Dr. Tom

::randomly bombs other nations::

I was there, d00d. It was fucking GOLD.

Magic players will know what I'm talking about here. I have a Beta Black Lotus in good condition, signed by both Richard Garfield and the artist. It is officially teh r0x0r, and is part of my Beta Power 9 set.

Goddamnit. I'd love to know how I did that one. ::fixes::

I drive about 16 miles to work everyday, and it usually takes me around 20 minutes. I'm able to make pretty good time going down Rt. 40, but once I get onto the base itself, things get a lot slower.

Hmmm, is it a good one? I'd be interested in joining a good poker forum. I'm guessing it's tied to the publishing company that has put out David Sklansky's books? As for me, the boards I frequent besides TSM: - SNKT - Scrollrack.com (a Magic: the Gathering site, where I admin the forums and edit the site) There are a few more I post at occasionally.

It doesn't stand for anything. "Sic" is Latin for "thus" (see "Sic semper tyrannus" -- "thus always for a tyrant"), and is used in print to point out errors, indicating that the error is preserved in the quote.

3.81 (unweighted) GPA, ranked 10th in my class out of 251.

I'm calling a hostile takeover of the USA, because I can. MUAHAHAHAHA~!

Hardly. I thought it was pulled off very well, in fact. I thought it odd when I saw Colonel KKK advocating a traditionally liberall viewpoint, but then when I saw Tyler quoting an Ann Coulter column for reasons other than saying "OMG THE W3RD OF SATAN~!!!1!!11!!!!" I knew the April Fool's fix was in. Well done, all of you who were involved.

Just so you know, the usual dollar amount for an auction league's salary cap is $260.

My money league (AL-only, going to 5x5 this year after 18 years of 4x4) had its roster freeze last night. I kept 9 players: C Ben Molina, $8, 2nd year 1B Scott Spiezio, $11, 2nd year 3B Bill Mueller, $3, 2nd year P Tim Hudson, $39, 2nd year P Mike Mussina, $36, 2nd year P Eric Dubose, $6, 2nd year P Damaso Marte, $10, 2nd year P Brendan Donnelly, $1, 2nd year (Currently on DL) P Joel Piniero, $11, X-2 Potentially keepable gentleman I threw back: CI Ken Harvey (2nd year @$6), OF Hideki Matsui (2nd year @$25), DH Ruben Sierra (2nd year @$5). I also declined a trade for Shiggy Hasegawa (2nd year @$4) just before the freeze, since his K numbers are not strong. I've won this league the last two years. No one's ever won three years in a row before, so I'm trying to be the first. I have three solid starters, and a potentially good one in DuBose, who finished last year strong. I'm going to try and get Javier Vasquez, since I think he'll go for less than Schilling. I traded Carl Crawford this offseason (to get Mussina and Marte), so my speed is negligible. Now that the league is 5x5, I can afford to "punt" a category. That will either have to be speed or saves, and I can get saves from one guy, so punting speeds seems more likely at this point. Discuss my team, or your own team and league.

From The Man in Blak, regarding a rather vituperative thread about the legitimacy of mental illness in the former NHB. Dated 9.9.02. My PMs > all of yours.

I view the board with sigs (and avatars) off, since I do most of my viewing from work these days. Thus, I don't get to see sigs that are too large. If a sig is too large, then a mod should be PM'ed to deal with the situation.

It's interesting that the decline in record sales directly corresponds to the RIAA's murder of Napster. Napster actually exposed people to music they never would've heard otherwise, and at its height, was improving sales. Since Napster was snuffed, though, sales have fallen. Post hoc ergo propter hoc? Perhaps, but it's worth noting. The RIAA needs to embrace the digital model or die.

Yeah, but that fiction's 2000 years old. It needs some updatin'.

"It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in."

You should write a book about that kind of stuff.

That's awesome. I would say "rubbish" instead of "claptrap," but that's still awesome.

I'm sure a lot of people don't come to a wrestling board for that. I'm also sure that most of them don't go into the Current Events folder. Or if they do, they run out screaming and covering their eyes after about five minutes... It's already in one folder: CE. CE is for politics, as well as newsworthy regional, national, and international events. In an election year (especially considering how hotly-contested the last election was, and the bitterness that still lingers on both sides), people are going to be cranking up the anti-Bush or anti-Kerry rhetoric. Basically, if the topic doesn't seem like something that's to your liking, don't click on it. If the folder seems like something that's not to your liking, don't go into it. I'm not saying those to be a prick, but it's just common sense.

Sass lives where there are miles and miles of deserts, and he owns two very nice shovels.

What the hell, I'll ask for a grade, too. BTW, I always learned it as "Sic transit gloria mundi," but it's been a while. It's still one of my absolute favorite phrases in Latin.

^ BAN PLZ~

If you can turn off sigs and avatars at work (which I do), can't you also avoid clicking on a topic with a curse word in it? Really, most of us are adults here. I see no problems with swearing in topic titles.

When was the last time you contributed something of value to this folder?