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  • #1321
    I stopped drinking roughly 5 hours ago, and spent those hours actively attempting to sober up, but here it is midnight, and the room spins when I try to lie down and fall asleep.

    I'm starting to think the LDS Church's stance on abstinence from alcohol is a wise idea.
    "I don't know the origin of said bitch booming."-Art Vandelay
    "Hot Lunch posted awhile back on this. He knows more than anyone except for maybe BO."-Seattle Ute

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    • #1322
      Public Service Announcement. For those who hesitate to call something ironic, in fear of using it incorrectly and being called out, here is a handy guide on irony vs. coincidence:

      http://dragreduction.blogspot.com/20...incidence.html

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      • #1323
        Originally posted by Clark Addison View Post
        Public Service Announcement. For those who hesitate to call something ironic, in fear of using it incorrectly and being called out, here is a handy guide on irony vs. coincidence:

        http://dragreduction.blogspot.com/20...incidence.html
        Pretty good, although I'm still wondering how a guy writing so well about the use of language came up with "pet-peeve" in his second sentence. Ironic.
        Last edited by LA Ute; 12-01-2012, 12:45 PM.
        “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
        ― W.H. Auden

        "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
        -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

        "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
        --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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        • #1324
          Things must be changing in Arizona... first openly bisexual, (ex-?)mormon congresswoman elected:

          [YOUTUBE]QHsyDRIsojk[/YOUTUBE]

          BYU Alumna too.
          "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
          "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
          "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
          GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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          • #1325
            I think the new roundabouts they installed in town in the last month have broken the brains of dozens of people.
            Everything in life is an approximation.

            http://twitter.com/CougarStats

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            • #1326
              The smell of a fresh Christmas tree is a very nice thing.

              Fun to watch the wife and kids decorate.
              "Sure, I fought. I had to fight all my life just to survive. They were all against me. Tried every dirty trick to cut me down, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch."

              - Ty Cobb

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              • #1327
                Originally posted by San Juan Sun View Post
                The smell of a fresh Christmas tree is a very nice thing.

                Fun to watch the wife and kids decorate.
                The entire time I was growing up I wanted a huge tree. We had 8' ceilings back then so no dice.

                I now have 20' ceilings in some of the rooms in my house. This year's tree is 14'2", and that's after I trimmed the base. We had to break out our large ladder. We're actually going to secure it to the wall this year because I'm not sure our stand - the biggest one I've ever seen - is big enough.
                Awesomeness now has a name. Let me introduce myself.

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                • #1328
                  Now here is where a lottery for education may have been useful...

                  SOUTH CAROLINA (WABC) -- One mother was hurt when chaos broke out among parents lined up early to register their children for classes at a South Carolina elementary school.

                  First come, first serve turned into a mad dash at AJ Whittenberg, the district's only elementary school with engineering curriculum.

                  The competition started with parents camping out and has grown more fierce by the year.

                  [...]
                  Engineering elementary school? I know that every parent wants their sons and daughters to grow up to be the well respected and highly intelligent in the best professional field there is but elementary school?
                  "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                  "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                  "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                  GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                  • #1329
                    Originally posted by Uncle Ted View Post
                    Now here is where a lottery for education may have been useful...



                    Engineering elementary school? I know that every parent wants their sons and daughters to grow up to be the well respected and highly intelligent in the best professional field there is but elementary school?
                    I read recently that they start teaching computer programming to kids in South Korea when they are in elementary school. Not a bad idea, really. Get them to start thinking algorithmically at an early age and make it second nature.

                    But yeah, what kind of engineering do they do in elementary school?
                    "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                    "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                    "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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                    • #1330
                      Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                      I read recently that they start teaching computer programming to kids in South Korea when they are in elementary school. Not a bad idea, really. Get them to start thinking algorithmically at an early age and make it second nature.

                      But yeah, what kind of engineering do they do in elementary school?
                      My young son, who is in elementary school, gets engineering education on the side. He enjoys computers so I started teaching him how to use the Scratch programming language from MIT. Scratch is a visual programming language and he can drag and drop the basic constructs together to form animation and even games. He loves it and I have been surprised with some of the things he has come up with.

                      Also, he has taken a few Lego Mindstorms robotic classes after school. His team has won all the competitions. Programming these robots is very similar to the scratch programming language.

                      I wonder if they do something like that at that school.
                      "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                      "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                      "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                      GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                      • #1331
                        One of my pet peaves is when browse on my phone and I click on a link to a website and I'm taken there, but that website automatically redirects me to their mobile home page. It pissed me off. Why do hey have such juvenile amateurs running their website that they can't even properly setup up their htaccess file to do the redirect. This is child's play and you would think a geeky store like radio Shack could hire a cheap labor college student to tweak their file for $50.

                        Grrrrr

                        via a galaxy s3 far far away
                        "Don't expect I'll see you 'till after the race"

                        "So where does the power come from to see the race to its end...from within"

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                        • #1332
                          Ever since the kids started using Suave kids tear-free coconut shampoo I haven't been able to enjoy my Yoplait Greek coconut yogurt for breakfast. It tastes like shampoo now.

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                          • #1333
                            Meggings? Seriously? Has to be a joke. Aren't skinny jeans for men bad enough!

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                            • #1334
                              Originally posted by Soccermom View Post
                              Meggings? Seriously? Has to be a joke. Aren't skinny jeans for men bad enough!
                              I went and googled the term....

                              Now that is funny! Skinny jeans on guys are ridiculous, but this is worse than mens capri pants.

                              I've given up telling my teenagers how stupid skinny jeans look, but man if they ever wanted these things... I'd probably hurt myself laughing that hard.
                              "We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school."
                              -Thucydides

                              "Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."
                              -Miyamoto Musashi

                              Si vis pacem, para bellum

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                              • #1335
                                White Frieghtliner wont you steal away my mind.

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