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The speed to fatality connection is due to the speed at which the mind interprets and reacts to a 'danger.' At 65-70mph, in the average person, the brain registers enough of a danger to keep pumping low levels of chemicals into the bloodstream which keeps the brain sharper and the muscles...

I disagree. Even if you don't get a chance to talk to anybody beforehand, the best advice I ever got was go to court for every ticket. If the cop who wrote the ticket doesnt show up, it's dismissed (well in CA, WA, AK and MI, havent fought tickets in any other states). Even for showing up the...

Disclaimer - I have yet to play 3e. I am heavily into character development (it's the actor and storyteller in me), but I think it is good to teach new players that characters die, it's not a big deal, it gives them the chance to try something new. Of course, I have been known to be attached to...

25 years last xmas. Aaron

18 with 14 years experience. Hah, 6 days from a new category :) Aaron

This is part humor and part psychodic flash. It comes from watching the first stories/judgement...which had a 2 day turn-around time from posting to judged. This being my first time at this, I thought hm, ok, I can wonder at my fate and hit refresh for 2 days. So I joined up, awaited my...

By the way, this has nothing to do with the discussion really, but here's a picture of me, my girlfriend and Sunshine, as well as my brother, his wife and their 5 y-o son, in the background are a couple of my sister-in-laws nieces. http://www.purgatory.net/pictures/geddak/geddaksbaby.jpg Aaron

Why don't they just skip a couple steps and implant the chip into their bodies? And throw in a couple cameras while they're at it? I'm sorry, I can't properly respond to this without getting much more political than that. So I'll just say I disagree, and would move or face jail before I would...

To clear a couple things up, yes, we have already made the decision. I am just trying to get tips from people with frist-hand knowledge of home schooling. And we will be living in the real world, in a variety of places. To be more specific, I move an average of 2-4 times a year. She will have a...

Thanks for the links! And the firsthand experience. While I am not Chrisitan and don't plan on steering my child toward any particular religion or other, I do plan on teaching her about religions. Also, even if some of the end goals and means of getting there are not exactly what I'm looking...

I appreciate the thoughts and discussion on the if's of it all. I would like to be more specific in my request...if anyone here has experience with home schooling, on either end, I would like to know the plusses and minuses of those experiences. Thanks, Aaron Blair Foren Star

I like Montessori schools a lot. My brothers 5 year-old has been attending one in Connecticut for a couple years and adores it. I like that outlook to teaching, and if I was going to farm out my child's education, I would certainly look into it. As it is, I will use some of the method. As for...

Well stated. When I said there was more I don't know about home-schooling than I do know, I was refering to specific systems and regulations. As far as home education I have more experience, as I learned 90% of what I know at home and most of the other 10% at school. Yes I am sure that I can...

Thanks for the replies. I am in Poland currently. Will be in Kansas march-august, then back to Poland for gf to finish her masters, then Australia, se asia or south america, we're still deciding, for 3-12 months. Forgot to talk about socialization. That is one of our big concerns actually...

I have this cute little 14-1/2 month old daughter (named Sunshine incidentally). And I have been working on little things, playing with her, teaching her to read, to speak, use the potty chair, etc. Eventually we will be moving onto deeper topics. Through much deliberation I have decided there...

Hm. I am going to try to word this carefully so it doesn't sound political. First, I always thought the pants-around-the-knees look was ridiculous and idiotic. Second, the government has zero right to tell anyone what style to follow. Can people wear bathing suits and bikinis in public? Then...

Einstein can kiss my butt. Relativity indeed. A first look at the pictures, a bit of mental orginization to come up with some kind of linear ideas, writing some ideas down, getting the story finished, editing and error-checking it, posting it, done. Whew. Nothing left but the waiting. And...

I put other, because I'm not sure of where my brother picked it up. He heard about it from some friends, asked our mom for it for Xmas (79..I was 7), we got the boxed set with the red cover, b2-keep on the borderlands and those groovy plastic dice. They also sent a box o fI think 6 miniatures...

There are things that kill instantly. Players either know that or learn that. I dont throw it at them all the time, unless they go somewhere that it's a possibility. In that case, ya pays ya nickle, ya rolls ya dice, ya takes ya chances. In a world where there are spells to bring you back to...

Intentionally left blank as realization dawns. Aaron Blair Foren Star