Bulldrek v3.0

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That's what happens when you try to stay away from most forms of social media.

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Economic Left/Right: -7.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97

Somewhat shocked to find out I'm sitting exactly where Noam Chomsky would be: hadn't listened to him in nearly a decade.

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If there are any cyclocross races going on in or near GR, then I may go there to race.

May.

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Living near Metro Detroit. Making sushi now, 45 hours a week. Looking for a D&D group.

Strongly considering taking some welding courses at a trade school because rolling this shit gets tiresome after a while.

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Resolutions? Finish this world I've been working on, work on a readable first chapter, and yes, get crackin' on my CCNA Certification.

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What'll be somewhat scary is when someone starts figuring out how to link the new social media to the old one - like Facebook updates being piped into your cell phone via text messaging and automated voice mails. The big problem right now, as someone has pointed out, is that there're so many forms o...

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Damn, nice.

On the Northrend side, I'm still working on my Oracles rep. Along with a few miscellaneous achievements (like Frostbitten, Minesweeper, etc.), that'll finish up all LK achievements possible outside a dungeon or BG.

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Oh, and I /bow to your BG skillz.

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DV8 wrote:
ak404 wrote:Orc hunter 80.
Ah, a fellow hunter. Mine is Maznafein.

Heh. The much-loved Night Elf Hunter: I have one too, loved it.

I lied. I have two hunters: Kabbie and Kabbie.

Yes, I had entirely too much time on my hands; now I just spend my time mostly with my orc.

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Been on Tichondrius lately while not job hunting.

Orc hunter 80.

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Getting myself acquainted with Georgia, not making friends, trying to get into grad school, working sucky job, MMOs.

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Better Rowan than Robin Williams.

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Ophelia

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Has anyone seen this? I downloaded it a few days ago, was hit by a massive nostalgia bomb.

Part One here

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The Bridge

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Jay-Z

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life support

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alaska

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RuPaul.

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World of Warcraft.

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I always had to wonder why a decker simply couldn't use his team mates as relays to the wireless Matrix. As small as computers would be in SR, I'm fairly certain that a decker should be able to do this.

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It hurts when I think about how badly I want to play again. Is this a bad sign?

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I might be unemployed in a strange land, but I'm not broke yet.

Also, someone cold called me about a job with a mortgage firm; I know nothing about mortgages, so I think I'll come to the interview to find out more about the job and hope to God they don't expect me to sell anything.

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I definitely work at trying to get the attention of other people, especially car drivers. Where I used to wear dark, subdued colors like navy blue, grey, black, or dark brown mixed with white and the occasional burst of rust, orange, or maroon, I now lean toward bright colors like fire engine red, b...

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I tend to look at "social media" as anything that can potentially bypass the PC as the portal to the Internet, like cell phones or mobile web browsers. It is, IMO, a huge jump over using the PC, or even a laptop: easy-to-use, relatively cheap, and will be come nearly universal in the futur...

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A job is...something you get to pay the bills, maybe learn a skill that'll end up being relevant to a greater whole. It all depends on how you look at it. For example, I'm training to be an English Literature professor, but I've been picking up jobs and skills that have absolutely nothing to do with...

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Aye, but those are examples of isolated reactions to the event, and furthermore, they're from people who remember what life was like before the advent of cellular phones (to say nothing of mobile web devices), which only supports my point that the SMR is probably in its nascent stages. We all see it...

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I think you have to be social in order to make heads or tails of this. I don't even own a television, so I guess I'm out. I would say television is one of the least social appliances/channels. If anything, you not owning a tv makes you more social (then again, I would think so because I don't own o...

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Oh, I'm not thinking solely of Facebook: as an addendum to my previous statement, I'm willing to wager that FB will be eventually replaced by a stronger, faster, flashier version of itself: after all, that's what happened to MySpace. What I mean by social media is everything : the text messaging, fa...

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This post may seem a bit fuzzy, but only because I haven't had my morning coffee. :lol Letting accounts on a website go to sleep is one thing, but if they're available to you with the click of a button, ala your cell phone (I know FB and MySpace are two clicks away on mine, and not entirely by choic...

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True, but sometimes shock exposure makes people think. I'm certainly obsessed with staying under 150 pounds, and all the reading I've been doing on HFCS has lead me to an unhealthy tendency to scan the labels of just about every beverage I have ever considered drinking. Nowadays, I've been sticking ...

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lulz.

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It won't really be possible to track when the Social Media Revolution (SMR) started, if there even is one, because like all evolution, it started off slowly, much in the same way concepts like facebook evolved from concepts like newsgroups. The Internet is an awesome achievement, yes, but when manki...

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No, nuclear bombs merely took war to a whole new level. This is about culture . See, a nuclear bomb can kill, what, 48 million people in less than a minute, but you can keep sliding down the scale of military technology, and it's always going to be possible to kill 48 million people: a nuclear weapo...

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Getting back to the original subject, do any of you feel that this sort of ad will work? Would you show it to your friends?

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Well, the problem is less "tap water tastes funny" and more "how do people not know how bad HFCS is for you?"

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I don't fall for the hype: tap water is just as good as bottled water. I guess that depends on where you live, right? Hells yeah. I honestly can't stand the chlorine taste in the water from most parts of the U.S. I've been to, but I can say that there are big differences in the chlorine levels. It'...

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Yeah, we've got a movement along those lines as well. I don't fall for the hype: tap water is just as good as bottled water. It's at least better than Dasani: I'm not sure what they put in there, but one bottle of it makes me want to piss like a race horse.

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Not a racial stereotyping, per se, but I really hate Christians. Catholics are okay, but those fucking evangelical Protestants can go die in a fucking ring of fire.

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Paul, the problem is that soft drinks have become just as much a part of the American diet as... I met a 26 year old girl the other day who drinks six liters of cola every day. She's in the hospital. It's not a coincidence. You mean 'drank,' as in, 'her doctor told her to stop drinking so much pop.'

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Well, that comes as a consequence of the trickiness of dealing with magic and cyberware in Shadowrun. It's dealing with ideas and theories that go beyond current technology and thinking. It's best to stick with stuff that people can work with. But back to the professional criminal bit. Labeling shad...

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Last time I checked, Coca-Cola had no stock in tap water. :p I mean, I love Red Bull as much as the next guy, but I don't drink it for the taste; I refuse to drink that stuff unless I'm fairly sure I can burn off the calories in short order (usually during a work shift). Also, I think we may be talk...

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Paul, the problem is that soft drinks have become just as much a part of the American diet as...I dunno, the television set. It's also much more accessible and affordable for lower-class families. Walk into a 7-11 some time and check on the price of a 44 oz Big Gulp, or whatever it is they call thos...

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Well, here's something scary, if you think about it. I'm 34 years old. To me, e-mail is a tool. To my 14-year old brother, e-mail was a way of life, one which has quickly been succeeded by text messaging. It's one of the reasons I completely distrust any ruling on the social effects of cyberlimbs, w...

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I haven't played SR in years - the latest edition I own is the 3rd, though I've perused the 4th - but I'm generally in the same boat as Paul here. You'll forgive me if this comes out disjointed, but I'm typing it as the thoughts come to me. Fuck, I'll be surprised if I even answer Paul's goddamned q...

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The one and the same.

Also, 32, they have all sorts of people in Canada. It's like America, minus a couple of neuroses.

It's just a shame I never feel at home there.

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Canada. =p

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