the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[MURP]

ha.  when was that from?

[Cerevant]

Originally Posted by Perceptive One
Death toll in 2006 far overshadows total
U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, Afghanistan

It should be self-evident from my other statistics, but it is asinine to try to compare the absolute statistics independent of their relevant populations:

2863 dead out of 145,000 = 1.9 dead per hundred
4745 dead out of 300,000,000 = 0.000015 dead per hundred

[BigEd76]

ha.  when was that from?

hmm...not sure.  It's from PE.com but I didn't see it in the photo gallery area...

[hbionic]

The look on the security guys face says it all.

[MDS]

Does he close his eyes and come close to signing the autograph?

[PhillyPhreak54]

Kyle Orton

[Diomedes]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/05/uss.intrepid.ap/index.html

they got the Intrepid out.  I just watched it being towed past my office down the Hudson.  (Office is between 15th and 16th St. on 10th Av)

Very cool to see.

[phattymatty]

[MDS]

Those dudes are never gonna live that one down.

[General_Failure]

Nobody lives down being a soccer player.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Offer this chick a warm beer and she'll fargin cap yo ass

[PhillyPhreak54]

[Diomedes]

Three times this week I've found something dope on ebay to buy as a Christmas present for someone, been the high bidder until the last seconds, and gotten sniped. 

It's discouraging as hell.  I'm fine with being outbid, but it ticks me off that you don't have any idea what the market is like until the auction is over.  You have no idea what the other people will bid, especially for truly unusual things, until it's over.  Kinda makes the whole point of an auction irrelevant.

Bummed and angry.

[Feva]

Three times this week I've found something dope on ebay to buy as a Christmas present for someone, been the high bidder until the last seconds, and gotten sniped. 

It's discouraging as hell.  I'm fine with being outbid, but it ticks me off that you don't have any idea what the market is like until the auction is over.  You have no idea what the other people will bid, especially for truly unusual things, until it's over.  Kinda makes the whole point of an auction irrelevant.

Bummed and angry.

Then just do the snipin'.

If you see something you want... put a watch on it... and take note of when it ends.  When the time gets close (around 2 minutes), put your bid in.

By putting your bid in early... you only open yourself up to a bidding war... and you'll end up paying more than you have to for that butter joint.

[Geowhizzer]

I agree, Dio.  Basically the only way that will usually work is to put a price in your head, and bid that close to the end of the auction.  I've had a lot of auctions I thought I had won be decided by that single bid over my maximum.