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"Because once it has gone through your sink, it's considered grey water, and has to be treated. The environmental effects aren't only upstream, they're downstream as well...." [
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"Read a good book. Kidding!
I'd look on this as an opportunity to really get a handle on being completely self-directed. So many people, when faced with a large amount of free time, are just unable to establish the discipline necessary to do what..." [
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"It's a bit of a cheat, but there's the possibility of meta-questions.
What interview question do you wish you were asked, but that no-one ever seems to ask you?
What was your favourite question from an interviewer?
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3 months ago
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""the diner draped his head with a linen napkin to preserve the precious aromas and, some believe, to hide from God" (W)
Yeah, you better hide. Not one of them shall fall to the ground without your Father...." [
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"Eat Drink Man Woman and Delicatessen. Both off-beat foreign comedies about food from popular directors (Ang Lee of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Jeunet of Amelie) but also very very different...." [
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"A habit I've picked up that has worked quite nicely: don't visit a website twice in one sitting. As soon as you realise that you're returning to a site you've already checked, you've stopped gathering new information and started wasting time waiting..." [
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"I've kept an A4-a-day journal since January 1999. Switching the content around as others have suggested is fun, but I also like to be creative with the method of writing.
Some I've tried already:
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"Geez, Hillary is (was) the closest thing New Zealand had to common-man royalty. For a lot of us, he's respected much more for what he did *after* knocking the bastard off, and everything in his life was suffused with quiet dedication, humility, and..." [
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"Yes, very similar to those ones, and I'm under forty. But not every night. Of course, I'm in New Zealand, where we don't yet have electric power and I churn butter for my toast every morning...." [
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"Oh man, I still remember manually adding up the bytes to hard-code a sprite when I was 10. And (Poke) 53280 may have been the first number I ever memorized. Good times, good times...." [
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"Definitely look into the Bohemian Grove. Perhaps a uniquely difficult to attain e-mail address, like john@yahoo.com? Underground restaurants may also be a neat hook...." [
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"The best general introduction to linguistics I've encountered is David Crystal's Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. It's not organised as an encyclopedia, but as a series of one- or two-page summaries on major topics in linguistics. Highly readable,..." [
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"I watched this movie for the first time about half a year ago, and it's certainly funny how a movie that is apparently deconstructing the nature of exploitation ends up being so obviously exploitative. Oh sure, you can use the tools at hand to satire..." [
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"Earliest mention I can find is from Susanna Moodie's Life in the Clearings versus the Bush (1853): "death, the great equalizer, always restores to its possessors the rights of..." [
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"Wikipedia has a set of reference desks where you can ask about pretty much anything. Alternatively, ask a librarian - they live for hard questions!" [
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