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"I find brainstorming stimulating, satisfying, socially gratifying and just really fun. I think I'm pretty good at it too. I always have these mini eureka ideas and I constantly jot things down in my notebook and on jott.com
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favorited 2 times, recently by blind.wombat, crazycanuck
3 days ago
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"You're going to memorize this tattoo in about two weeks, thereby negating its utility. You must go larger.
A large tattoo, like a fully-informed periodic table is one thing. Even my dad the chemist has to check sometimes. If you're a geek or..." [
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10 days ago
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I don't want to stick it to the man, I just want nothing to do with him.
favorited 45 times, recently by runincircles, sophist, yohko, shotgunbooty, GrammarMoses, jak68, barelylegalrealist, chrismear, dersins, melangell, Oddly, loiseau, Memo, mjones, coffeee, ifjuly, gsteff, amethysts, GalaxieFiveHundred, quadog, premortem, annoyance, youthenrage, jkaczor, aeighty, Otis, rsk, forwebsites, special-k, puddleglum, vytae, paterg, damn dirty ape, lhall, bpt, xammerboy, cmyk, fizzix, salvia, GaelFC, JDHarper, mulligan, Wolfster, namespan, crinklebat
3 weeks ago
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"a) You don't so much "do" as smoke it. Pot isn't heroin. You don't get badass-sounding terminology like "rail a line" either.
b) Even in really large doses, it's not terribly harmful for you. You need to keep in mind that..." [
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Last month
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"You definitely do not want the standard Macbook. The video card is a crappy shared-memory Intel job; and the latest revision of the Macbook uses a crappy shared-memory Intel GPU that none of the game devs actually like or support.
But, actually,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Who_Am_I, wongcorgi, Espoo2
Last month
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"I'm 21, living semi-on-my own for the first time ever. Here's what I wish people had told me.
Food comes before bills; gas, electricity, and phone come before cable and internet service; all other things come before beer.
Always keep $50 or so,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Coatlicue, nasreddin
2 months ago
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"I saw an adult male wild turkey for the first time about two months ago. I thought, for a good four seconds, until it made it nearly across the road, that it was a small dinosaur. I thought that I'd just witnessed honest-to-god bigfoot shit...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by vytae, Lou Stuells, lizzicide, Dreamcast
2 months ago
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"Depending on how alt you are, consider finding yourself a couple with whom you could go and play. You can date the couple a little bit first, make sure they aren't too crazy. Then, go do it. Repeat as often as you like. I doubt you're going to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Wilder
2 months ago
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"I'm a geek. I've managed to find a mate whom I love dearly (a human female, no less). She talks too much. Come to think of it, just about every woman I've ever dated talks too much. Tell your geek that women talk too much, and that he's just..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Ignatius J. Reilly
2 months ago
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"Nope. I'm thirding simplethings here. I would definitely notice if it were really-well defined junk. I might note its size, but would probably chalk it up to shrinkage. But, since it's not usually big enough (due to shrinkage) to show, it isn't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mitzyjalapeno
2 months ago
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"Resale values on computers are terrible, since most people feel that they're buying essentially obsolete gear when they do buy a used box. Especially if it isn't one of those "I just bought it and don't like it, but can't return it"..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, zaphod
2 months ago
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"You might talk to your wife and see if she wouldn't let you take a lover on the side. You don't talk about wanting a man in your life romantically, and that you're happy and comfortable in your marriage, only that you'd like to fuck a dude. See if..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by lucyleaf, kuppajava, hulahulagirl, mazienh, Sitegeist, zeph, fiercecupcake, genmonster, danOstuporStar
3 months ago
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"What confuses me is why anybody finds this confusing. Well, I guess there's a good selection of the uneducated who think that jet engines make a plane fly.
Planes fly by moving forward, forcing air over the wings via relative motion, causing lift...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by daveyt, tehloki, horsemuth, wfrgms
4 months ago
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"I have been dealing with this for the last six months or so. Sort of a damn-I'm-married-the-next-thing-is-death realization that I'll not exist at some point. Especially painful is my expectation that, someday, there will be a generation of humans..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Nattie, damnjezebel
4 months ago
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"Please realize that you're asking for generalizations from mostly anecdotal evidence. Humans, of either sex, are incredibly complex creatures whose mental functioning cannot be broken down into a set of rules. For every person who conforms to one..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kittyprecious
5 months ago
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"These are called speech acts. The basic definition of a speech act is that it's an utterance that literally does something. Usually that something is abstract. We use them because, in most cases, there's not a particularly precise or clear way to..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, twistofrhyme, bettafish, peacheater, acro, flatluigi, greytape, fourcheesemac, phrontist
5 months ago
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"I usually go with a metaphor:
Me: "I program computers."
Them: "Oh, really? My computer is all fucked up?"
M: "I doubt I'll be able to help you."
T: "Why not?"
M: "It's like a racecar..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by papafrita, olya, BrotherCaine, dobbs, Huw, softlord, flatluigi, bkudria, Brian James, juv3nal, spaceman_spiff
5 months ago
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"Take a small round file, in some hard steel. Insert the tip of the file into a hole in the mesh. Torque upward. File the inside-bottom side of the now-bent hole. Repeat for all other holes.
Grate cheese...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by oxford blue, davejay
5 months ago
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"Congrats!
I'm in Philly as well (and at first I actually thought you were the fiance of an acquaintance of mine).
I'm going to assume that you really do want to enjoy your time with these people. If that's not the case, add in some limiting..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jennak
5 months ago
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"IANAP, so you're welcome to disregard everything I say. I am also young, so more reason to ignore me. But, I hope you'll listen, as I am a student of human sexuality.
I did this sort of thing when I was young (6 or something, I think). While..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by marsha56
8 months ago
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"It has always seemed to me that the appropriate sex trick depends entirely on the partner in question. My girlfriend and I mesh so wonderfully that almost everything is fantastic. In the past, I've had partners who could only get off if I did this..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by cincinnatus c, kev23f
8 months ago
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"I suggest she purchase a high-quality semiautomatic handgun chambered for either 9mm or 40S&W. I then suggest she take up shooting as a pastime, and study it seriously. Likewise she should research the laws of her state to determine when she is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Scoo
9 months ago
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""You want a blood sample, Officer? That's cool. I have HIV and about eight secondary infections. Are you familiar with MRSA?"
A good phlebotomist rarely hits my vein. No cop is going to be able to...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
10 months ago
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"Also, un-center your contact info. Left or right-justify it, and suddenly this doesn't look quite as weird. Centering looks weird in and of itself." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by phrontist
11 months ago
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"Just put it on there below your contact info, leaving looking a little lonely and weird. A little lonely and weird is fine, as you want them to *notice* it. They'll read your name, immediately think "foreignian", skip the contact info,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by phrontist
11 months ago
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"katillathehun, I hereby saddle you with what you should consider a sacred obligation to scan every page of that book and post it on the interweb.
The copyright is most certainly expired. You live in 2007; you are not fifty feet from a scanner (or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by whitneykitty
Last year
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"Um, you have no options. If you're turning it in for a grade, she'll want to be able to read the code... that's one way professors grade computer programs. If you make it so that she can't read it, she'll just give you a poor grade on the lab and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by migurski
Last year
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"Are we done harassing the dude over his religion? Treat this as an engineering problem, and treat "no alcohol whatsoever" as a design constraint for our solution.
parma: For vanilla, you can use pure vanillin/water solutions, as rfrfrx..." [
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Last year
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"They're all around you. Despite what the link says, geeks go out to bars. But, the thing is, they're always the neighborhood, chill sort of bar where people just go to have fun (or be depressed, or weird, or whatever). You'll never find one at the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Arturus, Silly Ashles
Last year
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"Given the events of last week, it is really inappropriate...
You ever stop to think that the events of last week might be why somebody might decide to carry a weapon?
CKmtl: It depends on the state. In many states anybody can carry a gun..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by plaidrabbit, Roach
Last year
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"I was blown away when a friend of mine recounted a story to me once.
My friend, while riding the bus one day, noticed one of those ads that UPenn puts up to advertise medical studies. This particular one wanted light to moderate smokers to..." [
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