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Brioche by Phillip; Prahran.
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I absolutely adore fluffy buttery brioche so naturally I've never been able to stay away from this store. I've had a sweet treat or two from the Brioche by Phillip along Queen Street but I wasn't particularly impressed.
Olive Sourdough ($5) & Croissant
On our way back from Prahran Market, I just had to pick up a loaf of olive sourdough which was brimming with huge whole olives. And we couldn't resist the freshly baked croissant - popped it in the oven, then slathered butter all over it and watch it melt and soak into the gorgeous golden flaky pastry.

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The autumn film season is shaping up to be one of the best in ages and "The Judge" just unveiled a trailer to start building some serious hype.
Directed by David Dobkin, the much-anticipated movie sees Robert Downey Jr opposite screen legend Robert Duvall, with support from Vera Farmiga, Billy Bob Thornton and Leighton Meester.
It was a cult classic back in 1996 and now "Fargo" is getting the television treatment thanks to the FX Network.
Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Kate Walsh, Bob Odenkirk and Colin Hanks, the forthcoming dark comedy TV series is slated to premiere on April 15th.
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It's been way too long since HBO's "Entourage" drew a final curtain, and now Warner Bros is gearing up to bring the boys back, this time on the silver screen.
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It's a non-traditional modern day holiday classic and now some clever editors have given "Love Actually" a sequel.
Comprised of clips of what the original cast has been up to since the 2003 rom-com, the trailer for "Love Actually 2" is considerably more violent than the first.
Taking his career a step further, Zac Efron stars in the brand new trailer for "Parkland."
The story takes place at Dallas' Parkland Hospital on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated back on November 22, 1963.
Building hype for their upcoming movie, Phase 4 Films released the official trailer for "The Baytown Outlaws" on Monday (November 26).
Boasting an interesting mix of talent, the film stars Billy Bob Thornton, Eva Longoria, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Clayne Crawford, Paul Wesley and Andre Braugher
He's not the most traditional celebrity, and Billy Bob Thornton confessed he made a big boo-boo when it came to his marriage with super-hottie Angelina Jolie.
The "Monster's Ball" star noted that he struggled to think he was "good enough for her" and finally just "blew it."
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Polyglot programming (the practice of knowing and using many programming languages) seems to be all the rage these days. Its adherents claim two benefits:
I'm not going to dispute either of these. Well, maybe the second I'll argue with a little: I think you can get most of the benefits by using different paradigms within the same multi-paradigm language, and I'm a bit skeptical of the global benefits (unless you're the type of person who likes writing FORTRAN in Javascript). But I digress, like I said, I think those are both fair claims.
What I don't like is the conclusion that this means you should always use the right tool for the job. What, you the astute reader asks, does this mean you think we should use the wrong tool for the job? No, that would be idiotic, it means I think sometimes using the less optimal tool for the job carries overall benefits.
So what are the dangers of being a polyglot programmers (or the benefits of not being one, if you will)?
Using multiple languages (or any technology) stresses your operations people. It's another piece they have to maintain. If you've got a nice JVM stack, top to bottom, with nice logging and monitoring do you think your ops people really want to hear that they need to duplicate that setup so you can run three Ruby cron jobs? No, they're going to tell you to suck it up and write it up and either see if JRuby works or use Clojure or something, because 1% of your company's code isn't worth doubling their work.
Another risk is that it raises the requirements for all the other developers on the project. Martin Golding said, "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." Imagine when you leave your job and the next guy finds out you decided to write some data analysis scripts in APL (for those of you who don't remember, APL is that lovely language that doesn't use ASCII characters). It's fine to use APL if that's something you can require of new hires, it's not fine when your job says "Python developer" (it may actually work for Perl developers, but I assure you it'll be purely coincidental). Learning a new language is hard, learning to write it effectively is harder. Learning a new language for every script you have to maintain is downright painful, and once you know all of them, context switching isn't free for either humans or computers.
I'm not saying write everything in one language, that'd probably leave you writing a lot of code in very suboptimal languages. But choose two or three, not ten. Your ops people will thank you, and so will the guys who have to maintain your code in a decade. At DjangoCon this year Glyph Lefkowitz actually went farther, he argued that not just the code you write, but your entire technology stack should be in one language. But that's a separate discussion, you should watch the video though.
Also, because I'm a big fan of The West Wing, I'd be remiss if I used the word polyglot this many times without linking to a great scene.You can find the rest here. There are view comments.
DjangoCon 2010 was a total blast this year, and deserves a full recap, however for now I only have the time to post the slides from my talk on "Rethinking the Reusable Application Paradigm", the video has also been uploaded. Enjoy.You can find the rest here. There are view comments.
I just finished giving my talk at DjangoCon.eu on Django and NoSQL (also the topic of my Google Summer of Code project). You can get the slides over at slideshare. My slides from my lightning talk on django-templatetag-sugar are also up on slideshare.You can find the rest here. There are view comments.


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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- A military appeals court has thrown out a judge's order to forcibly shave the Fort Hood shooting suspect and removed the judge from the case.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled Monday that Col. Gregory Gross didn't appear impartial while presiding over the case of Maj. Nidal Hasan.
Hasan faces the death penalty if convicted in the 2009 shootings on the Texas Army post that killed 13 people and wounded more than two dozen.
Hasan appealed after Gross ordered that he must be clean-shaven or be forcibly shaved before the court-martial. Hasan says his beard is a requirement of his Muslim faith, but facial hair violates Army rules.
The appeals court says the command, not the judge, is responsible for enforcing grooming standards.
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"... and they paid me way too much money..."
(first - how embarrassing)
So what? He dressed badly and was a little too curious.. Using your selection criteria you would have fired both John Carmack and Steve Wozniak.
Apple Solaris?? It would have been a little more funny if they said Apple Solaris with the .NET Framework... a big jumble of 3 totally different platforms!! Totally WTF
Re: Tales from the Interview
2006-11-17 13:39 • by unlisted_error
I once interviewed at a very small electronics company and
From there I interviewed another person, a remarkable lady
She tuned out to be one of the best bosses I've ever had.
Ah, those were the days....
So what? He dressed badly and was a little too curious.. Using your selection criteria you would have fired both John Carmack and Steve Wozniak.
Probably due to the lack of enough common sense to realize that you shouldn't go snooping around someone's office, while they're not there, during a job interview.
I used to do a lot of interviewing of candidates at my previous company.
A couple of my favorite gems:
A: Well, it's like, when you don't want your colleagues to know what you're doing.
Q: What is "this" in C# ?
A: Well, it's itself, isn't it?
Q: Could you walk me through the request-response cycle for a request to a web application, from the user's browser to the web server, and perhaps to a database, then back?
A: No.
I guess I'm young and dumb. But I don't think all of those were such big wtfs. That young programmer probably weren't so experienced with professional lite and didn't realize the limits. Just teaching him something about that would probably make him not doing a similar mistake again.
I don't think it's so weird that someone would have lot of things to say about their old company. Not after reading this site about how bad things really can be. I can't see why that would make him go nuts in other situations, assuming that the workplace he was interviewing for wasn't a major WTF in itself.
Guess I just don't like to judge people that easily. The "these problems will always be around" guy was funny though. :)
Re: Tales from the Interview
2006-11-17 13:47 • by SomebodyElse
Well, you did give him bonus points for honesty, right??
To be honest, I was so taken aback by his bluntness that I took a few seconds to collect my thoughts. Illogically, I found myself on the defensive..."Erm, well, could you just try? Explain it a little?"
I remember many moons ago trying to persuade my boss at the time to interview a candidate, who had little programming experience but fantastic potential. The candidate was also 'getting on a bit' and hadn't worked for 10 years. Eventually he was persuaded to interview him.
The interview by all accounts went very badly... my boss was fuming, it took some time to calm him down. There was a strong personality clash, and certainly different senses of humour. One of the answers had particulary rattled him.....
Boss: "Why did you finish your last job?"
Candidate: "So I could come and work for you"
Amazingly after more persuasion, my boss was conviniced into hiring him on a trial basis.
The company itself did very well and grew to 60 employees (from 3 when I joined), however some bad decisions were made and the company went under..... twice. Many people stuck around over a period of 6-7 years, but eventually enough was enough and there was a mass exodus.
The company still trades today, nearly 15 years on...... 'the candidate' is their only employee.
That one wasn't really about professionalism so much as basic common sense and courtesy. If you go into someone's house, you really shouldn't snoop around in their medicine cabinet, but it's fine to read whatever they've got lying on the coffee table. Why should it be any different in a business?
Yet every day I work with and fix boatloads of software WTFs made by people with excellent "common sense". Go figure.
"How often do you read tech-related news and blogs online?" I asked
I'd be worried to answer that, fearing it was a trick question trying to get you to admit that you spend all day at work reading Slashdot.
"Oh, yeah, I read those kinds of sites all the time! But not when I'm at work, never ever there."
I was lucky enough to have made the rounds of job interviewing not so long ago, below are from a couple of those experiences:
Medium-sized B2B company making customer-specific web applications in PHP and synchronizing with an IBM mainframe. I had already decided after meeting with the boss and his head programmer the environment would have driven me crazy. So while they were asking me some specific technical questions, I just couldn't help myself:
Q. What is the best way to iterate through an array of 300,000 objects in PHP4?
1.) I met my recruiter (it was a contract-hire) in the office lobby before my interview, where she briefed me on the history of the company and who I will be meeting with. Then she lowers her voice and proceed to tell me that the President doesn't have very good people skills. He's very smart she tells me, but not very easy to get along with at first, and she assures me I won't have to meet him on my first interview.
3.) Last guy to interview me tells me a story about the President spending an hour yelling at the programming staff about something the project lead did (the project lead was not present for the tirade), and was hurling insults left and right. He tells me he thinks the guy has a sugar imbalance, because after an explosion he eats a snickers bar, and 10 minutes latter he's your friend. It can be bad sometime, he tells me, but it only happens a couple times a week.
I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but I always read these postings with some trepidation that I might recognize myself as the interviewee. Only after reading through the whole thing I can say to myself, "I don't think that ever happened to me..."
It's the same with the code snippets being held up for ridicule. "I hope that's not something I wrote..."
His suit didn't fit well (at least he had one) and he wore sneakers.This certainly put me off. I wouldn't want to work for a company whose VP of Tech judged candidates based on how well their suit fit or whether they wear sneakers.
One time my boss gave me a couple of resumes to look over of candidate he was going to interview. Since I was going to be working with them, he wanted me to sit in on the interview. The first one was relatively standard, but one bullet point of the second candidate caught my eye:
"Expert in all internet protocols"
What? Well we just had to interview this guy. They interview itself went very well, then we brought up the bullet point.
"Oh that? Yeah, I just got tired of the staffing companies asking me about lists of specific protocols."
We hired him, and he turned out to be a great programmer, though we never did let him live down his resume.
Captcha: 1337 - That one's for you Gary!
Grow up, people care how you look. If an interview isn't important enough to you to dress up a little bit then how is the company's software project going to be important enough for you to work hard on it?
Re: Tales from the Interview
2006-11-17 14:39 • by GrandmasterB
Agreed. Its not like he was sifting through the boss's email. It sounds like the guy was a bit socially awkward. But it also sounds like he's a natural problem solver. ie, he has a question so he seeks out an answer himself rather than sitting around waiting for it to be handed to him. Thats a good attribute. I'll take that attribute in a programmer any day over a vapid pretty-boy in a nice fitting monkey suit who brags about his MCSE.
For his suit - its possible there was a reason for his mix-n-match appearence. Especially if he was coming from another job and didnt want to show up there all dressed up (and thus advertise he had an interview). In my past 3 interviews I didnt even wear a suit (jeans and sneakers). Got 3 offers, accepted 2 of them. As one vendor of mine used to say... 'never trust a programmer in a suit'.
What about OSX with mono???
Re: Tales from the Interview
2006-11-17 14:40 • by son of anonymous
Yeah. Apple Solaris definitely gets my vote. Particularly since he was so adamant about version 2.0!
Yeah, I'm sure the company would prefer I spend my free time shopping for shiny new shoes, shirts, pants, suits, dry cleaning them every week, getting manicures, etc, etc, instead of spending my free time learning new technologies and improving the skills that will actually be important to the job at hand.
Heh, just kidding, dress well for an interview or else you look like an idiot.
Re: Tales from the Interview
2006-11-17 14:44 • by GrandmasterB
I think you need to do some growing up yourself if you think your statement has any logic to it.
If you're hiring a salesperson or fashion model, yeah, sure, they need to show they can dress up to meet with customers and otherwise impress folks. But whether a programmer has a nice suit has little to do with how well he can design a system.
Back in the dot-bomb days I was working for a fellow like that, except replace eating of a snickers bar with smoking a joint. The worst part is when he would tell off our best, and most loyal customers. Excellent support and service will only take you so far with a micromanaging jerk at the helm. Needless to say, the company went under :)
I've learned the hard way about bad-mouthing a former employer... even if they have a permanent case of cranial-rectal inversion, its still better to mention the good things and not go into detail about why they suck so hard.
And yes, medication helps... :)
Q: What does the "private" keyword do in C# ?
Hehe... Effectively nothing since the default is private :)
Re: Tales from the Interview
2006-11-17 14:46 • by Radiantmatrix
I happen to agree with both you and the individual you were replying to. Your views aren't contradictory. The guy did come in wearing a suit -- even though it was ill-fitted and paired with sneakers. That shows that he was trying to be respectful and that he thought the interview was important.
For a technical position (and speaking as someone with experience as a hiring manger), it is important that the candidate be dressed in a way that shows his/her professionalism -- tidy, clean, and business-appropriate. The bad-suit-and-sneakers combo may not be stylish, but if it was clean then he gets points for the effort.
The quality and/or fit of the suit and the type of shoes worn with it only point to the candidate's sense of style and how able they are to afford nice clothes. A good sense of style might be important for a sales rep, but not for most entry-level tech jobs.
Re: Tales from the Interview
2006-11-17 14:47 • by Anonymous Coward
This is always one of the arguments used, and it sucks. Importance in one area does not imply importance in another. Just because I don't want to dress up doesn't mean I don't want to write good code. Just because I don't think wearing a suit and tie is important doesn't mean I don't think 'software project X' is important.
I realize that's just the way it is. But just because it's 'the way it is' doesn't mean it's the way it SHOULD be...
If you REALLY want to get down on how the candidate dressed, the argument would be something like, 'if you won't dress up for this interview, how do we know you'll dress up for a presentation with upper management and clients?' That would be a better point (but still off a bit... upper management and clients aren't AT this interview, so one's dress there does not necessarily represent their dress in the presence of said people).
The "whiner" may actually meet one of Spolsky's criteria (aside from disparaging the surrounding restaurants). His former/current position may be that bad; perhaps that's why he's looking...
It's not about how good you are. It's about how good you appear to be. Wearing a suit helps you appear good. If you don't need that extra edge, good for you, but don't pretend it isn't an edge.
Oh god, please don't give any "entrepreneurs" any ideas!
My personal rule of thumb is: don't fake it. If you're a lazy slob who likes to sleep late - like me - then don't pretend to be a type-A go-getter suave-in-a-suit.
Because, here's the thing, the people who hire you, well, they'll expect to see the guy they interviewed every day.
Maybe I'm making less money because I've never worn a coat and tie to an interview, but my schedule is flexible, and I have plenty of coffee, and decent technology to play with.
Re: Tales from the Interview
2006-11-17 15:00 • by A Businessman
Personally, I appreciate an honest "I'm not familiar with that" as opposed to someone attempting to BS their way through something. IMHO, I'd rather hire someone who is personable, reasonably well qualifed and who has an open mind, than look for someone who is an expert in everything (who is?)
I would have hired the kid in the poorly fitting suit. Who cares if he didn't wear dress shoes, or if his suit didn't quite fit, as long as he looked presentable that's all that matters. Now, about him being curious... I have found curiosity to be an awesome trait for developers to have. Sure, it might be seen as poor etiquite, but he was reading a book not sifting through underwear. He was searching for the answer to a question.
While everyone's complaining about the business dress story (MHO: putting on your best business suit for an interview is a sign of respect), I just wanted to say I LOL'd at the "Are you an astronaut?" I'd have wanted to find a hole to crawl into. Totally understandable, and totally embarassing.
I'm surprised people still expect suits for interviews. I'm in California though. I had an interview once and asked the recruiter if I should wear a suit, and he said of course. When I got there, it turned out he was the only person in the entire building with a suit (including the vest) and it didn't fit well. I stuck out badly. After I got the job, I found out he was basically the only person in the entire mid-size company that wore a suit. 8 years and 2 companies later, ex coworkers still laugh at me over this.
People may not remember the recruiter, even after describing his eccentricities. But when I say "the guy in the suit", they suddenly remember and start laughing.
I'm always weary of the "why did you left your previous job" question myself. You've got to be frank and give a compelling reason as to why you left your job, yet this very reason might hurt your chance to get the new job.
For instance, even if you had perfectly good reason to dislike someone in your last job, saying so might make them think that you don't get along well with people.
If you say "their codebase was a giant WTF", they may think that you're too intolerant of things being done in a different way than yours. Also, they might be unsure that you won't get pissed off by their own codebase, since codebase are always more or less WTF-ish.
You can still look good in sneakers. One of my common interview outfits is a $100 pair of jeans that are a tad tore up, sneakers, and a nice brightly colored dress shirt (the bright color makes you memorable) with a blazer over it. It's fasionable, comfortable (which is important), and unique.
That is one of those interview questions that you should have a rehearsed BS response too. Even if you're thinking "OMG, WTF, what a bunch of morons they were."
Well, Apple's OS is UNIX-based now. And there's that-there MONO project to port .NET over to LINUX.
Maybe this person was just way ahead of all of us.
Captcha is 'clueless'. Indeed.
I have seen a resume with someone claiming be working towards their "Bachelorette of Science". I wonder if she ever got it?
This outfit sounds like you are going on a date. Most likely your boss will be older than you and you should dress accordingly. Does anyone remember ties? Like a brightly colored dress shirt, they draw attention, just in a bit more sophisticated way.
Re: Tales from the Interview
2006-11-17 15:14 • by A Businessman
How about this one: "Due to budgetary constraints, my current project is being put on hold indefinitely, and there does not appear to be enough work to keep all of us busy. While the company has not made any moves toward layoffs, I prefer to be productive, and am proactively looking for a challenge. I understand the project for which I'm interviewing is a substantial effort - can you shed some light on it?"
It's pure BS, but applies to just about any IT project on the planet, and get's past the question.
Penicillin, bed rest and lots of fluids. You should be back to work in a week or so.
The only time I haven't worn a suit to a first interview (except for jobs I didn't want) was during a heat wave with temperatures in the high 90s. I didn't have a/c in my car, and I asked my pimp to ask the client if it would be ok. Probably just as well, because I would have stunk something awful by the time I drove across town in a suit.
I graduated as an engineer rather than a computer programmer, and actually had a seminar on the psychology of job interviews. We were told that you wear the suit not because it says anything about you or your abilities, but as a sign of respect to the interviewer. Whether conciously or not, they want to know that you prepared for the interview, you didn't just drop in on your way to something else. It's also important to ask specific questions that show you know something about the company interviewing you. If it's a big company that everybody has heard of (Kodak or Xerox, say), ask questions that show you know something about the division or group that is interviewing you.
Re: Tales from the Interview
2006-11-17 15:17 • by UMTopSpinC7
That is pretty good. What about, "What is your biggest weakness". Another one that's pretty tough.
"I'm so smart and good and fast that I make everybody else on the project look bad by comparison"
"Because my code never has bugs in it, I don't get a chance to debug code much."
"I work too hard and for too little money."
There a difference in dressing up a little and actually having fashion sense. People with ill-fitting suits almost never know that they're ill fitting, or may not have had time to buy a new suit and have it tailored in time for the interview. (being middle aged, I have learned that suits that are hung in the closet for ten years will shrink :-)
(I once spent 11 months looking for a job. I think that wearing a tie made me lose out on a few offers, indirectly. Ie, sitting in the interview, uncomfortable, with a noose around my neck. Late in the game one company finally told me what they liked and disliked about me. My drawbacks were that he thought I was way too formal, answered questions correctly but too succinctly, and that I would have been a great candidate if only I had loosened up a bit so that it felt like I would have fit in.)
You interview so much that you have an entire outfit laid out for just that occasion? Jeez. If I had to wear the same thing next interveiw as I wore to the last, I'd be just a tiny bit past the good fashion sense date. How often do you change jobs, anyway?
My response was, "I wanted to try being a full-time mother, and learned that I suck at being a mother and I'd much rather be a programmer".
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A Gregg County man was sentenced to 40 years in prison for a 2010 car accident that killed a Longview man.
Charles Ray Owens Jr., 37, was found guilty of murder on Tuesday and sentenced on Wednesday for the car accident.
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- Luke Hutchison
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TED Fellow,
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Is capitalism sustainable?
Bono stated in his TED2013 talk that the numbers show that we can eradicate all poverty worldwide by 2030. While I really hope that is true, it begs the question: Is capitalism sustainable? Is it possible to have a rich and middle class without a poor class? The sad reality of capitalism is that if there is an exponentially small number of people with exponentially large wealth, there has to be an exponentially long tail of much poorer people who are each contributing to that wealth. Not that we necessarily need an exponentially small number of people with exponentially large wealth, but would the world keep running without capitalistic incentives that increase the separation between rich and poor? Can we eradicate all poverty without the rich sharing their riches? What happens to civilization when nobody is willing to work in the factories and orchards, or build roads?
(Please don't take this question the wrong way! Personally I wish that nobody had to work menial jobs. I just don't understand how we can eradicate poverty when so many jobs will always translate into low-paid labor.)
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A chimp is aware of comfort and leisure the difference is it doesn't get charged for it. Why do you think the lottery is so popular, folk dreaming of what they could do with their winnings.
Exploitation or taking advantage of a person/situation is deemed as fairplay in our current system. Being ripped off is a norm in the UK. The banks, insurance companies, supermarkets, mobile phone and energy companies are all doing their upmost to take as much as they can from us without any notion of quality, value or respect, even our politicians only take notice when an election is looming.
With all the new technology now at our disposal we can be mugged in the comfort of our homes.
Despite the fact that "I'm ok" I find it depressing that we can't find a better way of doing things.
I'm not looking forward to being looked after in retirement homes were minimal standards are the norm all in the name of profit.
"sad testiment to the propaganda fed to you by the control group in your own society"
That could apply to a lot that is being said on these forums.
I know very little other than the fact that there is something quite disturbing going on out there, but I don't blame any individuals for that, it's the system that is bad.
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Did you guys hear they remade The Evil Dead?
"The Human Centipede" became the unlikeliest of cultural memes when it surfaced back in 2009. From hipster art projects on Etsy to an episode of South Park, "Centipede" was the movie that nearly everyone seemed to know about but only a handful had actually seen.
Good news UK fans, on Halloween night you can finally get the chance to see "Paranormal Activity". It will only be Midnight screenings that night, with a wide release planned for November. Then the film will roll out in other parts of Europe and Latin America following that.
Al Snow stars in slasher film. If you don't know who that is, you probably won't care. Move along.
Eminem to make horror anthology called "Shady Talez". You might as well fill out your Razzie cards now.
"Hellraiser" remake to be shot in 3D. All hope I had for this project pretty much just went out the window.
The Govenator tells you and your puny senate to fuck off. He also mumbled something about the "lamentations of the women" on the way out.
Coyote survives 75 MPH hit and run, and being dragged for 600 miles. The couple found it embedded in their front fender, "very much alive".
Public defendants have a tough enough job, without getting poo rubbed all over their faces.
1922: Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini seizes power in Italy, with the assistance of the Catholic Church.
Ti West says "Cabin Fever 2" isn't really worth seeing. And he's the director, so that's probably not a good thing.
"Paranormal Activity", a film shot entirely from the POV of security cameras in a couple's haunted home, has been given an R rating by the MPAA. No word on release date yet, but this one has been gaining buzz on the festival circuit for a while now, so hopefully we'll hear more soon.
Check out the creature from "Pandorum" in this clip from the film, which gets released September 25th. I haven't heard a lot on this in terms of quality, but it looks highly solid to me.
This story is kind of like how Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci call themselves "The Wet Bandits" in "Home Alone". Only I guess this guy would call himself "The Poop Bandit". Doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
Of all the things that would leave a scar on a 9 year old mind, I'm thinking seeing a man climb out of the hole beneath a toilet is probably pretty high up there.
1941: At Auschwitz, the Germans conduct a live trial on 600 Russian POWs and 298 sick prisoners to test the lethality of an insecticide known as Zyklon-B. It turns out to be extremely effective at killing people.
Jamie Chung and Jena Malone sign on to Zack Snyder's ("300", "Watchmen") next film "Sucker Punch". The film is set in the 50's, and follows a young woman unfairly thrown into a mental institution by her "wicked step-father", who imagines an alternate reality to hide from the pain. She then plans to escape the imaginary world, but has to steal five objects first, all while avoiding being caught by "a vile man". Whoa, I have no idea what that means but it sounds awesome.
Dimension films picks up "Kristy". The film is being compared to "The Strangers" and "Last House on the Left", and deals with a deserted college campus being besieged by a group of violent intruders.
Finally, after months of hearing about mundane, meaningless scoops from the set of Rob Zombie's "H2", comes word that we'll be seeing a trailer on Youtube this Friday. Rest assured we'll be on it when it lands.
Jonathan Skaech is highly positive about his "From a Buick 8" script, and says that Stephen King (the original author of the book) loves it. Unfortunately because of the economy, financing any film is difficult right now, but he hopes that it will go in front of cameras this fall. As for stars? He claims they "are going after big names right now". Hopefully we'll hear some more news about this adaptation soon.
Ahhh, nothing like the smell of freedom in Baghdad... unless of course you're a gay man, then I would prepare to have your butthole glued shut and diarrhea induced, probably killing you in the process. Well now, isn't that special.
Teenager in Arizona was so surprised to find a cop inside the car he was trying to steal recently, that he shat his pants. No idea why today's stories are so scatological, but I guess I'm just going to go with it.
Husband shoots wife in the head, kills himself... she gets up afterward, disoriented, and makes herself a cup of tea. The woman is alive and in stable condition, despite the fact that the bullet went straight through her brain and out the back of her head. Doctors are baffled.
1915: The German Army opens 5,700 canisters of chlorine gas upwind of French soldiers at Ypres. It is the first use of poison gas for military purposes.
We take a much needed vacation to Tromaville and review Lloyd Kaufman's latest ode to scatological humor.
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Max Payne 3 multiplayer DLC release schedule tweaked, free DLC coming August
Max Payne 3's multiplayer DLC schedule has been completely revamped. The remaining five packs have been consolidated into three larger packs, with content from the New York Minute co-op pack and Trickle Down Economics map pack "spread across" upcoming releases.
The DLC schedule will resume in August with the Disorganized Crime Pack, which adds the Hoboken Rooftops multiplayer map. There's also new modifiers for Score Attack in Arcade Mode such as "Headshots Only." This first release will be free.
The remaining three DLC releases will be available for $9.99 (800 Microsoft Points) each. Purchasers of the Rockstar Pass (DLC season pass) will automatically receive this content. Here's the full schedule:
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has undergone lap-band stomach surgery in an attempt to lose a significant amount of weight.
The governor's spokesman says Christie wanted to slim down for the sake of his wife and children.
Speaking at a news conference Tuesday in Newark, Christie said his weight will have nothing to do with whether he decides to run for president.
Christie told the NY Post that he's "struggled with this issue for 20 years.... this is about turning 50 ... wanting to be there for them."
The operation took place on Feb. 16 and Christie registered under a false name, according to the Post.
It is not clear where the surgery took place but Dr. George Fielding of the NYU Medical Center Weight Management Program performed the procedure.
Christie has been the center of jokes because of his weight. Estimates are he weighed 300- 350 pounds before the operation.
Lap-band surgery involves placing a band around the stomach, limiting the amount of food that can be eaten.
Christie has reportedly dropped 40 pounds in about three months.
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There has never been a better time to upgrade some of those older creaky appliances that are gobbling up much more energy (or water) than they need to in your home. Fortunately, most of the sifting-through to find the best values has already been done for you.
The first thing to do when shopping for new equipment is to look for models emblazoned with the blue EnergyStar logo. This helps you zero in on those models that have been determined by the federal government – EnergyStar is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy – to be at least 10 to 25 percent more energy-efficient than conventional models.
For dishwashers, for example, EnergyStar qualified models use 31 percent less energy and 33 percent less water than conventional machines while performing as well as or better, according to EnergyStar. With clothes washers, EnergyStar models can cut energy use by over a third and water use by half. EnergyStar-rated refrigerators will cut electrical use in half, compared to older machines made before 1993. With air conditioners, the savings is there, too, though at a more modest 10 percent over conventional models.
EnergyStar, which began in 1992 and first evaluated only computers and monitors, is a great jumping off point for evaluating everything from major appliances to home heating and cooling, lighting, home electronics, office equipment and more. The EPA recently extended the label to cover new homes and commercial and industrial buildings.
After first zeroing in on EnergyStar models, be sure to check out the accompanying yellow EnergyGuide sticker, which gets down to the nitty-gritty and estimates how much energy the appliance uses, compares its energy use to similar products and lists approximate annual operating costs.
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I was talking to a friend one morning on the phone when my husband left for work. She was aghast that I didn't kiss him goodbye. I did stop talking to her to say to him "I love you. Have a great day."
I realized that I rarely kiss him goodbye in the morning, but I do always say "I love you and have a great day." I think when I worked downtown with him and we drove in together, we kissed goodbye on the street. I am wondering if I don't kiss him goodbye in the morning because I am rarely out of my pj's when he leaves and haven't brushed my teeth yet. (That's the reason I'm going with!)
What about you? Do you make a point to kiss your spouse goodbye every morning? Why do you make it a point? What do you think it signifies if you do or if you don't?
Guys – I got a note from a company about a free weekend on this Web site to search for childcare. I don't really know anything about the company other than what was sent to me in the press release, but I wanted to share it with you so you could check it out for yourself. (I will probably go on this weekend to check it out too.)
Here's part of what the release said:
"For three days, Care.com will waive its regular subscription fee and allow all care-seeking families full access to hundreds of thousands of pre-screened, high-quality babysitters, nannies, and other caregivers for free."
"The Free Weekend begins at midnight (PDT) on the morning of Friday, April 24 and extends through Sunday, April 26."
"They can post jobs, review the full profiles of caregivers in their area, contact care providers to schedule interviews, check references and run a free background check."
"Families in need of quality caregivers can search by ZIP code, service and salary to find the care providers in their area."
April 23rd, 2009
8:05 am
My husband gets up at 4:00 a.m. and leaves when he is ready… I AM NOT UP AT THIS HOUR!
( my shortest comment to date and we will see if it makes it to the blog as some of mine are not….LOL)
April 24th, 2009
7:34 am
Yes, every morning. Actually we kiss good bye every time one of us is leaving for anything. One reason is because we love each other and the other reason is that I never want the guilt and regret of not kissing him good bye if, heaven forbid, he should not return home.
I don't think it signifies anything. Couples relate differently. Something that works for one couple may not work for another.
April 24th, 2009
8:06 am
No spouse here, but I do kiss my daughter every morning when I drop her off at school. It embarrasses the heck out of her!! Sometimes I even roll the window down and shout "MOMMIE LOVES YOU"……
April 24th, 2009
8:08 am
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ……. Lame topic
April 24th, 2009
8:15 am
Yes! We kiss everytime one of us leaves the house. We say I Love You everytime one of us leaves or hangs up the phone after a conversation. I agree with MomsRule…..what if it is the last time you get to kiss/hug/say I love you? We also do that with Little E….kiss/hug/I love you whenever either one of us leaves her.
JJ…..the visual of you yelling Mommy Loves You made me giggle! Based on all of your posts, you seem like a cool mom raising a great daughter. I hope that Little E and I have the same great relationship that it sounds like you have with your daughter! : )
April 24th, 2009
8:21 am
Photius….you and jb ( from yesterday afternoon) should get together…you are both so insightful.
Guess what…if either of you has something clever to say you can ( what we call it) hijack the blog with an interesting topic or question that you want to contribute….let's see watcha got!
It IS Friday and we are looking for something FUN….that is a hint.
I saw this on a billboard last week and wanted to pass it along;
When bloggers share something that makes any of us laugh…that would be creating happiness.
I have enjoyed several posts and hope that maybe a few of you have enjoyed mine.
Those that simply read to see what is out there could now step up to the plate and actually do something instead of just whining.
April 24th, 2009
8:26 am
Most mornings I do. I agree with momsrule..I would feel so guilty if I didn't kiss him or at least say I love you and then something awful happen. Have a Happy Friday everyone!!!
April 24th, 2009
8:26 am
I am like some of the others, we kiss each time before leaving to go anywhere. That's usually followed by, "be careful and have a good day." I don't kiss the step kids (they would likely stroke out), but I do give them a hug! I think it's nice to show the emotion and it teaches the little ones that it IS ok to show affection to those you love!
April 24th, 2009
8:37 am
Yup, everytime one of us is leaving we kiss goodbye. Also we say "I love you" a lot throughout the time in person and always on the phone. Like the others said, what if it was the last time we saw each other?
I saw a funny most of you will probably like the other day, if I can remember it
A woman takes what you give her and makes it bigger and better: You give her sex, she makes a baby. Give her a house, she makes a home. Give her groceries, she makes a meal. So if you give her any crap expect to get a load of POO in exchange
I cleaned that up a little but you get the idea :)
April 24th, 2009
8:40 am
GO STAN…now that is what I am talking about….LOL
April 24th, 2009
8:40 am
Stan, love it!!!!
What do you get when you cross PMS with GPS? A beyotch that can find you ANY WHERE, ANY TIME, ANY PLACE!!!!!
April 24th, 2009
8:43 am
Kathy, it's all about attitude, but thank you for that nice comment. I made a promise to myself this year, "no stress, no drama". So far so good. I love to laugh A LOT……I'll be turning 50 this year, and I try to have a positive outlook on life. I am amazed by the amount drama people seem to create for themselves. Some seek it out. I have surrounded myself with some very wonderful happy people….
April 24th, 2009
8:59 am
If I'm up when he goes to work, he usually leaves between 5:30-5:45 am I'll kiss him goodbye. I also kiss the kids and hubby before going out and the kids get kisses before they get out of the car for preschool.
I'm also like MomsRule, I don't want to regret not kissing them goodbye or saying I love you, God forbid something happens to one of us.
April 24th, 2009
9:06 am
Its the little things can keep a marriage not just together…but fabulous! Our marriage isn't a blast everyday…some are just ok. But with the exception of when Jesse is traveling…we kiss every single dern morning!!! I think its very important. I'm not saying there aren't some nights that we don't go to bed planning eachother's demise…in great detail:) But all is forgotten and forgiven in the am and its good! I hope I never get to the point that I let him get away without a lip-lock!! And as disgusting as this sounds….when he travels, we text x's and o's!!! I'm sure some of you just threw up in your mouths a little:)
Brush your toothies and plant one on him one morning….he might just come home for lunch:)
April 24th, 2009
9:21 am
Well, he works at home, so it's a short commute to his office! Suffice to say, we get lots of kisses throughout the day. We kiss for making breakfast, for lunch, to thank the other for fixing a Diet Coke or ice tea, or when one or the other brings in the mail, or just when we walk by each other in the kitchen. And, of course, there's lots of kissing during those ubiquitous "staff meetings"! ;-)
April 24th, 2009
9:23 am
My husband gets up at 5:30 to go to work. While he is getting ready I go to the kitchen and pack his lunch and make his breakfast. We chat while he eats. We kiss goodbye every morning. After he goes to work, I go back to bed for a bit. I have been doing this for almost 14 years. I think with a bit of extra work marriage can be great. I am always disgusted when my girlfriends don't even wake up to tell their husbands goodbye.
April 24th, 2009
9:25 am
im not sure if its a southern thing–but i was taught as young as i can remember to ALWAYS say i love you and kiss and hug goodbye before leaving or whatever…for reasons already posted. my kids do it…most of my friends do it. my kids have even called me from school to apologize and say i love you if they left for school mad..and i have called and had the secretary tell them i love them if i did it lol…i live in a place where we can actually do that–call the school and say..hey ____ please tell ___ i love her/him and im sorry i was mad when they left… and they will do it. lol gotta love here!!
April 24th, 2009
9:36 am
ps i love the jokes–thanks jj and stan!!! im with you jj–i have made a conscience efort to try and rid my life of drama—i get enough at work where i cant control it…and even there i just try my best to stay out of it all…but at home..no way—i refuse to fight–to argue–i am 56 and have almost finished raising my kids (as finished as you can really ever be lol) and i am doing what I need now…having PEACE as often as i can lol
April 24th, 2009
9:37 am
Awesome Deidre!!!!
April 24th, 2009
9:38 am
I think I will try calling the school in a bit and have them tell E that she needs to clean the bathroom when she gets home….think they'll go for it:)
April 24th, 2009
9:48 am
muffinpaws….you get the wife award!!! Could you come over here LOL? I cannot go back to sleep after I get up and 4:00 a.m. is way too early for me!
When we were first married, I layed out my husband's clothes the night before ( even underwear and sox). When I turned 40 and started traveling I decided he needed to do this himself, as I could not handle packing my own suitcase and lay out 3-4 days of clothes for him too . I used to pack his suitcase for our vacations too. He manages just fine now that he is used to doing it himself.
Do many women who work outside of the home every day still get up and make their husband's breakfast and pack his lunch? Theresa…do you do this for Michael? Just wondering…maybe I am the only one who does not do this. I used to put the leftovers, from dinner, in a nice container for him to take to work but after many days of seeing it left in the fridge….I stopped.
I do kiss my kids goodbye, as I am usually up when they leave at 6;30. I call my grown son once a week or so to tell him I love him and even at 21, he tells me back on the phone…while in the Pharmacy!
Note to parents of college bound….please get your child an alarm clock NOW and let them get themselves up for school. Mommy will soon not be available to poke and prod them out from under the covers…although I have read about parents who call their college students every day to make sure they are getting up for class….WHAT?
April 24th, 2009
9:49 am
lmao–let me know if it works!!
April 24th, 2009
9:56 am
I make all of Jesse's meals if I am home. He makes the bulk of our money and does all the honey-do's. Its the least I can do. But I have NEVER layed out his clothes…I ain't his momma!
April 24th, 2009
10:05 am
Momma Jane – I introduced an alarm clock to my daughter about 4 years ago, when she started high school, and had to get up at "The crack of dawn thirty". But I usually go into her room, give her a big o'kiss and yank the covers off!!! That gets her up on cold days!!! If that doesn't work, I sic the dogs on her…..
April 24th, 2009
10:06 am
LOL…this is really bad, but many times my husband will get my clothes out! He shops for me and everything! He knows my sizes and tastes (and he is very fashionable on his own!) In answer to MJG, no, I do not make breakfast for my hubby (or the kids for that matter). I am usually the first one out of the house! I will cook on the weekends sometimes. Our hours are kind of crazy! In the evenings it's usually just the little guy and myself so cooking a big meal is typically out of the question! If the step kids are visiting, I'm more liable to cook a big meal! If I were at home more often, I think I probably would!
April 24th, 2009
10:30 am
Beginning to feel a little better…
I cook a nice meal each night for dinner….we sit down ( as a family) whenever I am home…now for the next 5 weeks….yippee! Since we are both working and split the bills, I do not feel I need to make all the meals for everyone. My daughter is an excellent cook. She loves the Food Network and prepared everything for Thanksgiving except the turkey. She is very independent and self sufficient for being 16, and knows how to handle things around here when it is just her and he Dad.
Michelle, you have a keeper!
JJ…you are on the right track. My daughter's friend ( who went with us to NYC) has a mother who gets her up. Her mother told me that they drive her to school every day, as she cannot get up in time to make the bus. I gently hinted about how she may want to get started on getting an alarm clock now but I do not think she really understands why.
April 24th, 2009
10:39 am
Yes, we usually do kiss good morning if he's at home..He travels a lot & when he's home a lot of times he's gone when I get up..
I do make it a point to have dinner ready for him when he comes back fron a trip..I ususally iron his clothes..As Jesses Girl said, he takes care of all of the maintaince on the house, so these offset each other…
Michelle, that's awesome about your husband..No way would I trust mine to pick out for me..I love bright colors & he doesn't, so he would have me in drab solid colors all the time..
April 24th, 2009
10:54 am
Jesse has offered to buy some clothing items for me….he said that if I buy another black shirt he is staging an intervention!!!
April 24th, 2009
10:56 am
I kiss my significant other (more than a boyfriend but not yet a fiance) goodbye every morning. We also do the "love you" on the phone, e-mail, and when we leave to go to work. I do the same with my parents when I speak to them on the phone, and when I leave to come home from a visit.
Now, this is off-topic, and not a fun-Friday topic, either. What is a teacher supposed to do when several of her middle school students don't fit in a desk? (I blogged about this yesterday on Get Schooled– I was so frustrated!). We are in the middle of testing, and I have a couple of 6th grade students who barely fit in a generous-sized desk. (I'm not talking about the little wooden desks from twenty-plus years ago.)
They have a difficult time sitting still becuase they don't fit! Are schools supposed to super-sized desks now because we have many students who cannot fit into them?
I don't remember in all my years of teaching of seeing so many obese kids. I'm not talking about overweight– I mean students in middle school who are twenty-five, fifty, seventy pounds overweight for their height. I have several 6th graders who outweigh this forty-plus year old by fifty pounds or more!
As parents, what do you do to encourage your children to maintain a healthy weight?
April 24th, 2009
10:58 am
Both my wife and I have been gainefully employeed outside the home while raising our kids – she had to be at work by 7am so she always left before 6am. For 16 years I got the kids up and dropped them off at daycare or school, until the oldest son could drive and then they were on their own to get up, and get to school (I would leave breakfast already prepared for them) – never once did we hear that they were late for school or did not go. Unfortunately, my commitment as a father made me late for work sometimes, and after 14 years my employer had had enough of my "lateness" and fired me. Ironically, that was 11 months AFTER my son began driving, and during which time I, too, had begun arriving at work around 7am for those last 11 months. But all worked out well – I found another job quickly that paid more, and the first company continued to pay me for 2 years after they fired me "without cause"…..
Anyway, my wife is now retired; one kid is out of college, and the second will be out of college next year. Just last week I sent the youngest son an email from my office at 6:25am – he wrote back at 7am and said "what are you doing at work at 6:25am – you are the boss and should sleep in!" I replied, "that is why I am the boss and why I want to stay that way, but the bigger question is, why are YOU up at 7 am, when you do not have a class until 10am"? – (he was studying some "more" for a test at 10am). I guess they learned that they do need to get up on their own!
Regarding dressing myself – if my wife ever laid out clothes for me it would be a disaster – she has no taste – look at who she married! Plus, all my suits are black or blue, so it really is a no-brainer for me, just match up a tie with a white shirt and I am good to go! Sometimes I do have on one black sock and one blue sock, but at 0 dark thirty, who can tell? And yes, I try to kiss her goodbye every morning – but since she is usually asleep at 5:30am (she says that is when she sleeps best!) I really try not to bother her, lest I wake up the dogs – and then she is in real trouble, and so am I when I get home!
April 24th, 2009
11:05 am
We don't do breakfast in my house, except on the weekends. I have never been big on breakfast, and don't make the time in the mornings. I do, however, stop and get a sausage/cheese bagel every friday morning. I always pick up a dozen donuts for the office, but I don't eat them….we refer to donuts as "fat pills"……
Every other weekend we go out for breakfast. I usually cook on Sunday a.ms….I have gone as far as to make extra pancakes and freeze them. Then we can pull them out of the freezer and pop them into the microwave, and go…….my daughter usually grabs a granola bar for the car ride to school.
Yes I drive my senior to school. It gives us a few extra minutes in the mornings, and I like having her in the car. It's going to be weird next fall when she's off at college, and I am alone in the car in the mornings.
April 24th, 2009
11:06 am
My wife does technically make my breakfast and lunch. Though breakfast is cereal and she pours me a container of milk, and lunch is whatever leftovers from the food I cooked on the weekend or night before.
Teacher, Too
I was a fat kid and I loved the seperate desk and chair. The one piece units were tough to work. I barely fit into them.
April 24th, 2009
11:10 am
Oh yes and I usually pick out my wifes clothes but only if she is there to try them on. She has lost a good bit of weight lately and is going with more color without me anyway so she has gotten better at it.
April 24th, 2009
11:30 am
I agree..obesity with our kids has hit an all time high. Its disgusting really. I blame too much technology in the home, eating things that come in boxes and parents who are not involved enough in their child's day-to-day choices. It cannot be that every fat adult or child has some kind of hormonal imbalance!!! Its just not possible! Move their butts some….it breaks my heart to see an obese child.
April 24th, 2009
11:33 am
The main reason I put my husband's clothes together as he did NOT know how to match anything.
He still sometimes looks bad but has gotten much better at what actually goes together.
MR….thanks for joining us….good comments! Some folks think that when you are the boss you do not have to do anything ( you do not want to do)….in reality, you do everything…..LOL!
April 24th, 2009
11:58 am
You bet my husband and I kiss each other good-bye and give each other a big hug before heading off to work and when we come home in the evening! This became all the more important when we found out two weeks ago that one of my former shipmates was killed in Afghanistan and left behind a very loving husband and 3-year old daughter. Folks, tomorrow is not guaranteed! Your spouse may not be deployed half-way across the world, but you don't know if that 18-wheeler has your husband's or wife's name on it today. By the way, I do work outside the home and fix portable breakfasts and lunches for myself, my husband and my two kids. It only takes a few minutes and not only are we eating healthier but it costs so much less! Some of the lunch places in downtown DC charge $9 for a lousy sandwich, chips, and soda. Unbelievable! Conversely, my husband will iron my uniforms (with military creases no less!). We've always worked together as a team and it has served us well. What we found that works is to get into a routine schedule and stick with it.
April 24th, 2009
1:45 pm
My husband and I don't kiss before he leaves, but that's because usually I'm still asleep. And thankfully he isn't hurt that I don't get up with him, he knows I need all the sleep I can get–cause when little one wakes, it's all craziness, all the time! I do try to fix his lunch at night, usually while I'm cleaning the kitchen from dinner. And while I don't get up to make his breakfast, I make sure we have his favorite (oatmeal to go bars and vanilla yogurt) on hand for him to take.
One thing I've found is how much our sweet girl (19 mths) loves to see mommy and daddy kiss each other. We always do that when one of us leaves, but even just around the house–she loves to see it. She'll smile and run in for kisses too! It's a good reminder of how important it is to model that love for her, and remind her that we love each other too.
April 24th, 2009
1:47 pm
I think that working together as a team is the way marriage is supposed to be Active Duty Mom. I just figure that since he works I need to support him the best way I can while I stay home. Making sure he eats healthy meals and knowing that I am always here is important. As for getting up to chat with him, I've seen too many lonely husbands. Sometimes they just want someone to listen to them, even if it is just talking about the book they are reading. I don't ever want my husband to feel as if I am not there mentally for him.
April 24th, 2009
2:07 pm
I don't do the kissing thing in the morning, but I do say have a great day, ect. I guess it's too early…
April 24th, 2009
3:14 pm
Who loves you more? The wife who won't get up to kiss you goodbye or for that matter even come downstairs to acknowledge your home…. or the dog? Try this lock your wife and your dog in the car trunk for a hour, when you open it you will see who truly loves you! :)
April 24th, 2009
3:14 pm
Who loves you more? The wife who won't get up to kiss you goodbye or for that matter even come downstairs to acknowledge your home…. or the dog? Try this lock your wife and your dog in the car trunk for a hour, when you open it you will see who truly loves you! :) and be ready to outrun your wife!
April 24th, 2009
3:34 pm
Dave, trust me in that if my husband tried to lock me in the trunk, he would not have to worry about which one loved him more..
April 24th, 2009
3:35 pm
OK Dave, I hate to say it…but that's funny! However, your bed might be cold for a LONG time after that! The dog can only do so much for a man!
April 24th, 2009
3:40 pm
Who loves you more? The husband who lets his preganant wife sleep a few more minutes in the morning, or the husband who locks her in the trunk? hmmmm…tough one.
April 24th, 2009
3:41 pm
sometimes..but usually we try to get a quickie in the morning…nothing better than taking advantage of that morning w**dy!!..that takes care of the kissing and everything else in between :)
April 24th, 2009
3:47 pm
Teacher, Too – I like how you explained your significant other ("more than a boyfriend but not yet a fiance") – that's exactly how I would describe mine. :)
We always, always, always kiss each other goodbye in the morning. I leave about half an hour before he does, so I get up, shower, and pack my lunch and he usually sleeps a little later (although he sometimes gets up while I'm in the shower and makes me breakfast!). But he's always up and out of bed to say goodbye to me.
While I was between jobs (last October through this past March), I woke up when he did and made him breakfast every day and then went back to bed for an hour or two. :)
April 24th, 2009
3:51 pm
We do everytime one of us leaves the other. Our kids too! If one of us is asleep when the other leaves, we kiss each other on the check or forehead. I wasn't this affectionate before I met my husband, but he managed to bring that out in me!
April 24th, 2009
3:51 pm
We give each other a quick peck, say "I love you, have a nice day," etc before we leave in the morning for work but not when leave during the day (like to go to the grocery store). I actually had never thought about it until I read the topic. My husband sleeps through all methods of alarms so I wake him in the morning. Twice a week he goes in at 10:00 so when I get to work I call back to wake him up. We (my son & I) wake him before we leave on his late days but he's probably sleep again before I pull out of the driveway.
MJG…I fix breakfast for my husband & son in the morning (I rarely eat breakfast), I lay his clothes out and 90% of the time I fix his plate at dinner. We all eat together on the nights that my husband works a "normal" schedule so as soon as I'm finished cooking, I fix all three plates and take them to the table. Some nights he gets off at 10:00 and I may or may not be awake when he gets home. If I'm awake, I heat up his food for him. If not, I leave his plate on the stove and he will heat it himself. I'm a light sleeper so I usually wake up when he unlocks the door and he'll stick his head in the bedroom door and chat a second but I don't get up. If I don't wake up on my own he doesn't wake me.
April 24th, 2009
3:53 pm
Way to go Stan. My husband and I kiss and say I love you every morning. It's a great way to start the day.
April 24th, 2009
3:54 pm
I don't think my wife has kissed me, period, in 10 years. I've kissed her, but she hasn't kissed me back.
Oh well, still waiting…


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