SPQR

Well that was a very long-winded theory. I'll be sure to absorb it in its full entirely when I'm sitting next to a roaring fire, drinking an aged brandy and puffing on a cuban.

The forum's alright. It can be dull at times but it's what you make of it I guess. There's a few interesting things but mostly I just skim through it all.

Oh, that was Shai Gar. I talked to him on Skype a couple days ago and he messed things around for me. I just wanted to be able to have a signature and he took it upon himself to give me a bad rep.

Bastard.

I'm pretty good. How are you?

Yeah it is winter here right now. It's just cold and rainy. Americans get blown away by the fact that we have Christmas in the summer. They don't seem to really understand that America does no equal the whole god-damned world.

Haha its ok

I really enjoy reading your thoughts!! thank you

Best wishes for you too!

I have not really done my college apps...I shall do them later I guess lol

I shall make next year the best

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood is phenomenal.
I also really enjoyed One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

I just finished Hell by Kathryn Davis.
I absolutely adore her writing style. Though her plots are generally wishy-washy her language is incredibly beautiful.

That is indeed very interesting..I have always thought I was the only one who did that
Nice to see the similarity!

I am going to be a senior, and yes I did skipped a grade .

I just find myself with a lot of summer work, things are not going well with the family..a lot of fights, and screaming. I am also a bit isolated/lonely as this is another summer I stay home almost the entire day..

I am hanging in there though I actually want school to start again!

I'm not sure there is a specific genre of fiction that I like best.
I have this book problem. A very vast book problem in which I go into used book stores and come out with twenty or so books at a time. Not even books that I've necessarily heard good things about, not books that I've read the back cover of or the first chapter of just a book that I touched and liked the feel of. I read just about anything.

Favourites and preferences just are not something I am familiar with.


Do you have a favourite?

I am doing ok..quite stressed but ok! and you?

I have read Invisible Cities, yes
I much prefer The Form of Space, to be honest.
I would suggest reading this to nearly anyone.
Such a fascinating concept.

As for Monsieur Borges, I would suggest The Library of Babel.
And as far as I know, you've heard correctly

Don't feel bad, I like directness.

Well, formerly I was a Technical Analyst (IT) at Wyeth. We do pretty much everything from desktop support to Server and Network Infrastructure. I also did heavy application redeployment implementations for North America (make all applications follow a standardized install method, able to be installed by non-administrators, and through a centralized system.) Networking technologies have been my favorite though. As I progress in scpripting/programming I will probably get more into Information Assurance (Cyber Security).

Now I am just a legacy employee with a termination date closing out a merger between Wyeth and Pfizer, plus handling a divestiture of the location I am at to Boehringer-Ingelheim.

A ton of work and not much motivation. I tell you, some of these business majors they put in charge of specialized processes make my head hurt. I just don't get it, they think everything can be run like McDonald's and then get confused when it doesn't work. We see that a TON in R&D and IT. Not badmouthing you or the major itself, it is just being misused in some of these companies and they seem to hire really stupid people.

Sorry! I don't mean to do that, I am so forgetful. Things are ok here, stressful, trying not to hurt my roommate (not that I normally want to hurt people). I spend a lot of my time just trying to remain neutral. I fear my blood pressure levels right now.

What are you majoring in?

Ahhh! So much the better! I am not up to par on my knowledge of Rome. Not disappointed! How are things?

tsk tsk tsk to them ) ) ahahahah sometimes I find it unfair....

ahhaha it's the J in all of u

OH hELLO

yeah I just did a while ago bwahahha with my dictionary too

BUT....she said NO!! ( ( she said that they talked about it and agreed that the answer is no because there will never be a linear pair that's not an adjacent angle... the answer would be false if the statement is adjacent angles form a linear pair

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thanks for asking

Ah! I had assumed that was what your SPQR referred to.

So what are you a speaker of?

I am running to the grocery store. Take care.

I saw both Howl's Moving castle and Spirited Away. I loved the beast thingy with the mask in Spirited Away (can't remember the name)

The principle of spending a little time to understand a situation is obviously lacking in our movies these days. Instead we get this repetition of exploding in guns blazing, good vs bad, cowboys vs Indians, black vs white, us vs them, drudgery. It is really heart warming to see such a portrayal of insight in a movie.

Who is Rick??? KEEP HIM AWAY FROM MY ENERGY DRINKS!

This is probably the most extroverted you will ever see me, then I crawl back into my introvert shell. We will see!

I haven't watched Grave of the Fireflies yet, but I have been looking forward to watching it.

I got a few different Studio Ghibli that I plan to watch soon. I REALLY liked Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and of course Princess Mononoke.

I love the character development in those movies, it is never just black and white.

I thought the series was amazing!

Shu's optimism and conviction was something new to me, the way it was portrayed and I found it fascinating that they mixed it with so much trauma. The rape of Laura really hit me hard and I shuddered pretty badly.

This type of story though, it gets to the core of a person, strips away all that you have, and offers new perspective.

Yes, I am a VERY frequent visitor to Gutenberg. I frequent http://www.archive.org often as well.

I hadn't spent a ton of time with classics before I got my ebook reader but now I have a lot of them and intend to read quite a few. Monte Cristo was one I finished recently. Protagoras by Plato was another. I tend to switch topics with every new book or else sometimes I get bored. At least with non-fiction which I try to read quite a bit more than fiction.

That infographic is neat!