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All these beefy Caucasians with guns! Get enough of them together, looking for the America they always believed they'd grow up in, and they glom together like overcooked rice, form integral, starchy little units.With their power tools, portable generators, weapons, four-wheel-drive vehicles, and personal computers, they are like beavers hyped up on crystal meth, manic engineers without a blueprint, chewing through the wilderness, building things and abandoning them, altering the flow of mighty rivers and then moving on because the place ain't what it used to be. The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers. But as long as you have that four-wheel-drive vehicle, and keep driving north, you can sustain it, keep moving just quickly enough to stay one step ahead of your own waste stream.
-- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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All these beefy Caucasians with guns! Get enough of them together, looking for the America they always believed they'd grow up in, and they glom together like overcooked rice, form integral, starchy little units.With their power tools, portable generators, weapons, four-wheel-drive vehicles, and personal computers, they are like beavers hyped up on crystal meth, manic engineers without a blueprint, chewing through the wilderness, building things and abandoning them, altering the flow of mighty rivers and then moving on because the place ain't what it used to be. The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers. But as long as you have that four-wheel-drive vehicle, and keep driving north, you can sustain it, keep moving just quickly enough to stay one step ahead of your own waste stream.
-- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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Y'all are gonna LOVE her!
Monday February 06 2006, @01:06AM
I'd like to introduce you all (or at least my little piece of you all) to NCalGal.
NCalGal is our kinda cool. She is smart, she is down-to-earth, and she tells the BEST stories. She's just learning how to find out who people are, so make sure to introduce yourself, comment in one of her JE's, whatever it takes for her to notice you, because she is really worth knowing.
If we are all really nice, maybe we can convince her to tell us her Internet Dating Rules - she's said to me that she could write a book, and I believe it. Besides - I think it would be educational as well as entertaining (-:
I'm really excited to share her with you - and I'm honored to share you all with her.
Pix
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Re:Is "she" a dude? (Score:1)
Which reminds me (Score:2)
Re:Which reminds me (Score:2)
I hope she's still lurking...
Pix
Re:Is "she" a dude? (Score:2)
You know. The word of someone else on the internet claiming to be a girl...
*grin*
Pix
Whoa! (Score:2)
Who do you trust? (Score:2)
Of course, for all anyone else knows, NCalGal, Pixie and I are actually polygamous Mormons living in Idaho.
Re:Is "she" a dude? (Score:2)
Statistically speaking, if a large enough group claiming to be girls all back one another, it must be true. After all, stats never lie!
Re:Is "she" a dude? (Score:2)
In fact, I suppose you could claim that this is what a reputation system is. A bunch of people who have created trust relationships that are valid in relation to each other, and to the context in which they were created. That little bundle of relationships sort of just floats free, without needing reference to any other reality, but the bigger it gets, the more credence it may gain with outside entities. We're a self-certified authority.
oooh, I'm in a bit of a ponderous mood today (-:
Pix
Re:Is "she" a dude? (Score:2)
So does that mean I can get a code-signing cert from you?
Re:Is "she" a dude? (Score:2)