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    Shevek replied to the thread Post something Weird or Random.
    That twenty year gap, when penicillin was so rare that it was recycled from urine, was because of drug companies trying to figure out...
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    I wish they had given me permission to practice talking to strangers before I got kicked out. Some other practical life skills would...
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    Shevek replied to the thread Buster Keaton.
    My first encounter with Buster was a CBC film of him crossing Canada on a manual railway cart. He did no stunts as an old man, but the...
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    I wish they had tried to explain things. Dad didn't share my boyhood enthusiasm for souped-up cars, but all I could see was that they...
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    Shevek replied to the thread Howdy Partners!~.
    I would never put much trust in the opinion of a single "expert" Most of them are pretty much flying blind, and can't understand a new...
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    Shevek replied to the thread Signs of Spring (post them here).
    Well over 14 hours of daylight on snow drifts that feel packed solid. Nobody is blowing or sweeping this stuff off.
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    I'm still riding a bike almost daily, but I'm definitely slowing down. I'm pleasantly surprised that riding still feels good even...
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    For years I lusted after a computer powerful enough for CAD. Now, I have far more capacity than I even dreamed of then, but most of it...
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    Shevek replied to the thread Signs of Spring (post them here).
    Stands of trees are slightly more opaque, and my nearest lake is about half open water now. Ducks and Geese are claiming nesting...
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    Shevek replied to the thread Rainman.
    That movie would seem far more plausible if the aspie, who had only known institutional life, had about a month to recover between those...
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    When my computer pops up a message about setting up some data-mining scheme I don't want, the choices are "do it now" or "remind me...
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    Shevek replied to the thread Maybe too meticulous?.
    When I wired a small theatre, I put in a custom circuit and two different size light bulbs in the EXIT signs. When the house lighting...
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    In Europe, it is common to have a spider ladder dangling into a bathtub, for the spiders who get trapped there with no line out. The...
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    Shevek replied to the thread Driving Challenges.
    Perhaps you are not trusting your automatic reflexes. We usually don't need to consciously think about how to walk and balance on two...
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    Shevek replied to the thread Empathy for non-living things.
    Museums and heritage buildings are about people's reverence for things. Around here, farms often display the machine that first made...
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