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  • yall watching for nog yet
  • 7223824-02 My Condor Air flight reservation number for Friday, I think? Probably I shouldn't post that on the Internet.
  • Airport thread post excitement tempered by missing the wedding of our Uncleboats. Have a cool party!
  • It was a Martin.
    in Home Ownership Comment by zin May 2015
  • My childhood home. My parents are selling it and moving to Portland.
    in Home Ownership Comment by zin May 2015
  • Oh yeah, that is my childhood home for sale. I don't like living in the damn woods, but I gather some people do. It's also not far from JOBS because a new oil refinery or other centerpiece of capitalism is going in within commuting range. Gotta pay …
    in Home Ownership Comment by zin May 2015
  • I think the therapist should write a good Yelp review of freddy. She was clearly a great patient. She did her needle homework EVERY NIGHT for god knows — 100 days? — without missing a day. A++++ patient, would therapize again
    in Phobias Comment by zin May 2015
  • Yeah, we're taking Calvin. I wonder what he wants to do in France. I'll have him do some independent research and report back.
  • No, I don't want to learn French. I want a robot to translate for me.
  • Because family moved there. Freddy's brother and family are now living there for I don't know how many years, providing us with a good excuse to go to France. We'll use Grenoble as a home base and visit Paris, friends in Switzerland, maybe friends i…
  • Shit, maybe they do have catacombs for all I know. "Avez-vous des catacombes dans votre ville?"
  • We're going to Grenoble, "at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère." I like the sound of that river Drac, I wonder if we can go tubing on it. Initial googling is not promising. Point is they speak French and don't have cat…
  • Way to go, Cherry. Do Good!
    in interviews ack Comment by zin April 2015
  • Yes yes yes to all of the above. The New York Times article about Tony Hale and Julia Louis-Dreyfus is brilliant, by the way.
    in VEEP Comment by zin April 2015
  • That is a truly wild amount of debt. But you can still imagine that fifteen or twenty years in, as a dentist hits their biggest earning years, they can really start to accumulate the moolah.
    in Home Ownership Comment by zin April 2015
  • https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=average+dentist+salary&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
    in Home Ownership Comment by zin April 2015
  • I love interviews! I find myself using the "trick" FaceTweet describes, too. If I introduce a bit of an element of me interviewing them, and then start to problem-solve together with them, we're already working together, basically. You end up demons…
    in interviews ack Comment by zin April 2015
  • Where do you most often check UHX? a) computer What sort of (smart)phone do you have? iPhone 5s Do you use UHX just “once a day” or do you check in multiple times a day? About once a day Do you find the number of participants and the speed of…
    in x Comment by zin March 2015
  • These guys.
    in Phobias Comment by zin March 2015
  • It's going to be on HBO tonight, too.
    in CITIZENFOUR Comment by zin February 2015
  • I'm developing a needle phobia because of this thread
    in Phobias Comment by zin February 2015
  • Is the function of the doors more to keep people in or to keep people out? This is a key consideration when selecting doors
  • If only we still had mopeds…
  • Admission first: I'd never heard of Charlie Hebdo before this attack, and was only vaguely aware of this tradition of political cartooning. But, if I'm understanding it correctly, isn't their mission, broadly speaking, to take the powerful down a …
  • I read that baked potato chapter to him the other night. He was pretty startled by it and didn't understand the mechanism. "Why did the potato explode?" I believe I convinced him that potatoes are not an impending threat to our family, but I can' t …
  • I like going to Heron Lakes because you can hit off grass at their range. No idea if they keep that open in the winter, though. Eastmoreland, down by Reed College, is nice for hitting off mats — it has a kind of funny country club vibe for a public …
  • Everyone has selected the 19th as their holiday party day. Jessica and I, though we would make no claim to general social popularity, are quadruple-booked (!) that day. And then we're off to Alaska until the 29th.
  • Many? Which?
    in VOTE ER DIE Comment by zin October 2014
  • @FaceTweetPlus That particular No on 92 argument is especially specious considering that's been industry's argument in each state where it came up as a measure. I mean, if California's labeling measure had passed, the marginal cost for Oregon to hav…
    in VOTE ER DIE Comment by zin October 2014