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I agree with everything you said. And congratulations on your rescue dog. She is friggin' adorable!

A few years ago, a good friend of mine was walking his dog one morning before work and he came across an abandoned blue pitbull puppy. She was just about 4 months old. It was a freezing cold winter morning. She was cowering in a parking lot under a car. She could not walk--her front legs appeared to be horribly broken and there was duct tape on them. My friend is a dog lover (and a really good person), so he carried this freezing puppy back to his place. It turned out that this dog had been confined in a box or cage that was way too small. As a result, her front legs became deformed from not being able to extend. She had to keep her legs folded under her body and the tendons shrank and she had bad muscle atrophe. Also, you could tell that her ears had been very recently cropped, sloppily. It looked like someone had just used some scissors to cut half her ears off within the last day or two. Apparently, someone was trying to groom her to be a fighter, but then decided to abandon her out in the cold instead, probably when they discovered that they had screwed up her legs through their own incompetence and neglect. My friend kept the dog and with regular vet visits and lots of therapy on her legs, she became a healthy little dog within a couple months. She was one of the sweetest, most beautiful dogs I have ever known. I got to babysit her for a week once when my friend went out of town. Just a great dog. Blue pits are just gorgeous in my opinion. And even her ears healed up pretty well. She would have looked better with full floppy ears if you ask me, but still she was awesome. I just don't get what is wrong with some people. A dog is one of the greatest things in this world. And pitbulls absolutely get a bad rap. Too many thug a-holes ruin it for everybody else. They are excellent dogs if some dick does not go out of his way to try to turn them into monsters.

I might check that out. I watched a tv documentary (can't remember the name) that looked at the people who were helping to rehabilitate those poor dogs. Pretty powerful. I can not even come close to understanding how someone could treat a dog the way those Bad Newz idiot scumholes did.

I'll stick up for the Talking Heads. I'm not a huge fan overall, but listen to Remain In Light all the way through. It's pretty damn good and stands the test of time.

Stieg Larsson should have stopped after the third one. This one sounds kind of stupid.

Question: In the name "D'Brickashaw," what letter(s) is the apostrophe standing in for?

That's true. I guess I was just thinking about this guy I used to know called Nine Finger Larry.

21 mb/s That's pretty good, no?

Do you realize that Steely Dan has over 1,000 posts just in this thread? I think about that and it disturbs me a little. Then I consider that I've probably read every single one of them and my mind just implodes.

It's nothing fancy. It's a Toshiba laptop I bought about 6 months ago for $500. I couldn't tell you any stats, but it does have an Intel dual-core processor. I think I need to play with the settings on the DirectTV stream. The thing is, my laptop only has a VGA output, not HDMI, so I'm only working with SD anyway when I send it to the tv. Maybe I can go with a higher bitrate and refresh rate if I choose an SD stream instead of HD. I don't know why I didn't think of that before. Thanks for the input!

Thanks! I'm curious to check that out when I get home.

You're doing a good job typing with 9. I know--I'm just getting back to normal from a broken finger about 8 weeks ago.

Great job! I really enjoyed the story. Thank you!

It's Comcast cable internet, wireless to my laptop. I don't know what kind of numbers I get, but I think it's fairly good. My laptop always reports an "Excellent" connection. I use a quality wireless router. I never have any problems with Netflix or other streamed video.

I win. Now which one of you jackasses is gonna ruin it for me this time?

I paid my $350. For the first game, the quality was just ok. On HIGH quality, it was very skippy and jerky. So I watched the game on MEDIUM quality. Even still, there were some freezes here and there. I had the thought that maybe it would work better with Explorer instead of Firefox. I'll experiment a little bit this week. I'd really like to be able to bump it up to that higher bitrate. The fast action is not so smooth on Medium. I also noticed that DirectTV decided just recently to use the Flash player instead of Silverlight. I wish they didn't do that. I believe Netflix uses Silverlight and that works beautifully for me. I've never had a single problem with any Netflix streams and it looks amazing.

Psst... Turdburger is a rhubarb fish fry, pass it on.

I win.

Wow, we're so lucky to have such an expert talent evaluator in our midst. It's true: if you like cookies and don't molest women, you cannot be a pro QB. Thank you.

I am definitely an idiot, but I'm classier than most. I'm devastatingly classy. The pin stripes on my banana hammock are so subtle, you have to look through a monocle to see them.

Pablo Cruise. Don't believe the hype.

What would have to happen? Friday. That's all it ever takes. I'm an incurable shmuck. I'm blinded by my own masochism.

I was told I couldn't take it off, so I've just been Febreze-ing down there every other day or so. Maybe my world view is sort of suffering a little bit as a result. I'm getting a little steamy in the ol' banana hammock you might say. Goddammit, Chan Gailey! I was promised more creativity on offense! a Ten -ing years of this

Ok, I've thought about this a lot and I've decided that the worst band to ever enjoy mainstream success is... Kansas