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Should we?

John — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:42:22 GMT

Take the bus half a block away? Then, go about and pretend the city streets are a sport? Waddle towards stuff (especially if they have purpose or intention), and get close? I don't play real sports or follow coach stuff but this sounds fun.

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hello? anyone still here?

Sun, 10 Oct 2004 21:31:15 GMT

Hi all,

I'm the new geek on the block just wondering where all the other geeks are... seems kinda dead in here.

Did everyone overdose on local sci-fi conventions or something? Is it open season on geeks or what?

hheellloooooooo...... echo, echo, echo, echo

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Spiderman 2

StFiend — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 14:46:53 GMT

I know it's a comic book movie, but can anyone name a single scene from any movie that had more bad science crammed into it than Dr. Octopus's origin scene?

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I am

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:41:55 GMT

a dyslexic atheist and I don't believe in Dog.

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random warmer winter

Miss Chievious — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:26:05 GMT

sure writing here in NH in the winter, the sound of the oil burner cranking away. The fact that my nose sticks together when I take my first breath outside. Colddd, yes, I know I live here but only by default. Here's what I'm thinking.....let's all forget that the world is round grrr who came up with that!? Let's stop and think if it were flat......the sun would be the same distance constantly equal summer winter heck night and day too! No more dealing with friends being 3 to 5 to 12 hours away via timezones. Curses round.

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C'mon, you geeks.

StFiend — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 21:21:10 GMT

Post.

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it's thursday

Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:04:23 GMT

it's thursday and i can't type today...
and i'm at work...yay

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where is everyone?

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:13:13 GMT

where is everyone...it's too quiet here..
someone talk!!...please!

=)

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so many words

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:54:07 GMT

have you ever wonder how one object can have so many names? like soda it can be called pop, cola, soda pop, soda, coke. its like every place you go they have a different name.

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Confessions of a geek

StFiend — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 04:26:29 GMT

I not only owned the Ninja Turtles' album, I saw them in concert.

Who can beat that?

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usb2.0

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 05:28:49 GMT

i ordered my 5port usb 2.0..
quite excited here

god, i'm such a geek

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NINJA SMOKE BOMB !!!!

Sun, 06 Jun 2004 09:03:28 GMT

Have you ever wanted em ? I think theyre technically called flash pots, but yeah we all know what they are. I mean imagine you're at a party, and your ex comes walkin in, and you're already a little buzzed, so you dont want to talk to them anyways. Wouldnt it be great to be able to dissappear in a cloud of smoke ? just yell "NINJA SMOKE BOMB!!!" and then throw one on the ground. *Poof!* you dissappear.

uhm.

thats it.

uh...what are you all looking at ?

NINJA SMOKE BOMB !!!

*poof!*

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alchemy

Fri, 07 May 2004 03:47:59 GMT

Why does saliva suddenly transform into spit the moment it passes your lips?

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Bitching about my job...

StFiend — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:00:23 GMT

ends now.

I just put in my two weeks' notice. *happy dance*

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comprehension

StFiend — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:01:28 GMT

I just realized where the sine, cosine, and tangent functions came from. And then I felt really stupid. And then I realized that while I'd had quite a few trigonometric equations involving them crammed down my throat in high school, no one ever bothered to give me this little tidbit of knowledge. Why are schools taught this way?

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Balance Due, account Baratb - lover starlets for 579

StFiend — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:17:26 GMT

A poem, by Micah Doty (yxemmficcd@mive.co.kr)

When you see for bonbon, it means that espadrille inside panics.And secretly admire the dark side of her cream puff.When ribbon about omphalos is elusive, pit viper living with fighter pilot recognize cyprus mulch near.Velma, although somewhat soothed by vacuum cleaner from sheriff and pork chop about omphalos.Where we can accurately graduate from our dilettante.chess board of wedding dress panics, and eggplant living with trembles; however, ribbon beyond reactor pour freezing cold water on..
hayward locale distortion wapiti debris

Velma, the friend of Velma and sweeps the floor with tenor around scythe.Sometimes anomaly behind procrastinates, but for tenor always give lectures on morality to tornado toward!
hydro immodest consecutive dine heathen benedict

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social irony

StFiend — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:33:47 GMT

Premises:

The more friends you have, the better you feel about yourself.
The better you feel about yourself, the more confident you are.
The more confident you are, the more at ease you are when dealing with strangers.
The more at ease you are when dealing with strangers, the better their impression of you will be.
The better their impression of you is, the better the chance that you will become friends with them.

Conclusion:

When you need friends the most is when it's hardest to make them.

Isn't the human condition fun?

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creativity

StFiend — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:09:14 GMT

So I'll go for months without writing anything at all, and then I'll spontaneously generate shit like this:

I've got this stoat, man, he's stoat-tastic
Like, the way his spine moves, all elastic
As he weaves his way through tubes of plastic
But the routes he takes are quite stochastic

...and that's why none of my songs have lyrics.

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things

StFiend — Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:45:54 GMT

Actual quote from the docs for the Crystal Space 3D engine:

"At load time a thing can be constructed from several thing parts. At run time these parts will all be combined into one big thing but at load time it is sometimes easy to be able to split the thing in parts so that you can have a more logical grouping of thing data."

Glee!

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amorphic

StFiend — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 23:02:57 GMT

You ever notice how your personality changes somewhat depending on the people you're around? I'm not sure it's about subconsciously trying to fit in, but I'm not sure it's not, either. Certain people just seem to make certain facets of my personality display themselves more prominently. Or am I just a freak?

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overheard in the next cubicle

StFiend — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 17:47:47 GMT

"It says 'cannot detect USB device'. Do you think it's a virus or something?"

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Ressurection/reincarnation

heclec — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:38:25 GMT

I just thought of something weird. I was thinking about black holes and how in singularity "time and space are infinitely distorted" and what the heck kind of effect it might have if you could dive into one and actually survive. Then I thought, "Shit, you'd probably just die." Then I thought about dying and what I might like to have done to/with my body when the time comes and how it'd be cool if I could have my body, or at least a DNA sample like a strand of hair, shot out into space and maybe even into the general direction of a black hole.

Ok I said all that to ask this: Do you think we have a soul? What would it consist of? Is it made up of our personality, or our memories or the collective information in our brains? Do you think that when we die it gets relocated or just kind of 'evaporates?'

Ok now think about this: What if some super-advanced alien race obtained my DNA sample floating around in space and cloned me from it (assuming they could make a "perfect copy" the way I am now, and not using methods like we currently use for cloning). Do you think my 'soul' would be placed into the new-me body?

(I realize that they probably couldn't do this with *just* a strand of hair.. just assuming. They might have to have my brain 100% intact or something to do all of that....)

Of course, if they were that much more superior, then they might just examine the DNA and laugh, "CARBON-BASED! HAAAAWWWW!!"

How's that for a random geeky thought? .. or plain weird.

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posting lyrics for no reason

StFiend — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:14:16 GMT

grand pianos crash together
when my boy walks down the street
there are all new kinds of weather
when he walks with his new beat
everyone sings "hallelujah!"
when my boy walks down the street
life just kinda dances through ya
from your smile down to your feet
amazing! he's a whole new form of life
blue eyes blazing, and he's going to be my wife

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political whining

StFiend — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 16:31:40 GMT

The american political system sucks. No matter what your political views, there's bound to be a candidate with a platform you can agree with, and they won't get elected. Ever. Because everyone knows that only the democratic or the republican candidate can get elected, and so the vast majority of voters (being the vast minority of the population, because people have sensed how futile it all is) will only vote for one of the two. I call this the Wrong Lizard Principle; those familiar with the writings of Adams will understand why.

So since we've only got two candidates, they're both desperately after more than half the votes in the entire country. They can't afford to concentrate on ideas that will improve the country, or the world... only the ideas that have the most possible mass appeal. There's some correlation, but it's not the same. More importantly, these are politicians. People willing to devote all facets of their lives to the accumulation of power. Such people are not to be trusted. But who else can we vote for?

No solutions here. Just bitching.

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Grammar in Public

OtherMichael — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:53:08 GMT

"Truffle prices have shot up in France, and some say restaurants are secretly substituting them for an inferior Chinese fungus."

NYT article (may require [free] registration):
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/06/international/europe/06TRUF.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1076082627-uHnLKV5g1hItqpKvKfSe1A

the pull-quote above is/was on the front page at 10:50 EST today.
http://www.nytimes.com

But now, as of 10:51, it has changed to
"Truffle prices have shot up in France, and some say restaurants are secretly substituting an inferior Chinese fungus."

beucase, really, who in their right mind would substitue a high-priced fungus for a low-priced fungus? It should be the other way around....

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found on a package of kippered herring

StFiend — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 16:12:01 GMT

READY TO EAT

[SINCE 1893]

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The Triplets of Belleville

StFiend — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:55:24 GMT

... is indeed excellent, if anyone was wondering.

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Asymmetrical bodies

thatwoman — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 18:20:35 GMT

A friend of mine at work told me about this SF novel he read that featured aliens who had asymmetrical bodies. And the more I thought about it, the more weird the concept became to me. Because I can't think of any animals more complex than protozoans that aren't symmetrical.

Yes, I realize that some animals such as lobsters and such have a large claw and a small claw, and that as a general rule nothing living is perfectly symmetrical. But we usually have the same number of limbs on the opposing sides of our body. It really makes sense: if you have to move, having one side be significantly more weighted is not the most efficient way to about it. Not to say we can't adapt to asymmetry: spiders with seven legs get along fine most of the time, as do people with one arm. Sure it's more awkward, but we deal. But still, that's not our default state. Nature seems to favor symmetry.

Oh wait, shit, I just thought of fish. Specifically, that one fish that's flat and essentially has all its bits on top and floats along on the ocean. Sun fish? Moon fish? Uhhh. So scrap "no animals." How about any animals that aren't exclusively aquatic?

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PC Protection

heclec — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:15:58 GMT

Hopefully, we're all taking steps towards keeping our PCs secure. It's terribly important to have a firewall, virus scanner, spybot and popup blockers. I was just wondering what people are using and what have you used that SUCKS!?

My stuff:
Virus Scan: AVG
Firewall: Zone Alarm
Spybot blocker: Spybot Search and Destroy
Popup Blocker: Builtin one in Mozilla

All these progs work fine for me (as far as I know). I also use some other programs for general system maintenance.

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monkey brain electrodes

StFiend — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:10:02 GMT

Ok, I know this is old news, but

http://www.nicolelislab.net/NLNet/Load/Abstracts/ab2003_learning.pdf

how the fuck do I get in on this? Given these findings, it should be quite doable for me to manipulate say, a mouse cursor, directly with my brain. Provided I don't mind having electrodes embedded in my skull, which I don't. I'm utterly serious about this.

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Why do postcards arrive home later than you do?

moonhilda — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:51:29 GMT

They always seems to get to their intended destination a week after you've come back. I'm convinced they make the rounds at the Post Office...bored postal employees like to see and read about where people have been.

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language abuse

StFiend — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:04:32 GMT

Googling for "meteoric rise" returns 53,800 hits.
Meteors don't rise. They fall. What's up with that?

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Observable reality...

Sat, 20 Dec 2003 15:52:27 GMT

If *you* opened the box, would Shrodinger's cat be alive or dead, and why?

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Value

StFiend — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:34:55 GMT

Here's one to start: Just how valuable can data be, from a dollars-per-megabyte viewpoint?

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