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Well, the Internet keeps growing and growing, so maybe there area few shacks in the middle of nowhere that are Internet ready .... the Outhouse might be a problem though. :-P

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Narf!

 

 

Quiet Pinky. I'm getting ready for Tomorrow night.

 

Or

 

Pinky! Are you pondering what I'm pondering?

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Temporal paradoxes are awesome.

 

::just watched 12 Monkeys::

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Quiet Pinky. I'm getting ready for Tomorrow night.

 

Wot we gonna do tomorrow night, Brain?

 

Or

 

Pinky! Are you pondering what I'm pondering?

 

How they got Natalie Portman into her outfit on Sunday?

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Quiet Pinky. I'm getting ready for Tomorrow night.

 

Wot we gonna do tomorrow night, Brain?

 

The same thing we do every night Pinky, try and take over the world!

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I'm a published composer! ::freaks out::

 

Congrats! I'd buy it, but I can only play by ear.

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Why what we do every night Pinky...and yes that includes raiding you know who's room as well...;)

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Hmmm, the writing in the Mass Effect novel could be better. Plot is fine, but I feel the text lacks flourish.

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Hmmm, the writing in the Mass Effect novel could be better. Plot is fine, but I feel the text lacks flourish.

 

Full agreement here Images, and Mass Effect the game is a wonderful sci fi adventure.

 

The first novel? A root canal would be more fun, and for lack of a better term it was a dead book. Clear! Someone amp up the power and prepare to shock!

 

The second novel I don't intend to check out.

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Man, at current rates, the Hilbert hotel is really making out.

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very early this morning, i woke up, and had an urge to read about raid drives. 3 hours later, i was reading about thomas cook (the guy). how did i manage to go from reading about modern day computing to some guy in the 1800s that arranged travel for the wealthy? well let me take you through my flow of events on wikipedia!

 

raid drives --> hamming code --> bit parity --> punch cards --> perfins --> postage stamps --> collection of stamps --> collecting cancelled stamps --> railway post offices --> registered mail --> queens (kings) messengers --> some plane crash in south america where said kings messenger died --> said dead guy used to work for the thomas cook travel agency.

 

and there you have it. and if you want to read a little more about each topic, allow me to summarize:

raid drives - a method of storing data on computers

hamming code - has to do with bit checking ability (parity)

bit parity - is an error detecting method used by computers

punch cards - used by early computers for programs

perfins - little holes made in stamps to prevent theft of stamps

postage stamps/collection of stamps - duh.

collecting cancelled stamps - apparently when the post office makes those marks on the stamps to invalidate them, some people like collecting it.

railway post office - about the train cars, and the mail sorting process while en route

registered mail - mail that must be signed for, and generally has a chain of custody along the way to the recipient.

queen's/king's messenger - a sort of diplomatic courier. a one person registered mail system guy.

plane that crashed - the "star dust"

dead guy - paul simpson.

 

all that from reading about one little article on wikipedia about raid drives. now i have that much more useless information to share with the world.

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I clicked on this thread from the "Unread Posts" list without really noticing which thread it was -- consciously I only registered that it was community, not IC, and that it was one I occasionally posted in. So I arrived at Tom's post regarding Wikipedia, raid drives, and Thomas Cook with the utmost certainty that I was reading the caption comments thread.

 

Confusion ensued, followed by a shining moment of utter clarity.

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I clicked on this thread from the "Unread Posts" list without really noticing which thread it was -- consciously I only registered that it was community, not IC, and that it was one I occasionally posted in. So I arrived at Tom's post regarding Wikipedia, raid drives, and Thomas Cook with the utmost certainty that I was reading the caption comments thread.

 

Confusion ensued, followed by a shining moment of utter clarity.

 

longest caption contest post. ever.

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longest caption contest post. ever.

 

Perhaps most *random* caption contest quote ever.

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I was really bored last night, watching some Star Trek, when I was suddenly hit with grand inspiration. So, I photoshopped this. Thought that I might share it with all of you.

 

Cat-Food.jpg

Edited by WadeFKnight

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I was really bored last night, watching some Star Trek, when I was suddenly hit with grand inspiration. So, I photoshopped this. Thought that I might share it with all of you.

 

Cat-Food.jpg

 

 

OMG! That is awesome

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I was really bored last night, watching some Star Trek, when I was suddenly hit with grand inspiration. So, I photoshopped this. Thought that I might share it with all of you.

 

Cat-Food.jpg

 

It appears someone has far too much time at work...or at home

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Random goodness from ThinkGeek's fortune page:

 

Why Engineers Don't Write Recipe Books:

 

Chocolate Chip Cookies:

 

Ingredients:

 

532.35 cm3 gluten

4.9 cm3 NaHCO3

4.9 cm3 refined halite

236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride

177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22O11

177.45 cm3 unrefined C12H22O11

4.9 cm3 methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde

Two calcium carbonate-encapsulated avian albumen-coated protein

473.2 cm3 theobroma cacao

236.6 cm3 de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10)

 

To a 2-L jacketed round reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall heat transfer coefficient of about 100 Btu/F-ft2-hr, add ingredients one, two and three with constant agitation. In a second 2-L reactor vessel with a radial flow impeller operating at 100 rpm, add ingredients four, five, six, and seven until the mixture is homogenous. To reactor #2, add ingredient eight, followed by three equal volumes of the homogenous mixture in reactor #1. Additionally, add ingredient nine and ten slowly, with constant agitation. Care must be taken at this point in the reaction to control any temperature rise that may be the result of an exothermic reaction.

 

Using a screw extrude attached to a #4 nodulizer, place the mixture piece-meal on a 316SS sheet (300 x 600 mm). Heat in a 460K oven for a period of time that is in agreement with Frank & Johnston's first order rate expression (see JACOS, 21, 55), or until golden brown. Once the reaction is complete, place the sheet on a 25C heat-transfer table, allowing the product to come to equilibrium.

 

Enjoy translating it. ;)

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"And first, with relation to the mind or understanding, 'tis manifest what mighty advantages fiction has over truth; and the reason is just at our elbow, because imagination can build nobler scenes, and produce more wonderful revolutions, than fortune or nature will be at expense to furnish." ~ Jonathan Swift, A Digression on Madness from A Tale of the Tub

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"And first, with relation to the mind or understanding, 'tis manifest what mighty advantages fiction has over truth; and the reason is just at our elbow, because imagination can build nobler scenes, and produce more wonderful revolutions, than fortune or nature will be at expense to furnish." ~ Jonathan Swift, A Digression on Madness from A Tale of the Tub

 

Which is why I spent so much time writing fanfiction...usually of the "Shameless Self-Promotion" type.

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Krikkets> ::wheeling in the artillery and cases of muskets for a full concert of Beethoven's Wellington's Victory Op. 91::

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The Watchmen was a horrible movie. Don't bother.

 

aaaand they didn't show the Star Trek trailer when I watched it last night. Talk about angry.

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The Watchmen was a horrible movie. Don't bother.

 

I heard mixed things about it. I figure I'll wait till it comes out on DVD and rent it.

 

aaaand they didn't show the Star Trek trailer when I watched it last night. Talk about angry.

 

Well that just bites. Would have made the 8 or 9 bucks worth while

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