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Every time I think of Aretha Franklin's name, I first think it's "Arethra Franklin". This then makes me think of "Urethra Franklin" and it keeps repeating in my mind.
I am the leader of a ninja clan. I have a student who might possibly be my adopted son. The relationship isn't entirely clear. He decides to join the army and this involves a physical test. One component of that is running. He runs through a playground where Italian Mafia are having a meeting. They suspect that he overheard something and decide to kill him. I intervene and kill several dozen men before they retreat.
The scene changes to a planning session by the mafia. They are planning to attack my dojo. I bring a few of my advanced students with me. They are disguised and blend in. I walk in undisguised and get on stage. Guns are pointed at me and I throw a smoke bomb. I jump up on top of a speaker and hide there before the smoke clears. For some strange reason, the Godfather has a statue that looks like me. He brings it on stage and pretends that he has caught me. After he shoots my statue, I jump down and kill him. This is followed by more killings.
I awaken as the physical movements in my dream start to manifest in my body.
The scene changes to a planning session by the mafia. They are planning to attack my dojo. I bring a few of my advanced students with me. They are disguised and blend in. I walk in undisguised and get on stage. Guns are pointed at me and I throw a smoke bomb. I jump up on top of a speaker and hide there before the smoke clears. For some strange reason, the Godfather has a statue that looks like me. He brings it on stage and pretends that he has caught me. After he shoots my statue, I jump down and kill him. This is followed by more killings.
I awaken as the physical movements in my dream start to manifest in my body.
I am trying to understand why people like to travel. I can understand if you want to meet a specific person who is far away, or if you want to engage in an activity that requires specific resources unavailable where you are, but there are a lot of people who just like to see different places. I don't really understand this.
I have been hearing water outside my home for around an hour or two every day for the past couple of weeks. I thought maybe my neighbor was washing something frequently. It started again last night but continued all night long. I looked this morning and saw that the whole driveway was flooded with about three inches of water. I also finally found the source of the dripping sound. Water is coming out of the corner of the roof. I now also see a few streaks on the side of the building which were not there before. The situation is clearly getting much worse but I don't think that anything is being done about it.
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Review: The Virtually Indestructible Mouse
Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:27:33 am
by erdos0, 34, M, , straight, single, New York, NY, United States,
I have had this mouse for about a week now. I chose it because it is waterproof and can survive repeated falls from my desk. The case is made from a single piece of silicone which seals out water from the internal electronics. The casing also allows the mouse to bounce nicely off the floor instead of cracking.
The softness and texture of the case makes the mouse very comfortable to hold, but it also creates a serious drawback. I noticed from my first use of it that the buttons require more force to press than on an ordinary mouse. This is a consequence of using a single piece of silicone for the case which covers both the buttons and the body of the mouse. The silicone has to flex to accommodate the motion of a mouse button press. It's not an extreme amount of force, but it's noticeable.
For casual use, this is fine, but I use the computer for many hours every day. I can feel the repetitive stress injury developing. I had to change my finger alignment to avoid injury. It's not really an issue of finger muscle strength. The problem is that I typically press down with my finger parallel to the mouse button. This creates shearing forces on the joint which are negligible on an ordinary mouse, but it's noticeable on this one. I have to adjust to a more perpendicular finger contact position when pressing to avoid injury, but it's less comfortable. I thought the resistance of the mouse would soften a bit after some use, but it seems to have only softened very little after a week.I think it might be my longest lasting mouse ever, but it died today. I had been experiencing brief periods of unresponsiveness from the mouse over the past few days but couldn't find any obvious physical problems with it. Total failure happened today. The cable broke at the point where it meets the mouse body. One of the three lines is completely severed. The other two are still working and was able to cause the red light to flicker, but the computer was giving errors about not being able to identify the device. Upon closer inspection, I finally saw the break which still was not visible yesterday.
I am currently using an old mouse that skips a lot, which is very annoying. It's time to do research to find an even more indestructible mouse, or one just so weird that I have to have it.
Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:27:33 am
by erdos0, 34, M, , straight, single, New York, NY, United States,
I have had this mouse for about a week now. I chose it because it is waterproof and can survive repeated falls from my desk. The case is made from a single piece of silicone which seals out water from the internal electronics. The casing also allows the mouse to bounce nicely off the floor instead of cracking.
The softness and texture of the case makes the mouse very comfortable to hold, but it also creates a serious drawback. I noticed from my first use of it that the buttons require more force to press than on an ordinary mouse. This is a consequence of using a single piece of silicone for the case which covers both the buttons and the body of the mouse. The silicone has to flex to accommodate the motion of a mouse button press. It's not an extreme amount of force, but it's noticeable.
For casual use, this is fine, but I use the computer for many hours every day. I can feel the repetitive stress injury developing. I had to change my finger alignment to avoid injury. It's not really an issue of finger muscle strength. The problem is that I typically press down with my finger parallel to the mouse button. This creates shearing forces on the joint which are negligible on an ordinary mouse, but it's noticeable on this one. I have to adjust to a more perpendicular finger contact position when pressing to avoid injury, but it's less comfortable. I thought the resistance of the mouse would soften a bit after some use, but it seems to have only softened very little after a week.
I am currently using an old mouse that skips a lot, which is very annoying. It's time to do research to find an even more indestructible mouse, or one just so weird that I have to have it.
My family doesn't celebrate Mother's Day, because it's not part of Chinese culture. I doubt that my mother even knows that it's Mother's Day today. When I was in the first grade, I was required to make a Mother's Day card. The only thing that I recall about it is that I wrote "Tank You" on it. I had not mastered spelling yet, but I knew how to spell phonetically, and that is how my mother pronounced "thank". My sister thought this was hilarious.
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