mittens

mittens

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Hacking in no way, shape or form is "moral." It's not exactly "Quality Assurance" either, though I see where you could get that. While hackers do expose potential holes in our software, do keep in mind that these same hackers are the guys that spread viruses around the internet, causing your favorite websites to slow down immensely, or some of your favorite files to get corrupted on your personal machine. You may disagree with that, but viruse

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Fore-Warning: As you read this, keep in mind that this is coming from a former Catholic/Christian who has now turned to Atheism. Over the past 7 months, I've been living with a roommate at the University of Michigan who the school paired me with. And for the most part, we've been great friends the whole time. I've always been supportive of him, giving advice, etc., in fact, I occassionally felt like an older brother to him. From the get-go, he

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Having just received Ninja Gaiden (I'll post an in-depth review in a couple days) yesterday, I was quite ecstatic to be playing it all night (I played the game for about 7 to 8 hours straight, and enjoyed each and every nanosecond of it) on my good 'ol Xbox. I bought my Xbox the month it come out a few years ago, and have gotten quite a lot of play out of it. However, this morning when I booted it up to play some more Ninja Gaiden before heading

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I was always under the impression that being a parent made you more exempt from being sick. I was very sick growing up, and no matter what I brought home, I could count on one hand the number of times my mom got sick because of me. Unfortunately, I'm not a parent, so I can't sympathize with you quite yet. :P

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I don't really care who writes an article most of the time, if it's a good article, I'll comment on it. Also, if the article is *really* good, then I'll continue to follow that blogger's writings; though most of the time, I'll just take a look at the featured articles, or the "Recent Articles" which have promising titles. I'm not so sure that commenting on an article just because that person has commented on yours is an "unwritten rule" though

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Nice article, it was a very interesting read. As a once-christian, it's very interesting to find out that one of the most "practiced" traditions in the church didn't originate with Jesus (which is what they would have us believe).

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Over the last 2 weeks, I've noticed an increasingly noticable lack of sleep in my life. A month ago, I was able to go to bed at midnight and wake up at 7am or 8am (depending what day it is) without a single hitch. Now, I'm lucky if I can get to bed by 4am, and even more lucky if I can get more than 3-4 hours of sleep at night, and then later in the day, I'll probably take a nap for an hour or two. For some reason, I just don't think this is too healthy

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This post was originally going to be about people's roles in today's society, and how I feel that there are two types of friends: those motivated by their own self-interest, and those motivated by the interests of others (obviously the latter make better friends). Half-way through writing it, I realized it was boring, so now I'm just going to discuss my odd method of thinking. Why? Hell if I know.

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mittens: one day during lunch in 6th grade, I decided I needed an imaginary cat to call my very own, and thus mittens was born. Since then, he's grown quite a bit. He's now a tiger-sized cat who eats tiger-sized meow mix. Some say he's my alter-ego. Some say he's a superhero. I say that he's my imaginary tiger-sized kitty cat.

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Erm, Paxil is an anti-depressant/"worrying" medicine. Not necessarily for "shy" people, as I'm on Paxil, and I have always been an incredibly outgoing person. I take it so that some of my obsessive-compulsive tendencies don't get in the way of my living a semi-normal life.

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Alright, as usual, I'm a bit late on reviewing the series but, hey, at least it's getting reviewed! So, anyway, I just finished watching the entire first season of Smallville (21 episodes, an hour long each, except for the first, which is 2 hours long... and I watched every one in a single weekend), which details the life of Clark Kent (otherwi

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I'll definately be getting UT2k4 as well. I'm not too keen on pre-ordering though. I just pre-ordered Ninja Gaiden for the XBox 2 weeks ago (it came out on Tuesday of the previous week), and it has yet to come. That said, I'll definately be picking up UT2k4 the moment it's released.

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So, instead of paying attention in my Physics lecture this morning, I got thinking about the size of various things, and how their signifiance varies so. A lot of people in today's society tend to believe that "size does matter," though, for fear of sounding shallow, many of those people would not admit it. However, as you may have guessed by the way this article has been worded thus far, these people would be wrong. Terribly, terribly wrong, and here'

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Alright, so my copy of Call of Duty finally arrived (I had been using a friend's copy and a keygen for the serial, so was unable to play online) last week, and, after a week of play, I think I've given the game a fair amount of gametime in order to review it properly. If you don't want to read my, sometimes needlessly, verbose review, just read this line: Call of Duty, whether it is played single-player or multiplayer, is one of the most amaz

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It's so true too. Finding Nemo, for example, has been better than a lot of Disney's recent attempts at movies (Lilo and Stitch and the Emperor's New Groove have been the only exceptions in recent years). Disney's movies have just been too predictable, uninspired, etc.

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I just finished watching the HBO series Band of Brothers , which is, for the uninitiated, a series of 10 episodes (about one and a half to two hours long each, I believe) about the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, otherwise known as "Easy Company," during World War II. The series aired on HBO in 2001, but this was the first I've ever seen it; I've heard the name mentioned before, but had no idea what it was about, so I went into the

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"That's not entirely true. I've been there. They don't typically medicate you for obsessive compulsive because there really isn't a medicine for it (unless you are totally whacked). Scrubs had Michael J Fox on there for a couple episodes and he was OC. Was pretty funny to watch, but unfortunately I could relate to some of it." Scrubs is awesome. But, anyway, I did go to a psychiatrist with some of my problems, and was prescribed 37.5mg of Paxil. It's mostly to help calm me down about th

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"I am not a big fan of feet either (except baby ones...love em!) I feel like screaming whenever someone says, "I don't mean to be rude but" and then they go ahead and are rude!" Hahaha; definately! "One problem I fight every night is my mind starts imagining horrible things that could happen to the people I love. I have to actively imagine things that I would like to dream about in order to go to sleep without having nightmares. I am a big worry wart." I tend to have that happen

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I totally agree on Princess Bride and Office Space, though I'd like to add: Donnie Darko, What About Bob, Finding Nemo, Lilo and Stitch, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down and the Shining (Kubrick version)

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And, no, for once I'm not talking about the [many] joys of Darvocet or Vicodin but, rather, the game Painkiller . The demo, released earlier last week by Dreamcatcher, is downloadable all over the 'net (I, personally, downloaded it by using one of the torrents over at suprnova.org ). Now, you may be wondering, how did it stack up to the numerous other FPSs on the market right now? Well, to be honest, I think i

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