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I hate when the only way to email a company is through one of those god-awful "contact us" forms. I could live with it if they responded from an address I could reply to and tell them to read my query properly . No such luck, all I got is some useless "help" from a noreply addres...

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Yet another forum locks every thread after 300 posts and a sequel is started if necessary, splitting long running threads into numbered chunks (the reason for this is a mystery to me). Referring to 4chan by any chance? Can be annoying to keep up with conversations, but quotes help a little bit. No,...

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⋅ draw ⋅ play an instrument ⋅ listen to music on a physical format ⋅ record a mixtape ⋅ play Tricky Truck ⋅ run some trains on your model railway layout ⋅ clean and lubricate your model locomotives ⋅ tidy your shelf/cup...

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Post hoping flicky will lose points after this post

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I already posted the only "dick mod" experience I had somewhere in the forum, so you're safe. This is one of the few places around the internet where this is encouraged. Almost everywhere else either gets really really mad when a thread is necroed, or they're automatically locked after a ...

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Even if the axis label was later revealed to be backward, I fail to see how anyone could think a hammer is better than an axe even for a second. An axe can do anything a hammer can, but it also has a blade for crying out loud. When's the last time you cut your finger sharpening your hammer? I would...

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Even if the axis label was later revealed to be backward, I fail to see how anyone could think a hammer is better than an axe even for a second. An axe can do anything a hammer can, but it also has a blade for crying out loud.

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A Day in the Life of a Hoarder: Nesting your collection of empty cardboard boxes for efficient storage so you don't have to throw any of them away. I do that too. Does that make me a hoarder? :oops: Empty cardboard boxes* are a great source of storage containers. And there are many things that need...

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A Day in the Life of a Hoarder: Nesting your collection of empty cardboard boxes for efficient storage so you don't have to throw any of them away.

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humbug. Pay per month for 0-1 book and buy for more? What about OVERDRIVE?! Free unlimited audiobooks through your library card. Not every book, and sometime you have to place a hold, but it goes up to 2x speed and Libby (still overdrive but different app) can go faster (but lacks wishlists). Hated...

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I guess it must really depend on what kind of podcasts you listen too. I think I have heard only one podcast with mattress advertisements. No underwear ads, no post office ads (unless mail chimp counts). Yea, and there is something wrong with the original drawing, but it has been fixed since I star...

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Secret Santa

Spoiler:

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I vote for making Pluto a better planet. You mean making Pluto a better dwarf planet. No, it's Ok as a dwarf planet, so far as I'm currently aware. I'd like to make it a better planet. I see. Have you called Elon Musk about this? First, let's sweep its orbit clear We can probably even use Neptune f...

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Areforming. At least that would be my choice. The etymology doesn't quite line up, but Terra forming is making it Earth like, so Ares forming would be making it Mars like. As noted, the etymology isn't right. Terra is Latin, Ares is Greek (and mixing Latin and Greek is always a bad idea, qv 'televi...

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emlightened wrote:Hey somi.

Sup, em?

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Less points

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Oh, hello!
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Quizatzhaderac wrote:Absolutely, four magic beans are useful, the fifth just leaves you in a sate of "has bean".
Old saying wrote:Four magic beans in a row:

One for the roc,
one for the anti-crow,
one to wither,
one to super-grow.

...and one for the road

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Sableagle wrote:Midwinter sunset makes for a rather good double desktop.

Himawari sunset.png

Thanks, Japan!

Cool. Who made this photograph if I may ask?

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You've reached marionic's house. Unfortunately, he is not in right now, please leave a message after the tone
*beeeop*

flick?

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Maybe, who's asking?

chridd?

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I'm sad to see the site has disappeared

It's cold comfort, but Wayback Machine archived all of it in 2017

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I found out about a nifty kind of sundial called a bifilar sundial. I was able to put a small one together in maybe a half hour with only a ruler, compass (drawing kind), and scissors for tools. It works quite well! It’s accurate to better than 30 minutes* even with only a rough-ish guess as to whe...

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Showing timezones in a graph and not labeling the time axis in UTC? That's a paddlin' Randall chose the time zone he himself lives in. As someone who lives in that time zone as well, I feel that this is an entirely reasonable choice. :D Well I could say "UTC is a reasonable choice because it's...

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But if metric units are involved, you can just use prefixes properly and say "the Earth is 150 gigameters from the Sun" instead of nonsense like "million kilometers" How would you express the volume of the observable universe in metric units using prefixes properly? I'd say &quo...

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The Ever Glorious Flower?

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Anyhow, I hope this "First Post" was done correctly. (Looks good to me!) I'm also a long-scale person, myself, by instinct. Although I'm convinced that as Thousand*Thousand is Million and Million*Million is (Long) Billion that it should continue to Billion*Billion being a Trillion, Trilli...

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Showing timezones in a graph and not labeling the time axis in UTC? That's a paddlin' "Consensus" means all, or nearly all. It means that everyone "consents," even if they have minor quibbles. So a "Consensus New Year" would happen as soon as the last time zone passes 2...

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A while back season one showed up on Netflix, so I rewatched it over the past month. I might mention spoilerish things from subsequent seasons. Mostly it's just random thought though.. Cat Fingers : funny how some things in early episodes don't stick. The Gem Sloop makes one appearance here and ...

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Um.. I saw floor 1258 here sometime this week, where did it go? Alan, did you put floor 1258 away again? No, I'm not pushing the blame on you, we're trying to take inventory here. Well, then go ask "Linda from accounting" if she knows where it is. I'm gonna go down to the warehouse to see ...

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You get a quadrilateral circle

I insert the Red Rover

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Floor 1256 consists of a single room, in which all objects are visible only in the form of Monge projections on the South-North and East-West walls respectively. Some have tried to use the room to teach descriptive geometry, but such attempts are usually disrupted by games of dodgeball, which appare...

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Secret Santa So I think Mark may actually be scum. Will be interesting to see. Not sure if anyone will agree with my point though. Also just had a thought, odds of a cult.... ...are zero. See the rules about alignment changing roles. Sabrar has submitted his first draft version of his item - a Neigh...

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The link works and it's also an image preview of what it leads to

yay/whooo

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Secret Santa Random voting sounds like a great shield to hide behind if you're scum. Blame the dice; odds are it will be a vote for town! But it also needs to be prepared as an excuse to use by being random in previous games. So if you want to use the gambit, you need to use it while you're ...

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That looks very nice! I'm impressed. It looks sturdier than the plastic ones I have. Thanks. I do hope it's sturdy, sides are 9 mm slats and the backplate is 3 mm plywood. I now realised I don't really have a use for it, but it was a fun project EDIT: A little update on the thing: I realised sticki...

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t's impossible to accommodate the low volume people without frustrating the high volume people Good, damn the high volume people :twisted: Maybe have a limit on posts but not on how long those posts should be? I think that would slow down the game even more. If there's no upper limit to post length...

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The new Mumford and Sons album came out a while ago and I can't help thinking it sounds like Coldplay between A Rush of Blood to the Head and X&Y . Maybe it's just me and I have nothing against Colplay (I quite like them), but I feel a little disappointment. Delta doesn't seem to have the same u...

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Spoilertime Uh, oh... I forgot to put in the roleblocker can't repeatedly target the same person thing... this might get painful. Or not. :lol: On game thoughts, I think having only a hundred and fourty characters is too limiting. It really makes it hard to make a good argument. It also makes it tak...

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