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Especially when your on your way to your senior PROM.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I saw a guy go on a rampage there once.
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I've been there, many of the houses on the north end have broken windows.
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Pompous gits using a cloak of proposed intelligence to disguise the fact that they're just another group of loony lefties.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: cloak of proposed intelligence
Charisma: +1, but INT: -6 HP: -3, DAM: -4
Sin tack
the any key okay
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That's expensive for a charisma point. Unless you can fire up a unicorn every 20th round.
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Quote: The Movement is loyal to a train of thought, not figures or institutions. In other words, the view held is that through the use of socially targeted research and tested understandings in Science and Technology, we are now able to logically arrive at societal applications which could be profoundly more effective in meeting the needs of the human population. In fact, so much so, that there is little reason to assume war, poverty, 95% of most crime and many other money-based scarcity effects common in our current model cannot be resolved over time.
While I applaud the idealism, I worry that this train might be bound for glory with some loco motives.
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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Wizards are among the worst dressed men off all times, but they do at least get some things right.[^]
Is that position at witch-king of something with A still free?
Was it witch-king of Atari?
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I can't just be me ... but my memory is weird.
Allow me to explain: yesterday I was out with the wife at a place called Dinefwr: it's an 800 acre Estate that is run by the UK National Trust as a "living museum", and they allow - nay, encourage - you to touch the exhibits. So you can feel the fabrics, try on the hats, sit on the furniture, feel the weight of a chain mail shirt. You can open drawers and check out the dovetails, play the piano, whatever - except for one are that is roped off as the Stuffed Ox Head in the Stockman's Office was preserved with Arsenic and they don't want dead visitors.
But ... we went by coach as part of a group she's involved in, and I realised that we camped not far from it for a week back in the nineties. And I could remember the roads. Really clearly: "It dips here, then rises, at the peak it bends sharply to the left (watch out for a bump near the apex), then down to a fast left-right-left to the short straight before ... "
I'm sure you know the type, particularly if you ride motorcycles. But it was about twenty years ago that I last rode there, so why would my memory recall it so clearly? I have difficulty getting it to remember phone numbers and dates, faces and names, but it happily stores complete GPS info for a road I rode on maybe 7 or 14 times 20 years ago?
Does this happen to anyone else, or is it just me?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Happens to me all the time. I don't know the scientific term for it but I just call it "getting old". 
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The first thing would be that the brain does not store images or something as clumsy. It stores a description which can later be used to reconstruct the original information, with interesting ways to fill in the blanks where information got lost in some way.
It could be as simple as that this particular impression lent itself well to this approach or that 'filling in the blanks' worked very well, giving you an impression similar to a deja vu.
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CodeWraith wrote: It stores a description which can later be used to reconstruct the original information
reference required for that.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I can't tell you where I once read that, but this may help.[^]
Quote: Unlike short-term memory (which relies mostly on an acoustic, and to a lesser extent a visual, code for storing information), long-term memory encodes information for storage semantically (i.e. based on meaning and association).
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Your memory of that reference is a classic example of filling in the blanks.
(None of this ever happened, including this)
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Happens to me seeing movies last seen as child. Pictures, stories are quite different from my memory, some not even recognizable now, because that was I "seen" as child not what I "see" now as adult.
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I think a micro-wormhole opened in your brain and took your memories back to that time.
I'm sure there's some scientific proof around somewhere about this topic. 
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V. wrote: micro-wormhole opened tapeworm in your brain
FTFY. Don't come with science fiction when there is a very natural explanation. 
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My memory is also going. I had to look up FTFY.
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SNAFU
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I have to look up FTFY every single time. It's one of those acronyms that just won't "take" in my brain.
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A weird quirk of the human brain I suppose. It's geared more towards remembering "natural" things than abstractions such as numbers. I recently heard a song I hadn't heard in over 10 years and knew every lyric, the pitch, and timing. Now if only I could remember names and dates that well 
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Yeah, that's long term vs short term memory.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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Not sure - forgot to take my memory tablet this morning.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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