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    “What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”

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    Quote Quoting Scar (view post)
    That's what I told someone. That I'm the beginning of it all. Haha.

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    I almost bought that thing yesterday. Anyone here read it? Sure, I hear good things about it, but I prefer reviews from people I know.

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    I almost bought that thing yesterday. Anyone here read it? Sure, I hear good things about it, but I prefer reviews from people I know.
    Finished it. Closed the book. Opened it and started reading it again.

    AWESOME.

    Don't ask KF, he don't much care for it.
    “What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”

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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    I almost bought that thing yesterday. Anyone here read it? Sure, I hear good things about it, but I prefer reviews from people I know.
    On this site, I don't think anyone's favored it thus far.

    Er.. Nevermind.

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    Quote Quoting Ezee E (view post)
    On this site, I don't think anyone's favored it thus far.

    Er.. Nevermind.
    Bac0n loves it, too.
    “What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”

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    I know a few people who love that book; people I trust when it comes to fiction.

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    S'okay if people here hate it, I just need to know which ones. So far this is turning out to be the next book I buy.

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    Yeah, I think that's actually going to be the next book I read, muchly* due to Scar and bac0n's gushing recommendation. And the fact that zombies kick ass.

    *Yes, "muchly." Shut-up.
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    Quote Quoting Spun Lepton (view post)
    *Yes, "muchly." Shut-up.

    Hooray everybodys drunk!

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    I had strep throat which turned into a bronchial infection. It lasted about 10 days.

    So, get well soon everyone, and hope that doesn't happen to anyone else here, and they are simply common colds (which still suck, but ya know).
    "All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"

    "Rick...it's a flamethrower."

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    Quote Quoting Qrazy (view post)
    Awesome, what's the book about?
    About a woman in her mid-twenties who, in the present day, goes looking for her great-uncle, who was a crooner of some repute in the 40's and 50's and then disappeared. The story is sort of told through all these encounters she has with his old friends and wife and stuff. And then it's also about like SOCIETY and SELF and big themes like that. But, you know, with nuance and complexity. Hopefully.
    Wishful thinking, perhaps; but that is just another possible definition of the featherless biped.

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    About a woman in her mid-twenties who, in the present day, goes looking for her great-uncle, who was a crooner of some repute in the 40's and 50's and then disappeared. The story is sort of told through all these encounters she has with his old friends and wife and stuff. And then it's also about like SOCIETY and SELF and big themes like that. But, you know, with nuance and complexity. Hopefully.
    I must've read a different book....
    “What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”

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    I actually know someone at my workplace who's trying to make a zombie film. I think that's rather awesome.
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    That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
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    See the mice in their million hordes
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    Quote Quoting Duncan (view post)
    About a woman in her mid-twenties who, in the present day, goes looking for her great-uncle, who was a crooner of some repute in the 40's and 50's and then disappeared. The story is sort of told through all these encounters she has with his old friends and wife and stuff. And then it's also about like SOCIETY and SELF and big themes like that. But, you know, with nuance and complexity. Hopefully.
    Cool, awesome that you're writing it.
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    So I found a dog on the street twelve days ago and my girlfriend and I were taking care of it. It was adorable. It's a bichon frise. It was always standing up on it's hind legs, hugging you with it's paws when it saw you, sleeping on it's back, etc. So yeah, finally got in touch with the owner who came tonight and took it back. *tear* Twelve days may not sound like much but we were pretty inseparable that entire time. Doing the right thing sucks.
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    Wow, nothing but lost puppies and teeny boppers acting like idiots. Way to bum me out, Random Thoughts Thread.

    I find three hours to be kind of a nice, peaceful drive. I actually kind of enjoy long drives like that. Time to think and look at landscapes and stuff.

    Anything above ten hours and I start to hate it.
    ...and the milk's in me.

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    Quote Quoting Mara (view post)
    Anything above ten hours and I start to hate it.
    I don't know if you should be behind a wheel if three hours suddenly jumps to ten...
    "How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"

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    Quote Quoting Wryan (view post)
    I don't know if you should be behind a wheel if three hours suddenly jumps to ten...
    There's a deterioration in enjoyment as it progresses.
    ...and the milk's in me.

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    Quote Quoting Mara (view post)
    There's a deterioration in enjoyment as it progresses.
    Precipitous?
    "How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"

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    Quote Quoting Wryan (view post)
    Precipitous?
    No, not really.

    By the way, today I have discovered that I cannot say the word "condensation." It keeps coming out "condescension." I'm trying to talk about HVAC maintenance, and I sound like an idiot.

    Side note, I also can't say the word "Marlboro" and I have a little trouble with "pedagogy."
    ...and the milk's in me.

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    Reaching the plateau in everyday internet use is really bad... I have about a dozen websites I check regularly, and once I'm done with all of them, it's time to check them again. It's a vicious cycle.

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    Quote Quoting Mara (view post)
    No, not really.

    By the way, today I have discovered that I cannot say the word "condensation." It keeps coming out "condescension." I'm trying to talk about HVAC maintenance, and I sound like an idiot.

    Side note, I also can't say the word "Marlboro" and I have a little trouble with "pedagogy."
    I can't say "architecture." It always comes out "archi-texture."

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    Every night at my store, we drive the cash and check sales over to our local bank in a deposit envelope and put it in a giant drawer that cranks closed and drops the deposit inside the bank. Yesterday, while making the nightly deposit for my store, someone else left their deposit in the drawer (without cranking it closed), and the envelope was sticking out for anyone to grab. Out of curiosity, I checked the envelope (because the deposit has to be written on the envelope, that way if there's a discrepancy the bank can call and clear it up) to see what was being deposited. $4,000 in cash. J. Simons is very lucky I'm a nice, fairly ethical guy.

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    It would be cool if you were being taped and it was a psychology experiment.

    Man, though, I don't miss dropping off cash deposits for various jobs. It always made me nervous.
    ...and the milk's in me.

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