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Was she a Labor and Delivery girl?

One of these days I've got to show up there. I've been here for 12 years now and I don't know one other Bills/Sabres fan.

It happens quickly, too. One minute you're mountain biking and jogging daily, the next minute you're stopping for your routine 350 calorie coffee on the way to your desk job. Eating McDonalds for lunch and ordering a pizza for dinner. The next thing you know, you're just shy of 300 pounds and can't clear a set of stairs without stopping to catch your breath. Gotta wonder what the health care situation would look like if no one took that second helping.

Yeah. Actually, if he's going to be up there? I'd recommend Soccer Mom watching. Lots of tennis-lesson-ladies out and about around that area of town while their hubbies are off making the money. That's probably time well spent.

You know, it's painfully easy to fall into that trap. Caught myself doing it a year or so back. Sold the SUV and lost 50 pounds! The gas situation hasn't hurt us at all just yet, though it kind of sucks to pay almost $4.00 per gallon. When I moved here to GA, I think it was $0.75 per gallon. We haven't changed any summer plans or anything, but we have started taking the 'cheaper car' places. Not because we can't afford it, it's that I don't want to pay that much.

You move here after freaknik ended? I worked downtown for the last two years of that. I've been chased twice, threatened, and I saw a dude pop 3 rounds into the engine of the guy that rear ended him. I've been to a lot of places. Of all of them, I feel the *least* secure while walking down Marietta St. or Peachtree here in Atlanta.

Strange, eh? I agree with the state parks thing, though. It's not intended to allow people to bring .44's to Six Flags, it's really meant more for the remote state forests and whatnot. I think that is really geared more towards outdoorsmen and whatnot. The beer on Sunday thing really pisses me off, though. That just came back up and the governor (Sonny!) said something like, "I just don't think this is the right time to address that, not yet." Stay the hell off of the expressways between 6:30AM and 9:30AM, and then again between 4:00PM and 6:30PM. It's probably going to suck between those hours, too. Just not as bad. Everyone's going to tell you to go to the World of Coke and the Aquarium. I've never seen anything fun about the World of Coke. Kind of a lame tourist attraction. The GA is cool if you can get in while it's not crowded. I went a year or so ago and I had grown men pushing my 5 year old out of the way to see the stupid penguins. I'd recommend skipping underground. Look at someone the wrong way and you're liable to get hit with a rock in 'a sock. Honestly, there really isn't a whole hell of a lot to do. Atlanta doesn't have much of a personality like other cities do. It's not an awful place, just kind of, well... "bland." My suggestion would be to get a Vortex hamburger. Those are pretty good. I've never been much of a tourist.

Yup, but when we had our suicide attempt spree, they installed it with the intent of slowing the number of jumpers. Either we've run out of jumpers, or it's worked.

A buddy of mine always tells this story.. he was at the CNN center and there was a guy with a gun against his head at a nearby bridge, visible from the entrance. They watched for about 25 minutes and concluded the guy was going to give up and they headed towards the CNN doors. Halfway to the door, they heard the gun go off. When they turned around, they just caught the dude falling off of the bridge. We had a string of jumpers down here a few years back. It got so bad that the GDOT went through and put those curved anti-jumper fences on all of the metro area bridges. I've always thought they ought to to just pull a couple semis up under these overpasses and drop the fall to broken ankle height..

Yeah, it's nuts. We just bought and got a hell of a deal on it. It's gotten to the point now where I see signs posted at intersections, written in marker on posterboard, that say "5000 and you take over the payments! Desperate!" It took us over a year to sell our house. We took the *first* offer we were given. Yup, we waited a year for an offer.

Sly, very sly.

My wife drives one of those too, it's been a wonderful vehicle. Fewer problems than my Altima, honestly.

There's a fine line between Spamming and legitimate mail marketing. I'm not standing up for this dude, as I put most of these guys in the "Joe Francis Bin", but there are legitimate companies out there that make money off of lead tracking and whatnot (Constant Contact is the first that comes to mind). Would be interesting to read a bit more on the case. What constitutes header forging? A date in the future? A fake sender? The vast majority of automated email messages out there have a "falsified" sender. We've all seen 'donotreply@company.com.' The tax evasion bit doesn't help his character, though. I'd love to see who the 20 companies on his client list are. Interesting stuff.

I honestly don't see prison time as the correct punishment for sending out spam. Think about this one. We're all flaming mad that we have to filter messages or click delete because having to do so costs us money. So, the right thing to do is to put the guy in jail where he can cost tax dollars? Even if, in this particular case, he was trying to dupe investors (which on the surface sounds like a bit of stretch), prison time seems pretty ridiculous. Kill him financially and put him on probation until he's old and decrepit. Spam is annoying (I run a few pretty large mail systems -- quite literally hundreds of thousands of domains). I know what it costs us to filter it out. This guy will probably sit in prison longer than the redneck down the road that beat the piss out of his wife for buying Lite beer by accident.

Or bragging about how good of a his wife can give!

Yeah, 100% possible. A friend of mine in high school had some really creepy guy listening in on all of the conversations between her and her boyfriend. She was the cheerleader, he was the quiet reserved nerd. Classic case of freaky.

Where do you live? (OP). I'd never consider getting one here in GA. A good 85% of the houses around here are in swim & tennis subdivisions. It's a total waste of money in that there's a pool for each neighborhood already. I consider it a big turn off when house-hunting. It's an added expense to the maintenance of the house. A friend of mine here just had one pulled out as he was sick of using it 5 hours a year and paying the additional $$ to maintain it. His was above ground. Ripping the pool down was easy, rebuilding the deck surface to account for the big 25' hole in the middle.... not so easy. Seeing what he's gone through, I'd really go above ground and keep the decking small but tasteful. If you (or subsequent owners) decide you don't want it anymore, it's a dumpster, some pry-bars, and a weekend. If you go for one of those elaborate deck-jobs, it's going to cost you just as much to have it pulled out and rebuilt as it does to have the thing put in to begin with.

you for doing this to me. you and the horse you rode in on. eebepek? eem 6 epic? 3 emb... Are you sure it was a vanity plate? I know a guy who's got a motorcycle with 'SE1 JEW' and it's not a vanity deal...

I believe you, I just have a hard time believing this stuff is as rampant as "most cops" would allude to (not you, someone else said that). I'm certain it's happened before and will happen again. Your coworker sounds like a very respectable guy, no reason to doubt offhand.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080426/D909P8SG0.html Oh look, the race crowd has found a way to jump in. One of the cops was white, so I guess it's a racial thing. Good lord, is it just me or is the over level of stupidity getting higher and higher? These people are shouting 'Kill the Police' for Christ's sake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Bell Guy sounds like a real winner. Arrested for selling crack twice, and firearms possession. Yet all we hear about is some poor guy getting smoked by some evil police officers on the day of his wedding. Let's put more pictures of his fiance up so the police look cold and uncaring, just stick that record of his back in the desk drawer. You know, I feel quite bad for his family. He very well could have been trying to turn his life around. I'd like to donate to help those kids go to college. I'd like to send his fiance flowers. I can't imagine what she is going through. I thought 50 rounds sounded high at first myself, but I just don't know enough about the case. If the car was dead stopped and he kept pounding rounds in? Yeah, that's excess. If the car kept coming? Fire until it stops. I just don't know enough to comment really. The surprising thing? The blatant disrespect for police officers. They're human. The vast majority want to do a good job, just like "we" do, at work. You'll get the occasional head case, just like you'll get the occasional middle manager on a power trip. The energy is much better spent on keeping that head-case percentage down through training and support. This *one* shooter may very well be the world's biggest tool, but stop with the ridiculous generalizations. Remember that the overwhelming majority of these guys are truly there for the good. Remember what they go through and what they see. People tend to forget that these are the people showing up to fatal accidents, nasty domestic disputes, and generally living in the bowels of society for 8 hours or so a day. Finally, I've not known one respectable law-abiding person to be harassed. Not once and not repeatedly. It's always the guy with the beat up old scrap car, one working headlight, an 'I Love BEER' bumper sticker, pounding down the road 75 in a 55. He gets busted? It's harassment! Abuse of power! Police brutality! If that's harassment, I hope these guys get out there and harass more innocent people. I've a lot of police in my extended family. They very much want to do what's right. Talk to one some time.

Though, how bad does house arrest suck when you live in a 15 million dollar home?

Wonderful game! I spent hours upon hours playing that game, eventually beat it, too. I was one of the ones that came with the EBay'd NES a few months back. It's funny to compare that to the highly produced FF games that come out now.

I'd stair at that game so long that the crappy 3d effects would look inverted to me... jumps would look like pits.

No, I haven't... I wear glass. I've tried contacts, but they bug the stojan out of me. Itchy, just feels like I've got a semi-permeable membrane stuck to my eye all day long. Went back to glasses. My vision isn't *that* bad. I can take my glasses off and still see alright. I can't read a street sign all that well or make out the license plate of the car ahead of me, but I'm by no means blind. Given the state of my vision, it's not worth the risk nor the pain in the ass. If it gets worse, I'd explore it. But.. now? Just not so much worth it.

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A, and then start? Isn't that the one that made Contra easy? Worked on a lot of Konami games if I remember right. Edit... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code Cool.