LadyCrimson

The remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth w/Brendan Fraser. Did not watch in 3D. Cute in spots but mostly meh. The background props/paintings/sets seemed subpar too, reminding me of 60's/70's. Maybe that was intentional. Or they blew all their budget on the big dino scene.

I love taks. Just sayin'. Wondering what makes good backyard garden crops. Corn is out, too many crows/birds/squirrels. Tomatoes, strawberries, jalepenos, blackberries and honeydew this year....but thinking of expanding the 'farm' area for more plantings next year. Problem is we're not that into many vegies, particularly in large quantities. Maybe our own lettuce/cukes? Garlic/other herbs?

Twinkies will always be Twinkies, I'm sure. After all, they probably have at least 200 years worth already on the shelves...

So far today, I've stayed up all night, as I've unfortunately been doing a lot of ... stress ... but it has had the side benefit of my discovering all kinds of enlightening and useful info via the internet, such as the fact Squirmels have become available for purchase again in the past few years. I've also learned that Snuggies shed to nothingness before too many washes and have a tendency to fall open in the back, ala hospital gowns. This is brilliant stuff I'm learning, and it's all possible because of the internet! Later hubby and I going to visit my mother to help her some semi-techy stuff and I hope I can get some sleep.

I think this would fall under the overpayment type of scam. ie, they give you a fraudulent check/MO that you deposit...then somehow convince you to send them money back before the bank rejects their stuff for insufficient funds. W/my own quick google, I think one of the later mails from the other similar craigslist scams would look something like this: So they'd probably send you a MO, then send another mail/call claiming they've canceled the furniture delivery and desperately need those 'extra' furniture funds back in order to cover moving expenses. Since you think it's 'extra' beyond your rent fee, you send it. Etc.

You are confusing my (irritatingly constant) general dislike for equating personal feelings/culture beliefs/trends with fact, with an attempt to actually change your own emotional stance about suicide. I wasn't trying to change anyone's personal opinions there. I don't really feel strongly about it one way or another. I think suicide is a sad choice and a selfish one, but my personal feelings are that selfish does not always mean cowardly. I can, however, understand why some feel that suicide is cowardly. I just don't necessarily agree.

Yeah, I've noticed that too.

uh huh, but the average woman only has one egg per month and then after fertilization requires a full year to get back into condition to have another (at minimum) Mathematically, since it was 11 different women, that's only about 2 kids per woman. That's not hard or mind boggling...it'd take less than 2 years. But they could definitely have used some birth control...

I started to watch this simply because there was nothing else I was interested in that night, and the American Idol wannabe dude was in it. The show is awful. I couldn't watch even half of it. Worse than Fear Factor. And then I saw Lou Diamond Phillips and I shook my head...even for charity, WTH did you choose to be on this show, Lou? Why, oh why? Spencer and Heidi - 2 of the more loathsome TV personalities I've ever seen. And I had no idea who they were or why they were 'celebrities'...I still don't. Nor do I want to. Got it Tivo'd, looks hilarious! Nowhere near as funny as the ads made it seem. Cute moments, but mostly...not. Granted, I don't like Bear very much, but even Wil wasn't that amusing.

That's not fact...it's cultural perception. There have been cultures and times when it was considered noble/honorable. *shrug*

I've read other articles claiming there were cords wound around other areas of his body. Maybe a sexual kink gone awry vs. suicide? ...regardless of cause, it's still sad, and he was an icon of my youth. I will miss him. edit: typo

Such over-inflated contrast numbers don't always mean the best picture. From what I've read/heard, calibrating the LCD monitors (sometimes you have to download stuff) are really important to make them as good as they can be. Out-of-the-box isn't going to make me happy, I'm sure. I'll be spending hours fiddling with calibration, when I get one. And even then I'm sure I'll think the CRT's are still better in some areas. I'm first going to try some of the cheaper ones I can return easily, like the Scepters (that I liked the display of in the store) or other $300 brands. It's becoming difficult to find a large selection in any store. They'll have one LG, one Dell, etc. on display. Maybe they'll be fine. If not, I'll go for the pricey Multisync's, screw it.

It's Alive, Aliiiiiive!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh........I feel better now.

Was watching Hell in the Pacific on cable. A classic. The ending isn't all that great, really, but all the rest before is pretty awesome, particularly Toshir

Agreed about less wasteful. My only issue is just a personal thing...I like being able to see/try things before I buy, and I absolutely dislike having to wait for mail if you need to return/exchange. I want to be able to go return the same day if I want. Other than that, the only business ramification I could see as a 'maybe' would be in terms of employment. I'm not sure if on-line/mail order purchasing creates as many jobs as retail stores. Tho obviously things like food and pharmacy would still be a walk-in things. If it's a lot less, we'd need to find other areas for mass lower-skilled jobs or it could become a problem? Maybe?

Ahahaha....that was lol worthy. And I bet someone will try, too. On the one, I love this kind of stuff...more options always good. On the other hand...I still forsee the eventual day where there are almost no retail stores and we buy everything online/delivery. I'm not sure I like that. But I'm not the market people are selling to anymore so it doesn't really matter.

Hey Walsh, just curious if you're still as happy with (or happier) your monitor after some time has passed. Ghosting with games or fast-motioned video all right? My CRT's contrast is fading slowly away and I'm becoming more desperate about making a LCD choice. The Gateway FHD2401 reviews aren't too bad either. I think I may just have to go the "buy it/return it/buy it/return it" 10 times route...

That's my point...either tax food or don't.

And my case was that I agree you can make a case that 42% potato is enough to call them "potato-based"... enough to be taxable anyway. Although if it was me, I'd say they only have to pay half the tax...7% not 15%, or some such. Hah, hah. My impression based on the wording of the VAT rule quoted in the article is that it's really less about the potato issue as it is about whether under the new law, Pringles constitute a certain kind of junk food item...Pringles is a snack/non-food and they can't deny it, so they're trying to get out of being taxed through a potato loophole. But I do agree that if govnt's want to tax food to fill their coffers, just do it...stop putting all these stupid little "it has peanuts, so is it a cookie or a candy bar" distinctions in there. If you're going to make non-good food taxable, a candy bar with peanuts is still junk food (so are cookies for that matter) and should be taxable etc. Or something.

Decided to try Opera 9.64 or whatever the latest version is. Installs fine. I fiddle with some of the basic Preferences like turning off sound notifications and the 'wand' and some of the javascript allowances etc. I notice it seemed to import my Firefox bookmarks even tho I didn't ask it to. I enter any URL in the address bar, hit Enter and it gives me a blank page/nothing, as if I never tried to surf the web at all. I hit "Reload" and it gives me either nothing or a white page that says something like "URL moved, it's now here (click link)." I click link (or refresh again) and the page loads. Happens every single time I hit any URL...like once I get this forum to finally load in browser, the process starts all over for every single link-click. Obviously not acceptable. I don't have ANY "blocked content", since I just installed it. ???? Edit: I see via Google that some people have Opera issues w/firewalls. We use a hardware (not software) firewall...Firefox/IE have never had a problem with it, but could that be it?

So are most restaurant hamburgers and real butter cookies, and yet so many still eat them. We're a funny lot, aren't we? I loved Pringles as a kid, mostly because they were 'forbidden' and thus I could rarely get my grubby hands on them...But eh...I lost my taste for chip-like foods a long time ago. Pringles now taste kinda like salty wax paper. (edit) And I'd say Pringles are potato based...I mean, they have to buy potato in some form or other to put in there, even if it's powdered or whatever ... thus taxable I guess. Beer and sports drinks.

Good Lord, bro, give us a picture! Seconded. You can't tease like that and not give us something. You just...can't...?

I suppose I must watch this, and I might even like it (doesn't look bad)... but I also suppose I'm going to have mental fits about Hollywood remaking yet another one of my childhood memories. SIGH When Diana first ate the rat/mouse/guinea pig or whatever it was, everyone talked about it for days. Sure it's a total (and dated) cheesefest now, but back then ... it was awesomeness. There's a reason for that : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO34WjK8KI4 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ceD9N0t7Tk Not that V was the first to have the 'hovering spaceships'. (For those that don't want to watch the vids...)

That's what I thought was happening too, LostStraw...but it's happened when using a wireless mouse and when my hands were nowhere near the touchpad. I wonder if the plastic areas around the touchpad are "loose" or something...maybe even my hands on the sides of the touchpad sometimes trigger it via vibration. Very strange.

Just finished watching Glee. A lot better than I expected and I loved it. Funny in the way I like, a bit surreal, great/fun music. Can't wait for more. Even musical-hating hubby liked it - he LOL'd several times, even. Awesome.