Hi, I got snowed in during my trip to Lunenburg this weekend, and I just skipped 500+ messages. How is everyone?

Thanks Matt!

Is anyone familiar with this site?

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It looks to be inexpensive, although I might have to sell my soul to the devil to get these prices.

I just don't understand how my department (nursing entreprenuership), which is supposed to insubate business until they are ready to be on their own, seems to display a complete ignorance of standard publishing (and might I also add marketing) practices.

Your bosses need to be beaten, and then to be shown the court cases where law firms paid millon-dollar copyright fines for photocopying whole books and newsletters.

It's amazing when lawyers don't understand the concept of copyrights, isn't it? My old department had a two-year battle when one of the lawyers who was editing a book decided to lift an article whole-cloth and republish it in our product. Of course, the lawyer who was the original author saw it and immediately filed a lawsuit. Unfortunately, the employee who was stupid enough to do this had already been fired for being stupid about using her phone for personal calls (she was on the phone for about 7 hours of her 8-hour workday, and called friends across the country). The guy ended up settling after more than a year of legal wrangling.

So, in light of our conversation a while back, Sheryl Crow is on today's Ellen, and Ellen brought up the breakup, and Sheryl was basically like, "Well, you live your life in the public eye, and that's how it goes."

sophia, try photo morgue.

I've also seen people link here for stock photos: [link]

Corbis, ptui! t /obligatory competitor link response

I am losing my everloving mind today.

I've got scripts doing things independently of it, you know, being told to.

So if computers achieve intelligence and take over the world and kill all the humans or turn them into slaves or something? Today is the day it started, I'm really sorry and blame NASA.

goes back to cursing at the computer and searching through 10 year old code...

Cheers, Buffistas!

Oh my dog. I haven't even skimmed. I've gone directly to skipping because I'm several thousand posts behind. Hi! Good thoughts to them as needs 'em. I hope I manage to keep up again. I've gotten so used to being on relatively dead boards that I hardly remember what it's like to have to scramble to keep up.

Got an icepack on the left arm today as the RSI is acting up. Hope my CMT will be available tonight. Almost glad to be back at work because I have such a hard time being productive at home. So, even though I'm underpaid and my job bores the crap outta me, I'm weirdly upbeat about being here.

Why do I always eat the messy drippy gravy-covered lunches when I'm wearing light-colored shirts? Damn gravy drops all over my peach sweatshirt, damnit! Grrrr...

Let's everyone post the Cheney Shooting joke that they've already heard/seen on the internet! Me first:

Top 10 Cheney Excuses for Shooting that Guy

From the home office, Dick Cheney's Top 10 Excuses for Shooting That Guy:

10. Sure, like you've never seen seen giant game birds wearing day glo orange vests

9. Warrantless domestic spying revealed he was getting phone calls from al Queda

8. If the Vice President does it, it's not against the law

7. Hoping to put him in a persistent vegetative state so the GOP could pass a law to keep him alive

6. Thought he was hunting Dan Quayle

5. The love between them could not survive back in Washington

4. Birds, Cows, People-- with my eyesight I'm lucky I hit anything

3. Positive the guy's family will welcome him as a liberator

2. Pheasants? I thought we were hunting peasants

and the number one Cheney excuse for shooting that guy:

1. Open season on liberals started early this year