While we're on the subject of Amazon, ordering men's underwear from them is sort of NSFW. Also, product reviews on men's underwear are rather interesting. People want different things from their underwear.

ike barinholtz was on stern this morning. he old the most amazing/horrible story. He is friends with Brian Posehn. posehn was out eating, and saw someone that he recognized and said "i'm sorry, you look familiar, but I can't place it" the guy was like "really?" posehn goes "were you on a tv show" the guy says "no" so posehn keeps eating, but it's driving him nuts. he goes "I'm sorry, this is driving me nuts. how do oi know you"

the guy goes "I'm Fred Goldman. OJ Simpson murdered my son"

allegedly

The Dude wrote:ike barinholtz was on stern this morning. he old the most amazing/horrible story. He is friends with Brian Posehn. posehn was out eating, and saw someone that he recognized and said "i'm sorry, you look familiar, but I can't place it" the guy was like "really?" posehn goes "were you on a tv show" the guy says "no" so posehn keeps eating, but it's driving him nuts. he goes "I'm sorry, this is driving me nuts. how do oi know you"

the guy goes "I'm Fred Goldman. OJ Simpson murdered my son"

that's horrible

listening to howard stern

that's crazy. his guests/interviews are outstanding

I recently had a new PC built and it arrived before Thanksgiving. Unfortunately after unpacking and setting it up it appeared the graphics card got damaged during shipping so I had to send it back in to get it swapped out (because it was fresh out of the box and wouldn't boot to Windows they wanted to put it through QC again to make sure nothing else was wrong). I got an email last Friday saying it was received and the repairs done and sent out the same day and it was scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. The box was sitting outside my door (rear of building, 2nd floor entrance) when I got home from work yesterday. Was a happy surprise, but I'm curious how UPS's estimate could be off by that much. Either way, I have a good UPS guy to lug it up the back stairs and not leave it on the porch out by the street.

/coolstorynerd

I ended up just buying a Dell (dude, you're getting a dell) because I have a credit account with them and the payments are low. It gets what I want done (plays Blizzard games a lot better than my mid-2000s computer), has an i5, and I can always upgrade the video card later (it has a shitty Nvidia in it, a GeForce 730).

WheelsFellOff wrote:I recently had a new PC built and it arrived before Thanksgiving. Unfortunately after unpacking and setting it up it appeared the graphics card got damaged during shipping so I had to send it back in to get it swapped out (because it was fresh out of the box and wouldn't boot to Windows they wanted to put it through QC again to make sure nothing else was wrong). I got an email last Friday saying it was received and the repairs done and sent out the same day and it was scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. The box was sitting outside my door (rear of building, 2nd floor entrance) when I got home from work yesterday. Was a happy surprise, but I'm curious how UPS's estimate could be off by that much. Either way, I have a good UPS guy to lug it up the back stairs and not leave it on the porch out by the street.

/coolstorynerd

where did it come from? Was the estimate from UPS or the computer company? I wonder if UPS hedges their estimates during the holiday rush. You can check out their standard service map here.

The company's in Utah, delivery estimate came from UPS email.

slugsrbad wrote:I ended up just buying a Dell (dude, you're getting a dell) because I have a credit account with them and the payments are low. It gets what I want done (plays Blizzard games a lot better than my mid-2000s computer), has an i5, and I can always upgrade the video card later (it has a shitty Nvidia in it, a GeForce 730).

I went cheap with my last one, bought a $350 Gateway off the shelf at a Best Buy. That was just after the i-series processors were released and Windows 7 was the new hotness. It had an i3 and 6 gigs of ram, so I said good enough. Put a $60 graphics card in it at purchase and a $75 upgrade one last year. Been using it more and more recently, including shifting my gaming away from console to Steam, so I figured it was time to invest a bit more in this one. i5-6500, 16gig ram, SSD + HDD for media storage, a modular power supply for cleaner future upgrades and a GTX 970. I spec'd it off the recommended requirements for the HTC Vive since it looks cool as shit and I think we're fast approaching the time VR actually becomes a real thing.

WheelsFellOff wrote: I spec'd it off the recommended requirements for the HTC Vive since it looks cool as shit and I think we're fast approaching the time VR actually becomes a real thing.

pretty sure if at some point virtual = real, you've got yourself one a those singularities

pacino wrote:i ordered 3 items in one shipment, requested one shipment, then proceeded to get 3 shipments over the course of two weeks. all of these items were technically 'prime 2 day shipping'.

The Dude wrote:Have you complained? Customer service chat loves giving away stuff

maybe they'll give you a 10-pack of wing nuts

WheelsFellOff wrote:The company's in Utah, delivery estimate came from UPS email.

US prolly pads their estimates this time of year.

going through the names of the kids who are participating in the bocce tournament i am running tomorrow-- kanye and mustafa are on the same team. discuss.

Kids should be playing basketball, baseball, football, ball tag... Something athletic and where there is a chance of getting injured. We are raising our kids today to be a bunch of pussies playing bocce ball. Back in the day if you didn't get some sort of road rash or head wound, you weren't playing.

CalvinBall wrote:going through the names of the kids who are participating in the bocce tournament i am running tomorrow-- kanye and mustafa are on the same team. discuss.

You should see the class list for 6th and 7th grade where my gf works. Don't know how they come up with some of them.

Buddy from elementary school (we kind of lost touch after that) named his son Beckham Adin. I'm very happy for him?

last final for the semester done, one more semester to go.

azrider wrote:Kids should be playing basketball, baseball, football, ball tag... Something athletic and where there is a chance of getting injured. We are raising our kids today to be a bunch of pussies playing bocce ball. Back in the day if you didn't get some sort of road rash or head wound, you weren't playing.

I'm still pissed about lawn darts. Taught you to pay attention and to get out of the gaddam way. A lawn dart sticking out of your foot meant you were too slow.

ReadingPhilly wrote:last final for the semester done, one more semester to go.

this can't be true, you're not complaining about school on FB all the time