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« on: January 03, 2012, 02:50:22 PM »
Nice use of the word "panacea". 
You know, there's a part of me that thinks that as well. That they're just that fricken blind. It's just that that prospect frightens me so much that I'm in denial about it, so let me have my pleasant little illusion, mmkay? 
Lol. You know, I'm sure it's always looking simple when you're playing armchair quarterback like we always do, but I honestly think that I could hand-pick a dozen or so people that I do nothing but piss around with online like this to run this country and we wouldn't do any worse a job.
Just among HNers and teh Geekery (OMFGLOL!!1) members I'd pick:
- DogStarMan
- Pbsaurus
- Ivan
- Vespertine
- BizB
- biggyfred
- Socrates
- Detta
- Banshee
- Law
- catwritr
- Joe Sixpack
- Xolik
- PeyoteCoyote
- Daria
- 7thSon[/list:u]Just for starters.
Form a panel. Make no decisions without discussing them thoroughly among ourselves, with everyone allowed to say what's on their mind about it however they like.
Just a bunch of regular folks. We could do it better than those 'tards could any day. Or if nothing else, at least not any worse, right?
I mean shit... we seem to be better-informed, if nothing else. A lot less prone to extremism of any kind. A lot more willing to listen to alternative solutions. Probably quite a bit less antagonistic.
Then we could also form a foreign advisory panel made up of:
- Kryzec
- TheJudge
- Lacerda
- gorgeous_si[/list:u]
The reason I think we could do AT LEAST AS GOOD a job as the Bush administration is because everybody I listed (plus a bunch I didn't) have one main thing in common:
The capacity for rational thought. Opinions based on reason rather than dogmatic rhetoric.
That alone could be enough to steer things back onto a course more closely resembling "sane" than anything this country's been on in decades.
HEY! Who you callin' "less antagonistic"?!?[/list][/list]
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« on: January 03, 2012, 01:13:07 PM »
Okay, if I post here, I make it real.
I started out at 172lbs on April 4, 2011. I ended 2011 at 156.5lbs. I still want to lose another 10lbs, but I'd be happy just getting down to 150. I'm not doing anything that regulated or exerting. I'm just eating better/smarter and in more reasonable portion sizes, and will attend dance classes as the whim strikes me.
Edit: I should add, for reference, that I'm 5'7".
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« on: January 03, 2012, 12:59:03 PM »
1. Young Adult: Want to acquire an inexplicable craving for bourbon and bad decisions? OR Want to feel sane and well-adjusted by comparison? Go ahead, see the movie. Otherwise, don't bother.
(Edit to turn it into a list. I PAY ATTENTION TO FORMAT.)
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« on: December 28, 2011, 03:57:19 PM »
"Crave"
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« on: December 28, 2011, 03:56:07 PM »
I would now like to know how it is determined whether one's brains are not ok. Also, are women allowed to keep firearms in the absence of men?
You have to peel them, I think.
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« on: December 28, 2011, 03:53:58 PM »
I haven't brewed in years, but I had some pretty good results. I mostly used the so-called "beer in a can" pre-hopped malt extracts. Add sugar and a little water, boil, pour into more water in a carboy, drop in the yeast, slap on a fermentation lock, wait, bottle, wait, drink. Serious home brewers scoff at "beer in a can" brewers, of course, but it can't be denied that the results can be great. And after amortizing the equipment, I got the cost per 12 oz bottle down to 11 cents (10-20 years ago).
The biggest bugaboo were the bottles. You need sterile, nice looking bottles that can be capped, and lots of them. Home brewers get pecuniary and fascistic about their bottles. They guy who introduced me to homebrewing would not let you touch his bottles of beer, far less drink from the bottles. He's pour the beer into a glass, then immediately rinse the bottle with hot water. If you don't do that, and if you leave so much as a speck of beer in the bottle, you'll be soaking it in bleach solution before the next bottling.
I've used purchased bottles, but that seriously raises the cost of production. I've used reclaimed bottles, but that took hours and hours and hours of soaking to remove labels, bleaching, scrubbing. My best solution was to use reclaimed mineral water bottles. We drink a lot of mineral water. So for my last several batches I saved all the bottles with their screw tops, and didn't even bother to remove the labels unless they were given as gifts. I figured the bottles were already sanitary enough, and I never had a problem. The only iffy part was the screw tops, because the final fermentation occurs in the bottle, and the caps have to withstand some pressure. But since the mineral water was carbonated, I figured the caps would be sturdy and airtight enough even when re-used, and again I never had a problem. Another plus -- these were 1 or 1.5 liter bottles, so I didn't need as many.
But even that got to be a little too much. I tried my hand at home wine making, with some decent results, but that was even more hassle and mess. Around that time, I changed jobs, and lost a lot of my free time, so I had to let these hobbies go.
I will some day return to either or both, but with some changes. If I make wine again, it will be in barrels. If I home brew beer again, I will not bottle the beer -- I'll use a keg.
Home brewers are sexy.
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« on: September 09, 2011, 02:40:01 PM »
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« on: September 09, 2011, 02:26:38 PM »
This is what it has been like for us since The_FOO's IRC server has been down:
Banshee's playing the part of Wilson. Look at me and all my necromancy...I'll just go ahead and GIF myself: 
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« on: June 03, 2011, 02:08:38 PM »
<hackess> Bobert: AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHh
<Bobert> hackess: Or some derivation thereof.
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« on: May 18, 2011, 04:39:33 PM »
Wow, I've been gone a while. I didn't know you'd had your first daughter... Congratulations x2! 
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« on: May 11, 2011, 01:58:48 PM »
Oh, p'shaw. I like everyone here no matter what.
I feel like using Wunder's avatar on you.
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« on: May 03, 2011, 03:34:50 PM »
STOP THAT!
 Stop what?
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« on: May 03, 2011, 03:31:44 PM »
Didn't you just ask me that?
Didn't YOU just ask ME that?
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« on: May 03, 2011, 03:23:32 PM »
"GeekForum.org: Trolling newbies since 1926."
-- Mr_Shifty
We look good for our level of cynicism. Hey, did anyone else experience deja vu just now?
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« on: May 03, 2011, 03:16:23 PM »
You must have boobs surgically removed and a penis attached before operating a computer or multimedia device of any kind.
-Joe Lieberman
Let me show you my Honorary Penor, now fully enhanced by some kind of pill I ordered off the Internet.
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« on: May 03, 2011, 03:13:16 PM »
What he said!
Thank you, sir. I knew I could count on your support.
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« on: May 03, 2011, 03:09:59 PM »
There are no girls on the Internet.
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« on: November 29, 2010, 05:07:03 PM »
As a secondary FYI, a lot of times after 7pm Central Time there isn't anyone paying attention in there.
After 6pm Central, actually.
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« on: November 24, 2010, 02:43:43 PM »
<@BizB> Poor Lindsay Lohan... she has not aged well and she has just begun to age
<@BizB> seriously, the phrase "ridden hard and put away wet" comes to mind.
<@hackess> Cocaine's a rough drug
<@BizB> indeed
<@BizB> cocaine: god's way of sayin' "You have too much money for your IQ."
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« on: November 17, 2010, 05:30:04 PM »
These are not the boards you are looking for.
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« on: November 10, 2010, 06:53:49 PM »
Welcome, sir!
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« on: September 17, 2010, 03:43:57 PM »
Now I get it. 
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« on: July 14, 2010, 02:45:26 PM »
Hi Cartina! Good to see you! (no no... not in a stocking kind of way!) OMFGLOL!!111
How's life treating you?
Lurvely, dahling, except your speeling errors make me twitch. 12 - There's a solar eclipse happening soonish. YOU'VE DISCOVERED MY SECRET!!1!
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« on: June 24, 2010, 11:05:38 AM »
Last night I wrote a vicious screed, calling him a malicious peabrained troll posting pathetic little gobs of snot in a perpetual autoerotic attention-whoring haze, the kind of weasel who gets off on negative attention, who craves to have amazonian women heel his little testes into the backyard lawn while neighbors throw beer bottles at him. I even... I even went so far as to call him... call him... the next Evonus.
*sigh*
But I didn't press the "Post" button. Calmly, I navigated away from the reply box, and resumed my surfing, with nary a thought about Arnox. Some things are better left unsaid.
Who you callin' an Amazon? Edit: 4500!
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« on: June 24, 2010, 10:59:52 AM »
Stupid
Explains. WB Judgie! Congratulations on the mini-Judge! </necromancy>
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