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Uggg
Posted Feb 10, 2005
Now I know why I'm doing things like typing =tuesday() instead of =today() into excel.
I have a large mobile airconditioning unit pointed at my desk at work and an OSH type person came around measuring temps and my cubicle, between me and the airconditioning unit is 29.8c.
That the air that's been cooled by the conditioner on full
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brr
Posted Aug 16, 2004
I'm chilly lately. It may be new heart slowing medication or it may be an evit presense. Who can tell these days?
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Wow I'm famous
Posted Jul 27, 2004
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Stupid things said about star trek
Posted Jul 17, 2004
Said in a thread on ask h2g2
"Star Trek:
Starfleet is a communist military dictatorship which uses the cover of the United Federation of Planets to give it a veneer of respectability. However, they control all access to space - NOBODY in Star Trek owns their own ship, everybody gets about on Starfleet vessels or government owned passenger ships. If you're not Starfleet, you're little people. Starfleet is able to declare martial law on Earth at the drop of a hat."
I wonder just how many opinions about this SF franchice are based on gross ignorance.
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Dark ages
Posted Jul 12, 2004
I've just read an interesting article on the dark ages
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=3&u=/nm/20040709/sc_nm/bush_science_dc
" Robert Paine, an ecologist at the University of Washington who chaired an advisory panel on endangered salmon and trout, said his team was warned by the government to remove facts that undermined policy.
"We were told to strip out specific scientific recommendations or see our report end up in a drawer," Paine said.
The report includes accusations of administration interference on strip mining, drug approvals and protection of endangered species. "
Or should that be a perspective on 1984?
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