Imponderables- quit slacking when I'm gone by MsA

I remembered my password!! Yay!!

I haven't gone through much of the posts because I'm lazy but meeting another geek would def be awesome. I may have to try this geek to geek site. I think I browse before but maybe I can be a little more serious this time.

I'm with Magda on the qualities! He has to deal with my unique brand of crazy, make me laugh, and not be a man child please.

edit: I missed my 5 year anniversary on this site by 5 days! 5 years.....

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Wednesday, August 31, 2011 6:22 AM

HUGS Avery!!!!

HUGS Magda:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Thursday, September 01, 2011 6:06 AM

And now it all goes quiet because a huge chunk of us have disappeared to D*C

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Thursday, September 01, 2011 6:45 AM

D*C psssh. Slackers!

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Thursday, September 01, 2011 11:36 AM

I have D*C mopes... I want to be there...but I want a house more

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, September 02, 2011 5:25 AM

bump:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, September 02, 2011 8:46 AM

I wish, I wish, I wish I could go to DragonCon. Just once. But, sadly, it looks like I'll never get to go. (sadface)

In regards to your last ponder: I virtually met my wife through an ex's MySpace page. We eventually met IRL at the local watering hole (that's no longer around) and hit it off. Eventually we got married and the rest is the dramatic comedy I call my life. :D

-Steg

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Friday, September 02, 2011 8:26 PM

*pokes thread*

So this is what its like not to be at d*c huh?

No sir I don't like it!

Back to ponder: Gave geek2geek a second try. See above comment about not being at dragon*con. It applies here too.

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Originally posted by Stegasaurus:

In regards to your last ponder: I virtually met my wife through an ex's MySpace page. We eventually met IRL at the local watering hole (that's no longer around) and hit it off. Eventually we got married and the rest is the dramatic comedy I call my life. :D

-Steg

I love that you met your current wife through your exs myspace.

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Saturday, September 03, 2011 2:39 PM

NAVYSEILS

I agree with all the booing about no D*C. I never want to miss one again. :(

Having Mick around for our 'sulk together while not at D*C night' was fun though.

As for the ponder, I've no idea how I'll go about meeting. I guess I'd want for it to just... happen. Somehow.

It's perhaps not the greatest plan.

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Sunday, September 04, 2011 8:04 PM

Ponder: Is it REALLY appropriate to be a grandparent at the age of 39? Ok, maybe 40 when the child is actually born...

*sigh* :vomit:

-Steg

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Monday, September 05, 2011 6:59 AM

Doing it backwards. Walking up the downslide.

I've kind of wondered if anyone could play, here. I didn't want to just jump in, but I suppose I will now.

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Originally posted by Stegasaurus: Ponder: Is it REALLY appropriate to be a grandparent at the age of 39? Ok, maybe 40 when the child is actually born...

Well, this would imply to me that two successive generations had children at around the age of twenty. I don't see how that's an inappropriate age to have children. It might be a little young, but not like super young. Now, if someone were becoming a grandparent at the age of thirty, implying two successive generations had children at around the age of fifteen, there might be a concern there.

Previous ponder: I met my girlfriend at college. She is a brilliant scientist, but she needed some pointers in English class, and lucky for me she came looking for a peer tutor. We kind of started helping each other with homework and fell in love. Of course, it took some time for us to come out to each other and actually start dating, but we got there eventually.

Facts are stubborn things.

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Monday, September 05, 2011 2:38 PM

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Originally posted by Stegasaurus: Ponder: Is it REALLY appropriate to be a grandparent at the age of 39? Ok, maybe 40 when the child is actually born...

*sigh* :vomit:

-Steg

I was about to say that I was in nursing school with someone who was 30 and about to be a grandma. I'm about to be 40, and my child is 12 because I got off to a relatively late start, but I'm going to college with people who are old enough to be my kids without stretching the imagination. (Most of them were born in or after the year I graduated high school.) So I would be a little upset if I were actually to become a grandparent right now(!), but it's not inappropriate to my age range.

Previous ponder: I met him folk dancing. Ah lurves mah nerd.

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Monday, September 05, 2011 3:10 PM

Reason I'm just a little nervous is that my biological daughter is 15, so her age is the one I'm used to. My step-son is 20, so I knew it could happen sometime eventually. I was just wishful thinkin' I had a few more years before I had to bear the title. My wife, on the other hand, is an emotional wreck right now.

And for those confused, my step-son posted on his Facebook he was going to be a father. Not my daughter.

-Steg

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Tuesday, September 06, 2011 4:44 AM

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Originally posted by LiLi: I've kind of wondered if anyone could play, here. I didn't want to just jump in, but I suppose I will now.

Everybody's welcome to post in here. We don't bite.

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Tuesday, September 06, 2011 6:41 AM

Don't make promisies Zeek... Just kidding Lili really we do not bite:)

Stego - I just became a mom at 34 so I'll be at least 55 before I'm a grandma so I can see why it'd throw your wife off. Don't you also have a little one near my son's age??

HUGS to Navy, Avery, and Rosie ( wow took me a second to come up with screen names as I think of you by your real names ) D*C next year people...no excuses!!!

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, September 06, 2011 9:16 AM

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Originally posted by MsA: Stego - I just became a mom at 34 so I'll be at least 55 before I'm a grandma so I can see why it'd throw your wife off. Don't you also have a little one near my son's age??

Of course I do. Maddox is the same age as Johnny. (Did I spell that right? Been so long since we've chatted and posted pics.)

-Steg

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Wednesday, September 07, 2011 5:53 AM

I thought Maddox was near his age, but I wasn't sure how near ( might have been off by a year)

Ok Ponder- What book do you remember most clearly from your childhood?? For me I'd say Heidi. We used to pile in my mom and dad's bed and she'd read us a chapter a night:) We even, to this day, call pan toasted bread Heidi toast

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Wednesday, September 07, 2011 6:18 AM

When does childhood end? I'd say as a real youngin I guess the Clifford books. As a mid youngin I'd go with Lord of the Rings.

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Wednesday, September 07, 2011 7:24 AM

Doing it backwards. Walking up the downslide.

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Originally posted by MsA: What book do you remember most clearly from your childhood??

That's easy: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. My obsession with Alice led directly to my studies in literature and then English.

Facts are stubborn things.

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Wednesday, September 07, 2011 8:47 AM

Johnny loves Clifford:)

Hmm Lili how old were you when you first read it?

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Wednesday, September 07, 2011 8:55 AM

Doing it backwards. Walking up the downslide.

I don't think I read it for myself until I was about nine, but my mom read it to me when I was... maybe five or six. And I regularly watched film adaptations throughout my childhood, too. Actually, I still watch them, but now I'm analyzing them much more.

Facts are stubborn things.

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Wednesday, September 07, 2011 10:19 AM

Hmmmm I can totally see that. It's interesting the nuances you pick up as you get older. The first time I read To Kill a Mockingbird I was maybe 6 or 7 and I got most of it, but didn't understand why, when the kids snuck out and followed Atticus and then talked to the group of men, that they were in trouble. Then as a teenager I re-read it and realized that it was a lynch mob

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Wednesday, September 07, 2011 1:16 PM

Little Sister Baby Sitters club books (which no one else I know remembers!) Everyone talks about the regular baby sitters club books, but these were for younger kids.

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Wednesday, September 07, 2011 7:26 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

Steg, as Lili said it implies to two generations had kids at 19 or 20 which is fine. I like Heidi and To Kill a Mockingbird, both neat books. And I do indeed remember those Babysitter's little sister books about Karen, I didn't fancy them myself, I loved the regular Babysitters Clubs from age 9 to 11, right after I turned 11 I moved along to other fair. But in third and fourth grade they were super cool.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Wednesday, September 07, 2011 7:51 PM

Piers anthony's Xanth series and Madeline L'Engle's (prolly spelled her name wrong there) Wrinkle in Time series. 'round about the sixth grade(ish).

-Steg

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Friday, September 09, 2011 6:28 AM

My class is reading A Wrinkle in Time right now:)

HUGS Avery- I do remember them as my baby sis loved them

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Sunday, September 11, 2011 11:00 AM

Null, nought, X. Do you think she was thinking of Daleks?

:smile:

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Monday, September 12, 2011 6:24 AM

hmm... interesting question

Ok so ponder folks

What would you be willing to do to have a million dollars??

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Monday, September 12, 2011 8:06 AM

NICODEMUS

Would it be a one-off payment, or could we repeat the action for multiple millions?

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Monday, September 12, 2011 8:43 AM

Um...I'd be willing to do a lot of things. For starters I'd be willing to continue doing what I do normally. If someone would give me a million dollars for that I would take it.

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Monday, September 12, 2011 9:43 AM

I'd let my wife sleep with the millionaire who's willing to pay...

Oh wait, that story's already been told...

Hmmm...

Good one, MsA!

-Steg

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Monday, September 12, 2011 10:34 AM

I've noticed we can all think of things we wouldn't do for a million, but it's harder to think of things we would do

I for one might be willing to have twins for a million dollars ( emphasis on might as the one we have has nearly run both of us to ground)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Monday, September 12, 2011 10:55 AM

I'd take a nap for a million dollars.

I don't see what's hard about this.

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Monday, September 12, 2011 10:56 AM

Doing it backwards. Walking up the downslide.

Oh, I can think of things I would do for a million dollars. Whether someone was willing to pay me a million dollars would probably be the question.

1) I would smash my car up with a sledgehammer. 2) I would make out with my girlfriend in public. Maybe even another girl, if Rachele was okay with that. 3) I would inventory any library archives. 4) I would live on fish for a week. 5) I would stand in the street and scream nonsense poems.

You get the idea.

Facts are stubborn things.

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Monday, September 12, 2011 11:16 AM

I would sleep with:

Jessica Biel Jessica Alba Kristen Bell Rachel McAdams Amy Adams Kate Beckinsale Amber Heard and more!

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Monday, September 12, 2011 12:40 PM

I don't quite understand what is hard about this either.

I would sleep with Alexander Skarsgard and then eat all you can sushi/steak/hot fries/cherry soda for a million dollars.

Then we'd play video games all day.

I'd def do that for a million dollars. :smile:

I found another imponderable. So you know those stupid cut and paste things people do on facebook? Here is one that I found: "I was RAISED; I didn't just grow up. I was taught to speak when I enter a room, say please & thank you, to have respect for my elders, lend a helping hand to those in need, hold the door for the person behind me say excuse me when it's needed, & to love people for who they are, not for what you can get from them! I was also taught to treat people the way I want to be treated! If you were raised this way too, re-post this. Sadly, many won't, because they weren't, and it shows."

Now, all those are fine and well, but what bugged me was this line "I was taught to speak when I enter a room". So entering a room quietly is rude??? I have never heard this before in my life. Is this a generation thing? She is in her 50s or 60s. Have I been rude for the last 26 years of my life because I walk into rooms quietly?

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Monday, September 12, 2011 2:22 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

I've never heard of speaking when someone comes into a room either. Could it be a typo? People don't pay a lot of attention in life so it could have been a mistake that no one has caught yet?

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, September 12, 2011 4:23 PM

I've startled the hell out of my husband lately by walking into the basement when he's focused on the computer and then asking him a question.

It's fun to watch him jump and shout in surprise.

It's my long-term plan: scare him to death and collect the insurance money! :biggrin:

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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 5:48 AM

"I was also taught to treat people the way I want to be treated!"

Like looking down on them for the way they were raised. Yeah quite a class act there. More like that person is shouting from the roof tops what a bad attitude they have.

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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:20 AM

It smells like mushroom pizza in this hallway, and yet I have not seen any delivered. Odd.

Life on campus in the biology building.

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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:28 AM

TRAVELER

That last statement, "Sadly, many won't," seemed rather rude for someone who just made an extensive claim about being raised to be polite. I get the impression of a snob and not someone I would have as a friend.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731 Traveler

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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:35 AM

pizza is designed to permeate an area even days after it has gone... it's part of the evil

I dislike all of those " when I was born...blah blah" Some of the stuff they mention is down right dangerous and come on so you survived GREAT, but loads of kids don't so quit looking down on parents who won't let their kids ride in the back of a pickup truck or roll around inside a tire Also all of these have a subtle... the way I was raised is good any anything else is bad message that I find offensive

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:25 PM

@Travler: Yeah, she def is uppity. In fact, I hide most of her posts. I just happenstanced to see her profile and saw that gem.

@SR: I've had the "I didnt even know you were here!!" things. It even happened once in a car. I was sitting in the backseat and they went into the passenger. It was quite amusing I as there for about 5 min before they knew.

@MsA: I tend to hate ALL the "copy this..." posts. Once in a while the sarcastic ones are good, but I had to get some opinions on that one.

Also, down with mushrooms!!!

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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 2:51 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

MMMMMM mushrooms, I love mushrooms! Send any unwanted (edible) mushrooms my way because I'll gobble them up: Mushrooms on pizza, barbecued mushrooms, mushrooms in speghetti, they're all yummy, especially the barbecued ones.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:24 AM

Heck yeah mushrooms are great. One of my favorite sandwichs at a deli around here has a layer of raw mushrooms. They're good in any form I tells ya.

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:11 AM

I have a truly awesome recipe for roasted crimini mushrooms with bacon and herbs....DROOOL

Oh ponder.. what food do you love? Which one do you hate?

I hate lima beans... I just do I love everything, but my favorite is a nice medium rare steak with grilled mushrooms and bernaise sauce

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:03 PM