ajwhitney: No more Volvo for me

tully: The speculation is this is a hoax. If not its a pretty damn funny interview and he is a little psycho
tully: oh if you dont know Hiroshi Yamauchi used to run Nintendo

tully: I love the unlabeled chart
lvaughn: Yeah, the sad part is that half the people who see it won't notice, or know why is bad
tully: btw, you can mouse over it to get the number
lvaughn: Chuffin A, jewlery was 8%

tully: It looks like at the new house we will have Dish network (so we can NHK) and SBC DSL so this baby is coming to my house.

tully: and the count goes higher
lvaughn: It'll keep going up for a few days...and they'll never know it all (think if all of the small villiages that are now gone...totally gone)
lvaughn: Yahoo is now calling it 59,000
lvaughn: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=1&u=/nm/20041228/sc_nm/quake_usa_sumatra_dc "The massive earthquake that devastated parts of Asia permanently moved the tectonic plates beneath the Indian Ocean as much as 98 feet, slightly shifting islands near Sumatra an unknown distance" That's insane

lvaughn: Wow...we need to make something like this
lvaughn: http://www.toolsforwellness.com/lo400.html
lvaughn: We could make a bundle

tully: This thing is totally bad ass, but way, way to expensive

lvaughn: Almost as depressing as the kids take on old games article.

tully: All you need is a flat surface and two small fans. In six minutes, you'll have a full-blown, 760-square-foot structure that accommodates a fully stocked bar and 30 people
lvaughn: "the PVC pub allows for smoking, dart playing, and even some literal bouncing off the walls" OK, the dart playing sounds like a bad idea

lvaughn: That's depressing

lvaughn: Jebus...
tully: yeah headline said it all

lvaughn: I wonder who does their books...

tully: "Today, about half of all the individuals mammals on Earth are rodents"
tully: "One such event in the Central Valley of California in 1926-27 had mouse populations reaching around 200,000 per hectare (about 20 mice per square metre)."
lvaughn: Jesus...that's almost the rodent density of DC
tully: hehe

lvaughn: Check out the grammer: http://ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff46315.htm

lvaughn: ahhhh....from the looks of him, he can test out the cardiac care

tully: watchin the news coverage on tv was amazing
lvaughn: a 600 mile section of fault moved 15 feet
lvaughn: That's a lot of energy
tully: yup
lvaughn: And a 60 foot wall of water really sucks if your whole country is less than 30 feet above sea level

junkemon: This stuff all looks perfectly hideous. The main page of the site is also worth a glance, since it doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

corncob01: For Tully

lvaughn: Wind?

corncob01: For the democrats: "American universities, which for half a century have attracted the world's best and brightest students with little effort, are suddenly facing intense competition as higher education undergoes rapid globalization."
corncob01: For the Republicans: "Foreign students contribute $13 billion to the American economy annually. But this year brought clear signs that the United States' overwhelming dominance of international higher education may be ending. In July, Mr. Payne briefed the National Academy of Sciences on a sharp plunge in the number of students from India and China who had taken the most recent administration of the Graduate Record Exam, a requirement for applying to most graduate schools; it had dropped by half."