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- Mon Jul 27, 2015 10:42 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Where Are They Now: Everyone Edition
- Replies: 34
- Views: 696
Back to Los Angeles (honestly, I don't even remember where I was last time I did much on here, aside from being in Indy for a GenCon -- which is also what made me think to pop in today, since I'll be there next week). Went from LA to Austin to San Diego, and back to LA, moving to slightly better ver...
- Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:04 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Grocery Budget
- Replies: 7
- Views: 291
My food budget is low, but that's because I'm terribly lazy, cheap, and capable of sneaking in just enough variation to make it work out. I just can't bother myself to cook something fancy if I'm the only one eating it. Breakfast has gone from cereal and milk to cereal and Yogurt with berries (fresh...
- Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:55 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: We have become too "plugged in."
- Replies: 5
- Views: 276
I tell people I don't have a text plan (for now, this is even the truth) explicitly because I dislike how text messages work -- they were an ok stop-gap solution. We now have dataplan phones. Send an e-mail, or use an IM program, or actually just call. Text messages are the most expensive possible w...
- Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:28 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Interesting Places in the U.S. to visit?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 288
- Mon May 21, 2012 3:14 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Students to Be Graded on Weight
- Replies: 377
- Views: 6973
Yeah, it's pretty fucked up. If you choose your restaurant well, I don't think it's a terrible choice, as such things go, but it's always a little strange watching co-workers go out to buy a sandwich , and then complain while they eat it about how poor they are. Note: These people are also upset whe...
- Sat May 19, 2012 8:34 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Students to Be Graded on Weight
- Replies: 377
- Views: 6973
I don't find 5 meals a week particularly unexpected. That could mean, say, Breakfast: Coffee and Bagels / Donuts. How many people stop in for a Starbucks every morning and grab a pastry of some sort? *bam* 1 meal out most days. Most of the people at work go out for lunch at least a few days a week, ...
- Sat Mar 03, 2012 6:47 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: All tied-up(Bondage and BDSM)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 518
If it's the restraints more than the ropes and knots and such, I found a simple set of under-bed cuffs and straps worked pretty well - around $30 on Amazon. This one, I think.
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:43 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The New What Are You Reading Thread
- Replies: 38
- Views: 823
I (relatively) recently read through Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan books. I liked them. Currently reading random free e-books, like The Art of War and The Problems of Philosophy and other such classics I always said I'd read some day, but never did. Also, various Lovecraft collections, and a few World of...
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:08 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Practice for the Zombiepocolypse
- Replies: 5
- Views: 307
Don't forget to practice your cardio.
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:05 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: What is life, and why does it matter?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 811
I read this article , and thought of you, three-two, along with this post. Originally, I was just going to maybe log back into LJ or otherwise see if I could randomly track you down... but when I saw Bulldrek still here and my log in still working and you still posting, I decided nothing would be be...
- Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:27 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Morality, TV, and Taste? What are the limits? And why?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1048
- Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:54 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: UN, Human Rights, Welfare, Republicans and War in Iraq…
- Replies: 20
- Views: 698
- Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:42 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Capoeira/gymnastics conditioning advice wanted.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 523
I just started a class here on base. I've got flexibility, I've got some upper body strength and the lower is fine except for my outer calf muscle. That should get better if I keep up with this. What I need is balance and rhythm. Any exercises for those? First some stuff you can do on your own -- B...
- Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:59 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Highschool and reflections there in...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 555
I disagree with 32 on only one aspect of his point. The parts about not trying to recreate your old life or ressurect old friendships is probably good advice. If some of those friends come back on their own, great (probably - old friends can often trigger old behaviors), but don't try to force anyth...
- Wed May 30, 2007 6:15 am
- Forum: Gatherings
- Topic: Saturday July 7th, 2007: A date that shall live in infamy?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1756
- Mon May 21, 2007 2:44 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Starcraft 2
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1177
- Sun May 20, 2007 10:50 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Does your life have meaning?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1000
- Sun May 20, 2007 10:31 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Starcraft 2
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1177
They may think the market is finally ready for a MMORTS (Sovereign tried and failed - I think it was a good idea, just too early). However, with SC2 coming, that takes out the RTS balance designersthey've been hiring. It's unlikely they'll put up two RTS games at teh same time, and I don't think the...
- Thu May 10, 2007 4:17 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The Future Looks Like Waste
- Replies: 9
- Views: 281
Regarding the article - naming and bonding with various non-humans has happened for millenia. Horsemen certainly bonded with their mounts, and would only want to ride their own mount. Kennelmasters and wardogs, equally so. Regardless of the fact that every sword in the armory shoudl be nearly identi...
- Thu May 10, 2007 3:17 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: "Queer or Female? Too Bad."
- Replies: 84
- Views: 5254
PS to Paul - Even as recently as 50 years ago, it would have been very obvious that non-white people were being persecuted for any crime against a white person. Or even looking at one funny. They were lynched for it. I don't recollect saying it didn't happen that way. Or saying that nonwhites weren...
- Tue May 08, 2007 6:15 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: "Queer or Female? Too Bad."
- Replies: 84
- Views: 5254
The question at hand is what is the purpose of the legislation and the purpose of the punishment. If we really wanted criminals to be able to come back to society and function well, we're doing things all wrong. If we simply want people likely to do bad things hidden away somewhere for a long time, ...
- Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:06 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Code Guardian
- Replies: 11
- Views: 267
- Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:14 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: So...
- Replies: 35
- Views: 752
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:25 am
- Forum: Gatherings
- Topic: GenCon 2007
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1251
Probably not. GenCon is during prime-time crunch for the video game industry. How's it going with that? Pretty well. QA credits on F.E.A.R., Ice Age II, and Scarface, along with some uncredited work (too short to matter, or for patches or Direct-Download stuff where they don't append your name into...
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:30 am
- Forum: Gatherings
- Topic: GenCon 2007
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1251
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:24 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The where have you been thread?
- Replies: 109
- Views: 2371
Boring notes about my life below -- though honestly I don't think anyone can beat FlameBlade on this one. Worked bullshit temp jobs in college town. Moved home for a few weeks before travelling the country visiting friends and family (and looking for work) Moved home again, worked at Target Hallowee...
- Thu Oct 06, 2005 7:12 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: 12 days
- Replies: 13
- Views: 515
- Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:04 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Republicans value life 0.5 as much as compared to Democrats
- Replies: 6
- Views: 230
- Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:34 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Republicans value life 0.5 as much as compared to Democrats
- Replies: 6
- Views: 230
Republicans value life 0.5 as much as compared to Democrats
Last Two Lines : The EPA went a step further: Under its old cost-benefit formula, the agency valued each human life saved from toxic pollution at $6.1 million. But thanks to a new rule, the cost of polluting people to death has plummeted: Under Bush, your life has officially been devalued by $2.4 m...
- Mon Aug 22, 2005 2:24 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: "New" tattoo
- Replies: 16
- Views: 411
- Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:42 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: New job. Managing an arcade.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 439
Re: New job. Managing an arcade.
(...) deciphering error messages like "Dongle not present" and I'm sure that other forms of wierdness will crop up quikly enough. (....) So what is a Dongle? dongle <hardware> /dong'gl/ (From "dangle" - because it dangles off the computer?) 1. <security> A security or copy prote...
- Thu Aug 18, 2005 3:39 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Iraq: Victory Impossible
- Replies: 42
- Views: 799
- Thu Aug 18, 2005 3:37 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: S Korean dies after games session
- Replies: 13
- Views: 400
This is a fairly regular occurence in Korea (keeling over while playing Starcraft, that is -- other games seem to have a lesser death rate ;) ). A lot of these cases actually have the guy die of other things, the lack of sleep just contributes to it. One, as I recall, died because he sat on his fat ...
- Sat Aug 13, 2005 7:45 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Read This
- Replies: 32
- Views: 782
- Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:42 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Culture and Schools
- Replies: 17
- Views: 421
First of all, it depends on teh school you have in mind. If I were to design a public school for backwater Saskatchewan, I would use a different courseload than if I were doing a globalized prep school for multiple nationalities. In the case of the former, I'd probably do whatever relates most to th...
- Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:40 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: mmm . . . cyberarms
- Replies: 11
- Views: 419
Does anyone else notice that this Steve Austin wanna-be looks like a complete freak with this arms. WTF? Why is it that these artificial limbs always look like erector sets and rubber. They need to collaborate with some F/X guys, make-up artists and engineers. I'm happy for the guy's new capabiliti...
- Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:32 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: What is Christian?
- Replies: 152
- Views: 2666
- Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:08 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: New job. Managing an arcade.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 439
The only games I play in arcades these days are those with some sort of gimmick that's hard to take home. Silent Scope, for example, with the really cool sniper rifle controller. DDR (until the home mats came out) probably kept the arcades near my college afloat for a few years. To help you out, I'l...
- Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:25 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Scotty's dead, Jim: James Doohan passes away at 85
- Replies: 6
- Views: 176
- Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:57 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: New job
- Replies: 11
- Views: 420
- Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:50 pm
- Forum: Words Without End
- Topic: World of Warcraft
- Replies: 68
- Views: 3893
Given the general lack of RP on RP server... I'm not sure there's a huge amount to be excited about. I've all but given up on actually doing any RP at this point and just started pwning Alliance noobs in Battle Grounds. Mainly because none of them have any clue how to fight PvP, and the hideous fact...
- Fri Jul 01, 2005 4:33 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Batman Begins
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1409
- Sun Jun 19, 2005 1:31 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Irony and Free Speech
- Replies: 60
- Views: 1524
- Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:50 pm
- Forum: The Embassy
- Topic: Known Issues
- Replies: 68
- Views: 2652
- Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:16 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Prescription drugs
- Replies: 22
- Views: 636
- Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:23 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Deep Throat revealed
- Replies: 12
- Views: 387
Nah, I suspect Ben is just a bit bitter about losing his job as Nixon's speech writer. ;) He's usually a fairly easy-going guy, I was just impressed with how completely vicious he was in condemning the whole thing. And he is right... Nixon did do a lot of very good things. Probably not in the best o...
- Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:33 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The West?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 721
First, I think he overestimates the number of people in America who are closer to the social democratic European view. Many is a vague term. If he'd said majority, or even plurality or significant minority, I'd agree, but I'd say a good eighth of the population in the US would rather have something...
- Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:08 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Deep Throat revealed
- Replies: 12
- Views: 387
- Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:45 am
- Forum: The Embassy
- Topic: Template Opinions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 529
- Thu May 26, 2005 11:37 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Stronghold?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 275
Stronghold! What? It is, too! Just, like, 9 years older than the version you probably want...
You can probably get it for under $10 if you look around enough. I know I've seenthe deluxe pack (with the expansion included and such) for under $10 on an EB used shelf. Just saying is all...
You can probably get it for under $10 if you look around enough. I know I've seenthe deluxe pack (with the expansion included and such) for under $10 on an EB used shelf. Just saying is all...