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Why is the world such a scary place lisablisab said:She's just one of many.
At least I can eat my words when the government releases its mermaid army.
Why is the world such a scary place lisablisab said:She's just one of many.
You have to admit that those special camera effects near the end were, uhm, pointless. :tongue2: What's so scary is that you find so many people like her online.lisab said:Sadly, I think you know the answer to that question: lots of people.
For example, behold the Crazy Rainbow Woman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjZY0KufWao
She's just one of many.
OmCheeto said:...Douglas Engelbart
...
Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer.
Guiding philosophy
Engelbart's career was inspired in December 1950 when he was engaged to be married and realized he had no career goals other "than a steady job, getting married and living happily ever after".
Over several months he reasoned that:
1. he would focus his career on making the world a better place;
2. any serious effort to make the world better requires some kind of organized effort;
3. harnessing the collective human intellect of all the people contributing to effective solutions was the key;
4. if you could dramatically improve how we do that, you'd be boosting every effort on the planet to solve important problems — the sooner the better; and
5. computers could be the vehicle for dramatically improving this capability.
The ascent can be challenging, though I recommend mounting the north face first, for the uninitiated. Relatively forgiving and the shade from the mountain can make the first ascent a bit less daunting.OmCheeto said:They've obviously never seen Mount Sunflower.
Gad said:What a long trip.
OMG, the website for "Into thick air - Ascent of the Northeast Face of Mt Sunflower" IS GONE!OmCheeto said:They've obviously never seen Mount Sunflower.
Evo said:OMG, the website for "Into thick air - Ascent of the Northeast Face of Mt Sunflower" IS GONE!
I found it on wayback http://web.archive.org/web/20120518005800/http://www.bettingers.org/air/ks000.htm
But the pictures are missing, those incredible pictures are what made the expedition so unique as it showed you just how treacherous the climb was. Falling into dangerous crevasses (picture of a guy's foot in a small crack in the ground, treacherous climbs across perilous terrain (a ladder laying horizontally over a couple of small rocks).
We need to try to contact these brave men and see if they still have copies for us to share with their fans worldwide!
Can anyone find them?
OmCheeto said:You hiked Mt. Sunflower?
Gad said:No, multiple flights in one day.. I am sad for leaving home.
I've lived and visited many states, Kansas is UGLY. REALLY UGLY. It's flat, it's a land of tumbleweeds, I wonder where the heck fake place she was? The only ok places are not natural. Kansas is naturally a bleak prairie.OmCheeto said:My friend just got back from a wedding in Kansas. She said it was the most beautiful she'd seen it.
Though, she does own farmland there, and brown dying corn is ugly, and green recuperating corn, is green for her.
She likes green.
And then again, I've learned to like that, also.
Evo said:I've lived and visited many states, Kansas is UGLY. REALLY UGLY. It's flat, it's a land of tumbleweeds, I wonder where the heck fake place she was? The only ok places are not natural. Kansas is naturally a bleak prairie.
dlgoff said:
And I thought this shot from my place wasn't ugly.
dkotschessaa said:It's gorgeous.
THIS is ugly Kansas:
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It somewhat matches Evo's description.
Maybe that's what she meant...
-Dave K
Ban him micromass!Enigman said:I just enabled the view avatars option for the first time and am reeling from the shock that Gad and Micromass are both women...
Now that's pretty!dlgoff said:
And I thought this shot from my place wasn't ugly.
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dkotschessaa said:THIS is ugly Kansas:
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It somewhat matches Evo's description.
Maybe that's what she meant...
-Dave K
Enigman said:I just enabled the view avatars option for the first time and am reeling from the shock that Gad and Micromass are both women...
dkotschessaa said:THIS is ugly Kansas:
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It somewhat matches Evo's description.
Maybe that's what she meant...
dlgoff said:... and done a few things with one of these band members; albeit many years ago ...
Didn't get your implication and after visiting the url I've decided its better not to.DennisN said:And you call yourself Enigman. Doesn't that sound a bit ambiguous?
Enigman-A person that is Enigmatic. No one really knows who he TRULY is or what he's REALLY about. He's either secretive while seeming so open and wonderful by all outward appearances or the opposite; he seems to be one thing, but is really something else.
Enigman said:Didn't get your implication and after visiting the url I've decided its better not to.
Enigman=enig+Man.
From Urban Dictionary-
Interesting fact about the etymology of man: Man used to signify both the genders (gender neutral) and the genders were differentiated with prefixes 'Vir' (also 'Wer') and 'wyf'. Therefore the male human was called virman and female was called wyfman. Wer is also the root word of werewolf; probably explains the dearth of female werewolves in legends. Wyfman in time gave rise to the term woman and wyf to wife.AnTiFreeze3 said:...Also: wo+MAN. Having only part of a word implying something doesn't mean that the word itself denotes that very thing.
AnTiFreeze3 said:His intended implication (from what I gathered) is that an enigma is meant to be something inexplicable or puzzling, and that having your name essentially being the word 'enigma' doesn't make it overly obvious as to your gender.
DennisN said:But there's a beautiful Marshall amplifier to the left,
Enigman said:am reeling from the shock that Gad and Micromass are both women...
:rofl: I'll never tell.AnTiFreeze3 said:It's okay, you can just say drugs
Enigman said:Therefore the male human was called virman
Enigman said:Interesting fact about the etymology of man: Man used to signify both the genders (gender neutral) and the genders were differentiated with prefixes 'Vir' (also 'Wer') and 'wyf'. Therefore the male human was called virman and female was called wyfman. Wer is also the root word of werewolf; probably explains the dearth of female werewolves in legends. Wyfman in time gave rise to the term woman and wyf to wife.
Also Hermaphrodite= Hermes (God of masculinity )+ Aphrodite (Goddess of femininity)
From Hermaphroditus- (son of the above) according to the legend the first androgyn - originally was a boy with whom a nymph fell in love with and then forcibly hugging him prayed to the gods that they should never be parted again.
was the only thing that seemed to describe my confusion at the implication and no bigotry was intended.
As far as the word 'Enigman' is concerned I made that word up in high school as a cross between Enigma and Man. I stumbled upon the definition in Urban Dictonary much later, though it does fit rather nicely...
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