Steve C, Team Marina

AKA Why I can't stand D1 college football or basketball. - Steve C, Team Marina

Wow. I'm working at a D1 for the first time at the moment (before I'd never even attended one) and while I'm often sickened by the emphasis on sport, I do have to admit that working with these kids has really opened my eyes. They're not all dumb jocks gaming the system. I've met quite a few student athletes who are incredibly bright and many who are only participating in their sport because it pays for an education that would otherwise not be available to them (one even said the sport wasn't fun, it was just a job for her). I've also realized that some of these kids would be 4.0 students if it weren't for the demanding (I'd argue grueling) practice, conditioning, and competition schedules. This kid is obviously not one of them, but some of the MPOW athletes have really made me change my opinion about highly competitive college sports - Soup in a TARDIS

The Yamaha? I noticed that, but I'm hesitating. - Greg GuitarBuster

Yes Greg that's the one it's not the world beater but has the airplay I needed and juice. Based on reviews online it's good but has limitations in wireless. The receiver it is replacing is from 1989 it works just fine just problems with my unique airport express connection to it and juice. Finally dropped below price point. - Steve C, Team Marina

*doffs Mickey Mouse ears* - Spidra Webster

"HBO is backing a documentary based on "Going Clear," a book about Scientology and Hollywood -- and isn't taking any chances with the legal side of things. "We have probably 160 lawyers" looking at the film, HBO Documentary Films President Sheila Nevins told The Hollywood Reporter. (HBO, like CNN, is a unit of Time Warner.) "Going Clear," by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lawrence Wright ("The Looming Tower"), digs into the life of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and the influence his church has had on its believers, many of whom have close ties to Hollywood." - Steve C, Team Marina

Love that headline! :D I hope they're successful. It's well past time for someone to go after them. - Spidra Webster

"A worker fell screaming 11 stories from the roof of a bank building Friday morning onto a moving car, crushing its roof and sending shattered glass flying into the street, police and witnesses said. The man suffered critical injuries, but he was conscious, police said. The car's driver, Mohammad Alcozai, was not injured. He told KGO-TV that he's happy to be alive especially after his car's roof almost completely collapsed in the accident. He said he is praying that the worker survives." - Steve C, Team Marina

:( - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

Damn - Rodfather

Diana is now the proud owner of a new dental practice that is beautiful and modern and fancy and pretty much only operated by her. But as the smartest person I know she can handle it. I’m hoping to help send people her direction. I know it’s far from many of us being in San Clemente but if you know someone in the area or are willing to make the drive for a good dental visit I’d appreciate it. - Steve C, Team Marina

Yay! I remember you telling me about this recently, happy to hear she's up and running! - Lola Bean (Penguin)

"Norway has revealed the result of a competition to design the country's new passport -- but the stylish winner has a major flaw. Its pages, which reveal secret images of the Northern Lights when placed under a UV lamp, are possibly too beautiful to spoil with smudgy visa stamps." - Steve C, Team Marina

"A virus known to attack green algae in lakes and rivers can also infect human brains -- and it’s making dummies out of us. The virus, called ATCV-1, can impair cognitive activity, learning and memory, essentially making a person who has the virus less intelligent, researchers in the U.S. have found. Scientists said this is the first time the virus has been observed in people." - Steve C, Team Marina

But can you fix stupid? - Mary B: #TeamMonique

"Add this tidbit to the "Suicide Squad" speculation. According to Collider, actress Margot Robbie is on board to play Harley Quinn in the upcoming film. The character of Quinn first appeared in "Batman: The Animated Series," and is a love interest/henchwoman for the Joker. Fans were already excited with the news that Warner Bros. may be in talks with Oscar winner Jared Leto for the role of the Joker. (Warner Bros. is owned by CNN's parent company.)" - Steve C, Team Marina

"Last year a Florida mother of a 7-month-old came back to her room to find that her baby had accidentally eaten one of those bright colored laundry detergent pods. He had been sleeping in a laundry basket with the pod when it happened. They rushed him to the hospital, but it was too late. He died, of poisoning from the detergent, according to the Kissimmee, Florida, police department. He is not the first child to mistake the potent packet for something else. Poison control centers around the country have gotten thousands of calls. In the period of about a year, 17,230 children under the age of 6 have been accidentally poisoned by the packets, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics. That's about one child every hour between March 2012 and April 2013. Of those cases, 4.4% of the children were hospitalized, and 7.5% experienced a "moderate or major medical outcome."" - Steve C, Team Marina

The dishwasher ones are bad, too. They really look like candy. - Jaclyn aka spamgirl

Running a drug house across the street from an elementary school probably not gonna go over well in the courts. - Steve C, Team Marina

Ahh, life in the LBC. I remember it well. - Corinne L

"Goldieblox introduces a new action figure for girls in an ad that makes a bold statement about "beauty over brains." The new ad titled "GoldieBlox vs. the Big Sister machine" is being compared to Apple's famous "1984" commercial where a woman is seen "breaking the mold." When you watch the spot, you can hear Metric's "Help I'm Alive" set the tone for what appears to be robotic like girls dressed in pink, walking in a factory-like assembly line." - Steve C, Team Marina

18 out of 40. Apparently I am a superior self sufficient exploitative exhibitionist. That's a lot to put on a business card. Link to quiz from Zulema http://personality-testing.info/tests... - Steve C, Team Marina

I am not sure how I am an exhibitionist but have no vanity. I am conflicting myself. :) - Steve C, Team Marina

You know you're good and happy to share it, there's no posturing there Steve ;) - Pete's Got To Go

Hmm, did it go to sleep after Return of the Jedi? Did Luke need a nap or something? :) - That's So CAJ!

Please reference today's Amazon deals on Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys - Steve C, Team Marina

Well, when he hits 18 months, he will be old enough for Duplo, which is just as much fun as the little Legos they will work with, when he is older. :) http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Du... - April Russo (FForever!)

"A whopping 75 percent of women report wanting to exercise more, but not making it to the gym, according to a new survey by Sport England, a group that provides services and funding to sport in the U.K. While the women surveyed gave many different reasons for skipping sweat-fests, the researchers say it almost all boiled down to one thing: the fear of being judged." - Steve C, Team Marina

"WNBA star Brittney Griner suffered a minor injury from a knife attack in China on Monday, her agent, Lindsay Kagawa Colas told USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday. Colas said Griner was attacked and cut by a man with a knife while trying to board the team bus after practice on Monday. Griner, who's playing in her second season professionally in China and first with the Beijing Great Wall, did not need to go to the hospital and the cut did not require stitches." - Steve C, Team Marina

O___O - Jennifer Dittrich

"Dear park visitors, Please don't take selfies with bears. It's stupid. Love, the U.S Forest Service That pretty much sums up a warning issued recently by wildlife officials at Taylor Creek Visitor Center in South Lake Tahoe, California. "Bears are unpredictable, wild animals and may attack if threatened," Forest Supervisor Nancy Gibson said in a statement. "We can't have visitors creating dangerous situations for themselves and others. People are risking serious injury or death if they get too close to a bear." And if you don't care about your own health, at least consider the bears. If one attacked, officials would have to capture and kill it." - Steve C, Team Marina

I hate that they even have to point out why this is a stupid, bad, no-good idea. (See also: selfies with any other large wildlife.) - Jennifer Dittrich

You couldn't pay me to take a photo with a bear. Nevermind the wildlife ethics, bears are scary! - Jenny H.

Might be a good way to thin the herd. Of humans, not bears. - Spidra Webster

"A pooch in Alabama got its owner busted for alleged drug offenses -- all with a gleeful wag of its tail. Edward Melvin Henderson was arrested in Prattville, Alabama, and faces a variety of charges. The dog, Bo, was caught up in the incident when police executed a drug search warrant this week at the Prattville home of suspect Edward Melvin Henderson. Henderson took off and dashed toward a wooded area at the back of his home, the Prattville Police Department said in a statement. Bo, a mix of a pit bull and husky, ran after Henderson after investigators told the dog to "go get him." Authorities briefly lost sight of them and were close to giving up. But an excited Bo had found his owner hiding in tall grass, and was wagging his tail. Authorities saw the tail and arrested Henderson." - Steve C, Team Marina

SO much for loyalty. lol - Heather

I love that the dog was so friendly he'd respond to others' commands. - Spidra Webster

Hey, cutie pie! - Tamara J. B.

Why is your kid so damn cute, Steve?! Sheesh! - Soup in a TARDIS

"Google the buzz word “Ebola” today, and roughly 27,300,000 results come up. If you did so this past Tuesday, you might have noticed that the top search result for the virus, oddly, was a sponsored ad from Lysol. It seems the disinfectant company is attempting to capitalize on the public health hysteria with some viral marketing. Motherboard reports that the cleaning product company indeed bought the number one Google search slot for the disease, which lured readers to their site." - Steve C, Team Marina

$6.99 for every song ever. Seriously well over 100 AC DC songs - Steve C, Team Marina

It did charge me $118.99 for it. I'mma have to contact Amazon support about that. ETA - and, they're issuing me a refund for the full purchase price ($118.99 + my $1.00 mp3 credit). - COMPLICATED MR. NOODLE

SAMHAIN! - Big Joe Silenced

So what are you keeping? :) - Anne Bouey

ALOT it turns out Anne. First rain in months struck at 8 pm here. More candy for me. Milky Way Dark, PB Cups, Nerds, Mounds, all things chocolate sans cookie crunch. - Steve C, Team Marina

"He isn't taking the traditional route with this film -- selling it to a TV network or production studio. He didn't want the outside pressure. Instead, he and co-producer Mark Hefti are raising the money on Kickstarter. They plan to donate 100% of the profits from the film to the Michele Baldwin Memorial Fund, which is managed by the American Sexual Health Association. Cervical cancer is a highly preventable cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It's caused by the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which has a vaccine. Yet every year more than 270,000 women die worldwide from the disease. Baldwin passed away in February 2012. After her death, Lumiere couldn't bring himself to work on the film. "Any time I tried to start it, I felt incredibly inadequate. Whatever I did, it wasn't good enough for her," he says. His wife finally convinced him to see a therapist, who helped him realize his grieving was normal. As Lumiere spoke early Thursday afternoon, the number of donations on his Kickstarter page continued to climb. In less than 12 hours, his project had raised more than $12,000." - Steve C, Team Marina

"The Federal Trade Commission filed its first lawsuit against an online dating site on Wednesday. It accuses a British company, JDI Dating, with using fake messages and computer-generated profiles to trick people into upgrading to paid memberships. JDI Dating operates 18 dating websites, including cupidswand.com, flirtcrowd.com and findmelove.com. People who created their free profiles would receive messages that appeared to be from members who lived nearby and wanted to meet. According to the FTC's complaint, these messages were almost always bogus. The only way users could respond to that email was to sign-up for a paid membership of $10 to $30 a month." - Steve C, Team Marina

Damn he's got skills - Steve C, Team Marina

Oh man, I haven't listened to that in awhile. *goes off to find it* - Jaclyn aka spamgirl

Consider this a public service announcement. - Steve C, Team Marina

:-) - Shannon - GlassMistress

Unexpected things to see on your Fantasy Football team update page. - Steve C, Team Marina

Little Plastic Castle = my mind lately - Steve C, Team Marina

"Ladies and gentlemen, it's "The Neil Patrick Harris Show"! An announcer might not use those exact words -- plenty of details are still up for grabs -- but, according to a report on New York magazine's website, there will be a variety show hosted by the versatile star. The show will be based on the UK variety show "Saturday Night Takeaway."" - Steve C, Team Marina