My work group jokes about our cursed building. Three years ago a large mower shredded the phone "pillar" out in the field near our building (go figure...3-ft. green box surrounded by 5-ft. grass). Now they mark the pillars with bike flags. Then last year a crew building a parking lot tilled up a good 20 feet of the comm lines. That line was marked, but it turned out it was a couple of feet closer to the surface than expected! Darn erosion...
Occasionally someone (always male?) goes on a rampage and then blames some FPS or GTA or whatever. But really, I don't think game-addled "addicts" are panhandling for their next hit, or wrapping their cars around telephone poles.
Didn't Nelson lose his mom to some sort of breath-mint addiction?
I don't know... Every time I ask my son to stop playing, the answer is "You can't pause here" or "You can't save here". That must be the Parental Annoyance Mode.
On the plus side, he does seem a little interested in the text adventures on Games Knoppix.
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My work group jokes about our cursed building. Three years ago a large mower shredded the phone "pillar" out in the field near our building (go figure...3-ft. green box surrounded by 5-ft. grass). Now they mark the pillars with bike flags. Then last year a crew building a parking lot tilled up a good 20 feet of the comm lines. That line was marked, but it turned out it was a couple of feet closer to the surface than expected! Darn erosion...
Maybe that was your dad, speeding away with the neighbor's still-hissing A/C compressor unit in the back of his truck?
As I read your post, the lyrics sprang to mind: "Freedom of choice is what you got, Freedom from choice is what you want."
Maybe it's all tied up with our growing "nanny" culture. (Probably a decent Liberal Arts thesis subject.)
It's been studied and exposed by this odd documentary.
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He should have written for the Uncyclopedia, a much better place to waste one's talents.
Having .xxx.asia would certainly save searching time, and it also seems to be converging with Usenet naming conventions.
Occasionally someone (always male?) goes on a rampage and then blames some FPS or GTA or whatever. But really, I don't think game-addled "addicts" are panhandling for their next hit, or wrapping their cars around telephone poles.
Didn't Nelson lose his mom to some sort of breath-mint addiction?
I don't know... Every time I ask my son to stop playing, the answer is "You can't pause here" or "You can't save here". That must be the Parental Annoyance Mode.
On the plus side, he does seem a little interested in the text adventures on Games Knoppix.
This didn't get nearly as much commentary yesterday. It's good it made it to the front page, though.
Why not Priceline or Ebay models? "I will pay $2 for this movie." Seller takes it or leaves it.
Sounds similar to the soy sauce process. I agree that it's a recipe, and maybe they should use something other than patent to protect it.
Yeah, I've been getting a lot of complaints about my big woofer.