Posts by SacrificialLoon

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Break Even Miles to pay off that new Hybrid vehicle

by Fatfreek in

a day or so ago, wife and i watched this money expert on some morning show.

she (the expert) seemed to advocate trading in your regular vehicle for one of those new hybrids in order to save money.

it sounded like a good idea -- till i put a pencil to it.

SacrificialLoon

New Jetta diesels should be coming this fall, no golf/rabbit though.

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WHAT DID ADAM AND EVE EAT BEFORE THE FALL?

by badboy in

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any ideas

most random scripture citation EVER

by veradico in

did you ever notice, particularly in unimportant filler articles, that sometimes the writers of the society's publications cited scriptures which had very little to do with the subject at hand?

i'm not talking about the misleading use of scriptures, that is, when they would perpetrate amazing feats of eisegesis.

i'm talking about when they cited scriptures just because they felt like the sentence needed to end with a citation.

SacrificialLoon

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512

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This good news will be preached to all the inhabited earth.....

by jefferywhat in

what about these guys?

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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23782262-2,00.html .

I saw the a news article about these people on the BBC site, and they had a couple more pictures. It said they were spotted during one fly over, and when they came back a second time the warriors were painted the red they are in the picture. Defending their tribe from the great sky beast, fascinating.

I could just see someone trying to give these people a Watchtower and Awake. Ha!

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Tattoos are they for you?

by Hope4Others in

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i was standing in line at the grocery store today and looked next to me, there was a woman about 60, its been 23 degrees celsius here so.

the capri's are out.

anyways you notice the legs and she has about a 5in by 4in tattoo on the side of her leg.

SacrificialLoon

Oh yeah, to answer the question posed, no, I don't think I'll ever get a tattoo.

Maybe if that mustache tattoo on the index finger fad was still going on.... nah.

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Tattoos are they for you?

by Hope4Others in

jw
friends

i was standing in line at the grocery store today and looked next to me, there was a woman about 60, its been 23 degrees celsius here so.

the capri's are out.

anyways you notice the legs and she has about a 5in by 4in tattoo on the side of her leg.

SacrificialLoon

The skull guy is creepy, but the second one is pretty cool. The pattern looks Maorish.

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The World's Largest Swimming Pool - WOW!

by AK - Jeff in

http://www.victory-cruises.com/pool.html.

it is more than 1,000 yards long, covers 20 acres, has a 115-foot deep end, and holds 66 million gallons of water: this one took five years to build, cost nearly 1 billion, and the annual maintenance bill will be 2 million.. .

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SacrificialLoon

That's cool. I wonder if anyone has swam the length of it yet.

Since Chile is just about all coastline I wondered where it was exactly.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=San+Alfonso+del+Mar,+chile&sll=2.460181,-98.789062&sspn=150.791937,318.867188&ie=UTF8&ll=-20.550509,-85.869141&spn=53.371966,79.716797&t=p&z=4

Grrr... it's truncating the url when I make it a link . Just have to copy and paste.

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Geek News: Samsung develops 256GB solid state drive

by Elsewhere in

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all i have to say is: wow!

i'd be willing to drop the extra cash needed to get the better performance.

this kind of device will finally allow for "instant on" computers to enter the market.. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-9952007-64.html.

SacrificialLoon

I hate to burst your bubble as good as solid state drives are they cannot take a huge amount of re-writing at the moment. If you are running you OS from it it will write and re-write some date every few seconds. This will mean the drive has a short life.

Maybe if SSDs get disco dancing bits they'll last longer. http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html

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