RunRickyRun Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 莫宁CRESENT的 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 谷歌可以 That wasn't what I ordered. *casual racism. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted September 10, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted September 10, 2013 GNU parallel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ME Posted September 12, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted September 12, 2013 The last 2 months really have been a very harsh struggle. But the last 2 weeks being without a car has taken it's toll on me. Where I live, if you don't have a car you can't get to very many places. I work too much and help take care of my grandfather so depending on rides is "doing my head in" I suppose. This morning my sister just let me use her car. Windows down, music up, sun shining. I couldn't say how the rest of the day will go, but it was definitely an awesome start!!! Car=Freedom. Also, I destroyed my workout today!!! If I wasn't half dead from that fact I'd be super mega hyper. (no more energy left) And last but never least, reading up on you guys and dolls does keep me entertained. You're just funny I suppose. Believe it or not, it's helped me. Soooooo thanks. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Can't imagine being as busy as you and being as chirpy as you usually are at the same time! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted September 12, 2013 Moderator Share Posted September 12, 2013 Action is the enemy of thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted September 12, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted September 12, 2013 Can't imagine being as busy as you and being as chirpy as you usually are at the same time! For consistency, shouldn't "you" be in all caps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 12, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted September 12, 2013 Can't imagine being as busy as you and being as chirpy as you usually are at the same time! For consistency, shouldn't "you" be in all caps? Two consecutive emphasised words. Tricky. I think I'd italicise "and", and leave the "you" as it is. (Yes, I know, '"and", and' is a bit clunky, isn't it?) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted September 12, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted September 12, 2013 Can't imagine being as busy as you and being as chirpy as you usually are at the same time! For consistency, shouldn't "you" be in all caps? Two consecutive emphasised words. Tricky. I think I'd italicise "and", and leave the "you" as it is. (Yes, I know, '"and", and' is a bit clunky, isn't it?) Whoosh? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Getting broadband back... been without it for 3 weeks. Made me realise how much I rely on it.. and how shit TV is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 16, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted September 16, 2013 (edited) Been reading about about Erasmus Darwin (Charles D's granddad), and was impressed by a website with a nice summary of why he was so cool. Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) was one of the most erudite, enthusiastic and dedicated scientists/inventors of his day. He completed a major translation from Latin to English of the works of Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), who devised the plant classification that forms the basis of modern botany. His many inventions included a speaking machine, a copying machine, and a carriage steering mechanism later used in cars. Indeed, ‘There is scarcely an idea or invention in the modern world that Erasmus Darwin did not originate or foresee, from evolution to eugenics, from airplanes to submarines, from antiseptics to psychoanalysis, from talking-machines to telephones.’ He began his chosen profession of medicine at Lichfield in 1756. His reputation as a physician was established when he saved the life of a young man from a prominent local family, whom other doctors had declared to be incurable. Because his cures were ‘unfashionably frequent’ his practice gradually became the largest in the English Midlands. King George III asked him to become his personal physician in London, but Erasmus declined. In about 1766, he co-founded the Lunar Society—a social club for the great scientists, industrialists and natural philosophers of his day. It has been called ‘the think tank of the Industrial Revolution’ and was the most famous English scientific society of the eighteenth century, after the Royal Society. Members included James Watt (of steam-engine fame), Joseph Priestley (the discoverer of oxygen), William Murdoch (the inventor of gas-lighting), Josiah Wedgwood (the great potter) and Samuel Galton (a wealthy industrialist). Others in America linked to the Society included Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. His love of food (particularly fruits, sugar, cream and butter) was matched by his dislike of exercise, and by the age of 46 he had grown so corpulent that a semi-circle had to be cut out of his dining table to accommodate his girth at meal times. Married twice, he sired 12 Darwin offspring and, in between marriages, a further two (known) illegitimate daughters by a Miss Parker. These girls were raised in his home with his other children, and later were the inspiration for a lengthy tract by Erasmus on female education. Erasmus was anti-Christianity, anti-slavery, and pro the American and French Revolutions. An outstanding poet, he often wrote his opinions and scientific ideas in verse, the most notable of which were The Botanic Garden (published in two parts, 1789, 1791), which consisted of 4,384 lines of perfectly rhyming couplets, and The Temple of Nature (published posthumously in 1803). Erasmus tried to appease the church-going culture of his day by referring to ‘The Great First Cause’, highlighted in capitals, but quickly affirmed that, once started, evolution needs no divine help, but proceeds ‘by its own inherent ability’. He was strongly anti-Christian, and included ‘Credulity, Superstitious Hope, and the Fear of Hell in his catalogue of diseases.’ Then I got to this bit: So, Erasmus cast a long shadow which, via his grandson, has made atheism intellectually respectable and changed the worldview of Western mankind from belief in the Creator God to the worship of humanistic hedonism, free from any sense of accountability to the God who is ‘Judge of all the earth’ (Genesis 18:25). The message for us today is to consider what we pass on to our children and grandchildren. We have the responsibility to teach them the true biblical worldview, which is foundational, not only to our need for salvation, but also to the way of it—through repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, in His death and Resurrection. This will give meaning to their lives, so that they need not flounder in the sea of uncertainty of a man-made anti-God theory, which is now ‘the big lie’ of 21st-century thinking. ...and realised I was reading a creationist website. Link Keep putting this stuff out there guys, you're doing a great job. Edited September 16, 2013 by mjmooney 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Well, you could lose yourself for a few hours on that website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunRickyRun Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 ...and realised I was reading a creationist website. Link Keep putting this stuff out there guys, you're doing a great job. Cracking find. I enjoyed the essay about Dawkins on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 16, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted September 16, 2013 ...and realised I was reading a creationist website. Link Keep putting this stuff out there guys, you're doing a great job. Cracking find. I enjoyed the essay about Dawkins on there. Which one? They're more obsessed with him than small heath fans are with the Villa. Similar reason, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunRickyRun Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 ...and realised I was reading a creationist website. Link Keep putting this stuff out there guys, you're doing a great job. Cracking find. I enjoyed the essay about Dawkins on there. Which one? They're more obsessed with him than small heath fans are with the Villa. Similar reason, too. Found this gem: which I found by clicking on a link in the following sentence: And our report of the Columbine High School massacre documents the on-going effects of evolutionary thinking in the young (How to build a bomb in the public school system). I'm beginning to think it's a fictional parody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 16, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted September 16, 2013 I really don't think it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folski Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Met the girlfriend for lunch today, told me she couldn't meet me tonight as her friend was home from Dublin, told me she'd make it up to me though, and proceeded to give me GTA V. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 This Swedish Policewoman... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 This Swedish Policewoman... I would definitely bang her to rights. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 She can take down my particulars.. etc... My new pad cheers me up... had a crap day at work and come home and sat down and feel better. I love it and its mine! (okay, still a big mortgage owing on it but lets ignore that for the time being) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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