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Reply to Your high tech gadgets may do you in! in Gadgets & Electronics JoeUser Forums

But look at the effort that someone has to go through to use their nike+ ipod to find you. Chances are, if they want to go through that kind of effort, they're also going to find other ways to find you. Still, no need to make it easy for someone either. But this is the one thing that I wonder about-- wouldn't you have some kind of inkling that someone wanted to find you that badly? Makes me wonder if more of us are being stalked tha

Reply to In my own little bubble in Misc JoeUser Forums

we don't enjoy the "now". I disagree with this. Maybe people are enjoying the now with people they actually care about but can't be with. I think it is a different way to enjoy the "now." I don't disagree with the fact that you can get some enjoyment with people you are physically with. Hmmm. Sounds sexual and isn't meant to be. I see the reality of a working life as spending a lot of time with people who aren't emotionally signifi

Reply to In my own little bubble in Misc JoeUser Forums

Re: Your Professor. I think his dualism is pretty limited. His "You are Satan" answer is flippant so doesn't count. What if we are all simply objects waiting for recognition? Lots of people believe that one doesn't exist if one is recognized as existing. I think that recognizing the existance of another object is not sadism but can be a rejoicing of existance. I think your professor is a sad and lonely man to have brought it to t

Reply to Do Extracurricular Sports Belong in School? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

You know that I am Canadian, right? Still, been here in Japan for about 10 years. The sports situation is really different. Some schools really emphasize sports more than academics, vice versa and some promote balance. I talked to my husband about this. He's Japanese. He says that sports aren't glorified the way they are in some states in the US. Still, there is a major exception to that--Koshien. It is the national high school baseball tournament. The su

Reply to Do Extracurricular Sports Belong in School? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Gid, I have a whole different take on the sports. I think sports are important because it gives the kids who are physically talented but not academically so a venue to excel. I'm all for providing different sorts of activities for students with different sorts of talents. Having said that, I'm from Canada and sports has a whole different set of priorities then it does in Texas. The school I taught at put academics first. Students w

Reply to Embarrassment for Love's Sake in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

If you don't end up being married to this person, how would you view the time you spent trying to be with her? If, in twenty years, you might think back and say, "I wasted my time" rather than "I'm glad I chased that unrequited love and enjoyed the time I spent with that person even though it blocked me from moving on to a potentially fulfilling relationship" then I think you have your answer. I know that my second option there seems a little biased,

Reply to Going to the Urgent Care Clinic for Blue Balls in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I think kids do it because they see it as a version of that game given to babies where they have to stick toys in the correctly shaped hole, etc. Maybe this is just another version. My sister stuck a tic-tac up her nose when we were kids. She doesn't know why either. I watched her do it. I'm only a year older, though. As I remember it, she looked at the tic-tac, some sort of thought process went on that was probably like, "Hmmm... this tic-tac is smaller then my nostril. It should

Reply to Why weight? in Misc JoeUser Forums

I think a lot of people comment on the weight thing because it's an easy conversational gambit. After all, one's body shape is right there during in person conversations. Accomplishments are more important than what someone weighs, but unless people start wearing a badge or a t-shirt that says, "I just (fill in accomplishment here) !" then it takes a bit more effort to find that info out. Even among friends, I it still takes a conversatio

Reply to Not with a bang......... in Humor JoeUser Forums

Be careful over there and return safely.

Reply to If you could only ask one question, in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

As for the question, probably it would be do you like dark chocolate or milk chocolate? In my experience, people who like milk chocolate are less detail oriented. The dark chocolate fans of my acquaintance has a certain attention to detail that borders on the... retentive. I'm all ears for hearing about milk chocolate addicts who are as picky as the dark chocolate addicts. I think it's a screwy theory but so far it tests out for me. Non-chocolate lovers-- okay. Yo

The Big Step. Buying a Big Flash in Photography JoeUser Forums

Tomorrow is payday! Whew. For a long time, I've been wanting to get a flash for my camera. I have a couple of shots I really like, but I needed just a smidge more light to make them better. I've been doing a lot of research about using a strobe and the best site I've found is www.strobist.com. Lots of really useful and fun information. I've

Reply to October 10, 2010: The Day the World Will End! in Misc JoeUser Forums

Gid, I got the date thing right away. SC... I was going to say Buffy first... but then you said serious geek points so now I'm wondering if you are talking about STNG First Contact. That's about as geeky as I get... well okay. Not so. But as geeky as I can at the moment

Reply to My Ghost Experience in Blogging JoeUser Forums

The ghost stories I could tell you....freaky! You should blog about them on your blog FS. I'd love to read about them. I know they're freaky, but they are really interesting kind of stories I think.

Reply to Haika-- the first cherry blossoms in Current Events JoeUser Forums

You still take pictures right? Yep. Still take pics. Finally found a good site to post pictures via link for joeuser. Photobukt didn't do it for me. game shows </T

Reply to My Ghost Experience in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Okay. I deleted the repeat. Yeesh. I frighten myself sometimes and it's nothing to do with ghosts. Just lack of paying attention. That and dropping stuff.

Reply to Haika-- the first cherry blossoms in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Hmm... these articles don't seem to show up in the recent articles and another one didn't show in forums when I bumped it (which I hate doing to my own stuff)

Reply to My Ghost Experience in Blogging JoeUser Forums

does this article appear in the recent articles section for other Joeusers or is this article just ghosting around?

My Ghost Experience in Blogging JoeUser Forums

MasonM wrote about his ghost experience and it reminded me of something that happened to me about 12 years ago. I used to help out a friend at the race track. I'm not a morning person and the very early starts (feeding began at 5 am) were rough on me. I met a guy who trained horses and we dated for a while. One day I was staying at his place.

Reply to Holy Crap! Ghosts Are Real! in Misc JoeUser Forums

I had a very freaky experience where I was kind of sleep walking but talking to my then boyfriend. I ended up making a prediction that came true (not by saying "I predict..." but by getting impatient and telling him off about something that was impossible at that time but came true the next day (and it wasn't to go f*** himself ). The sleep walking ended when I ended up in the laundry room and someone to

Reply to The Hot Photo Phenomenon in Blogging JoeUser Forums

one my friends complained that I was hardly in any of them! that's actually kinda cute. I hate photos of me because I have this mental image of what I look like and photos never bear this

Haika-- the first cherry blossoms in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Two days ago I had one of those "I love living in Japan" moments. I was watching the news (hence the posting under current events) and they did a long segment about the first cherry blossom opening in Tokyo. They then showed a graph of the expected time from the first blossom to full bloom and the last petal and then showed a map of Japan with dates of when H

Reply to Burning a disk and the midnight oil in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Not lame at all! Different but not lame!lol! ty :blush: mostly at the time there were a lot of posts by someone under an assumed name and I wanted to do something to move them off the forums list <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="mb-Body-Quote-Table"

Reply to The Hot Photo Phenomenon in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I'm having huge problems seeing correctly. At first, I thought this article was titled "The Hot Potato Phenomenon" I laughed when I read your article because I agree with the MySpace photo. One girl I know who models has her photo in kind of goth make-up. The "seriously beautiful" tag she added completely cracked me up because I saw her come in for a photo shoot after a long night out. But overall, she is a pretty woman. Maybe it'

Reply to Burning a disk and the midnight oil in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I've been doing that since last week Yikes! What's up? Nice to see you blog again! Thanks. I haven't had much to blog about. Nothing really

Burning a disk and the midnight oil in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Just thought I'd do a quick blog while I'm waiting for a disk to burn so I can finish up this job and finally go to sleep. The cherry blossoms should be coming out with the next week and a half. I'm a little bummed that the trees on my street got chopped back quite a bit because of electrical powerlines. I'm hoping they'll still look good but I have little