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The sunbathing one is not even an interesting question, especially up against many of the ones listed there.

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This is a huge part of why I still firmly believe that this culture of owning guns for "protection" is a vile thing. It presumes that gun owners will be okay pointing guns at human beings, because that is their purpose. If guns are strictly tools for hunting and never, ever to be pointed a...

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I, for one, love that essay.

And yeah, seriously, books of poetry are so much easier to work around than books of law.

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In addition to hearing about this all over the internet, I heard about it from one of my colleagues at work who saw it in the paper at the pita place around the corner. Gotta love what can make serious international news.

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I'm sad to say, Sir Patrick Moore has died.

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I have always loved the interrobang.

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The two most common errors with green tea are A) pouring boiling water on it, as opposed to boiled water that has been let to sit for 5min or so, and B) over-steeping it. Either of those things can make the tea go very bitter.

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I pulled out my old clarinet. Also, apparently I am not as entirely hopeless at reading sheet music as I expected I would be by now.

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My tip for fighting a cold or its beginning:

Whiskey. Or rum. Or brandy. And if you feel up to it, you can dilute it with hot lemon, ginger, and honey.

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The tablets that I have heard the most about, and basically all positive, is Wacom. I imagine you can find them at Amazon? And for my own question, if I wanted to turn a segment of an .avi file into a .gif, any particular programmes or methods that are easier than others? I broke down and googled it...

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Not having read the article, but responding to the quote: A huge part of science-fiction and fantasy is exploring themes of humanity and reality in ways not easily achieved when set in familiar terrain. At the same time, a lot of escapist literature IS set in familiar terrain because it makes it eas...

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I think there is a lot to be said for acquired tastes. There are a number of things that, when I first tried them, I wasn't keen on, but after trying it again and again have become among my favourite foods and drinks. Mostly drinks.

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Schmaltz is a great word.

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It always makes you feel like your vote matters when they call the election before your state has closed its polls. They actually banned announcing any totals in Canada before all the polls closed because as soon as Ontario and Quebec were announced, everyone knew who would almost certainly win, ev...

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That... was really, really pleasing. <3

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I could have used this thread a week ago. That was the first time change that I can remember where not one person mentioned it the day before, and I only found out about it because I was up stupidly late and a few of my appliances changed automatically.

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Lately I've had a cough which sometimes somehow manages to trigger particularly violent hiccoughs. It's really unpleasant.

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Bearing in mind that I have no say or stake in this election, I found this quite entertaining: Whedon on Romney.

(Apologies if it's been posted earlier and I missed it; I don't have the energy to hunt.)

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Buh they gave me a hellish time trying to download that. I went to the British site and foolishly used my Canadian credit card details, as those were what I had with Amazon. They refused to let me download it even after I changed all of my details because "they're not authorised to sell it to m...

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Damnit!

David has this thing where he believes everyone is the same height he is, regardless of any blindingly obvious evidence to the contrary.

Huh... I have never heard of this one before.

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Wait, how else do you eat oatmeal? I mean, I will use golden syrup in the absence of brown sugar, but it isn't the first thing I reach for.

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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough was so damn interesting, it was almost enough to get me thinking about going back into the field of education. Almost . I was reading an article about grit a while back. It was both odd and pleasing to see it as ...

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It could be something in the eye itself. I've had what looked like pixelated patches in my vision appear for short periods of time and my optometrist said it was basically something floating in the eye.

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It is rainy again today. I'm really confused by this whole days of raining thing. Why and how does the water keep falling after 10 minutes, for days on end?

It once rained for a month and my sister didn't even notice. I think it took me about three weeks to take note.

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Steph, it's pretty ginger-y! The recipe I used says to mix it with club soda to make ginger ale, but I didn't care for it that way. The somewhat metallic taste of club soda didn't pair well with the ginger syrup I made, at least not in my opinion, anyway. I swapped out club soda for tonic and was m...

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I finished The Wind-up Bird Chronicle just now. I very, very much enjoyed it. I'm not sure what else to say about it at the moment. It made sense to me at this time.

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Thumbs Sideways: Watching fighter jets in formation flying near the speed of sound right over your home is thrillingly and uncomfortably Apocalypse-y. This is how I always feel about airshows. It's much more so, now, as I'm living in a city with a military base and I believe an RAF airfield nearby....

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So we've had some fairly major flooding here. I am glad of my determination to live on higher ground wherever I am.

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Les Mis is hands down my favourite musical. I am very much looking forward to this!

Also, I so wish I could afford to go down to the West End to see Matilda! I have heard fantastic things about it.

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That is brilliant!

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My copy is very far from here, but then I remembered I had written this quote down some years ago:

"They stood before the mirror, where instead of Peter's cruel reflection there stood a dragon and a unicorn." (p. 152 in my copy back in Canada)

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As much as that instance irks me, I do love how rhyme can tell you about the author's language. It always reminds me of Blake's Tiger, "What immortal hand or eye / Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?". I have since seen that same rhyme structure in several other places in the 18th and 19th c....

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I made a beet and goat cheese tart a few years back which worked out really well. I think my favourite part of it was the goat cheese because mmmmmmmmmm goat cheese.

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I think so, but Ali would tell you otherwise.

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