Most righties lead with their left - I would rather have my left hand armored up.

Just be careful - Cameron's crime in Stunt Man was hitting a deputy in the head with a tub of ice cream, knocking him unconscious thus leading to the deputy getting frost-bitten ears and an all-out search ending with a really bizarre movie.

I remember a couple of black guys asking me "what are you doing here, N**r" - I looked behind me and back saying "you gotta be talking to someone else". The guy's response was "wow a white guy with a sense of humor". I walked away wondering what had just happened.

IIRC India is often referred to as "the Indian sub-continent" - probably for the same reason that Europe (which is really just a pimple on Asia) is considered a separate continent.

Thank you - He (I) could've use it a couple times there towards the end, crawling through the tunnels.

The 'uncanny valley'??

My true-love gave to me a cthulu plushy for c-mas years ago - it stares at me while i work.

For one thing, I don't use adderall - seldom ever got an a on a test, I mostly cleaned house when I had homework to do. Grammar is a grammar does; in the wrong hands, it just doesn't. In truth, when your grammar is bad so is your argument.

I am proud as fuck that I have ADD and don't give a shit what you are proud as fuck about. From your language, I doubt that you are functioning higher than most assholes like you. FYI

When I installed disconnect, certain connects were hijacked to google disconnect discussion board. I had to disable disconnect to stop weird google behavior - I don't care how good the ap is, if it makes my machine unpredictable it is gone. (the behavior stopped as soon as I disable disconnect from my firefox).

I go down to the local halal shop and buy goat and/or lamb for my stew - they chop it to size for me; duck and chicken we get from friends' farmette; we buy a quarter of cow and share it with other friends. We trade beef for duck pound for pound - the ducks are Muscovy and really good.

Yep, just replace the duct tape once a month - no problem.

Yeah, but it does not hold together well enough to spin which is probably a good thing for cats cuz who would want their cat dragging their poo around (back when I had *really* long hair my cat sometimes would drag 'stuff' around).

We buy our beef by the cow; we know a rancher east of the Cascades who is doing restoration work and uses cows as grazers rather than bison. He gets them at about 6 months old and gets them butchered at about 18 months; they are dry-aged before butchering. We went out to visit the ranch the first year and chose our…

They were pushing this real hard in Tucson when we lived there in the early 90s - a white roof could reduce energy use by about 25-30%; insulate attic spaces and vent them - heck put in a solar fan to pull the hot air out.

I remember the song/children's rhyme - found this version

I was going to post that link! I only wish I could wear shoes with laces (or anything with laces) but thems the breaks, I guess. I do lace my g.f's shoes for her.

Sperm banks no longer accept donations from gingers - just sayin'

He notes all the suffering that the church and he endured in the first paragraph; then talks about being ashamed - never really mentioned the suffering of the victims (at least in this quote).

a) Neal Stephenson and his Baroque Cycle - 3 nice, fat books in the series (just read that they reissued the series as 8 books - a hint at their length); Cryptonomicon (each of the books are about 1100 pages long), The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, and Anathem, both really thick novels.