Posted by: RickC at Sat Sep 27 23:17:48 2014 (0a7VZ)
2...I broke when I bit a bullet in some alligator...
Someone's been holding out on a story, I see.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sun Sep 28 01:25:31 2014 (BCjxQ)
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That image is so delightfully colorful, I think it has depleted the color receptors in my eyes and the rest of the world looks black and white.
Posted by: Mauser at Sun Sep 28 02:06:45 2014 (TJ7ih)
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I think he merely was eating an alligator and bit upon a bullet stuck in the steak. A month ago I killed a dove and shared it with a friend, who immediately bit upon a pellet (my half was clean...).
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Mon Sep 29 11:01:16 2014 (x0uix)
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Yeah, that's all it was.
Of course they have to kill the alligator somehow.
Interestingly, it was the dinner where my partners and I decided to go ahead with Radcon. Upon reflection, this event could have been taken as a bad omen, but, unfortunately, I am insufficiently superstitious.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Tue Sep 30 04:03:46 2014 (DnAJl)
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I like your Radcon story better than the one of the founder of OLS (nee Ottawa Linux Showcase), who met some initial success but could not deal with its decline and slide into irrelevance.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tue Sep 30 16:22:59 2014 (x0uix)
Street is river.Water rising rapidly. Garbage cans floating by. Car blocked by floating debris.
UPDATE: rain falling incredibly hard. Water still rising. Storm drains are spewing water.This could be bad. I may swim away from 800 dollars worth of textbooks.
UPDATE 2: Now that I'm inside and not pecking away at a Blackberry....
This was taken only a block from my parent's home....it took me 2 additional hours to get there.
Sadly, I did not get some of the more spectacular visuals as they coincided with excitement in driving. It should be noted that, while in the great scheme of things this was a minor flash flood, it was the first time in the 29 years my folks have lived at their current address that the water rose all the way to their house. Even hurricanes did not get water this high. We got something like 9 inches in 6 hours. It actually flooded the garage, which is currently a bit of a mess.
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Hopefully you can put them up in the attic or something and the water won't go quite that high.
Failing that, seal 'em into a trash bag, and then put that inside another trash bag. You probably can skip putting them in a sewage cistern.
Posted by: RickC at Mon Sep 8 17:58:06 2014 (0a7VZ)
This year I ordered most of my books online online as soon as the syllabi were posted. This saved me over 300 dollars and ensured that I'd have the books when classes began...well MOST of them. One book that contains my Kanji homework was to be shipped from Delaware. Alas they were out so they had their supplier send it directly to me.
It passed through Japanese customs on the 21st of August, 16 days ago. It arrived today, with the result that I have 2 weeks of homework ahead of me this weekend. This is in addition to an English paper due Monday and sundry other homework.
I may be scarce for another day or two so to tide you over, here is something that my friend BOB! sent me that you probably should not try at home....
