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    Today the 98 degree (38.7 C) heat and humidity left me a little muddleheaded. That's not unusual for Mississippi in July, but it is brutal. You have to watch out for old folks, kids and pets.
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    Lock In Friday

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    Their Foundation eventually used both properties If I ever write a sequel.
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    India-Romeo Lt. Rivers watched the clock slowly count down the interval it would take for the electromagnetic pulse to clear from the Starfish drone’s fusion bombs. His pilot’s voice crackled over the intercom, “I’ve got the ship’s auto-eject system armed. If the systems detect a lock on, we’ll be ejected away in microseconds.” Rivers watched the seconds ticking down. Combat at the speed of the incoming missiles would be essentially instantaneous. He answered with a terse, “Roger
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    Back in the eighties, I made some people angry [I have a singular talent for doing that] when I said someday we may be grateful for the AIDS virus. Not grateful for the suffering and death it caused, but grateful for the research and discovery along the way to a cure. It's astonishing how much we have learned about viruses, their life cycles, how they work and finally, how to break them. We have never had drugs that work against viruses. Now there are scores of them and the vast majority of them came directly from AIDS research. Maybe, just maybe, the long nightmare of HIV/AIDS is soon to end. The true legacy of the epidemic will be a greater understanding of viruses and drugs that work against them
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    Sometimes it takes something like this to give you some closure. Closure doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore. It just allows the pain to fade into the background. Some people are good at closure. I'm not. I'm bad about blaming myself and poking old wounds.
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    It's pretty obvious there's a lot of plugola going on across the whole spectrum from radio to TV. There's product placement in the damn commercials at this point.
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    Lotus 123. I'm that old. 🙀 I did do Quattro Pro for a while. I liked Borland Software until they merged themselves into oblivion.
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    I'm putting this in a spoiler because it's going to piss some people off. If you want to skip it, fine. You've been warned. Wear a helmet. There are people who will never like us. We're different. Adopting their norms and social behaviors isn't going to make them like us any more. Judging anyone for their scorecard is mental masturbation, sort of like Stockholm Syndrome. If you don't know what that is, it is adopting the norms and mores of your oppressors. We are judged for our sexuality. It self-defeating to judge each other for our sexuality.
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    Of course, there is The Prodigy - an English electronic dance music group.
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    I find spreadsheets help me to keep track. Maybe some enterprising soul might invent an app for your cell phone.
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    Please let us know what you think would be a good summer read on GA. I have a couple that people seem to like: The Summer Job In the Shadow of the Dragon Tell us about your favorites!
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    Why is school cafeteria food almost always swill?
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    Wait for it... (best at high volume)
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    The obelisk in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 has inspired decades of fan debate. What was it? Who put it there? What was its function? It is a good example of how leaving a little mystery behind makes a story memorable.
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    Some of the glyphs in the gang graffiti make me wonder if the gangs are in contact with aliens.
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    Freedom is just another word for nothing else to do… -Janis Joplin
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    This is a good thing. Chat is fast and requires no thought. It's mind-numbing to watch. Forums like this require that you put a little time and effort into expressing yourself. Some of us have roots that go back as far as usenet.
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    I usually keep my fiction kinda clean, but when my characters decide to get busy, they can be as lurid, or silly as any bunch you'll find on Nifty. Anybody else's characters have minds of their own?
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    This took place In the 70s, while many states were still figuring those laws out and why they needed them.
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    In the 96-degree (35.5 degrees C) heat and humidity of this July 2nd in Mississippi, my movements may appear to be a bit desultory.
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    When I heard that the bank manager had been fired for peculation, I thought it was some sort of bizarre sex crime I didn't want to know about.
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    In the summer months. Southern heat and humidity will chafe anybody.
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    Saddle up on Australian Huntsman spider, Ride him off into the sunset.
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