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"Which northwest? The Pacific Northwest? Have you seen us here? I'd be very surprised if anybody were making $200k in fashion here. So, my answer: marry into Microsoft money, and dabble in fashion...." [
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5 days ago
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"If you don't want to vote, but you do want to show up on the lists of who voted, go to your polling place and sign in, then submit an empty ballot. Or write in cartoon characters for every position. Or, you know, as long as you're there, you could..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"Maybe she just got really sick of that job, and couldn't figure out a way to leave it without also leaving you. From the amount of detail about your business you included in your question, it seems that the business is a central part of your life. If..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sculpin, DevilsAdvocate
Last month
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"Man, I can't favorite Ira_'s comment hard enough. If one of my friends were telling me to show some gratitude, that would really, really piss me off. I'm pissed off just thinking about it. Advising me to reflect on the good things in my life is one..." [
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"You're in Seattle? Head up to Blumenthal Uniforms just north of 85th and Aurora. They sell hi-viz equipment for police and such, including a couple of nice looking jackets and parkas for around $130. They also have a good selection of vests if you..." [
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"A former coworker of mine identified not as vegetarian, but as an ethical eater. He wouldn't eat anything above an intelligence level that he could never quite quantify, but which gave him some wiggle room. He would eat most fish, but not octopus,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by goshling
2 months ago
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"Huh. That last link should have been to http://www.papersigns.com/." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sculpin
2 months ago
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"hell, you might even want to consider that if you take away the right of a doctor not to perform an abortion, you're also taking away the right of a draftee to claim c o status
I'm not sure that analogy works. In the case of a conscientious..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sculpin
2 months ago
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"Ah, I see the problem. Jsonic has correctly noted that the first two conscience provisions in the Church Amendments are about sterilization and abortion. Unfortunately, he's failed to continue reading to the third provision, which is about any lawful..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by agregoli
2 months ago
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"My wife's bachelorette party was held at a science museum where normally they have birthday parties and science demonstrations for 'tweens. They were happy to chang a banner to 'happy wedding' and do the demos for a group of 30-somethings, though,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by min, mismatched, exceptinsects, idiotfactory
3 months ago
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"I bet the .int is some previous admin's clever idea for specifying 'internal', not a true .int registration. Try doing a whois lookup on folksdomain.int to confirm. If that's the case, then the .int is pretty much out of the picture as far as..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cmiller
3 months ago
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"Another data point, if this isn't completely played out yet: compare BoingBoing's policies page as of June 25th and their policies page now.
"We reserve the right to unpublish or refuse to unpublish anything for any or no reason."
A..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by paisley henosis, drdevice, waraw, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, cell divide, flashboy, drezdn, tyllwin, liza, UbuRoivas, spiderwire, cavalier, wendell, FuManchu, Artw, sculpin
3 months ago
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"I think the theme park example you're thinking of might be this:The perhaps most sensational aspect of false memories was described by Elizabeth Loftus and colleagues (e.g., Loftus 2003) who demonstrated the ease with which fake memories can be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Lownotes
3 months ago
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"I've been in your position, fairlysober, and I feel for you. It really sucks. My former fiancée and I had started dating in college, I'd tried to break up with her a few times because I knew she wasn't the one, and eventually I gave up trying..." [
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3 months ago
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""I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
Followed by, "please don't call me again...." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by claudius, ohcanireally, Deep Dish, Nerro, Scram, arcticwoman, Drexen, Reverend John, likesuchasand, ulotrichous, emelenjr, M.C. Lo-Carb!, small_ruminant, Foci for Analysis, greta simone, raztaj, Lou Stuells
4 months ago
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"The CA-100 USB charging cable is super-handy, and ridiculously expensive. There's a much cheaper knockoff, but you might get what you pay for--this one melted while in use.
The iGo Stowaway is a pretty good folding keyboard, if you're going to be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by the dief
4 months ago
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"My favorite bit about this whole thing is that two of the disappeared posts at BoingBoing are coverage of Google dropping some sex blogs from their index:
+ Missing/Archive
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favorited 2 times, recently by davemee, spiderwire
4 months ago
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"Your other kids are 18 and 23, and lost contact with you when they were 11 and 16, right? If you've re-established contact with them in the last couple of years, maybe you could ask them what they think...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oneirodynia
4 months ago
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"Seconding the advice, impractical as it is, that you should quit your job. Some of us just aren't wired for working in the corporate world, and from your posting history, it sounds like you're one of us. It's not just IT; it's pervasive. Of course,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sculpin
5 months ago
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"I have wished for a tiny supply of platypus venom with which to disable my enemies ever since I read this:Spicer (1876) cites a case where "The pain was intense and almost paralysing. But for the administration of small doses of brandy, he would..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Kikkoman, papafrita
6 months ago
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"If it were me, I'd send a letter to the bank detailing how they fucked up, but not asking for anything. See if they offer you anything. I can't think of anything they might offer--if you don't carry a balance, an offer to reduce your interest rate..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by iknowizbirfmark
9 months ago
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"As the husband of someone with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, I wish I could mark Packy_1962's answer as best.
If companionship currently keeps you moving and keeps you well, you might want to try addressing that with a therapist, because that's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sculpin
9 months ago
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"Good thing you and all the other shoppers have that magic ESP voodoo that tells you where the market is so you know to go there to buy your veggies.
God forbid I should ask my new neighbors where they get their groceries. Or walk/bike around the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by butterstick, nasreddin
9 months ago
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"Some numbers, from devices I have at hand (measured with a Watts Up Pro):
Kyocera wall-wart cell phone charger, 5.2VDC, 400mA: 1.4 watts while not charging, 5.8 watts while charging.
Sony power brick AC-L15A charger for my camera: no measurable..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by hjo3, phatkitten, goshling
9 months ago
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"These attempts at rebranding advertising as some kind of benevolent provider
Who is doing this? Cite, please.
You did it, two comments upthread:
Because you don't get to both be a part of the entertainment and literature and media machine..." [
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9 months ago
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"It's not exactly what you're looking for, but an xtracycle attachment is perfectly capable of seating an adult on the back. Plus, it's good for groceries and other things that can't hold on by themselves...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by designbot
10 months ago
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"I believe NX, in either its free or commercial implementations, can do this. I think it'll even do application-level as well as framebuffer-level attach/detach. I haven't used it myself, although I've been meaning to check it out...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Estragon
10 months ago
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"No one who does wrong would do it if they knew how wrong it was.
I don't really have any constructive advice to give the OP, but I read that and my jaw dropped. That's just... do you really believe that? People do wrong things that they know are..." [
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11 months ago
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"But I'm sane enough to know [...] that I couldn't very well ban her from going or anything, so all I could do was suck it up and try and make the best of a night at home by myself.
...
And when she does go out on another girls night out again at..." [
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Last year
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"[T]he mere idea of a guy hitting on her upset me. But despite what any of you say, I am entitled to that feeling. And we communicated and I told her that I would like her to stay home with me, for those reasons.
Sure, you're entitled to your..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
Last year
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"How many is "a small quantity"? Maverick Label (which I found via a google search) has a minimum order of 125." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by doctor_negative
Last year
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"I have a Sima Hitch that does this. It doesn't have any built-in storage, so you'd need to have your mp3s on a flash drive. It hasn't corrupted my 5g ipod yet...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nomad
Last year
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"Or, if you don't mind converting one file at a time, I've thrown that command into a quick web interface: http://www.elsewhere.org/tmp/meficonvert/
(Upload the original EBCDIC files there, not the converted ASCII versions.)..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by blueberry, ColdChef, grouse
Last year
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The Flying Karamazov Brothers' Comedy of Errors
favorited 14 times, recently by booksherpa, Araucaria, TheWhiteSkull, of strange foe, roll truck roll, mathowie, honest knave, muymuy, Lentrohamsanin, papakwanz, Songdog, emmling, brevator, sculpin
Last year
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"I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.
—Piet..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Jaie, ntartifex, amberglow
Last year
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"I've known two people who've been seriously injured by uninsured drivers. One of them nearly died, and will probably be in debt for the rest of his life thanks to the medical bills. It sucks to have to lose a good relationship with a neighbor, but..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
Last year
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"I ditched my car for an Xtracycle-equipped bike last year. It's been awesome. And if I added a Stokemonkey, that would take care of the arriving-wet-with-perspiration problem...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by odinsdream
Last year
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"Or you could just buy the CD online and while you're waiting for it to be delivered so you can rip it to mp3, pretend that you've bought a download but the network really, really sucks...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Jimbob, chrismear
Last year
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"PlayItTonight. They're specialized (House, Techno, Trance, Electro House, Breaks, D&B and Electronica), but they sell unencumbered mp3s at decent bitrates, no special software or subscription required...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Many bubbles
Last year
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"Unless things have changed dramatically in the last year, GPS-ready cameras are uniformly way more expensive than similar-spec but not GPS-ready cameras. My solution, when I want geocoded photos, has been to make sure the camera's clock is..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by matildaben, baylink, Chunder, shanevsevil
Two years ago
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"Yeah, that letter from Jerry you posted on your blog? That sounded fairly sensible to me. Obviously it didn't sound sensible to you. Are you bipolar? Have you been acting in ways that others, especially your ex, might interpret as erratic or..." [
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Two years ago
