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    2013 NFL Season

    ick i sucked got half right. one each day.... this week AFC: pats over indi SD over Denver (changed my mind on this one) NFC: Seattle over NO SF over Carolina
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    Weather

    Minus5 last night, fifty on Monday.. Got to love new England weather...
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    Weather

    i have not made it out my door yet- we got ~20" total i think, but the toilet water supply froze- and i am busy fixing that (hairdryer to the pipe) first , then driveway/work- gotta go in, it's payday. update: snow drifts around my house ranged from bare grass to ~4' high, shear pin on...
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    Weather

    my kids are in heaven. 2 more days of vacation. so far 14.5" for us as of 11pm..with another 8hrs or so of snow to gothey just upped the amount to fall in our area to 15-30 " sweeeeti love snow.
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    Winter 2014 Anime Thread

    not sure entirely when but Season 2 of Sword Art Online: Phantom Bullet is coming in 2014.
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    2013 NFL Season

    we doing the playoff predictions here or making a new thread for it? you know its sorta screwed up this year record wise for standings, SF tied for the 2nd best record in the nfc and is the 5th seed... this week: SAT, JAN 4 TIME (ET) Kansas City at Indianapolis 4:35 PM NBC New Orleans...
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    The Hobbit

    The uselessness of the dwarves in the river in the book was even more profound they were sealed up in the barrels in the book. bilbo put the covers on etc. then he rode down on a barrel (no orc fights with elf killing machine help) until lake down then the dwarves all were let out for the "i...
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    So, do you think there will be a Second American Revolution?

    take global warming right outta that "concern" bit. 2 reasons. reason 1- no global warming -trend- currently- for 17 years and alot of papers are coming out saying that the temps are going to go down slightly- probably for the next 20ish years(if the cyclical format is correct- ~30years...
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    2013 NFL Season

    Pats defense looked, adequate. good enough to make to championship game at least. offense looked so so at times, however, on any given sunday- they can win games and play good. i think all the close games this year have been good for them, no "easy" wins for the most part. afc wildcard...
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    The Naked Gun (2025)

    just IMAGINE them trying to redo airplane.. jonny have you have seen a grown man naked? jonny do you like movies about gladiators -jonny goes up to a ~10yr old girl- coffee? girl yes please- jonny cream? girl no thank you i like my coffee like a like my men, black. old white woman...
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    Weather

    gotta love mother nature... we just had ~foot of snow in my area over the past week. enso being neutral means the weather is not going to have a predominant pattern over the US like occurs during either an el nino or la nina condition.. enso has been in neutral for almost 2 years now-...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    nice scope REALLY bad spot to use it though look at those shadows WAY to much background light, so your eyes would never get adjusted to the dark street lights, a lighted sign right across the way etc, not to say they won't see anything, that spot would be fine for a planet or the moon...
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    Castle

    just a heads up, they redid the episode order episode 12 is showing jan 6th instead of episode 11 episode 13 is showing on the 13th episode 11 is showing on the 20th episode 14 is on the 27th olympics break
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    The Hobbit

    saw it today with my kids, wife's friend and her kids liked it, movie ended and i was like ..MORE. saw it in 2d and trailers in front showed the godzilla trailer..our kids were like wtf is that, my wife's friend was like omfg GODZILLA WE ARE SO GOING TO SEE THAT! extremely loudly in the...
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    Weather

    the NE area is bracing for our first real snow of the season tomorrow night. and of course as the day goes on they are upping the "low" totals and shifting the higher amounts towards boston wcvb has my area smack dab on the line between 6-12 and 3-6 inches wbz has the line a bit south...
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    Jupiter Ascending (2015)

    HEY I LIKED SPEED RACER!!! love the matrix though it's a bit dated nowadays
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    2013 NFL Season

    further reports are Gronk is done for the year. MRI today but almost all reports are ACL. with 3 minutes left in the Patriots game i was like, ok they lost and went grocery shopping... figures they'd win. this year in playoffs they could make the SB, but i am thinking probably championship...
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    Can the US just ban Celsius from the world please?

    THE reason why we-the us - is not on metric, if i remember correctly is,, reagan scrapped the program in the 80's. personally, doesn't matter to me which we use, at work, i could use either- as an aside, ALL US DOT(department of transportation) plans HAVE to be done in metric. is one more...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Something survived. Zombie comet, debris field whatever, bummer that it went boom.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    won't take the bet several professionals think it has already broken up the "core" is ~5 arc seconds behind where it is supposed to be according to calculations, such that they think it's just rubble now, however. stereo has it brightening again, this is so $%#@$% confusing. latest...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Ditto. We find out today/tomorrow if it survives the visit to the sun.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    i'll post the sauce recipe tonite get prime rib - rub in light coat of kosher salt and pepper all over meat- not too much. let it soak in for ~20 minutes preheat oven to 450. put rib- bone side down/fat side up in roasting pan and cook for 15 minutes lower heat to 350. cook until...
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    Wii U

    well for fitness games, the new xbone is better due to the fitness channel. with live gold you get access to the fitness channel then you have to buy subscriptions to the "games" they have p90x, insanity, that new 25minute by the guy that did p90x etc. the wiiu is good- again caveat- if you...
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    just saw this on engadget Roadie tunes your guitar for you, tells you when your strings are about to break (hands-on) called the roadie, with it and the app it will tune your guitar. kickstarter right now but the guys that demo'd it say i was easy to use slide the unit over the...
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    Social poll

    none of the above i do have google+ account, never use i do have twitter account, never use i do have facebook account, never use i prefer face to face time for social interacting- ie hanging out with people.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    UPDATE ON availability of the ps4 at gamestop before Xmas good luck: gamestop just announced today that they sold out of their initial allotment of the ps4, and that their waiting list is at 2.3 million units and growing.....
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    Castle

    SNEAK for next week is out title of episode is the good, the bad, and ... the Baby. sneak is 100% caskett and is super cute.
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    2013 NFL Season

    i watched the play live- i've seen what pretty much ever play gronk has made as a pro, gronk was attempting to adjust and come back to the ball and the defender held and rode him to the back of the endzone IF that defender wasn't holding/interfering gronk, it would have been very close. it was...
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    Castle

    tonite's episode is just...creepy, awesome creepy, but creepy do not read the spoilers if you do not want to know the WHY. i will say this,was great. also i caught the torrent last night - since even if i wanted too i couldn't watch this live tonite- patriots are playing and ABC plays MNF...
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    Health Care Thread

    of course you can, just don't expect your insurance to pay for repairs for that vehicle, well unless you are very good friends with the insurance agent who then backdates the insurance signup to the day before the accident. but still, pre-existing health insurance existed, it was cost...
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    Honestly I want a Loki movie.
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    Health Care Thread

    the catch is they say it will lower the premiums...what incentive do the HI carriers have to actually LOWER the premiums if they can since they "have" all these new paying customers? they don't. at most the rates just won't climb as fast.
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    Health Care Thread

    most businesses won't give raises.
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    Legend of Korra, Book 2: Spirits

    No you are not. They aired on Nick due to some c contest they rran. Ifa post got bblogged 10 k times they would release the last two episodes online early . at midnight. Cable tv shows those two episodes next Friday
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    Legend of Korra, Book 2: Spirits

    Just finished watching the last two episodes.. Pretty damn epic. The way that raava got..... Grin. Great final.
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    Legend of Korra, Book 2: Spirits

    if you think about it, it might not be reincarnation per se, just the spirit of light finding a newborn of the next bending style almost immediately after the old avatar dies, then fusing that that soul. the "reincarnation" aspect would then be raava's memories loved the owl's a radio is...
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    Legend of Korra, Book 2: Spirits

    just caught the hr tonite...awesome show tonite. i called thethe second we learned about the light and dark spirits... midnight i am going to watch the final two episodes.
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    Health Care Thread

    well apparently the washington state insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler said on Thursday that he won't be allowing insurance companies to extend their old policies that didn't meet the requirements of federal health care reform.
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    Castle

    This just in... Jackson Hunt-James Brolin (Castle's Dad ) is going to be on Castle again, they are filming episode umm 16? starting next week and he is in it.
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    Health Care Thread

    ACCORDING TO hhs director sebelius officially through nov 2nd 106,185 people have signed up for new health insurance via exchanges 27 thousand through the federal exchange. however.... that counts how many people have SELECTED a plan, not how many PURCHASED said plan. number could...