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DaveInSeattle

Dave, did they request your passwords or access to your social media sites, or merely just tell you that they were looking at your profile. I have heard of employers making candidates give them access to social media sites, sometimes even passwords. I know there were some court cases, but I don't k...

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I officially got hired by the Allen Brain Institute today (well, by the contracting agency to go work for them). Start work on Monday. Very excited....3 months of job hunting finally paid off. The Power Generator people just couldn't make a decision. The recruiter was super frustrated with them, and...

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Scottie wrote:Weed comes in several varieties; Stinky, Tromp, Kung, Valentine and X being among the more notable.

Is Kush not a thing anymore?

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govmentchedda wrote:I really enjoyed the new Countdown tonight.

I actually did too. I think it might just be because I have a serious crush on Sage Steele.

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For any former Ultimate players out there (such as myself), a great long essay about playing disc at Harvard and in Boston in the early 80's. We labor over our big decision and big dreams, but sometimes it’s the small things that change our lives forever. What could be smaller than this: It is the ...

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If a girl is interested, she doesn't care that you didn't wait "an appropriate amount of time" to ask her out. She is waiting for it. If she isn't interested, waiting isn't going to change anything. I was always happier going for it and getting shot down than not going for it and beating ...

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For anyone watching the gawd-awful MNF game, I apologize for the entire Pacific Northwest....

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Sucks....

I always used to joke that if I had a son, I'd name him "Lou" so that his name would be the same as "Lou Reed" (different spelling though).

Glad I got a chance to see him live...in '88 or so...on the "New York" tour.

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Now this is a beard...

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DSafetyGuy wrote:I'm wondering how far Schiano will fall down the food chain for his next job. I'm starting to think even college defensive coordinator may be a step too high.

The only question now is when does he get fired. I'm picking tomorrow (Friday) around noon.

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This bio of Lindbergh is pretty interesting and worth checking out. http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens1971954module73837401photo_1260599628Lindbergh.jpg I'm currently reading "The Outsiders" by SE Hinton. My daughter was assigned it in her 7th grade English class...

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Saw Gravity last night....wow....it was fucking intense as shit. And just an amazing piece of directing. Totally worth it to spring for the 3D-Imax version as well. I just saw it this afternoon (3D only, though). Can't agree enough. I caught myself smiling during what was actually a pretty horrific...

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Saw Gravity last night....wow....it was fucking intense as shit. And just an amazing piece of directing.

Totally worth it to spring for the 3D-Imax version as well.

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Went to see Jack Johnson with the Girlfriend last night. She's a big fan, but I've never listened to his stuff. Pretty good show...mellow beachy kind of vibe. Not sure I'd ever put one of his albums on my iPod (I need a bit of an edge to my music most of the time), but it was a fun couple of hours. ...

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The WTF podcast with Huey Lewis is fantastic. He talked about being on tour with his band Clover in the UK and seeing the Sex Pistols live and thinking "Oh man....we are fucked".

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Great Q&A with baseball writer Tyler Kepner.

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I'm in the market for a new TV (thinking about an LG 47" LCD for $549)...but my question is about getting a soundbar for the thing. Are they any good? Drawbacks?

I'd like to have better sound then you get out of a flat panel TV, but I don't want to go the whole home theater route.

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Listening to the Simmons podcast with Bob Costas yesterday, I learned that Bob really doesn't like Lil Wayne.

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I'm just home from my interview with the Allen Brain Institute. Wowza....super interesting stuff going on, and really impressive group of people. Not sure what I'll do if the BackUpGenerator people offer me a full-time, permanent gig vs those guys offering me a 6 month contract position (with a poss...

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I loved "Hunt for Red October" when it came out, but his stuff slowly went downhill from there. I think "Patriot Games" (was that the one where Jack Ryan, Superman, saves Prince Charles?) was the last one I read.

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President and Dems refuse to sign a CR and act like petulant teenagers who won't negotiate at all yet portray themselves as the adults in the room. What are the President and Dems supposed to negotiate? They've already fully agreed to the Republican demands on the budget. I was pointing out the hyp...

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Have you played the files on your computer to make sure you are authenticated? I had a problem where some songs I got from a friend weren't authorized on my account. Yeah, I did. I bought the remastered version of The Band's "Rock of Ages" through iTunes a few days ago, and can't transfer...

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Here's a new one: I have an iPhone 4S, and when I hook it up to my Mac so I can load some new music on it, I run into a problem. I load the album onto the phone doing the "drag and drop" thing, and iTunes says "Updating Files on Dave's iPhone", and gets stuck there. And then I lo...

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I nailed my interview this morning. I can bullshit with the best of them. And now I have goofy Australia stories to throw into the mix! I am worried about my interview with the Allen Brain institute. I think I'm going to have to do "white board coding problems". Huh? I've never done anythi...

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I have an interview tomorrow morning with a company that makes backup power generators for hospitals and food processing plants in Alaska and Russia.

And on Thursday I have an interview with the Paul Allen Brain Institute.

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degenerasian wrote:The Texans are still the Texans. God that 3rd and 4 playcall was stupid.

There is no way at all the Seahawks should have won that game. Absolutely none.

I saw it, and I still don't believe it.

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AB_skin_test wrote:Fired.

pulled off the team bus at the airport, and fired in the parking lot. And then then team bus left without him. That's really getting fired...

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Shirley wrote:Remember how big and jacked he seemed at the time? I remember thinking he was huge. Now, he'd be an average-at-best sized sprinter (Bolt excepted).

I remember how yellow his eyes were. That was bizarre.

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Forgot to post about seeing Frightened Rabbit and The National last week. Super cool show. FR was great, as always (4th time seeing them), but it sucked that they were the openers, and thus only got to play for about 40 minutes or so. And I didn't get the people milling about the lobby of the theate...

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Did Golden Gate overtake the snooty next door neighbor club? The NYT article didn't mention that. I thought they did, but that maybe something I misread from in the Book I reference in the first post of the thread. The fancy club is the St. Francis Yacht Club. The Golden Gate Yacht Club was falling...

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In case you are wondering, here's an excerpt from the fictional Aaron Ross Sorkin article reference in the Charlie Rose interview. It may be charitable to describe Elliott and Gretchen Schwartz as philanthropists. Last week, the founders of Gray Matter Technologies gave a $28 million grant to creat...

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Fuck Larry Ellison. This....a million times over. I really thought ETNZ had it won when Oracle went bow down right at the first mark. But Oracle really fixed something to get that good upwind boat speed (the guys I was watching with were talking about that they changed the pitch angle on the foils)...

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I just watched the highlights from yesterday, and wow....did ETNZ gack on the second race. They had a clear lead, and tried to do a "leebow" tack, and just got rolled by Oracle. Bad tactical decision, and then the tack was slow, and Oracle just blasted away from them.

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Is this televised anywhere? NBC Sports Network. If you don't get that, you can watch live coverage on YouTube. But its blocked if you are in the US. To get around that, follow these instructions (lifted from the SailingAnarchy forum): DOWNLOAD CHROME, THEN INSTALL THE "HOLA" EXTENSION< WH...

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I don't know that they did to the boat, but Oracle has tweaked something to get better upwind boat speed. And Spithill is totally in Dean Barker's head now, and is getting great starts.

Today is going to be insane. If Barker loses this, he may have to go into exile somewhere.

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My prediction for the finale? The M-60 is for the Nazi's, and the ricin is for Gretchen and Elliot.

It was damn cool that Robert Forster showed up as the "Vacuum Repair Guy". And nice that they managed to keep that casting under wraps.

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Wow. Oracle is finding form and with the back against the wall winning. 8-5 on the scoreboard, 8-7 in actual races. I still expect the cup to go to the land of Sheep and Sailboats. Skeptical wlu_lax6 wonders if some of this "run" by Oracle is based on the need for this to not be a blowout...

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I honestly don't know which way to side here. It just seems to depend upon the female more than social norms at this point. If she has a decent paying job or doesn't want to make it seem as though she can't pay her way, she'll split. If she's "traditional" or "full of herself," ...

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My god...what the hell is the story with the Jag's helmets? Those things are hideous..

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Which one did Vanessa Williams win? Miss America. That one is my favorite. You'll never be able to convince me that the next year's contest wasn't fixed. Why? Because Larry Flynt, before the pageant, announced he had nude photos of one of the 50 contestants and if she was the winner, they'd be publ...

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