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I'm sorry but there has to be a way to halt the nambypamby BS involved with emotionally fragile individuals.

Call it the RAG - Regulation of Assinine Demagogy

Whenever we notice a sweet spirit trying to whine and complain their way into the political machinery of the board we take some kind of action. Flip a switch, throw a lever, hit a button.....etc.

To meet with more liberal terms one could apply the MDBVV to all posters.

For instance when Jed Porkins swoops in here with his bucket of chicken and acts like a gynecological exam performed on the beach (grainy sand, not that kick ass stuff like out in the dunes) I can hit the Vagina valve and silence the prat for three or four hours/days/weeks.

Seriously though? Its 3:40 in the damned morning and I can't get to sleep and I'm kinda getting tired of the catty BS around here.

Night guys, I'm gonna see what other trouble I can start before going back to Anathem by Neal Stephenson, my wifes christmas present to me.

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Mercury wrote:Night guys, I'm gonna see what other trouble I can start before going back to Anathem by Neal Stephenson, my wifes christmas present to me.

Woot! How are you liking it so far? I've read it twice. After the first read, I recommended it highly to a couple of people by PM, and The Dude went out and picked it up and wrote me that he liked it at least as far as he'd read to that point (like 1/3 of the way).

It was certainly my favorite book that I read in 2008, and probably in the last several years. I don't often turn around and immediately re-read a book I've just finished, but with Anathem I not only liked the characters and the world enough to want to experience them again, but also I knew that a lot had happened that I probably hadn't understood or recognized the first time through, and I wanted to go back and see how it all looked with a second reading. I liked it just as much, if not more so.

I actually gave a copy of Anathem to Daniel Peterson when I met him at this Islam fireside he gave up at ASU. I didn't have any sort of agenda with it - I just liked that book a lot and thought he might like it too, if he ever reads it.

I'm on page 473.

I absolutely love this book. I haven't been this engrossed in a book since, well....Cryptonomicon....The Diamond Age and of course Snow crash, etc etc etc.

Stephenson is an utter genius.

Merc, is the reason you stay awake late to keep those dreams of sheep at bay?

bcspace wrote:Merc, is the reason you stay awake late to keep those dreams of sheep at bay?

Still trying to get over the buggery nightmares, eh?

Sethbag wrote:I actually gave a copy of Anathem to Daniel Peterson when I met him at this Islam fireside he gave up at ASU. I didn't have any sort of agenda with it - I just liked that book a lot and thought he might like it too, if he ever reads it.

I just finished the book about twenty minutes ago (Yeah I'm a slow, easily distracted reader). Great book! Thanks for the recommendation, Sethbag.

Fraa Lodoghir kind of reminded me of DCP.

The Dude wrote:
Fraa Lodoghir kind of reminded me of DCP.

OMG that is SO true!