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"i have a suggestion i've trotted out for friends when they hit this quarter/mid/post/life crisis (or whatever). (but beware, it is a double-edged* sword).
pick up a decent biography of someone whose work/life you admire for some reason. don't..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"from what i understand (having seen a couple nice presentations on this at the ISHPSSB), the real danger here is not necessarily to you or i, but to the next generation of miscreants whose in-the-womb development can go awry.
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2 months ago
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"one thing to add to the excellent advice above: about 1 minute into the flight (after the gear have stowed, or gone "clunk"), there will be a brief pause where the airplane seems to nose down a bit and it may also sound like the engines..." [
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3 months ago
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Anyone still speak 2-D barcodese?
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10 months ago
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"the 4x6 ft poster size version i have on the wall cost something like $10, but is *so* worth it. it's got the metro lines and stops overlain upon a street-map of the entire district that has every road labeled in tiny, but readable, text.
the..." [
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"out in Hawaii, you'll find the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) sporting the worlds largest collection of forensic and historian types where they identify the remains of servicemen who...didn't quite make it. it's not all that small, though...." [
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"i read about a wonderful hot-weather beverage once, and then went on to use it (*cough* daily *cough*) while stuck on a rock in the middle of the pacific.
bul - pronounced "boool." it's cuban (or so i read).
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