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Oregon Is Growing A Mystery Bulge

nedwolf writes "LiveScience is reporting that a 100 square mile bulge has been rising in Oregon. First observed from a satellite using a relatively new technology called 'radar interferometry', some believe this to be the formation of a new volcano. I think it's just happy to see me."

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  1. THE AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY SAYS.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck me. Deeper. Harder. Now. You big boy, you.

  2. Re:First a flood, by dr_dank · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That, or God really needs a science fair project on short notice.

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  3. Indeed... by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    First a flood, now a vulcano... God is really starting to dislike America.

    Locusts are next...

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  4. The Story of Eric S. Raymond by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The Match.com Love-Letter

    Monday, March 04, 2002

    I do the club scene a lot, some say I am a good dancer. I enjoy having a few drinks, usually ale or mead, and I have been known to cause a scene now and then...

    Eric paused, breathing heavily. He'd never done this before and he wanted to make sure all of his best qualities were included in this email.

    I am a geek, to be frank, and I enjoy hacking UNIX and maintaining Open Source programs such as Felchmale^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFetchmail and a bevy of FAQs regarding 386 sound internals and role-playing games. I've been doing this for 15 years though I've never held a job in my life.

    Eric wondered if this woman he had found on match.com would be impressed with his talents. He decided to put more detail into the message.

    I recently drove 24 hours straight, with but two stops for gasoline, from Eastern PA to Kansas City in an effort to destroy my two arch-nemeses. I would have succeeded except that I blew a head gasket as I was about to shoot one of them from my moving car on Route 69. I am an excellent shot and love guns in general.

    ESR pondered for a moment, wringing out his soaked handkerchief, and continued with his typing.

    So what languages do you know? I fancy myself quite an accomplished amateur linguist and know Anglo-Saxon and Old Icelandic inside and out. I often compose little riddles in them for fun and mental exercise. In fact, I'll include one for you now!

    Chewing on his tongue and squinting, Eric pushed his mind into overdrive and produced a beauty of a riddle on the spot:

    Windeth I towarde the skye
    I haveth eye but blinde am I

    Pleased with his linguistic talents, undoubtedly matched by no one, Eric then asked his potential love-conquest:

    Can you guess the answer to that? In case you can not, the correct answer is "my erect penis." I hope you enjoyed that; I do this sort of thing all the time.

    Eric exhaled slowly and rubbed his belly. It was growling and no doubt wanted its nightly bottle of Jägermeister. He decided to finish up the email in anticipation of the coming alcoholic stupor.

    Well I don't want to make this email too long -- I have a lot of responsibilities in real life to deal with. My role-playing group is coming over and we are spending the next week holed up in the forest near my home in character playing out a possible scenario from Beowulf. I need to get dressed up and I can not find my bear-claw mittens.

    Eric wondered how to wrap up the email, something that would hook the lady on him and make her want more...

    I hope we can meet and have sex. Despite my cerebral palsy, I am a monster in the sack! Maybe you'll get to see for yourself, LOLOLOL! ;-)

    Love,
    Eric S. Raymond

    The Match.com Love-Letter Reply

    Thursday, February 19, 2004

    Today was shaping up to be a great day for Eric S. Raymond, Open Source figurehead and accidental anthropologist extraordinaire. He had finally received, after two years, a reply to his Match.com love-letter. Using Open Source tools such as Perl and Jägermeister, Eric had wired his entire house to his 386 running Linux. His shack had just lit up like a Christmas tree before his eyes the instant the reply hit his inbox.

    Straining to read the dusty 13" monitor, ESR pulled out a soiled handkerchief and spat it in, eagerly wiping away the year

  5. Re:First a flood, by Pharmboy · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    Yes, because we all know that all natural events are not natural at all, but instead the wrath of a diety. Just like how God made AIDS to punish gay people, right?

    So when something bad happens to you, you should always blame yourself, as you must have brought it upon yourself or did something to make God angry.

    </ignorance>

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  6. Re:Mr. President, Dr. Evil is on the line... by Dot.Com.CEO · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He is in my foes list. And I am not going to leave just because an idiot is pissing me off.

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  7. Maybe it'll be... by game+kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...Longhorn. Or Blackcomb.

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  8. Well, there's a reason by doublem · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We've invaded a country for trumped up reasons in order to settle a personal debt our Chief Executive Officer has about a conflict his father had with the leader of said nation.

    And we're proceeding to screw over the invaded nation and our own society to line corporate pockets.

    And we've done it all without having any kind of an understanding of the local populace or how to get a stable government up and running.

    If the Muslims have it right and the Jews and Christians have it wrong, then God is going to be PISSED. Hell, he'll probably be pissed either way. This is starting to look like the next round in a divine smack down.

    Remember, he only promised to never use a flood to destroy the entire Earth. No guarantees were made about using floods to destroy parts of it, or using other means to wipe the Earth clean.

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  9. Re:First a flood, by Holi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just like how God made AIDS to punish gay people,

    Well Stuart, thats just because of what the gays are doing to the soil.

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  10. Re:Same fault line by caluml · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    area named "The Ring Of Fire", which is a poetic name given to

    Goatsex Man!

  11. Re:As an Oregon resident... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This pisses me off. Why the HELL are you going to rely on someone else to evacuate you? You choose to live there, be educated! Learn about your surroundings, and for Gods sake, take responsibility for yourself and stop burdening the government with every little thing you don't want to do.

  12. Golly! by Billy+the+Mountain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Isn't that amazing. Anybody want to buy my vacation property at Black Butte Ranch?

    BTM

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  13. Yup. In California, next summer. by crovira · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GWB is really having a hard time of it, ain't he?

    In 2001, downtown New York got smacked by some ignurnt towel head who's pissed off about something that happened about a thousand years ago, (it's Mohammed's fault,) then an 80 year old insult to Islam by Kamaal Attaturk, then one by Russia then America, then Spain, then France (foiled) then England (that towel head's got a real hard-on for the West.)

    'Shrub' wins a war but can't keep the peace, in Afghanistan.

    Then in Iraq.

    Then his boys are so focused on keeping out these dang fornurz out that they suck all the funds outta there but drop the big ball with maintaining the levees in N'Orleens.

    What's next?

    Locust? Plague? Peasant's (previously known as the middle class before we got told to pay for all the messes listed above) revolt?

    That ignurnt towel head doesn't have to do a damn thing. All he has to do is wait. Sittin' out there in his li'l foreign cave.

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  14. Re:Mr. President, Dr. Evil is on the line... by bhtooefr · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Nitpick: you can post something every two minutes (not 30 seconds) IF your karma is Excellent.

    Lower karma (or not being logged in) means longer times, especially on later posts.

  15. Re:Mr. President, Dr. Evil is on the line... by solarlux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I liked the Martian satire better...

  16. Redmond will burn hot with magma and destruction! by seisroh · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The end of microsoft is near! That bulge will erupt into a giant fountain of lava...raining down death and destruction to the evil corporation once and for all. I might have to buy some stock in microsoft once the market is "hot"...har har har