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Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

  • Shoveling/Snowblowing

    Votes: 1 3.1%

  • Repeated proclamations of The Worst Snowstorm Ever

    Votes: 9 28.1%

  • The bitter cold

    Votes: 2 6.3%

  • Not enough booze to go around

    Votes: 2 6.3%

  • No Giada on TV

    Votes: 2 6.3%

  • Every other driver on the road

    Votes: 9 28.1%

  • Not enough hockey on TV

    Votes: 1 3.1%

  • USCHO slow-loading times

    Votes: 1 3.1%

  • The added weight

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Freddy Meyer is acting nice

    Votes: 5 15.6%
  • Total voters
    32
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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

Some telemarketer decided to call this evening requesting a donation for hungry people. The phone rang just as the timer on my oven was going off.

Hammer: You hear that timer going off?
<telemarketing magpie>: Yes. What is that?
Hammer: That's the timer on my oven. Dinner is ready.
<telemarketing magpie>: Do you have just a minute to listen to what I have to say?
Hammer: Well, if I spend time talking to you, I'm going to burn my dinner.
<telemarketing magpie>: Well, there are starving people that need to eat, too.
Hammer: Well, let's see. If I burn my dinner talking to you, I'm not going to have dinner for myself. I'll have to spend more money on my groceries, and there will be none for you. Now what the hell is wrong with this picture?
<telemarketing magpie>: Umm....errrr...uhh..

*click*
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

Hammer said:
Some telemarketer decided to call this evening requesting a donation for hungry people. The phone rang just as the timer on my oven was going off.
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Telemarketers like to hangup on me, I assume its because I don't answer quick enough and they must have multiple numbers being called at once so they pick up whoever first. 90% of the time I get a click and thats it. ****es me off to no end, now I pick up and hangup as quickly as I can or pick up and lay the phone down.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

Vegetarian enchiladas for dinner tonight. Skillet-cooked red bell peppers, green bell peppers, onions, shallots, corn, grated carrots, button mushrooms and crimini mushrooms. After a turn or two in the skillet the veggies are wrapped and oven-baked. Good eatin'!

After chow I'm gonna watch the Penguins skate circles around the Avs. Have a good night LODGEONIANS.;)
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

walrus said:
Telemarketers like to hangup on me, I assume its because I don't answer quick enough and they must have multiple numbers being called at once so they pick up whoever first. 90% of the time I get a click and thats it. ****es me off to no end, now I pick up and hangup as quickly as I can or pick up and lay the phone down.
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sometimes i pick up.....

me- hello
TM- hi
me-yeah?
TM- may i speak to mookie?
me- he's busy. getting blown. is this important.
TM - ( )
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

I told one I was watching porn, and invited him over. He couldn't hang up quick enough.

"Hi. This is Brian from Dish Network. What do you like to watch on TV?"
"Porn"
"That's gr....uh......really?"
"Yeah. Watching one right now. Wanna come over?"
"Umm, no, uhhhh...."

*click*

I stuffed another slice of pizza in my mouth and went back to watching football.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

bigblue_dl said:
Apparently Excel ****s out if you try to graph more than 32,000 points. This is going to suck.
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I have recently found the joy that is SAS at work. It can basically import any type of data and then you can manipulate it. Amazing.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

Sports Illustrated's most anticipated issue arrived today. It was so visually cluttered it was hard to figure out what you were suppsoed to be looking at.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

leswp1 said:
Sports Illustrated's most anticipated issue arrived today. It was so visually cluttered it was hard to figure out what you were suppsoed to be looking at.
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I'll bet you $50 that I could figure out what to look at.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

Had dinner at Ruth's Chris steak house tonight in Hoffman Estates tonight. Yummy!
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

Scarlet said:
Had dinner at Ruth's Chris steak house tonight in Hoffman Estates tonight. Yummy!
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why aren't you downtown?!?! haven't you had enough of hoffman estates in 2011?!?!!

i saw a ruth's chris last week nearby when i was at the ca opera co. but i went late'ish with plans to eat after the performance, so passed on meat.
neat opera house they have there. modern look. wood. neat.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

JF_Gophers said:
I have recently found the joy that is SAS at work. It can basically import any type of data and then you can manipulate it. Amazing.
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why find the joy in SAS when you can find the joy in R for $0...

of course I'm starting to feel the love of SQL and C within R... all with a May deadline and a looming gov't shutdown... WHEEE!!!

http://cran.r-project.org/

table.in=read.table("FILE")
csv.in=read.csv("FILE")

plot(x,y)

edit: I will say that SAS is far better at data management and data lockup... a lot of people who are qualified for SAS coding... R is very flexible... very "testing" friendly but may be unreliable.... or less reliable than SAS... if SAS does something its nearly 100%. For graphing, IMO, SAS is more user friendly... R is flexible to a fault and since its academically created its iffly documented... conversely, SAS is downright dangerous in that it gives you all the details and multiple examples... almost to the point where you can self-teach the materials from the help documents.
 
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mookie1995 said:
i saw a ruth's chris last week nearby when i was at the ca opera co. but i went late'ish with plans to eat after the performance, so passed on meat. neat opera house they have there. modern look. wood. neat.
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What's this? Opera, on a hockey board? :p I'm just ribbin' you. I worked for the Washington Opera in the Kennedy Center in DC for five years, and subbed from time to time as a player with Minnesota Opera. Anyhoo, are you talking about Toronto? That's supposed to be a cool venue.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

Why am I still working? Ugh. Not only am I still sitting here catching up on email, but I'm getting instant messages from co-workers asking me if I can work on other projects. It is 10:40! Why are there several of us still working!!!!!

Also, guys, and girls, we need a plan for Saturday night!
1. Where are we going to go drinking?
2. Are we going to multiple places drinking? Bar crawl?
3. Who wants to drive?
4. Will we need cabs/hotels/places to crash?
5. Who is going to be MNS's wingman?
6. Are we going to meet and pre-drink, or just all meet up at a bar?

these are important questions that beg to be answered.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

bigblue_dl said:
Why am I still working? Ugh. Not only am I still sitting here catching up on email, but I'm getting instant messages from co-workers asking me if I can work on other projects. It is 10:40! Why are there several of us still working!!!!!

Also, guys, and girls, we need a plan for Saturday night!
1. Where are we going to go drinking?
2. Are we going to multiple places drinking? Bar crawl?
3. Who wants to drive?
4. Will we need cabs/hotels/places to crash?
5. Who is going to be MNS's wingman?
6. Are we going to meet and pre-drink, or just all meet up at a bar?

these are important questions that beg to be answered.
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1. Where there's booze.
2. If we find a bar we like, we stay.
3. Cab (depending)
4. Chez Rube may be open, again, depending (Divadork did say they were staying in Mtka, and I'm guessing I know which hotel)
5. You
6. No idea.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

If you have that many cells, you're going to want to do one of two things (both involve Excel 2007 or preferably Excel 2010).

1. If you have a 32-bit computer, try modifying the boot.ini file with the /3GB tag (google it)
or
2. Use 64-bit software LOADED with RAM.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

bigblue_dl said:
Why am I still working? Ugh. Not only am I still sitting here catching up on email, but I'm getting instant messages from co-workers asking me if I can work on other projects. It is 10:40! Why are there several of us still working!!!!!

Also, guys, and girls, we need a plan for Saturday night!
1. Where are we going to go drinking?
2. Are we going to multiple places drinking? Bar crawl?
3. Who wants to drive?
4. Will we need cabs/hotels/places to crash?
5. Who is going to be MNS's wingman?
6. Are we going to meet and pre-drink, or just all meet up at a bar?

these are important questions that beg to be answered.
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1. I'm up for anywhere.
2. Eh.
3. I have a mustang, not conducive to large groups of guys.
4. I plan on cutting myself off so I don't need any of them.
5. Agreed, you.
6. Up for whatever.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 129: Still got those Winter Blues...

dxmnkd316 said:
If you have that many cells, you're going to want to do one of two things (both involve Excel 2007 or preferably Excel 2010).

1. If you have a 32-bit computer, try modifying the boot.ini file with the /3GB tag (google it)
or
2. Use 64-bit software LOADED with RAM.
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I have no idea what any of that means, but I got done with the spreadsheet about an hour ago, made all of my graphs and wrote a 6 page report on the testing I did today. I haven't been this productive in...ever.


Brent, sounds good, except if we say we're drinking where the booze is, I'm guessing we all end up at different bars. Maybe downtown is the way to go, plenty of places to check out until we find something that holds our interest.

edit: I guess I'm the MNS wingman, I'll do whatever I can buddy (with the exception of any particularly potent grenades)
 
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bigblue_dl said:
I have no idea what any of that means, but I got done with the spreadsheet about an hour ago, made all of my graphs and wrote a 6 page report on the testing I did today. I haven't been this productive in...ever.


Brent, sounds good, except if we say we're drinking where the booze is, I'm guessing we all end up at different bars. Maybe downtown is the way to go, plenty of places to check out until we find something that holds our interest.
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We could just hit your old hangout Bootlegger's and cab it. Or hit Gasthof's. However, we know we're hitting Gasthof's in April, and to me that place is a special occasion type of thing, and I'd like to keep remembering it that way.
 
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