I have a question for mac peoples. I replaced my coffee addled macbook pro with a new one. I put 8gigs of ram in it but it still was sluggish. I put 16 in it yesterday and it really runs better. I don’t understand why a machine that comes with 4 needs 16?
3.
BudP
octopede?
4.
Randy P
There’s a length unit used at MIT called the “Smoot”. In 1958, a fraternity determined that the bridge to Cambridge was 364.4 Smoots + 1 ear by using new pledge Oliver Smoot as the measuring device.
Your sofa is clearly just over two Boxers wide. I think you should measure your house in Boxers.
Mine has 4 GB too, but it doesn’t seem at all sluggish to me. My processor is 2.5 Gb, maybe yours is much larger?
6.
Randy P
@raven: All depends on what you’re running and how greedy they are for memory. You have a lot of applications open at once?
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debbie
Similarly OT, ever since the malware thing was fixed, when I come to this site, all of the videos automatically start playing. Makes for a very noisy visit. I don’t see a setting in Chrome which would stop this. Can anyone help?
I don’t understand why a machine that comes with 4 needs 16?
Because Apple want to ideally upsell their expensive RAM at point of purchase. They’ve always been annoying like this. Steve Job’s vision was a computer — an appliance — you’d never open or upgrade yourself, like a washing machine.
And yes, it also depends on the apps and how many of them you use.
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brettvk
@debbie: All of them? I’ve just had problems with the Daily Show autoplay.
You get a seat on the floor, because it would be cruel to make them pooches shift.
Do I understand correctly that the NeoCon’s latest hero is a 16 y.o. lad named Gabe Finger?
13.
p.a.
Upgraded my Vz RAZR m to 4.1.2 Wednesday. Since then it shuts down/reboots at least once per hour. No apparent solution, chatrooms say the reconditioned phones Vz sends as a replacement do the same thing, but I’ll find out this weekend. Only reason I didn’t get an iPhone at the time was that I was dumping my Palm Pre’ + after HP fucked em up (still love its design) and Apple was having it’s map issues. The Palm had gone from Google to bing maps(horrible) and I didn’t want to deal with more map App issues.
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Lavocat
There’s gotta be a great pun in there about a Friedman Unit, but it escapes me.
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raven
Aw well, the RAM from OWC was way cheaper and it runs well so fuck it. I do run lightroom a good bit.
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Betty Cracker
@jeffreyw: Awwwww! I wish I had your gift for photography. Or Tim’s. Mine are more Cole-ish.
17.
Betty Cracker
@Shakezula: We have two giant, fluffy dog beds right next to that sofa. They are practically untouched.
Yes, someone was quite rudely interrupting Lewis Black.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Betty Cracker: The dogs clearly intend those for you.
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Gin & Tonic
@Randy P: Oliver Smoot went on to a very distinguished career in a variety of standards organizations, including a stint heading the International Standards Organization. Really.
Investigators looking into whether Va. first lady got free dental work, 2 people say
By Laura Vozzella and Rosalind S. Helderman, Published: July 18
RICHMOND — Investigators looking into gifts to Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his family have asked questions about whether first lady Maureen McDonnell received cosmetic dental work for free, according to two people familiar with the probe.
Federal officials have been investigating allegations that a dentist within the large Richmond-area practice of W. Baxter Perkinson Jr. provided cosmetic dentistry services at no charge to the first lady, according to the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Questions about gifts to the McDonnell family expand, two people familiar with the investigation say.
We need to get that Twin Cities meetup organized. How does August look for everybody?
After August 14th sounds fine. Until then, I’m in China.
Speaking of which, I got my first round of midterms graded today. Frankly, I made the test too hard. I need to do a rethink before the second midterm in a couple of weeks.
I managed to push myself into getting everything graded by knowing that if I did I could go out with a bunch of students this evening. Then it got cancelled at the last minute and I’m cranky because my evening’s entertainment went “Poof” after I got the hard part done.
We need to get that Twin Cities meetup organized. How does August look for everybody?
Aside from the 16-19 (flying to seattle to buy a crappy car and make a crazy backroads road trip home) August is pretty open.
38.
AHH onna Droid
@raven: bc apple has a good thing going overcharging for ram.
Go to OWS. They do Mac memory. They have videos for DIY or they can cust install.
My friend and I (he has fancy tools) upgraded my Mini. Fuck those grasping motherfuckers.
39.
peach flavored shampoo
A six-foot long hub of snoring, farting and drooling,
I resemble this remark.
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AHH onna Droid
@rikyrah: The upper end of the bidniss community does this kind of thing all the time (in kind work) and the GOP did promise us to run govt like a business.
My wife saw this on Facebook, and all I could think of was John and the Boss.
Since I can’t embed the pic, Here is the text:
How To Wash A Cat
1. Raise the lid of the toilet and add 1/8 cup of pet shampoo to the water.
2. Pick up the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bowl.
3 .In one swift movement, put the cat in the bowl and close the lid. You may need to stand on the lid.
4. At this point the cat will self agitate and make ample suds. Ignore the noises coming from the bowl- cats actually enjoy this!
5. Flush the toilet 3 or 4 times. This provides a Power Wash/ Power Rinse action.
6. Have a helper open the front door of your house. Make sure there is nothing of value in between the toilet and the front door.
7. Stand back, as far behind the toilet as possible, and quickly open the lid.
8. At this point the cat will rocket out of the toilet and streak outside where he will dry himself off.
9. Both the cat and the toilet will be sparkling clean.
Yours sincerely,
The Dog
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Gin & Tonic
@AHH onna Droid: To the best of my knowledge, no. Although Oliver’s cousin George, who also did his undergrad at MIT, went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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carr1on
You nailed one thing about Boxers: the farting. I have a Boxer and a Mastiff. The Boxer’s farts will clear a room. Frequently. Frankly I would have thought the Mastiff would be worse, since she is a canine Hoover that eats everything not tied down.
Six feet of snoring, farting and drooling? That’s me on the couch alone.
46.
burnspbesq
UC Irvine Law rounded up a pretty high-powered panel for its annual Supreme Court Term in Review program, which is being webcast live at noon Pacific time today.
Planning for my dad’s memorial is moving right along. We have a nice picnic pavilion, food, and booze (well, beer and wine along with assorted sodas). Now it’s all about the details.
Also, too, I found it strangely amusing that the new antibiotic my doctor gave me for my persistent sinus infection is also used for bubonic plague.
President Obama on Thursday touted some good news about Obamacare. And, lord knows, he’s earned the right. Republicans and conservative intellectuals keep seizing on setbacks—some real, some imagined—and predicting that Obamacare will be a catastrophe. They are almost certainly wrong.
Ironically, one of the best reasons to believe in Obamacare may be the very issue that has inspired so much chortling on the right: The insurance premiums for people who buy on their own, because they don’t get coverage from an employer or through a government program.
Insurers around the country have already submitted bids, describing the kind of policies they initially plan to offer under Obamacare and what they will charge for them. On Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services released a report analyzing the data from the ten states, plus the District of Columbia, where officials have made at least a portion of the information public. None of the figures are final: Regulators must still approve the bids and, in at least a few states, those regulators are likely to insist carriers go back and offer lower premiums. But the prices shouldn’t change too dramatically between now and October 1, when, in theory, Obamacare’s insurance marketplaces open for business.
Four words of advice for African Americans in the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal:
Wake the hell up.
The Sunday after Zimmerman went free was a day of protest for many of us. From Biscayne Boulevard in Miami to Leimert Park in Los Angeles, to the Daley Center in Chicago to Times Square in New York City, African Americans — and others who believe in racial justice — carried out angry, but mostly peaceful demonstrations.
Good. This is as it should have been.
But if that’s the end, if you just get it out of your system, then move ahead with business as usual, then all you did Sunday was waste your time. You might as well have stayed home.
We are living in a perilous era for African-American freedom. The parallels to other eras have become too stark to ignore.
Every period of African-American advance has always been met by a crushing period of push back, the crafting of laws and the use of violence with the intent of eroding the new freedoms. Look it up:
The 13th Amendment ended slavery. So the white South created a convict leasing system that was actually harsher.
The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship. So the white South rendered that citizenship meaningless with the imposition of Jim Crow laws.
The 15th Amendment gave us the right to vote; it was taken away by the so-called “grandfather clause.” The Supreme Court struck that down, so the white South relied on literacy tests and poll taxes to snatch our ballots all over again.
Our history is a litany: two steps forward, one step back.
The Civil Rights Movement was the greatest step forward since emancipation. So we ought not be surprised to see voting rights eroded again, the Civil Rights Act attacked, the so-called “War on Drugs” used for the mass incarceration of black men. Or to see the killing of an unarmed child deliver a message as old as the Constitution itself: black life is worth less.
We are in another period of push back. And worse, we don’t even seem to know.
It feels as if we have taken the great advances of the last half century — the protective laws, the rise of the black middle class, the winning of the ballot, the flowering of options once considered unthinkable — for granted. It feels as if we have come to regard progress as somehow inevitable, preordained, carved in stone, and irrevocable as a birthright.
I think Kanye West is an a-hole (to say the least), but have you been hearing this bullshit about the recording someone made of him the same night as his Taylor Swift antics a few years ago that supposedly “proves” that he didn’t really mean all of the apologies he made afterwards? It was on my alternative rock station this morning and it really kinda pissed me off on his behalf. And I don’t like having to be on Kanye’s side.
With the conclusion of the Trayvon Martin public lynching, George Zimmerman has little reason to go into hiding, he’s no reason to exile himself all the way to his mother’s South American homeland of Peru. No, instead I’d suggest he need go-no- further than a small-town America.
George, come to Colorado!
See, in small-town, lily-white America . . . none of that matters. Now understand it doesn’t matter in urban Yuppie conclaves where Whites are strategically/economically isolated n’ insulated from the colored riff-raft – but Blacks are free to wander about . . . one may sneak-up on you, that won’t happen in parts of Utah and Nevada.
There was a Black Mandingo buck wandering the gated community minus his “papers” and therefore, just as it as in 1956, 1939, 1922, 1905, 1891 . . . any White man has the authority/audacity to ask “What you doing around here boy.” That’s the historical way it use to be, the “desired way” White folks would like to still have it. And I’d submit there’re millions of White folks across this divided land who’d love to go back to yesteryear when they could tell you ”Boy! don’t you dare look me in the eye, and don’t you dare look at my women, matter-of-fact, get off of the walkway when I approach, and scurry your way home, on the back of the bus to the other-side of the tracks, over n Coontown!
@raven: Mac has, in my experience, always gone light on the memory. I have added memory to all my second hand macs & gone for the additional memory when ordering a new one. It seems counter-productive to sell them with less than optimum memory to me but it seems to be the mac way.
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gelfling545
@Jebediah: Has she considered a career in politics?
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RaflW
@imonlylurking: August looks busy. But I’d enjoy a T.C. meetup if I can make it!
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Jebediah
@gelfling545:
Gas aside, she is very, very charming and attractive. So yes, we think she would make a fine Senator, but we will settle for Representative. Just have to figure out what state/district to move to.
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e.a.f.
o.k. so the two dogs have the same habits my 4 ex spousal units had. Looking back on it, I might have done better with the dogs for company.
They look adorable. My one little 13 lb dog is currently hogging most of a queen size bed. I’m in negotiations with him currently to see if he will give up part of it or I’ll be on the coach.
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raven
Look at them knuckleheads!
raven
I have a question for mac peoples. I replaced my coffee addled macbook pro with a new one. I put 8gigs of ram in it but it still was sluggish. I put 16 in it yesterday and it really runs better. I don’t understand why a machine that comes with 4 needs 16?
BudP
octopede?
Randy P
There’s a length unit used at MIT called the “Smoot”. In 1958, a fraternity determined that the bridge to Cambridge was 364.4 Smoots + 1 ear by using new pledge Oliver Smoot as the measuring device.
Your sofa is clearly just over two Boxers wide. I think you should measure your house in Boxers.
debbie
@raven:
Mine has 4 GB too, but it doesn’t seem at all sluggish to me. My processor is 2.5 Gb, maybe yours is much larger?
Randy P
@raven: All depends on what you’re running and how greedy they are for memory. You have a lot of applications open at once?
debbie
Similarly OT, ever since the malware thing was fixed, when I come to this site, all of the videos automatically start playing. Makes for a very noisy visit. I don’t see a setting in Chrome which would stop this. Can anyone help?
Alexandra
@raven:
Because Apple want to ideally upsell their expensive RAM at point of purchase. They’ve always been annoying like this. Steve Job’s vision was a computer — an appliance — you’d never open or upgrade yourself, like a washing machine.
And yes, it also depends on the apps and how many of them you use.
brettvk
@debbie: All of them? I’ve just had problems with the Daily Show autoplay.
Figs
Canine Centipede: First Sequence?
jeffreyw
Sofanauts (with apology to Terry C Smith)
Shakezula
You get a seat on the floor, because it would be cruel to make them pooches shift.
Do I understand correctly that the NeoCon’s latest hero is a 16 y.o. lad named Gabe Finger?
p.a.
Upgraded my Vz RAZR m to 4.1.2 Wednesday. Since then it shuts down/reboots at least once per hour. No apparent solution, chatrooms say the reconditioned phones Vz sends as a replacement do the same thing, but I’ll find out this weekend. Only reason I didn’t get an iPhone at the time was that I was dumping my Palm Pre’ + after HP fucked em up (still love its design) and Apple was having it’s map issues. The Palm had gone from Google to bing maps(horrible) and I didn’t want to deal with more map App issues.
Lavocat
There’s gotta be a great pun in there about a Friedman Unit, but it escapes me.
raven
Aw well, the RAM from OWC was way cheaper and it runs well so fuck it. I do run lightroom a good bit.
Betty Cracker
@jeffreyw: Awwwww! I wish I had your gift for photography. Or Tim’s. Mine are more Cole-ish.
Betty Cracker
@Shakezula: We have two giant, fluffy dog beds right next to that sofa. They are practically untouched.
raven
@jeffreyw: Sweet pups.
Shakezula
@Betty Cracker: Ha! The dogs have probably decided those are your beds.
libarbarian
My beloved Three-Dog.
RaflW
Quite adorable. But one does wonder, in light of your comment about farts, what that dog on the right’s deal is?
gratuitous
Alternate question to the answer: What is Fox & Friends?
RSA
I thought this would be a riddle: What snorts, farts, and drools, has eight legs, and…?
imonlylurking
We need to get that Twin Cities meetup organized. How does August look for everybody?
debbie
@brettvk:
Yes, someone was quite rudely interrupting Lewis Black.
Omnes Omnibus
@Betty Cracker: The dogs clearly intend those for you.
Gin & Tonic
@Randy P: Oliver Smoot went on to a very distinguished career in a variety of standards organizations, including a stint heading the International Standards Organization. Really.
Citizen_X
@Randy P:
Agreed. When the house painter was measuring my house in a thong, it was not a welcome sight at all.
Gin & Tonic
@RSA: Twelve legs, really. You have to count the couch.
rikyrah
Investigators looking into whether Va. first lady got free dental work, 2 people say
By Laura Vozzella and Rosalind S. Helderman, Published: July 18
RICHMOND — Investigators looking into gifts to Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his family have asked questions about whether first lady Maureen McDonnell received cosmetic dental work for free, according to two people familiar with the probe.
Federal officials have been investigating allegations that a dentist within the large Richmond-area practice of W. Baxter Perkinson Jr. provided cosmetic dentistry services at no charge to the first lady, according to the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Questions about gifts to the McDonnell family expand, two people familiar with the investigation say.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/investigators-reportedly-looking-into-whether-va-first-lady-got-free-dental-work/2013/07/18/d53e5646-efdf-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story.html?hpid=z3
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: Good lord. Did those people pay for ANYTHING? Party of fiscal responsibility, ladies and gents.
red dog
Mrs Cracker. What is difference between a Three Dog Night and your Two Dog version? You need another Boxer pup.
MomSense
Warning, this link is huffington puffington but these dogs pics are fantastic.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/16/dog-best-investment_n_3575025.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@imonlylurking:
After August 14th sounds fine. Until then, I’m in China.
Speaking of which, I got my first round of midterms graded today. Frankly, I made the test too hard. I need to do a rethink before the second midterm in a couple of weeks.
I managed to push myself into getting everything graded by knowing that if I did I could go out with a bunch of students this evening. Then it got cancelled at the last minute and I’m cranky because my evening’s entertainment went “Poof” after I got the hard part done.
Ted & Hellen
Everyone who disagrees with “me” is a troll…
The BJDCC battle cry!
lojasmo
@raven: Both of ours work well with the stock 4 gigs. Bad computer? Maybe your standards are higher than ours.
Rename then Ted & Helen?
lojasmo
@imonlylurking:
Aside from the 16-19 (flying to seattle to buy a crappy car and make a crazy backroads road trip home) August is pretty open.
AHH onna Droid
@raven: bc apple has a good thing going overcharging for ram.
Go to OWS. They do Mac memory. They have videos for DIY or they can cust install.
My friend and I (he has fancy tools) upgraded my Mini. Fuck those grasping motherfuckers.
peach flavored shampoo
I resemble this remark.
AHH onna Droid
@rikyrah: The upper end of the bidniss community does this kind of thing all the time (in kind work) and the GOP did promise us to run govt like a business.
AHH onna Droid
@Gin & Tonic: Any relation to Sen Reed Smoot?
Liberty60
My wife saw this on Facebook, and all I could think of was John and the Boss.
Since I can’t embed the pic, Here is the text:
How To Wash A Cat
1. Raise the lid of the toilet and add 1/8 cup of pet shampoo to the water.
2. Pick up the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bowl.
3 .In one swift movement, put the cat in the bowl and close the lid. You may need to stand on the lid.
4. At this point the cat will self agitate and make ample suds. Ignore the noises coming from the bowl- cats actually enjoy this!
5. Flush the toilet 3 or 4 times. This provides a Power Wash/ Power Rinse action.
6. Have a helper open the front door of your house. Make sure there is nothing of value in between the toilet and the front door.
7. Stand back, as far behind the toilet as possible, and quickly open the lid.
8. At this point the cat will rocket out of the toilet and streak outside where he will dry himself off.
9. Both the cat and the toilet will be sparkling clean.
Yours sincerely,
The Dog
Gin & Tonic
@AHH onna Droid: To the best of my knowledge, no. Although Oliver’s cousin George, who also did his undergrad at MIT, went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
carr1on
You nailed one thing about Boxers: the farting. I have a Boxer and a Mastiff. The Boxer’s farts will clear a room. Frequently. Frankly I would have thought the Mastiff would be worse, since she is a canine Hoover that eats everything not tied down.
Hawes
Six feet of snoring, farting and drooling? That’s me on the couch alone.
burnspbesq
UC Irvine Law rounded up a pretty high-powered panel for its annual Supreme Court Term in Review program, which is being webcast live at noon Pacific time today.
http://www.law.uci.edu/events/supreme-court-term-review/2013.html
Mnemosyne
Planning for my dad’s memorial is moving right along. We have a nice picnic pavilion, food, and booze (well, beer and wine along with assorted sodas). Now it’s all about the details.
Also, too, I found it strangely amusing that the new antibiotic my doctor gave me for my persistent sinus infection is also used for bubonic plague.
rikyrah
The Obamacare Train Still Hasn’t Wrecked
BY JONATHAN COHN
President Obama on Thursday touted some good news about Obamacare. And, lord knows, he’s earned the right. Republicans and conservative intellectuals keep seizing on setbacks—some real, some imagined—and predicting that Obamacare will be a catastrophe. They are almost certainly wrong.
Ironically, one of the best reasons to believe in Obamacare may be the very issue that has inspired so much chortling on the right: The insurance premiums for people who buy on their own, because they don’t get coverage from an employer or through a government program.
Insurers around the country have already submitted bids, describing the kind of policies they initially plan to offer under Obamacare and what they will charge for them. On Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services released a report analyzing the data from the ten states, plus the District of Columbia, where officials have made at least a portion of the information public. None of the figures are final: Regulators must still approve the bids and, in at least a few states, those regulators are likely to insist carriers go back and offer lower premiums. But the prices shouldn’t change too dramatically between now and October 1, when, in theory, Obamacare’s insurance marketplaces open for business.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113935/obamacare-insurance-premiums-rate-shock-or-rate-joy#
burnspbesq
@lojasmo:
What did they ever do to you, that you hate them so?
RSA
@Gin & Tonic:
LOL.
Jebediah
Chucky is the farter among our pups. Sometimes it sounds like she is talking out her ass. It’s pretty funny but it almost never makes any sense.
rikyrah
Zimmerman acquittal another reason to wake up
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
[email protected]
Four words of advice for African Americans in the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal:
Wake the hell up.
The Sunday after Zimmerman went free was a day of protest for many of us. From Biscayne Boulevard in Miami to Leimert Park in Los Angeles, to the Daley Center in Chicago to Times Square in New York City, African Americans — and others who believe in racial justice — carried out angry, but mostly peaceful demonstrations.
Good. This is as it should have been.
But if that’s the end, if you just get it out of your system, then move ahead with business as usual, then all you did Sunday was waste your time. You might as well have stayed home.
We are living in a perilous era for African-American freedom. The parallels to other eras have become too stark to ignore.
Every period of African-American advance has always been met by a crushing period of push back, the crafting of laws and the use of violence with the intent of eroding the new freedoms. Look it up:
The 13th Amendment ended slavery. So the white South created a convict leasing system that was actually harsher.
The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship. So the white South rendered that citizenship meaningless with the imposition of Jim Crow laws.
The 15th Amendment gave us the right to vote; it was taken away by the so-called “grandfather clause.” The Supreme Court struck that down, so the white South relied on literacy tests and poll taxes to snatch our ballots all over again.
Our history is a litany: two steps forward, one step back.
The Civil Rights Movement was the greatest step forward since emancipation. So we ought not be surprised to see voting rights eroded again, the Civil Rights Act attacked, the so-called “War on Drugs” used for the mass incarceration of black men. Or to see the killing of an unarmed child deliver a message as old as the Constitution itself: black life is worth less.
We are in another period of push back. And worse, we don’t even seem to know.
It feels as if we have taken the great advances of the last half century — the protective laws, the rise of the black middle class, the winning of the ballot, the flowering of options once considered unthinkable — for granted. It feels as if we have come to regard progress as somehow inevitable, preordained, carved in stone, and irrevocable as a birthright.
So yes, we need to wake the hell up.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/16/3503415/zimmerman-acquittal-another-reason.html#storylink=cpy
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
I think Kanye West is an a-hole (to say the least), but have you been hearing this bullshit about the recording someone made of him the same night as his Taylor Swift antics a few years ago that supposedly “proves” that he didn’t really mean all of the apologies he made afterwards? It was on my alternative rock station this morning and it really kinda pissed me off on his behalf. And I don’t like having to be on Kanye’s side.
currants
@AHH onna Droid: OWC?
scuffletuffle
@Betty Cracker: Yes, but your drawings are da bomb!
burnspbesq
@Mnemosyne:
If forced to choose between Kanye West and Taylor Swift, I’ll choose a month-long sinus infection, TYVM.
Dead Ernest
@Mnemosyne:
Something he/she isn’t telling you?
Dead Ernest
@Jebediah:
‘Almost never’ ?
What do you hear when it does make sense?
Jebediah
@Dead Ernest:
“Red Rum…Red rum…”
Should this concern me?
rikyrah
George Zimmerman Has A Home In Colorado
excerpt:
With the conclusion of the Trayvon Martin public lynching, George Zimmerman has little reason to go into hiding, he’s no reason to exile himself all the way to his mother’s South American homeland of Peru. No, instead I’d suggest he need go-no- further than a small-town America.
George, come to Colorado!
See, in small-town, lily-white America . . . none of that matters. Now understand it doesn’t matter in urban Yuppie conclaves where Whites are strategically/economically isolated n’ insulated from the colored riff-raft – but Blacks are free to wander about . . . one may sneak-up on you, that won’t happen in parts of Utah and Nevada.
There was a Black Mandingo buck wandering the gated community minus his “papers” and therefore, just as it as in 1956, 1939, 1922, 1905, 1891 . . . any White man has the authority/audacity to ask “What you doing around here boy.” That’s the historical way it use to be, the “desired way” White folks would like to still have it. And I’d submit there’re millions of White folks across this divided land who’d love to go back to yesteryear when they could tell you ”Boy! don’t you dare look me in the eye, and don’t you dare look at my women, matter-of-fact, get off of the walkway when I approach, and scurry your way home, on the back of the bus to the other-side of the tracks, over n Coontown!
http://blackathlete.net/2013/07/george-zimmerman-home-colorado/
different-church-lady
@Randy P: The things you learn when you look at the “see also” section of a Wikipedia article…
gelfling545
@raven: Mac has, in my experience, always gone light on the memory. I have added memory to all my second hand macs & gone for the additional memory when ordering a new one. It seems counter-productive to sell them with less than optimum memory to me but it seems to be the mac way.
gelfling545
@Jebediah: Has she considered a career in politics?
RaflW
@imonlylurking: August looks busy. But I’d enjoy a T.C. meetup if I can make it!
Jebediah
@gelfling545:
Gas aside, she is very, very charming and attractive. So yes, we think she would make a fine Senator, but we will settle for Representative. Just have to figure out what state/district to move to.
e.a.f.
o.k. so the two dogs have the same habits my 4 ex spousal units had. Looking back on it, I might have done better with the dogs for company.
They look adorable. My one little 13 lb dog is currently hogging most of a queen size bed. I’m in negotiations with him currently to see if he will give up part of it or I’ll be on the coach.