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by Mayabird
Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:27 pm
Forum: Great Hall
Topic: Happy PI day
Replies: 2
Views: 1280

I actually bought three pies today. No joke. It was entirely coincidental, too. Boss's daughter is doing a school fundraiser.
by Mayabird
Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:56 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Help wanted — jobless need not apply
Replies: 8
Views: 1347

My mom wants HR people to be the second against the wall when the revolution comes (second, because people only remember the first ones). She told me she would disown me if I studied human resource management (of course, I had no interest in that, but still). There are many good reasons why she has ...
by Mayabird
Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:19 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Attempted Assassination in Arizona
Replies: 10
Views: 1669

Beaten to it by Tevar. Lock or merge threads?
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by Mayabird
Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:18 pm
Forum: Great Hall
Topic: Totally random thoughts
Replies: 151
Views: 78861

The thing is, it's never when I'm intentionally trying to do it. I've tested it multiple times, trying to guess the exact amount to pull, and I'm always wrong. Usually I'm off by a significant degree. If I'm not paying any attention, though, I'll sometimes do this. It's always by accident.
by Mayabird
Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:16 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Attempted Assassination in Arizona
Replies: 10
Views: 1669

Attempted Assassination in Arizona

This was the first link. I'll say more at the end. [quote]U.S. Congresswoman Giffords Shot in Arizona; Six Die January 08, 2011, 4:52 PM EST By Dan Hart, Tim Homan and Drew Armstrong Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, was one of 18 people shot today i...
by Mayabird
Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:46 pm
Forum: Great Hall
Topic: Totally random thoughts
Replies: 151
Views: 78861

Does this happen to anyone else? There are times when I need to stuff a bunch of envelopes, or put rubber bands on a bunch of things, you know the type of work. For those things I just grab a handful of paper clips or wad of plastic baggies or stack of fliers or whatever it is that's needed. And ver...
by Mayabird
Fri Nov 12, 2010 5:48 pm
Forum: Science & Logic
Topic: America's first spaceship factory
Replies: 4
Views: 1070

I thought I'd already commented on this. Oh well. I seriously doubt this venture will turn a profit. It'll likely be a giant money drain and will eventually go under, just as so many pioneers do. There will be lots of problems and possibly a few deaths. And I also think it likely that the people in ...
by Mayabird
Thu Nov 04, 2010 3:50 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Iowa voters oust justices who made same-sex marriage legal
Replies: 5
Views: 954

So in a state of rage I crunched some numbers. In typical elections that don't have polluted Focus on the Family money thrown into it, up to 1/3 (but usually not that many) of the voters regularly voted no to retaining the judges. Always. All the judges. The same happened with most of the other judg...
by Mayabird
Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:43 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Midterm elections
Replies: 15
Views: 1895

Fuck Iowa.

I'm too tired from being continually pissed off to rant again.

Fuck Iowa for ousting the supreme court justices. I'll explain to everyone who doesn't know later when I'm not-tired enough again to cry.
by Mayabird
Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:48 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: UN warns on Vietnam birth ratio
Replies: 2
Views: 608

At this rate, the only Asian country that'll have available women in a few years will be Japan. *rimshot of totally going to hell for saying that*
by Mayabird
Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:38 am
Forum: Gaming & Technology
Topic: Minecraft Review (image heavy towards the end)
Replies: 75
Views: 18442

I should have listened to the warnings! Unlike most people apparently, I haven't gotten into any mega-structure building. The closest thing to that I have is one very deep-shaft mine that hit the bedrock and my current project to strip-mine one island that's basically hollow (not that hard - just ta...
by Mayabird
Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:18 pm
Forum: Kitchen Stadium
Topic: Why Ebert is Awesome: Behold the Pot
Replies: 5
Views: 8031

Thank you. May the rice cooker provide you many easy, quick, and hot meals. I also should note that you can usually get rice in bulk rather cheaply so it may save money in the long run if you use it enough. While I'm here, I calculated that I eat at least forty pounds of rice a year. That's dry weig...
by Mayabird
Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:52 pm
Forum: Kitchen Stadium
Topic: Why Ebert is Awesome: Behold the Pot
Replies: 5
Views: 8031

I own a The Pot. It only has those two settings. It is at least as old and possibly older than me, as I inherited from my mother when she got a new one for herself and we'd always had it. It has produced untold amounts of rice, and rice goes with everything and can be used to stretch out everything,...
by Mayabird
Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:02 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Judge strikes down DADT discharge
Replies: 8
Views: 1030

Umm, where does it say that she was sleeping with someone else's wife? Is it in some other article? It looks like she just had a relationship with some civilian, and I didn't think the military banned personnel from having girlfriends/boyfriends instead of being married.
by Mayabird
Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:24 am
Forum: Great Hall
Topic: Halloween Costume
Replies: 13
Views: 3773

Is this for a party? Are you a reasonably good actor or can stay in character for something? My first thought was a crazy street preacher. Wear a sandwich board with too many capital letters and at least one noticeable spelling error, and interrupt the party at good moments with announcements/rants/...
by Mayabird
Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:13 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: RIRA Threatens British Bankers; English Optimistic
Replies: 2
Views: 585

This makes me think of the scenario and prediction I'd made a while back: someone with a murderous inclination finally gets it through their heads that bankers are to blame...so they end up walking into a bank and shooting the tellers there or some equivalent, killing people with absolutely no power...
by Mayabird
Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:44 pm
Forum: User-Fiction Reviews
Topic: Author Feedback: Mayabird and/or Comrade Tortoise
Replies: 60
Views: 23947

To which one? Or do you mean for both of them?
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by Mayabird
Sat Sep 04, 2010 9:50 pm
Forum: Gaming & Technology
Topic: Pigs Fly! Cows Come Home! Cthulu Stirs! The Duke lives!
Replies: 5
Views: 1591

I'm not going to believe it until people are playing the actual game and confirming that when they load the DVD it's more than just a white screen with a line drawing of a penis and text reading "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU STILL FELL FOR IT!" Also that baby mi-go looks like a sea anemone that was pulled of...
by Mayabird
Mon Aug 30, 2010 3:49 pm
Forum: User-Fiction Reviews
Topic: Author Feedback: Mayabird and/or Comrade Tortoise
Replies: 60
Views: 23947

Have you ever audibly tried to chew out your own written characters for their flaws, say, their stupidity? Because I did say "damnit, Yancy" a few times as I wrote this. If only those PSAs were in-universe...
by Mayabird
Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:45 pm
Forum: Science & Logic
Topic: Terror birds punched prey with their beaks!
Replies: 0
Views: 527

Terror birds punched prey with their beaks!

Well...maybe the title isn't the most accurate or correct way of describing it, but I thought it sounded snappy. Ancient 'Terror Bird' Used Powerful Beak to Jab Like an Agile Boxer ScienceDaily (Aug. 19, 2010) — The ancient "terror bird" Andalgalornis couldn't fly, but it used its unusually large,...
by Mayabird
Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:26 pm
Forum: The Arts
Topic: Frigid watched Scott Pilgrim versus the world
Replies: 8
Views: 2887

Just got back from the movie. I was sold on it the moment I saw the old-school pixel and sound Universal logo. It was a crazy lot of fun and silliness and a lot of laughs for me. ...I was planning on saying more but it's hard for me to make anything more coherent than "Squee!" and "what Frigid said....
by Mayabird
Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:15 am
Forum: Great Hall
Topic: Beloit College Mindset - Class of 2014
Replies: 6
Views: 2059

First glance, it made me feel old, but just like everyone was saying, most of that list is bull. I was college class 2006 and I remember plenty of stuff on the class of 2002 list. Never did like the beige M&Ms. What's the point when there's already brown? Polio shots are still routine. Etc etc. What...
by Mayabird
Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:09 pm
Forum: User-Fiction Reviews
Topic: Author Feedback: Mayabird and/or Comrade Tortoise
Replies: 60
Views: 23947

I would just like to say that if Amy Chan had been there instead of Yancy, she wouldn't have gotten her ass kicked so badly. Also she would've been loudly wondering why there were so damn many robots and why they were built so stinking tough. Because I was wondering that myself.
by Mayabird
Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:29 pm
Forum: Great Hall
Topic: Totally random thoughts
Replies: 151
Views: 78861

So...do other people here have crazy dreams but are too embarrassed to mention them, or is it really just me and occasionally Adam who have and remember our dreams? (Steve, I already know that you can't remember any.) I know we're not a very big or active board but it seems a little odd, seeing only...
by Mayabird
Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:04 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Behold the Market, Thy New God
Replies: 43
Views: 3997

Do economists have falsifiability as part of their theories? Do they ever discuss that or even know what that means? Because if they don't have that, it's not a science.