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Recent content by Shevek

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    Weird Time Zones

    My province does not do daylight savings time. Where I live, solar noon is seldom before 1 PM anyway. Canada's weird one is in the east. Every schedule announcement has to add "*:30 in Newfoundland and Labrador. The incident I love happened when word processors came to a small-town paper...
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    I feel like I don't love my parents

    Maybe we are missing the same gene. Baby monkeys will keep trying to hug an artificial mother that repeatedly pushes it away with spikes being extended from the torso.
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    Do you agree that Technology is going too far?

    Unfortunately, the determining factor here is not the good of society, but the possibility of profit and/or control.
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    The last thing that made you laugh

    There's a Far Side cartoon of a dog on a TV talk show. The host asks "So, how long have you been a talking dog?" The dog is looking at a cue card reading "Well, I've been talking for quite some time now."
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    Post something Weird or Random

    My friend who lives out in the sticks had his landlord voluntarily replace the wood stove in his kitchen with a bigger, better wood stove with more cooking options. Still the same small firebox that needed frequent attention to keep the house warm in cold weather.
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    I feel like I don't love my parents

    FWIW, I didn't feel any of that. Mother was around, with occasional contact for much longer, so it was a bit odd with her gone, but no anguish. To her, babies were like a larval stage, requiring dutiful care, but nothing one could communicate with until it developed language.
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    The illusion of being away from civilisation

    Colin Fletcher wrote the Bible for Backpacking, and he relates that after a few years, he'd gotten pretty good at it, and was able to carry supplies for a month. He walked into the wilderness for two weeks, and stood there, contemplating all the wild, unexplored land beyond human range. Then...
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    I feel like I don't love my parents

    With an AS mother, our house felt like four polite roommates. I never heard or said "I love you" at home. I was given what they would have wanted, and left to my own devices. My job was to make them look normal and in control, until they gave up on the marriage and I got kicked out at 17. I...
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    Today I learned...

    Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who can be convincing actors for short events, like product returns, job interviews or Police reports. When I first heard of the sages describing our existence as a vast illusion, I though they were talking about the amount of empty space within atoms...
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    Post something Weird or Random

    I'd never heard of him, and I buy my vegetables in his home town. Asked about the over-representation of Canadian drivers in F1, one of our lads explained "It's the water. It freezes, so we all learn to control a slide." It's true. People here are great at vehicle handling, but not at all...
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    Today I learned...

    It is curious that so many people value the opinions of actors when, by definition, an actor is good at fooling us into thinking they are whatever the director planned. Also, experts of all stripes regularly make fools of themselves when out of their field. The opinions of certain...
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    Post something Weird or Random

    Well, the bootleggers were racing on horse ovals, so it wasn't too discreet. In the 50s, NASCAR star Jr. Johnson had to miss many races for having done one more run for the family business and winding up in Jail. This was not a scandal. The Bathurst races have some epic scraps, but to me the...
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    Post something Weird or Random

    NASCAR had two roots. They started off running cars very close to stock to help sales, but there was also a long tradition of racing cars that looked stock but were built to haul a ton of moonshine faster than a police car could go.
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    Post something Weird or Random

    Curiously, NASCAR never ran Mustangs, Camaros, and Barracudas, continuing with the largest cars. Maybe they were just easier to see. They were constantly fiddling with the rules to get the closest, most dramatic finishes.
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    One of these days, Alice.

    I don't think it is commendable at all. It was all easy and attractive, not difficult. I can easily prepare my favourite dishes with a hot plate and access to a bathroom sink. Costs are low. I am shocked at all the stories about poor digestion from fast food.
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