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Yup, that's right.
New clue? |
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CLUE (Quotient Quotables, $1600):
Paul Erdős is reported to have said "a mathematician is a device for turning" this "into theorems". |
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I actually was in the middle of researching an answer to this question before I disappeared for a little bit — I'm a lilapsophobe and meteorological statistics interest me, so I got curious and snooped around the SPC's tornado report data.
The rough answer is that statistically, you're a little more prone to tornadoes (and severe thunderstorms in general) in Washington, D.C. than in Albany (and similarly located cities like NYC and Boston) — but it's not really much higher than the average for the entire country. It looks like you'd be about in line with Detroit or Minneapolis, neither of which are particularly well-known for tornado frequency. As for hurricanes, it seems like the risk is a little higher than it would be in Albany — you have a higher chance of being in a hurricane than most of the country, but not nearly as high, say, as the states lining the Gulf of Mexico. Strength is a factor, too. You're far less likely to see a monstrous F5 tornado in D.C. than in Kansas or the Deep South — so much less so, actually, that it doesn't seem like anything higher than an F3's ever been recorded there (there has, however, been an F4 in nearby northern Virginia). It also doesn't seem like D.C. has a single recorded Category 5 hurricane. I wouldn't fret too much, basically. Be prepared if something happens, of course (and you'll get plenty of advance notice for a hurricane), but there's no point in stressing until then. |
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Hey nerds |
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Probably keep the FiOS. I can't imagine even if Comcast is good in the area that it'd be any faster/more reliable than fiber. My experiences with Comcast have been pretty uniformly negative, so. |
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Does Game Boy Printer count
shiver..... |
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I still use Microsoft Paint for most of my per-pixel image editing -- the build I'm using is from Windows XP (probably built in 2001 unless it got rebuilt in a Service Pack, but I doubt it), and the actual program itself has roots in Microsoft Paintbrush... which itself dates all the way back to 1985 in Windows 1.0... which further was a licensed version of PC Paintbrush by ZSoft from 1984! I couldn't tell you how much old code is still in the version of Paint that I use, though: it seems mostly adapted from Windows 95's Paint, but also given that Microsoft's never been shy about reusing legacy code, who knows 
I use bash, too, along with a bunch of GNU coreutils, but I couldn't tell you when most of those were written... I don't use the BSD ones anymore since I'm not on macOS anymore, though... |
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That's correct!
Pick again. (Yes, I'm serious) |
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a little bit. but i mostly used it with the game boy camera...
that thing was cool as shit |
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hi
someone remind me to post more also to port over my new layout and avatar edit: stockin's back. layout later |
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shouldn't it correctly be called "meow-er"
edit: or prr-er or paw-er |
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Posted by ゼンガー・ゾンボルトyup. i've had it PSSSSSSHH all over my face too, shaken sodas are fun Posted by Danikai can't listen to this cos it's 4am and i gotta bed soon but there's probably more nya-worthy songs out there, like the full venetian snares' "songs about my cats" album edit: that i've also never heard |
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Posted by Epelewe all know what you meant, you boob (belated grats) |
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Posted by AtomicAstrothank you!! could say the same for your taste in music, these are some pretty killer picks (tho i think red's my fav king crimson, but court of the crimson king is still a fine pick. also i realized earlier this year that ride the lightning fuckin owns (really any of their first 4 are great). still haven't heard any megadeth and not nearly enough iron maiden ;; (also did i seriously not mention cowboy bebop's music in my OST list for the first post, wtf, criminal oversight) updates for my original post: i've kind of gotten over my grumpy kneejerk anti-RYM phase to finally admit actually i really like low by david bowie (david bowie in general owns) but station to station's still my fav i also think i've come back around to repetition as far as unwound goes but unwound still kicks my ass hard in general so really i don't think there's a wrong pick here |
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i caught vaporeon !
and the ff1 knight but vaporeon ! |
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hey, i think i know you! from other places!
hi darkhero! |
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fingertip but i tend to kinda claw if i'm really actively using the mouse. my middle finger tends to rest closer to the mouse so i can rub the scroll wheel with sort of the "knot" after my digit, but my index finger tends to be a lot more floaty
i will say my hand tends to barely rest on my mouse with only the front of it really coming into contact -- my palm barely touches it if at all my mouse is relatively small (it's some random cheapo USB logitech) so that's prob influencing the way i hold it. the only time i've really been super huggy with my mice is with big fancy ergonomic mice that my dad occasionally had lying around |
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Granted, you're now sleeping on a concrete slab in your room! Hooray
I wish I owned a Rickenbacker 360 Posted by Keikishoaw i like white chocolate ;; |
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Posted by Darkherothat's a tough one to answer mainly because there's a lot of different kinds of retro computers i'd like to own. i don't think i have a single dream one, there's a lot of different ones i'd like to play with... right now i'm kind of eyeballing an imac g3 or a g4, they're gorgeous and not that expensive as it turns out i like a lot of older 80s/90s PCs from before the 386/IBM days, like the amiga and even the atari ST i've been interested in for a while there's a lot of other weirdo looking stuff from the 90s i like -- i'm kind of into that weird "ergonomic" aesthetic circa 95 where computers were still steeped in beige sensibilities but also could be weird shapes or start incorporating colors. i like super early 90s stuff with big ugly bricky mouses, back when computers kind of felt like portals into some strange world we'd never been, you know, or could connect us to people we'd never known... when computers still had the clock speed counters on them and the turbo buttons and the locks but i've always REALLY been fascinated by the ZX spectrum too ever since seeing jetpac in dk64 as a kid, and then hearing "let down" by radiohead as a teen, then just seeing the bizarrely limited but fascinating color palette, some of the stuff you can do in spite of it... plus i love the aesthetic of that thing, just as a machine, with the whole rainbow-on-black scheme. that might be my dream computer if i had to pick just one Posted by Danikaehh? is she a catgirl or something Posted by ゼンガー・ゾンボルトum, the third one |
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