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Ah, like a lightsaber becomes an extension of a Jedi's arm? Well played, Google, well played. :) -Duxwing

Cool! I just have to silence those jitters I get whenever I think of that. Stupid Luddite sci-fi writers. It's not as slow as it seems, mind you.

Erm... acid hurts. Eh? Yes. Those are hilarious. -Duxwing

How does Glass differ from a phone with a touch screen and headphones, then, except in looking rather silly and leaving impressions on your nose? I suppose that one needn't pants to keep it around, but those situations in which pants are not worn also tend to be those situations in which phones...

Is the removal of that separation necessarily a good thing? I'm not arguing pro or con yet; I know little of Glass. Is this improvement what you meant by "[removing] the separation between the digital/virtual world and the real world"? -Duxwing

Humor is sometimes a defense against overwhelming emotions; perhaps you'd learn something interesting in thinking about why you find death so funny. :) -Duxwing

Re: Acceptance Why didn't you just say so? You only mentioned jokes about suicide. -Duxwing

How is it? -Duxwing

Re: Acceptance Interesting! :) Ah, OK. Erm, my joke wasn't a suicide joke. Overland was using a fuel nozzle as a sex toy and blew up. -Duxwing

Ah, OK. Indeed, officer ranks are more complicated. Here's my (hopefully humorous) breakdown of the officer ranks based on stationing: South Korea: Chairman Afghanistan: Caliph Germany: Oberseer Britain: Knight France: King Italy: Emperor ... :D "Now now, troops, don't have a...

Re: Acceptance Hot sun, parched air, angry locals, and JP-8. Wonderful. Oh, OK. And what of the one who'd laugh at the former? -Duxwing

:) Are you a Marine? Oh, good for you. Another... bit of cloth on your... other bit of cloth. Why do you need good a good credit score to be in intelligence? :confused: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iaR3WO71j4 The funniest part is the plane hitting the building. Yakkety...

Re: Acceptance Were you stationed out in the Middle East, then? At the IED, or at what I described? -Duxwing

Only one way to know for sure exists. Grow old--exceedingly old--and see if anything new crops up. -Duxwing

Re: Acceptance In the spirit of Monty Python: Tribunal Prosecutor: Specialist SpaceYeti, how did Corporal Scott H. Overland wind up as a smoking crater in the pavement of your motor pool? SpaceYeti: It wasn't my fault, sir. Judge: *snicker* Tribunal Prosecutor: It wasn't your fault that what...

I can already taste my foot, but I'll ask anyway: is it a touchy subject? -Duxwing

I didn't say that you poured the fuel in. I said that you fueled vehicles. :) Is this an "I'm not a soldier, I'm a Marine" sort of thing? Forgive me if I step on any toes or misuse military terminology: You seem quite smart. How did you end up in fueling--as opposed to, say...

Smart idea. We are finite, but our size and complexity increases with time, perhaps at a rate exceeding that of our comprehension. -Duxwing

Ah, OK. :) -Duxwing

:) My point wasn't as much about liking them (you'd love them no matter how they came out of your wife or the adoption clinic, I presume) inasmuch as it is about them versus other kids; saying, without much more detail, that you like your kids more than other kids is kind of like saying that...

While understanding the price of each career is important, try to find some passion in yourself, too. :) The only thing that can reduce this pressure is good planning and persistent follow-through. Procrastination is very, very easy and can quickly swallow up entire weeks' worth of time...

What vein are we working in? :confused: I'm contrasting your relationship with your son to the that of the stereotype, while you're contrasting your youth with his. Are we working in the super-vein "Father and Son"? Just like you took the Industrial Revolution for granted...? :confused...

Oh. Forgive me. Awww! :) What makes your kids more fun than other people's kids? Aren't you just making an arbitrary distinction in the set of all kids? :confused: Note: I mean this in the general case, for any set of your kids 'Y' and any equinumerous set of other kids 'O'. So...

Woo! Another model completed... I think. :) Perhaps I lack experience, but I've taken one highschool courses in Robotics, one in Engineering Design, and one in Computer Programming, which came simultaneously with two years of FIRST experience, and with the exception of electrical...

What are your rank and MOS? Ouch! :( -Duxwing

While waiting for the sun to come up (Chuck Norris doesn't sleep) Chuck Norris keeps his head by his bedside to terrify would-be assassins. -Duxwing

*shudders* And yes, I do analyze my personal life. Putting everything in my life--past, present, and future--into a simple, clean model that obeys every single law of logic to the letter would finally remove the doubts and presentiments that plague me whenever I would have otherwise made an...

Maybe have another one and split off? *hug* That's why they call it "leave," and not "discharge". :( I hope that you brought plenty of photos and got the most out of those three weeks. So having kids changes you to like raising your kids? In the immortal words of BigApplePi: Holy...

I love taking the mundane and elevating it to the awesome and the absurd. For example, the imperative, "Close the door". Close it with what, and to what degree? I can close the door if ever so slightly--just a fraction of a millimeter--or I can close it completely, shutting its latch. I can...

Oh, I didn't mean it that way at all. :( I was trying to make a joke about how your bonding experience with your son contrasts the tendency of the father and son stereotype in the US to contain references to pick-up trucks, fishing, and baseball. The "traditional" country song would go like...

I feel exactly the same way. Kids are cool, but not worth the effort. -Duxwing

I can just imagine a nostalgic country song about something like this... Me and pa, we were real tight Playing Lord of the Rings late into the night And I'll never forget that glow of the screen On the Apple he bought when I was seventeen! *old-timey piano and guitar* Naaa naaaaa...

Still on leave? -Duxwing

Any progress, Archie? -Duxwing

Ah, OK. :) Good luck in your salvaging! *yawns* Time for bed. *gets under covers* Goodnight, -Duxwing

Hehehe! :) Sure. I think that you're really stretching the meaning of "control strategy": by that definition, helping someone in need is a "control strategy" because it controls the threat to them. Your logical definition doesn't match the connotation of manipulation. But there's a...

Well yeah, you'll feel sad and anxious after driving her away: feeling like you're losing someone whom you like is a double whammy of loss and fear of later enmity, enmity that cuts all the deeper because you still feel close to them. And though I'm glad that you've found the will to carry on...

Women aren’t that stupid, are they? I suspect that patriarchy is simply the result of men, on average, having more testosterone, and therefore being more aggressive, thereby making them more likely to engage in dominating behaviors. Note that this phenomenon would also apply to a low T...

Oh, OK! In that sense, I agree. Ehhh... maybe. Remember that a guy will only chase her for so long before realizing that he's being used. Hence, agreeing to sex essentially satisfies him for a while and reinforces the behavior that earned him it... ...Eugh. Doesn't holding sex over...

Good thing I'm scrawny, then! :) I'd like to go back to the sandwich analogy for a moment. Someone asking you for your sandwich is asking you to alienate resources from yourself to them, while someone asking if you want to have sex with them, fear of rape notwithstanding, is offering...

Exactly! -Duxwing

Although I’ve never pursued sex, I’ve had no such problem in my life with ‘lesser’ forms of romance. I keep a close eye out for cues to disengage and generally act in a laid-back way, gaining me two accolades that bring me pride to this day : "You’re the most down-to-earth guy that I’ve ever...

Use a boomerang, mate! 'Straya! ... :D But I think that a T.A.S.E.R. would be most beneficial. Point, shoot, and he's down. Guaranteed. Not even a .600 Nitro, the most powerful handgun in the world, has that kind of stopping power, for while even people blown in half or missing limbs...

Not if he just calls the cops. -Duxwing

Now that's a proper roast: a hailstorm of hyperbole that raises feather-ruffling issues. Consider me satisfied. :) -Duxwing

Thanks very much for implementing Tapatalk, Ragnar. :). By the way, and I know that I might very well sound silly in asking, but what is your type? -Duxwing

Eh, it wasn't really funny to me. Everything, or almost everything, that the flamer said was outright wrong or misleading; albeit, they could have meant to do that as a way to cause us to reflect upon how important architects really are. -Duxwing

Both "ax" and "axe" are acceptable spellings, and I use the American spelling because... well... I live in the US. :) -Duxwing

So, my cuddly friend, what happened between you and your girl since we last spoke? -Duxwing