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Paper_jam

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  1. When The Office first ran, I kind of identified with Halpert because he was smart and funny. Watching it again years later, drives home that Jim, while not a bad guy, maybe has a little too high an opinion of himself. (Which I can understand, when you work with Michael Scott and guys like Kevin and Phyllis, etc.) But it does make me look at Jim in a different light. The phone-call scene where Jim unloads on Pam for not recording their kid or something always makes me want to kick Jim's ass. My favorite characters are definitely Pam and Dwight.
  2. This story is like a dagger in the heart. It's a searing indictment of the state of child neglect and abuse in America. I hope the defense doesn't throw up a lot of smoke and mirrors because with the stabbing angle it seems like it's outside the range of an insanity plea.
  3. If you wait 'til after Texas loses a bowl game you can pick up that merchandise at a bitchin' discount. I bought a 1991 Cotton Bowl t-shirt for like $2-3 the day after.
  4. I remember hearing the roommate-suicide = 4.0 GPA one, the secret tunnels, the Tower/Rice/Owl thing. I also remember hearing the bathtub ice/kidney/note thing a lot. This was early 90s. I think I recall an employee was actually busted at Player's for selling weed from the take-out window.
  5. As a public service I am posting this notice to the general driving public in the Austin metro area: Starting tomorrow, October 4, 2018, at 7:00 am, E. Parmer Lane between Interstate 35 and Highway 290, will be closed indefinitely by order of me until further notice. Do not attempt to drive on this portion of Parmer Ln, even (especially) if the road appears to be open. It is closed and anything you see which suggests otherwise is a hallucination or optical illusion. Any attempt to drive on said portion of closed road may lead to prosecution and/or risk of personal injury. Persons in North Austin wishing to access SH 130 or the city of Manor should do so via eastbound Hwy 290 or by Howard Ln. This closure is necessary because holy shit what the fuck happened to this road it used to be a nice country lane and now I have to wait 2+ cycles through these goddamn stoplights which weren't even here a few years ago
  6. Today is supposed to be the first nationwide test.
  7. I know it's a TV/movie thread, but If we're allowed to bitch about radio ads here, for me it's the Toyota ad in which a girl talks about how all the safety bullshit on the car will protect them from monsters and UFOs. Good parenting, folks--your kid sounds about 12 years old, but still believes in that shit. Oh, and those "it's a crime to pay more than a dime" Mitsubishi dealer ads.
  8. I watched it tonight on DirecTV. My initial DirectV order email from a year ago says I have the "Ultimate" package. I can't remember if I added anything to that or not. The way they shuffle tiers and packages around, who knows what you really get. Edit: their current channel listings for packages show LHN to not be included in Ultimate now. I'll be pissed if they take it away.
  9. Oh, life finds a way. One trait I'm running into a lot lately are drivers ahead of me who, when approaching a stale green light, slow down just enough to make sure they will be the last car to get through the yellow, while blocking me out. I swear it is fucking deliberate. Same goes for the case where I'm stuck in a line of cars stopped at a red light, and the shithead in front of me accelerates real slow when the light turns green; so they can be the last car through before it goes red again.
  10. Kinda soon for a remake of The Strain but w/e.
  11. Was kinda expecting the old joke about painting the porch/porsche.
  12. The KXAN article up now says she was on video actually inside the building, and exited on the rear side. You'd think if she was feeling ill that she'd stay inside or ask for help, but ... who knows.
  13. Is it the place now shown as Mongolian Hot Pot on google streetview? Or was it further west where the Shell station is now? I remember an old burger or bbq place somewhere along that side of the street in that area, in the early 90s.
  14. Scattered clouds providing a few welcome moments of shade in 78753.
  15. Well, I don't know about how you'd actually get football via streaming, but as a general (basic and cheap) streaming device for Netflix and Amazon I've been satisfied with my Roku Express+. I think it cost about $30. Doesn't support 4K though, or 5 ghz wireless--only 2.4. And no voice-operated search.
  16. It's fuckin' hot as shit already today. Not looking forward to late afternoon.
  17. That's a terrible thing to hear; best of luck to you and your mother. Lung cancer killed my mother a little over 10 years ago. Fuck cancer.
  18. Paper_jam

    Lodge 49

    Very mellow and easy to watch. Funny with a nice undercurrent of melancholy. I'll keep watching. Although I do have concerns about how well this will sustain itself in the long term. It's hard to see this becoming a Big Dramatic Event show like, say, Breaking Bad or even BCS.
  19. Dammit Malls are in a death spiral. Nothing but women's shoe stores as far as the eye can see. Broken up by the occasional overpriced chain jewelry shop.
  20. Are we allowed to bring our own peanuts? Or would that end in a trip to Gitmo?
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