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"Oddly enough, I always thought that Ted Stepien's softball drop off Cleveland's Terminal Tower was the inspiration for the turkeys, but it appears that Stepien could've learned from WKRP but did not...." [
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4 days ago
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"OK - I don't know what your current place looks like, but it sounds like you should start by de-crapifying. This is to allow you the room to pre-pack.
Get trash bags and start stuffing them with crap. Ask yourself the question repeatedly,..." [
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6 days ago
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"It's embarrassing. I'm sorry.
Still, your parents know about the birds and bees and have had sex at least once.
You are an adult and your personal life is your business. You have nothing to explain or defend...." [
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3 weeks ago
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"I'd contact the company as a matter of courtesy. Without feedback that something went wrong in the bottling line, there's no way to correct it! Take a photo, write a letter...." [
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"How about a small rug that really ties the room together (Lebowski reference)?" [
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"Oddly enough, trying to be a Vulcan is one of the simplest acts of irrationality. Logic is digital. The world is analog. While there are many things that follow simple rules and order, most things do not, including your husband.
I think your..." [
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"1. Choose non-drippy foods if you can. No use splattering that nice new dress, eh?
2. Bring a checkbook, just in case.
3. Make sure you have change for the parking meter (this happened to me - I was dressed to the nines, drove a convertible top..." [
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"Yellow Jackets are the gumpy old men of hymenoptera and tend to get much more aggressive in late summer and early fall.
Honeybees give off amyl acetate when they sting. I don't know if this is given off by other hymenoptera.
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2 months ago
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"I particularly hated the knotted hemp ropes suspended from the gym rafters our PhysEd teachers encouraged us to climb in gym class.
They had those in my grade school but only one rope was knotted. As an incentive to climb to the beams (some 20+ ft..." [
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2 months ago
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"One thing I've done with kids around 9th grade is to teach them how to count in binary on their fingers. Yes, it gets giggly sticky when you reach four, but you'll get at least 1 kid who internalizes the whole process and stops counting in base..." [
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3 months ago
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"Seeing the BSL was freaky for me. I sign PSE1 with my kids (older has Down Syndrome) and caught several signs but was perplexed by most, especially the finger spelling. Oddly enough, the BSL sign for angel is the ASL sign for butterfly.
My kids..." [
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3 months ago
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"If you have a budget, you can get a pack of blueprint paper and some ammonia and do cyanotypes.
I've done this with 9th grade students where after a lecture/discussion about light and chemistry they cut out interesting shapes from normal paper and..." [
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3 months ago
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"Tillers will aerate, but only to like 6 inches of depth. Double digging is back-breaking, but works extremely well. When I lived in Silicon Valley, I rented a house with a backyard with great light, but the soil was like adobe clay. We ran a..." [
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3 months ago
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"Code Complete is a great text for some of the real nuts and bolts of coding.
As for getting better at reading code, let me paraphrase something I had heard second hand from a comics convention. A fan boy asked a prominent artist how he too could..." [
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4 months ago
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"The auger will probably set it straight. For future issues all around, I strongly recommend The Virgin Homeowner, which has an explanation of just about everything you're likely to run into in your house and how to maintain it...." [
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4 months ago
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"I would say that when "I am." is used on its own, it is to emphasize either the subject or the state of being, neither of which can be done in a contraction effectively.
You're pregnant?!
I am.
Who is going to the store?
I am...." [
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4 months ago
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"If you know someone who is a wood worker, this sewing box is pretty dang nice." [
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5 months ago
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""Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. " - Garrison Keillor
Flip, but not that far off...." [
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5 months ago
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"I learned ASL vocabulary of a little kid from watching "Signing Time" with my daughter. They have a lot more videos now. I need to stress that this is not ASL, it is ASL vocabulary. In our house we sign in Pidgin Signed English, but I..." [
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5 months ago
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"Another Miss Manners answer:
"When are you going to have children?"
"How soon do you need to know?"
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5 months ago
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"Peter Frampton used something called a "talk box", which is nothing more than a horn speaker with horn removed and a hose attached that runs to the musician. Amplified sounds comes out of the hose into the player's mouth who changes the..." [
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6 months ago
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"Amicable divorce as any, no kids. Tool me 1 year for every year married to be comfortable in my skin." [
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6 months ago
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"Use Acrylic (plexiglass) or Polycarbonate (Lexan) for the parts. It's reasonably cheap and easy to cut to size. Most hardware stores carry it and many will do all the cuts you'll need for you. Both are routinely used for eating utensils. You can..." [
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6 months ago
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"How do you think? Do you self-talk? What's your inner monologue like?
I had the inner child explained to me like this - at any point in our lives we are the sum of our experiences and certain developmental ages stick with us over time. You..." [
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6 months ago
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"My folks were pretty dang good at making sure that we understood that we would have to take the consequences for our actions and that predicting those consequences was an important step in making a decision.
When I look at my own daughter and..." [
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6 months ago
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"If you hand it over you may wish to add this statement, "I don't care what you do outside these walls as long as it doesn't affect what happens inside these walls. If that ever happens, I would always go to the employee first, but I would hope..." [
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7 months ago
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"Holy cow - I met Janet Kagan in 1987 through a college friend. She and her husband were very friendly, very genial people. When I met her she shot me with a red pop gun called a "K-Gun". Her husband used them instead of business cards...." [
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7 months ago
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"Take her to a restaurant and while you're engaging in some deep conversation, have a helper come up and start hitting on her intensely ("I want to take you away from here and...") leading up to a proposal only have him get interrupted by..." [
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7 months ago
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"I've never fermented hot peppers for hot sauce, but I have made several quarts of hot sauce.
Here is a recipe for Buffalo Wings made from scratch, including making your own sauce. I've made that sauce with a mix of serrano, cherry and habanero..." [
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7 months ago
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"We used to have deathly status meetings here which seemed to go on forever. We switched to using SCRUM project management which features status meetings. We follow the rules and the script for each person:
1. Yesterday I did _______
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8 months ago
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"I took some time to think of the people I've met and the friends I've made and kept over the years and our abilities to pick up instantly after a long hiatus. I think the common feature in all of those relationships is living life in epic..." [
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9 months ago
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"Buy a copy of The Virgin Homeowner. In addition to covering inspections, it is a system-by-system explanation of your house and things you need to understand and keep an eye on.
When we bought our house, we hired a home inspector contingent on..." [
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9 months ago
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"To fade to black, you'll need a clip of black (File->New->Black Video). With your source on one track, drop the black onto the another track with overlap, then drop in a cross fade transition...." [
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10 months ago
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"Light coating of jam (apricot works really well), wrap in puff pasty, bake at 350 until golden brown and delicious." [
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10 months ago
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"I used grocery store-brand whitening strips after asking my dentist about white strips in general. His reply was that they all work and don't harm your teeth.
The typical timing was decent enough to put them in in the morning, hop in the shower,..." [
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10 months ago
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"Good luck with the silent part. That implies electronics.
There's a question you might consider asking (which hopefully will be answered by a drummer/percussionist), "how come professional drummers tend to use analog equipment?" The..." [
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10 months ago
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""If you Give a Moose a Muffin" is a book that my three year old absolutely adores." [
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