Had another go at it, after playing with it about 15 minutes this time, got my score up to 25 seconds + a few times, after that I started screwing up and getting worse again. Think I'm nearing the top of my personal learning curve on this. Richie, you must have nerves of steel.
AllAlongTheWatchtower
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try this
by BlackSwan of Memphis instarmoore sent this to me the other day:.
so .. you want something to do, give this test a try :.
if you can go longer than 18 seconds you are phenomenal.
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try this
by BlackSwan of Memphis instarmoore sent this to me the other day:.
so .. you want something to do, give this test a try :.
if you can go longer than 18 seconds you are phenomenal.
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AllAlongTheWatchtower
The first time, I had no idea what to do...I clicked on the scroll bar to move the screen to see if there were any directions, and bam, I was dead in less than 1 second. After a bit of experimenting, I discovered there were 'safe spots' where you could hide out and not be hit for a while. That got me up to about 11-12. Then I tried moving fast...score went back down, kept running into walls. I did best when I kept moving the block slowly, even when I didn't need to, so that I didn't jerk it about wildly when I DID need to. Best I managed after about 5-6 minutes playing with it was 20.347 seconds.
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AllAlongTheWatchtower
I find it hysterical that this ad showed up on a man-hating thread:
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My computer blew up.... Literally!!! BANG!!! :S
by Elsewhere ini needed to reboot so i did a normal shutdown.
no big deal.. it shutdown and started to come back up but never got past the post.
so i rebooted again and got the same thing... i opened it up to see what was going on and noticed there was a lot of dust collected on the cpu cooling fan and fins.
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Heh...I once had a somewhat similar catastrophic computer moment. Was attempting to adjust the monitor on it's swivel base, being a 19" monitor, it was rather heavy and hard to move (and I happen to think those swivel bases are piss-poorly designed too, they never seem to work right), the desk started rocking as I exerted more force, trying to rotate the damn thing to an angle that wouldn't have reflected sunlight from the window glaring in my eyes. Not a problem...until the half-empty soda can my wife left on the CD shelf above the monitor fell... zzzzzttttt CRACK!
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Now they are reviving Armstrong...
by mouthy in.
click here: raising the ruins: the fight to revive the legacy of herbert w. armstrong.
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AllAlongTheWatchtower
I only hope my parents don't hear of this or see the tv special advertised on the front page of that link...our family suffered enough under that organization, the last thing I'd want to see now is them sucked back into it.
As to the above...what a joke. The only thing I can ever remember Armstrong being right about was that the US and Soviet Union would not go to war. The rest of his predictions were utter drivel, including the 1975/76 end of the world fiasco the WWCG went through at the same time the WTS was having theirs. I guess they forgot about how Armstrong used to be fascinated with Hitler and Nazi Germany, and predicted the rise of a new Reich and the resurrection of Hitler as the antichrist.
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WT registered as a 'Certified Asbestos Investigator'
by Gerard incertified asbestos investigators, contractors and firms.
watchtower bible & tract society of new york(718) 560-5000http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/airfirms.html.
wtf are they up to now???
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AllAlongTheWatchtower
Having at one time in my life been a certified lead and asbestos abatement worker, this topic drew my curiousity. After during some Googling (watchtower+asbestos), I found the following link, which is a list of known asbestos contaminated sites in NY:
http://mesotheliomahelp.net/NY-jobsites-asbestos-exposure-w.html
The List:
W Farm Town Houses
Wachtel Plumbing Co.
Wagner College, SI
Wa1d Housing Project
Waldorf Astoria Hotel, 50 Street & Park Avenue
Waldron Hartig., Franklin, NJ
Wa11 Street, NY
Walt Whitman Jr. High, Shoreview Dr, Yonkers, NY
Wa1t Whitman, Yonkers
Walter Reuther Houses, Far Rockaway, NY
Walton Avenue & E. 151 Street, Bronx, NY
Wantaugh Ave. School, Long Island
Wantaugh High School
Wards Island Complex Hospital
Wards Island, New York, New York
Warehouse 918 Canal Street, Syracuse, NY
Warner Communications Building, NYC
Warner Lambert Pharm. Co., Morris Plains, NJ
Warren St. Parking Garage, Syracuse, NY
Warwick Covent
Warwick High School
Washington Gas Light Co., Springfield, VA
Washington Heights Apartments
Washington Hospital Center & Nursing Home
Washington National Airport, American Airlines
Washington Plaza Apt, New York City
Washington Square Apartments
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, NYWater Filtration Plant. Main Building, Troy, NY
Water Treatment Plant-Port Jefferson
Watergate Apartments, Washington, D.C.
Waterside Apartments, NY, NY
Waterside Plant Unit 13, NY, NY
Waterside Powerhouse, NY, NY
Waterside Station, 674 First AvenueThere were several other links with similar info, mostly lawyer's offices and such, giving notice to folks who may possibly have been exposed and might want their services. If I recall correctly from the days when I worked in the industry, there are actually legal requirements to have contaminated sites listed also, some of the sites I found were government run. Just an educated guess here, but I would think that what this means is that the Watchtower learned that they had contaminated property which had to be renovated, and rather than sub the work out, they opted to form their own abatement company and do it themselves.
It's not terribly difficult to become certified, simple manual laborers who do abatement work only need a 1 day class, at the end of which is a pretty simple test which requires a 70% (might have been 80%, it was several years ago when I knew all this stuff by heart) pass score. Designated supervisors required a seperate additional course, which I think was an additional day or two. The test was stupid easy, made more so by the instructors...scarily enough, I knew a dumb-as-bricks guy that actually managed to fail it.
Interestingly enough, on the link the OP cited, I noticed that the Watchtower is listed as a contractor, but NOT an air monitor. Asbestos jobsites, while asbestos removal projects are ongoing, have to be totally contained, which means plastic duct-taped over all the doors, windows, vents, and any other openings. Then neg-air machines are hooked up to the 'containment envelope' to induce negative air pressure inside the plastic, with exhaust air filtered through the machine. While all this is going on, it is required by law to have periodic tests performed to insure that no asbestos is escaping the containment area into the environment. Since they aren't listed as an air monitor, that means they have to be using an outside contractor, or else they're in violation.
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What is your favorite Mythical creature ?
by 5go inmine is the japanese kitsune.
the fox spirits humbler of haughty samurai and foiler of crooked bussiness men.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kitsune.
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AllAlongTheWatchtower
Heh...I saw a comic strip in the newspaper the other day that showed a mermaid in bed in a hospital room, with a centaur male standing nearby holding her hand...the doctor says "congratulations, its a seahorse!".
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"every religion in the world has grown via proselytization. i just haven't come across all of them, yet.
i was going to make a list of recent ones i have come across when i realized that everyone i come across is pushing their own religion, including myself." - tetrapod.sapien
Well said, Tetra.
"Some Christians make a distinction between proselytism (illegitimate) and evangelism (legitimate)." -blondie
Interesting statement, that. I personally tend to link the term evangelism with televangelism, and thus view it as LESS legitimate. At least those who proselytize are usually sincere.
Another one for your list would be the Worldwide Church of God, though now defunct and split into many splinter sects. I was a member of this group as a child, and though we didn't go door-to-door, I do recall having a room full of cardboard display stands and boxes of 'The Plain Truth' magazines; my family would fold and assemble the displays and then go around to various local stores asking permission to set them up, then refill the mags as needed on a regular basis.
Also, I've seen Nation of Islam (I think, they were rather shy of actually talking to me because I'm white, I guess; at any rate it was some well dressed black men) guys standing on street corners selling bean pies and newspapers of some sort to stopped cars at red lights. Heh...funny story about that comes to mind; one of them approached my car once, presumably because he saw my wife, who is black, and thought I was too until he reached my side of the car. I tried to ask him what he was doing or if I could read the newspaper he'd been offering to other people, but once he saw me he started walking away and wouldn't talk to me. I've often joked about it since then, and wondered just what those papers had to say; did he think I would be offended by the content because it was somehow racist, or if he just figured it would be a waste of time because I was an infidel or something of the sort...??
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Global Warming Hysteria
by metatron inhttp://cjunk.blogspot.com/2007/02/quacks-cranks-and-junk-science.html.
are global warming skeptics really just cranks?
i don't doubt that we are having some effect on .
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AllAlongTheWatchtower
"In fact water vapour is one of the largest components of Greenhouse gas at 30%. If we are contributing to that percentage then the cry should be against taking hot showers, wave pulls at water parks or those water misiting systems at outdoor malls in the summer time! Can you see the protests now!" - Frank75
I've known that for a long time, and often wondered over the years how environmentalists think (if, indeed they dwell on the matter) that would effect the environment if hydrogen fuel cell powered cars were to become a reality. One of the things people in favor of them say with great zeal is "they don't put off ANY pollutants, just water vapor".
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"God Boards"
by AllAlongTheWatchtower inyou've probably all seen them; those church message boards in some prominent place along the road so passing drivers can read them.
most are simply informational, like "sunday services at 12pm" or the like.
some use little witticisms to gain attention, and these are the ones i'd like to talk about.
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You've probably all seen them; those church message boards in some prominent place along the road so passing drivers can read them. Most are simply informational, like "Sunday services at 12PM" or the like. Some use little witticisms to gain attention, and these are the ones I'd like to talk about. Today I saw one of these 'god boards' with the message "ATM INSIDE" in large letters. My initial reaction, being an atheist, was rather cynical; wow, either churches are getting really progressive these days or else it just makes it easier to fleece the flock. Then I noticed the smaller print beneath: "Atonement, Truth, and Mercy."
Now, most of my friends are atheist, agnostic, or religious but non-practicing. So over the years we have noticed the trend of these 'god boards', and kept track of some of the most witty or groan-provoking to talk about, and usually make fun of the worst offenders. Some examples that I recall over the years:
"Prayer is oil for the daily grind"
"Joy is the windex of the soul"
I was just curious as to what others thought of these types of message boards, whether you consider them witty and thought-provoking, inane and ridiculous, whatever...would just like to know how others besides myself react to these things. And feel free to post any messages you've seen that stand out in your memory like the ones above.
