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Yankee vs Rebel Test! - checking your vocab

florajasmine:

myownmelt:courtmarie: thetalkinghead: mindsize: 

i was worried i might score too low after living in yankee land for the past 9 years. but, whew, i’m still okay. i scored 65% Dixie. i should send these results to my pops to let him know i’m still not a yankee convert all the way.

that being said - of course all the ‘Northeast’ words have worked their way into my vocab pretty well too. i ALWAYS called them “tennis shoes” until i moved north and now that sounds so ridiculous and i now refer to them as “sneakers” (or ‘teakers’ depending on my mood).

Holy crap I’m only 15% dixie (or 85% yankee). No shocker there! Could someone explain to me #15? I call it a bubbler. Ok fine. But how the hell is this only in Massachusetts and southern Wisconsin?!?! That’s a hair random, eh?

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ihatebillgates@mac-addict.com

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This was during my militant Mac user days circa 1997 when nothing that was Microsoft would touch my Mac, maaaaan. I was such a douchbag.

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Yay! Self shame!

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bhav: fuckyeahmath: Fox news math fail hahahaha 

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Fox news math fail

hahahaha 

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robdjohnson:

vb:

Oh AppleTV, I just may have to buy you…

 Though I have no interest in renting programs from Apple, at $99 with a Netflix streamer and the ability to play my music through my TV, the price is just right for this.

That’s pretty much where I’m at.  For 99 bucks, netflix streaming plus a fantastic bridge for all the media scattered on the Macs in the house to get up to the TV.  Awesome. Out of all the other solutions, it also (to me) provides the greatest potential of being able to ditch the Cable TV, depending on the Networks participation of course.

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Oh AppleTV, I just may have to buy you…

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robdjohnson asked: I do agree with you, but I see it as Discovery just giving people what they want. I thought it was horribly insensitive to the Harris family when they were basically in the room when Captain Phil died. But damn, it was good TV. Though this guy may have approved of that kind of television.

I thought the same thing (about the Harris family) too but as I watched, they explained that Phil wanted his life story told and it was very compelling. Also, while they’re certainly under contract for the show, I’m sure there’s some kind of veto power by the family to not put certain things on TV. You know you would have heard of some sort of court battle if the family didn’t want that on and Discovery went ahead and aired it anyway.

Back to giving people what they want… sometimes what people want isn’t good for other people. Large companies that have the ability to influence everyday people with (comparatively) large amounts of money (I think) have a responsibility to ask if while what they’re doing is legal, should they really be doing it.

I just find it kind of ironic that the same company that puts on fantastic and wonderful shows on Discovery, History, Military, Science and the other lesser Discovery Networks channels are in the same company as TLC which concentrates on “freak show” or “train wreck” type of programming.

Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled vb chicanery. 

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Here it is. Race promoter Tavo Hellmund has pulled back the sheets on the Austin formula one track, and the course looks damn impressive at first glance. The 3.4-mile course packs in 20 turns, a total change in elevation to 133 feet and a back straight that’s a full three-quarters of a mile long. What’s more, the circuit is designed to promote passing for American fans with short attention spans thanks to plenty of long straights followed by tight, 45-degree turns. Hellmund said that the cars should be able to click off a 200 mph top speed, and will sail by the grand stands at 180 mph or more.Interestingly enough, the course’s designers have borrowed heavily from other tracks from around the world. Turns 3-6 are nearly carbon copies of a series of apexes at Silverstone, while 12-15 pay homage to Hockenheim. One section that’s guaranteed to generate plenty of action is turns 16-18, a multi-apex monster cut from the same cloth as Istanbul’s turn 8. The Austin F1 course is slated to bare its first race by 2012, and there’s some word that construction will get under way this December. Austin’s F1 track gets laid out | Autoblog

Here it is. Race promoter Tavo Hellmund has pulled back the sheets on the Austin formula one track, and the course looks damn impressive at first glance. The 3.4-mile course packs in 20 turns, a total change in elevation to 133 feet and a back straight that’s a full three-quarters of a mile long. What’s more, the circuit is designed to promote passing for American fans with short attention spans thanks to plenty of long straights followed by tight, 45-degree turns. Hellmund said that the cars should be able to click off a 200 mph top speed, and will sail by the grand stands at 180 mph or more.

Interestingly enough, the course’s designers have borrowed heavily from other tracks from around the world. Turns 3-6 are nearly carbon copies of a series of apexes at Silverstone, while 12-15 pay homage to Hockenheim. One section that’s guaranteed to generate plenty of action is turns 16-18, a multi-apex monster cut from the same cloth as Istanbul’s turn 8. 

The Austin F1 course is slated to bare its first race by 2012, and there’s some word that construction will get under way this December.

Austin’s F1 track gets laid out | Autoblog

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BBC loses court battle to block the Stig book | Autoblog

The Stig has taken another step toward shrugging off the shackles of the BBC. As you may recall, Top Gear’s tame racing driver recently locked horns with the Beeb after he made it clear he wanted to publish his memoirs. The show’s producers found issue with text, saying that revealing his identity would not only be a disservice to the fans of the show, but that it would also violate the terms of his contract. Thing is, a judge has struck down the BBC’s injunction to keep The Stig from publishing his book. That means publisher HarperCollins can move forward on bringing the book to life without fear of any further legal action from the BBC. Interestingly enough, Ben Collins, the man who has long-been rumored to be the Stig, was spotted leaving the courthouse shortly after the ruling was issued. Collins was evasive when asked by reporters if he was the man in white, though we have a hard time thinking of any other reason why he would be at the hearing. (via Autoblog)

Anyone else fancy a Stig going off the end of HMS Invincible in a Jaguar (again)? I wonder what color the next Stig will be… Red? Blue? Maybe since Schumacher is really having a rough go of it round the GP courses this season the Top Gear test track would be more his speed.

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Yo, iTunes 10. I’m real happy for you and I’ma let you finish, but the white iPhone 4 was the best as-of-yet unavailable Apple product of all time.

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