Ask TOMBOT

C'mon now. Some of my best friends work in the 'intelligence' community. Okay, maybe not but I've met a few and they seemed really nice and so eloquent, too.

1st pick in fantasy football: LT or AP?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOHEU7Ykyg

Did you ever play Master of Monsters? Do you know any other games like it?

No. It looks kinda Disgaea with hexes though.

Pound for pound, unit of monetary currency for unit of monetary currency, who has the best spooks on the planet?

tie between north korea and israel IMO

where can i get a copy of the sporting news football prospectus? i'm gonna have some time to get some reading done this weekend.

I dunno.

hey tombot, i am considering doing one of those "i am taking the bar exam" structured procrastination threads about the physics papers I read. should i do this as an ILX thread or as a proper blog elsewhere? more people would probably read it and comment here, but I'd have more control over the blog.

also, how do you feel about the last 90 seconds of "come sail away" by styx?

how should i invest $5000?

(this is a real question)

Will The Giants repeat?

should i do this as an ILX thread or as a proper blog elsewhere?

Do you want me to read it? I got no control over other folks but I can tell you I for one am not likely to start reading a blog about your bathroom reading, but would probably follow a thread about it, because every thread is an opportunity to delete stuff and ban people

also, how do you feel about the last 90 seconds of "come sail away" by styx?

I don't know really, but I feel like this song being eaten alive by South Park was probably a good thing

how should i invest $5000?

your first $5K goes in a money market mutual fund or similarly low-risk, interest-bearing but readily liquidated account, later to be referred to as the "oh shit" pot, and never touched again except in "oh shit" circumstances.

Will The Giants repeat?

I think they have a good chance if they stay healthy and keep up that road game streak.

Is a money market fund just essentially a high yield online savings account without FDIC protection?

what, you come NYC? what's up Sat night? (I am at 7:10 Mets game, well, til it ends)

Are you afraid of spiders or heights or enclosed places or anything like that?

What should Capello's first choice midfield look like?

Is a money market fund just essentially a high yield online savings account without FDIC protection?

Yeah, so try and get one with a larger bank, one that isn't associated with Countrywide. MM's keep pace with inflation, though, which savings accounts do not, and I can even write checks out of mine.

what, you come NYC? what's up Sat night?

Nothing that I know of, playing everything by ear right now.

Are you afraid of spiders or heights or enclosed places or anything like that?

I wouldn't say so, I can kind of get myself a little worked up about confinement or being buried alive but not for long.

What should Capello's first choice midfield look like?

I don't know how to help you out here, Michael Carrick wasn't in yesterday, maybe he could've helped. I actually saw a bit of that friendly, you made the Czechs look good, especially the goaltender. But it's a friendly, right? Shouldn't they all be making sure they stay healthy for the real shit?

what kind of interest are you earning in a money market account right now?

3.57% over 12 months, which is low, but everything's shit in 2008

I'm getting 3% in a internet savings account :/

Now extended until September 15, 2008: 3.50% APY.*

I'd maybe just get one a them ING Orange accounts, I think that's 3% or 3.5

xpost lol probably same one

i am poor :(

ps. talking about INTEREST RATES on the noise board should = ban imo
(xxpost dave the one i pasted was hsbc)

none of these posts look like questions to me

ps. talking about INTEREST RATES on the noise board should = ban imo

otm but someone asked a sincere question!

however I am not TOMBOT so I shoulda refrained from answering

tombot,

why do you think gabbneb will not answer my question on the ask a gabbneb thred?

why do you think gabbneb will not answer my question on the ask a gabbneb thred?

I think it is probably because he has no idea what you are talking about, at all.

really? i thought that was his game?

why did you not answer my question? do you have me killfiled? if so, why? wait maybe I don't want to know

where he at?

If I don't catch any messages aft Mets game, I head to Metropolitan.

El Tom,

Do you get to post on/read Intellipedia? If so, are there trolls?

why did you not answer my question? do you have me killfiled?

No, I just missed it.

immovable object or unopposable force?

like, who wins? The immovable object, I figure, at least half the time.

where he at?

drinking at Clem's for like 5 hours straight, lol. Good to see everyone. Also: Ouch.

Do you get to post on/read Intellipedia? If so, are there trolls?

I have read it, but not posted. I have not noticed any trolls, but the topics I imagine are hotly contested are not under my purview, and I don't have time like I used to to just browse pages and pages of reporting looking for fun classified trivia.

really? i thought that was his game?

it might be his game but that doesn't mean he's any good at it.

Ouch. But c'mon you'd have to admit he's reasonably good at fulfilling the role of guy who reads lots of blogs to parrot later on, right? cause really michael tomasky - he's fairly well-known. lol. that comment so beautifully encapsulates inside baseball/out-of-touchness i want to bottle it for later. although I would imagine he's happy to be both of those things. (sorry for no question tom)

well at least you said you were sorry.

theda skocpol people! she's fairly well known. lol

otobmot

u aight doggie?

hoos

I got a headache, I took a naproxen sodium (Costco Aleve) and washed it down with alka-seltzer, but still pissed. It's funny, with me, being predictable (boring) is worse than being wrong.

ok so the ringleader of one of the insanest puma blogs (n0quarterusa.net) is a dude named L4rry J0hns0n, who says his line of work is in security consulting etc, whose business has a website at www dot berg (dash) associates dot com. (sorry to be paranoid with the google proofing). is he legit? have you heard of him? his website looks like it's from 1994. how would i find out more about him?

i'm convinced everyone on his blog is a paid gop troll and that the comment boxes are designed to harvest emails. but maybe not.

maybe you ought to have googleproofed his company name better

fwiw: http://tinyurl.com/5ajmgk

(article about the man)

do you trust Google with your email?

goole: I have never heard of that dude until I read your question.

caek: yeah, I mean what else am I going to do? trust attrition.org?

also it's e-mail. that's like "do you trust t-mobile with your phone conversations?" I guess so!

tombot-

what movie should i do next in three frames ?

grady,

I have two ideas I like for this. I can flip a coin so I can answer your question as posed (movie, singular) but I'm going to let you know what the two options are so you can follow up and let me know if the result matters (would have to dig coin out of milk bottle somehow as any change in my pants goes into the milk bottle as soon as I get home):

a. The Long Goodbye starring Mr. Gould
b. Being There starring Mr. Sellers

Tombot, have you ever seen the hardcore Japanese war film Fires on the Plain? You'd like it.

tom,

what kind of milk bottle? my change goes into this plastic cup, but it overfloweth.

t

b. Being There starring Mr. Sellers

saw this monday night :D

Morbius,

No, but I have added it to my Netflix queue at position #299. It may be moved up later. On a side note, I have discovered that the secret of being a good Netflix subscriber who enjoys life is to just send stuff back if you aren't ready to watch it when it arrives and stop feeling guilty.

Tza,

It is an old-school glass milk bottle kinda like this guy here:
http://www.localamishfarms.com/images/half_gallon_glass_milk_bott.jpg
I also recommend these smug little dudes, $4 from IKEA:
http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/40929_PE117254_S4.jpg

Tombot, is there a protocol for how long one should wait after starting a new job before applying for another one?

Pasho,

I don't think there is really a protocol, no. There are probably a few rules of thumb. I would assume that it varies across lines of work, but I have heard from more than one respectable, trustworthy person in my business that they give things a minimum of three months. Of course, these people are not talking about trying to have 4 employers in a year (see "respectable" modifier, above) they're talking about how to get out of what they find to be unacceptable conditions.

I have also been around people who really do jump from job to job with consideration for nothing beyond the next, bigger salary offer, and they are spoken of with much disdain.

It's not so much that it's unacceptable, generally it's OK. It's just that it's one of those places that runs on chaos theory and I get the impression it all hangs from a thread from time to time. I can easily imagine turning up one Monday to find the receivers in and the locks all changed.

Over here, we gotsome weird company that's kind of semi attached to the Post Office who are recommended as a good employer, I fancy trying to get in there - we're in with a chance of getting set up in a slightly bigger place with no mortgage in 2009, consequently I want to shift to part time employment from here on ASAP, and the lot linked to - I'm told - employ part-time electricians.

I figured 3-6 months before applying for work there.

well shit if you're talking about a "lifestyle change" then who cares how long you worked at a job before you applied somewhere else. "Hey I know I just started but I won the lottery yesterday and I've decided now my family's taken care of I'm going to go back to teaching."