amysox

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by amysox 5y ago
https://www.crossdressers.com/forums/ are still around, and still providing a good resource for CDs and nascent trans women.
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by amysox 5y ago
It's phototoxic. If you touch it, getting the sap on you, and then expose that skin to sunlight, it causes blisters and scarring. That's caused by a chemical in the plant called furanocoumarin. (If you touch it, wash that area wit
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by amysox 5y ago
Sometimes this led to noxious weeds being spread, such as the giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), which was brought to Europe and North America from the Caucasus starting in the early 1800's as an ornamental plant. Turns out i
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by amysox 5y ago
And people wonder why I still don't trust Micro$oft, even if they say they're supporting open source.
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by amysox 6y ago
She's one of my role models, so I'm pleased to see this as well. I have two of her albums: the hard-to-find CD of Peter and the Wolf she did with "Weird Al" Yankovic (the whole thing is a delightful spoof), and Switch
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by amysox 6y ago
Here's the question I struggle with: How do you set "goals" when you don't know what you want? I have been stymied by this time and time again. If you don't know what you want to accomplish, how do you set any &
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by amysox 8y ago
In The Martian, Mark Watney briefly considered the possibility of salvaging Opportunity for its radio the way he did Pathfinder (before inadvertently frying its circuits), but decided against it, as, by then, he was on his way to the Ares
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by amysox 8y ago
No kidding. I used to fly with a bunch of close friends, but that was years ago. We were all a bunch of carebears, though, and I never got into PvP. In fact, we had our own corp, mainly because someone wardec'd the corp we were fly
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by amysox 8y ago
Yes, I had a Fossil Abacus WristPDA (PalmOS 4.0) also at one point. I agree with both your criticisms, especially battery life; that thing drank juice from the battery like an eight-armed alcoholic, and you had to use its special USB cable
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by amysox 8y ago
Boy, what James Cameron could have done with this news...
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by amysox 8y ago
Here's kind of the definitive analysis of Starship Troopers the book, how well it works, Starship Troopers the movie, and where the movie didn't work in the same way the book did: http://www.kentaurus.com/tro
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by amysox 8y ago
Here's a hint for you: The main character of Stranger is not Valentine Michael Smith; it's Jubal Harshaw. Look at it with that in mind.
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by amysox 8y ago
Bear in mind that the project wasn't originally connected with Heinlein at all, but was originally titled Bug Hunt. Only later did Verhoeven and company come across Starship Troopers, realize that they could actually get the film r
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by amysox 8y ago
You mean the alarm clock system that Don uses at the hotel that has settings ranging from "Gentle Reminder" to "Earthquake"? That'd be fun. :) Interesting you bring up Between Planets, because that shows a predict
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by amysox 8y ago
Which is kind of what I was thinking. As soon as you start teaching kids not to be swayed by "agenda-driven sources," what happens when they start realizing that their textbooks and their teachers are also "agenda-driven
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by amysox 8y ago
"shibboleet" https://xkcd.com/806/
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by amysox 8y ago
FEMA has established that two officials have to sign off on the alert text before it goes out. This is to avoid the situation we got in Hawaii.
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by amysox 8y ago
"Presidential Alerts" don't actually originate from the President. They come from FEMA, which selects one of several pre-written messages that fits the current situation, customizes the text as necessary, and sends it out to
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by amysox 8y ago
That's an awful lot of inflation for thirty pieces of silver.
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by amysox 8y ago
(should be 'Voila!') Not the way I play it. ;)
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by amysox 8y ago
"Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack." - Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #109
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by amysox 9y ago
This reminds me so much of Genesis' "Dreaming While You Sleep." All my life, you lie silently there All my life in a world so unfair All my life and only I'll know why And it will live inside of me I will nev
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by amysox 9y ago
I'll have to give that a try. I just moved phones, and I want to get the custom ringtones I've already created onto the new phone. I don't particularly want to delete them. :)
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by amysox 9y ago
Any ideas how to get custom ringtones onto an iPhone now?