discardia

From here:
Guys, it’s time for
Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day
You must spend the entire day in costume and character. The only rule is that you cannot actually tell anyone that you are a time traveler. Other than that, anything’s game.
There are three possible options:
1) Utopian/cliché Future - “If the Future did a documentary of […]

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English is a Germanic language, without the grammatical gender (die, der, das), verb strength preferences (shift in language, called an ablaut), and adjective agreement (I is vs I am) that weighs down German and even formal English in some ways. Translation between English, French, and German, although coming from the same lingual roots, is […]

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From here:
It’s a “kinetic work of art”, but the moves are surprisingly realistic, as you can see in the video clip from Matt below.

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I downloaded the Beta for TF2 today. And it definitely has the No One Lives Forever 1/2 feel to it. Almost a direct carbon copy feel to it. The faux 60’s kitsch, soundtrack, sound effects… all it needed was a secret volcano lair or a space station with shiny future […]

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I think that as human beings, we are constantly and continually searching for the fantastic around us. Because we all ask ourselves, “Is this all there is?”
Some of us adore science fiction. Others look for the fantastic in religion. Others look for the fantastic by developing wild conspiracy theories.
My opinion is that […]

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I can credit Madeleine L’Engle with giving me the desire and passion to seek out and understand higher level math. When I first read A Wrinkle In Time, I was fascinated by the implications of relationships in space/time and higher dimensions. Probably more so than the author intended, but nonetheless, my mind felt […]

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Colonel Angus’s Return

Schweaty’s Season Eatings

Sofa King

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Creative things said in recent bike rides into the office between my illustrious partner in commuting crime and I:

I have christened my seat with a new name. The ass mangler.
My seat is called the sodomizer 2000.
Have you seen that south park with Mr. Garrison’s IT?
My bike seat is writing checks that my ass can’t […]

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