h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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I'm still here.




And nothing has changed on *those* threads.

Here's a little something you might find useful in discussions on certain threads:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=skeptic-agenticity

The conclusion is particularly germane:

'“Many highly educated and intelligent individuals experience a powerful sense that there are patterns, forces, energies and entities operating in the world,” Hood explains. “More important, such experiences are not substantiated by a body of reliable evidence, which is why they are supernatural and unscientific. The inclination or sense that they may be real is our supersense.”

We are natural-born supernaturalists.'

conspiracy

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I'm done with it.

every time i read his posts i find myself doing a "Latka" from taxi for a couple of minutes afterward

i am sure he is putting it on, my spelling is bad but i am consistant in the words i get wrong, his .....it looks like he is trying to be bad at english but can't remember which words he screwed up last time

My personal online idiosyncrasy is that the shift keys on one of my computers generally don't work, so, when I'm using that one, my posts tend to look like e.e. cummings.

Other than that, I actually give a shit about not looking like a bleeding idiot, so I try to actually say what I mean.


As for his response to the lunar question:

'I don't know anything about Shakespeare, but I'm not sure that the Tempest wasn't written by Bacon.'

It's simple absurdity and probably just telling untruths.

not very busy tonight

looks like its just me and thee again

you get the s, i'll put the chairs on the tables, them we can sit down and have a or a or even a

I'll be a while: the youngster's taken the machine for the bedtime youtube ritual.

I'm doing the and bedtime ritual.

lucky you

notill tuesday for me

i do have 39 cans in the fridge for next week

(oh. I've found another computer.)


I'm fortunate in that I make my own


and


and, if the truth be known,




And, as you may have overheard on other threads, I have a very fine microbrewery within stumbling distance of my front door.


But now, I really should get back to my personal evening ritual of dipping into each of the many books I'm reading at the same time.

I'll look back in now and then, but in an hour or two I shall be heading for world.

i am kicking the idea of brewing around a bit

the wife wants me to cut down a bit and loose some weight at the moment

so who knows

(The following is sincerely intended as a joke, not a suggestion)

A few years ago I cut down a bit on the wife.


But seriously, I find a wonderful way to lose some weight is a totally radical method I discovered a few years ago:



eat less and get more exercise.

I found that considering the caloric allowance of Darfur refugees in UN camps (about 1000 calories a day after funding cutbacks from donor countries a few years ago) quickly put things into perspective. For a number of months I roughly kept track of my calories, ate what I wanted within the limits of 1500 to 2000 a day (including fermented products), took some multivitamins just in case, got into a fairly regular routine of stationary bike and walking or biking for shorter errands (significant in this city, which caters to the automobile), and I lost forty pounds in short order with little pain.

Of course, like the burnt out lightbulb in the psychiatrists office, you have to want to change.

Just after I posted that last post, the power went out.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Severe+storm+warnings+continued/1805292/story.html

Power was finally restored here about two hours ago.

Now I have to go see if anything's left of my garden.

why would the power going out threaten your garden???

do you have an electric fence to keep out raiding mutant hordes???

do you grow a "special herb" in forced light hydroponic conditions??

in a word:


hail.


and actually, the wind last night was quite remarkable as well. Many large and stately trees in the neighborhood are either no longer large or no longer standing.



Going out for a bit.

ah the storm,

i had visions of a mad max style compound with search lights and razor wire being plunged into darkness....!?

but then thats just me????

No, the Mad Max style compound is not around my garden.



It's around the still in my basement.