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Just Jack

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  1. Right in front of me though near the end of the show, this shirtless black guy jumped out from behind the stage and was started playing air guitar on a broom. I thought it was one of the Black Eyed Peas! :devil: Mick was all the way down the left runway, and this guy started moving closer to him till security grabbed him & threw him off!

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    Was it R. Rich? Maybe that's why he needs surgery now.

  2. I wonder if you carry one of those clear vinyl backpacks (12x12x12) it will be considered a bag.  :angry:

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    I've brought in my clear backpack before. Didn't have it with me last night though. What I do is take it off as I approach the gate and hold it out towards the security guard. They have either just did a glance at it, or grab it and turn it around to look at each side. None have actually opened it to paw through it. Only once, in the several years I had it, has a guard made a comment about it being a backpack, but they still let it in when I replied that it was my "clear bag smaller than 12x12x12."

     

    In all the years I've brought a bag in, any bag, I've always done the same routine of holding it out towards security. If it's not a clear bag I have it open for them to look into. Never have they told me to take it back to my vehicle.

  3. Unless of course you take a two week vacation.  On many weekends many of the favorites win.  On some of them the underdogs rally.  You pick by looking at scouting and injury reports, someone else picks based on the colors of the teams.  If those people do better than you in a given week should we not be allowed to pick based on colors, because that person isn't putting the "thought" into it that you are?  Will someone who manually just picks the favorites every week have an unfair "advantage?"  If that's how someone wants to play the game, why not allow an automatic means to do it?  It's not like the computer is able to look up the final scores of this coming weekend's game, it's not doing voodoo algebra, it's simply picking either the favorites, 'dogs, home or away teams based on your preferences...

     

    I work out my "schemes" too.  Sometimes they work, most of the time they crap out.  Sometimes I think "well, I could have just picked the favorites and done better."  Oh, well, I didn't.  It's not someone else's fault that they did just have the computer pick the favorites, it's my fault for having a crappy "scheme".  Oh, well...on to the next "scheme."

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    Before we get off on a tangent, I'm not bemoaning the way some people pick teams, just that the system gives them an automatic way to do it. Even though we had that option last year, there was still one time that I had left for the game, and realized 5 minutes from my house that I had forgotten to do my picks. Rather than let the system choose them, I turned around and went home to put them in.

  4. This is why I do it. 

     

    We do drop one week, but it's just nice to have some backup because you have to attend to life every now and then.

     

    I would like to hear more reasons why it should be eliminated.

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    I just dislike it when I take the time to sit down and think about why I should pick one team over another, when someone else just lets the computer pick theirs, and they finish better than me. I know one person that as soon as picks can be entered on Tuesday, they do it. Another that will be entering/changing picks up to the last minute on Sunday. There are 5 and a half days to enter picks, so even though real life issues might come up, there's plenty of time to get the picks entered.

  5. WRT firewalls, every "service" running on the computer runs on a "port."  blah...blah...blah.... Whatever the case, you need to set up your firewall to allow communication over these ports before it will work...am I wrong, fellow nerds?

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    Sounds right to me. Not sure of the exact port numbers, but your explaination is correct that some firewalls do not have the ports set as open as the default.

  6. Sometimes the wait to go up the tower can be a setback.  I love the glass floor.  It's surprising how many people are terrified of walking across it.

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    I went on a Monday, when I went. In fact, it was the day after the Miami-Buffalo Snow Bowl game. There were no lines, and if I remember right, I was the only one in the elevator for the trip up.

     

    Now I know my wife won't want to go there :blink:  The Mall of America has some places with glass block floors, and she hates walking over those too. :blink:

     

    CW

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    You don't have to walk on it, it's simply a small area, about 8'x8' if I remember correctly, that instead of a normal floor surface, it's glass so you can look down. If you don't want to go on it, it's easy enough to go around it.

  7. I'd say the highlight for him this year was resuscitating that boy at that Disney hotel, except unfortunately for him, it doesn't pay too well.

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    Unless he sells the movie rights.

     

    If it was me, I'd let TO sit at home this season. And next season. And the following seasons, until his contract is up.

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