Catch All Anything Thread

[kjshoe04]

So I have a Kindle app for my droid and recently downloaded a couple E-books for it. Is there any way I can transfer that to my laptop so I can read it on my computer screen? Or some cable I can buy to read it through my monitor while leaving it on my phone?

Assuming you got your e-books at amazon, you can go through the manage my kindle page at amazon.com and send it to the kindle for pc app.

[ChiSox_Sonix]

My in-laws have a newspaper that shows the listing of their house when they bought it.

 

On the exact same page there is a listing of my parents' house. We lived there until I was in the 3rd grade.

 

I recently started seeing a girl who's parents house is a house that my parents put a bid on but lost out because her mother had beaten them by a couple days. This was back in 1983 before either of us was born.

[Balta1701]

The Midwest as viewed by Chicagoans.

 

 

Link

[Milkman delivers]

What's the bridge?

[southsider2k5]

A Cub fan wrote that. I say "yeah" to Cardinals fans. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

[Milkman delivers]

A Cub fan wrote that. I say "yeah" to Cardinals fans. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

 

I knew that the second I saw the Cardinals thing, too

[witesoxfan]

Can you remember ever hearing a story and thinking how incredibly unlikely it was?

 

JUST GIVE ME SOMETHING TO WORK WITH, PEOPLE!

 

I seem to recall reading or seeing at one point in time that a person was struck by lightning twice in the same day and lived.

[Milkman delivers]

That's the kind of stuff I mean. Another guy was struck by lightning seven times, which is like 500 septillion to 1. But that might break my own rule because it's seven separate occasions, not one event.

[G&T]

What's the bridge?

 

I assume it's a reference to the bridge collapse?

[BigSqwert]

Officially moved to Seattle last night. Corporate housing until we can move into our rental home on the 1st.

[Steve9347]

Officially moved to Seattle last night. Corporate housing until we can move into our rental home on the 1st.

I recommend a Soundgarden shirt. Nirvana 2nd. Pearl Jam never.

[farmteam]

I assume it's a reference to the bridge collapse?

 

I frequently drive over the bridge they built to replace the one that collapsed. It's still kind of eerie -- partly because it's so obviously new and whatnot, partly because you know what happened there.

[farmteam]

I didn't know this about Steve Jobs, but it's kind of amusing.

[southsider2k5]

I assume it's a reference to the bridge collapse?

 

I was thinking covered bridges in Wisconsin.

[Balta1701]

I was thinking covered bridges in Wisconsin.

I figured it was "Something has to cross the mississippi river".

[NorthSideSox72]

I was thinking covered bridges in Wisconsin.

Indiana and Iowa are more known for those. Madison County (as in Bridges Over) is in Iowa, not Wisconsin.

 

[southsider2k5]

Indiana and Iowa are more known for those. Madison County (as in Bridges Over) is in Iowa, not Wisconsin.

 

No idea honestly, it was just the first thing that popped into my head. I can't imagine they were making fun of the I-35 tragedy though. The picture seems to be not in that spirit at all. It is more like silly stereotypes.

[Milkman delivers]

http://www.cracked.com/article_18788_the-5...er4=recommended

 

Incredibly unlikely things that happened.

[GoodAsGould]

Appears was chosen because we're detecting these thousands of other planetary systems with Kepler using light from stars. And we're detecting thousands. And if you do basic statistics, the numbers out there must be enormous.

 

Just ecause we don't know everything doesn't mean what we've already established isn't incredible.

 

I never said space and what we know of it wasn't incredible, just that our limited knowledge of everything makes it impossible to say other life must exist outside of our solar system.

[IlliniKrush]

Second, what the hell do people do when they don't go out on Friday nights? I'm bored out of my f***in mind.

I found something for you to do.

[southsider2k5]

http://www.cracked.com/article_18788_the-5...er4=recommended

 

Incredibly unlikely things that happened.

 

My wife's grandfather was an orphan who was separated from his family when he was 2. He spent his entire childhood in an orphanage in rural Tennessee. Back then they would not tell you anything about your family. So he spent decades trying to track down the brother and sister he vaguely remembered. While in some small town in Texas, while in his early 60's he is standing in line as some random gas station while the guy in front of him is writing a check. He looks over the guys shoulder and sees that the guys last name is the same. He strikes up a conversation and figures out that this is his brother he hasn't seen for over 60 years. The two brothers and the sister get together a few months later for the only meeting they ever had. 2 months later, my wife's grandfather passed away from a horribly advanced prostate cancer.

[Balta1701]

Can you remember ever hearing a story and thinking how incredibly unlikely it was?

 

JUST GIVE ME SOMETHING TO WORK WITH, PEOPLE!

The St. Louis Cardinals, 2011 World Series, game 6.

 

Hell, most of the rest of their season too. Ditto the Red Sox/Braves collapses.

 

That's why one becomes a sports fan.

[GoSox05]

My wife's grandfather was an orphan who was separated from his family when he was 2. He spent his entire childhood in an orphanage in rural Tennessee. Back then they would not tell you anything about your family. So he spent decades trying to track down the brother and sister he vaguely remembered. While in some small town in Texas, while in his early 60's he is standing in line as some random gas station while the guy in front of him is writing a check. He looks over the guys shoulder and sees that the guys last name is the same. He strikes up a conversation and figures out that this is his brother he hasn't seen for over 60 years. The two brothers and the sister get together a few months later for the only meeting they ever had. 2 months later, my wife's grandfather passed away from a horribly advanced prostate cancer.

 

Wow. That is crazy.

 

That is really cool that he got to meet his family, if even for just one time.

[Milkman delivers]

My wife's grandfather was an orphan who was separated from his family when he was 2. He spent his entire childhood in an orphanage in rural Tennessee. Back then they would not tell you anything about your family. So he spent decades trying to track down the brother and sister he vaguely remembered. While in some small town in Texas, while in his early 60's he is standing in line as some random gas station while the guy in front of him is writing a check. He looks over the guys shoulder and sees that the guys last name is the same. He strikes up a conversation and figures out that this is his brother he hasn't seen for over 60 years. The two brothers and the sister get together a few months later for the only meeting they ever had. 2 months later, my wife's grandfather passed away from a horribly advanced prostate cancer.

 

That is an awesome story. It seriously sounds made up, that's how cool it is.

 

The St. Louis Cardinals, 2011 World Series, game 6.

 

Hell, most of the rest of their season too. Ditto the Red Sox/Braves collapses.

 

That's why one becomes a sports fan.

 

That's why one becomes a baseball fan. There is no other sport like it.

[southsider2k5]

Wow. That is crazy.

 

That is really cool that he got to meet his family, if even for just one time.

 

 

That is an awesome story. It seriously sounds made up, that's how cool it is.

 

The cool part is now the extended families are all friends. Both of the brothers from the original generation are gone, but the sister is still alive. Her kids and the other kids (wife's parents generation) get together usually about once a year.