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I like the Netherlands and Dutch people, I was just trying to be ridiculous. Do they really get a bad rap? On my side of the pond I don't think there's really any preconceived notion about the Dutch aside from the "sexually liberated" aspect, which at least outside of the Bible Belt isn't too controversial.

Fuck me, you were serious? I live in Los Angeles. I talk to and interact with and am friendly with people from more races than I can count. Everyone is basically the same. Obviously there are cultural differences, but those really don't run terribly deep in any metropolitan area. Most of the racial tensions I see are more the result of group-think than anything. I'm fairly certain it's a bit more culturally diverse here than in Slovenia, so, yeah.

Have to disagree vigorously with your assessment, gaargie boy. The only group I've encountered that acts significantly differently from the rest of humanity is the goddamn Dutch. Pretty much every Dutch person ever, male or female, is exactly like that Dutch porn interviewee in the "Gush" Jam segment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z0LX4bC_K4

Thanks, BevMo 5¢ sale.

I was the shy smart kid who didn't kill himself studying like the god-tier, abused-by-parents-to-get-into-Harvard/MIT smart kids, but who secretly wished he was more dedicated like them, and who everyone thought was a bit off because nobody got his fucking jokes, and who was too chubby to get any attention from the ladies, and who only had a few consistent/close friends, and who used to get picked on by everyone for some bizzaro rumor that got started god-knows-how, and who somehow just managed to avoid suicide or joining the local Trenchcoat Mafia No. 66, until senior year, when people realized he was alright and the girls actually kind of liked him, but at which point he was the least confident human being on the planet, and consequently, who had to pull the pieces of his personality together in the first year or two of college. edit: 13-17 sucked so much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VQhBGbU6vM

(_O_) troon had the time of his life no he's never felt this way before and he swears it's the truth and he owes at all to ylm0

i guess you didn't notice the quiet fade in on r ess? with the 24bit WAVs you can hear it fade in at least 29.7% quicker than if you were listening to the 16bit WAvs (or the CD). if you have the vinyl though, you can hear the fade around 40-70% quicker than any other format. at least in the listening tests i've conducted. yeah on the vinyl you hear the fade come in REALLY early. within 10 seconds approx. on the mp3s and the cd it's at least 20 seconds or so. actually you're full of shit, because i'm full of shit LOL.. gotta be shitting me oh shitting shit it

Ugh, that looks close enough to mine to make me anticipate the onslaught. Dragon's old flashing avatar/sig did, too. lol. My migraine rate has been slowing down in the last few years, but around 2004-2005 I'd be hiding under the covers a few times a week. Some of that seemed to be related to a bit of serious sleep deprivation, and I've really been trying to get at least 6 hours a night as much as I can since '05.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFEJstPBwvw

I was just reading this thread when a 5.9 mag earthquake started rocking my desk, and for a split second I was all "Grampy, is that you?"; also, I'm drunk.

^ correlation.

I once went to Mexico and brought back this adorable hairless dog but when I got back to the States I found out IT WAS ACTUALLY A GIANT HAIRLESS RAT ARRRRRRRRGH!

mmmm. schoko balls

Holy crap, that's fantastic news. And that title has some serious Sean & Rob to it.

Truth. Kaini, is Interface better than the Cobweb? I have the Cobweb sitting on my shelf, it's up next.

i saw this post and was immediately intrigued, thinking "shit a michele foucault book i've never seen or heard of", yet it turns out to be a book about another foucault i've just never heard of! nonetheless i was left just as intrigued after reading the plot summary of pendulum as i was upon being mistaken of the works original author lolz. EDIT: i'm not sure how i've never heard of this book now... it seems very popular, lots of info on it. The best part is once you've read it you're legally entitled to throw a hardcover version at people's heads when they mention that they think the Da Vinci Code is either well-written or well-researched. Since that happens frequently, you get a lot of no-liability battery opportunities.

St. Epreo and os viex 3 are especially tasty. I never got the St. Epreo "wtf is this shit" thread, unless a few people at the time of the leak had been thinking that the ending of d-sho was the beginning of Epreo.

actually, wait wait wait. lol. I'm with you.

Man, I loved Anathem. I read it about a year ago and I'm getting the urge to re-read now. edit: Fraa Jad is totally Enoch Root lawl. i thought the same! stephenson is such a fucking nerd, i love the fact that enoch is 'root'. damn, i think i wanna reread cryptonomicon. and i never finished quicksilver. you heard the cd that accompanies anathem? some of the weirdest music i've heard in a while. Haha, yeah. . . I'm debating on just going back and reading the Baroque Cycle --> Cryptonomicon--> Anathem (narrative-chronological order, I guess), but that's a pretty extensive time commitment. I liked the Baroque Cycle quite a bit, but Quicksilver itself was a bit of a tough slog. If the whole of the Baroque Cycle is one Stephenson novel (which is basically the case), Quicksilver is really just the lengthy world-building intro, and the Confusion is where the plot starts veering off in unexpected and interesting directions (it's aptly named as a volume, I guess). I need to check out the Anathem music; I heard a few samples when they were posted to his website, and it definitely sparked my interest.

Man, I loved Anathem. I read it about a year ago and I'm getting the urge to re-read now. edit: Fraa Jad is totally Enoch Root lawl.

Hi, Richard.

It's based around Los Para Noias.