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At Least One Guy Still Has Michael Vick's Back

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chilltown
04/12/09

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DUAN still kicking at 2 am? Nice. Also, the 11 pm showing of Fast and Furious is an interesting place to be.
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Craig Eshericks Mustache
04/12/09

@chilltown: How so? Rice rocket drivers abound?
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chilltown
04/12/09

@Craig Eshericks Mustache: No, stoned kids picking fights. Oxymoronic, yet there it was.
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Len Bias Cocaine Surplus
04/12/09

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Yeah this MLB: Show game is kind of good.
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mikedrawcar
04/12/09

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oh yeah, forgot to mention- in the ever-growing downfall of Facebook, I was friended by my aunt today.

I'm actually ok with this. I rarely use FB anymore because I got sick of seeing what everyone was doing every 5 seconds. It sucks for her kids though (college and high school age)
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UkraineNotWeak
04/12/09

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Gatorade Tiger?

Is there a small amount of Tiger's sperm in each bottle?
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Andy Hutchins
04/12/09

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Zac is about to take a SNL-sized crap on Disney.
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Shakey
04/12/09

@Rock You Like An Iracane: Zac Efron? They let any douchebagaroo host SNL these days, don't they? Sigh.
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Craig Eshericks Mustache
04/12/09

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Oh, Armageddon. You're so terrible, but still fun.
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Business_Socks
04/12/09

@Craig Eshericks Mustache: I can't get past the premise. It's easier to teach oil drillers how to be astronauts than it is to teach astronauts how to be drillers? Really?
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mikedrawcar
04/12/09

@Business_Socks: @Craig Eshericks Mustache: Michael Bay expresses his disapproval.

With an explosion!
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Clare
04/11/09

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A grudging +1 to Zac Efron for perfectly impersonating the goofy Kathie Lee Gifford faces in the Today show sketch.

Justin Timberlake and Ciara next week? Awesome! Watch their new video. It will seriously take you out behind the middle school and get you pregnant.

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Jay Cutler's Insulin
04/11/09

@Clare: I hate good-looking people.
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mikedrawcar
04/12/09

@Jay Cutler's Insulin: agreed. And there are few good looking people in death metal, so I'm safe.
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Unknown Commenter
04/11/09

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For me Scarface is overrated; it's legitimacy is based totally on Pacino, without him I don't think many people would remember it.
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Ell Curry
04/11/09

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner:

Some memorable quotes, too. It is way too long, though.
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Unknown Commenter
04/11/09

@Ell Curry: But I think Pacino is what makes the quotes memorable. Imagine, if say... Travolta was Tony?
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mikedrawcar
04/12/09

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: you can't really base it off that though, because otherwise that would be true for any movie w/ a great singular performance.

Would the Dark Knight have been so great w/ out Heath Ledger's performance? Lawrence of Arabia w/ out Peter O'Toole? James Bond w/ out Sean Connery?
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Unknown Commenter
04/12/09

@mikedrawcar: Well, I think Bond survived the loss of Connery; and I haven't seen the Dark Knight. And at that time there were probably four other British actors you could have cast in LoA and gotten a stellar performance.
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mikedrawcar
04/12/09

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: haven't... seen... Dark Knight...?

DOES NOT COMPUTE

What about DeNiro for Scarface then? Doesn't quite have the yell-iness of Pacino, but hey.

The point about Connery is not about survival, but whether it would've started off as well in the first place, if he hadn't established it. I think Lazenby was incredible, and actually didn't mind Dalton too much. And obviously Craig has pulled (perhaps shoved) it back away from the precipice.
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Unknown Commenter
04/12/09

@mikedrawcar: Oh, and Dalton just had the misfortune of appearing in two Bond films that the public simply didn't want. They were two of the least fun movies I've ever seen.
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mikedrawcar
04/12/09

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: Well, and Dalton's generally a very stoic actor (very true to his Shakespearean background), so it was a complete 180 from Moore. I though Licence to Kill was pretty fun- especially Benicio Del Toro. But agree for The Living Daylights. Though it did have a sweet Aston in it. And the sweet cargo plane stunt.
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mikedrawcar
04/11/09

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Oooh- the Untouchables. Great movie.

But... like the Godfather trilogy and Apollo 13- AMC needs to stop showing it, because they're ruining them for me.
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Unknown Commenter
04/11/09

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You know what's fun? Watching people pay more for a refurb iPod Touch on ebay then Apple sells them for.
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mikedrawcar
04/11/09

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: wait until Christmas- I saw probably 50 refurb Nanos and Minis going for twice the regular price. Most were pink.

Apple.com's refurbs were sold out because somebody bought them up and made a nice profit on them.

Some were even previous generation.
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Kick His Ass Seabass
04/11/09

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: Sticking it to the man obviously...I mean there are people who really hate Apple but want an Ipod. Sounds crazy I know, but one of my friends explained this to me (He's one of those weird Linux people).
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Unknown Commenter
04/11/09

@Kick His Ass Seabass: Well to be fair, you have to know Apple sells refurb; but I think these are the people who think Ebay is where you go for good deals, and don't shop around.

It's been a fun few months; I've had two people I work with tell me that Macs are worthless, one now has an iPod Touch and a Macbook Pro, the other just the iPod touch. A third friend bought a Macbook for his wife, because in his words "everything just works." It interesting to see people who trash Macs fall in love when they see what new ones can do.
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Kick His Ass Seabass
04/11/09

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: I was a PC guy before college (I wasn't a Mac hater, just perfected PCs). But then I went to college and for my Interactive Multimedia classes got to work on Macs, all I want is a Mac now, if I can find one somewhat reasonably priced I am going to snag it and keep my old Dell as a backup.
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Unknown Commenter
04/11/09

@Kick His Ass Seabass: Yeah, you definitely pay a premium on the laptops; the mini isn't that badly priced.@Token_Tennis_Fan: OS X, or pre OS X?
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Token_Tennis_Fan
04/11/09

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: Both.
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Unknown Commenter
04/11/09

@Token_Tennis_Fan: You're the first person to say that who's actually used OS X. Most people think Mac is still System 7.
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Token_Tennis_Fan
04/11/09

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: It's more the price (insane) and the culture (unforgivably snobby) than the performance. I'll take Linux for free and get almost the exact same usability, thank you very much.
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Unknown Commenter
04/11/09

@Token_Tennis_Fan: I think Linux has plenty of snobbery; way too many people treat it as some sort of proof of intelligence. But it's hard to argue about the price, other then to say they bundle a lot more into the OS then Microsoft, and ease of use is still ahead of Linux. After 8 hours a day of fixing other people computers, I don't want to have to fuck around compiling stuff to get it to work at home.
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mikedrawcar
04/12/09

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: what pisses me off more than anything is that the majority of people I know w/ Macs don't know how to use the damn thing (yet some of them will still tout it as so much better).

I'm talking some of the simplest operations, too.

Although I've had a few troubles over the 6 years on this system (multiple upgrades), I've learned how to debug it, reinstall Windows, and do plenty of other things to make it run pretty damn well (for a system w/ lots of music, CAD programs and associated renderers, Adobe CS3, etc.). Saves me time and money if something goes wrong at 1am five days before final project review.
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Jay Cutler's Insulin
04/11/09

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On the heels of ClintonPortishead's thread about movie flops, what movie do you hate but is wildly renowned as one of the greatest ever?

/mine is Raging Bull.
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mikedrawcar
04/11/09

@Jay Cutler's Insulin: Watchmen. The Spiderman series.

/kicks lifeless but still arguing geek
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Craig Eshericks Mustache
04/11/09

@mikedrawcar: I don't remember anyone saying Watchmen the movie is one of the greatest ever; the graphic novel, sure. Not the movie.
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ClintonPortishead
04/11/09

@mikedrawcar: Agreed on Spiderman. Every one of them was terrible.
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mikedrawcar
04/11/09

@Craig Eshericks Mustache: I've heard some arguments for it.
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mikedrawcar
04/11/09

@ClintonPortishead: THANK YOU. You have no idea how long I've been saying that, and you're the first person to agree. Honestly, I see no difference between Spiderman and Fantastic Four, except FF actually kinda knew it sucked, and just decided to have fun anyway.
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Clare
04/11/09

@Jay Cutler's Insulin: The Lord of the Rings series.

OH YEAH, I WENT THERE.
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Jay Cutler's Insulin
04/11/09

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What would you rather have?

A Great Book
A Great Movie
A Great Meal
A Great Shit
A Great Lay

Me, I'd have a great meal. That's the fat guy in me talking.
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Clare
04/11/09

@Jay Cutler's Insulin:

Sex

Meal

Poop

Movie

Book

I think I have it in the order of Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs.
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ClintonPortishead
04/11/09

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So I was on my lunch break downtown yesterday, and there was a fellow sitting on the corner outside of CVS and asking for change. He didn't appear to be altogether homeless but I didn't think anything of it. Then, as I'm leaving the store and crossing the street, I see the same guy pull out a WAD of cash from his pocket and give it to a bike courier stopping past.

I can think of no other possible explanation for this than drug dealing. But it was still a bizarre and offsettling thing to witness.
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Clare
04/11/09

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@UkraineNotWeak: I did! Thank you. I got paid yesterday, so now I can pay you (and Metschick).

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: According to my old man, I am.
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Unknown Commenter
04/11/09

@Clare: Just haven't seen you in awhile. Not that you've missed much.
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Clare
04/11/09

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: True. Now that baseball is back I'll probably be around more often.

@Business_Socks: @ClintonPortishead: The Guardian is surprisingly watchable. I actually really enjoyed it.
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ClintonPortishead
04/11/09

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An entertaining list of the biggest movie flops of all-time. It's original title was "Please, Kevin Costner, just stop."

[movies.yahoo.com]
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mikedrawcar
04/11/09

@ClintonPortishead: Hey, come on, Waterworld was written by Shakespeare.

/Orange County'd
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The Legend of Vincent Tremblay
04/11/09

@ClintonPortishead: Somewhere, between the Lynch version's voice-amplifying weapons and the SciFi version's goth pastry chef Sardaukar uniforms and horrible Czech accents, is a good version of Dune that will never get made.
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savedbypurplejesus
04/11/09

@The Legend of Vincent Tremblay: I'm not sure whether that book can ever be a good movie(don't get me wrong...great book). Just like I'm terrified of the Atlas Shrugged remake and will forever refuse to watch Catch-22.
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ClintonPortishead
04/11/09

@savedbypurplejesus: This would be the same reason I'm not so much looking forward to Viggo Mortensen ruining The Road.
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