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And isn't someone MHS Class of 2004?

I like this one.

Will

These are two of the many videos on YouTube that got to me. In this first one, you get an idea of how massive the wall of water is as it spills over the tsunami wall. Looking at the cars, the wall had to be over ten feet tall and the water breached it easily. Then at :48 you see cars moving in the background, unaware it seems what is about to hit them. It is so tragic it is indescribable because it was so preventable. In this one, if you blink, you miss the guy in the very beginning who looks like he is casually loading the back of a van as the first water reaches him and the car that turns left, just in front of the water. Higher ground was just around the corner so you hope they got to it. The last bit is the huge amount of debris that is floating towards the US including the gruesome prospect of human remains. The vast field of debris from Japan earthquake and tsunami that's floating towards U.S. West Coast

Santa Fe, NM, Durango, CO and Sedona, AZ were the first ones that popped into my mind. If you can get a cheap flight on Southwest to San Diego, that would be nice too.

14 and 14 because I don't see any way that Will & John will make it out of this story with out doing it. I was surprised they got through Chapter 5.

I think you'd find that a lot of people who are against gay marriage are also against divorce and see that since divorce has been become so easy the institution has been considerably weakened so I am not sure this blog post was all that brilliant.

The Chain of Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eATMYMOuc4 Toy Story 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSKJynYJO2Y&feature=related

Gee, there is a shocker. A sport where they all wear white flannel! They even have positions just for straight people like "straight long on", so who did you think was playing in "deep cover" then? Hmmmm

I liked it. I hope they finish the sequel.

A year at Cal is still cheaper than one quarter at Stanfurd. A year at Stanfurd is $38,700 ($12,900 a qtr) vs, $12,461.50 for the year at Cal. You are getting an Ivy League education at bargain basement prices.

is nonsense. If I buy something online from Barnes and Noble or Target or Macy's or Gap they bill and I pay my state and local sales tax. If these retailers can calculate sales taxes for every state where they do business, so can Amazon.com. For small internet retailers here's an opportunity for someone to provide a service so each retailer won't have to maintain all of the the state and local sales tax rates and do the calculations themselves. (Any budding entrepreneurs out there?) I'm willing to pay sales taxes on what I buy over the internet. It would simplify my life because I would no longer have to accumulate my online purchases and calculate the use tax for my California state income tax return each year. Yes, I pay the use tax. It's the law and I'm a law-abiding citizen. And I really don't want to be penalized by the Franchise Tax Board for not paying the use tax. Colin You miss the point that Macy's, Barnes & Noble, Target and Gap all have a presence in CA and that is the crucial distinction. The biggest argument from the online retailers isn't that it is too hard to maintain that database, that is a secondary concern. The main argument is that only Congress can regulate interstate commerce. If you go to Reno for the weekend and buy a book at Barnes & Noble in Reno, should California be able to collect sales tax for that? No, you didn't make the purchase in CA, you made it in NV. Congress, despite their money hungry ways, have several times specifically decided not to tax Internet purchases. It doesn't give Amazon an advantage over local retailers since they have to charge shipping and handling and that is usually the same or more than taxes.

Will would not be an emo in Malibu.

I have to honestly say while I loved the HMS Belvidera, I was very put off by the title of Chronicles of an Academic Predator, because I don't like predators of any kind (other than the ones that drones carry), but when I actually read the stories I was very impressed and the title just didn't seem to fit the story. If you could do it all over, would you keep the same name?

I thought Stef & Brad had replaced Old Man Pfister's cronies on the board? I wonder what is motivating the Old Man to stir up trouble right now? If I was Stef, I call a Point of Order and make the OM abide by the rules of 10 days notification to call a Board Meetin'.

Brad is just barely becoming mature enough to head the family, but not really and it is sexist to suggest that Isidore, as the matriarch of the family, wouldn't be considered the new head, that it has to be a man in the job. On one hand I'd like Alexandria, Brian, David all to die in a firey crash, but part of me also wants them to suffer the embarrassment of failure and collapse of Omega and the cap ventures of Dan Church.

What every cheesy couple chooses for their wedding song. "Could I have this dance for the rest of my life"

I started at Nifty as most people probably did, then I found the Fort, but they seemed a weird, closed bunch to me, then Just Us Boys, AwesomeDude, It's Only Me From Across The Sea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPvAQxZsgpQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C9RbRD64AE The notes Pavorotti hits are unreal, the power, the clarity and the quality, unbelievable.

Umm how about you just WATCH someone on Cam4 or Stickam and you don't actually communicate with the person..... ha ha. A lot of good answers actually so far that could really go in lots of directions if you draw the thought process out. When you don't have physical relations with someone, but an emotional connection, where does that fall?

No.... I am tirred of damn Hayes and Cramptons..... no one in these stories is blood related to Brad. That is why I want a Charmichael kid! And I want JJ in this three-way!

He did go to Madison, but his flippant response of "I ran out of guys to f***"" or "I got bored" leads to be more firmly convinced of his lack of intellectual curiosity and why he isn't a suitable match for Kevin. Cody has never shown interest in going back to school or getting his degree or even advancing in his position. I think that leads to trouble being partnered with someone who is ambitious.

Do you mean like Data?? He is kinda cute

I would never pretend that going to college makes you intellectually curious or not going to college means you aren't, but I'd have to say that those are the norms. Louis L'Amour's autobiography, Education of a Wandering Man, talks about how many people he met self educated by reading the classics, but I would say that is rarer now than it used to be. I can't imagine too many people who didn't go to college reading Plato, Pliny, Cicero, Plutarch, et al or studying Maslow and Milgram for the fun of it. Again, I am sure there are exceptions, but I don't think them the rule. Cody isn't a college graduate, didn't go at all that I remember and has never shown any interest in intellectual pursuits and hasn't done much to show huge ambition in advancing. Everyone postulates and projects. I've known Kevins and Codys and I've never seen it work when the two get together.

There is a huge distance between being stupid and not being intellectually developed or intellectually curious. Cody can be smart in a lot of ways and great at what he does, but people who go to elite universities (and as much as it pains Tim, Stanford is an elite university) operate on a whole different plain, have different interests intellectually and those people share common experiences. I have seen big problems in my straight friends marriages where one person went to college and the other didn't and I mean problems that relate directly to the knowledge gulf or gap. Those that both went to college, still have problems, that just isn't one of them. I am pretty sure Stanford does not offer any majors in how to be a Hollywood agent, which is what Cody does. While most agents these days have four year degrees and many have law degrees, MBA's or both, it wasn't like that a while ago. Cody might be smart, probably is smart, but he would still lack a lot of that experience and knowledge that is common to college students in the books they read, the psych and philosophy classes they take, the sciences they study and so on. It doesn't mean that Cody is stupid, but when all the other guys are talking about such topics, it is bound to be awkward. If Kevin is at Stanford he IS high and mighty intellectual. Not only are there no dummies at Stanford, even among the athletes, there are no mediocre intellects. Stanford gets the top 2%-3% of students in the country and students that are admitted lower than that, say in the top 7% would be the athletes or a disadvantaged student, but would still have a high GPA and test scores.