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 | Yep! w80 - that is pretty much how I see you.  |
 | My story is boring - [URL="http://www.trumanstudio.citymax.com/albums/album_image/1751559/578382.htm"]GrimJack[/URL] was an awesome graphic comic from the 1980s. I have used GrimJack as a username in one version or another since 1988 - the name was so popular at the time that I often had to use variants like GrmJck but I would never …  |
| | Re: Self proclaimed > Aww u the Mandela post Ha if you only knew half the story but if you wish me to stay my tongue i will I am the person who started the Mandela thread - say what you have to say or shut the eff up.  |
 | Actually, they are chipping people who are quadroplegics - I remember back in the 90s an electrode was placed in a quadroplegic's brain and he was albe to move the cursor. It is taking off in the [assistive tech](http://www.liquidweb.it/services/brain-computer-interface-framework) world; brain controled wheel chairs. Essentially there is a whole spectrum … |
| | Durian - this is my love/hate fruit. It is not explainable what it is like; eating it from the shell is like eating pudding as long as you do not breath through your nose. Seriously, when eating durian plug your nose. It is banned in most cities and towns in … |
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 | @AA= > Why do people need WIC anyway? GET A JOB WIC is for children/babies - we have laws against child labor. "Get a Job" Is a pointless remark as there have to be jobs to get. I first thought you were making a joke, then I read your other … |
| | I played high school football and college soccer/karate.  |
| | The best car I ever owned was Toyota Corolla al-trac; bought it in 88 (in fact the manual called it 1988 and a half) I had it until 2006 when it was essentially totaled. I now drive a 96 Buic MOM-car; I hate it but I refuse to buy a … |
| | For some reason Windoze thinks that my USB port(s) is/are unknow devices when I try to update the drivers it tells me the drivers are current. I get a message "sfotware for this device has been installed; unknown device is ready to use. Most things 9except for my mouse and …  |
| | Well, I am starting to get bored with my current rotation and want to update my collection. I like [weird](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VnF9NeuhUE) music and I am especiall fond of German Industrial like [Rammstein](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOAMKTj0hU), [Kraftwerk](http://www.sonar.es/en/2013/prg/ar/kraftwerk-%283d-show%29_134), and [Einstürzende Neubauten](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndK3BM77o5s) - at least for industrial I also like [California Guitar Trio](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdEAccE7BMs) (can you tell the …  |
 | There is no posssible 'win' in a war with Syria/Egypt/Iran/Iraq/Afghanistan - there was a possible, incredibly tiny window of opportunity in Afghanistan back when Osama was trapped in the mountains, but so far we have lost every shot we took at interfering in other countries' affairs (at least since WWII) …  |
| | I have a Fitbit and walk to the gym and back for about 7-8k steps, stretch, swim, do some isolated machines and some core including 'the wheel' but mostly I wander around the apt. wondering why I came into this room and what it is I was going to do. |
| | Daniel1977 - if you want to start a religious discussion don't be stupid about it. If you want to start a relifious discussion you had better be ready with some intelligence and some interesting ideas. Jesus saves, Moses invests is pretty old hat. Do you have any interesting comments on … |
| | Yeah, POTUS is essentially a slightly right of center politician but is played up by both sides as a far left activist (though the right seems to see/push him to the extreme left hence the 'socialist' label). He is just a politician who happens to fit a 'frame' for both … |
 | Mike 2k said that very well; a slightly different way to look a fiat currency is that it is the value of 'work' produced or a convenient way to keep track of barter. Carrying around bushels of wheat to trade for pounds of fish is just plain awkward. So we …  |
| | [QUOTE=steven woodman;701419]I was going through some of my old emails and came across this. I thought i'd share since there are some really good one here: Things to think about Can you cry under water?[/quote]Yes, just because tears are washed away does not negate the crying - if you are …  |
| | **coffee snort** - the comments were much more informative than the article. It seems very much like the article was written across a 'Chinese Wall' - oh, I guess the new way to say that is google re-translate. In the process I discovered: tranlate from German to German - listen …  |
 | Before the PC age it was blamed on the TV age - in fact, the obesity rate in the US is on the way down now. RJ have you seen the movie "IF"? I must assume you have. After I got out of the service, I gained weight til I … |
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 | Well, all good advice - my little bit of advice is to 1) do not eat carbs for lunch, eat protein; 2) document the sleepiness so that you know when to expect the drowsiness then set an alarm (something like the calendar in Outlook) to alert (pun intended) you ahead …  |
| | Well, we could start the equivalent of kite fighting - drone on drone fights. Now if I could use the drone output for a total immersion flight, say with 3D glasses - that would be exciting but I would probably start vomitting due to the 'balloon head' aspects of the …  |
| | My desttop does not get shut down; on this machine my BOINC is Quake-Watcher and quakes don't rest. But I monitor the graphics/screensaver to make sure that it is using my sensor (I once watched the screensaver for a couple minutes [it shows the plate edges and the most recent …  |
| | **"No mention of guns or gun laws will be tolerated on this thread or I'll get a mod with non-lethal powers to remove your post, or at least have you publically pilloried for not reading this notice"**(*thank you diafol*) In another life, another thread - I tried to bring up … |
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| | I actually like some of the 'original' manga - like Yoshitoshi's "[One Hundred Views of the Moo](http://yoshitoshi.verwoerd.info/)n" The original paintings are destroyed in the process of creating the blocks (sometimes there are over 100 blocks to print to make one complete print). His drawings and sketches for each painting/print (and …  |
| | From the title of this thread, I was sure someone had leaked my journal - whew! Actually I think the illustration should actually be more Venn-like, hmmm - Venn and the art of the internat. Please note that porn has been the driver of much of the technology of reproduction … |
| | I just ran across this [article](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/10/2275611/federal-judge-authorizes-chevrons-sweeping-subpoena-of-activists-internet-data/) about a judge's allowing a subpoena of over 100 accounts, for over 9 years - blanket from google, ms, and yahoo. Discuss |
 | Re: Baby in sewer Authorities now believe that it was not intentional. If the bathroom was equipped with a hole to stand over rather than a western style toilet, I can easily understand how it could happen by accident. And I would rather think of the best of people. |
| | There are a lot of words that are not in the English language so we steal them for out own use - that is how languages grow. Like a famous president said "the French don't have a word for entrepeneur". Someone asked a really interesting question: "how do you say … |
 | I am 35 years old and weigh 160 pounds with women vying for my attention. Then I look in the mirror and I am 64 years old, 70 pounds overweight, and scare women and children. Then I am 35 years old and weigh 160 pounds with women vying for my … |
| | Re: # of People Well, how about all the answers to the world's important stats about as current as you could possibly want:http://www.worldometers.info/ |
| | Check out EULAlyzer at brightfort.com I am not sure if it will help you but the program will search any EULA for 'interesting' wording. |
| | On May 29, 1913, one hundred years ago, Igor stravinski premiered **[The Rite of Spring](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZW3XGnbMvc)**. This was supposed to be the ballet concert of the year and all of the best of Paris society was in attendence; the music was so new and raw that after a couple minutes the … |
| | There was collection of essays in the early 1970s that included an article on how to learn to type in 72 hours with use of hallucinogenic drugs. I remember sitting in my small apartment, stoned out of my gourd wishing I did not already know how to type so that … |
 | My ex was a geek - about as geeky as me (whatever that means) and she would always ask me to fix this or that like "why is my computer so slow","fix the router for me" but at work all her co-workers would come to her for geek help.  |
| | Let's see... profound difference in the world - was losing politically so she started a war with Argentina over some island they took back in 1812 after Argentina kicked their asses out - check. Killed off the milk program for school lunches, she abolished the minimum national nutrition standards then … |
| | Basic back in '77, then Fortran then COBOL - then I found VAXen and learned DCL and worked it from 84-99. Compaq bought DEC, gutted the company, keeping only the the the (OMG - brainfart, I can't remember what the DEC Micros were called -Alphas, maybe) I no longer have … |
| | My first name is Gregory; my middle name is Rodger - sometime in the early1970s I decided to go by Rodger. My family all call me Greg/Gregory, my friends all call me Rodger (if someone calls me 'rog' I say you must have mis-heard, my name is Rodger). Phone calls …  |
| | My first cigarette was about age 6 or 7; my brother and I would steal a pack of cigs from the freezer (my dad bought cigs in bulk) crawl into the hopper of a combine and smoke on the way to school. When it was really, really cold (Livingston MT …  |
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| | A goshawk [strike](http://youtu.be/qy61f1Mn0fk) at 5,000 frames per second; around 3 minutes, it is almost a POV of the strike (if you were a water baloon). |
| | I have ADD, a short attention span, poor memory but an incredible focus. My work habits are terrible because if it is not 'right now and in my face' I forget about it. Sadly, this is even true for relationships, I actually forget people if I have not seen them … |
| | I just found the coolest new BOINC project (BOINC projects are distributed projects that use your spare computer cycles to solve HUGE computational questions from SETI to Malaria to climate research) - it is called Quake-Catcher out of Stanford University. They send you a sensor that you screw to your …  |
 | Re: How old is DW? I, too, have been here for 9 years; I am an intermittant poster spending almost all my time here in 'the lounge'. My current avatar was the very first one I used here, I eventually changed it to other things (to the surprise of many) then one day, it mysteriously … |
| | Re: Chinese Zodiac I am a rat; my time of day is 11pm to 1 am - the rat is the first among the animals of the zodiak because he rode on the back of the ox (who is second) and jumped off to arrive first.  |
| | Re: Pain Three bouts of pain I can think of: I kicked a heavy door with a vent - my big toe-nail went above the louvre and my toe below, tore the nail right off. I had a spinal tap and the hole did not close which allowed a little, tiny bit … |
 | I don't drink wine much any more; same with port. I like IPA, the bitterer the better - I prefer the IBU to be above 80 but had difficulty with an IBU above 135 - took me an hour to drink that one.  |
| | I work in front of a computer 8 hours a day, play computer games a couple hours a day, and spend at least 2 hours an evening making glass beads.  |
 | [QUOTE=williamhemsworth;690017]Crazy Japanese WII Manual :) [URL="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/the-japanese-wii-safety-manual-is-crazy-219119.php"]LINK HERE[/URL][/QUOTE] I am sorry, I don't actually see the 'Japanese' part of the humor; what I see is a stupid white guy who can't understand symbolic languages. Would you please explain the 'Crazy Japanese' part?  |
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