Bulldrek v3.0

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It's one thing to say "well, that's the risks." Those are the risks, very true. The problem is, though, that the military isn't really set up to accomodate the lives of reserve soldiers it sends away for long periods of time. Were my husband to be activated and sent overseas, my family wou...

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Intelligent kids with problem areas are the hardest to catch and help in a lot of ways. The system is prepared these days for either extreme of the spectrum, but those kids who are intelligent enough to find ways to compensate or otherwise get by tend to fall through the cracks. Part of it is that h...

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Freefalling, or uncontrolled descent. Ever since I accidentally missed a bridge when I was 19. At the time, I thought it wasn't so bad, just like being on a roller coaster. Now I can't handle roller coasters at all, because it literally feels like I'm going to die. The same thing goes for rides that...

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I'll have a look at it, if you like. I believe Thorn's got my email address.

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Because she came back. Because we know what happened to her.

Aside from that, it's also some really freaky shit, and guaranteed to make some people want to see what happened with it.

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The husband and I play Warmachine. I play Cygnar, he plays Khador, and my oldest son is all about Menoth. Tis tres cool.

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Me. But Adam knew that.

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Only tangentially related. We got the kids a swimming pool this past weekend and got it put up on Wednesday. Since then, they've been out there every day for hours on end. That's not the funny thing, though. The funny thing is what my oldest did as soon as he got into the pool. He started walking ar...

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Anaka: So are you saying that you need more of an insulating layer of fat OR more excersise which gets your heart pumping faster, which then burns off fat? What I'm saying is that those two causes are why you get contradictory advice. There are different levels of exertion for cardio. 5 minutes of ...

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Basically it can be because your body doesn't have as much insulation, specifically subcutaneous fat (the fat right under the skin) --this is very common for long-time skinny folks. It can be due to poor circulation (dunno what metabolism would have to do with it). Typically, anything that can get y...

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Get a new SSN and change contact info as appropriate. Cancel all credit cards and get new ones under the new SSN. Heck, I'd even change names if necessary to protect my kids. Did it once, I could do it again. From the situation, it sounds as though a single unpleasantness would not solve the problem...

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I'll be there as well, all by my lonesome. Got to have someone to go socialize with.

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I do notes by hand whenever I'm brainstorming or actually taking notes on something. When I'm actually trying to write, I do it on computer. I don't journal very much, but I'm tempted to start an IC journal/spellbook if this Ars Magica game we're making characters for pans out. It's just fun to do t...

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I should probably note, given 32's reply, that I was/am in favor of military action to remove Saddam. I think we did the right thing, if not for all the right reasons on behalf of our beloved leaders. I'm just generally confused by the anti-war voices that claim that us sending in covert assassinati...

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To be honest, I have yet to understand why anyone feels that covert CIA and military operatives forming assassination squads is a good thing. Didn't we do things that way before? And didn't all hell break loose more than once because of it, especially looking at some of the things we did in Central ...

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Landover Baptist is a well known parody site. These are not the Christians you're looking for. Move along.

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Men can get paid Maternity (well, Paternity) Leave now? No. But they can take leave without being fired and their job is guaranteed to be there, without necessarily taking vacation days (assuming they can do without the money). Given that I've never known a woman who actually got paid maternity lea...

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I'm a feminist, if it comes to that. I want to be able to have a career, be paid equal to what my male counterpart gets, and still be able to have a family. Curiously, I think men should get the same thing. Raising kids ain't just for women, y'all. I would like for men to get the same time off and s...

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"We struck down evil with the mighty sword of teamwork and the hammer of not bickering."

I really like that movie.

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Okay, let's review something. Any version of Beowulf that you find (unless you're literate in the original Old English) is a translation. Tolkien was always as well known as an linguistic expert of that period, and his translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , Pearl , and Sir Orfeo are all c...

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1) Work harder.

2) Meet people. (Also known as "network.")

3) Market yourself.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

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I'll be proud to be an American the day I'm proud to be mestiza, female, short... So why aren't you? I think all those things are well worth being proud of. Basically, I guess I'm unsure whether the implication is that America doesn't value those things so you don't value it, or whether you don't v...

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[quote="3278] There is no evidence that the universe is anything other than sensical. Oh, sure, we don't get a lot of stuff, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen /for a reason./ Everything we know about the universe can be considered Newtonian in the sense that it's action > reaction. Nothin...

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"In Your Eyes" -- Peter Gabriel, the Say Anything soundtrack

"Angel"--Sarah McLachlan

"Hold Me"--GlasNots

"I Love You"--Sarah McLachlan

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As someone who.. well, didn't wait until after marriage, but only slept with her future husband prior to the event, I think that what Eli's doing is cool. I will recommend, however, that you might do a bit of light reading beforehand to prepare for the event. Kim Cattrall's book Satisfaction is good...

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Well, yes, but once you have them you don't think about it as often.

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One word: Toddlers.

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I'm going to have the TV off as much as possible. I'm going to go exercise in the morning, then come home and write and see what happens. Basically, one year ago a huge change happened. The event shocked me so much that it's one of those "I'll always know where I was when I heard the news"...

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I'll be running a game soon. A solo game for the husband, and a full game a bit later on. The reason I love Nobilis: 1) It's freaking gorgeous. I'm ambivalent about some of the art, but I can spend hours just stroking the cover and looking at the layout. And I'm a bibliophile in the first place, so ...

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I'm with you on that one, Pistons, although someone did decide they didn't like my chapter in Threats 2. Mostly, though, I want to hear what someone thinks about the culture chapter in SOTA. Even if they don't like it. Just /something/.

And yes, perferably after having read it.

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Actually.... on the EnWorld boards, Anthony Valterra (one of the judges) commented that out of the first 1000 he read, less than 80 failed to follow the directions or were something equally stupid and dismissable. A huge number are well-written and creative, so the bar's been raised for the whole th...

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Damn. On the last day, when I was exhausted, I met Cash, Liniah, DV8, and two other drekkers whose names escape me at the moment (sorry, guys). Other than that, I missed everyone except those associated with FanPro, whom I had met before (Adam, Pistons, Spudman, etc.). And I spoke with Evan briefly,...

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Y'know, to offer the other side of this... it shocked the hell out of me when I discovered I was pregnant. We had basically decided that we weren't going to be able to have kids, and weren't really willing to go through the expensive and mind-f*ing search to find out why. And then I'm pregnant. And ...

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The big problem I see with this question is that it takes the entertainment industry and it's multiple well-known prejudices (against anyone not young, caucasian and male, though young caucasian females have the next easiest time) and projecting those onto society as a whole, and I don't feel that's...

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Another thing you can do to get good credit: pay off a credit card. My credit's been in the gutter for years. During the past year I've kept my payments on time, though, and then finally in April I paid the damn thing off. Now I'm getting all sorts of credit card offers again. I actually went ahead ...

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Wow, and here I thought that was just a really clever thread title.

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I don't think it's any worse than Lord of the Rings, etc. about that. I wrote for Prophcies of the Dragon (the adventure for WoT) and it looked like a lot of fun. Really helps if your group is into WoT, though.

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So. Today I spent 4 hours in the emergency room with my 4 yr old son, who apparently managed to injure his ligaments somehow in his left knee. The thing is swollen up big time and he's not wanting to put weight on it. The doctors took blood and X-rays, and he was very brave during it all, even the t...

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Automan is still on the Sci-Fi channel, I believe, on weekends during the day. Atari games I loved: YAR. Defender. Arcade games I loved: Tempest. Qbert (I loved how you could actually feel him hit at the bottom of the machine when he fell off. I could also kick butt at the game). Gauntlet. Ms. Pac-M...

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The government was to give 20 mil to the city of New York for disaster relief and rebuilding, but I remember there was a brouhaha over whether the money would actually be given or not. Other than that, it was all charity to my knowledge. And it was (supposedly according to the Red Cross) going to be...

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I am so clueless. When I popped by #bulldrek the other night, someone put that @ in front of my name. I had no idea what it meant, but everyone else seemed to think it was part of the fun, so I just went along with it. Hell, I didn't even know what to do with it when I had it. I'm such a n00b someti...

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You want feeling old, try this. My husband is in basic training with a bunch of 18,19, & 20-yr-olds. The subject came up that the year we got married (1990), every who's there with him was in first grade or thereabouts. Old, I tell you. Freakin' old.

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Having had reconstructive surgery on my own ankle, I have an inkling of your pain. I came pretty close to being addicted to my painkillers at that time as well, and when I ran out (I was not given more, as the doc assured me I shouldn't have been needing them by then), I even had some mild withdrawa...

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Okay, did anyone else here send something in? I sent in one and formatted and mailed two for my husband.

And Adam's been singing the praises of Caz's world to me, so I assumed that one got sent in.

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I guess my point is that so far the evidence is overwhelmingly against any positive results in these studies and when seeing articles like this, we should remember not to confuse interest and enthusiasm for evidence. To slightly disagree, I'd say there's evidence enough for studies like this contin...

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32, meanwhile, will tell you that the positive benefits of said spirituality are the same ones that arise from the placebo effect.* He's not joking. I really will. :) I wouldn't be surprised. The idea is gaining credence in the scientific world, however, and more and more studies are being done, se...

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32, I understand you're all about "there can be only one." But that is what's complete and utter crap. The fact that there are physical, measureable benefits to a spiritual outlook is well documented, to say nothing of the mental benefits (which are less well documented). If you really wan...

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DV8 wrote: So anybody claiming that they believe in anything of the kind; please convince me. I'd like to be convinced. Um, not to be too blunt, but... how? It's pretty obvious that anyone who says "prove it" isn't likely to accept anecdotal evidence, despite the fact that anecdotal evide...

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I think at a base level, spirituality could be called belief and faith in something beyond yourself, beyond humanity existing in the world. This doesn't have to be God; it could be a higher order, a philosophy, fate, karma, whatever. The trick to this is that it's not enough to think "It" ...

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Kids and injuries

Brief cluelessness tangent:

That damned WotC call for submissions...