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    Why can people not use punctuation?!?!?!

    Somehow, all I can think of is Victor Borge's comedy routine... I just wish I could find the whole thing on the net. http://www.kor.dk/borge/puncsyst.ram
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    Memorial Day Weekend Plans?

    Packing the apartment, in preparation for a summer class at the Jamestown colony site, and a move to MA in August to go to graduate school... I might get together with some friends later, though...
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    Demon Lords and Princes: How *Bad* Should They Be?

    The "Matrix- movie theory" of fighting fiends? I could work with that, actually-- every time someone defeat the cultists, dismisses the avatar, and generally waekens the fiend's power on the material plane, the CR of the avatars which can appear get lower and harder to summon... For many...
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    Are halflings hobbits in your game?

    IMC they haven't made an appearance, but there are unconfirmed rumors from VOC sailors that on the island of Sumatra there are small, hairy men that live in the jungles... The Sumatrans call them "Orang-Pendek" or "Sedapa", and on the island of Borneo they're the "Batutut." (Since the campaign...
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    First contact - science or magic

    Probably-- the "alien" has taken the place in our folk culture that "faeries" or "evil spirits" held a few hundred years ago...
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    What's the dumbest thing you've ever had to do at work?

    I currently work at a theater complex attached to a major University, so I usually have lots of goofy theater things ("No, you can't twirl flaming batons on stage") and other goofy university things (Set up a full sound system outside, for a 60-second speech, then take it all back down...
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    The Dresden Files

    Just re-read them a coupe of weeks ago, and the new one just came out, too... I'm a fan, I'll buy them in hardback...
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    Liked the movie-- hated going to see it...

    "Ooh!" "Aah!" and even "Eek!" wouldn't have bothered me half as much as the "girls/ boys have cooties" "Eeew!" did during the kissing scenes... which is why I wondered about the propriety of taking pre-teens to this sort of movie... Damn glad we didn't (surprisingly) have a cell phone incident...
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    Liked the movie-- hated going to see it...

    So, this will probably be a familiar rant, but I need to get it off my chest... I took myself to see King Kong today, at the early show (11:10a) here on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in West Philadelphia... Kong was good-- the movie crowd wasn't. Here I thought I would be safe...
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    2006 New Years Resolution Thread

    Hopefully, I'll be making some life-changes in the coming year... Grad school applications are due at the beginning of February... I need to take better care of myslef health-wise: kick the tobacco habit, work on getting back into shape... I need to take more time for myself socially-- less...
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    You're Joking!

    A man walks into a bar... says "Ouch". A second man walks into a bar... you figure he would have seen the first guy...
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    What's your morning ritual?

    Wake up around 5:00a, use toilet, go back to sleep... Wake up around 6:00a, stumble across the room to turn off alarm, go back to bed... Snooze until 7:30a or 8:15a (depending on what time I actually have to be at work) while listening to NPR... Finally get up, brush teeth, shave...
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    Old sci-fi stories

    There's a good chance I'm mixing a couple of books up... it was 25 to 30 years ago, after all... The only thing that I remember clearly, is the characters were trapped/ imprisoned on a plateau, and the date was July 4th... being patriotic Americans, they started lighting firecrackers, and...
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    Old sci-fi stories

    I remember those-- didn't he have a flying laboratory/ plane, and end up in a lost city of Mongols somewhere in the remote Himalayas at one point? Those, and the "Danny Dunn" books, where favorites of mine at one time...
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    Which hairstyle should I get?

    Well, what would you be comfortable with? I usually go for ease-of-care: just this side of a crew cut, off the collar, above the ears, no sideburns-- and then I don't go back for six months or so, barring special occasions... But then I usually wear a baseball cap, too...
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    Are You Getting Enough Sleep?

    No-- I've been working from around noon until 11p/ midnight or so-- then when i get home I'm wide awake until 2:00a or 3:00a-- then I wake up around 7:00a and drift in and out until I finally get up to get a shower, get to work and start all over again... Occasionally I have to get to work by...
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    Describe your boring side

    I'm Bill-- I work 60 to 80 hours a week... If I go to the bar, I usually have a book...
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    Does anyone else not like Anne Mcaffery's books?

    You sir, are no gentleman... Expect a visit from my second... :]
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    Does anyone else not like Anne Mcaffery's books?

    Her: http://www.annemccaffrey.net/
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