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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 28, 2018 at 7:46 pm
(July 28, 2018 at 4:40 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: (July 28, 2018 at 4:28 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Please do. And vote by person, not party.
Sorry, but I'm thoroughly disgusted by Republicans and conservatives so even in the absence of more specific information, I will cast my vote in favor of the party that best represents my overall interests generally. This is war and I'm not offering terms.
There is a war there on ward, city, county and district issues? I'll send you a flack jacket.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 28, 2018 at 7:57 pm
(July 28, 2018 at 7:46 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I fucking love that show! I got the entire series on DVD. To be absolutely fair, I'm not exactly the sanest person I know.
Scram, you Chomsky-Honk!
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 28, 2018 at 8:18 pm
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(July 28, 2018 at 7:57 pm)Lucanus Wrote: (July 28, 2018 at 7:46 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I fucking love that show! I got the entire series on DVD. To be absolutely fair, I'm not exactly the sanest person I know.
Scram, you Chomsky-Honk!
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 28, 2018 at 8:51 pm
(July 28, 2018 at 7:57 pm)Lucanus Wrote: Been working in the lab since march... Very intense, we had a couple explosions but all my limbs are still attached to my body. Currently on vacation in a literal shithole on the Ionian Sea.
How've you been my dude?
Good as well. Out of school, working in the precision agronomy industry. Makin' them monies. Living life.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 28, 2018 at 9:31 pm
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(July 28, 2018 at 7:46 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: (July 28, 2018 at 4:40 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Sorry, but I'm thoroughly disgusted by Republicans and conservatives so even in the absence of more specific information, I will cast my vote in favor of the party that best represents my overall interests generally. This is war and I'm not offering terms.
There is a war there on ward, city, county and district issues? I'll send you a flack jacket.
I live one district over from that which gave the nation Michele Bachmann, so it matters.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 29, 2018 at 7:34 am
(July 28, 2018 at 9:31 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: (July 28, 2018 at 7:46 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: There is a war there on ward, city, county and district issues? I'll send you a flack jacket.
I live one district over from that which gave the nation Michele Bachmann, so it matters.
On the national scene I'm going to be a party pooper.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 29, 2018 at 9:28 am
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Up early for no particular reason. Reading from various books and waiting for Face The Nation with Margaret Brennan. Rudy Giuliani is a guest today. That should be entertaining. I haven't watched Brennan before, but I hope she grills him good. Read a chapter in a copy of the Tao Te Ching that includes commentary with each chapter. I was hoping for something like the commentaries which often accompany Sun Tzu's Art Of War, being commentary from sages and scholars throughout history. No such luck. It's the translator's personal spin on each chapter. I'm underwhelmed. On the plus side, with my subscription to KindleUnlimited I have downloaded a copy of the Bhagavad Gita with commentary which looks interesting and is well reviewed.
ps. I'm coming to the conclusion that Rupert Sheldrake's arguments about scientific dogma are little more than a stalking horse for selling his ideas about morphic resonance. He points up problems in science that appear to defy conventional explanation, but the alternatives he discusses always seem to narrow down to one: morphic resonance. I feel swindled.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 29, 2018 at 12:05 pm
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*sigh* My poor little i3 in this computer is struggling to keep up. Unfortunately, it's not really a good time to pop for an upgrade.
(Taking a brief gander.... An i5 would clock in at about $100-150. I could probably swing that, but perhaps I should hold off until my finances settle out.)
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 29, 2018 at 12:57 pm
(July 29, 2018 at 12:05 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: *sigh* My poor little i3 in this computer is struggling to keep up. Unfortunately, it's not really a good time to pop for an upgrade.
(Taking a brief gander.... An i5 would clock in at about $100-150. I could probably swing that, but perhaps I should hold off until my finances settle out.)
I can't say it would work... but just this morning this came up on my suggestions list:
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 29, 2018 at 1:14 pm
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(July 29, 2018 at 12:57 pm)pocaracas Wrote: (July 29, 2018 at 12:05 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: *sigh* My poor little i3 in this computer is struggling to keep up. Unfortunately, it's not really a good time to pop for an upgrade.
(Taking a brief gander.... An i5 would clock in at about $100-150. I could probably swing that, but perhaps I should hold off until my finances settle out.)
I can't say it would work... but just this morning this came up on my suggestions list:
Meh. A CPU swap is considerably simpler than moving to a completely new platform, and the price difference once that's taken into account, isn't that drastic. Plus, an i5 is 8 threads versus 4, which matters here. I'm not talking single threaded performance.
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