They have been testing the fire alarms in my apartment building for four days.
Yesterday it wasn’t so bad, but today it’s been almost continuous for three hours.
I used to work from home. Now I just try to work from home.
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Let’s say you’re driving your car out in the Nevada wasteland. With you are three of your friends. You’ve been driving around in circles for hours and you’ve finally come to the conclusion that you are lost lost lost. So you ask your friends for help.
Mary in the back shrugs her shoulders and goes back [...] Read more »

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In commenting on “this post about Episcopalians”:http://www.thudfactor.com/archives/002927.php, one commenter says both Old and New Testaments are anti-homosexuality. He concludes, “maybe it’s time we all realize that Jesus’ compassion for sinners didn’t make Him tolerant of sin itself, and realize that homosexuality is sin, and is wrong.”
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I really enjoy the “I Love the 80s” shows on Vh1. And the new set has this short segment — the “What the f#$%?!? Moment of 198x.” Yah. All those are pretty wacked.
But not as wacked as the What the f#$% moment of 2003, which has to be the President of the United States [...] Read more »

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I’m not sure what the urge is to map yourself on a political spectrum. I mean, what am I going to do? Suddenly say “O geez, I’m really a conservative? I should vote for Pat Robertson next time?” But that urge is there.
You can take the occasionally popular “Political Compass test”:http://www.politicalcompass.org/ for example, which [...] Read more »

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