It's all dependent on that tricksy rain/snow line. They are predicting around Plymouth now, but it's a real b$*+@ to accurately say. I am hoping that being stuck out in the Atlantic works in my favor. I'm glad I don't live in Metrowest anymore, those poor bastids have 2+ feet incoming. Oy ..I will send wishes for warm weather your way, my friend.*sigh*
Now a Winter Storm approaching? Go go ocean-effect warming!
Prays for rain
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This is why I didn't do the wunian snow dance - if naked it really doesn't work very well. And no, I am not attempting to guide the storm in with my black manliness - that would result in an early spring.
Alright FAWTLfolk, I'm out for work. Catch y'all later.
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It's all dependent on that tricksy rain/snow line. They are predicting around Plymouth now, but it's a real b$*+@ to accurately say. I am hoping that being stuck out in the Atlantic works in my favor. I'm glad I don't live in Metrowest anymore, those poor bastids have 2+ feet incoming. Oy ..I will send wishes for warm weather your way, my friend.*sigh*
Now a Winter Storm approaching? Go go ocean-effect warming!
Prays for rain
It's hitting NY whether you ask it to or not.
The real question is - do you want us to be able to keep our Saturday plans?
If the answer is yes, dance for rain. A heavy snow could really interfere.
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It's all dependent on that tricksy rain/snow line. They are predicting around Plymouth now, but it's a real b$*+@ to accurately say. I am hoping that being stuck out in the Atlantic works in my favor. I'm glad I don't live in Metrowest anymore, those poor bastids have 2+ feet incoming. Oy ..I will send wishes for warm weather your way, my friend.*sigh*
Now a Winter Storm approaching? Go go ocean-effect warming!
Prays for rain
It's hitting NY whether you ask it to or not.
The real question is - do you want us to be able to keep our Saturday plans?
If the answer is yes, dance for rain. A heavy snow could really interfere.
But..But.. We could have a snowball fight! The first inter-FaWtL snowball fight ever!
More seriously, I do want to keep our plans. It really all depends on where that snowline ii . For the sake of both our plans and the people still recovering from sandy, I hope it's rain.
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OK, I know I said that I'd stop asking, but I need some serious real-world advice. I really don't know who else to ask about this: ** spoiler omitted **
I don't think anyone has asked you to stop. I think in general that's a useful thing to do here, among internet friends. Even though my biggest "I wish I could talk to FAWTL for advice on this screwed up thing" is off limits here, I would never want anyone else to feel they couldn't come here for advice.
Take care.
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OK, I know I said that I'd stop asking, but I need some serious real-world advice. I really don't know who else to ask about this: ** spoiler omitted **I don't think anyone has asked you to stop. I think in general that's a useful thing to do here, among internet friends. Even though my biggest "I wish I could talk to FAWTL for advice on this screwed up thing" is off limits here, I would never want anyone else to feel they couldn't come here for advice.
Take care.
Seriously, thank you and all the rest for your responses. I really don't mean to be the resident drama queen here, and I feel bad for making you guys my support system.
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Seriously, thank you and all the rest for your responses. I really don't mean to be the resident drama queen here, and I feel bad for making you guys my support system.OK, I know I said that I'd stop asking, but I need some serious real-world advice. I really don't know who else to ask about this: ** spoiler omitted **I don't think anyone has asked you to stop. I think in general that's a useful thing to do here, among internet friends. Even though my biggest "I wish I could talk to FAWTL for advice on this screwed up thing" is off limits here, I would never want anyone else to feel they couldn't come here for advice.
Take care.
That's what we're here for. Everyone needs friends.
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Seriously, thank you and all the rest for your responses. I really don't mean to be the resident drama queen here, and I feel bad for making you guys my support system.OK, I know I said that I'd stop asking, but I need some serious real-world advice. I really don't know who else to ask about this: ** spoiler omitted **I don't think anyone has asked you to stop. I think in general that's a useful thing to do here, among internet friends. Even though my biggest "I wish I could talk to FAWTL for advice on this screwed up thing" is off limits here, I would never want anyone else to feel they couldn't come here for advice.
Take care.
I wish I could help, but don't have anything useful to contribute except good wishes for a cool and talented person.
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Morning, all. What did I miss?
Well, Dave made plans to meet Jess and Mike at the convention, little realizing that the pair had signed him up to participate in My Little Pony Cosplay. Meanwhile, Max and Gary's weekend plans were disrupted by a sudden change in the weather blanketing the entire city in a massive dust storm. And, across town, Scott and Patrick's adventure through....No, wait! That's my soap opera!
I am far too young to be a bitter, cynical old codger.
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I am far too young to be a bitter, cynical old codger.
hands Orthos a cane and points him in the direction of the rocking chair-covered front porch
Welcome and please take your seat. The young whippersnappers will be along shortly for you to yell at.
I wouldn't be surprised to actually be using a cane in 5-10 years at the rate my knee's going. I've already been wearing a brace on it for a year now.
Maybe after, when I can actually afford it >_>
Watch out for them whippersnappers stealing your cane! I lose a lot of canes that way.
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That brings up an interesting situation:
Presumably within our lifetimes industry will develop sufficient bio engineering tech to make cybernetic replacements of damaged limbs/organs/etc a reality.
How would my fellow FAWTLY Folk feel about such things? Would you be uncomfortable with it? I suppose it would depend on the situation, and what the tech is like.
Hnnnnnnnaaargh.
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Of course, we do already have prosthetic limbs of various types, but I don't know if any of those are as...automated....as what we may sometimes think of when we think of cybernetics. I.E. they don't have the mechanization we might think of that makes them duplicate the fine motor movements of...let's say...a hand.
That brings up an interesting situation:
Presumably within our lifetimes industry will develop sufficient bio engineering tech to make cybernetic replacements of damaged limbs/organs/etc a reality.
How would my fellow FAWTLY Folk feel about such things? Would you be uncomfortable with it? I suppose it would depend on the situation, and what the tech is like.
I wouldn't have much issue with it, myself. We already have fake prostheses that make attempts to look real; a functional replacement is the logical next step. It certainly makes the prospect of injuries like that less daunting - still a horrible thing to go through, but possibly not permanently crippling.
I think the biggest issue (at least when we're just talking about artificial limb/organ/etc. replacements, before we get to full mental/tech equivalency and start looking into transhumanist philosophy stuff) will be something relatively minor for those of us who aren't sports fans - whether or not people with functional artificial limbs will be allowed to participate in contests of endurance, skill, or stamina, much like the recent Olympics thing with the guy with the fake legs. Not an issue for me personally though.
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I've always found the most fascinating tech, in that regard, to be attempts to recreate various human senses such as sight and hearing. I think we have the tech to create viable "replacement parts" or augmenations. What we seem to lack is the necessary hardware/software and knowledge to integrate such tech with our brains.
I've always found the most fascinating tech, in that regard, to be attempts to recreate various human senses such as sight and hearing. I think we have the tech to create viable "replacement parts" or augmenations. What we seem to lack is the necessary hardware/software and knowledge to integrate such tech with our brains.
THIS PROJECT WILL BE COMPLETE SOON. THEN ALL WILL BE WELCOME AMONG THE MANY.
hi everyone
That brings up an interesting situation:
Presumably within our lifetimes industry will develop sufficient bio engineering tech to make cybernetic replacements of damaged limbs/organs/etc a reality.
How would my fellow FAWTLY Folk feel about such things? Would you be uncomfortable with it? I suppose it would depend on the situation, and what the tech is like.
I for one welcome our new prosthetic masters.
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Morning, all. What did I miss?Well, Dave made plans to meet Jess and Mike at the convention, little realizing that the pair had signed him up to participate in My Little Pony Cosplay. Meanwhile, Max and Gary's weekend plans were disrupted by a sudden change in the weather blanketing the entire city in a massive dust storm. And, across town, Scott and Patrick's adventure through....No, wait! That's my soap opera!
I don't know the new ponies. :( I still have mine from childhood, however. Poor Melody got run over by a lawnmower...
hi everyone
*jumps up from couch*
IT WASNN'T ME
hi everyone*jumps up from couch*
IT WASNN'T ME
Yeah it were, I saw'ed ya!
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I've always found the most fascinating tech, in that regard, to be attempts to recreate various human senses such as sight and hearing. I think we have the tech to create viable "replacement parts" or augmenations. What we seem to lack is the necessary hardware/software and knowledge to integrate such tech with our brains.
We're working on it. There've been some good strides made:
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I am far too young to be a bitter, cynical old codger.
You're twelve?!
I've always found the most fascinating tech, in that regard, to be attempts to recreate various human senses such as sight and hearing. I think we have the tech to create viable "replacement parts" or augmenations. What we seem to lack is the necessary hardware/software and knowledge to integrate such tech with our brains.We're working on it. There've been some good strides made:
And work on rudimentary optic sensor implants is in constant progress too.
I am far too young to be a bitter, cynical old codger.You're twelve?!
Sometimes I wish. Though I'll be playing a 10-12 year old in a few months.
No, I'm 27.
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And work on rudimentary optic sensor implants is in constant progress too.I've always found the most fascinating tech, in that regard, to be attempts to recreate various human senses such as sight and hearing. I think we have the tech to create viable "replacement parts" or augmenations. What we seem to lack is the necessary hardware/software and knowledge to integrate such tech with our brains.We're working on it. There've been some good strides made:
I had an impression some progress was being made in that area, but then I couldn't find any websites on it, so I didn't bring it up. :)
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I am far too young to be a bitter, cynical old codger.You're twelve?!Sometimes I wish. Though I'll be playing a 10-12 year old in a few months.
No, I'm 27.
Git off my lawn!
::fires into the air::
::cats yowl and scatter::
Oh no, no babies, it's okay. Mommy's sorry....
Now look what you did!
If the children are being that obnoxious, then clearly they aren't getting regular nightly beatings from their parents.Of course not. These are the kids whose parents show up at conferences, disregard all the emails and reports you've sent about "Little Suzy is disruptive and inattentive in class and has turned in exactly one assignment all semester" and ask you "Why do you hate my precious little angel, and why won't you give better than a D?"
An interesting story about my daughter's math homework years ago.
This reminds me of an incident with a high school math teacher many years ago before Kelly died. It was almost the end of a term, and we got word at the last minute that she was in danger of failing because she wasn't turning in her work. We actually started with the assumption that Sam was blowing off her school work like any angsty teen girl when we went to the parent teacher meeting. Sam said she had been turning her work in and her teacher must have lost the missing assignments, but I couldn't imagine that being the case. This teacher had around twenty years of experience.
Kelly was pretty irate that we did not get word of the problem until a few days before finals, and she reminded them again that she runs her business from home less than a mile away, and that they have our home, cell, office, and even toll free phone numbers as well as email and voice mail. We are extremely reachable.
In the course of this conversation I'm making a list of assignments that are missing, and we recognize some that we know we helped her with so we know she did them. Then Kelly notices one of Sam's "missing" assignments in a big stack of ungraded home work on the teacher's desk in plain sight. Kelly went through the stack and found several other "missing" assignments. Kelly had quite the temper, and I thought things might get interesting at this point, but the teacher was a very nice lady, and she had cut us some slack when Sam had misbehaved in the past. We came to an agreement that she would grade and enter the found assignments without penalty. We would redo any assignments that were still outstanding in the next day or two without penalty, and we wouldn't share her shortcomings with the administration of the school and district. After all this and the final she went from an F to a B. From then on Kelly checked, Xeroxed, dated and filed Sam's homework assignments until her cancer came back.
We found out after the teacher retired that this was not an isolated event, and we actually had a couple of similar incidents with other teachers on a smaller scale by the time Sam graduated at 17.
I had a few great teachers and some really horrible ones back when I was in school in Texas in the 70's and 80's, but with 2 exceptions I can't imagine a teacher losing assignments that I turned in.
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I am far too young to be a bitter, cynical old codger.You're twelve?!Sometimes I wish. Though I'll be playing a 10-12 year old in a few months.
No, I'm 27.
Huh. Only a year older than me. Is it bad that I've kind of started assuming that everyone else on this thread is in their late thirties/early forties?
I am far too young to be a bitter, cynical old codger.You're twelve?!Sometimes I wish. Though I'll be playing a 10-12 year old in a few months.
No, I'm 27.
Git off my lawn!
::fires into the air::
::cats yowl and scatter::
Oh no, no babies, it's okay. Mommy's sorry....
Now look what you did!
*springs and flaps into tree in the yard*
Off yer lawn I is, ya dusty ol' hag! Can't shoot fer chickens, ya can't, ya walkin' sludgebucket! Hope yer hidin' more bullets in all them wrinkles, got plenty o' space for 'em ya do!
*crosses eyes, sticks out tongue* Myeaaaah!
Huh. Only a year older than me. Is it bad that I've kind of started assuming that everyone else on this thread is in their late thirties/early forties?I am far too young to be a bitter, cynical old codger.You're twelve?!Sometimes I wish. Though I'll be playing a 10-12 year old in a few months.
No, I'm 27.
Hey, I am in the middle of early thirties. Yet.
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Hey, I am in the middle of early thirties. Yet.Huh. Only a year older than me. Is it bad that I've kind of started assuming that everyone else on this thread is in their late thirties/early forties?I am far too young to be a bitter, cynical old codger.You're twelve?!Sometimes I wish. Though I'll be playing a 10-12 year old in a few months.
No, I'm 27.
Ditto!
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best wishes and positive waves to you and your family, Jess
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