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holy shit, TA! That looks real. I hope you and yours are good. Exciting stuff, eh? Yeah mate, no worries here. This is a good photo journey down North Island showing the damage - they're talking about total cost between 10 & 30 billion. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/300806341/in...

grayman kills it again

It's stunning, to me, how much our early reading choices impacted our later life. Grade 9 was a pivotal year for me, as the English teacher gave us choices as to what books we had to read. And give book reports on them. In front of the class. I didn't like school and i hated homework. Hence, when of...

holy shit, TA! That looks real.
I hope you and yours are good.
Exciting stuff, eh?

yeah

If i was more paranoid and thought i needed a defensive weapon, it would be a blow gun with hypodermic darts. Used with stealth and distance, they wouldn't know what him. No sound alert; no position give away. Depending on the threat, i'd have a variety of darts. But mostly just knock out meds. If y...

i got started with Mark Twain.

I've been thinking of getting a decent cheap electric. I've got an old acoustic neglected in my spare room, but I've never played much with an actual electric guitar. Not that I'm all that good. I can bang out chords pretty well, but that's about it. It's a whole different thing, electric. I also p...

thanks for the education, g-man.

Kurt Vonnegut wrote a novel about a banned religion that everyone secretly practiced.
It involved putting your soles together with another person. It's done barefoot. Not a bad ritual, really.
Helped that it was illegal. Gave it some punch it wouldn't have had otherwise.