Time to drink your gin-and-tonic-ah

[LessinSF]

Like me, do you lose your camera often? If so, try this.

[ltl/fb]

Originally Posted by fugee

i've never seen one of those christmas trees. I understand the concept but don't think i'd want one.

While i was trying to follow the links to see where those are sold, i came across something more suited to this board. Or maybe the cooking board.

mc!!!!

[dtb]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

I have not noticed it around here so much, but then again I work in a place where the MOT population is higher than the national average, so YMMV.

Until my son was about 6 years old, I'm pretty sure he didn't realize there was such a thing as non-Jews. It was only when we decamped to this rural place that it dawned on him that maybe Jews weren't a majority.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by evenodds

I have noticed some very aggressive "Merry Christmas"ing here -- nearly angry and defensive.

Is this common elsewhere?

I've noticed a disproportionate number of Holiday cards come from MOT friends. It's like overcompensating or something.

You hang out somewhere in a red state - Palin-world - don't you? What a long-suffering tribe the born-agains are.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by dtb

Until my son was about 6 years old, I'm pretty sure he didn't realize there was such a thing as non-Jews. It was only when we decamped to this rural place that it dawned on him that maybe Jews weren't a majority.

How did you break it to him? "Sonny, you know those people who put jelly on their bagel..."

[dtb]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

How did you break it to him? "Sonny, you know those people who put jelly on their bagel..."

Ha. Almost -- mayo on a pastrami sandwich.

[Replaced_Texan]

News of multi-million dollar abject failure by the Dallas Cowboys brings joy to my heart.

Still, Cameron has to be hoping his movie does better than the 3D experiment conducted Sunday night by another American icon: Jerry Jones' Dallas Cowboys. The mammoth HD monitor at Texas Stadium was devoted to 3D visuals, and fans were given special HDlogix glasses to enjoy the spectacle.

I know what you're thinking, and you're right -- it is indeed silly to make people who are at a live event view that live event on a Jumbotron. Especially if they have to take the 3D glasses off to clearly see the game.

The crowd booed, and stadium officials called the whole thing off after just seven minutes -- but not before CBS, which was broadcasting the game, gave its announcers a chance to tout the effect -- something that was hard to do when the TV images just looked like the lame red-blue-and-blurry 3D junk you might've seen in the previous century.

As for Cameron's Avatar, we shall see -- literally. Personally, I find it hard to believe the colors will be as vivid -- and images as sharp -- if I'm viewing them through a polarized screen instead of seeing them on a (newly affordable) HD TV set at home.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by dtb

Ha. Almost -- mayo on a pastrami sandwich.

That's just cruel.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

That's just cruel.

No, what's cruel is being in a place that doesn't seem to have a really really good pastrami sandwich available 24 hrs a day. I'm a fan of both junky pastrami (Johnnie's Pastrami) and real deli pastrami and I live close to neither.

[Jack Manfred]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Wine Spectator. Looks like this will be updated soon:

http://www.winespectator.com/content...intcardWEB.pdf

Thanks. Penske's advice was good too.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Flinty_McFlint

No, what's cruel is being in a place that doesn't seem to have a really really good pastrami sandwich available 24 hrs a day. I'm a fan of both junky pastrami (Johnnie's Pastrami) and real deli pastrami and I live close to neither.

Take this to the Greedy Oatmeal board.

[Fugee]

....not to mention thinking twice about venting online.

The interesting thing is that Facebook just sent around a message encouraging people to tighten up their privacy controls.

http://www.startribune.com/local/79361082.html?elr=KArksCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKU7DYaGEP7vDEh7PiUs

I wonder if professors routinely look at their students' Facebook pages.

[evenodds]

Originally Posted by Fugee

....not to mention thinking twice about venting online.

The interesting thing is that Facebook just sent around a message encouraging people to tighten up their privacy controls.

http://www.startribune.com/local/79361082.html?elr=KArksCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKU7DYaGEP7vDEh7PiUs

I wonder if professors routinely look at their students' Facebook pages.

Gawker posted a helpful guide to Facebook privacy yesterday.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by dtb

Ha. Almost -- mayo on a pastrami sandwich.

I can see the words you have posted on this page, but the ones you chose, and the order you put them in, don't make any sense.

TM

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Fugee

....not to mention thinking twice about venting online.

The interesting thing is that Facebook just sent around a message encouraging people to tighten up their privacy controls.

http://www.startribune.com/local/79361082.html?elr=KArksCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKU7DYaGEP7vDEh7PiUs

I wonder if professors routinely look at their students' Facebook pages.

After a JAMA article came out in September, I started a lecture series on social media, especially facebook, aimed at both professors and students. Medical students turn ghost white when it's suggested that maybe all of those pictures from Spring Break 06 aren't really appropriate on their profile. Professors, it turns out, are all over the map in their general use of and their specific interaction with their students on social media. I'll be happy to send you the slides if you want them.