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Drunken lies.Pretty much.dense cities are awful places and I would prefer not to live in them if I could help it
unfortunately, there are resources more easily accessed within a city than from the country side.
Pfft. You know I don't drink.
Just FYI, the guilt-tripping about "social consequences" and such isn't going to work on me, so you might as well not waste the time =)
explaining that we have a serious problem is guilt tripping?
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Just FYI, the guilt-tripping about "social consequences" and such isn't going to work on me, so you might as well not waste the time =)
But what about the alley cats that have to travel miles each day just to scrounge up enough mice in the burbs to get by.
Won't somebody think of the kittens!!!
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This way layeth politics so I believe I'll step out of this particular conversation.
About time for me to head home from work anyway.
Lawns are useless and awful things. All it does it waste space.
If you don't use it, you don't need it.
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Just FYI, the guilt-tripping about "social consequences" and such isn't going to work on me, so you might as well not waste the time =)explaining that we have a serious problem is guilt tripping?
There's a place for this discussion I'm sure, FaWtL isn't it tho, no offense meant.
My anthropology classes are awesome
It's almost like the earth IS round after all!
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Oh yeah, I work tonight.
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Lawns are useless and awful things. All it does it waste space.
If you don't use it, you don't need it.
Nonsense my new house has its own little wooded park it the back yard. You can't get such a beautiful piece of property in the city. Not a waste of space at all, perfect for relaxation.
Nonsense my new house has its own little wooded park it the back yard. You can't get such a beautiful piece of property in the city. Not a waste of space at all, perfect for relaxation.Lawns are useless and awful things. All it does it waste space.
If you don't use it, you don't need it.
That counts as using c:
I was actually referring to front lawns anyway. I guess the idea of front lawns is to look like you have a lot of land and the resources to keep it all nice and trim? So a stupid status symbol.
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Various hopefully non-political musings:
- I LOVE Albany because it still has that small-town feel, but I'm 20 minutes by car or 45 minutes by BART from the heart of San Francisco. I know my neighbors, their kids, their cars, their jobs, and I even have keys to their houses. To shop I walk to the corner store (run by a wonderful Korean family and with some awesome homemade kimchee), and pick up meats and fruits at the Sunday farmer's market in the same location. And honestly, we have about 40 good restaurants within a mile of my house, because Solano avenue has become a mecca for such places. The key is to find a suburban place that feels like a small town instead of a suburb. My car leaves the driveway once a week for my Sunday game in Fremont. Otherwise I'm on foot. That's the way things should be for most people.
- Unfortunately, then you get the stupidity of modern business. There are jobs for which you have to come to the office: Salesperson, receptionist, doctor, or software engineer all come to mind (the last for the constant consultation with other engineers). There are other jobs (writer, actuary, HR rep) where you're a heck of a lot more productive if you don't have to interact with other people. Businesses can't tell these types apart. I am fortunate in that my company allows me to work from home 5 days a week. But the executives really don't like it. They try time and again to figure out ways to make us come to the office. Even after a financial study showed that our productivity was up and we were saving them $400 per month per person in office space, they STILL want us in the office for no reason.
I get headhunted... a lot. And my first statement is, "OK, my first requirement is that I work from home 4 days a week."
That has ended every single interview. Corporate dinosaurs need to figure out who HAS to be in the office, and who doesn't need to be, and move away from the whole, "I want to see a person in this cubicle for 8 hours a day" and towards the far-more-measurable, "This is the amount of work I expect from this employee, this is how I measure quality, and if they're managing that output from a beach in the Bahamas, more power to them."
I have yet to see a single executive understand this concept, much less embrace it...
- In terms of lawns, I spent 8 years trying to keep my garden mowed, edged, and weeded, and finally gave up and hired a gardener. I make him weep. I NEVER water anything. I'm proud of my 35 gallons per day per person usage. So he sneaks in once every two weeks and tries to water. And if he sees that I see him doing it, he turns the water off. Very cute, but I don't particularly need a lawn...
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There's a place for this discussion I'm sure, FaWtL isn't it tho, no offense meant.Just FYI, the guilt-tripping about "social consequences" and such isn't going to work on me, so you might as well not waste the time =)explaining that we have a serious problem is guilt tripping?
But... but... San Francisco! Transit! No freeways, no parking! 2003 best year of my life!
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Various hopefully non-political musings:
- I LOVE Albany because it still has that small-town feel, but I'm 20 minutes by car or 45 minutes by BART from the heart of San Francisco. I know my neighbors, their kids, their cars, their jobs, and I even have keys to their houses. To shop I walk to the corner store (run by a wonderful Korean family and with some awesome homemade kimchee), and pick up meats and fruits at the Sunday farmer's market in the same location. And honestly, we have about 40 good restaurants within a mile of my house, because Solano avenue has become a mecca for such places. The key is to find a suburban place that feels like a small town instead of a suburb. My car leaves the driveway once a week for my Sunday game in Fremont. Otherwise I'm on foot. That's the way things should be for most people.
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It'd be nice if we could do more of that with the suburbs. Problem is [Political Rant Redacted Under Vigorous Protest].
Have you tried replacing your lawn with thyme?
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Back when I was in high school, I tried to write a story set in San Francisco in the 2040's. Then I realized I had no idea how to write a city I had never lived in, let alone how it might be like a few decades in the future, especially with the unusual situation of economic turmoil and organized business-crime that was part of the setting.
The modern day story I'm currently writing starts in Hartford in 2014. I haven't lived in Hartford proper but I have lived in the Greater Hartford Area all my life so I think I can pull it off.
I think i would be happiest in an area where I'm allowed to keep chickens and maybe even goats.
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Various hopefully non-political musings:
- I LOVE Albany because it still has that small-town feel, but I'm 20 minutes by car or 45 minutes by BART from the heart of San Francisco. I know my neighbors, their kids, their cars, their jobs, and I even have keys to their houses. To shop I walk to the corner store (run by a wonderful Korean family and with some awesome homemade kimchee), and pick up meats and fruits at the Sunday farmer's market in the same location. And honestly, we have about 40 good restaurants within a mile of my house, because Solano avenue has become a mecca for such places. The key is to find a suburban place that feels like a small town instead of a suburb. My car leaves the driveway once a week for my Sunday game in Fremont. Otherwise I'm on foot. That's the way things should be for most people.
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Why take the BART in San Francisco when Seattle is 800 miles away and you can ride the SLUT (AKA South Lake Union Transit, AKA Streetcars)
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the South Lake Union Transit sounds like the right transportation system for me.
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Various hopefully non-political musings:
- I LOVE Albany because it still has that small-town feel, but I'm 20 minutes by car or 45 minutes by BART from the heart of San Francisco.
hm
Is...is this sorcery?!
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Why take the BART in San Francisco when Seattle is 800 miles away and you can ride the SLUT (AKA South Lake Union Transit, AKA Streetcars)Various hopefully non-political musings:
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Nonsense my new house has its own little wooded park it the back yard. You can't get such a beautiful piece of property in the city. Not a waste of space at all, perfect for relaxation.Lawns are useless and awful things. All it does it waste space.
If you don't use it, you don't need it.
I am surrounded by landscaped greenery in my complex. Trees as far as the eye can see, provided you look down to treetop level.
One day I'll go up to the 20th floor, take a picture of the view to share.
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trees are great. I approve of trees.
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I like Olive Garden, and I dress up a bit to go there (no scruffy clothing, anyway).
I believe that puts me firmly in the trailer park.
I'm right there in the trailer park with you.
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I slipped with the scissors while trimming my beard a few months ago and had to shave it all off - which meant I had to shorten my hair by about 1-½ decimeter as well...
My dad has had a mustache of varying shapes since he was a teenager (e.g. roughly the past 40 years). Except, of course, for that one time in the early 90s when he nodded off while shaving in the morning, and shaved it off by accident...
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WE ARE CHASING THE GREEN FAIRY AT LOVECRAFT!
Absinthe? CHILDREN'S BOOZE.
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I think we established that Freehold and I are lightweights in the company of Dave Mallon. Certainly Freehold, at any rate.
And I think I only propositioned Dave once. And that was while we were sober.
I feel tingly.
I deny any accusations of lightweightedness.
You're not a lightweight. You're average. I'm just inhuman.
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The green fairy.
Her kiss is so...lingering...
Which is great, so long as you like kisses that taste like Twizzlers and rubbing alcohol.
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trees are great. I approve of trees.
also, there are lawns and green spaces where grass grows.
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...Have you tried replacing your lawn with thyme?
Why? Because dead thyme smells better than dead grass?
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Translating my own comic into runic anglo-saxon seems like it might be fun, but very little informal old english survives, since most of the literary corpus was written by monastic scribes.
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After a nearly 4-month wait, the copy of With The Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa that I ordered finally came in the mail. Pretty stoked.
Made in manehattan is the best mlp episode I have seen in some time. It makes sense that it aired the day Dave visited NYC.
I also look forward to somehow tricking Dave into being around when I get my cutie mark tattoos.
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Made in manehattan is the best mlp episode I have seen in some time. It makes sense that it aired the day Dave visited NYC.
I also look forward to somehow tricking Dave into being around when I get my cutie mark tattoos.
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I'm right there in the trailer park with you.I like Olive Garden, and I dress up a bit to go there (no scruffy clothing, anyway).
I believe that puts me firmly in the trailer park.
Stop on by. We can drink Schlitz and watch TV on the front porch.
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Stop on by. We can drink Schlitz and watch TV on the front porch.I'm right there in the trailer park with you.I like Olive Garden, and I dress up a bit to go there (no scruffy clothing, anyway).
I believe that puts me firmly in the trailer park.
Awesome. I'll be there in a few minutes, I just have to change into my good overalls.
Also, hands-down the funniest show to watch when you're drunk is Ancient Aliens.
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Stop on by. We can drink Schlitz and watch TV on the front porch.I'm right there in the trailer park with you.I like Olive Garden, and I dress up a bit to go there (no scruffy clothing, anyway).
I believe that puts me firmly in the trailer park.
I will have you two over and cook for you while WEARING CLOTHES if I have to.
Stop on by. We can drink Schlitz and watch TV on the front porch.I'm right there in the trailer park with you.I like Olive Garden, and I dress up a bit to go there (no scruffy clothing, anyway).
I believe that puts me firmly in the trailer park.
Awesome. I'll be there in a few minutes, I just have to change into my good overalls.
Also, hands-down the funniest show to watch when you're drunk is Ancient Aliens.
Bring your .22 and we can shoot some moles while we drink. Maybe rats, if we're lucky.
I will have you two over and cook for you while WEARING CLOTHES if I have to.Stop on by. We can drink Schlitz and watch TV on the front porch.I'm right there in the trailer park with you.I like Olive Garden, and I dress up a bit to go there (no scruffy clothing, anyway).
I believe that puts me firmly in the trailer park.
Cook? We got Schlitz and pork rinds. What you gonna bring?
Bring your .22 and we can shoot some moles while we drink. Maybe rats, if we're lucky.
Maybe even some possums.
Bring your .22 and we can shoot some moles while we drink. Maybe rats, if we're lucky.Maybe even some possums.
And the neighbor has an old pick-me-up on blocks we all use as target practice. Yee-haw!
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And the neighbor has an old pick-me-up on blocks we all use as target practice. Yee-haw!Bring your .22 and we can shoot some moles while we drink. Maybe rats, if we're lucky.Maybe even some possums.
OK, we'd better stop. I'm having flashbacks to my childhood. And my adulthood, for that matter.
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Bring your .22 and we can shoot some moles while we drink. Maybe rats, if we're lucky.Maybe even some possums.
the possummutter forbids such things.
Cook? We got Schlitz and pork rinds. What you gonna bring?I will have you two over and cook for you while WEARING CLOTHES if I have to.Stop on by. We can drink Schlitz and watch TV on the front porch.I'm right there in the trailer park with you.I like Olive Garden, and I dress up a bit to go there (no scruffy clothing, anyway).
I believe that puts me firmly in the trailer park.
absinthe and bonchon.
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FML.
Things were starting to look good with the new job on the horizon. Got pulled over on the way to work tonight for taillights being out. The problem is a blown fuse and don't have extra fuses, so I was just going to pick some up after work. Told the officer so, and he said that's fine. Problem is I didn't have proof of insurance because we went paperless a couple years ago and never remembered to print off the proof. He says ok I'm going to have to write you a ticket for that, but just bring your proof in to the courthouse and it'll be dropped. Called my wife and told her about it after getting to work, and she says she thinks it lapsed because we didn't have the money to renew (she handles the bills). Driving without insurance is a class 2 misdemeanor in South Dakota which means a $500 fine or 30 days jail time or both. The court date is the day after I'm supposed to start my new job. All I want to do now is just curl up in a hole and pull it in after me. Hopefully if it did lapse, the judge will be lenient and just give me the fine.You should move out to a dense city, so that you don't have to drive at all. I ride public transit everywhere I don't walk or bike to, and it costs substantialy less than parking would, let alone gas and insurance.
Also, cars are the Devil's tool.
With what I pay for my house payment, gas, and insurance, its still cheaper than what I'd pay for rent in a big city.
the possummutter forbids such things.Bring your .22 and we can shoot some moles while we drink. Maybe rats, if we're lucky.Maybe even some possums.
I'm confused, are we talking about possums, or "possums?"
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Also, with the house I have a big yard for my daughter to play in when she gets older.
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With what I pay for my house payment, gas, and insurance, its still cheaper than what I'd pay for rent in a big city.
100%
The guy I was staying with in Brooklyn over the weekend shares an apartment half the size of mine with one other person, but pays more in his half of the rent than I do for rent, utilities, and parking combined.
The two reasons I haven't moved away from Syracuse are a) the record label, and b) the rent prices.
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Holy s@+% you guys Isaiah mustafa is going to be at comic con this year and I cant wait to meet him.
Black manliness overload.