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November 18, 2009
I cant believe that I have only known this man for a bit more than a year!! He has become such a part of my lexicon that even my hubby knows who Panda is ; ). Torroid is the big brother I never had, only its not incestuous to get a cuddle from him <lol>. He makes me feel warm and happy and zen and safe, and I love him a TON. I was right when I said that a better partner in crime would be hard to find. I love doing art things with him...it is always an adventure. And he knows how to pick the GOOD bacon when I make waffles fro breakfast. Simply one of the more awesome, solid people that I know, and I am thrilled to call him my friend. *hugesmoooooshofthevariousheartcoveringparts>
March 28, 2009
Charming, intelligent, funny and without a doubt, completely helpful in times of need. If I need an honest opinion or a little help in the barn, I know who I can count on. Thank you so much...
And he fixed my electric fence, shocked himself and never once complained.. HUGE hugs.. priceless..
March 24, 2009
Minä rakastan tätä miestä. Hän on oikein hyvä ystävä. Hyvin huolehtien, halukas ja aito. Hänellä on makea sielu ja paha nokkeluus. Minä palvon häntä ja olen siunattu tunteakseni hänet ja kutsuakseni häntä ystäväksi. Rakastakaa teitä, Bear. Kiitos, että olette minun elämässäni.
Ich Liebe dieses bemannen. Er ist ein allerhand Bekannter. Sehr sorgend , willig und echt. Er hat ein Süßspeisen Seele und ein übel Witzbold. Ich anbeten ihm und bin gesegnet zu kennen ihm und wecken ihm Bekannter. Liebe Sie Bear. Danke als dasein in mein Leben.
*ahem*
I love this man. He is a very good friend. Very caring, willing and genuine. He has a sweet soul and a wicked wit. I adore him and am blessed to know him and call him friend. Love you Bear. Thank you for being in my life.
Aloha!
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November 11, 2008
I'd like to add that Torroid is a bit of a "closet cheesecake photo" fan...who knows?? He's probably into hard porn...but, the proof is in the pudding. Hey...by the way, Tor....I've got LOTS of wormwood if you wanna make some absinthe....my brutha by nutha mutha...
October 26, 2008
Torroid is made of meat!! Okay, and water, and minerals, and probably some random stuff. But mostly, he's made of fun, and wit, and awesome! I look forward to sharing many further adventures searching for Fuzzy Finnish Muppet Babes, and Shakespearean Mice, and bizarre works of art. A better partner in crime, I think, would be hard to find : ).
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۞ Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Plato
۞ Economists might not be a religious bunch, but I do see a frightening amount of 'blind faith' regarding certain old theories within the profession. - from Freakonomics blog
۞ You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. - Richard Feynman
۞ You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry
۞ I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams
۞ Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. - Wyatt Earp
۞ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
۞ A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. - George Bernard Shaw
۞ If anything can survive the probe of humor it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. - Eric Idle
۞ I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. - George Carlin
۞ Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. - Albert Einstein
۞ Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. - Plato
۞ Lack of money is the root of all evil. - George Bernard Shaw
۞ It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke
۞ It's never just a game when you're winning. - George Carlin
۞ Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. - Steven Wright
۞ I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. - Richard Feynman
۞ The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato
۞ My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. - Steve Wright
۞ If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. - George Bernard Shaw
۞ If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. - Quentin Crisp
۞ It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice – there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. - Frank Zappa
۞ A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment. - Frank Zappa
۞ The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property. - Frank Zappa
۞ Gail has said in interviews that one of the things that makes our relationship work is the fact that we hardly ever get to talk to each other. - Frank Zappa
۞ Mohawks may look cute, but they do nothing to retain body heat. - Guy Trebay of the NYT
۞ There is nothing in this world more terrifying that somebody who thinks he is right. - Peter Hitchens
۞ All sorts of new life forms are emerging out of the corpse of the music industry. - Peter Gabriel at a promotion of The Filter
۞ The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
۞ Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden (by way of Gordy)
۞ MySpace is actually where all porn stars go to die. - Violet Blue
۞ Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth. - Mark Twain, via aurelia
۞ Not responsible for advice not taken. - Larry Niven
۞ Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein
۞ The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed. -William Gibson
۞ Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. - Philip K. Dick
۞ The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr
۞ We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -- Oscar Wilde
۞ We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wernher Von Braun
۞ Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. -- Arthur C. Clarke
۞ A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. -- Mark Twain
۞ Life's too short to return soup. - Fang
۞ Exactly! - Mickey
۞ I'm cool with rebellion, as long as you still worship me. - Grrr Argh
۞ I'm an artist....I can make drool look GOOD. - Grrr Argh
۞ Prostitution seems the high road (by FAR) in this instance... - Barbary Blue
۞ A sorrow shared is halved, a joy shared is doubled - Nic
۞ Sometimes nudity happens... - Paul
۞ There's something normal about everyone. - Margie
۞ They may all be going postal now, but it was still there when I left. - Grrr Argh
۞ It's so much more natural when I swallow. - Lola (referring of course to the choce of spitting or swallowing coffee)
۞ Alove - Lola (Freudian typo of alive and in love)
۞ Maybe this group could out-perv a room full of jaded snake-eyed souls with soft pink hands, sandpaper tongues and leather lined orifices.... - Paul
۞ Are you going to bring pants just in case? - Margie
۞ I believe boiled peanuts float. - Denisey
۞ Most things are better with moaning... - Denisey
۞ I'm cheap and anal - PatFireCat
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about me
I think I exist, but you might not think I do. If certain theories of consciousness, or string theory and holographic universes, prove to be true, you may be right. However for the time being, and for the sake of conservation of trouble, please assume that I do exist. I am my own alt. If there are multiple of me, they use the same handle, so as far as you need to believe, I, or we, are one, and you can blame all of this shit on me, or us. No, really, there is only one me, I think, but I, or we, sometimes manifest my, or our, other personalities, especially when I'm, or we're, tired, but all still use the same handle, so it still boils down to the same thing. Except on Tuesdays.
And no, I don't cry over diamonds.
Here in the bay area, we are once a year or so treated to a little snow dusting the eastern hills. If we are lucky, there will be one snowfall that drops enough that you could go to Mt Hamilton (20 miles away from the urban crap, tallest mountain in the bay area, site of the Lick Observatory) and have yourself a snowball fight.
Well, we outdid ourselves this morning. As I was driving to work and it was becoming light, I was having flashbacks to Tahoe or to Colorado. There was snow on every...
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News is trickling out about the identity and background of the soldier who shot and killed soldiers at Fort Hood today.
www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06...uspect.html
In the vein of media for whom one data point makes a line, of legislators for whom one incident is justification for legislation, of the public for whom one story is worthy of discussion, what are we to learn from these details?
- You don't have to be a terrorist to commit mass murder. This guy was in the Army, one o...
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I commented ( tribes.tribe.net/threadsav...dcb5e0a9e) on a New York Times article
( www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21...1pope.html) about the Catholic Church recruiting Anglicans who don't like women priests and gay bishops (is the other way around OK?). And while poking around I ran across this stunning picture. So I looked up 1 Timothy 2:11, which is from one of Paul's letters.
Yup, there it is:
"A woman should learn in quietness and ...
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I'm having some amount of trouble today.
I personally did not know anyone who either died in or escaped the World Trade Center bombings, so I'm looking at the event somewhat impersonally.
2,993 people died as a result of the attack. That is roughly 3000 people who's lives ended, who leave behind family and friends, and all that that entails.
In all of 2000, there were 75,684 gun deaths in the United States (CDC data), both suicide and homicide. That is roughly 25 times the number of ...
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Dust, wind, heat, cold, stink, porta-potties, survival, good friends (old and new), cool people, art and performance and exhibition all over the place, stark wilderness, great food, lots of alcohol ... and that was just the first few days.
I'm going back.
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Tue, September 8, 2009 - 10:31 PM
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Mojito
Irish coffee
Snakebite (Guinness on top, cider on bottom)
Chocolate (dark, European)
Espresso
Five strands of electro-luminescent wire in a Coke bottle. The strands are set off in a pattern by a sequencer, but the time lapse picture catches them all at one.
This is felted wool, by Stephanie Metz. Please visit her site at www.stephaniemetz.com. [Used with permission from the artist.]
The real cost of the war in Afghanistan
(in Pandamoanium)
In order to "refocus" resources on "more important activities", Afghanistan, the British are shutting down their UFO agency.
www.reuters.com/article/id...16X20091205
OK, now we really really need to end this war.
discussion post on Tue, December 8, 2009 - 11:07 AM
Re: Drinking age
(in Questionable. . .)
"They" get you every time.
discussion post on Tue, December 8, 2009 - 7:37 AM
Drinking age
(in Questionable. . .)
When I was coming up on 18, the State raised the drinking age to 19.
When I got close to 19, they raised it to 21.
Why?
discussion post on Mon, December 7, 2009 - 6:54 PM
Re: Quick! Save the fish!!!
(in Pandamoanium)
Oops.
Someone once put a fish tank it the back seat of my car. Then moved the front seat back. Then left it until I got back 4 days later. I still married her.
discussion post on Mon, December 7, 2009 - 6:27 PM
photo posted Yesterday, 10:13 AM
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Here in the bay area, we are once a year or so treated to a little snow dusting the eastern hills. If we are lucky, there will be one snowfall that drops enough that you could go to Mt Hamilton (20 miles away from the urban crap, tallest mountain ...
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Germans eat their young
(in Z's *SECRET* Tribe)
I was reading about the word "truthiness" which was either coined or made famous by Stephen Colbert. It bothers me that so much of our news and resulting public discourse goes on without any factual basis.
So here's my source:
news.bbc....
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discussion post on Sun, December 6, 2009 - 8:36 PM
From WTF Pictures
The only thing missing in this vending machine...
photo posted 12/06
Re: church cancelled due to lack of god
(in Atheists)
Ah. Sorry. Yes.
discussion post on Sat, December 5, 2009 - 4:18 PM
Re: Leaves
(in Z's *SECRET* Tribe)
I have a special feeling in my heart for snowmobiles, having done alot of back woods cross country skiing.
Fresh show, the quiet of being on skis and away from anything with voices and motors, at night. It's like something from a friendly versi...
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discussion post on Sat, December 5, 2009 - 2:14 PM
Re: Do you live in the Bay area?
(in Questionable. . .)
Or teleportation
discussion post on Sat, December 5, 2009 - 2:07 PM
Re: Indonesian Minister Blames Disasters on Immorality
(in Atheists)
Erik, I will check it out. Dawkins makes a similar argument when comparing religion in England and America. He wonders whether there may be less competition (marketing by the churches) in a place where by law one of the churches is anointed, so to...
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discussion post on Sat, December 5, 2009 - 2:02 PM
Re: church cancelled due to lack of god
(in Atheists)
Actually, with the women he's running around with, I suspect he does have a life. Who doesn't have a life is the people that adore him because he is really good at hitting a ball from a great distance into a little hole.
discussion post on Sat, December 5, 2009 - 1:22 PM
Re: Did you know
(in Questionable. . .)
Am I not an interesting question all by myself? Or together?
And if I'm restricted to actual questions, do they have to be interesting?
discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 5:59 PM
Re: Snow
(in Z's *SECRET* Tribe)
By chance you weren't listening to CNOW, Manitoba, were you?
discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 4:48 PM
Re: Leaves
(in Z's *SECRET* Tribe)
> So red means 'weekend' and not 'hot'?
Maybe they know something I don't. I'm not welding, nor going to the tropics. I've got a date with the girlfriend, but it's at the daughter's soccer team's end of season dinner. But who knows?
discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 4:43 PM
Re: church cancelled due to lack of god
(in Atheists)
It can't be just a coincidence that his number was 42.
discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 4:25 PM
Re: The Mythicist Position:
(in Secular Humanism)
Joe, that sounds more like Mysticism. Maybe Mythtics can't spell.
discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 3:37 PM
Re: Is being an apatheist dangerous?
(in Atheists)
You mean we need to throw opposing monkey wrenches into people's thinking? ;) Or rather, we should through straighteners into other peoples monkey-wrenched thinking?
discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 2:51 PM
Did you know
(in Questionable. . .)
That I just joined this tribe?
discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 2:48 PM
Re: The Mythicist Position:
(in Secular Humanism)
> Understanding myths, their meaning & purpose may be far more useful to us. Many ancient religious myths were based in natural phenomena i.e. the sun, moon, stars, planets constellations etc. I find that more fascinating in and of itself - more s...
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discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 2:46 PM
Re: Is being an apatheist dangerous?
(in Apatheists)
Exactly
discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 2:26 PM
Is being an apatheist dangerous?
(in Secular Humanism)
I've been reading Dawkins' The God Delusion, and all sorts of questions are coming up, including this one. If you believe apatheistically, then you probably act apatheistically. But regardless of what you believe, you can still act apatheistically...
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discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 1:23 PM
Re: Indonesian Minister Blames Disasters on Immorality
(in Atheists)
> just to prove that Americans don't corner the market on stupidity:
No. We just have a larger and more open market. With directed advertising.
discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 1:20 PM
Re: what are you thankful for?
(in Atheists)
I'm thankful that those kind of Christians are going to burn in hell on Judgment day for judging others when their own rules say they are not supposed to.
discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 1:18 PM
Re: Christian Side Hug
(in Atheists)
Here's a guy who's advocating the elimination of the side hug in favor of the high five.
blakewell.blogspot.com/2006/0...ug.html
The mind just takes off in so many directions with this.
discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 1:11 PM
Re: Christian Side Hug
(in Atheists)
I was raised orthodox (robes, icons, incense, choirs singing in 5 part harmony). I still have trouble with tambourines and trombones in friend's Protestant churches. This is just so over the top for me, I can't help think it is a joke.
Yes, I k...
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discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 1:08 PM
Re: church cancelled due to lack of god
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Here's another. The Church of Tiger Woods has decide to shut down due to Tiger being a bad boy.
www.tigerwoodsisgod.com/blog/
I read an article by some long time sports writer who said "what's new?". By his reckoning, and he listed so...
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discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 1:03 PM
Is being an apatheist dangerous?
(in Apatheists)
I've been reading Dawkins' The God Delusion, and all sorts of questions are coming up, including this one. If you believe apatheistically, then you probably act apatheistically. But regardless of what you believe, you can still act apatheistically...
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discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 12:57 PM
Is being an apatheist dangerous?
(in Atheists)
I've been reading Dawkins' The God Delusion, and all sorts of questions are coming up, including this one. If you believe apatheistically, then you probably act apatheistically. But regardless of what you believe, you can still act apatheistically...
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discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 12:57 PM
Re: See the best of Spain
(in Apatheists)
Hey moderator ... this is an eminently deletable thread.
discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 12:36 PM
Re: Leaves
(in Z's *SECRET* Tribe)
At first glance I saw cold days and hot days, all with the same low temperatures.
Someone needs to have a conversation with their web designer about ... "visual display of quantitative information".
discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 11:39 AM
Re: Leaves
(in Z's *SECRET* Tribe)
I've been sick, so although it's been only down to the 40s here, I've been feeling like it's been in the 20s.
discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 9:39 AM
Re: Leaves
(in Z's *SECRET* Tribe)
Cool.
How was the drive the other direction?
discussion post on Thu, December 3, 2009 - 6:12 PM
Wanna see Tiger Woods get slapped around?
(in Pandamoanium)
Watch Tiger's wife slap him, then chase after his car with a golf club.
www.youtube.com/watch
OK, OK ... that's not real video, that's some first person computer game mock-up of what they think may have happened.
And ...
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discussion post on Thu, December 3, 2009 - 6:05 PM
Re: a life sized, authentic, full Brinks truck
(in Z's *SECRET* Tribe)
And then there's this one ... Why is Santa so jolly? Because he knows where all the bad girls are.
discussion post on Sun, November 29, 2009 - 9:25 AM
Re: a life sized, authentic, full Brinks truck
(in Z's *SECRET* Tribe)
Hot Wheels?
I did for my ex one time for xmas. She wanted a new car, so I got here a really nice BMW 850i 10 inch metal die cast model. I still have it (the model, I mean).
discussion post on Wed, November 25, 2009 - 5:12 PM
Re: Leaves
(in Z's *SECRET* Tribe)
I grew up in Michigan, which is one place that actually has real seasons, one of which turns the trees beautiful colors. Here, there's warm and some cool interspersed with warm spots and some wet thrown in. Now I've never talked to a tree, or at l...
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discussion post on Wed, November 25, 2009 - 5:08 PM
Re: Hot Dog On A Stick
(in This Tribe Is Too Expensive)
Only if I can wash the cats too.
discussion post on Fri, November 20, 2009 - 6:50 PM
Re: OCD
(in This Tribe Is Too Expensive)
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discussion post on Fri, November 20, 2009 - 6:45 PM
Durian, a fruit, native to southeast Asia.
"Completely rotten, m...
photo posted 11/20
Re: Hot Dog On A Stick
(in This Tribe Is Too Expensive)
Didn't do that much for me, except make me clean everything.
discussion post on Thu, November 19, 2009 - 9:07 AM
Re: Hot Dog On A Stick
(in This Tribe Is Too Expensive)
They make pills for that. See above.
discussion post on Thu, November 19, 2009 - 9:06 AM
Re: The Wet Willy Recipe
(in This Tribe Is Too Expensive)
Something reminiscent of ear wax color?
discussion post on Thu, November 19, 2009 - 9:04 AM
Re: Reminder - Photo Contest - Spiral
(in This Tribe Is Too Expensive)
If I win, everyone gets the spanking.
discussion post on Thu, November 19, 2009 - 9:04 AM
Re: Hot Dog On A Stick
(in This Tribe Is Too Expensive)
Those must be big ears.
discussion post on Wed, November 18, 2009 - 10:22 PM
Re: gives me the willies
(in This Tribe Is Too Expensive)
They would never allow such pollution nowadays.
discussion post on Wed, November 18, 2009 - 9:29 PM
Re: Hot Dog On A Stick
(in This Tribe Is Too Expensive)
If it went bad, it didn't have enough horseradish in it.
discussion post on Wed, November 18, 2009 - 8:55 PM
Re: OCD
(in This Tribe Is Too Expensive)
What exactly does she mean by handbook?
discussion post on Wed, November 18, 2009 - 8:47 PM
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