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14 years ago @ Deep Thoughts - iPhone photo - Meaning · 0 replies · +1 points

I would have been tempted to ask him, "Why does it have to mean something?"

Cool photo all the same.

Maybe all it actually means is someone else hates shopping and decided to test his Swiss army knife while the wife got two week's supplies.

15 years ago @ Secular News Daily - Young kids can't help ... · 0 replies · +2 points

I've hunted for it once in a while but have been unable to find evidence of this study - something to do with asking a kid about an elephant that had been in his back yard. With enough prompting from the adult, the kid eventually believed there'd been an elephant in the back yard and elaborated an entire story of what the thing had done. It bugs me that I can't remember where I would have read about that.

I wonder if this happens because kids learn trust. Maybe they don't even learn trust. Maybe it's like blinking or something. They inherently depend on the adults in their lives for everything they need to know in life so there's no reason for kids to assume guile is something to look out for and be wary of.

15 years ago @ Secular News Daily - Belief in God produces... · 0 replies · +1 points

I remember that Kimberly Daniels thing from last year (http://1minionsopinion.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/with-no-religion-would-people-still-be-this-crazy/). What craziness that woman came up with. Just ridiculous! There's no limit to lunacy if you factor in what the belief in the bible can add, I guess.

15 years ago @ Deep Thoughts - Atheist James Doyle mu... · 0 replies · +1 points

Kids killing kids is a disturbing thing anyway, whether religion is at the base of it or not. It's a hell of a thing for both families to be going through.

15 years ago @ Deep Thoughts - Damn you Jim Butcher · 1 reply · +1 points

That's always the first assumption. If I were a librarian, I'd introduce myself as one. I'm not. I just work for the library. I never went to school to be a librarian and yes, it does require a master's degree in Library Science in order to become one. I was a Page for a lot of years doing the pesky shelving of the materials and now I'm working behind the scenes prepping new materials. It's nice to be around the new books instead of all the stained ones... It's just a term, though. Eventually I'll have to go back to the check-out desk and try not to sneer at the women who put so much religious fiction onto their cards, their borrowing record could sing Hosanna.

15 years ago @ Deep Thoughts - Damn you Jim Butcher · 4 replies · +1 points

Take our word for it Sean and read the rest of them. They're well thought out and entertaining.

I've always been a book nerd. Once I learned how to read I don't think I ever looked back (except to reread a page). At my best (and laziest, frankly) it was not unusual for me to polish off four paperbacks. I read The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest in a day. Same for the last Harry Potter the day that came out. I actually booked the day off work for that one.

And I work for a library so that's like a dream job for me. Oh, all the books that go by. I've learned to deal with the reality of the ratio of books going by and what I could actually read, which has been a big stress saver. heh. No more panic over the books I'm not reading while I'm looking at the stack I requested...

15 years ago @ Deep Thoughts - Damn you Jim Butcher · 1 reply · +2 points

I haven't read the most recent yet but I've been a fan since book 1. I also watched the (justifiably canceled) show and then felt compelled to write on my blog complaining about it. (http://1minionsopinion.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/literary-visionary-why-does-fiction-fail-on-screen/ if curious)

I seem to recall raving about these books to someone who for some reason thought Jim Butcher wasn't a real human being or something. I told the person I didn't care if the books were ghostwritten by Pamela Wallen, they were awesome (Wallen being a Canadian journalist I know nothing about, but putting her name beside a book about wizards and crap just sounded really good at the time).

15 years ago @ Deep Thoughts - Live lessons · 0 replies · +1 points

Wow, that was a happy-sad ending for this picture. Hope they didn't drag a mattress full of hideous bedbugs home with them besides, though. Sounds like they need no more problems.

The fellow I'm seeing (although not as often as I'd like) has a job with an apartment cleaning company and while much of their work is of the landscaping variety, he often tells of stuff he's seen left behind by tenants after evictions or even just hurried moves. For every $50 worth of change he collects, he finds a big screen TV or decent stereo or quality furniture they just didn't want to have to fuss with when changing addresses. Most of it winds up sitting in storage for a while in case the original owners do want it at some point. But talk about a waste of money for every thing left and never claimed. And yeah, we probably have a lot of families in this city who are in a similar cash situation to this one, too.

15 years ago @ Deep Thoughts - Baptist love in Baltimore · 1 reply · +1 points

"In a nod to protest strategies during the civil rights era.."

Somehow I don't see how demanding a free meal based on someone else swearing even deserves a comparison to what went on in the civil rights era.

Stories like this just remind me of the fact that people like to see their names in print. Stories like this make me glad bloggers are around to point to these people and show off how childish they are, too.

15 years ago @ THE ATHEIST JEW - Dear Mr. Swanson · 0 replies · +2 points

With respect to Mr. Swanson, the ideal place to cook one of those has always been the oven, not a microwave. Many's the night I remember coming to the dinner table to find these (or similar) dinners placed before me and my father. The dessert was never an issue (often something resembling a bite of apple pie someone else may have eaten before me). I was always more annoyed over the peas and carrots (or corn) Crossing The Line and invading my mashed potatoes. Worse was finding them drowning in my apple sludge. Why couldn't Mr. Swanson design better plastic covering of each compartment to keep my individual food types pure? While I realize it all becomes the same gloop once ingested, I still liked to eat the stuff in the segments as provided. Swanson made it very time consuming to tidy it up.

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