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Something strange has begun to happen.like the first few drops of an immense rain storm; like the approaching hush of an avalanche just past its tipping point.Change is coming to the world.This change whispers in - like a half-formed memory.
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 | The only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting what you want. -- Oscar Wilde  |
| | Oh, gawd - where to start. I recently moved (me and my now-ex split) and now I only watch 2 shows (unless I hear about something that interests me) and those are on Thursdays - Person of Interest and the following Sherlock Holmes (senior moment here). I see their holes … |
 | I am at work and eating from a bag of dried apricots that has some dried plums and samarai peas mixed in. It is pretty odd - samarai peas are dried peas coated with horseradish powder that is colored green to pretend it is wasabi (most American 'wasabi' is actually …  |
 | On the flight to Argentina I watched MIB3 and something forgettable. Higher on my list of what to see next is Duck you Sucker, The Nameless One for my western kick then go for El TOPO (the mole) - this is a western that will blow your mind. It is … |
| | Re: Random Facts Window glass is made by floating molten glass on molten tin. Glass is vitrious ie. an amorpheus solid that softens as heat is applied until gravity is able to affect its shape. It is theorized that glass will also melt at temperatures near zero k |
| | I am not sure but I bet that we will not get flying cars until we get self-driving cars. In crowded cities, people have trouble traveling in 2 dimensions so how could we possibly allow people to drive flying cars. Actually, I am pretty upbeat about getting self-driving cars although … |
 | Well, if we take folding@home as a starting point then we can first look at what a protein is:[QUOTE]Proteins are an important class of biological macromolecules present in all biological organisms, made up of such elements as carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulphur. All proteins are polymers of amino acids.[/QUOTE] …  |
| | OMG! So many faces from the past (I just stopped by to ask a simple (?) about Windows 10's effing Defender) - I am gobsmacked that you guys are still around. ReverendJim: *I think we still have a long way to go re heat dissipation. Circuits running at near absolute … |
 | I have been otherwise occupied for the last 10 years or so - got a job with the IRS (boo, hiss) on a seasonal basis. Got back into making puddles of glass (casting) and bead-making. I started a project I call 'Ramdom act of art' where I walk up to … |
| | It blocks every attempt to modify any file anywhere. I give Steam and all its subsidiary .exes permission and then it says that there is no permission to modify 'Documents'. I just bought the darned machine to game with and it is freaking driving me nuts. Any suggestions on where …  |
| | It seems to me that would get pretty messy right off the bat. My cell could only hold a stack of about 10 wings before they started falling off; plus how do you use the phone with all that food stacked on it? and your greasy fingers from the wings?/s |
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| | What about cable/wiring on the floor? My roomba fails on wiring - almost caused marital problems as it rearranged the electric blanket controls so my control sent her temperatures in the wrong direction.  |
 | Re: Jokes The baby sitter showed up for the evening watching the couples grandfather. They went over all the details with the sitter, said goodbye to their grandfather and went out to dinner. So the babysitter was watching TV with GF who was sitting in the middle of the couch all stiff …  |
 | > > I concur with Rev Jim that nothing I say is worthy of scrutiny, but I am careful with Internet searches! See, this is the Panopticon affect; already you are self-censoring - avoiding saying *anything* that could be mis-interpreted, mis-used, or O'Reilly-ed (taken out of context for sensationializing). |
| | As far as ranking 5 aces of hearts against 5 aces of spades - announce at the beginning that you will be using bridge rankings for suits: [B][COLOR="Red"]the hierarchy of suits: clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades[/COLOR][/B]. If I remember my wildcard poker, 5 of a kind beats a royal flush. Just …  |
| | [PLBKAC](http://www.acronymfinder.com/Problem-Lies-Between-Keyboard-and-Chair-%28PLBKAC%29.html)AND MY FAVORITE [lmgtfy](http://lmgtfy.com/) |
 | [QUOTE=hbk619;373457]11. There's a customer who comes into the shop i work at who's always swearing at people, even went up to the cashier and said "i don't want to be served by you you're a fucking idiot, fuck off" and to another "the police are after you, they've bugged your …  |
| | If you are glisading down Mount Rainier - know your ice-axe arrest |
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| | Re: Bad Grammar Language changes; usage changes; words are added to the lixicon but are seldom removed, they just get down-graded. Often the changes can be seen in thier opposites like the words 'disengenuous' 'ruthless' 'reckles' - if you ever get a chance to wander through the Oxford English Dictionary, you will discover … |
| | Re: Nature's Temper In Seattle the main distraction is plate subduction quakes plus there has been so much fill that the ground could liquify and everything sink just a bit - they found a valley of mammals that seem to have been standing around when the ground liquified, then resolidified and they died …  |
| | [QUOTE=sneekula;508623]I will be more careful the next time I bite into a peanut. The Eisenhower (US) interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.[/QUOTE] You know, if you just entered those "odd … |
| | Sort of interesting tidbit about Scientology is that they have branch called SeaOrg; in order to join SeaOrg, you sign a pretty long contract; one of the items on the contract is that you agree to work for SeaOrg for one billion years. I am trying to imagine what someone …  |
 | I recommend that you [research](https://www.google.com/search?num=100&newwindow=1&safe=off&site=&source=hp&q=hepa+air+purifier+reviews&oq=HEPA+air&gs_l=hp.3.1.0l10.1502.5618.0.11359.9.8.0.0.0.0.1123.2202.0j3j1j1j7-1.6.0.msedr...0...1c.1.60.hp..4.5.1827.0.G2HPt3640ZY) HEPA air purifiers. I think that you can get better air cleaning at a lower cost. I know that Honeywell air cleaners do a good job and have reuseable filters (you can rinse them in the sink - once you have a cleaner, the filter … |
| | Re: Bitcoin You need a lot of money, a lot of hardware that emmulates a super-computer, the software, and plenty of time. all the easy bitcoins have been mined; you now need at least a couple quatrillion (10^15th) cycles; you need to be able to know where to start looking (we are …  |
| | People still forget about the Blackberry; still so secure that is the only cell phone the President can use. Still uncrackable after all these years. |
 | Paris - till I walked the whole city from Arrondissement 1 to 20 looking for pochoir (Jeff aeroplane, MissTik, banksie, et cetera |
| | Can you dig it! In the midst of the hostage situation in downtown Sydney, [Uber](http://crooksandliars.com/2014/12/uber-criticized-charging-minimum-100-fare) was charging $100 to get to safety plus 4 times normal milage. I know - they claimed it was an accident of 'surge-pricing' but that was the 2nd or 3rd explanation not the first. One … |
| | Well, if we don't count my just cooking some lamb in the kitchen I will have to say Buenos Aires AR. My first and only visit to that continent. (other continents include Europe and Australia). |