (CNN) -- A British man was jailed Tuesday for raping two of his daughters and fathering nine children over 27 years, a case with echoes of Austria's Josef Fritzl. ... Seven of the children are alive but suffer genetic deformities. [...] http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/25/court.rapes/index.html The daughters aren't the only victims. Think about the lives ahead of those seven children. I think the comedy has only just begun with this. Who could do the voiceover for Coulter? I used to have difficulties with impulse control, and the first thing that popped into my mind often was the next thing that popped out of my mouth. Back in the good old days of typewriters and mechanical calculators, I worked in an accounting office with a motormouth. She never shut up, and was able to talk endlessley without a detectable pause to take a breath. Her ceaseless chatter flowed along with the ambient noise of the workplace. One day she came in late because of a doctor appointment. She said she was experiencing pain in her jaw, and launched into a lengthy dissertation on how her jaw hurt. I quickly jumped in with, "Betty, it's because it never gets any rest." You could have heard a pin drop.
November 26, 200816 yr Lots of sirens passing my house just now. So far I've seen four police cars, an ambulance, and a crime scene van. [edit 09:18] FD crash rescue truck just now. Hazmat team next? [edit 09:28] FD pumper
November 26, 200816 yr I think the comedy has only just begun with this. Who could do the voiceover for Coulter? I think she should still do the reading. There's just as much value to listening to a recording of "rrrrrrgh rrrgh mmmf errr errr marrrrgh" than what she usually says. Edit: alternative joke: She probably broke it when she attempted to devour the male after mating... Eh? Eh?.....meh.
November 26, 200816 yr Lots of sirens passing my house just now. So far I've seen four police cars, an ambulance, and a crime scene van. [edit 09:18] FD crash rescue truck just now. Hazmat team next? [edit 09:28] FD pumper Ever figure out what happened?
November 26, 200816 yr Do La Guardia have free wireless or did I just pick up some random signal for free on Thursday? No Free and It will be hard to pick up a signal until you get on the plane - if you can get one then.
November 26, 200816 yr Happy Thanksgiving everyone. The nuttiness continues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GECVn0dyKog&hl=en&fs=1 http://www.bloggernews.net/118759 California Political Correctness: Kindergarten Thanksgiving Celebration Shot Down by PC Posted on November 25th, 2008 by mondoreb in Breaking News, California News, Society and Culture, US News Read 270 times. Political Correctness Claims Another Victim: Kindergarten Thanksgiving Celebration Had Been Held for 40 Years In yet another case of political correctness run amok, a forty-year history of kindergarteners dressed as pilgrims and native Americans celebrating Thanksgiving at school has been quashed in Claremont, California, due to four people who complained the celebration used “racist stereotypes” which were “dehumanizing”. According to the Los Angeles Times, parents of kindergarteners are “furious” over the Claremont School Board’s decision to ban the kiddies wearing costumes after one mom, Michelle Raheja, an English professor at UC Riverside who specializes in Native American literature, and a member of the Seneca tribe, complained, along with three other professors and former instructors from Pitzer College, the University of the Redlands, and Riverside Community College. Raheja complained that the children dressing as Indian was “demeaning” and likened it to having the children dress as “Nazis”. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
November 26, 200816 yr You don't think it's possible that in 50 years we'll look back on all the Indian regalia the same way we view Song of the South? That kind of thing was popular for many generations before people finally said "OK this isn't cool and it never was." There's a nasty irony behind the buddy-buddyness of the first thanksgiving story, in that it was pretty much never like that again.
November 26, 200816 yr There's a nasty irony behind the buddy-buddyness of the first thanksgiving story, in that it was pretty much never like that again. Actually if you read up on that first thanksgiving it wasn't really as friendly and idilic as we learned in elementary school either. Only about a dozen native americans attended and only men.
November 26, 200816 yr There's a nasty irony behind the buddy-buddyness of the first thanksgiving story, in that it was pretty much never like that again. Actually if you read up on that first thanksgiving it wasn't really as friendly and idilic as we learned in elementary school either. Only about a dozen native americans attended and only men. All the more reason not to misrepresent history to the kids. There are isolated stories of cooperation, but all against a backdrop of awfulness.
November 26, 200816 yr Do La Guardia have free wireless or did I just pick up some random signal for free on Thursday? No Free and It will be hard to pick up a signal until you get on the plane - if you can get one then. I got a free WEAK signal at gate A1, which is the gate you have to walk on the tarmac. I assumed it was weak because I was down below.
November 26, 200816 yr Do La Guardia have free wireless or did I just pick up some random signal for free on Thursday? No Free and It will be hard to pick up a signal until you get on the plane - if you can get one then. I got a free WEAK signal at gate A1, which is the gate you have to walk on the tarmac. I assumed it was weak because I was down below. Yeah that gate sucks! whenever I see that on my BP I know I'll be crammed onto a RJ! :x
November 26, 200816 yr Lots of sirens passing my house just now. So far I've seen four police cars, an ambulance, and a crime scene van. [edit 09:18] FD crash rescue truck just now. Hazmat team next? [edit 09:28] FD pumper Ever figure out what happened? Fire at a suburban apartment complex. No injuries, but the building is a total loss. As a side attraction a couple of firefighters mixed it up on the scene and the TV cameras caught it. http://www.wane.com/dpp/video/player_page/firefighter_scuffle_caught_on_tape About fifteen minutes after all the sirens I was headed downtown when I heard a siren again. I was on Jefferson, the primary eastbound arterial through downtown, four lanes wide. I pulled over and a beat-up silver Taurus flew past me going about eighty, with a police car in hot pursuit. They were blowing through stoplights at speed. I held my breath expecting to see somebody on a cross street come through on a green and get splattered, but apparently they were lucky. About two blocks after that, I saw a police cage car turn a corner ahead of me with a passenger in the back seat. The Holiday Season festivities have begun!
November 26, 200816 yr Do La Guardia have free wireless or did I just pick up some random signal for free on Thursday? No Free and It will be hard to pick up a signal until you get on the plane - if you can get one then. I got a free WEAK signal at gate A1, which is the gate you have to walk on the tarmac. I assumed it was weak because I was down below. Yeah that gate sucks! whenever I see that on my BP I know I'll be crammed onto a RJ! :x I like the Embraer 145's when I can get the single seat rows. That is living.
November 26, 200816 yr Do La Guardia have free wireless or did I just pick up some random signal for free on Thursday? No Free and It will be hard to pick up a signal until you get on the plane - if you can get one then. I got a free WEAK signal at gate A1, which is the gate you have to walk on the tarmac. I assumed it was weak because I was down below. Yeah that gate sucks! whenever I see that on my BP I know I'll be crammed onto a RJ! :x I like the Embraer 145's when I can get the single seat rows. That is living. You damn short people would!
November 26, 200816 yr Do La Guardia have free wireless or did I just pick up some random signal for free on Thursday? No Free and It will be hard to pick up a signal until you get on the plane - if you can get one then. I got a free WEAK signal at gate A1, which is the gate you have to walk on the tarmac. I assumed it was weak because I was down below. Yeah that gate sucks! whenever I see that on my BP I know I'll be crammed onto a RJ! :x I like the Embraer 145's when I can get the single seat rows. That is living. You damn short people would! Yes we do :-D I prefer to fly on Embraers, except for the inconvenience of gate-checking.
November 26, 200816 yr Do La Guardia have free wireless or did I just pick up some random signal for free on Thursday? No Free and It will be hard to pick up a signal until you get on the plane - if you can get one then. I got a free WEAK signal at gate A1, which is the gate you have to walk on the tarmac. I assumed it was weak because I was down below. Yeah that gate sucks! whenever I see that on my BP I know I'll be crammed onto a RJ! :x I like the Embraer 145's when I can get the single seat rows. That is living. You damn short people would! Yes we do :-D I prefer to fly on Embraers, except for the inconvenience of gate-checking. I loath checking bags. Gate checking is heaven verse checking your bag.
November 26, 200816 yr Do La Guardia have free wireless or did I just pick up some random signal for free on Thursday? No Free and It will be hard to pick up a signal until you get on the plane - if you can get one then. I got a free WEAK signal at gate A1, which is the gate you have to walk on the tarmac. I assumed it was weak because I was down below. Yeah that gate sucks! whenever I see that on my BP I know I'll be crammed onto a RJ! :x I like the Embraer 145's when I can get the single seat rows. That is living. You damn short people would! Yes we do :-D I prefer to fly on Embraers, except for the inconvenience of gate-checking. I loath checking bags. Gate checking is heaven verse checking your bag. I meant as opposed to being able to put it in the overhead.... But yes, gate checking is better than regular checking.
November 26, 200816 yr Do La Guardia have free wireless or did I just pick up some random signal for free on Thursday? No Free and It will be hard to pick up a signal until you get on the plane - if you can get one then. I got a free WEAK signal at gate A1, which is the gate you have to walk on the tarmac. I assumed it was weak because I was down below. Yeah that gate sucks! whenever I see that on my BP I know I'll be crammed onto a RJ! :x I like the Embraer 145's when I can get the single seat rows. That is living. You damn short people would! Yes we do :-D I prefer to fly on Embraers, except for the inconvenience of gate-checking. I loath checking bags. Gate checking is heaven verse checking your bag. I meant as opposed to being able to put it in the overhead.... But yes, gate checking is better than regular checking. Agreed.
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