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Sounds and Silences cartoon: love the imagery!
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RE: Sounds and Silences cartoon: love the imagery!
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
How beautiful!
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
Drooooooool!
Thank you!
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Done any interesting viewing lately? Big screen or small?
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RE: Vintage SF: The Day the Earth Caught Fire!
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
That one looks good...I'll keep an eye out for it.
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
I dislike reading Shakespeare plays, but I love watching them. I can't make head-nor-hair of the text, but seeing it acted out is awesome! Maybe that's one of the things that makes Shakespeare's plays so great....you c…
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[Results in!! Can we go ahead and call it a tie?!] Unbound Worlds Cage Match 2018
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RE: RE: Well...
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
As I said above, I couldn't see these two competing in any meaningful way.
I voted for the undersimian, just because.
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It's been ages since I decorated eggs for Easter, but I did appreciate this collection of US-state-themed eggs:
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RE: It's been ages since I decorated eggs for Easter, but I did appreciate this collection of US-state-themed eggs:
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
Here are some beautiful pyzanky!
https://www.pinterest.ca/search/pins/?q=pyzanky&rs=typo_auto_original&auto_correction_disabled=true
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Done any interesting viewing lately? Big screen or small?
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AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
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I've been doing a bit of Netflixing lately. I watched that first contact movie from 2016 "Arrival", and I was emotionally devastated by it. A very powerful movie.
I've also been watching an old anime series called "…
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[Results in!! Can we go ahead and call it a tie?!] Unbound Worlds Cage Match 2018
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RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Down to the final 4!
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
Yes, of course. But I just don't see them competing with each other in any meaningful way.
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[Results in!! Can we go ahead and call it a tie?!] Unbound Worlds Cage Match 2018
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AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
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It actually sounds kinda boring to me. Oberon will be all "Want a sausage?", and the Librarian will just say "ook".
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
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https://sploid.gizmodo.com/t-rex-catches-fire-at-amusement-park-despite-the-fact-t-1824018032
"The Royal Gorge Dinosaur Experience in Canon City, Colorado, used to have 16 regular T-Rex dinosaur statues. Now it has ju…
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
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The stockpilers, anyway.
"Three percent of the population now owns half of the country’s firearms."
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-are-white-men-stockpiling-guns/
"Research suggests it's lar…
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
Mostly I read science fiction and fantasy, but I also branch out into mysteries and the occasional smutty romance.
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
Both! I like a short handled tote when I'm carrying groceries from the store to the car, but if I'm walking to the post office to mail a package, I prefer a longer handle that I can sling over my shoulder.
I actually…
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
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https://io9.gizmodo.com/im-going-to-make-myself-like-tea-so-i-can-justify-this-1823737449
Unlike the guy in this article, I don't have to *make* myself like tea, but justifying buying a stovetop kettle when I already …
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/trump-openly-brags-about-lying-to-justin-trudeaus-face
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-trudeau-1.4577179
Don't worry Donnie - I'm sure he didn't believe a word you said…
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
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I also found this little skit he did for a show called Little Britain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC65NkjhkPA
:)
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
I found this compilation of physicists reacting to his death:
https://gizmodo.com/physicists-react-to-stephen-hawkings-passing-updating-1823762469
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Does anyone use 'Rinse Aid' in the dishwasher?
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AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
Our old house had a softener, but we never bothered to install one here. We have a reverse osmosis filter for our drinking water (it really improves the tea!), but the rest of our water is au natural!
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
I just heard on the radio of his passing. This is tragic.
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Does anyone use 'Rinse Aid' in the dishwasher?
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RE: Does anyone use 'Rinse Aid' in the dishwasher?
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
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I use "Jet Dry". It's a liquid that comes in a half-litre bottle, so not too over-packaged. We have very hard water in this area, and without a rinse agent (or as you point out, it's a drying agent), a lot of dishes co…
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Check out this intricate 19th-century "Tumbling Block with Signatures" quilt:
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AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
I am in AWE! Such dedication! Such tiny stitches!
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
Businesses are also hedging their bets with best before dates. If they put a short date on it, and some once-in-a-hundred-years occurrence happens that makes the food either outright bad, or even just taste 'off', then …
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Laugh of the day for me - this Epbot post about a comment-thread that went in some very interesting directions:
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RE: Laugh of the day for me - this Epbot post about a comment-thread that went in some very interesting directions:
AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
I loved it! Epbot is one of my favourite blogs.
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[Results in!! Can we go ahead and call it a tie?!] Unbound Worlds Cage Match 2018
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AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
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Aslan vs. The Shrike? The Shrike will tear Aslan to pieces, but he'll come back stronger than ever.
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Fun Tom Gauld cartoon: Classic Fiction with Binary Numbers:
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AwesomeAud
6 yrs ago
Oh, that's brilliant!
