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October 7, 2008

Link Dump: October 7th, 2008

Scribbled by: Eric Simon @ 12:10 am | Filed under: Link Dumps

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Comment posted by Confused on October 7, 2008 at 6:01 pm (#874560)
safety is job 1.
Comment posted by Confused on October 7, 2008 at 6:05 pm (#874561)
It was a showdown to cherish for critics of Wall Street’s culture of enrichment. The grim-faced boss of the bankrupt bank Lehman Brothers was left squirming yesterday as a veteran Democrat roasted him over his multimillion-dollar pay. With the startled look of a man unaccustomed to sharp examination, Lehman chief executive Richard Fuld clashed bluntly with the chairman of the House oversight committee, Henry Waxman, on Capitol Hill.

“Your company is now bankrupt and our country is in a state of crisis,” said Waxman, a liberal from California. “You get to keep $480m. I have a very basic question: Is that fair?” After a long pause, Fuld said the figure was exaggerated: “The majority of my compensation, sir, came in stock. The vast majority of the stock I got I still owned at the point of our [bankruptcy] filing.”

Waxman cut him off, saying that even if the figure was slightly lower, it was “unimaginable” to much of the public. “Is that fair, for a CEO of a company that’s now bankrupt, to make that kind of money? It’s just unimaginable to so many people.”

apparently, he was puched while working out in the company gym.
Comment posted by PHL on October 7, 2008 at 6:08 pm (#874562)
Yay me!!! I LOVE winning.

::sigh::

So, did you win the prediction contest? I’m too lazy to check my own journal post.
Comment posted by john on October 7, 2008 at 6:22 pm (#874563)
lol they are saying 5 game series isnt fair to determine playoffs…….then they say go to 7…….its still unfair lol
Comment posted by sheadenizen on October 7, 2008 at 6:27 pm (#874564)
lol they are saying 5 game series isnt fair to determine playoffs…

who’s they? The White Sox, Angels, Cubs and Brewers?
Comment posted by Dep on October 7, 2008 at 6:29 pm (#874565)
Hey Dep. I finished the Cube game last night! Once I got into the 20’s it started to get easier again.

yay! good for you hon
Comment posted by Athena on October 7, 2008 at 6:29 pm (#874566)
Comment posted by Simons on August 20, 2008 at 9:30 pm (#811805)

Okay, unless I’ve gone plum crazy, Santana’s shutout gives Athena 10 correct answers; John and Lunkwill have nine.

Athena picked Heilman for vultured win, and John and Lunk picked Wagner. So, if Wags heals up in time to beat Heilman to the punch, there could be a three-way tie, which Lunk would win.

If Simons is not plum crazy - then yes. Poor Wagner. :-(

I would gladly trade my purely symbolic e-prize to have had Wagner back to get the vulture win.

:weeps bitterly:
Comment posted by john on October 7, 2008 at 6:53 pm (#874567)
Oh it was on Around The Horn on ESPN lol
Comment posted by john on October 7, 2008 at 6:53 pm (#874568)
oh man I missed by ONE? lol
Comment posted by john on October 7, 2008 at 6:54 pm (#874569)
im still on 16 lol

fuckin game.
Comment posted by john on October 7, 2008 at 6:55 pm (#874570)
ahahahahahaha on Pardon the Interuption everytime there’s a commerical they keep breaking too earlier back to the show and u can hear them say all sorts on weird stuff………wilbon just saying he would wear “purple” lol.
Comment posted by Athena on October 7, 2008 at 6:56 pm (#874571)
im still on 16 lol

####in game.

16 is the worst one, John. There were one or two really tough ones after that, but then it got to be more fun again.
Comment posted by john on October 7, 2008 at 6:58 pm (#874572)
I only have like 10 mins here and there to play i really need to sit down one day and actually have time to think about it lol
Comment posted by The Aaron Defense Committee of One™ on October 7, 2008 at 7:03 pm (#874574)
Nice sluething Geeks. Sorry work called me away from giving ya more clues.

I’ve been defending Aaron for more than 3 years now, but to be fair, I lurked a lot for the first year or so.

As for the Aaron discussion, I’m not a fan of WPA as a stat of quality. It’s a good as gauge of emotional response, but it’s far too much about “clutch” performance. If you want to talk about a “win” stat, I think WSAB is a better stat, and it shows that Aaron had 12 WSAB from ‘05 to ‘07, pretty darn good for a setup reliever.
Comment posted by The Aaron Defense Committee of One™ on October 7, 2008 at 7:04 pm (#874575)
Oh yeah, I finished the cube game last night too, and I concur, 16 was BRUTAL. I admit that I had to google a solution to that one.
Comment posted by Athena on October 7, 2008 at 7:06 pm (#874577)
Oh yeah, I finished the cube game last night too, and I concur, 16 was BRUTAL. I admit that I had to google a solution to that one.

hah! I never thought of that! I played with it off and on for a couple of days before I got it.
Comment posted by Dep on October 7, 2008 at 7:06 pm (#874578)
16 is quite da bitch!
Comment posted by Dep on October 7, 2008 at 7:07 pm (#874579)
I played with it off and on for a couple of days before I got it.

hehehehe
Comment posted by Dep on October 7, 2008 at 7:07 pm (#874580)
I admit that I had to google a solution to that one.

LOL! i couldn’t believe they had google images showing the solutions.
Comment posted by john on October 7, 2008 at 7:08 pm (#874581)
I’ll figure it out……i just need some free time lol. Maybe instead of chatting on metsgeek tomorrow ill play lol
Comment posted by Athena on October 7, 2008 at 7:09 pm (#874582)
And it was bizarre. Suddenly it just worked! I didn’t even know what I had done differently. I started over last night and I’m going to see if I’m any faster this time. OR if I have already forgotten all the solutions.
Comment posted by The Aaron Defense Committee of One™ on October 7, 2008 at 7:10 pm (#874583)
LOL! i couldn’t believe they had google images showing the solutions.

I wouldn’t have even thought to google it, but I saw some discussion of googled solutions in one of the link dump threads. I blame those people for tempting me with easy solutions (although I probably spent like 3 hours trying to solve it before googling).
Comment posted by The Aaron Defense Committee of One™ on October 7, 2008 at 7:12 pm (#874584)
Athena, I had that happen on a couple of the puzzles in the 20s. I got stuck, walked away for an hour or so, came back, and was able to do it. I don’t know what I did differently, but it just worked. 16 was different though, no matter how many times I fiddled with it, that sucker was not cooperating.
Comment posted by Athena on October 7, 2008 at 7:12 pm (#874585)
I’m going home, my dears.

I’ll catch y’all later. Plus, I’m considering drinking quite a bit, so I should be pretty amusing right about 9:00. ;-)
Comment posted by john on October 7, 2008 at 7:13 pm (#874586)
haha have fun

Im out too.
Comment posted by Dep on October 7, 2008 at 7:24 pm (#874589)
I wouldn’t have even thought to google it, but I saw some discussion of googled solutions in one of the link dump threads. I blame those people for tempting me with easy solutions (although I probably spent like 3 hours trying to solve it before googling).

hahahaha, i wish i had discovered there were answers out there b4 i spent an entire evening on 16. that fucker took me 2 days almost.
Comment posted by Confused on October 7, 2008 at 7:28 pm (#874590)
After much deliberation, FX has canceled “The Riches.”

Net took several months to make a decision but finally came to the conclusion that falling ratings were too much to overcome. Viewer totals for the series, which ran for two seasons, dropped substantially in year two, falling 44% in the 18-49 demo.

Premiering in March 2007, “The Riches” got off to a somewhat healthy start with a 1.9 rating/5 share in the demo, and 3.84 million viewers overall, but slipped after that. Due to the writers strike, the second season was shortened from 13 episodes to seven and ended in April.

The series starred Minnie Driver and Eddie Izzard, the parents of a family of gypsies who move into a wealthy suburban Louisiana neighborhood under a new identity. Critical acceptance of the show was mixed, but Driver did earn Emmy and Golden Globe noms.

On Monday, FX reupped their newest drama series “Sons of Anarchy” for a second season and recently launched the fourth season of comedy skein “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” Newest laffer “Testees,” about a pair of human guinea pigs, premieres Thursday.

Net is also in the final year of “The Shield,” which closes its seven-season run on Nov. 25. The high costs of marketing and producing all its series — including “Damages,” which returns in 2009 — played into the equation of canceling “The Riches.”

“The Riches” was produced by Fox Television Studios and FX Prods.

Showrunner Dmitry Lipkin is currently attached to HBO’s dark comedy “Hung,” about a well-endowed man.
Comment posted by Jessica on October 7, 2008 at 7:39 pm (#874593)
For fellow celeb-gossip junkies:

Think Jessica Simpson and Kim Kardashian are the only ones with NFL boyfriends? Well, I think you are forgetting about one very important C+ actor on a hit network drama who leaves his wife and kids every weekend to go cheer on his boyfriend who is on an NFL west coast team.
Comment posted by Dep on October 7, 2008 at 8:12 pm (#874597)
hahahahahah, i would love to know who the hell that is!
Comment posted by Athena on October 7, 2008 at 8:18 pm (#874598)
Me, too!
Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on October 7, 2008 at 8:22 pm (#874599)
hey jess, dep and athena,,,
Comment posted by Future, now with a present J.D. on October 7, 2008 at 8:22 pm (#874600)
Re: Earlier

She’s ok. Thanks for all your sentiment.
Comment posted by Athena on October 7, 2008 at 8:25 pm (#874601)
Booey!!! What’s cookin’???
Comment posted by Doc Mix-A-Lot on October 7, 2008 at 8:25 pm (#874602)
New York Mets pitcher Ambiorix Burgos turned himself in on Tuesday, a week after police say he was involved in a hit-and-run accident that killed two women.

Authorities were interviewing him, prosecutor Raul Quiroz told The Associated Press.

The news comes after the mother of one of the two victims accused Burgos of intentionally running her daughter over because she refused to go out with him.

Eudosia Ruane, mother of 29-year-old Angely Fana, told the AP she filed a report with police alleging homicide.

An arrest warrant had been issued for the 24-year-old reliever, who disappeared after the Sept. 30 accident that killed Fana and Josefina Minaya, 38. Burgos is accused of abandoning the victims and fleeing, charges that can carry six months to two years in prison.

Witnesses say Burgos was the driver, even though his cousin claimed to be behind the wheel, according to police.

Burgos also faces an unrelated charge of illegal weapon possession and had recently been released after posting a $3,000 bond.

He also has an Oct. 23 court hearing in the U.S. stemming from assault and harassment charges filed after he allegedly threw his girlfriend to the ground.

Burgos has not appeared in Major League Baseball since last year and spent the past season on the disabled list following elbow ligament replacement surgery. He pitched in the minors last month while on a rehabilitation assignment.
Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on October 7, 2008 at 8:27 pm (#874603)
nothin watching bad tv,,,, how about you ??
Comment posted by Doc Mix-A-Lot on October 7, 2008 at 8:27 pm (#874604)
I hope he doesn’t get outed who ever it is, he’s gonna go through hell. Read the Cowgirls book by Pearlman, off the hook. The biggest party animals weren’t even players. Just crazy stuff.
Comment posted by Athena on October 7, 2008 at 8:28 pm (#874605)
That’s great, Future. I know how difficult it is. It has happened to me. It takes a while to get your mind around it. But people in this situation frequently end up much better off. It’s too early for her to see it that way, but I hope that she will one day soon.
Comment posted by Doc Mix-A-Lot on October 7, 2008 at 8:28 pm (#874606)
Yeah hang in there future, this economy is really scary right now. It feels like all hell could break loose any minute, more than just a normal recession.
Comment posted by Doc Mix-A-Lot on October 7, 2008 at 8:29 pm (#874607)
I too have been laid off before, it sucks but you end up being stronger and wiser for it.
Comment posted by Athena on October 7, 2008 at 8:30 pm (#874608)
nothin watching bad tv,,,, how about you ??

Also watching TV, but I’m watching Life. Which is very good.

Drinking wine on an empty stomach and getting a little impaired. :-)
Comment posted by Dep on October 7, 2008 at 8:31 pm (#874609)
Getting Laid > Getting Laid-Off

Amazing how one wittle word changes EVERYTHING
Comment posted by Lunkwill Fook on October 7, 2008 at 8:32 pm (#874610)
Sorry to hear about your wife’s job, Future. Good things will happen. I’m sure of it. At least, as long as Burgos isn’t involved.
Comment posted by Dep on October 7, 2008 at 8:32 pm (#874611)
I just started the cowgirls book

The opening chapter is amazing with Irvin and the pair of scissors

I’m about 100 pages into it, the cowgirls are just starting to get a good team together. no true craziness yet outside of the 1st chapter
Comment posted by Athena on October 7, 2008 at 8:33 pm (#874612)
Amazing how one wittle word changes EVERYTHING

baahahahaha! HUGE difference! And one is certainly dramatically better than the other.
Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on October 7, 2008 at 8:34 pm (#874613)
ha ha a few vinoa are ok,,,,,
i really wont be able to take it if the philth win ,,,,, :(
Comment posted by Athena on October 7, 2008 at 8:35 pm (#874614)
Me neither, Booey. That would just suck.
Comment posted by Future, now with a present J.D. on October 7, 2008 at 8:36 pm (#874615)
She wasn’t happy at her job.

Too bad this couldn’t have happened last week! We could have driven up to LA to see Sloan!

Sloan= one of my favorite bands.
Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on October 7, 2008 at 8:37 pm (#874616)
you having white or red,,,, wine ..??
Comment posted by Doc Mix-A-Lot on October 7, 2008 at 8:37 pm (#874617)
Wait till you get to Switzer and the king player Jerry Jones. Irvin and scissors was just madness.
Comment posted by Doc Mix-A-Lot on October 7, 2008 at 8:37 pm (#874618)
What does your wife do future.
Comment posted by Athena on October 7, 2008 at 8:39 pm (#874619)
White. Gruner Veltliner. A German wine. Pretty nice.
Comment posted by Doc Mix-A-Lot on October 7, 2008 at 8:41 pm (#874620)
Liar, liar.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian is shooting down plastic surgery rumors about her curvy figure with photo ‘proof.’

On her blog, the 28-year-old posted a bikini-clad photo of herself at age 14.

“I hope after seeing this you guys will never ask me a plastic surgery question again,” Kardashian wrote. “I have had a size C since I was 11 years old!”

Regarding her most famous asset, Kardashian wrote, “All the butt implant rumors are just so not true and now just silly to me.”
Comment posted by Jessica on October 7, 2008 at 8:43 pm (#874621)
There’s something nauseatingly stupid about Kardashian doing that.
Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on October 7, 2008 at 8:43 pm (#874622)
aahhhhh german wine is great good for you,,,,

kim kardashian< rocket scientist
Comment posted by Future, now with a present J.D. on October 7, 2008 at 8:43 pm (#874624)
The only thing in her butt is a crapload of fat.

And my wife is a receptionist/ office administrator person.
Comment posted by Dep on October 7, 2008 at 8:44 pm (#874625)
yay, i’m free!

catch y’all on da flipside
Comment posted by Athena on October 7, 2008 at 8:45 pm (#874626)
Holy shit, Dep! Still at work? Get home safe!
Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on October 7, 2008 at 8:49 pm (#874627)
jjeeexx man the man keepin you down huh dep m!!! i hate the man !!!!!! @#$^@#$^$#$#^@
Comment posted by Jessica on October 7, 2008 at 8:53 pm (#874628)
Future, sorry to hear about your wife.
Comment posted by Future, now with a present J.D. on October 7, 2008 at 8:53 pm (#874629)
It’s so he can have two more days off this week, I believe.

Stay late tonight and he gets two days off. No Mets = easy decision.
Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on October 7, 2008 at 8:54 pm (#874630)
sorry future man ,,,,hang in there,,,
Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on October 7, 2008 at 9:02 pm (#874631)
” boom goes the dynamite !!”
Comment posted by Hockey Season in St. Louis on October 7, 2008 at 9:54 pm (#874632)
How does this guys arm not snap off…

http://www.lolpix.com/pictures/11/Funny_Pictures_398.htm
Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on October 7, 2008 at 9:56 pm (#874633)
ha ha ha thats a crazy photo,,,,,,hmmm whtts up timmmayy ????
Comment posted by Future, now with a present J.D. on October 7, 2008 at 10:00 pm (#874634)
You know they got ChadBrad for a PTBNL.

Nice work Omar!
Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on October 7, 2008 at 10:05 pm (#874635)
omar not good w/ the lol pen,,,, :(
Comment posted by Hockey Season in St. Louis on October 7, 2008 at 10:19 pm (#874636)
bobby!…..stickin it to the man are ya?
Comment posted by PHL on October 7, 2008 at 10:19 pm (#874637)
Er, IIRC Bradford was claimed on the AL waiver wire.
Comment posted by Future, now with a present J.D. on October 7, 2008 at 10:24 pm (#874638)
But that’s all that Bradford cost the Rays.

It goes without saying that Omar could have gotten him for the same low call.
Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on October 7, 2008 at 10:31 pm (#874639)
timaayy may be in st looey next may i will pop by for a beer ok ????
Comment posted by Hockey Season in St. Louis on October 7, 2008 at 10:34 pm (#874640)
If we are all here and not out in the street by all means, we will have beers. Hell even if we are out in the street, we’ll still have some beers.
Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on October 7, 2008 at 10:39 pm (#874641)
cool we should be in town for memorial day,,,,,,
Comment posted by Hockey Season in St. Louis on October 7, 2008 at 10:40 pm (#874642)
bring your drinking shoes.
Comment posted by Hockey Season in St. Louis on October 7, 2008 at 10:41 pm (#874643)
I can’t wait….I have not met a geek in person…..you aren’t by any chance a hottie are you….you just call yourself bob?
Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on October 7, 2008 at 10:46 pm (#874644)
ha ha ha sadly no butt i do like to drink,,,,,
i will be there for wedding w/ the future mrs. booey,,,,
Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on October 7, 2008 at 11:02 pm (#874647)
ok ok gonna watch john stewart and and pass out gnihgt future and timmay,,,,
Comment posted by Future, now with a present J.D. on October 8, 2008 at 12:35 am (#874648)
night.