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California Medical Marijuana: My Doctor Says I Need Weed to Get High
By QuantumFoam in Culture
Wed Sep 03, 2008 at 03:05:02 AM EST
Tags: THC, Marijuana, Weed, Pot, Chronic, Dank, Crong, Grass, Skunk, The Purpose of My Life (all tags)
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I've been a chronic smoker for the last eight years, but had recently abstained for 111 days due to a job situation. I read this and many articles like it through this bleak dry period, coming up with all sorts of schemes to beat drug tests, but I never had the balls to follow through. But, at the end of the 111 days, I found myself without a need to produce clean urine and decided to indulge in the freedom offered by my new home, California.
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The Invention of the Christian Videogame
By Delirium in Culture
Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 08:54:42 PM EST
Tags: videogames, religion, Christianity, business, carrots (all tags)
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With the widespread success of Christian-themed videogames like Left Behind, apparently created for combinations of monetary and religious-proselytization-of-our-bizarre-take-on-apocalyptic-Christianity reasons, the subgenre of "Christian videogames" is now pretty well entrenched. Less well known is that the first Christian-themed videogame was created only in the late 1980s, and in fact the genre was invented by an obscure, not very successful, formerly secular, and vaguely scofflaw 1980s NES developer pretty much solely as a way of getting around Nintendo's licensing rules.
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The Spoils of... MUST?!
By GhostOfTiber in Culture
Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 06:52:45 PM EST
Tags: The Spoils of Wort, Wine, Winemaking, Vinting (all tags)
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I had to run down a bottle of one step sanitizer for my pilsner I had fermented at 90F. Rather than let it go to waste, when I took the lid off the fermenter there were really neat apple, fruit, apricot notes. I decided that while it wasn't nearly on style, it would be interesting to drink. Then I realized I was out of sanitizer so off to the homebrew store. I decided to go to the crappy one. It's closer, but the guy is much more into winemaking than he is into beermaking. However, with the overlap of simple supplies like tools, buckets, and sterilizer, it made it a reasonable choice.
But then my wife wanted to come.
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Review: The Dark Knight
By anaesthetica in Culture
Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 09:52:48 AM EST
Tags: Batman, The Dark Knight, Class, Class War, Oppression, Movies, Culture, Propaganda, Racism, War on Terror (all tags)
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It is little wonder that The Dark Knight has done so well in modern America, generating huge returns for its investors, and spurring talk even before its release of potential Academy Awards. This is not because the 'dark' setting and overt themes of the film have any legitimate resonance with the zeitgeist. No, the film's subtext strikes a chord with the deep-seated convictions of the mainstream American public and with the interests of Hollywood investors.
[SPOILERS AHEAD]
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Eulogy for George Carlin*
By yuo in Culture
Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 02:07:36 PM EST
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We join with Catholics and countless others throughout our Diocese and world in giving thanks for the extraordinary life and ministry of Pope John Paul II George Carlin, and in praying for the repose of his noble soul body.
It is fitting that Our Holy Father George Carlin was called to eternal life death during the week day when we celebrate the Easter Feast of St. Thomas More, which puts the reality of death religion into perspective.
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Reforming K-12 Education
By fyngyrz in Culture
Thu May 29, 2008 at 07:25:00 PM EST
Tags: education (all tags)
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I am absolutely convinced that K-12 schooling is done all wrong. That's why it fails to consistently produce well educated people. I'd like you, dear reader, to consider the following set of suggestions. I'd like to specifically ask that you consider them in a holistic manner, that is, the ideas as presented taken as a whole, rather than trying to pick apart individual points before you've considered the entire presentation. Then — of course — let me have it right between the eyes.
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Texas Flood
By Sgt York in Culture
Wed May 07, 2008 at 05:01:22 PM EST
Tags: Storm, mice, tropical storm allison (all tags)
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"It's coming down pretty hard. Maybe we should just come back and get my car tomorrow."
It was the first week of June, 2001. 9/11 was still months away. People just mildly disliked Bush, and for comparitively trivial reasons. Iraq was something that happened about 10 years ago. I was just wrapping up my first year of graduate school. My daughter was 6 weeks old, and we were on our way home from the obligatory 6 week checkup. I had had a test that afternoon, so I had been up at the school. My wife is insane, so she had insisted on getting to the appointment herself. This meant driving 25 minutes through Houston traffic with a baby, after extracting said baby from her body just a bit more than a month prior. She even picked me up at school to go to the appointment, and even that only at my insistance. She had planned to go solo.
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A Day at the Dump
By MichaelCrawford in Culture
Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 01:15:27 PM EST
Tags: Mania, Mental Illness, Writing, Garbage, Santa Cruz, Sari Gennis, Billy Rainbow (all tags)
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This is an e-mail that I wrote to my friend, Hollywood animator Sari Gennis. I wrote it while I was a graduate
student in
Physics at UC Santa Cruz, and was also working as a programmer.
I was manic when I wrote this - I meant to write just a brief note and ended up writing for twelve hours. During this manic episode I was experiencing peculiar irregularities and disclocations in time and space. My experience of the time I spent writing this was that perhaps an hour had passed. As I wrote, I made cup after cup of tea - it seemed to me that when I put the water on the stove that it would burst into a boil instantly. I was also eating bananas. By the end of my writing I had eaten the whole bunch and was suddenly surprised to see a large pile of banana peels appear next to me on the table.
I wrote this on a Sunday, while still in the pleasant part of mania. The following Friday I was in the mental hospital, hallucinating and paranoid. I was in for four days. I took a few days off after that and then went back to work at Working Software.
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Tuesday, March 25th
 Illegal Aliens and FAM (Fajitas Ain't Mezcin) (46 comments)
Monday, March 10th
Martin Luther's 'Greatness' (42 comments)
Thursday, February 28th
Tales of the Hive: So you want to keep honeybeees? (80 comments)
Saturday, February 16th
The Origin of Valentine's Day (19 comments)
Wednesday, February 13th
Apples to Oranges (124 comments)
Thursday, January 31st
eavier's guide to enjoying straight pr0n in the company of other heterosexual males. (85 comments)
Tuesday, January 15th
Million Dollar Pinball: Part I (20 comments)
Skinhacking: A DIY Guide to Facials, Laxatives, and Moisturizers (48 comments)
Wednesday, January 9th
How I met the Queen in a Canadian cornfield (29 comments)
Monday, January 7th
Jalapeno Eyewash and the Suicide Attemptress (23 comments)
Wednesday, January 2nd
Predictions for 2008 and Beyond (94 comments)
Wednesday, December 12th
You Got It, You Sell It, And You Still Got It (44 comments)
Friday, November 30th
Exotic Technique for Preparing Lemon Zest Lemonade (41 comments)
Monday, November 5th
Legacy of Ashes (52 comments)
Tuesday, October 30th
Hot Pepper Record Broken (29 comments)
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