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It's impossible to be depressed while listening to The Velvet Underground and Nico. That album is indisputably one of the greatest achievements of human civilization. It almost makes up for the existence of leafblowers...
alhim:
sweet, thanks. My friend just mentioned him last night, Ill definitely check him out.
_gone_:
yeah .. lol .. they were out there picking something .. drove by a bunch of them but i didnt stop to see .. we had some pretty heavy rainfall the past month that could account for the early crop .. dunno
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Hello? Complaints department? Why is it that every time I go out for a nice walk these days, there are dozens of people with buckets and jugs picking blackberries a month too early? Duh! Don't they realize they taste a zillion times better when they're ripe? Unripe blackberries don't even make good jam or pie. How can anyone not know the difference?

This is my...
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twasbrillig:
Re: re: X-Mas shopping: Oh my good lord that is obsessive. But also a really good idea. Thanks! biggrin
alhim:
Dude, I almost jizzed my pants, that story is so good. Thank you for that link, seriously.
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Lessons learned working on the car this weekend:

1. Cheap drill bits are for wood. If you're going to make holes in metal, buy good drill bits. Otherwise, when the bit breaks, what's left might jump off what you're trying to make a hole in and make a hole in your tender belly flesh instead.

2. When you have a rivet gun, everything looks like...
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hooliganyouth:
cheers to the Outland pic brother...just rewatched that last month.

[Edited on Jul 18, 2004 7:41PM]
lostarchitect:
well, i may be selling it to my friend. but if not, i am asking $200 (plus shipping, i suppose). it has the dock, cable, power adapter, headphones and remote, and is in very good condition with only very minor scratching. if you're interested, i will know by friday if my friend wants it

i can also leave all my my music on it, if you wanted.. with a program like ipod access (which is imho the best one) you can easily get songs off any ipod and into your itunes..

[Edited on Jul 20, 2004 5:19PM]
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Fuck, my mother-in-law's coming over for dinner. I need to cook something really impressive so that she won't think I'm quite as much of a shiftless bum as she usually does. eeek
twasbrillig:
You should watch Lydia's Italian Kitchen. She's the greatest! Very descriptive and informative. Though....it might be a local show. Anyways, good luck on that.

I hear you about the TV thing. It doesn't bother me when people say they don't watch TV because they don't have much time to or they're just not into it. I'm cool with that. I don't watch it much either for those reasons. But acting like TV is some sort of evil force and people who watch it can't possibly have an origional thought in their head is just silly.
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Oh, California, how I loathe thee... let me count the ways.

Getting off the plane in San Jose was like sticking your head in a pizza oven. How can anything possibly be so hot and so dry and so bright all at once? I felt like Gollum shaking his fist at the sun as he decides to live in his cave with the little boat...
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punt:
I think the weather is fantastic, however you do have a point or 2 in there. I think the racial thing is a bit of a stretch. Many of my white/dirtbag friends have low-wage jobs and I work in high-tech crap with hundreds of hispanic people...and just about every other race. I guess it takes some getting used to.
loudog1:
Dude, I'm doing battle with our old friend reprobate again. If you want you can check it out at Kerry pisses off more catholics

If you read the last page you'll see my frustration. He drives me nuts because he just won't concede anything.

His latest dodge is that he has decided that the dictionary definitions of words aren't really accurate. He's decided that he has the real definitions of all the relevant words and phrases and they are fluid depending on how much he needs to prove his case.

[Edited on Jul 08, 2004 11:47PM]
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Goin' to California with an achin' in my heart.

(Back Monday, and I'm sure I'll have plenty to rant about. As far as I'm concerned everything south of the 45th parallel can just drop into the ocean... and probably will after the next big earthquake.)
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torihoney:
logans run
twasbrillig:
No no, this:

"Act like a POW. Don't give 'em anything but your name, rank, and serial number. When the doctor asks you anything else, say, "That information is strictly on a need-to-know basis." Refuse to take off your dog tags. Memorize the exits on your way in. On your way out, say "Carry on, soldier" to the receptionist."

From a few journals ago.
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Bang bang bang.

Went to the outdoor shooting range today. The bad part: There were other people in the pistol area, and I'd rather have it to myself. And they had nicer guns than I did---a couple of $1000-plus custom .45 automatics. The good part: They were polite and put their guns down nicely when I wanted to go down-range and change my target. And...
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oddwobbler:
"Zombie guns" I knew I wasn't the only one that had one! biggrin G3, hollowpoints
guildenstern:
I always shoot my revolvers with better accuracy then my semis. I think revolvers are easier and are more fun to shoot. Loading is a breeze verse bruising your thumb loading rounds into a magazine.

My female friends consistently ask to shoot the revolvers where my male friends want to shoot the semis.
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Olbers' Paradox (Wilhelm Olbers, 1758-1840):

If stars are infinite in number and evenly distributed in space, the sky should be solidly bright with starlight in every direction; there should be no night or darkness on the surface of the Earth.


Discuss.

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sigma:
I wrote a very long in depth critique of Rand just for myself once. What I find funny is that no one else that I've ever seen can really critique her and I really really like her ideas.

I'm a bit past debating philosophy now, I did it for about 7 years. I'm writing philosophy at this point wink
alhim:
Nex put that one pretty well. I like yoru profile pic, I dont know why, I just do.
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One of my cats woke me up last night noisily chasing his own tail. I thought only dogs did that. The Apocalypse must be near.
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guildenstern:
The real fun begins if you have two cats and they are chasing each others tails.
dead_betty_dyes:
hmmmm...thanks for writing tongue
Im sorry to report that my best friend McG posted for me on that thread but hey, Katie has a beautiful one too!
take care
wink
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I'm eating the perfect ginger cookies. Not too gingery, not too sweet, not so crunchy that they hurt my jaw muscles to chew, but just right.

Mmm mmm good. Props to the nameless inhabitant of ancient Sumeria who invented baking.
guildenstern:
Ahh.. ginger cookies, a close cousin to the oatmeal cookies. Both go well with Sumerian ale.
hbfm:
Altoids now come in Ginger, but I suspect that some of their hotness is capsaicin. Is that avatar Ultima 5 on SNES?