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"I did the same as Lokheed in Washington State except that I used a book from Nolo Press. No kids, no property, agreeable disposition of cat custody. Anyway, Nolo Press are the go-to guys for anything related to self-help in the legal field.
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"You have to decide for yourself instead of asking random strangers on the internet who know nothing about your situation. Here's how I decided between two good job offers. It's kind of a high tech version of the standard pros/cons list.
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Necessities for a car
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"Similar to the what the hell song, you could sing Sarah Vowell's It Could Be Worse song (which, as I just learned from the wiki linked herein, has been set to music and recorded by They Might Be Giants)...." [
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"Me: Ask me "what's the secret to comedy?"
Them: "What's the secret to co--"
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"Get a subscription to The New Yorker, Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, Scientific American, The Economist, Skeptic Magazine, and The New York Review of Books. Read them all. Read well-written and thoughtful novels from all over the world to put..." [
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"Use black and white film and learn the Zone System. Here's kind of a shortcut to the Zone system. Get a spot meter. Meter the shadows in your scene and place them on Zone III by underexposing 2 stops from the meter reading. Meter the highlights..." [
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"Lots of people start graduate programs in humanities and social sciences because they can't think of anything better to do and they liked college. The lucky ones drop out fast.
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"My friend Kate McElwee is a wonderful, warm woman who's just starting a professional boudoir photography business, so her rates will be quite reasonable. I don't know if she does pinup styles though...." [
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"Think of it in a Darwinian sense. Animals don't know that sex leads to reproduction (and probably for a large part of history, people didn't either), but animals that desire to have sex will leave more offspring than animals that don't, hence more..." [
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"Good, normal sex requires communication between the parties involved.
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"T.P. Salmon, A.C. Crabb, and R.E. Marsh.
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"Is there a way you could convince him, as his confidant, to take the initiative and turn himself in? He's put you in quite a bind." [
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"I just bow my head and silently wait for the grace to finish. It's not like Charles Darwin is going to be terribly offended if I do that, and it doesn't mean I'm pledging allegiance to my friends' invisible cloud being. To me it seems simply a..." [
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"This chart and the associated text should help you understand the DPI issue." [
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"Elderly people can be really interesting dining and conversation companions. They're people just like you, who have been on this planet half a century more than you have. If you feel out of place, try opening your mind more. If one night you get..." [
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