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AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4690 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Meme Weaver
Are you working on anything at the moment? I enjoyed your writing and would like to read more. Also, don't be too hard on the title "Meme Weaver", I rather liked it.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4745 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Top 25 Hockey Players of All Time | Bleacher Report
Crosby may be a polarizing figure but there is little doubt, he's a gifted player.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4745 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Whatever happened to ringtones?
I've only ever used the ring tones that come stocked with my phone. I guess I'm missing out.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4753 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC
Exciting news today!
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4788 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What I learned as a nude model - Life stories - Salon.com
"My inclination was always to say, “I bet you saw her naked a lot, buddy!” and then elbow him jovially in the ribs. I did not do that – mostly because you don’t know how sturdy 80-year-olds’ ribs really are."

I liked her writing. She has a great voice.

AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4789 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Movie poster trends
"Run For Your Life" has a bit of "Tiny People on the Beach, Giant Heads in the Clouds" about it.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4794 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Léon Theremin playing his own instrument
You've done this? I'm intrigued.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4796 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Myth of the Rule of Law
"I believe that, much as Orwell suggested, it is the public's ability to engage in this type of doublethink, to be aware that the law is inherently political in character and yet believe it to be an objective embodiment of justice, that accounts for the amazing degree to which the federal government is able to exert its control over a supposedly free people".

This, amongst other things is what led to the OWS movement, imo.

AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4798 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Awesome Choreography
?no comprende?

Oh... are you saying you want video of me doing the "robot" at a wedding? Yeah.. .that's definitely not going to happen.

AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4798 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Awesome Choreography
This is great. It is the acknowledgment my one and only dance move needed. Finally, I can do the "robot" at weddings and feel cool.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4798 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Greatest World Series Game Ever?
Gibson had been hurt but was in the locker room receiving treatment. Lasorda would check on him between innings to see if he could hit, the response was "no" each time. Then going in to the 9th Gibson asks for Lasorda and says, "I want to hit skipper". The rest is history: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO-8XRJpgIc

They won game one of the world series because of Gibson. Cool moment.

AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4798 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The paintings of Saif Gaddhafi
The author does a great job as "tour guide". SG's all over the map, interesting stuff.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4798 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The latest from one of my favorite RSS feeds, SurvivalRealty.com
Hmm... if this is "survival", the apocalypse can take me.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4800 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Inside Facebook's massive cyber-security system
This answers a lot of questions for me. Most notably, why I never got that free iPad.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4802 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Remembering 1984's Red Dawn and worried about the 2012 Remake
"I've always wondered what that movie would have looked like with, say, Tony Scott at the helm instead of John Badham".

-There would be a lot more smoke!

AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4802 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Rise of the Machines
Perhaps someday there will be a "machine tax". Any company that employs a machine to do what a human once did will be taxed at a higher rate proportional to the amount of people out of work. It's not too far-fetched.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4802 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Save a Pretzel for the Gas Jets!
Came back for more today. This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4803 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute
That makes more sense than the "steve" discrimination theory I came up with.

steve this might help: http://euri.ca/2011/03/get-around-new-york-times-20-article-...

AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4803 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Church of Scientology launched "black ops" against South Park creators
Something tells me they hired Gene Parmesan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxdx6_LYys
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4803 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why can’t we say "empire"?
"Disproportionate spending on our military while domestic standard-of-living spending is neglected? Check. Permanently stationing our military in forward positions all around the globe? Check. Forcibly deposing leaders who don’t accede to our goals? Check. Propping up despots who turn their local countries into clients of our project? Check. Threatening military action against other nations that are not compliant with our imperial aspirations? Check".

-Spot on.

AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4803 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Church of Scientology launched "black ops" against South Park creators
Amazing piece of sleuthing: "The staff is mostly in their 20's and 30's. They do not go out for lunch, they have it brought in by a catering company". I now envision Tom Cruise descending from the ceiling via a cable, dressed in black to steal a bagel from the catering table.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4803 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Jobs Plan Stalled, Obama to Try New Economic Drive
blah, blah, blah... it's all theatre.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4803 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute
It's free for me. Maybe they discriminate against steve -Let's face it "Steve's" have had it too easy for too long.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4806 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Define: "architecture"
"Architecture aims at eternity". -Christopher Wren
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4806 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Thomas Prior: Machine gun weekend
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4809 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TIL real-life levitation does exist
No worries, it was worth seeing twice. Very exciting science.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4809 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TIL real-life levitation does exist
Seems to be a lot of quantum levitation "floating" around Hubski today. -nothing wrong with that though. Amazing stuff: http://hubski.com/pub?id=6608
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4809 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Save a Pretzel for the Gas Jets!
"cheesecake, tamale"

Thank you for this. Great way to start my day, in fact I'm watching it again.

AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4810 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Still Seperate, Still Unequal
Great storyteller. Hilarious.
AhimMoonchowsen  ·  4810 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Gee, the wheel goes from a dot
Any community is a sum of it's parts. That's what I think it looks like.