Wow! An I thought I was one with apathy. But, you know, he has a point. I had a home phone with the number in the book. All I got was shit from telemarketers, shit on the answering machine. Sure the donot call list cut out a shit load of it but then people started calling that thought they had a business relationship with them. Finally I just pulled the plug on the damn thing and went with my cell phone. My motto is if you don't know my cell phone number I don't want to talk to you. I did this. I realized a couple of years ago that the only calls to my home phone were crap, so I cancelled it. I only use a cell phone now.
I wish I could do something analogous with my postal mail.
It seemed to me that the horizontal face:-) style came from Usenet, and abbreviations came from some of the online services: for example, ROTFL on CI$ and LOL from AOL. That's just my observation from a quarter-century of online presence... I intensely disliked (and continue to dislike) the abbreviation style. I have no feelings either way about the vertical face type.
ObHolyGrail: There you go bringing class into it again!
I agree that the show's overall tone has changed as the seasons have marched on. The writers have to work harder and harder to come up with ideas which aren't too close to ones they've used before. They've satired this themselves, several times (with Poochie, and in the 'NNNth Episode Spectacular' episode, probably others). I think that they've just started using more and more off-the-wall stuff because they feel like they've exhausted the possibilities for the 'typical working class family' of the earliest shows.
That said I still love the show, and it's one of the darned few things I still watch on TV. I've said many times that the day after the season finale, I'm canceling my cable TV subscription.
I've never understood the practice of calling them 'trailers', siince they're generally shown before the main attraction. Wouldn't 'headers' be a better name?:-)
It's been something like four years since I've been in a regular movie theater for exactly that reason. I go to Chunky's instead; they don't do that. Every time I post a message about this, other people chime in with similar theaters elsewhere. I hope you can find one near you...
Space Empires IV (SE:4) from Malfador is a fun game along these lines. SE:V came out recently but I haven't been enjoying it as much - the new 3d interface is getting in my way.
Not everyone can be like totally k-rad 31337 or whatever.
I attended a talk he gave a talk at HOPE a couple of years ago. It was very interesting, and you could have heard the proverbial pin drop in the packed hall, so I'm not the only one who thought so.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no rule among Masons saying non-members can't wear their emblems. Though I should mention that it's never come up in any meeting I've been to. I don't know how we'd stop someone from wearing, for example, a Masonic ring, if they wanted to. I doubt we'd try.
I assume here that you're talking about 'Freemasons' and not regular stonemasons.:-)
I played such games in high school, back in the early 80s. We used squirt guns, although I simulated a knife with my pocket comb (and was the winner in each of the two games I was in). Good times. My groups of friends would certainly have been arrested if the climate had been the same back then as it is today.
The problem offcourse is that each individual cop doesn't know that X other cops *also* pulled the guy over this year, so to them it seems reasonable and so its hard for them to see why he can be annoyed and impatient about it. Be careful what you say, or you'll give someone the bright idea to start a database...:-)
Sorry, I was making a weak X-Files joke. However, I am familiar with B.F. Skinner, Skinner boxes, operant conditioning, etc. from long-ago Psychology classes.
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I wish I could do something analogous with my postal mail.
It seemed to me that the horizontal face :-) style came from Usenet, and abbreviations came from some of the online services: for example, ROTFL on CI$ and LOL from AOL. That's just my observation from a quarter-century of online presence... I intensely disliked (and continue to dislike) the abbreviation style. I have no feelings either way about the vertical face type.
And block the view of those of us who drive actual cars.
I can hold out a little longer :-).
ObHolyGrail: There you go bringing class into it again!
I agree that the show's overall tone has changed as the seasons have marched on. The writers have to work harder and harder to come up with ideas which aren't too close to ones they've used before. They've satired this themselves, several times (with Poochie, and in the 'NNNth Episode Spectacular' episode, probably others). I think that they've just started using more and more off-the-wall stuff because they feel like they've exhausted the possibilities for the 'typical working class family' of the earliest shows.
That said I still love the show, and it's one of the darned few things I still watch on TV. I've said many times that the day after the season finale, I'm canceling my cable TV subscription.
Needs more Triumph. Maybe 'Fight the Good fight'?
I think I saw that documentary too, and you also have to drink raw eggs.
Which describes my situation anywhere in America these days :-(.
Flamebait? WTF?
I've never understood the practice of calling them 'trailers', siince they're generally shown before the main attraction. Wouldn't 'headers' be a better name? :-)
It's been something like four years since I've been in a regular movie theater for exactly that reason. I go to Chunky's instead; they don't do that. Every time I post a message about this, other people chime in with similar theaters elsewhere. I hope you can find one near you...
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Space Empires IV (SE:4) from Malfador is a fun game along these lines. SE:V came out recently but I haven't been enjoying it as much - the new 3d interface is getting in my way.
Not everyone can be like totally k-rad 31337 or whatever.
I attended a talk he gave a talk at HOPE a couple of years ago. It was very interesting, and you could have heard the proverbial pin drop in the packed hall, so I'm not the only one who thought so.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no rule among Masons saying non-members can't wear their emblems. Though I should mention that it's never come up in any meeting I've been to. I don't know how we'd stop someone from wearing, for example, a Masonic ring, if they wanted to. I doubt we'd try.
:-)
I assume here that you're talking about 'Freemasons' and not regular stonemasons.
I'm with you.
I'm also annoyed when I'm walking across a parking lot and have to dodge the many sticky spots left by assholes who pour coffee on the ground.
I played such games in high school, back in the early 80s. We used squirt guns, although I simulated a knife with my pocket comb (and was the winner in each of the two games I was in). Good times. My groups of friends would certainly have been arrested if the climate had been the same back then as it is today.
You, my friend, need a BFH 9000.
Bah, you youngsters and your LCDs and your pixels. In my day, we had LEDs and we liked it that way!
Sounds like something you might read in World of Starcraft someday.
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Sorry, I was making a weak X-Files joke. However, I am familiar with B.F. Skinner, Skinner boxes, operant conditioning, etc. from long-ago Psychology classes.
He was a Deputy Director at the FBI back in the late 90's. Yeah, I remember him.