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Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'

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sarameg - Sep 17, 2005 10:48:21 am PDT #8451 of 10002

Alabama-South Carolina.

Oh, this means when I next talk to my brother, he'll have crazy fan stories. Those crack me up. He's categorically not a football fan. But...he's at UAB. He's surrounded by them. They kinda freak him out. Even more than his FIL, the rabid NASCAR fan, freaks him out.

Toured houses. Found a new nest of rowhouses that are NICE and AFFORDABLE. Like killer affordable and not embedded in sketchsville. So. That's good. Tired. Amazing what 5 hours getting on and off buses in heat and humidity can do.

I need to clean. Maybe after TAL.

Topic!Cindy - Sep 17, 2005 10:55:24 am PDT #8452 of 10002

What is even happening?

It makes me bananas when people pronounce "conch" with a soft "ch". It's KONK, dammit.

I did that for the longest while.

Actually, both are correct. Look it up.

Hil R. - Sep 17, 2005 11:26:23 am PDT #8453 of 10002

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

new trigonometry without sines, cosines and tangents

Huh. Interesting. Now I'm curious how that works.

Tom Scola - Sep 17, 2005 11:31:19 am PDT #8454 of 10002

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Now I'm curious how that works.

Here's a Slashdot article and a book about it.

Hil R. - Sep 17, 2005 11:35:41 am PDT #8455 of 10002

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Thanks, Tom. My computer is being a pain and won't let me look at the sample PDF chapter right now, but I'll take a look later.

Trudy Booth - Sep 17, 2005 11:35:44 am PDT #8456 of 10002

Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Actually, both are correct. Look it up.

Huh.

Well, I reserve my right to still hate it.

Jessica - Sep 17, 2005 11:35:51 am PDT #8457 of 10002

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Finally watched Supernatural -- good and creepy! Definitely a keep-downloading-er.

Sean K - Sep 17, 2005 11:37:21 am PDT #8458 of 10002

You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Yeah, I liked Supernatural. I'm looking forward to the next couple of episodes. Also liked Threshold, mostly for Peter Dinklage, as I said before. We'll see how that holds up through the next few episodes.

Jessica - Sep 17, 2005 11:38:25 am PDT #8459 of 10002

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Oh, I almost forgot about Threshold (which I keep thinking should have another 'h' in there). Time to fire up another torrent.

Zenkitty - Sep 17, 2005 12:23:12 pm PDT #8460 of 10002

Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

People writing "in tact" when they mean "intact" makes me want to weep. "Taken for granite" does too.

I'm watching Jeff Corwin catch a black mamba. I love this guy, but why the hell isn't he dead?

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