I don't have a problem with compassionate people. The idea of a compassionate government bureaucracy (usually a cold, unfeeling, methodical yet incompetent beast) scares the shit out of me.
I would have thought that the airports would have had a short list of acceptable types of ID and church ID wouldn't have been one of them. Hmm...maybe my kid printing out and laminating ID cards from the Kids Next Door website isn't just a play activity. It's job training for the underground ID market. lol
You forgot rich. Intelligence is a bonus only if it enables you to get a high paying job. Doing interesting and fullfilling but low paying work at a university or science facility won't keep up with her spending habits.
When most people think of trucker songs, they think of the ones recorded by Red Sovine. Dale Watson has a few good ones too. Here are a couple:
Truckin' Man
If I was a Truckin' Man, I'd be a gearjammer with a one-armed tan,
I'd spend my nights in the roadhouse, Days on the lost highway,
Hey, If I was a Truckin' Man, I'd have my radio screamin' on the A.M. band
All night drivin' by dashboard lights, If I was a Truckin' Man
I can't let my life slip away,
pushing these Number 2 pencils every day
This rat race don't fit into my plan, no, ma'am
I'm a'dreamin', schemin', If I was a Trucking Man,
(Chorus)
Well I'd sign my life away on the dotted white line,
Drinkin' my coffee, Smokin' my smokes all night
And if I get tired, I'll let Vinnie drive, if he can,
I'm a'dreamin', schemin', If I was a Trucking Man,
This one is kinda funny:
Truckin' Queen
If you ever get up to Oklahoma City
You'll here about a guy that thinks he's pretty
On channel 19 in year your ears
He's a long haul trucker, he's big and brawny
You can hear that sucker nearly every morning
Loud and proud, loud and clear
I got my night gown on
I got my pretty red panties on
and I'm ready to go in a minute
Trucking queen from OKC
He wears a negligee with red lame
He's always heard, but he's seldom seen
He's a trucking queen from OKC
He's got a string of white pearls around his big red neck
Scruffy beard and the hair on his back makes the negligee stick out kinda lumpy like
He ain't got no hair on the top of his head
But he's got a pony tail with a blue barrette
He wears pink lipstick
It gets smeared on his power mike
I don't really mind TV execs making US versions of TV shows from other nations. I just wish they didn't make sucky versions of them. Having watched the BBC version of The Office, I can't watch NBC's.
Skeletor? I don't think you watched the same cartoons as I did. Other than the blue skin and no flesh on his skull, Skeletor looked like a body builder.
I agree on the social skills part. The few women that I've gone out with, only did so because I was picking up the tab (from a movie date "oh crap..there's some people from my church..uh..if they ask, I'm not here with you, you're just some guy that happened to walk in from the parking lot at the same time" to ex-wife "I never really loved you, I just got tired of using you"). So, now I've become the equivalent of a monk with a paid off car, no credit cards, and the sole person responsible for my finances (for better or worse).
I guess it must have been MSFT that was forking over the cash for the $50 Best Buy gift card that was being given away before Christmas with every MP3 player sold at Best Buy. Except for the iPods, no free gift card with those, but people were bought them anyway.
so you leave the battery in just long enough to get it charged and then remove it? I've never heard of anyone doing that before to increase battery life. The only time I ever do it is when the machine is locked up and not responding to any of the power switches.
You could get him to listen to some of the new "alt-country" musicians that count Bob Wills as a big influence on their music. You won't be able to find them on normal country radio though. You will have to look in your local bars, "No Depression", or internet streams like Ram Radio.
Many people like a handful of musical styles and stop buying after the music industry decides to switch to something different. That doesn't mean that there aren't new musicians out there that don't continue to play the older styles. They just aren't on MTV and earning mega-dollars from stadium tours.
In this case, we have the tired cliche that feminists are only unattractive bitter women.
The feminist types that I've met fit that description to a T.
And yes, women can be intelligent, geeky, powerful, and have large breasts. I know a female sysadmin in Houston that can leg press 500+ pounds and she's a natural 38H.
Then they better provide a search service that allows you to type in a phrase from the song and it spits back possible names of the songs, the writer, a verse/or short mp3 version of the song, and a link to buy it. When I use google to search the lyrics sites, I usually have no idea what the name of the song is or who wrote it. This is usually for old songs that I heard a musician sing in a bar that's not heard on radio anymore and may not even be in print anymore (like the old blues songs Scott H. Biram digs up from time to time). Spending tons at time at a music publishing store that may not even sell a book containing a song is a waste of my time.
If they don't like the fact that people are typing in this stuff and providing it for free on the internet, then they better step up to the plate and provide a service that makes it simple and easy to search and buy their product. That's one of the reason why iTunes is successful. They should have done this a decade ago.
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If I recall correctly, they would go to bed early, wake up about midnight, play around and eat for a few hours, and then go back to sleep.
It's called a disco nap, or if you're from Texas, a honky zonk.I don't have a problem with compassionate people. The idea of a compassionate government bureaucracy (usually a cold, unfeeling, methodical yet incompetent beast) scares the shit out of me.
what about operating motorized vehicles in the ditches? I did that all the time as a kid.
I would have thought that the airports would have had a short list of acceptable types of ID and church ID wouldn't have been one of them. Hmm...maybe my kid printing out and laminating ID cards from the Kids Next Door website isn't just a play activity. It's job training for the underground ID market. lol
You forgot rich. Intelligence is a bonus only if it enables you to get a high paying job. Doing interesting and fullfilling but low paying work at a university or science facility won't keep up with her spending habits.
either that or they could start deporting the unemployed to their country of origin.
When most people think of trucker songs, they think of the ones recorded by Red Sovine. Dale Watson has a few good ones too. Here are a couple:
Truckin' ManIf I was a Truckin' Man, I'd be a gearjammer with a one-armed tan,
I'd spend my nights in the roadhouse, Days on the lost highway,
Hey, If I was a Truckin' Man, I'd have my radio screamin' on the A.M. band
All night drivin' by dashboard lights, If I was a Truckin' Man
I can't let my life slip away,
pushing these Number 2 pencils every day
This rat race don't fit into my plan, no, ma'am
I'm a'dreamin', schemin', If I was a Trucking Man,
(Chorus)
Well I'd sign my life away on the dotted white line,
Drinkin' my coffee, Smokin' my smokes all night
And if I get tired, I'll let Vinnie drive, if he can,
I'm a'dreamin', schemin', If I was a Trucking Man,
This one is kinda funny:
Truckin' QueenIf you ever get up to Oklahoma City
You'll here about a guy that thinks he's pretty
On channel 19 in year your ears
He's a long haul trucker, he's big and brawny
You can hear that sucker nearly every morning
Loud and proud, loud and clear
I got my night gown on
I got my pretty red panties on
and I'm ready to go in a minute
Trucking queen from OKC
He wears a negligee with red lame
He's always heard, but he's seldom seen
He's a trucking queen from OKC
He's got a string of white pearls around his big red neck
Scruffy beard and the hair on his back makes the negligee stick out kinda lumpy like
He ain't got no hair on the top of his head
But he's got a pony tail with a blue barrette
He wears pink lipstick
It gets smeared on his power mike
(Chorus)
I don't really mind TV execs making US versions of TV shows from other nations. I just wish they didn't make sucky versions of them. Having watched the BBC version of The Office, I can't watch NBC's.
I don't have cable, so I can't comment on that show. The woman in my example had just asked where I worked and that was her response to my answer.
I agree on the social skills part. The few women that I've gone out with, only did so because I was picking up the tab (from a movie date "oh crap..there's some people from my church..uh..if they ask, I'm not here with you, you're just some guy that happened to walk in from the parking lot at the same time" to ex-wife "I never really loved you, I just got tired of using you"). So, now I've become the equivalent of a monk with a paid off car, no credit cards, and the sole person responsible for my finances (for better or worse).
when I meet girls and i tell them I program they pretty much go "oh wow, you must make a lot of money" and then i snicker to myself in sadness..
That's better than "oh, you're too smart for me. good bye".If clickykeyboards.com doesn't have them, you can go to http://www.pckeyboard.com/ibmlist.html and have unicomp build an IBM P/N 1393278 for you.
It does have DVI, so I suppose they figure that if you're going to be hooking it to a TV, it's going to be an HD set.
I guess it must have been MSFT that was forking over the cash for the $50 Best Buy gift card that was being given away before Christmas with every MP3 player sold at Best Buy. Except for the iPods, no free gift card with those, but people were bought them anyway.
IIRC, that was done with Lindsey Lohan for the latest Herbie the Love Bug movie.
Given the amount of business logic that's implemented in COBOL, need for those programmers isn't going away anytime soon.
How can I be sure?
Do it yourself.I think CMT is the only station they haven't fully corrupted yet
they certainly don't play much country music on the Country Music Television channel.so you leave the battery in just long enough to get it charged and then remove it? I've never heard of anyone doing that before to increase battery life. The only time I ever do it is when the machine is locked up and not responding to any of the power switches.
Many people like a handful of musical styles and stop buying after the music industry decides to switch to something different. That doesn't mean that there aren't new musicians out there that don't continue to play the older styles. They just aren't on MTV and earning mega-dollars from stadium tours.
that's not saying much.
If I wanted to look at a big pasty white gut, I'd look in the mirror.
In this case, we have the tired cliche that feminists are only unattractive bitter women.
The feminist types that I've met fit that description to a T.And yes, women can be intelligent, geeky, powerful, and have large breasts. I know a female sysadmin in Houston that can leg press 500+ pounds and she's a natural 38H.
Then they better provide a search service that allows you to type in a phrase from the song and it spits back possible names of the songs, the writer, a verse/or short mp3 version of the song, and a link to buy it. When I use google to search the lyrics sites, I usually have no idea what the name of the song is or who wrote it. This is usually for old songs that I heard a musician sing in a bar that's not heard on radio anymore and may not even be in print anymore (like the old blues songs Scott H. Biram digs up from time to time). Spending tons at time at a music publishing store that may not even sell a book containing a song is a waste of my time.
If they don't like the fact that people are typing in this stuff and providing it for free on the internet, then they better step up to the plate and provide a service that makes it simple and easy to search and buy their product. That's one of the reason why iTunes is successful. They should have done this a decade ago.
so in other words, it's closest rival is a DVD of grass growing in real time.