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| Trivial Observations of the Moment; and so it goes.. | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 27 2008, 07:11 PM (81,403 Views) | |
| kline19 | Jun 27 2008, 07:11 PM Post #1 |
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I was walking back from work and there was a massive thunderstorm and I got thoroughly drenched, felt like a jackass walking, until I ran into this guy who's a a friend's friend's buddy and he showed me his new spot (he just got a new place for his hairdressing business), incidentally I was walking right past it, had a chat with him, rain stopped, sun came out, started walking again, past a bar and ran into someone who worked in the same building as me and he was walking inside, we studiously ignored each other... now it's nice out. 8:08 pm 06/27/08 |
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| beckmesser | Jun 28 2008, 12:12 AM Post #2 |
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on rainy days, those dark octobers-thru-late-aprils, i sit next to the cat. she chirps. i’m perched on the armrest of my couch, shaped like a question mark, the armrest maybe half my ass, on a good day, squirm, and peer through the glass at the barometric violence being perpetrated upon my sidewalk where people are supposed to walk. i watch for ghosts, beer-soaked, and lazily analogize my home to a jail. these days, these days of seemingly every country’s independence, i notice weird paint spots on the siding as my toes grapple crab grass. the shut-in cat chirps at me bitchily through the screen. the sky, the sun, the air—it is all so beautiful that I must be out here to assuage my guilt, so as to feel alive, so as not to miss anything. there are sad dishes in the sink but i cannot help them—i cannot go in there. bars of sunlight line my car. i suck the last sip of miller & see the ‘great outdoors’ for what it truly is—the photographic negative of the folsom state pen. |
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| kline19 | Jun 28 2008, 06:10 PM Post #3 |
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"on rainy days, those dark octobers-thru-late-aprils, " hahaha... poor settlians (?) having a cup of tea with a green cardamom.. |
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| kline19 | Jun 29 2008, 04:04 PM Post #4 |
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no guests or anonymous members:
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| suzannahhh | Jun 29 2008, 04:10 PM Post #5 |
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kline were you stoned when you put that last post up? just wondering... |
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| kline19 | Jun 29 2008, 04:45 PM Post #6 |
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i'm a little... going to light another one. |
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| suzannahhh | Jun 29 2008, 06:03 PM Post #7 |
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well I've been the good kind of smoke deficit since APRIL but except to remedy my situation in a couple of days HALLELUJA! then I too will probably be posting things too trivial to be noticed by the Straight n Narrows |
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| kline19 | Jul 1 2008, 03:31 PM Post #8 |
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just found out that if you have a Logitech Webcamera Software (not the webcam Driver) installed on your PC, it automatically disables Cygwin emulation software. |
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| dbablinskas | Jul 2 2008, 05:06 PM Post #9 |
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your first post reads somewhat like a frank o'hara poem. only a little better. |
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| kline19 | Jul 2 2008, 09:58 PM Post #10 |
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hmm.. wow, yea, ok. |
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| kline19 | Jul 8 2008, 08:01 PM Post #11 |
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so this nick "nohowon" is a palindrome, almost, always at the first time i see it. |
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| kline19 | Jul 8 2008, 08:25 PM Post #12 |
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There is something very attractive about a girl reading Gilbert Sorrentino... can't really say exactly what. <_< |
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| Tudwell | Jul 11 2008, 11:07 PM Post #13 |
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I guess this is more of a question than an observation, but I don't get why people put the little (sp?) after words they don't know how to spell. You obviously know (or think) it's not spelled correctly, so why not look the darn thing up? Writing (sp?) is just lazy. |
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| kline19 | Jul 11 2008, 11:42 PM Post #14 |
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yea.. i wondered about that too. i think, many of the times sp is inserted in quoted texts to highlight that the guy who's been quoted messed up the spelling.. 
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| Pointsman | Jul 16 2008, 05:20 PM Post #15 |
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Tonight: Family meal at a swanky restaurant to celebrate Mum’s birthday. Waiting for our food, my parents and sister talk about how if this particular restaurant gave out slightly bigger portions with meals they would do better business (Because portions are more important than the recession and the global credit crunch. Everyone knows that stupid! Gawd!). After our main course we’re one of only two groups still there. The second group are Indian medical interns who are working at the local hospital (mid-twenties, probably). As the interns begin to leave, my mother and sister become terribly excited. My mother bends her head low to the table to discreetly inform my father, who is hard of hearing, who these young people are. Mother: They’re Indian interns working at the General. Father: Heh? Mother (intensely): They’re Indian interns working at the General. Father (deeply interested): Oooooh right…. The interns are now at the till talking to the owner of the Restaurant about how they are finding Ireland. The till is part of a small bar which is right beside our table. Sister (sarcastically): Well, no truth to those stories about interns out on the piss every night then… Father (defiantly loud but still seeming to be talking privately to us): Aye, enjoy our money. Have a good night now. Hmm…. So let’s see here: Wealthy, spoilt, middle-class Catholics criticising a group of young medical interns for having the “gall” to have a quiet meal at a slightly pricey restaurant. Because God forbid young people who work in a highly stressful job should have a night out…. (And don’t worry about the undertones of racism there. If you’re wealthy and respectable, you’re expected to be a tad racist now and again in this country.) Later, after the interns left, my parents and sister had a conversation with the owner in which they obsessed about cancer and about people they know who have it or who have died as result of it. Isn’t Celtic Tiger Ireland wonderful! |
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| kline19 | Jul 25 2008, 06:06 PM Post #16 |
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reporting from the other side: there is a general what-do-you-call joke(?) that India is going to repay UK by colonizing their landmark businesses... Jaguar is gone already.. there were a few others, i heard that's now owned by indian billionaires... a little off/or crude to extend the analogy to white-america would be indians gradually building up things in the silicon valley.. recently Reliance Corporation's billionaire extended a few millions to save Steven Spielberg's studio... (this kind of national jerking-off-ery is always implying that arab oil sheikhs/billionaires are a bunch of buffoons who would have been at each other throats like their dear prophet's time had there was no oil.. ) |
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| kline19 | Jul 31 2008, 09:51 PM Post #17 |
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the pdf maker plugin in power-point is not working right. i need to get three figures converted from ppt to pdf before I go to bed. |
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| Porphry | Aug 14 2008, 08:53 AM Post #18 |
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Reading the names of the spammers in your junkmail-box can be fun: I just got one from "Troy Enginehouse". Loads of others that I've forgotten. One could probably write a novel with characters named after these things. |
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| kline19 | Aug 14 2008, 08:57 AM Post #19 |
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i had a spam mail recnetly titled, "Trustfulness Emotionalize" . kinda heavy for spam gibberish, heavy gibberish. |
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| Porphry | Aug 14 2008, 09:47 AM Post #20 |
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:lol: |
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