AuburnChris

At least one way of countering Disney's requirement that you use their modem occurs to me, but it would be beyond the technical expertise of your average person (i.e., you would have to be at least as geeky as me to experience this attraction) and it would be evil, so I will default to Carol's answer and say no, you have to use their modems. If you want, feel free to ask me any sort of geeky (or non-geeky) question, and I'll answer them in a Dear Abby- type column. There's no way that could go horribly wrong, is there? Of course there isn't. (If you are interested in actual questions bei

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Here's our three finalists for our Tackiest Fiend contest! Voting begins now, and ends at 9PM Central time on Sunday night, the 10th. Without further ado, here are our contestants! Finalist #1: Mickey-themed tie-dye, two separate floral prints, and horizontal-striped leggings. We should have sent a poet. Most importantly, no two items match. Finalist #2: We have a soft spot for cupcakes around here, and that blanket is covered with 'em. What's the bag for? Nobody knows. But what puts this over the top is the comb on top of Vader's head there. Why does Darth Vader need a comb? F

The tow car is mostly metal, and it's taller than the trains are. If the problem was lightning, the solution is probably not the tow car. Also, the tow car is probably not on the EPCOT line, so it'd have to switch at least a couple times to get to them.

Let me have the folks at InvisionPower take a look at this- there seems to be some problem with the upload script. I'll put a ticket in for them to look into it.

Tim, can you post the picture you're trying to use in a post here? I might be able to see what the difficulty is. (Or you can post it to Photobucket or imgur.com and post the link here, if that works for you.)

There's not much at all different between where the photos were and where they are now- I'm guessing the difference might just be caching on your device. Literally nothing changed in the apps (you can tell because there was no app update from Google or Apple)- it's just that the pictures are in a slightly different place now, and that place is actually faster hosting that where they were before. It might be worth forcing the app to close and re-open, maybe? That helped the version on my phone (Android Moto X) pick up the pictures better. Using Verizon, no pictures just yet, but using my ho

If it was from Invision Power, that's the company that provides our forum software. It might have done that if you liked the post, maybe. If it happens again, could you get a screenshot before deleting the like? That'd help track it down.

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Thread, RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE! This thread had gotten eaten by evil database gremlins, I was able to work some magic on the topics database to bring it back.

They've already done that, I think. He got escorted off campus while trying to watch a softball game, if I recall correctly.

Someone wrote in the paper today that part of Updyke's sentence should have been that he must report to serve a day in jail with no television, internet, radio, or phone access each day that the University of Alabama plays a football game for the next 10 years. I like that idea better than him spending a few more months in jail now.

Thanks, TCD! Glad you enjoyed the pics (and my merciless hijack of your trip report)!

Usually, at a football game, people start to leave once the outcome isn't in doubt. This is especially true in spring games, where there's not even an outcome to worry about. Not this time. The stadium continued to fill, and then it -kept- filling. They had originally announced that the upper decks would be closed, but halfway through the first quarter they opened them, because they had to- people couldn't find a place to sit in the lower bowl. Eventually, most of the upper deck was full, too. They announced an official attendance of 83,401, which is close to a sellout, but not quite. I think

Well, I lied. Just a couple of football pics here, because all of the ones I took were of the "These are unidentifiable football mans doing unidentifiable football things" variety, and that doesn't make for good story. The game itself was, well, nice. The pace was quick, as you'd expect from a hurry-up-no-huddle style coach like Gus Malzahn, but it's painfully obvious that there are still vital pieces of the puzzle missing at Auburn. We have no identifiable starting quarterback, but we have a JuCo transfer and this year's Mr. Football in Alabama coming this fall to help with that. Our defense

I think I have enough to start with. I drove into town at around 10:00 this morning, three hours before game time. People were getting an early start rolling the trees, apparently: Here's a better look at them, you can tell the poison really did a number on them. Sad, but: it forced some people to do some research. It turns out those particular oaks are "only" about 76 years old, not 130 as originally thought. There's a picture taken in the 1890's of Toomer's Corner showing an oak tree in about the same place as these, but that oak was cut down by the 1920s- there's another picture from t

<insert standard "why does nobody ask Alabama fans what r*ll t*de has to do with elephants" complaint here> I'm sure if you go back through my post history, the full story of War Eagle and the reason Auburn is named the Tigers are in there. Think of it as a scavenger hunt. I'm taking over this trip report, pursuant to Paragraph 12, Section 8 of Article 2 of the Fort Fiends Constitution, which plainly states that any trip report called "War Eagle" is subject to hijack by the site administrators. I went to A-day (Auburn's spring football game) today, and my phone (and its extra batt

By process of elimination, that's the pond in the open square directly behind Samford Hall, from the perspective of your photo. It's not really a "pond," it's a 10x20 foot rectangle of water. Occasionally, there are fish in it. In ancient times, AuburnJen's dad and his fraternity cohorts might have dumped a case of Jello in that pond during a cold winter's night, and the entire thing set solid. The fish were briefly surprised. Edit: And I'm beaten like Auburn in 2012.

TCD, congratulations to your daughter on her impeccable taste in graduate education facilities. :) Some of the stories you were told either were wrong or have changed since I last heard them, though, and I would be remiss in my duties as An Insufferable Auburn Fan if I didn't elucidate: The University Seal set in the concrete in front of Langdon Hall is not to be stepped on, true, but the consequences for doing so were that you would not graduate from Auburn if you did, and no amount of pond-water chugging would change the fact. The lathe, I was told, would rotate exactly once each time

It misses you too. I just asked it. :)

It's difficult to get a particular 100% accurate number for the site depth, largely because sites are usually slanted, so the depth on one side is not equal to the depth on the other side. As for difficulty, generally most sites are "Average", with the more difficult sites marked as such due to some obstruction in the way- there are some sites with trees or lightposts in inconvenient places that can make them harder to get into than others. I'm fairly confident in the accuracy of the site dimensions overall- otherwise I wouldn't have put them in the app.

That is awesome, MicknMin! In fact, it sounds exactly like the sort of thing that you should put as a review of the app on your flavor of phone's app store, hopefully along with a nice large number of stars in the review. :) That is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping people would be able to do with the app- I'm glad it's working for you guys!

It's not that it's a rule that you have to post in the intro thread first before you post that you're selling something. It's that you should post -anywhere-, about -anything- besides what you're selling and what your phone number is, before pulling something like that. You should, in short, be a member of the community first. People should have some idea of who you are before you go posting ads. And just joining the board doesn't quite do that.

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