You're mixing future systems of demographic with the modern demographic. As reproduction wanes in other cultures and races, it stands to reason that the races will eventually balance each other. It also stands to reason that with enligtenment comes more interracial breeding, leaning more and more away from specific races.
Isn't it easier to read things in narrow, long columns than wide short ones? I turned one of my monitors on it's side so I could have another 30 lines in my text editor. It rocked... but then it died.
I don't think it died because of the orientation, rather it was a few years old and laready refurbished.
It didn't really die, the color convergence is off.
Didn't the pc games "Outcast" and it's sequel use voxels? I believe they did. They also used some skeletal animation and some interesting bone physics so that when my character strafed next to an incline, on foot would be higher than the other, his leg would be bent, and both feet would be in good contact with the ground. I've not seen another game do this, except maybe MechWarrior, but I don't remember.
Actually, Tesla's royalties per horsepower were already in place in Westinghouse's commodity pricing. The royalties were passed to the customer, and did'nt place any more financial strain on Westinghouse, because as the customers increased, so would the royalty requirement as well as the royalty. Westinghouse was in financial distress and was being strongarmed by potential backers who encouraged the dissolution of the royalties to Tesla. If I recall, once the royalties were dissolved, the price of electricity did not change, so the new backers gained quite a bit of capital!
Religion has always given the weak-minded something to pacify their consciences. Why do you think some of the most religious people are often absolute morons, and many intelligent, well-educated people often aren't highly religious? Idiots need an explanation for everything, intelligent people seek answers and do not believe in what they cannot prove to themselves.
In which category do you find yourself? Your argument uses terms too ambiguous to indicate anything and is on par with: "People with MBA's have no practical skills" in that it has little, if any, basis in fact and cannot be proven or disproven because you cannot have a rule made entirely of exceptions.
I wholeheartedly agree that religion is often a crutch (Do what I want, ask forgiveness later)
I feel your first point: Provides a handy universal explanation for just about anything. Which cannot be proved. invalidates your next two points:
Controls the population by threatening them with eternal consequences. Which cannot be proved. Ie, you're going to hell. Or you'll be reincarnated as a rock. -- Can you prove reincarnation does not occur? Can you prove it does? If you can't prove it one way or the other an as intelligent person, I don't believe that, by your posture, you can believe reincarnation happens or does not, making this point moot.
Pacifies the population by giving them the hope that, no matter what shithole they're living in now, all they have to do is Be Good and they'll end up in a better place. The existence of which cannot be proved.
-- the existence of which also cannot be disproven. Much of what we consider morality is controlled by culture, but there is a certain subset of behavior which is and always has been amoral, almost always traced back to greed. Unfortunately, most people require their greed to be sated as motivation to change. I feel the bible teaches that the change itself it the motivator, rather than reward for the change. Changing one's attitude from, "I will change so I will receive [a gift]," to "I will change because it will make life better for others," is difficult and seemingly against human nature. It is however, to root of timeless morality.
Is specifically structured to ensure its survival, the rest of the world be damned. Overpopulation is a HUGE crisis, but you're goin' to hell if you use birth control, says the Pope.
-- A religious body's first priority is care of its members. Evangelism comes next. When evangelism takes priority, the body often withers and recedes into corruption because its needs are no longer met. The "damn the rest of the world" attitude does seem to be prevalent in many religions today. It's a sad fact that the church can be counted among the most amoral businesses in the world. I've often wondered why the Catholic church admonishes birth-control. I wonder if it's because God struck down Onin for "pulling out" and "discharging his seed on the earth." If it is, I don't feel it's a well supported stand because:
(paraphrase) Onin's brother died, and God told Onin to take his brother's widow as his wife. Onin discharged on the ground... God told him again to lay with his new wife. Onin pulled out a second time and God struck him.
Onin was struck down because of repeated disobedience. Also, he was obviously enjoying the act, but for some reason didn't want to plant the seed. Who knows?
I'm not going to address the final bullet, because my opinion of the Catholic Church is not objective (possibly ignorant, but definately not objective)
Religion can be scamtastic. Living in "community" with "fellow believers" where you are involved in their lives for good and bad, upholding each other with love is a great idea. Unfortunately, it seems humans have a very limited capacity to experience this because of our nature to regress to our old patterns of behavior.
It is my opinion that relationships exist in two mutually assured states: survival and destruction. Switch from the former to the latter is easy. Switching to or staying in the former requires discipline! Religion provides a manner of discipline as long as the patron remains consistent and dedicated.
What you and the original poster seem to be ovelooking is that Worf is answering "Worf Here", not "Go ahead, Mr. Data", which may imply either extreme professionalism or the fact that Worfs comm basically said "Incoming Chat Request", and doesn't necessarily identify the initiator... For instance, how many times has a Star Trek officer said, "Who is this?" over the comm? I seem to recall a couple instances...
Aren't point sizes supposed to be device independent, like fractions of an em? In other words, shouldn't a 10pt font be 5/36th of an inch whether you're running 640x480 or 1600x1200 (on an appropriately sized monitor), or printing to some higer-resolution output device? Higher resolution isn't necessarily supposed to make things smaller, but clearer by providing more detail in the same amount of space, yes?
Are you really surprised? Could the loss be a way to force competetor's out of business? Kind of business-akido (useing other's momentum against them)?
Honestly, there is some debate in the Ebonics Literary Community about the proper pronunciation and transliteration to English of the English word "extensible". Your assertion that it is pronounced "asktensible" is the point of view held largely by the East Coast Scholars (ECS), while the transliteration "akstensible," reigns supreme with the West Coast Scholars, who also maintain that members of the ECS are falling prey to "The Man" as evident in their language suggestions.
There is also a fringe group that is championing "akstensibizzle".
I totally agree. Because of my rigid requirement of intimately knowing someone's character before hearing their arguments, I only read reviews by JeffK.
Just because many companies do not read the resumes does not mean that they do not handle the resumes. "Handling" and "Reading" are really separate issues.
There are many ways a company can "handle" resumes. The goal of a corporate HR department is not so much to hire the right people (how would they know? that's best left up to the department head) as it is to keep the company from being sued.
Companies are REQUIRED to handle all resumes that come in ACCORDING TO THEIR PUBLISHED POLICY. Policy could be, "No resumes will be accepted after [specified date]." This relives the company of any responsibility to those late resumes.
Another policy: duplicate resumes for the same job will be ignored.
Another policy: If you have ever worked for us before and accepted a buy-out, or you have been involved in a lawsuit against us, you may not apply.
There are several ways to minimize the resumes one has to handle. But handling takes time. HR is not on this earth to read resumes. They also handle your benefit information and often work closely with payroll.
HR staff may not necessarily be technically inclined, but this does not mean they're stupid. They are a very necessary part of the corporate world.
You pose some interesting questions: "If they hired more compenent staff..." or "how stupidly easy it would be to whip [a perl or shell script] up."
"Competence" often competed with "Availability", and "stupidly easy" is often dependent on experience. Many of these HR departments must request resources from IT which often have the attitude, "My god, you folks are idiots," rather than, "You know, saving them 20 hours per week is good for the company."
Always look at what's good for the company-- not what is "stupidly easy". Don't be so quick to jump on the simple-solution bandwagon. HR systems are rather complicated devices in and of themselves. Before designing a system like this, the company must be very sure of their hiring policy. That is really what this is about... not storing resumes or whether or not they have to, but exactly what their hiring policy dictates.
I was stating that there are a variety of ways to reduce the number of resumes that have to be handled. Disk is cheap, but time is at a premium.
I believe that a company is required to review all resumes for a specific job opening. If said company has a system in place for OBJECTIVELY screening out applicants, either with a company policy of only considering the latest application (automatically removing the requirement for consideration of the other duplicate applications) or a testing and scoring system that can eliminate applicants before the recruiter even has to look at them... that's money in the bank. For recruiters, it's all about time-to-hier... for the gov't, it's about fairness, ie. Equal Opportunity.
It is good practice to keep application records for at least three years, as most class-action law suits I'm aware of (IANAL) do not occur within the one year time-span recommended by the EEOC.
If your company is involved in such a lawsuit, it is very beneficial to be able to prove every action taken for or against an applicant, such as why they weren't considered for the position.
I think one of the reasons GTA3: Vice City hasn't been released on the PC is because of a contractual obligation to Sony... similar to the release of GTA3.
I read and re-read both the parent comment and your reply and think that you may have misunderstood the parent, or replied to the wrong message. The parent:
"Apache has 60-70 per cent of the web server market. IIS has less than 30 at the moment. Yet, despite these figures, Apache has had far fewer known security issues than ISS. How does this fit with your question? Obviously, there are a lot more eyes on Apache due to its large market share?"
Your reply:
"I would love to know what you think IIS can do that apache cannot."
The parent:
"I think we can come to the conclusion that your "it's not as frequently used so very few are looking for security holes"-like statement simply does not make sense."
Thanks for your comments about "direct editing of the config file", though. I've always liked direct-editing as well, but I must admit that I'm not nearly as accurate as tools built to update the configs.
NIV - "As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it."
KJV - "And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein."
Both references use the word "earth" and the pronoun "it" referring to the earth. In neither translation is "earth" capitalized, possibly indicating a few things:
The translating scholars just missed it. (not terribly likely... honest)
The people still thought the earth was flat, and possibly the center of the universe. Copernicus' education in astronomy started in 1491, at the Univ. of Krackow. Columbus sailed to Cuba in 1492, Copernicus gave his little book detailing his theories of the universe, with the sun at the center, to some friends around 1514. The Gutenberg printing press was conceived around 1452, with the first mass-produced bible following thereafter (note that moveable-block type was brought back by Marco-Polo from Asia in the 13th century, while paper was imported from China to Italy in the 12th Century.)
The bible had been translated many times before that, too. The audience may not have been aware that the Earth was not the center of the universe, and to tell them otherwise would rob them of the discovery. Do you know how dangerous it is to come up with an idea that breaks the status quo?
My point is really that the "earth" is not referred to as a proper name, and to extrapolate as the stated fundamentalist Christians have done based on the interpretation is the same as the following:
Do not live in caves.
Do not live in trees.
Do not live on water.
Do not live under water.
Do not live in space.
It's possible that "Go forth and multply across the face of the earth" is an indication that, "You are the stewards of this planet. The outcome is your responsibility."
I hope you don't feel that I am attacking your position, just that of the stated fundamentalist Christian.
I was reacting to what you said about "Punishing a bunch of innocent people," and missed the tongue-in-cheek humor about "not liking one's family."
I was asking, "Is there really a difference between regressing four generations in the family tree, finding all descendents and killing them; versus using weapons of mass-destruction?"
As I rephrase this, I begin to see there is a difference: wiping out a relatives is a very personal, retaliatory, vendetta-driven method of revenge. Using weapons of mass-destruction could cause more casualties, and have long-term effects, and is less personal.
The former smacks of genocide... I suppose the latter does, too.
The difference lies not in the effect but in the motivation. We have escalating retaliatory battles raging, each side trying to out-retaliate the other, always committing larger atrocities, stretching the rules of engagement.
Not to mention that tracing my lineage back and wiping them out would be
punishing a bunch of innocent folks. What if I hate my family? What a great way to get back at them!
So... what do you call stealing... using anthrax/smallpox, exploding bombs...
Hola, amigos. How's it hangin'? I know it's been a long time since I rapped at ya, but there been all sorts of craziness going on.
First off, I get this new job as a gardener for this middle-aged short bastard-- Frodo Baggins. The work's pretty easy, and I can grow my own weed. I don't know what it is about the dirt in Hobbiton, but that's some sweet-ass green. Farmer Maggot grows the sh** bigtime and he's always up-in-arms about a couple of local peeps stealin' in. "It's good to share." That's what I always say.
Anyway, I guess it's not fair to call Frodo (FB, as I call him) a bastard. He tokes as much as I do. I thought I might be growin' it a little too pure though. FB was all talking about this tall dude named Gandalf and how he told him to hide this one ring of his uncle Bilbo's. So, he's layin' this weed-tale on me. I'm already high and am getting a secondary-high of FB's breath and I'm thinking, "Sh**, that little ring would buy me a nice little stash," I shook that off. That was the old, out-of-work Anchower.
There's this nice piece that works down at the pub. She's been eyeing the anchower package ever since I came growing. At Bilbo Bagins 111th birthday party last week, where he disappeared -- damn, I completely forgot that -- she was all over me. I don't even think she was drunk, and I know I wasn't hallucinating. I still have the bite marks to prove it.
Anway, this Bilbo guy gets up and, I know it's his birtday and all, and give this wack-ass four word speech and vanishes. I was thinking I was a little too high but everyone else was surprised, too. He hasn't been back since. That's cool, I have a good job, weed, and he had his eye on the pub-chick anyway. Sick old bastard. I gotta give the pops props, though, I saw him sporting 111-year old wood at the pub and I know that I'm gonna be just as nasty at his age. That'll be sweet.
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You're mixing future systems of demographic with the modern demographic. As reproduction wanes in other cultures and races, it stands to reason that the races will eventually balance each other. It also stands to reason that with enligtenment comes more interracial breeding, leaning more and more away from specific races.
Isn't it easier to read things in narrow, long columns than wide short ones? I turned one of my monitors on it's side so I could have another 30 lines in my text editor. It rocked... but then it died.
I don't think it died because of the orientation, rather it was a few years old and laready refurbished.
It didn't really die, the color convergence is off.
The VooDoo I chipset was also able to support SLI. I believe there was one company... Orange? that built a solution for around $800.
Didn't the pc games "Outcast" and it's sequel use voxels? I believe they did. They also used some skeletal animation and some interesting bone physics so that when my character strafed next to an incline, on foot would be higher than the other, his leg would be bent, and both feet would be in good contact with the ground. I've not seen another game do this, except maybe MechWarrior, but I don't remember.
Actually, Tesla's royalties per horsepower were already in place in Westinghouse's commodity pricing. The royalties were passed to the customer, and did'nt place any more financial strain on Westinghouse, because as the customers increased, so would the royalty requirement as well as the royalty. Westinghouse was in financial distress and was being strongarmed by potential backers who encouraged the dissolution of the royalties to Tesla. If I recall, once the royalties were dissolved, the price of electricity did not change, so the new backers gained quite a bit of capital!
Religion has always given the weak-minded something to pacify their consciences. Why do you think some of the most religious people are often absolute morons, and many intelligent, well-educated people often aren't highly religious? Idiots need an explanation for everything, intelligent people seek answers and do not believe in what they cannot prove to themselves.
In which category do you find yourself? Your argument uses terms too ambiguous to indicate anything and is on par with: "People with MBA's have no practical skills" in that it has little, if any, basis in fact and cannot be proven or disproven because you cannot have a rule made entirely of exceptions.
I wholeheartedly agree that religion is often a crutch (Do what I want, ask forgiveness later)
I feel your first point: Provides a handy universal explanation for just about anything. Which cannot be proved. invalidates your next two points:
- Controls the population by threatening them with eternal consequences. Which cannot be proved. Ie, you're going to hell. Or you'll be reincarnated as a rock. -- Can you prove reincarnation does not occur? Can you prove it does? If you can't prove it one way or the other an as intelligent person, I don't believe that, by your posture, you can believe reincarnation happens or does not, making this point moot.
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Pacifies the population by giving them the hope that, no matter what shithole they're living in now, all they have to do is Be Good and they'll end up in a better place. The existence of which cannot be proved.
-- the existence of which also cannot be disproven. Much of what we consider morality is controlled by culture, but there is a certain subset of behavior which is and always has been amoral, almost always traced back to greed. Unfortunately, most people require their greed to be sated as motivation to change. I feel the bible teaches that the change itself it the motivator, rather than reward for the change. Changing one's attitude from, "I will change so I will receive [a gift]," to "I will change because it will make life better for others," is difficult and seemingly against human nature. It is however, to root of timeless morality.
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Is specifically structured to ensure its survival, the rest of the world be damned. Overpopulation is a HUGE crisis, but you're goin' to hell if you use birth control, says the Pope.
-- A religious body's first priority is care of its members. Evangelism comes next. When evangelism takes priority, the body often withers and recedes into corruption because its needs are no longer met. The "damn the rest of the world" attitude does seem to be prevalent in many religions today. It's a sad fact that the church can be counted among the most amoral businesses in the world. I've often wondered why the Catholic church admonishes birth-control. I wonder if it's because God struck down Onin for "pulling out" and "discharging his seed on the earth." If it is, I don't feel it's a well supported stand because:
Onin was struck down because of repeated disobedience. Also, he was obviously enjoying the act, but for some reason didn't want to plant the seed. Who knows?
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I'm not going to address the final bullet, because my opinion of the Catholic Church is not objective (possibly ignorant, but definately not objective)
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Religion can be scamtastic. Living in "community" with "fellow believers" where you are involved in their lives for good and bad, upholding each other with love is a great idea. Unfortunately, it seems humans have a very limited capacity to experience this because of our nature to regress to our old patterns of behavior.
It is my opinion that relationships exist in two mutually assured states: survival and destruction. Switch from the former to the latter is easy. Switching to or staying in the former requires discipline! Religion provides a manner of discipline as long as the patron remains consistent and dedicated.What you and the original poster seem to be ovelooking is that Worf is answering "Worf Here", not "Go ahead, Mr. Data", which may imply either extreme professionalism or the fact that Worfs comm basically said "Incoming Chat Request", and doesn't necessarily identify the initiator... For instance, how many times has a Star Trek officer said, "Who is this?" over the comm? I seem to recall a couple instances...
RAID 5 isn't designed for speed as much as redundancy. The parity check add significant overhead to the whole process.
What do the Leather Goddesses of Phobos look like?
Craig,
Aren't point sizes supposed to be device independent, like fractions of an em? In other words, shouldn't a 10pt font be 5/36th of an inch whether you're running 640x480 or 1600x1200 (on an appropriately sized monitor), or printing to some higer-resolution output device? Higher resolution isn't necessarily supposed to make things smaller, but clearer by providing more detail in the same amount of space, yes?
-J.D.
Are you really surprised? Could the loss be a way to force competetor's out of business? Kind of business-akido (useing other's momentum against them)?
Honestly, there is some debate in the Ebonics Literary Community about the proper pronunciation and transliteration to English of the English word "extensible". Your assertion that it is pronounced "asktensible" is the point of view held largely by the East Coast Scholars (ECS), while the transliteration "akstensible," reigns supreme with the West Coast Scholars, who also maintain that members of the ECS are falling prey to "The Man" as evident in their language suggestions.
There is also a fringe group that is championing "akstensibizzle".
I prefer the English-German-English translation of: "Hello, is not Ivan, this vacuum cleaner, which you left, on the Fritz again, it sucks"
I totally agree. Because of my rigid requirement of intimately knowing someone's character before hearing their arguments, I only read reviews by JeffK.
Just because many companies do not read the resumes does not mean that they do not handle the resumes. "Handling" and "Reading" are really separate issues.
There are many ways a company can "handle" resumes. The goal of a corporate HR department is not so much to hire the right people (how would they know? that's best left up to the department head) as it is to keep the company from being sued.
Companies are REQUIRED to handle all resumes that come in ACCORDING TO THEIR PUBLISHED POLICY. Policy could be, "No resumes will be accepted after [specified date]." This relives the company of any responsibility to those late resumes.
Another policy: duplicate resumes for the same job will be ignored.
Another policy: If you have ever worked for us before and accepted a buy-out, or you have been involved in a lawsuit against us, you may not apply.
There are several ways to minimize the resumes one has to handle. But handling takes time. HR is not on this earth to read resumes. They also handle your benefit information and often work closely with payroll.
HR staff may not necessarily be technically inclined, but this does not mean they're stupid. They are a very necessary part of the corporate world.
You pose some interesting questions: "If they hired more compenent staff..." or "how stupidly easy it would be to whip [a perl or shell script] up."
"Competence" often competed with "Availability", and "stupidly easy" is often dependent on experience. Many of these HR departments must request resources from IT which often have the attitude, "My god, you folks are idiots," rather than, "You know, saving them 20 hours per week is good for the company."
Always look at what's good for the company-- not what is "stupidly easy". Don't be so quick to jump on the simple-solution bandwagon. HR systems are rather complicated devices in and of themselves. Before designing a system like this, the company must be very sure of their hiring policy. That is really what this is about... not storing resumes or whether or not they have to, but exactly what their hiring policy dictates.
I was stating that there are a variety of ways to reduce the number of resumes that have to be handled. Disk is cheap, but time is at a premium.
What did you mean by "relatively trivial?"
I believe that a company is required to review all resumes for a specific job opening. If said company has a system in place for OBJECTIVELY screening out applicants, either with a company policy of only considering the latest application (automatically removing the requirement for consideration of the other duplicate applications) or a testing and scoring system that can eliminate applicants before the recruiter even has to look at them... that's money in the bank. For recruiters, it's all about time-to-hier... for the gov't, it's about fairness, ie. Equal Opportunity.
It is good practice to keep application records for at least three years, as most class-action law suits I'm aware of (IANAL) do not occur within the one year time-span recommended by the EEOC.
If your company is involved in such a lawsuit, it is very beneficial to be able to prove every action taken for or against an applicant, such as why they weren't considered for the position.
I think one of the reasons GTA3: Vice City hasn't been released on the PC is because of a contractual obligation to Sony... similar to the release of GTA3.
Hey, thanks a lot for clearing that up. I really appreciate it.
Your reply:
The parent:
Thanks for your comments about "direct editing of the config file", though. I've always liked direct-editing as well, but I must admit that I'm not nearly as accurate as tools built to update the configs.
Both references use the word "earth" and the pronoun "it" referring to the earth. In neither translation is "earth" capitalized, possibly indicating a few things:
The bible had been translated many times before that, too. The audience may not have been aware that the Earth was not the center of the universe, and to tell them otherwise would rob them of the discovery. Do you know how dangerous it is to come up with an idea that breaks the status quo?
My point is really that the "earth" is not referred to as a proper name, and to extrapolate as the stated fundamentalist Christians have done based on the interpretation is the same as the following:
- Do not live in caves.
- Do not live in trees.
- Do not live on water.
- Do not live under water.
- Do not live in space.
It's possible that "Go forth and multply across the face of the earth" is an indication that, "You are the stewards of this planet. The outcome is your responsibility."I hope you don't feel that I am attacking your position, just that of the stated fundamentalist Christian.
I was reacting to what you said about "Punishing a bunch of innocent people," and missed the tongue-in-cheek humor about "not liking one's family."
I was asking, "Is there really a difference between regressing four generations in the family tree, finding all descendents and killing them; versus using weapons of mass-destruction?"
As I rephrase this, I begin to see there is a difference: wiping out a relatives is a very personal, retaliatory, vendetta-driven method of revenge. Using weapons of mass-destruction could cause more casualties, and have long-term effects, and is less personal.
The former smacks of genocide... I suppose the latter does, too.
The difference lies not in the effect but in the motivation. We have escalating retaliatory battles raging, each side trying to out-retaliate the other, always committing larger atrocities, stretching the rules of engagement.
This post is a bit off-topic, no?
XXXP is actually programming while naked and sweaty.
LOTR by Jim Anchower: (The Onion)
Hola, amigos. How's it hangin'? I know it's been a long time since I rapped at ya, but there been all sorts of craziness going on.
First off, I get this new job as a gardener for this middle-aged short bastard-- Frodo Baggins. The work's pretty easy, and I can grow my own weed. I don't know what it is about the dirt in Hobbiton, but that's some sweet-ass green. Farmer Maggot grows the sh** bigtime and he's always up-in-arms about a couple of local peeps stealin' in. "It's good to share." That's what I always say.
Anyway, I guess it's not fair to call Frodo (FB, as I call him) a bastard. He tokes as much as I do. I thought I might be growin' it a little too pure though. FB was all talking about this tall dude named Gandalf and how he told him to hide this one ring of his uncle Bilbo's. So, he's layin' this weed-tale on me. I'm already high and am getting a secondary-high of FB's breath and I'm thinking, "Sh**, that little ring would buy me a nice little stash," I shook that off. That was the old, out-of-work Anchower.
There's this nice piece that works down at the pub. She's been eyeing the anchower package ever since I came growing. At Bilbo Bagins 111th birthday party last week, where he disappeared -- damn, I completely forgot that -- she was all over me. I don't even think she was drunk, and I know I wasn't hallucinating. I still have the bite marks to prove it.
Anway, this Bilbo guy gets up and, I know it's his birtday and all, and give this wack-ass four word speech and vanishes. I was thinking I was a little too high but everyone else was surprised, too. He hasn't been back since. That's cool, I have a good job, weed, and he had his eye on the pub-chick anyway. Sick old bastard. I gotta give the pops props, though, I saw him sporting 111-year old wood at the pub and I know that I'm gonna be just as nasty at his age. That'll be sweet.