Ah, but it's security theater, not Kung Fu.
As of 12:26 EST the link is working for me. It might matter that I'm configured to do HD...
eric @75:
There's a very good "rouge"/"rogue" pun there — if you speak Hebrew, that is. ("adom" = "red")
Thing to keep in mind is that everyone responds differently to different antidepressants. I'm one of the odd ones for whom Lexapro causes problems but the original Celexa works reasonably well (citalopram has two enantiomers, only one of which is active; Lexapro is just the active one).
And, well, problems can be serious problems. I have heard some horror stories, one of which was in my own family (a distant relative by marriage). Considering some of the weird dreams I've had, I sometimes wonder what evil visions some people see under the influence of a poorly chosen antidepressant that lead to psychosis.
I was 25 when the Wall came down: right smack in between the generation that saw it go up and the one for whom it had always been down. And even knowing that Gorbachev's announcement was the death knell for the Wall, it was amazing when it came so soon afterward; joy, and a sudden lightening of the darkness, the ultimate antidote to the horror of Tienanmen Square.
That said, it wasn't the fall of the Wall that made it real for me; that came when I picked up the shortwave transmission from the newly free Czechoslovakia, being about as close as I could get to seeing/hearing it directly as I could get while remaining in Cleveland. But the emotion there was awe; joy was for the Wall that was no more.
Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little @98:…I don't get the need some people have to go beyond "Nanowrimo? Not for me" to "Nanowrimo stinks and the people doing it should be ashamed".People like that sorely need an encounter with the cluebat of It's not all about you!
"Demonic powers"? So, he admits to being a polytheist?
In re a certain now-closed thread, and the use of loaded terms (other than the ones that caused the thread to be closed):
I think my main problem with Grayson's use of "whore" is that in my experience whores are slaves. Political "whores", on the other hand, are people who've sold out their morals by choice to the highest bidder; a far different proposition, and a horrendous mischaracterization of, and insult to, the victims of the sex trafficking industry.
I had to train myself to talk at the bottom of my range; I'm a natural countertenor (I've taken alto parts when needful) and until I retrained myself I was always taken to be female on the phone. And sometimes if I'm excited I forget the training.
(I nearly got carded the other day by someone who blamed my cap, but given the rest of me I think she was reacting to more than just sartorial evidence.)
I had problems with letter order until I (deliberately) imprinted myself with the Backwards Alphabet Song (from, I think, Sesame Street) which forced me to think about the whole thing.
Replacing one Higher Power with another. I guess it could be argued that one is more reliable but the other is safer. (Hm, which relates to the "maybe you don't want the Supreme Being's attention" bit.)
Ah, yes. Neither dextromethorphan nor codeine help me much with cough; in addition, I'm one of those folks for whom codeine doesn't metabolize into morphine. Oh, and my body shrugs off pretty much anything else short of anesthesia intended to put me to sleep. Severe coughs are fun.
I can be both visible (to other customers) and invisible (to employees) simultaneously. I'm not sure if it's because I exude an "I know what I'm doing" aura or I have Plateau eyes. Or both. If I'm having really bad social anxiety, I'm more reliably invisible. If I'm also uncertain about what I'm looking for it adds in, with the result that when I need assistance most I'm almost as invisible as Teresa was. (I'm serious. And it has lost some stores sales. It's also left me wondering if I have feminine mannerisms, or otherwise manage to throw myself significantly out of the default privilege slot. Which is a thought I couldn't have constructed until a couple years ago; all I knew was that it was frustrating. Now it's got a heaping helping of guilt built into it too, which turns out not to help matters.)
Reading: I was reading at 2. This actually managed to get me tagged as retarded: obviously if he's more interested in the newspaper than in the toy blocks, something's wrong with him.... I both speedread (but not to the point of obliviousness to my surroundings) and skim; the latter behaves a lot more like pattern matching than reading.
I spot word patterns, although my specialty seems to be misspellings instead of word searches. Interestingly, while my speed and proficiency in Spanish and French are much lower, the pattern matching still works. (And that particular combination of languages makes Portuguese an incredible eye-itch.)
(This is probably rambly and/or messed up; something about the topic is being triggery. FIIK.)
DaveL @18:
Yours does have the advantage of being kosher, so I could actually try it. Veggie dogs (at least kosher ones) just aren't the same.
Counterpoint: didn't the Bush Administration politicize a lot of departments usually considered to be more or less non-political?
You know, historically pizza was the Italian equivalent of a taco; tomato sauce didn't show up until the 17th century or thereabouts, cheese until the 19th, and it otherwise had on it whatever it had on it. Perhaps fish tacos aren't real tacos as far as the pedants are concerned (Mexicans would certainly demur)?
Mine typically are either tomato or pesto based, with some combination of tomato, peppers, onions, spinach, and broccoli. (No meat; given that I (try to) keep kosher, when the choice is between meat and cheese the cheese wins.) Mozzarella cheese, sometimes accompanied by others if I'm short. I have a marinated mozzarella log waiting to be used on the next one, mmm.
Clifton Royston @69 (...no comment...):
The original vendor-specific interface was SASI, pronounced in the obvious way, and the vendor-neutral version was supposed to be pronounced "sexy".
Avram @688:
There are quite a few people who have no interest in, or no patience for, Tolkien's world-building; to them, Shannara is far better. I can understand this, because sometimes it does seem to me like Tolkien is too busy word-painting to tell the story.
Looping this back to the start of the topic: I can well imagine that in the future, Lord of the Rings will be seen as one of those "high-brow lit'ry classics".
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