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punknaynowned
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ballot by computer!
And would you say ma'am that did or did not improve your experience of voting?
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BBP
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We stopped balloting by computer. It seems there was a problem with them and it was possible for people to rig up computers and walkie talkies to hear
whatever had been voted, and now they're not used anymore. We had a huge ballot, a red pencil, colour one of the circles, and then slide it in a
converted garbage can.
...I don't think that was very privacy-protecting either...
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Here in California we had a special election a couple weeks ago. The turnout was pathetic: something like 25%. It was a bunch of initiatives to raise
money for schools and such, and they all lost.
The election cost millions of dollars, and in the end it was a complete waste of time and money...
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chat at the zforum has been fun
come check it out
crazy conversation
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BBP
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I think this year the turnout was 34%, even lower than the European Parliament election of four years ago. The EP has little power so I'm not even
sure what I've voted for...
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Had a great fleamarket day! I bought a Charlie Chaplin vid, a CareBears button (yes, I adored those cute little bears as a kid, and watching the
original episodes still makes me gooey), and...
GABRIEL KNIGHT 1!!! Yay!
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I accidentally scratched my laptop screen with scissors. D'oh times a million. Channel 10 here in Australia launched their new free-to-air digital
sports channel, which they call ONE. It's the best thing that's ever happened to me. I've been watching the NBA playoffs and the major league baseball
along with other stuff, when i should have been studying. But i'm officially on "holidays" now, which means the same amount of study but no formal
classes.
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BBP
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How on earth did you manage to scratch your laptop screen with scissors?
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yesterday talked to s3bbE yesterday who went to this show in Stockholm
the show starter, with a nice bit of dialogue wit Dweezil b4 a nice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeehZFhM0l8&NR=1
and the surprising show closer that the crowd sang,
weirdos, they jump right into it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BDjJ0se92o
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Ooh! Nice! It really chuffs me how much Dweezil sounds like his daddy.
(And I'm increasingly proud of being among the crowd that originally sang "Fuck the Swedes!")
My sunflowers are coming up nicely and the strawberry jam I made is fantastic! (Must've been that bit of blood coming from my thumb...  )
[Edited on 11-6-09 by BBP]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BBP
How on earth did you manage to scratch your laptop screen with scissors? |
Funny story. Well not funny at all really. It's not even much of a story. I keep a pair of scissors on my desk behind the laptop. I used them and went
to put them back but accidentally kind of softly rammed them into the screen. 
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because of the rotation of the earth around the sun I turned 41
it doesn't seem possible and I sure don't understand it. Never thought I would get this far.
PLEASE, no well wishers. I can't believe I'm posting this
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(hugs Punky) You don't look a day older to me!
Sorry to hear that Scallop... but that's the kind of stuff that happens to me a lot too, so you're not alone.
Unfortunately I'm still feeling a little unwell, hope that blows over. Otherwise I'm really getting dug into Gabriel Knight 1.
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Heard one of my former teachers passed away. Odd.
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Would any of my teachers should be alive today?
Dunno
Easy day today but I lost a tapedeck that I should restore.
But it was standing here for two years and now it is gone unless it is not a tc 280 but a tc 252.
Also bought a second betamax yesterda but he is eating the tape
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You mean he eats the tape in the cartridge, or he eats the cartridge?
Still feeling queezy.
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Feeling better. Did a round on my own for the first time. It went pretty well and I was done quickly, it's not a very big one. Unfortunately it's far
away from my house.
Yesterday I didn't get much sleep before I had to go to the round, and it was my training day. I got up extra early, but that advantage was soon
erased when I spent a full hour looking for the delivery station. Embarrassing. I've livedin this city for 25 years and I get lost at merely 15
minutes cycling from my house.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BBP
Feeling better. Did a round on my own for the first time. It went pretty well and I was done quickly, it's not a very big one. Unfortunately it's far
away from my house.
Yesterday I didn't get much sleep before I had to go to the round, and it was my training day. I got up extra early, but that advantage was soon
erased when I spent a full hour looking for the delivery station. Embarrassing. I've livedin this city for 25 years and I get lost at merely 15
minutes cycling from my house. |
 Maybe that's a good thing! You can keep finding new places and not get sick
of it. I hope you haven't got "swine flu" Bonny. It's a pandemic in Victoria at the moment. Fortunately it's much more mild than ordinary flu.
A few days ago Des "Tuppence" Moran was gunned down at his local shops. He becomes the 29th victim in the so-called underworld killings of Melbourne
that began around 1998. About 15 members of the Moran family have been murdered in that time. "Matriarch" Judy Moran, who's husband and two sons were
all killed over the past ten years, was arrested yesterday for being an accomplice in the murder. No one really knows at this stage why Des Moran was
killed because he wasn't really a big underworld (= mob) player.
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Sounds horrible... almost Amsterdam...
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| Quote: | | Originally posted by scallopinoA few days ago Des "Tuppence" Moran was gunned down at his local shops. He becomes the 29th victim in the
so-called underworld killings of Melbourne that began around 1998. About 15 members of the Moran family have been murdered in that time. "Matriarch"
Judy Moran, who's husband and two sons were all killed over the past ten years, was arrested yesterday for being an accomplice in the murder. No one
really knows at this stage why Des Moran was killed because he wasn't really a big underworld (= mob) player. |
So the Matriarch was arrested for being an accomplice to the murder of a member of her own family?
Not exactly a family of master criminals, is it?
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