No. Usually I get really psyched up about it, seeking out new horror movies, getting into the mood, but I've been super-organized with my time, pretty much down to to the nearest five-minute interval, so I'll hang with my uncle, his sister, see some of the nephew costumes (oldest one wanted to go as R2-D2, for some reason I don't know), maybe help hand out candy for a few hours. Maybe play some spooky Bach on piano. TBH, I'm more psyched to go to mass for All Saints Days -- gotta stop slacking on that front.
TNP has had a few isolated days over the past two weeks when he or she just ate too much, and was not happy at the need to readjust for the rest of the week.
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No, did not. Sounds kind of fun to run up 3 flights and pretend to be in some spy movie, and make some ridiculous excuse for being out of breath when meeting the people on the upper floor.
TNP is extremely tired of hearing pervert journalists pander to their deviant public about alleged sex criminals, bestiality fans, mad gropers, Hollywood homosexuals, transgenders, streakers, runaway brides, whatever. By all means, arrest the offenders, report on that, if you must, just shut up in general. Yes, I know people have been obsessed with everything naughty since forever, but surely one needn't lower oneself to the primitive Mediterranean classical world.
Sure, I like ST:TNG, and the movies. I'm sure I've seen all TOS -- they're a good glimpse at pre-TJ Hooker Shatner, and pre-Night of the Lepus DeForest Kelley. I'd say that qualifies me as a Trekker, just not an obsessive one.
TNP is sure
had two very good reasons for wearing her costume to perform the Schumann piano concerto.
They sure can be. I'm pretty sure that Ms. Buniatishvili, at age 30, had the same idea, but that can't be too comfortable, jogging in place in one of the virtuoso concerti. Well, I respect her for knowing her audience.
TNP thinks the odds of being a bachelor in his 40s, no matter how well-groomed and urbane, not being regarded by most young woman as some kind of old goat are pretty slim. BUT TNP THINKS IT IS POSSIBLE!
Own? Sure. But more like being the owner of a professional sports team, just sit in a private room and have people bring me things. I would consider it horrible to waste time dealing with the kinds of people I could trick or browbeat into working for me.
TNP is very frustrated by setting up new mobile phones and getting them to work the way I want them to.
Own? Sure. But more like being the owner of a professional sports team, just sit in a private room and have people bring me things. I would consider it horrible to waste time dealing with the kinds of people I could trick or browbeat into working for me.
TNP is very frustrated by setting up new mobile phones and getting them to work the way I want them to.
No -- Apple's one advantage is have a Unix-like core, but I don't care about the fancy desktop applications. This new iPhone (don't know what model, the cheapest) is pretty admirably plug-and-play, but it infuriates me that I can't crack the impenetrable sandboxed case when something doesn't work and try to fix it. Also, not having access to the battery makes me very unhappy -- if I want the phone off, I want to be able to do so. Also, Sprint is fucking the worst fucking carrier in the fucking planet. What are they hard of antennae? 1x speed data? Maybe occasionally an hour of what they claim is 3G? Who told them they could work with men? I'm going to find out who's dick they're sucking on and have them fired.
TNP is regularly appalled by how little about society's "rules of the game" some people know.
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I don't think I'm so much appalled anymore -- there are a lot of people in the world, and some of them aren't going to get it, but I am capable of occasionally being surprised/irritated.
TNP is still capable of being surprised by how people will desperately try to make easy things difficult.
No. It takes a special talent to take the laziest, most efficient path. Not many are called, and few are chosen. Of those few, still fewer do it correctly.
TNP can name a novel he or she recently decided to start reading in again, and will do so.
Mostly bored of most things and most people. If I don't approve, it's garbage, and since most of what I disapprove of comes from illiterate children, I'd have no problem disposing of most of them.
TNP thinks nerds should be put in a cage, and their results read every so often and interpreted by hu
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No, that's what I heard, I guess. I think nerds do stuff, too, but they're just really annoying about it, but that's nitpicking, really.
TNP didn't know that on some or many bulletin board software "enter post" boxes you can use shortcuts, for example, ctrl-I for italics. I honestly thought everyone was typing 11 characters versus the 4 needed for asterisk to code it, or pressing the little picture of italic.
Sure. Good old Empire Builder. Filthy, slow, but at least Amtrak's employees are friendly, and who doesn't like train stations? Airplane companies, that's who. The enemy of an enemy is...a filthy, slow friend.
TNP: eating in a gas station bathroom or eating on a plane.
Not really. I've been on some medium-length trips on RVs, and from what I can see they're a bitch to drive, there's a lot of shit (sometimes literally) to take care of, and I just wouldn't want to do it. They're like pleasure boats, except not cool. On the contrary, I kind of enjoy those little motels off the interstate, catch a few winks, grab a stale doughnut and coffee for the road, and maybe stop in a town, hit the bars, and flop in some seedy motel and sleep it off.
I know it's cooler to say Tesla these days, but Edison thought up and did more stuff that had a lasting influence. So I'll go, with no disrespect intended to Tesla, with Edison.
Lincoln, because of his remarkable abilities as an orator and his decisiveness. Washington fought against the French, who were the only colonialist power which made a positive contribution to North America, but he turned out OK.
TNP thinks it's too bad this case, where compensatory damages paid against a man who was assaulted, arrested, and illegally detained by a civilian law officer, and the following case, where legal fees well in excess of a million dollars were recovered from the perpetrators, had to be pursued as civil-rights cases. Perhaps members of non-protected classes will benefit from the punishment of rogue civilians with exaggerated legal authority, though.
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Both of those are the same case, but in any event, no, I'd disagree. Abuse of authority by police is just what civil rights lawsuits often stem from. If the case can't be settled, sometimes you have to take it to a jury.
TNP has had an unpleasant encounter with a cop in the past three years.