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I am reminded of Gary Leising's desolate hymn:
Afterlife You'll get out of one car, slide into another, and when the road beneath it stops rolling away, you'll know you're there. At first light, the rooster tells the truth: he crows whenever you want to wake up—his calling advises the balloon that lifts the sun. When you're dirty, it will rain, the water any temperature you like. In your small home—a fairy tale one, once home to three bears or Red-Riding-Hood's grandmother— you'll find a family of gray foxes. They'll forage in the nearby woods for food, and drop what they find in your picnic basket. You'll spend days lying in flowerbeds, only your face poking through the thick blanket of pansies, where you wait for butterflies to land on your tongue. Their flavors, matched to wing-colors, delight you so. Until one day, twenty, maybe thirty years later, you swallow a solid black one. Its taste, a mix of licorice and blood, makes you realize, finally, you're alone.
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It makes more sense to say the bill itself is a travesty, as opposed to the fact that it passed. Resume argumentation!
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I love Pablo Francisco, too. He's coming to the Addison Improv over Thanksgiving, and I'm going!
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Mature? You don't have Privateer. I'm very interested in that game.
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[Cue sarcastic comment about it being a good thing both games use the same engine.]
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Boring moments, though not nonexistent, are in a minority here. The movie is strangely hypnotic at times. Spelling out words alone is a touch worth the yes vote. I especially appreciated the death, the intentional moments of respite, and the deliberately slow section. Overall this is a vast improvement to a run I never before considered had the potential for entertainment.
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[03:23:52] <itsblah> an easy way to get a file with the stuff? just play the movie in super-fast-forward (it gets both the feather and the flippers, last i checked)
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Is it really necessary to flaunt to what assholic lengths you will go to flout the rules of courtesy and propriety?
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I'm reasonably certain this is nothing more than wishful thinking. I've done a lot of testing to try to get into walls before. The engine is pretty rock solid in that respect. Not that I'm finalfighter or anything, but I'm pretty good at finding glitches when I try.
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Ok, well, the actual gameplay was kind of boring, but luckily the game ended before it really started bothering me. Still a very strong yes vote from me.
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I haven't finished the movie yet but I paused after that awesome starting glitch to go vote yes! What an awesome glitch!
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I shall attempt to increase the density of helpful posts in this thread.
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It's really, really good. Bacon tastes great with maple syrup by itself (in fact I won't just eat slices of bacon without it), but it's also great in bready things like sandwiches and waffles.
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Just thought you guys might be hungry, enjoy!
Post subject: Bacon Beer Batter Waffles
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Because everyone needs an excuse for having cheap beer in the fridge … or for cooking with Chimay.
2 lbs bacon
1 ½ cups flour
½ cup corn starch
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
2 tbsp sugar
½ tsp salt
⅛ tsp cinnamon
2 tsp vanilla
2 large eggs (separated)
¾ cup vegetable oil
1 can beer (12 oz, tepid)
½ cup buttermilk (tepid)
Cook bacon until well crisped, crumble, and set aside. Mix all dry ingredients except sugar in large bowl and set aside. Mix all wet ingredients except egg whites in separate bowl and set aside. Beat egg whites in separate bowl until soft peaks begin to form, then sprinkle on sugar while continuing to beat until peaks are firm and glossy. Mix wet and dry ingredients together until just mixed, taking care not to over mix (small lumps are ok), then gently fold in egg whites a spoonful at a time. Allow batter to sit for twenty minutes. Mix in crumbled bacon and lightly grease waffle iron with a piece of uncooked bacon. Pour about ½ cup batter into waffle iron and cook until crispy, golden brown.
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I thought I was talking about football but I don't always think so clearly.
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I dunno, it's hard to argue against someone by supporting their argument, I think.
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It's always difficult to take anyone seriously that says plainly incorrect things in an arrogant and serious tone and then claims to have been "just kidding!" when their errors are pointed out to them. Also, you seem to have taken to repeating me in an attempt to prove me wrong, Zurreco:
xebra wrote:
... acids and bases themselves dissociate in a solution with water, as well.
Zurreco wrote:
Also, acids and bases, by their nature, dissociate in solution when mixed.
That's not a very effective debate tactic :/ .
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Don't be impressed so easily, xoinx, most people only think they know everything about everything :P . Regardless of whatever semantics Zurreco thinks can save his argument, he is more or less wrong on every count. Electrolysis is, in fact, the correct word, kileran used it correctly, it does, in fact, split water molecules, and it doesn't require much energy at all. (It can be done with household batteries.) Also, oxygen gas and hydrogen gas will not spontaneously recombine into water at STP, and it requires no energy to "keep them from re-interacting with eachother." It actually requires energy to get them to recombine. Hydrogen is very flammable, but you still have to light a match. Also, acids and bases don't split water. In pure water a very small number of water molecules will naturally dissociate into OH and H30 because it is self-ionizing, and the concentration of dissociated ions is how water's neutral pH of 7 is determined. Acids and bases change the OH and H30 concentrations in water, because acids and bases themselves dissociate in a solution with water, as well. There is a series of reactions using sulphuric acid and elemental iodine where water is used as a reactant which produces oxygen and hydrogen, but the water doesn't split, the sulphuric acid does. Let me know if there's anything else I can clear up.
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I'm sure it can, just the oxidizing and reducing nodes would flip 120 times a second. I'm sure the reaction takes place on time scales many orders of magnitude shorter than that, though, so no doubt some hydrogen and oxygen would be produced.
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Shhh, Boco is genderqueer.
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This is a somewhat prurient but serious linguistics question ... In every language I have learned (English, Mandarin, Spanish), "come" has the same double meaning. Just because of the nature of the thing I suspect that's true in almost every language. Can you guys confirm or deny this for the languages you speak fluently?
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kileran wrote:
Right, but what would the rate of splitting be? Is it voltage that limits the amount of electrolysis? If i ran the 110 volts down to 12 volts for safety, would my rate by any lower? I know my electricity, i just cant find any reputable documentation on Electrolysis.
If you know the free energy of the reaction, you can determine the theoretical maximum rate based on the electrical energy you put into the system. Voltage won't affect the rate; higher voltage just lets you split more ornery compounds. Water is pretty easy to split, I know you can do it with batteries, so probably just a single volt is sufficient. More current will result in faster electrolysis.
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kileran wrote:
And on a similar topic, When we split H2O into H2 and O, what happens to that O? Isn't atmospheric Oxygen O2? Can we breath O?
The oxygen atoms will spontaneously combine into oxygen molecules (O2). Hence, you get twice as much hydrogen by volume.
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Aside from death, the worst that would happen is you would trip a breaker.