The Off Topic Topic

[Josephus]

i have a CD player in my car. At work I have itunes with 5500 songs installed.

I do listen to the news and traffic for about 10 minutes when I first get out.

Listening to CDs in the car? How antiquated. I connect my ipod via the audio jack and listen to everything I've crammed onto that.

Yes I know. My next  car will come with an Ipod dock. My current one doesn't seem to have any way to hook it up.

[Josephus]

BTW....Anyone use rdio?rdio.com?

It's like spotify, and for the first time it's actually licensed for Canada. For $5/mo you can have unlimited streaming. Another way to sample songs cheaply without resorting to radio.

[Admiral Yi]

I wonder if I could fake French proficiency enough to do a French doc review project.  Je m'apelle est Hunter et j'ai lu bien le francais!

Mon dieu, je veux a mourir.  Pourquoi ne pas?  Je ne suis meme pas en vie.

Maybe not.

[Syt]

[Ideologue]

I wonder if I could fake French proficiency enough to do a French doc review project.  Je m'apelle est Hunter et j'ai lu bien le francais!

Mon dieu, je veux a mourir.  Pourquoi ne pas?  Je ne suis meme pas en vie.

Maybe not.

Yeah, maybe not.

[Grey Fox]

I'm fairly sure that it's no.

[Admiral Yi]

Excellent article in Time about Rhode Island redoing public employee pensions.  No more retirement at 55, no more automatic COLA, part of the pension is now defined contribution.  This in a Democratic stronghold state.   Hooray!

[Ideologue]

I support it.







Didn't see that one coming, did you?

[AnchorClanker]

What a fucking year.  I wouldn't be surprised to see Berber Yak cavalry raiding my liquor cabinet before the year is out.

[Ideologue]

What?  Is that a saying?

[AnchorClanker]

No.  Just a (rather weak) metaphor for the utter strangeness of this year vs. me.
Let's just say that I am less-than-pleased with things since I left the UK.

[Ideologue]

Hope things turn up for you, man.

[AnchorClanker]

Hope things turn up for you, man.

Thanks, bud.  It's safe to assume that I will not mourn 2011.  Sell.

[CountDeMoney]

Hope things turn up for you, man.

Thanks, bud.  It's safe to assume that I will not mourn 2011.  Sell.

I'm sure not everything was bad at the palace in Amman, Colonel.

[Ideologue]

It looks like your household may be eligible for Refugee Assistance.