td11 wrote:

1 wrote:one of my students just typed "dictionary.com" into a search engine, and then clicked on the link to the page.

get used to this. half my friends do this. i have no idea why.

my mom does this. that's OK because the internet frightens and confuses her. this is a 13 year old.

re: dairy

its the day before, i found to be the problem. if you have 3+ servings of dairy your going to have issues the next day. and by issues i mean like 5-6 extremely uncomfortable restroom visits.

on the other side of the spectrum. eat a half can of green beens the day before. youll have two awesome restroom visits early in the day, and its smooth sailing the rest of the day.

Bakestar wrote:

Houshphandzadeh wrote:

phatj wrote:Are we talking Dick Bagg in Van Wilder squirts? Because unless it's that bad you really ought to be able to pop into the bathroom for a quick deuce and be back quick enough that she wouldn't notice.

Maybe I just don't have the talent for a "quick deuce," but I would warn off any bathroom visit of more than 90 seconds.

With no disrespect to Bakestar's bowels, I suggest that guys who can't handle a coffee without embarrassing displays are the outliers. Pacino should not fret over this.

It's pretty rare, but if one is being truly risk averse (as one should be with a purported 9.5), extreme caution is a worthy practice.

After morning Starbucks, I have about 1/2 hour to find a bathroom. Like drinking gasoline.

there's no way this guy is an alcoholic:

also, if you have something to do in the evening, have something with alot of cheese for lunch. it seems to get everything all congealed up in there!!

I can smell him from here.

My gmail isn't working, and I was going to have a nervous breakdown since I can't imagine life without the google. Checking to see whether this was a browser problem, I tried in IE. Still failed. Went to a few other websites next, politico, nyt then metsrefugees, to see if my internet in general was fucked up. No problems. When I get to metsrefugees, what is the first thing I see? machinegunfunk has started a thread asking if people's gmail is fucked up! Saved, saved by the brilliant insight of metsrefugees' all star poster machinegunfunk once again.

td11 wrote:

1 wrote:one of my students just typed "dictionary.com" into a search engine, and then clicked on the link to the page.

get used to this. half my friends do this. i have no idea why.

If using Google to go to dictionary.com, why not just type "define:whatever" (sans quotes) in the Google?

jerseyhoya wrote:My gmail isn't working, and I was going to have a nervous breakdown since I can't imagine life without the google. Checking to see whether this was a browser problem, I tried in IE. Still failed. Went to a few other websites next, politico, nyt then metsrefugees, to see if my internet in general was $#@! up. No problems. When I get to metsrefugees, what is the first thing I see? machinegunfunk has started a thread asking if people's gmail is $#@! up! Saved, saved by the brilliant insight of metsrefugees' all star poster machinegunfunk once again.

Has Google reached the point where it's decided that we're just an infestation, and it's going to shove us into vats of goo and harvest our electrochemical energy?

Bakestar wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:My gmail isn't working, and I was going to have a nervous breakdown since I can't imagine life without the google. Checking to see whether this was a browser problem, I tried in IE. Still failed. Went to a few other websites next, politico, nyt then metsrefugees, to see if my internet in general was $#@! up. No problems. When I get to metsrefugees, what is the first thing I see? machinegunfunk has started a thread asking if people's gmail is $#@! up! Saved, saved by the brilliant insight of metsrefugees' all star poster machinegunfunk once again.

Has Google reached the point where it's decided that we're just an infestation, and it's going to shove us into vats of goo and harvest our electrochemical energy?

Naw, that won't happen until they figure out how to target advertising et al at electrochemical energy.

Phan In Phlorida wrote:

td11 wrote:

1 wrote:one of my students just typed "dictionary.com" into a search engine, and then clicked on the link to the page.

get used to this. half my friends do this. i have no idea why.

If using Google to go to dictionary.com, why not just type "define:whatever" (sans quotes) in the Google?

because we don't cover that in class. we do, however, discuss URLs and how to effectively use search engines.

My gmail wasn't working yesterday for about half an hour. I figured it was related to the Patriot Act.

jerseyhoya wrote:My gmail isn't working, and I was going to have a nervous breakdown since I can't imagine life without the google. Checking to see whether this was a browser problem, I tried in IE. Still failed. Went to a few other websites next, politico, nyt then metsrefugees, to see if my internet in general was $#@! up. No problems. When I get to metsrefugees, what is the first thing I see? machinegunfunk has started a thread asking if people's gmail is $#@! up! Saved, saved by the brilliant insight of metsrefugees' all star poster machinegunfunk once again.

i think someone else posted this before:

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

everytime i come to boston:

(a) it rains
(b) the sox are out of town or its the offseason
(c) the north end remains awesome

Phan In Phlorida wrote:

td11 wrote:

1 wrote:one of my students just typed "dictionary.com" into a search engine, and then clicked on the link to the page.

get used to this. half my friends do this. i have no idea why.

If using Google to go to dictionary.com, why not just type "define:whatever" (sans quotes) in the Google?

Sometimes I do the "dictionary.com" into Google thing because I thought I'd clicked in the address bar, but the page hadn't fully loaded yet. When the page does completely load, it changes your cursor from wherever it is into the search box. So, because of that, I'll have "Dictionary.com" in the search bar and it's less work to press Enter and click the website link than it is to retype it at the top. Or sometimes I'll have "di" in the top and then "ctionary.com" in the Google search bar.

[/longer explanation than you wanted or needed]

I type web addresses into google all the time for whatever reason. Probably because I google things more often than typing in URLs, since I keep about 4-8 tabs open all the time anyway with gmail/news/sports websites that I like to check a lot. When it comes time to actually go to a different website, often times I just go to the google thing on the toolbar by default.

jerseyhoya wrote:I type web addresses into google all the time for whatever reason. Probably because I google things more often than typing in URLs, since I keep about 4-8 tabs open all the time anyway with gmail/news/sports websites that I like to check a lot. When it comes time to actually go to a different website, often times I just go to the google thing on the toolbar by default.

Also, if you misspell a lot of web addresses incorrectly, Google will fix that almost every time.

CrashburnAlley wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:I type web addresses into google all the time for whatever reason. Probably because I google things more often than typing in URLs, since I keep about 4-8 tabs open all the time anyway with gmail/news/sports websites that I like to check a lot. When it comes time to actually go to a different website, often times I just go to the google thing on the toolbar by default.

Also, if you misspell a lot of web addresses incorrectly, Google will fix that almost every time.

That, and if you type in espn.com (for example), you can click straight through to the MLB or NFL page from google. It really doesn't cost you a whole lot on the time front.

We should be hired as Google lobbyists.

It's really annoying when someone calls you and then expect you to breathe life into the conversation. I just got off the phone with my friend who was at the Phillies game and after the usual greetings, it's just an awkward 5-second silence. I'm thinking, "Dude, you called me, obviously you had something to say... out with it!"

The conversation went roughly like this:

*ring*

Me: Hello?
Him: Hey.
*awkward silence*
Me: What's up?
Him: Nothing.
Me: You on your way back from Philly?
Him: Yeah.
*awkward silence*
Me: So... did you have a good time?
Him: Yeah.
*awkward silence*
Me: Shame the way that game ended.
Him: Yeah.
Me: Durbin sucks.
Him: Yeah, he got two outs and then imploded.
*awkward silence*
Him: Well, I'll give you a call back later.
Me: Uh... okay.

Right now, I just want to punch him for being an awful conversationalist.