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Bloomfield wrote:I'll never forgive Nano for banning me, just because of the traditional noodle incident. And it wasn't even my fault.

I don't care what anyone says, Fusilli Bucati Corti is a modern corruption and has no place in a true Italian restaurant.

MTGuru wrote:Wiki says US college grads are ~31% : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educationa ... ted_States

Interesting, thanks. At least they're trending up, I guess.

MTGuru wrote:And the latter are 69% of the electorate. Yikes.

Are you saying 69% of the electorate are at least college grads or am I misunderstanding? Whence that statistic?

The demographic breakdown by question is interesting. Most knew Edward Snowden on sight. Few people recognized Marissa Mayer (admittedly, she better meets the expectation of a Fox news anchor than a major CEO). Those with High school or less may not know what the DJIA does in a recession, but do at ...

MTGuru wrote:I ran an NT4 machine loooong past its expiration date.

The Microsoft Gestapo are on their way right now to forcibly update it.

Windows 95/98 -- good Windows ME -- bad Windows XP -- good Windows Vista -- VERY BAD Windows 7 -- good Windows 8 -- pretty darn bad There's a pattern. I think in the future, I will wait for every other major revision. Windows 8 presages a lot of disruption in the future, I fear. Ubuntu Linux also tr...

oleorezinator wrote:What else would one keep there?

That question is typical of a 'Merkin.

That's... that's a strange bookmark.

The problem with using Facebook for this (aside from the intellectual property questions, which are massive), is that some C&F users have had trouble seeing the posted media if they did not have Facebook accounts. MTGuru I believe has complained about Soundcloud because it requires Flash (which ...

Huh? ... doesn't sound like any Scandinavian people I have heard speak. Sorry, let me translate fearfaoin speak for you: For some reason, I had him pegged as Scandinavian, but... means "I had thought he was Scandinavian, but now that I hear him speak I see that is not true." I assume it's...

He certainly is being like the palm tree there. I can't place his accent in the tutorial. For some reason, I had him pegged as Scandinavian, but his accent sounds like a European who lived a long time in Canada maybe? I'd comment on the air, but I can't really abide them. It sure seems like a hard t...

I don't know if this is of any use to y'all, but I just happened to hear about these AL associations on one of Marc Gunn's podcasts (he lives in Birmingham, I believe):

http://celticalabama.net/
http://www.shamrockalabama.org/

Did you know that Susato whistles are made in Brasstown, about 5 miles from Murphy? I'd give the Kelisheks a call, they are bound to know the Irish happenings in town. And I understand that it's a pretty fun factory tour. http://www.susato.com Also in Brasstown is the John C. Campbell Folk School wh...

How cool is it that the ISS has a gun that fires tiny cubical sattelites?
Also, how long until someone makes this picture in Minecraft?

hoopy mike wrote:I'm thinking of conical bores without the annoying rolled seams, barrels that curve / twist and so on.

My thoughts exactly. Or make a whistle version of the ring flute.