Nice sig. It reminds me of something funny that happened when I was at The Univeristy of Chicago (before I dropped out...). A friend was on the football team. He told me about how once during practice the QB threw the ball to him quite hard. My friend fumbled the catch. The coach yelled at him, so my friend responded, "Come on, he threw it so fast it turned blue!" The best part is that the other players laughed. Not surprising that they didn't have a very impressive record on the field....
The ambulance drivers in Oslo, Norway have not heard about this theory. Twice I have seen ambulances with full lights at night, during winter on icy roads, get all four wheels off the ground literally flying through an intersection near where I used to live on the way to some call. The lights were green, but judging by the general recklessness of doing jumps in ambulances, I don't know how much a red light would have slowed them down.
I've been toying with the idea of trying to adopt the SMS-style "predictive" input as featured on Nokia phones so I can do all my normal writing with the numeric keypad.
I don't know. The grass is always greener on the other side. Norway is a monarchy where you can only give your child a name from an "approved" list and it is currently a topic of discussion as to whether freedom of speech extends to being allowed to say bad things about different racial groups in public. And brutally murdering someone will get you MAYBE 15 years with your own cell, cable-TV and a private room for when your significant other visits to do the nasty. USA and Norway is apples and oranges. Who knows what would have happened were he American.
When I used to wake up in the morning, the first thing I would do was put on my glasses to look at my alarm clock to see what time it was. The day after my LASIK, I rolled over in the direction of my alarm clock, and when I looked up I saw: "Made In Japan".
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Nice sig. It reminds me of something funny that happened when I was at The Univeristy of Chicago (before I dropped out...). A friend was on the football team. He told me about how once during practice the QB threw the ball to him quite hard. My friend fumbled the catch. The coach yelled at him, so my friend responded, "Come on, he threw it so fast it turned blue!" The best part is that the other players laughed. Not surprising that they didn't have a very impressive record on the field....
The ambulance drivers in Oslo, Norway have not heard about this theory. Twice I have seen ambulances with full lights at night, during winter on icy roads, get all four wheels off the ground literally flying through an intersection near where I used to live on the way to some call. The lights were green, but judging by the general recklessness of doing jumps in ambulances, I don't know how much a red light would have slowed them down.
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I've been toying with the idea of trying to adopt the SMS-style "predictive" input as featured on Nokia phones so I can do all my normal writing with the numeric keypad.
I don't know. The grass is always greener on the other side. Norway is a monarchy where you can only give your child a name from an "approved" list and it is currently a topic of discussion as to whether freedom of speech extends to being allowed to say bad things about different racial groups in public. And brutally murdering someone will get you MAYBE 15 years with your own cell, cable-TV and a private room for when your significant other visits to do the nasty. USA and Norway is apples and oranges. Who knows what would have happened were he American.
When I used to wake up in the morning, the first thing I would do was put on my glasses to look at my alarm clock to see what time it was. The day after my LASIK, I rolled over in the direction of my alarm clock, and when I looked up I saw: "Made In Japan".