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« Reply #400 on: Wed, April 25, 2007, 09:44:06 » |
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Yah, but I can never seem to get my ears to stand out like that... 
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« Reply #401 on: Sun, April 29, 2007, 14:12:52 » |
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« Reply #402 on: Fri, May 4, 2007, 16:15:04 » |
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So yeah. I took a wrong turn somewhere & ended up in Alaska. Weeee.
I'm in a town called Juno. Apparently, a long time ago the french showed up & said "je know... it's not proper to have a word w/ only 4 letters"
"hunh"
"oi"
"You must be kidding me"
"no"
So... now it's spelled J-u-n-e-a-u...
& that's just plain cheating @ scrabble.
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« Reply #403 on: Fri, May 4, 2007, 16:29:29 » |
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is that the capital of Alaska?
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« Reply #404 on: Fri, May 4, 2007, 17:16:51 » |
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is that the capital of Alaska?
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« Reply #405 on: Sat, May 5, 2007, 09:32:40 » |
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Just a couple of FAQs from the Juneau travel guide:
Q: HOW CAN YOU SPOT AN ALASKAN?
A: Their complexions are dewy & they squint when the sun comes out, followed by comments about the strange yellow ball in the sky.
Q: WHY DON'T LOCALS USE UMBRELLAS?
A: Call it stubborness or being in denial, somehow the umbrella just never caught on here. People are drip-dry & umbrellas just can't take the wind that so often accompanies the rain; besides, umbrellas are for whimps.
Q: HOW HIGH IS JUNEAU?
A: The ocean gives you a clue. High tide used to lap Franklin & Front street. Canoes were parked where people are walking now.
Q: DOES IT ALWAYS RAIN HERE?
A: No. Sometimes it snows. Juneau gets about 150 inches of precipitation a year; we call it "liquid sunshine."
Q: WHAT TIME IS IT HERE?
A: Alaska time. Things will get done, unless the sun is out or the fishing is exceptionally good.
Q: HOW MANY HOURS OF SUNLIGHT DO YOU HAVE?
A: On Juneau's longest day, we have 18hrs & 18mins of daylight. On Juneau's shortest day, we have 6hrs & 22mins daylight, which means most working people don't get too much time outdoors.
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« Reply #407 on: Mon, May 7, 2007, 08:10:59 » |
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« Reply #408 on: Mon, May 7, 2007, 09:30:04 » |
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Or oblivion... 
There had to be atleast 5 signs describing the simple science of how glaciers are formed.
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« Reply #409 on: Thu, May 10, 2007, 10:50:14 » |
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Grrrr... I can view every recent post on here except for "post your comic artist sketches". When I try to access it, I get a page that says Access restricted The access to the address above is restricted. Accordingly to our harmful content database SiteCoach does not allow you to visit this page!
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« Reply #410 on: Thu, May 10, 2007, 12:05:31 » |
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Grrrr... I can view every recent post on here except for "post your comic artist sketches". When I try to access it, I get a page that says Access restricted The access to the address above is restricted. Accordingly to our harmful content database SiteCoach does not allow you to visit this page!
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« Reply #411 on: Fri, May 11, 2007, 08:10:49 » |
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Now I'm @ a different hotel & I can't access ebay. 
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« Reply #412 on: Fri, May 11, 2007, 13:12:30 » |
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Now I'm @ a different hotel & I can't access ebay. I take it you are still trapped in the eastern most part of Russia. |
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« Reply #413 on: Fri, May 11, 2007, 22:53:45 » |
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Nah. On the 8th I stayed in Santa Paulo, MN & last night I stayed in Indibanana. Tonight I am in NY & can pretty much view everything.
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« Reply #414 on: Sat, May 12, 2007, 05:47:15 » |
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Great, now the Matrix has x-ray eyes and can see everything! Time to lead line the siding on the house.
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« Reply #416 on: Wed, May 16, 2007, 12:56:46 » |
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 So, I learned a new lesson on Saturday.
If you're going to spend $200 on a new cell phone, don't keep it in a shirt pocket.  Because when you go to bend over... in less time than it takes to have a nervous breakdown,  you'll Bush it. & that I did.
In slow motion I watched the phone fall towards a puddle less than 1/4" deep. I almost managed to stop time & catch it, but the laws of physics had the one up on me  & the new phone that I had for less than a month....  ...
 STILL WORKED?!? HOLY CANOLI!!! 
It works!  So I wiped the layer of moisture off & set it on the roof against the wall so any possible agua that might have stealthily invaded the inner sanctum of my beloved toy could drain out. 15 minutes later, I checked it out & it was working fine. So I shut it & stuck it back in my pocket (pant pocket this time). I would have bought a carrier for it, but the only phone case I could find @ the time looks just a little left of metro  for my tastes. Anyway, I went to use my phone 10 mins later & oilah!  No picture on the screen!  WTF?!?
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« Reply #417 on: Wed, May 16, 2007, 13:18:16 » |
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the new phone that I had for less than a month....
The more expensive the phone, the more likely you are to lose it/break it/flush it/see it eaten by a hungry moose/throw it away/leave it in a flaming bag on a doorstep. Warranty? the only phone case I could find @ the time looks just a little left of metro
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« Reply #418 on: Wed, May 16, 2007, 13:53:51 » |
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Sadly, no warranty. It's a $400-$500 phone ($200 if I were a new customer as opposed to a 7yr loyal customer) so I had to purchase it off of ebay instead of through t-mobile.
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« Reply #419 on: Wed, May 16, 2007, 14:00:10 » |
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Sadly, no warranty. It's a $400-$500 phone ($200 if I were a new customer as opposed to a 7yr loyal customer) so I had to purchase it off of ebay instead of through t-mobile. that is what we hate about being loyal customers to tmobile, they should offer deals to the loyal customers also!! |
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« Reply #420 on: Wed, May 16, 2007, 22:38:34 » |
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I feel Delvie's pain. I was wading down a river taking pictures of the cascading water, the bluffs, people having fun in the water (this was the place where I just planted trees with my Scouts), when my ankle got twisted between two rocks and I fell backwards into the river. I grabbed my camera and thrust it out of the water, then climbed back to the shore. Things looked good, so I snapped off a couple more shots and called it a day. When I tried turning the camera back on, it was totally dead. When I had the film developed, the pictures came out kind of funny looking also.
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« Reply #421 on: Thu, May 17, 2007, 09:06:28 » |
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OUCH! Did the camera ever work when it dried out?
Both my phone & my camera stopped working last week on my day off in Alaska. I went photowrangling & when I was @ the Mendenhall Glacier, they both finally quit. It only took about 3 hrs on the defroster for the phone to work again. The camera worked 3 days later.
A little back story on my phone. I've had it a month because my previous phone was a flip phone that the flip part wore out 3 months prior. I had to be extremely careful opening it or it would completely break. Then about 7 weeks before it's demise, it did completely break & my phone was nothing but a receiver & mouthpiece connected by w thin wire. Necessity required that I hold onto that phone until I could spend $500 on a Dash or a Sidekick3 or a Blackberry. The last month the screen went out & I was crippled. I could answer the phone & dial #s I knew in my head, but I couldn't see if I dialed a wrong # or who was calling me. Worst of all for me was the lack of text message. On an average month I send 1700 text & receive 1300. Nothing on the screen. When the opportunity for a buy-it-now Sidekick for $200 came along, I took it. 30 days later. I have no picture or words on the screen. 
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« Reply #422 on: Thu, May 17, 2007, 09:15:07 » |
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wow that is a lot of texting
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« Reply #423 on: Thu, May 17, 2007, 09:23:47 » |
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You'd be surprised how little that is.
A typical conversation could be 20 - 50
It's easier, most times. It's hard to talk on the phone & work @ the same time, where as, a quick 10 second type & then back to work until the reply.
There's some people (family) that I only talk to @ xmas, but we text eachother every few days. I have a friend in Indiana whose daughter died right before xmas. We've only spoken on the phone once in 20yrs, but we text every day. Especially, before my previous phone went wonky, we were gabbin' like lil girls via text.
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« Reply #424 on: Thu, May 17, 2007, 09:33:05 » |
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You'd be surprised how little that is.
A typical conversation could be 20 - 50
It's easier, most times. It's hard to talk on the phone & work @ the same time, where as, a quick 10 second type & then back to work until the reply.
There's some people (family) that I only talk to @ xmas, but we text eachother every few days. I have a friend in Indiana whose daughter died right before xmas. We've only spoken on the phone once in 20yrs, but we text every day. Especially, before my previous phone went wonky, we were gabbin' like lil girls via text.
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