srsly, there's a long-standing tradition of pluralizing abbreviations through reduplication--the most common one is "pp." for "pages", which is still pretty normal in formal academic writing. i expect that's where MM came from--it's just the plural of "M" (million).
the good news is tinyurl.com/b5x6e is real. the bad news is it goes to the wikipedia article on WWII--come on guys, how hard would it be to slip a rickroll in there?
yes, informally at least, "it's" for "it has" is fine. i wouldn't be terribly surprised if a copy-editor tried to fix it if you put it in a book thought. (btw, here's the letter you dropped from that last sentence: "f". hth.)
and here i was thinking they'd just reprise last year's ceci n'est pas une prank and leave us all twitching in our chairs, desperately trying to guess which stories were real. instead, the google route....
i'd recommend trying to be the first people ever to actually finish a game of world in flames, but given the crew makeup, it might not be the best idea....
then there's poly. my girlfriend asks me on a fairly regular basis if i've had any luck yet with a couple girls i'm interested in, and i watch in amazement as she juggles the eight other people she's dating. (i joke that she sticks to 7+/-2, and is currently at the high end.)
don't forget to close the blinds--the "reflection" from a white wall is reconstructable for a source from up to a dozen feet away or so, iirc, so facing your computer away from the window is no use.
the world's first decent reason not to use a model m. (of course, if you do get sniffed using one, you'll have a much better chance of killing the bastards with it than you will with some rubber-dome POS from dell....)
well, that's one possible way to lose weight. i'm currently around 32% body fat, and struggling mightily to down to something healthy. perhaps i should take a stroll to amundsen-scott....
but the thing is they're all partial, so the term misleadingly implies that total terran eclipses exist
i suppose if we ever get a serious off-planet population, we'll need a new terminology for eclipses that specifies at least two, and possibly all three, bodies involved (imagine all the transits you could see from a jovian moon colony)
What do we call the as-seen-from-the-moon side of a solar eclipse, and has it been photographed/filmed? AFAICT the angular diameters don't line up, so we should get a nice dark circle of moon shadow moving across the face of the earth. Hmm. Terrestrial transit?
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Bring on the twelve-fingered pianists--Rachmaninoff for everyone!
Bioethics is nonsense. 99% of it is either "this is ungodly" (or the hippie equivalent, "unnatural"), or "if homeless crack addicts can't afford it, no one can have it". Why communists and religious nuts should get to decide what medical treatments I get buy with my money is beyond me.
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srsly, there's a long-standing tradition of pluralizing abbreviations through reduplication--the most common one is "pp." for "pages", which is still pretty normal in formal academic writing. i expect that's where MM came from--it's just the plural of "M" (million).
ergotism
the good news is tinyurl.com/b5x6e is real. the bad news is it goes to the wikipedia article on WWII--come on guys, how hard would it be to slip a rickroll in there?
yes, informally at least, "it's" for "it has" is fine. i wouldn't be terribly surprised if a copy-editor tried to fix it if you put it in a book thought. (btw, here's the letter you dropped from that last sentence: "f". hth.)
and here i was thinking they'd just reprise last year's ceci n'est pas une prank and leave us all twitching in our chairs, desperately trying to guess which stories were real. instead, the google route....
http://www.instantrimshot.com/
i'd recommend trying to be the first people ever to actually finish a game of world in flames, but given the crew makeup, it might not be the best idea....
then there's poly. my girlfriend asks me on a fairly regular basis if i've had any luck yet with a couple girls i'm interested in, and i watch in amazement as she juggles the eight other people she's dating. (i joke that she sticks to 7+/-2, and is currently at the high end.)
or if you're poly
Yes, yes it does! ;)
Yes, yes it does, asshole!
FTFY
don't forget to close the blinds--the "reflection" from a white wall is reconstructable for a source from up to a dozen feet away or so, iirc, so facing your computer away from the window is no use.
the world's first decent reason not to use a model m. (of course, if you do get sniffed using one, you'll have a much better chance of killing the bastards with it than you will with some rubber-dome POS from dell....)
how about the morse-code-on-the-spacebar hack from cryptonomicon? would that be sufficiently confusing?
star wipe FTW!
i love that this is "insightful"....
burma shave
Cutting it a little close there, don't you think? Isn't that how Scott got himself famous'd?
cue "history is made by stupid people"
well, that's one possible way to lose weight. i'm currently around 32% body fat, and struggling mightily to down to something healthy. perhaps i should take a stroll to amundsen-scott....
wrong
you do get a nice big expat standard deduction though
but the thing is they're all partial, so the term misleadingly implies that total terran eclipses exist
i suppose if we ever get a serious off-planet population, we'll need a new terminology for eclipses that specifies at least two, and possibly all three, bodies involved (imagine all the transits you could see from a jovian moon colony)
I have a sudden urge to play Also sprach Zarathustra.
What do we call the as-seen-from-the-moon side of a solar eclipse, and has it been photographed/filmed? AFAICT the angular diameters don't line up, so we should get a nice dark circle of moon shadow moving across the face of the earth. Hmm. Terrestrial transit?
Bring on the twelve-fingered pianists--Rachmaninoff for everyone!
Bioethics is nonsense. 99% of it is either "this is ungodly" (or the hippie equivalent, "unnatural"), or "if homeless crack addicts can't afford it, no one can have it". Why communists and religious nuts should get to decide what medical treatments I get buy with my money is beyond me.
Reminds me of a filk I wrote a while back:
This song is your song, this song is my song
It's not an ASCAP or a BMI song
It's not a song that demands a royalty
This song was made for you and me.