Cancer Posted November 8, 2011 Report Share Posted November 8, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings That's OK. I preferred Mary Ann anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 8, 2011 Report Share Posted November 8, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings No' date=' I'm not ginger.[/quote'] Pity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted November 9, 2011 Report Share Posted November 9, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings *Raises both hands* I read things like James Clavell's "Shogûn", "Black Holes and Warped Spacetime" by William J. Kaufmann and the Rand McNally "New Concise Atlas of the Universe" when I was a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted November 9, 2011 Report Share Posted November 9, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Gastric bypass' date=' people. I'll never be able to look a red Swingline stapler in the eyes again.[/quote'] My wife just got some staples that are supposed to dissolve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 9, 2011 Report Share Posted November 9, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Who said I was being philosophical?.. Speaking of which... Because I was bored. An Illustrated Look At Some Of Literature's Near Brushes With Death Last week, JK Rowling announced that, midway through writing the Harry Potter series, she nearly killed off Ron Weasley "out of spite." Ron isn't the first supporting character to narrowly avoid death in an author's rough draft. Here we look at some other close calls—and how those deaths would have affected the culture at large. Potter What-if Illustration Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 9, 2011 Report Share Posted November 9, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Really? Hmmm. Ok Raise your hands everyone who was a nerd in high school and liked to read. *raises hand* *raises hand* I liked to read encyclopaedias at school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 9, 2011 Report Share Posted November 9, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Encyclopedias were what I read over my morning bowl of breakfast cereal every day, from about as early as I can remember up into age 12 or so. By then I'd more or less memorized everything in the ones we had at home, and I started reading the morning paper (the Stars and Stripes, since this was while we were in Europe) as the breakfast read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 9, 2011 Report Share Posted November 9, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings My wife just got some staples that are supposed to dissolve. Some kind of plastics story, then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted November 9, 2011 Report Share Posted November 9, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings The religious people I knew wouldn't let their kids read the Potter books because of the dealing with magic. But saw no disconnect about owning every Disney princess movie ever. Or Veggie Tails...which is about talking vegetables. Well, they likely already believe in the existence of a talking snake... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted November 9, 2011 Report Share Posted November 9, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Really? Hmmm. Ok Raise your hands everyone who was a nerd in high school and liked to read. *raises hand* Ditto. As a kid, I read and re-read my parent's set of encyclopedias. Mainly to combat the boredom. And not just any run-of-the-mill boredom, I'm talking about teeth-gnashing, hair-pulling, O.M.G. I-might-go-insane-just-to-get-away-from-the-boredom boredom. Only 5 channels on TV, no books, no magazines, no newspapers, no internet/bbs, no *computer* even, and no similarly-aged kids nearby to play games with. And people wonder why I tend to be an introvert now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 9, 2011 Report Share Posted November 9, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Ditto. As a kid, I read and re-read my parent's set of encyclopedias. Mainly to combat the boredom. And not just any run-of-the-mill boredom, I'm talking about teeth-gnashing, hair-pulling, O.M.G. I-might-go-insane-just-to-get-away-from-the-boredom boredom. Only 5 channels on TV, no books, no magazines, no newspapers, no internet/bbs, no *computer* even, and no similarly-aged kids nearby to play games with. And people wonder why I tend to be an introvert now. I had most of that but I'm still an introvert. It's not all environmental, I believe. I don't revel in my bachelorhood, I miss coming home to someone in the evening (or having them come home to me since I'm still a jobless scumbag) but I always liked my alone time and when I go to my beloved family events I get my fill of crowds pretty quickly, even if I'm loving it. Online communities are great in that I can be alone and still talk to others Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 9, 2011 Report Share Posted November 9, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings And we don't comment on your lack of pants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 9, 2011 Report Share Posted November 9, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings And we don't comment on your lack of pants. Don't make me do a post search bomb on you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Some kind of plastics story' date=' then?[/quote'] Perhaps. I'll have to ask next week at the post op. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings And we don't comment on your lack of pants. you are confusing Chad for Mightybec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings I think I need a specific example here of a tech point you think is being inadequately explained ... and if you can use one of my posts as that example' date=' so much the better. Otherwise it sounds like you're calling people with special expertise lazy, worthless, stuck-up, or devoid of commonplace communication skills, because they won't or can't or can't be bothered to explain in 30 minutes or less the expertise it took them four or six or eight [u']years[/u] to earn. As I explained in PM, I was thinking, not of you or any particular poster, but mostly of Wikipedia, on which many articles are no longer clear or easy to read. Also, having to explain this twice is not making my day any cheerier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings I am rapidly running out of time and options. I wake up at three in the morning and start thinking' date=' and can't go back to sleep. Then I stagger off to my dead end job and sleepwalk through the day. Repeat as desired.[/quote'] Been there, doing that. JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings No' date=' I'm not ginger.[/quote'] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Placing your words on the internet and then being upset someone responded them - even just in a comments section - is rather silly. if you say so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings I think I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings I wish I could remember what I was going to put here. Note to self: Mind-ray a success; targetting a little off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Oh yeah! I'm radioactive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Oh yeah! I'm radioactive. Must have confused the targetting on my mind-ray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Must have confused the targetting on my mind-ray. Or the targetting was spot-on, and there was just nothing there to affect? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Or the targetting was spot-on' date=' and there was just nothing there to affect? [/quote'] ...Thing is, I was kinda aiming at Washington. Take over the world, y'know... ...Wait, that makes perfect sense! Curses, foiled again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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