UConn James

You know, for as much guff as crayonz/whatever-his-name-is-now writes, Canadians aren't all THAT bad...!

I forget if it was college or NFL, but awhile back, there was a ref who called a personal foul for similar. In the announcement over the PA, the ref said, "Personal Foul. Number __. Giving him the business. 15 yards, first down." Found it on YouTube:

DC Tom pissed in DC Tom's cornflakes. He likes 'em that way!!

A few years ago, a string on ours went out and I filled it in with a small string of the same style bulb. Two years ago, three strings were out, so I filled them in again, but when it came time to take it apart, I decided to cut off all the lights and wiring so I could just independently string light cords around it... and not have to throw away a $250 tree. It took ~ 3-4 hours as I recall. Those suckers really put that together so it wouldn't fall apart. The lights were looped, woven and clipped every which way. But it's done and now I can change the light color if I want, too. (I don't. This house is a warm-white-light/traditional bulb place!)

Going through some cancer stuff of our own with my mum. I'll light a candle for your family too, Fergy!

Root beer barrels. M&Ms Premiums in the mint flavor.

Should be good. A lot of people are crazy for Tennant's 10th Doctor.... I dunno; there are episodes with him that were perfect ("Don't Blink") but many that were meh.... The writing upgrade with Moffat and longer arcs has been a big upgrade over the episodic stuff. I'm really sorry to see Matt Smith leaving the series in/after(?) the Christmas special. I think his time and his iteration has been really great with the boyish zeal he put into it.

As long as we can rename the Islanders to the Whalers, I'm in.

How would the IOC determine amateur status? Or would they just do a wink and nudge and let paid professionals compete like they do for hockey? :eyeroll:

I watch a LOT of British stuff, and I've heard it on multiple occasions. Again the other night in "The Paradise" was an "sh" in place of a usual "s." Is it also a deal of the Brits saying "shed-ule" instead of the American "schedule" with a hard "c." I heard people say "shhweet!" during college, so it's not like it's a VERY recent thing.

I know I've heard that pronunciation used in some British movies I've seen, where the S becomes an Sh. i.e. Shh-tupid in one of a remake of "A Room With A View" several years ago on PBS Masterpiece. So, is it a British import?

Shrader, I bit for that special offer from Gil last time. I had gotten some iTunes cards as gifts and I don't use it for much anything else (well, besides this REALLY cool app called Sky Guide I got the other day), so what the heck. I did get Arnie Pye. I just have a soft spot for the media people, I guess.... The helicopter stuff had been kind of cool, until this update when it just gets in the way when trying to tap things. They're also doing the aliens Konos and ___ in this event, probably as a donut item? I haven't gone overboard on using donuts, just getting things/characters I want. And I don't think there's any real need to use donuts for goo.

You get that those high-cash items are for people who don't have anything else to spend $ on, right? I would just say to sit on it so you don't have to scrounge to be able to do a building/task ever again. And once you sell back the houses, you'll have even more $. When your town is crashing people, that's a sign from Jebus that it's time to scale back. :

Mrags, your town is making the app crash for me (and, it's only your town doing it). On another note, damn man, I don't see how the game can be any kind of enjoyable with that much house-farming. I'm sorry, bro, but I don't quite get it.... It doesn't take donuts to get goo. I've actually gotten three donuts during this update, twice by popping ghosts and once from the graveyard (from last year's Halloween). I also have a bunch of neighbors; I cleaned out a bunch of inactive neighbors yesterday and added some more from the TSTO EA forum add-me lists: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/forums/show/4127.page;jsessionid=1DA4C7455C1F06437B16566567BAA64A

I've been mulling it over for these couple of days and sporadically reading this thread. I'm just going to say that the ending scene was SO reminiscent to the final scene of LOST, with Jack walking through the banyan trees with a wound to his lower left abdomen, toward a spot of importance for him. And a last little bit of ultimate happiness(?) that someone who was important in all of that journey was able to get away. Anyone else get that? But, unlike LOST, I did not cry my eyes out here (it was the golden retriever lying down next to Jack as he was dying that did it for me, mainly. I had had to put my own dog down about a year previous and I just lost it seeing that). I don't know, maybe it was just me but like the rest of this series, it wasn't very emotional for me. Even with saying goodbye to Holly, I was stone-faced... much like Walt was in that scene. From the start, it's just been a rote, This is What Happens story... with some top-notch acting. Therein may be the difference b/w a hero and an anti-hero, surely. Walt got his, and I was not sad about it in the least.

I have 666 donuts. Freaky!

I got a 73 on that Neurotypical distinction, and a 139/200 on the Aspie score and so it says, "You are very likely an Aspie." ... Any diagnosis or even a 'Hey, I think I might have X' requires a lot more than a multiple-choice 'Strongly Agree-Agree-Disagree-Strongly Disagree' test, tho. It includes any number of things like eye contact, facial-emotion recognition (I am terrible at this other than the obvious ones like a big smile = happy/laughing), if there were developmental delays, social interaction problems, problems with sensory stimuli (e.g. clothing tags or bunches, light levels, loud noises, etc. I enjoy food shopping, but.... it drains me). Food pickiness and eating issues (I've gotten a LOT better at this with age, but I'm still 165 lbs at 6'). Touch issues (I've been trying to get better at this and my young nieces and nephew now have been good at helping with this wrt hugging, piggybacks, etc.). Personal relationship effects (often, few friends (but the friends you do have are GREAT friends) or romantic relationships.) So-called "Special interests" where the Autie/Aspie is savant-like in particular areas or microcosms of particular areas (Me: Shakespeare, teevee antennas, cooking, stonework). ASD and other close signature conditions also tend to run in families, and I have that in spades from my mum's side of the family. I've seen that the self-diagnosis accuracy rate for Asperger's/HFA is a title less than 20 percent. It's like the whole thing of the med student who comes to believe they have every illness and our hypochondriac society. As I mentioned, I've gotten it separately from a few people who have familiarity (a recent s-i-l who has a master's in SW and worked with autistic people for years, and a retired nurse among them) that I am definitely on the spectrum and most likely traditional Asperger's. But the utility of getting a diagnosis this late in the game is negligible and mostly for a person's own edification; it's getting a Dx when a person is young that is important for school planning, behavioral therapy, etc. I'm open to it, but I don't know... and it can be expensive. Anyway, as the saying goes, if you've met one person with autism, you've met ONE person with autism, b/c it's like an a la carte and no two are the same. JiA, that's an example. Now, *I* would know it's not actual wheels falling off b/c we do learn through experience, but there are things like that which occasionally trip up.

Well... yes. Generally speaking, things are taken literally. As the oft-used example goes, if you say, "I'd like to put something on the table..." an Aspie/Autie might wait for you to physically put something on the table. Now, you learn these things, and you're like, 'Oh, she wants to say something' but still sometimes you get tripped up. I'm really good with language, so I understand and I have a very wry/dry sense of humor, but I remember that it took me awhile as a kid to 'get' sarcasm. And without a vocal or nonverbal context, it's sometimes difficult for me to detect it. In your above comment, there's no indication of sarcasm, so I took it as literal, by default. It took a forever for me to be able to ride a bike, too, but that's another story. Sorry, the video above went to a different link. Here's the one intended. (But the original link is a nice little video, too. I'm like her male counterpart.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIdazntSFKE

Sorry, I don't use it pejoratively. I suppose I could write "normal" but what does that even mean these days? Neuro- meaning brain and typical meaning... well... typical/"normal" I don't really see what's offensive about it. It's a word.

I don't have a formal diagnosis, but I've been told by a few people in the know that I have Asperger's, a high-functioning form of autism (well, it's all called autism now under the DSM-V... wrongly, I think, and as a recent brain study has highlighted. There is a major difference b/w Asperger's and traditional autism). It's not a "mental health" thing (by itself... tho often there are co-occurring conditions) it's an actual difference in brain structure and functioning. JiA, that's really not how autism works. It's not that simple. And, from the article it sounds as if his mum *does* accompany him. Auties and Aspies are extremely detail-oriented and change from routine varies from difficult to impossible. Plane travel is stressful even for neurotypicals. For an Autie, small things can cause MELTDOWN. I haven't had one in a number of years, and it's very hard to explain what it's like, but suffice to say it's not something that can be controlled, and therefore you have to do your best to avoid its triggers. How awesome is it that this carrier has strived to make this kid's trip easier and to set things on the Right Track by providing stability of experience that's not *terribly* inconvenient, given some planning? In the UK & Australia, they're really beyond our understanding, acceptance and accommodation with campaigns and how it's been shown in the culture/media/teevee... but we're getting there, bit by bit.

I think Walt may try to funnel his money to his family through the Blacks. They were donating millions to drug treatment.... Maybe Walt figures they can donate some to Skyler? Either that or he may ricin their asses, just for the diss on Charlie Rose.

I weep for this state. Seriously, do they in Hartford know how much $ horse businesses bring into the general fund that they love to piss away? SMH.

That phone call was Walt throwing his cap over the wall, to use the phrase. He has no intention of surrendering. There are things he wants done before he dies, and only he can do them... with the added emphasis on this season's tag line, "Remember My Name." In this episode, we're shown a hesitant side to Walt that hasn't been shown since the first couple of eps. He stares out at the icy road to town, what was it? Two or three times? To quote from "The Hunt For Red October": "When Columbus reached the New World, he burned his ships. As a result, his men were well motivated." Gilligan uses it to drive the plot, but there's more. We had just skipped over several months of Walt, after stepping into the vacuum guy's minivan, reverting to being a passenger in his life. Afraid, holing up, cut off, having to pay someone $10K to play cards for an hour for some human contact. He could either stay like that in his ill-fitting long johns in front of the stove, or he can set things in motion to force himself to go out in a blaze and set things right, according to his own mind. I think Walt may rescue Jesse from the AB, but Jesse is in far too deeply to have ANY semblance of a Happily Ever After with Brock. Not going to happen! Jesse will get his, and it may be by his own choice... after getting revenge on the AB.

Marissa looked seriously PISSED post-vote. I don't know if it was how Gervase went on and on gloating after the immunity challenge that he completely £^€£ing SUCKED in, but I'm sure that couldn't have helped. You know, I'm not one to play on stereotypes, but wow, in the past few seasons of reality shows (the twin doctors on Amazing Race), the black guys in swimming challenges just cannot swim. What's up with that? I've heard things in passing about muscle density and such, but I don't know if that's bunk. I also vaguely remember it being brought up by a black Olympic swimmer for the U.S. and how he had... overcome?.... that general rule/assumption. Has anyone ever read into this for a real scientific reason, if there is one? Yeah, this season looks to be one of the best with all the complications upon complications, your actions having influence into the other tribe, what will happen after a merge WRT alliances, and the return of Redemption Island, which I know some here have a negative view of, but I think is totally awesome b/c it adds another level of strategy and a chance for someone who gets railroaded.