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- Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:27 pm
- Forum: Great Hall
- Topic: Happy PI day
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1442
- Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:56 pm
- Forum: News & Politics
- Topic: Help wanted — jobless need not apply
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1540
My mom wants HR people to be the second against the wall when the revolution comes (second, because people only remember the first ones). She told me she would disown me if I studied human resource management (of course, I had no interest in that, but still). There are many good reasons why she has ...
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:19 pm
- Forum: News & Politics
- Topic: Attempted Assassination in Arizona
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1975
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:18 pm
- Forum: Great Hall
- Topic: Totally random thoughts
- Replies: 151
- Views: 84302
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:16 pm
- Forum: News & Politics
- Topic: Attempted Assassination in Arizona
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1975
Attempted Assassination in Arizona
This was the first link. I'll say more at the end. [quote]U.S. Congresswoman Giffords Shot in Arizona; Six Die January 08, 2011, 4:52 PM EST By Dan Hart, Tim Homan and Drew Armstrong Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, was one of 18 people shot today i...
- Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:46 pm
- Forum: Great Hall
- Topic: Totally random thoughts
- Replies: 151
- Views: 84302
Does this happen to anyone else? There are times when I need to stuff a bunch of envelopes, or put rubber bands on a bunch of things, you know the type of work. For those things I just grab a handful of paper clips or wad of plastic baggies or stack of fliers or whatever it is that's needed. And ver...
- Fri Nov 12, 2010 5:48 pm
- Forum: Science & Logic
- Topic: America's first spaceship factory
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1245
I thought I'd already commented on this. Oh well. I seriously doubt this venture will turn a profit. It'll likely be a giant money drain and will eventually go under, just as so many pioneers do. There will be lots of problems and possibly a few deaths. And I also think it likely that the people in ...
- Thu Nov 04, 2010 3:50 pm
- Forum: News & Politics
- Topic: Iowa voters oust justices who made same-sex marriage legal
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1146
So in a state of rage I crunched some numbers. In typical elections that don't have polluted Focus on the Family money thrown into it, up to 1/3 (but usually not that many) of the voters regularly voted no to retaining the judges. Always. All the judges. The same happened with most of the other judg...
- Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:43 am
- Forum: News & Politics
- Topic: Midterm elections
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2115
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:48 pm
- Forum: News & Politics
- Topic: UN warns on Vietnam birth ratio
- Replies: 2
- Views: 780
- Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:38 am
- Forum: Gaming & Technology
- Topic: Minecraft Review (image heavy towards the end)
- Replies: 75
- Views: 19380
I should have listened to the warnings! Unlike most people apparently, I haven't gotten into any mega-structure building. The closest thing to that I have is one very deep-shaft mine that hit the bedrock and my current project to strip-mine one island that's basically hollow (not that hard - just ta...
- Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:18 pm
- Forum: Kitchen Stadium
- Topic: Why Ebert is Awesome: Behold the Pot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9074
Thank you. May the rice cooker provide you many easy, quick, and hot meals. I also should note that you can usually get rice in bulk rather cheaply so it may save money in the long run if you use it enough. While I'm here, I calculated that I eat at least forty pounds of rice a year. That's dry weig...
- Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:52 pm
- Forum: Kitchen Stadium
- Topic: Why Ebert is Awesome: Behold the Pot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9074
I own a The Pot. It only has those two settings. It is at least as old and possibly older than me, as I inherited from my mother when she got a new one for herself and we'd always had it. It has produced untold amounts of rice, and rice goes with everything and can be used to stretch out everything,...
- Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:02 pm
- Forum: News & Politics
- Topic: Judge strikes down DADT discharge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1251
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:24 am
- Forum: Great Hall
- Topic: Halloween Costume
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4475
Is this for a party? Are you a reasonably good actor or can stay in character for something? My first thought was a crazy street preacher. Wear a sandwich board with too many capital letters and at least one noticeable spelling error, and interrupt the party at good moments with announcements/rants/...
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:13 am
- Forum: News & Politics
- Topic: RIRA Threatens British Bankers; English Optimistic
- Replies: 2
- Views: 763
This makes me think of the scenario and prediction I'd made a while back: someone with a murderous inclination finally gets it through their heads that bankers are to blame...so they end up walking into a bank and shooting the tellers there or some equivalent, killing people with absolutely no power...
- Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:44 pm
- Forum: User-Fiction Reviews
- Topic: Author Feedback: Mayabird and/or Comrade Tortoise
- Replies: 60
- Views: 26937
- Sat Sep 04, 2010 9:50 pm
- Forum: Gaming & Technology
- Topic: Pigs Fly! Cows Come Home! Cthulu Stirs! The Duke lives!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1771
I'm not going to believe it until people are playing the actual game and confirming that when they load the DVD it's more than just a white screen with a line drawing of a penis and text reading "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU STILL FELL FOR IT!" Also that baby mi-go looks like a sea anemone that was pulled of...
- Mon Aug 30, 2010 3:49 pm
- Forum: User-Fiction Reviews
- Topic: Author Feedback: Mayabird and/or Comrade Tortoise
- Replies: 60
- Views: 26937
- Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:45 pm
- Forum: Science & Logic
- Topic: Terror birds punched prey with their beaks!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 684
Terror birds punched prey with their beaks!
Well...maybe the title isn't the most accurate or correct way of describing it, but I thought it sounded snappy. Ancient 'Terror Bird' Used Powerful Beak to Jab Like an Agile Boxer ScienceDaily (Aug. 19, 2010) — The ancient "terror bird" Andalgalornis couldn't fly, but it used its unusually large,...
- Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:26 pm
- Forum: The Arts
- Topic: Frigid watched Scott Pilgrim versus the world
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3273
Just got back from the movie. I was sold on it the moment I saw the old-school pixel and sound Universal logo. It was a crazy lot of fun and silliness and a lot of laughs for me. ...I was planning on saying more but it's hard for me to make anything more coherent than "Squee!" and "what Frigid said....
- Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:15 am
- Forum: Great Hall
- Topic: Beloit College Mindset - Class of 2014
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2264
First glance, it made me feel old, but just like everyone was saying, most of that list is bull. I was college class 2006 and I remember plenty of stuff on the class of 2002 list. Never did like the beige M&Ms. What's the point when there's already brown? Polio shots are still routine. Etc etc. What...
- Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:09 pm
- Forum: User-Fiction Reviews
- Topic: Author Feedback: Mayabird and/or Comrade Tortoise
- Replies: 60
- Views: 26937
- Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:29 pm
- Forum: Great Hall
- Topic: Totally random thoughts
- Replies: 151
- Views: 84302
So...do other people here have crazy dreams but are too embarrassed to mention them, or is it really just me and occasionally Adam who have and remember our dreams? (Steve, I already know that you can't remember any.) I know we're not a very big or active board but it seems a little odd, seeing only...
- Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:04 am
- Forum: News & Politics
- Topic: Behold the Market, Thy New God
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4382