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Thirteen Candles--Definitely Unlucky
Submitted by the_Old_Woman_i... on Wed, 2008/05/07 - 12:19.
You know that feeling you get right before a huge storm? When it feels as if you could plug an appliance directly into the air and it would roar to life?
I am getting that feeling now. My oldest daughter turns 13 tomorrow.
Her vocabulary is reducing to two words: "whatever" and "ri--ight." Both are delivered with as much sarcasm as she can muster, and she never verbalizes when an eye-roll will suffice. When she's addressing me, that is. When she's addressing her friends, 5,000 texted words on a cell phone per hour cannot express all that she has to say.
Sometimes she starts screaming and crying and slamming doors. For no discernable reason.
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Getting to know the terrorists - 345 - Sami free and in Sudan
Submitted by tarvid on Fri, 2008/05/02 - 08:47.
Sami was caught in Pakistan armed with a camera, a large amount of cash and an ID card from Al Jazeera. Having endured several ARB reviews (Administrative Review Board), he has been released from Guantanamo and is in Sudan. Much more detail is available at Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Al_Hajj
While at Guantanamo, Sami has engaged in suspicious activity such as vocally resenting his detainment, fasting, teaching the Koran and teaching other inmates English.
السلام عليكم
Fearless
Submitted by jbmiller on Tue, 2008/04/01 - 09:15.Four years ago, I got a call from a neighbor up the road.
He said “I just got a used computer from the Wythe County auction” and would I look at it for him. I am a helpful type, so I said sure. I had to put a hard drive in it to make it work and took it over. He had a place prepared in a little office area and I set it up. “Why did you get an older computer” I had to ask. He replied “So I don’t tear up a new one”.
The wholesome soul
Submitted by DeepGeek on Tue, 2008/03/18 - 21:33.The world offers more than black and white — and scales of grey. Jeffrey Miller embodies an attractively rich palette.
Attractiveness is more than visual; Jeffrey is pleasantly beholding. Attractors include wit and humility. Attractors include consideration, stewardship and charity. Attractors include reliability, warmth, honesty and attentiveness. Mr. Miller has integrity — he is the attractor paragon.
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Knowing alternatives
Submitted by DeepGeek on Mon, 2008/03/17 - 20:55.Most people wander through life without a sense of living. Sufficient said, "Charles Shaffer is different."
There is strength in numbers. The strong are more than men of might; they are also: the meek, the curious and the cautious, the promising and the pale, the rich and the ragged, and the visionaries. There are not many like Charles; he isn't overly quiet, but there are times when his audience should listen. Charles listens to a different voice — Mr. Shaffer's voice is prophecy.
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Remembering Bobby Fisher
Submitted by tarvid on Mon, 2008/01/21 - 00:11.I learned a bit of chess in high school. It was a natural thing to do for those who watch lunar eclipses and build rockets. I read a few books but we were in the same boat, we being those who could play by the rules.
I went off to the University of Wisconsin at the tender age of 15 and hung around Der Rathskeller. It was a magical place especially for someone who grew up in a town of 42. And a chance to indulge all the vices withheld from a rural lad (many of the rural vices were eminently avoidable) - chess, bridge, New York girls and beer. The Union scheduled an array of events including a simultaneous chess match in the Summer of 1958.
I took a chair with 15 others and noticed a blunder by my opponent in the first game and I punished him for his mistake. I didn't find one in the second game but carefully played to a draw. The "master" won 30, lost one and drew one.
Laura Ruth Johnson
Submitted by tarvid on Sat, 2007/12/15 - 18:48.
Tarvid is a Grandfather again.
Proud father announced, "Arrived at 5:30 on the dot. Baby and mother are both happy and
healthy. 7.5 pounds."
Grandfather announced, "Looks just like me, only on her it looks good!"
Grandmother floating around the hospital.
Mom is ok too.
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