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by **CaptOblivious** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 8:34 pm

currently 30 hours since i last slept only about 2.5 to 3 more till i can

by **KDibildeaux** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 8:48 pm

CaptOblivious wrote:currently 30 hours since i last slept only about 2.5 to 3 more till i can

Damn! I'd be a zombie!

by **CaptOblivious** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 8:49 pm

KDibildeaux wrote:
CaptOblivious wrote:currently 30 hours since i last slept only about 2.5 to 3 more till i can

Damn! I'd be a zombie!

i not to sure i am not currently

by **sageoftruth** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:48 pm

CaptOblivious wrote:
KDibildeaux wrote:
CaptOblivious wrote:currently 30 hours since i last slept only about 2.5 to 3 more till i can

Damn! I'd be a zombie!

i not to sure i am not currently

What on Earth is keeping you up for so long?

by **ShoreSlayer** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:53 pm

sageoftruth wrote:What on Earth is keeping you up for so long?

^^^
what she said

by **CaptOblivious** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 4:15 pm

ShoreSlayer wrote:
sageoftruth wrote:What on Earth is keeping you up for so long?

^^^
what she said

travel is what kept me up i woke up at 1pm wednesday after a 4 hour nap so i could sleep on the bus down to Seattle. yeah at no time during those 11 hours did i nod off ... then there was the 12 hour dead time from my bus getting to Seattle and my flight leaving even better though after that my flight was delayed by 2 hours due to a faulty radio. i managed to sleep for about 45 minutes out of the 5.5 hour flight. got to Miami and it seems night auditors here are incapable of reading rez notes since they cancelled my rez for last night that i made a point of booking the extra night so i could get here at 6:30am ( 8:30 after delay ) and have a bed to crawl into so after a long "debate" with the morning girl i finally had a room and a shower so in the end i think i was up about 42 hours with about 45ish minutes of sleep. then i got a shower and an amazing 3 hour nap before my mystery room mates checked in now i feel like i can take on the world :shock:

by **mooyagi** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:11 pm

Best Korea makes the best discovery ever! I knew they were real!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/11/30/166265699/north-korea-says-its-archaeologists-discovered-a-unicorn-lair?live=1

by **Jaimie38** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:27 am

Bachelor Tip- "Toilet paper works as paper towel, but not necessarily as well as the other way"

by **Laura** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:41 am

^^

Damn! Dying to know how Barge is going...but since esentially no one is online that I know of (for obvious reasons)...I guess we'll just have to wait and see when the stories start trickling in Friday morning when some people will start using their smartphones again. Would especially love to know how last night until early morning went....what a killer line-up from when they set sail until like 4:30 am....I would have been occupied nearly nonstop for nearly 10 hours which woulda probably almost done me in for good! :lol:

Before he left, Kay (Tuup) wrote somewhere that he had Monstrosity until 4:30 am this morning and then Artillery starting at 10:00am! Wow....it's almost too much of a good thing, ya know???

by **AlaskaRachel** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 6:17 pm

"I don't know which I'm more excited for - getting laid or spending 10 days in a place that doesn't have snow"
-Jeff Black regarding his trip to visit me for Christmas :lol:

by **Jaimie38** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 6:59 pm

AlaskaRachel wrote:"I don't know which I'm more excited for - getting laid or spending 10 days in a place that doesn't have snow"
-Jeff Black regarding his trip to visit me for Christmas

I hope it snows a metric shit-tonne.... :twisted:

Christmas isn't aboot geting what you want...

:beerwink:

by **AlaskaRachel** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:08 pm

Jaimie38 wrote:
AlaskaRachel wrote:"I don't know which I'm more excited for - getting laid or spending 10 days in a place that doesn't have snow"
-Jeff Black regarding his trip to visit me for Christmas

I hope it snows a metric shit-tonne....

Christmas isn't aboot geting what you want...

Hahahaha

by **DrinkMoxie** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:31 pm

maybe it'll rain the entire time he's there

by **DrinkMoxie** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 5:38 pm

I, just this very moment, made you lose the game...

by **Element0s** » Thu Dec 06, 2012 11:10 am

really

by **Laura** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 5:18 am

This afternoon, the department where I work is having a big retirement party for a colleague who I've worked with for 21 years. She is without doubt my favorite person there and it just won't be the same without her. Of course, I'm very happy for her embarking on this next stage, but really sad to see her leave. :(

On a similar nostalgic kind of note, I volunteered all day yesterday at my 8th grader's K-8 school.....a holiday event that I've been involved with since she started there at age 5. Kinda sad it is her last year there (and our older daughter has already moved on to high school)....

As I often think....where did the time go??

by **Laura** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 5:55 am

Oh man...just about now, all the Bargers are getting ready to leave the ship! I'm sure many of us remember that buzzkill feeling after pulling an all-nighter on the final night. I think I'm almost feeling a vicarious hangover at the moment. :beerwink:

I hope all went well, and can't wait to hear from everyone!!

by **CaptOblivious** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 11:05 am

very quick review of barge ......... i need sleep badly i saw over 40 sets onbroad i think and still did boleros after on the last night i will get the final numbers and a proper review in a few days once i have slept and had a chance to write something

by **Metalwrath** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 2:08 am

Kinda shocked by the carry on of people in Dublin.
The other day 3 guys got into a fight with some guy on one of the streets and they knocked the guy onto the road just before a bus was passing which resulted in the bus driving over the guys head and decapitating him.The police are investigating wheter they punched him and he fell on the road or if he was punched on the raod.But does it really matter?The result of their violence is responsible for a needless death.

Website · by **Conrad** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 4:28 am

BOOM! And I reach a milestone, 1000 posts and Ensign, bitches!

by **DrinkMoxie** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:59 am

Conrad wrote:BOOM! And I reach a milestone, 1000 posts and Ensign, bitches!

put this in the forum rank thread, dude... and congrats!

by **KDibildeaux** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 11:37 am

Metalwrath wrote:Kinda shocked by the carry on of people in Dublin.
The other day 3 guys got into a fight with some guy on one of the streets and they knocked the guy onto the road just before a bus was passing which resulted in the bus driving over the guys head and decapitating him.The police are investigating wheter they punched him and he fell on the road or if he was punched on the raod.But does it really matter?The result of their violence is responsible for a needless death.

Holy shit, that's horrible!

by **EvilDan** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 1:10 pm

Just realized that this is the first time I haven't had "sea legs" after getting off a cruise ship. Weird. It normally feels like I'm still on the ocean for a while.

by **mooyagi** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 2:55 pm

EvilDan wrote:Just realized that this is the first time I haven't had "sea legs" after getting off a cruise ship. Weird. It normally feels like I'm still on the ocean for a while.

The waters were very calm this time. It rocked a bit early on but I hardly felt a thing during the return leg of the trip.

by **DemonNIN** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:07 pm

I don't have sea legs this time.. but it was a bit choppy

by **KDibildeaux** » Sun Dec 09, 2012 9:59 am

Call me easily amused but I ordered a Nightmare before Christmas mug (being the Tim Burton junkie that I am) and it arrived while we were on Barge. I am now extremely happy and excited to be drinking coffee out of it :deathhorns:

by **mooyagi** » Sun Dec 09, 2012 1:18 pm

Our driver from the port to the airport had the best ringtone ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpNLq6ecnjs

by **mooyagi** » Sun Dec 09, 2012 7:22 pm

TWO hidden users are on right now. You sneaky bastards.

by **ShoreSlayer** » Sun Dec 09, 2012 8:10 pm

I thought this was kinda cool...

Andy Weir wrote:The Egg

By: Andy Weir

You were on your way home when you died.

It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.

And that’s when you met me.

“What… what happened?” You asked. “Where am I?”

“You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. No point in mincing words.

“There was a… a truck and it was skidding…”

“Yup,” I said.

“I… I died?”

“Yup. But don’t feel bad about it. Everyone dies,” I said.

You looked around. There was nothingness. Just you and me. “What is this place?” You asked. “Is this the afterlife?”

“More or less,” I said.

“Are you god?” You asked.

“Yup,” I replied. “I’m God.”

“My kids… my wife,” you said.

“What about them?”

“Will they be all right?”

“That’s what I like to see,” I said. “You just died and your main concern is for your family. That’s good stuff right there.”

You looked at me with fascination. To you, I didn’t look like God. I just looked like some man. Or possibly a woman. Some vague authority figure, maybe. More of a grammar school teacher than the almighty.

“Don’t worry,” I said. “They’ll be fine. Your kids will remember you as perfect in every way. They didn’t have time to grow contempt for you. Your wife will cry on the outside, but will be secretly relieved. To be fair, your marriage was falling apart. If it’s any consolation, she’ll feel very guilty for feeling relieved.”

“Oh,” you said. “So what happens now? Do I go to heaven or hell or something?”

“Neither,” I said. “You’ll be reincarnated.”

“Ah,” you said. “So the Hindus were right,”

“All religions are right in their own way,” I said. “Walk with me.”

You followed along as we strode through the void. “Where are we going?”

“Nowhere in particular,” I said. “It’s just nice to walk while we talk.”

“So what’s the point, then?” You asked. “When I get reborn, I’ll just be a blank slate, right? A baby. So all my experiences and everything I did in this life won’t matter.”

“Not so!” I said. “You have within you all the knowledge and experiences of all your past lives. You just don’t remember them right now.”

I stopped walking and took you by the shoulders. “Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It’s like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it’s hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you’ve gained all the experiences it had.

“You’ve been in a human for the last 48 years, so you haven’t stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. If we hung out here for long enough, you’d start remembering everything. But there’s no point to doing that between each life.”

“How many times have I been reincarnated, then?”

“Oh lots. Lots and lots. An in to lots of different lives.” I said. “This time around, you’ll be a Chinese peasant girl in 540 AD.”

“Wait, what?” You stammered. “You’re sending me back in time?”

“Well, I guess technically. Time, as you know it, only exists in your universe. Things are different where I come from.”

“Where you come from?” You said.

“Oh sure,” I explained “I come from somewhere. Somewhere else. And there are others like me. I know you’ll want to know what it’s like there, but honestly you wouldn’t understand.”

“Oh,” you said, a little let down. “But wait. If I get reincarnated to other places in time, I could have interacted with myself at some point.”

“Sure. Happens all the time. And with both lives only aware of their own lifespan you don’t even know it’s happening.”

“So what’s the point of it all?”

“Seriously?” I asked. “Seriously? You’re asking me for the meaning of life? Isn’t that a little stereotypical?”

“Well it’s a reasonable question,” you persisted.

I looked you in the eye. “The meaning of life, the reason I made this whole universe, is for you to mature.”

“You mean mankind? You want us to mature?”

“No, just you. I made this whole universe for you. With each new life you grow and mature and become a larger and greater intellect.”

“Just me? What about everyone else?”

“There is no one else,” I said. “In this universe, there’s just you and me.”

You stared blankly at me. “But all the people on earth…”

“All you. Different incarnations of you.”

“Wait. I’m everyone!?”

“Now you’re getting it,” I said, with a congratulatory slap on the back.

“I’m every human being who ever lived?”

“Or who will ever live, yes.”

“I’m Abraham Lincoln?”

“And you’re John Wilkes Booth, too,” I added.

“I’m Hitler?” You said, appalled.

“And you’re the millions he killed.”

“I’m Jesus?”

“And you’re everyone who followed him.”

You fell silent.

“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”

You thought for a long time.

“Why?” You asked me. “Why do all this?”

“Because someday, you will become like me. Because that’s what you are. You’re one of my kind. You’re my child.”

“Whoa,” you said, incredulous. “You mean I’m a god?”

“No. Not yet. You’re a fetus. You’re still growing. Once you’ve lived every human life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born.”

“So the whole universe,” you said, “it’s just…”

“An egg.” I answered. “Now it’s time for you to move on to your next life.”

And I sent you on your way.

by **ShoreSlayer** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:22 pm

Save the internet!!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/hands_off_our_internet_i/?biFpfab&v=20018

please?

by **sageoftruth** » Tue Dec 11, 2012 8:55 am

ShoreSlayer wrote:Save the internet!!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/hands_off_our_internet_i/?biFpfab&v=20018

please?

Ha! Of course they are. Then again, can we really tell them not to? The philosophy behind authoritarianism is that the people cannot be trusted power (makes a bit of sense when you listen to the average voter nowadays). No way I'm going to support that in China though. I've been following them in the Economist, and if they're to become an economic superpower, then I want China's people monitoring and calling out any corrupt behavior they see. If governmental internet control is an all-or-nothing deal, then I'll definitely oppose it.

by **ShoreSlayer** » Tue Dec 11, 2012 5:58 pm

sageoftruth wrote:If governmental internet control is an all-or-nothing deal, then I'll definitely oppose it.

So you're saying you added to the petition or no?

by **sageoftruth** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 12:58 pm

ShoreSlayer wrote:
sageoftruth wrote:If governmental internet control is an all-or-nothing deal, then I'll definitely oppose it.

So you're saying you added to the petition or no?

Oh. Missed the part about the petition.

by **ShoreSlayer** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:44 pm

Probably got frustrated and thought, "Fuck it! At least people can't illegally download my doobies!"

http://www.metalinjection.net/latest-news/bummer-alert/former-nile-bassist-busted-in-major-marijuana-distribution-sting

by **mooyagi** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 8:35 am

ShoreSlayer wrote:Probably got frustrated and thought, "Fuck it! At least people can't illegally download my doobies!"

http://www.metalinjection.net/latest-news/bummer-alert/former-nile-bassist-busted-in-major-marijuana-distribution-sting

That's a very large amount :shock:

by **Stained Class** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 8:38 am

Intent to sell? That's obviously for personal use.

by **KDibildeaux** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 12:32 pm

I'm at the apple store waiting to see what kind of bad news I get about fixing the cracked screen on my iPad and deciding whether it's worth fixing or not

by **KeithYorkMetal** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 12:39 pm

My dear gods, lol, a bs thread. I have plenty of that to spill....according to my mother i am so full of bullshit my eyes are brown...LMFAO

by **KDibildeaux** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 2:34 pm

That makes two of us :lol:

by **ShoreSlayer** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 4:14 pm

KeithYorkMetal wrote:My dear gods, lol, a bs thread. I have plenty of that to spill....according to my mother i am so full of bullshit my eyes are brown...LMFAO

You DO realize you're required to read the entire thread before contributing any of your own original bullshit right?

Get to work sir!!

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