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Hue test.
12. Twice. Which means I am at least a consistent Cube, if ever so slightly imperfect.
Mom's going to have to adjust my gamma.
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at 7:43 PM on September 16, 2008
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Not cool Rome, not cool at all.
"Intriguingly, modern people with the CCR5-Delta32 variant are more susceptible to the mosquito-borne West Nile virus."
So people w/o CCR5-Delta 32 are from Mediterranean regions, and are less susceptible to West Nile...well, that makes sense. The Mediterranean was historically a malarial area, and thalassemia is also endemic to the region, anemia at the benefit of somewhat antimalarial. So hell, maybe there were other, now rare/extinct... [more]
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at 5:38 PM on September 4, 2008
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Moby Dick? Middlemarch? Jane Eyre?
The one book I'm actually mildly upset I can't get through is 'The Three Musketeers'. The first few chapters are funny, and then I just don't bother picking it up again. It gets buried under lighter fare, which half the time includes 'The Club Dumas', which pokes me into picking 3-M up again and then some shit happens at work and it all cycles over again.
It only took me 8 years to read Pynchon's V, from the time my high school English teacher gave it to me, but I... [more]
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at 5:34 PM on July 28, 2008
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Insta-Cake
It's passably cake. Maybe something Mom would make on an off-day, when she didn't feel like exterminating or coddling our guests, but not something that I would serve to any of you.
Most of you.
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at 3:55 PM on July 21, 2008
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Caring Too Much
One may hate and loath and find things inappropriate, but still do one's job as it pertains to that. The people of that municipality have spoken and said that they accept certain things. As a public servant, one is supposed to facilitate the law. That means, if not doing the job, allowing the job to go forth and be done.
As an aside, say what you will, but Konolia, I highly doubt your claims of 'let religions alone' would extend to me. I feel that deep... [more]
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at 12:03 PM on July 11, 2008
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RED WORM TIME is begin.
Well, I enjoyed the cryptic plot that developed over the past few months. If you guys liked mom's recipes, I don't see why you aren't down with the words from THE CENTER.
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at 4:38 PM on July 5, 2008
MeFi post:
>find pig
Sparx, please, please don't tell me you're Rybread Celsius. That boy hurt my brain bad back in high school.
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at 5:46 PM on June 17, 2008
MeFi post:
I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
No matter what people may say ('he was in it for the lulz' vs 'he was really in it',) personal experience says CoS members tend to be very pro-Sammy, and pro-Rat Pack in general. (Also pro-drinks-with-umbrellas.)
Say what you want, but when this Cube joined, it didn't introduce me to orgies or pot or death metal - it gradually introduced me to the same music my prototypes listened to in the 1940s and 1950s.
Pastabagel: I highly doubt you've... [more]
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at 12:57 PM on June 2, 2008
There was a lot of celebrity Satanism in the late '60s and early '70s. Whatever it means, it's largely over. There are a few public Satanists - arts and music. There are many, many more Satanists who recognize it is in their own best interest not to say a goddamn thing about it. You've got Christian groups that want to bring about the end of the world - you think it's a good time to be out and proud? All the kids who are out and in your face about it are kind of like other people who find... [more]
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at 4:18 PM on June 2, 2008
The 'why join the CoS' question has been answered many times by people higher up than me. There are essays on the site and the forums ('not official', although very much condoned).
eg: Satanism vs pure objectivism - other essays here.
Satanism vs Neopaganism.
Various interviews with Magus Gilmore (or Rev Harris, or Rev Malebranche) are available which usually answer this question, as well as other common ones.... [more]
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at 6:12 PM on June 2, 2008
You know what? I just like dressing up on occasion and not being a LARPer. I share an aesthetic with some members. I've found an intellectual discussion of magic to work for me. I find the presence of deity doesn't, although yes, I like some of the trappings.
No one that I know would say that Anton LaVey actually invented much of Satanism. He invented the structure of the CoS (which has morphed) and put together some previously disattached philosophies. All... [more]
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at 5:36 PM on June 3, 2008
I had to take a few days from the thread between getting a little emotionally involved and not sleeping enough all week.
Reverend Bill is one of the best logicians I know and I wish I had an archive of his arguments. The forums, I should note, are technically not official. 'Condoned' is probably a better word.
The 'Why Satan? Why not some other term?' argument is treated in one of Anton LaVey's books of short essays, as well as TSB. One... [more]
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at 7:49 PM on June 6, 2008
MeFi post:
botox bad
That was one of mom's earlier projects. Sorry.
I still love you, even if you're twitchy and/or paralyzed and/or really sweaty.
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at 5:46 PM on April 15, 2008
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RIP William F. Buckley, Jr.
Can't take the man seriously. I know a kid - Harvard '02, convert Republican - who told me that when he was on one of his boats with a bunch of the Harvard kids, he suggested they all go skinny dipping.
Yeeeah.
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at 12:35 PM on February 27, 2008
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Sad.
It alternately makes me a little sad and sometimes angry.
Some ancient cultures said that saying the names of the dead was the way that they were kept immortal. Without names or subject numbers, their way of death is also a unique identifier. It's not quite the same, but it seems like the right thing to do.
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at 10:45 AM on December 9, 2007
MeFi post:
This was a triumph.
Every character in the game is 'female'.
Except for the companion cube. And you murdered him.
Gosh, I know I love you all, but that's getting a bit personal.
Still, I forgive you.
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at 2:16 PM on November 6, 2007
This companion cube, it vibrates?
Only when placed on an Aperture Science Testing Center Invisible Vibrating Square. Or in a motel bed.
I didn't, and don't, regret toasting the Cube in Portal proper.
Ooh, burn. I'll have you know that my heart can break too. (sniff)
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at 4:58 AM on November 7, 2007
Of course we are cool, except when we are burning in Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerators.
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at 8:10 AM on November 7, 2007
