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Harut ... no matter how much stuff is piled on, you have to make time for hobbies. It's the only way to stay sane. Believe it or not, programming was a BIG hobbie of mine years ago ... then I ended up having to do it for research and work and it sorta got to be a bit "tedious". But I still wish I could do some "freestyle" coding I used to love those competitions for speed coding ... and just messing around with things like OpenGL, different graphics libraries and stuff. I wrote some pretty cool things back in the day!!! I had a full 3D terrain generation and rotation engine back in the 386 DAYS!!!!! I wrote most of it myself.

I was at the Louvre in Paris a couple of years ago ... UNBELIEVABLE museum ... so many fantastic pieces of work ... but then there was this one room that was PACKED. There was almost no room to go in and there was only ONE painting on one wall. Well, I like the rest of the sheep managed to make my way in to check out this amazing work ... these are a couple of pictures I managed to snap (click for bigger) http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/gal/paris/thumbnails/DCP_0167.jpg http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/gal/paris/thumbnails/DCP_0165.jpg This was by far my most favorite work though http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/gal/paris/thumbnails/DCP_0168.jpg These are among some of my other favorites. Extremely realistic looking and BIG. http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/gal/paris/thumbnails/DCP_0170.jpg http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/gal/paris/thumbnails/DCP_0173.jpg That last one was life size! Very real looking and very spooky.

You had me at Female

My new router at home can do 54 Mega bit (802.11g) ... but I disabled the g feature and am only working with 802.11b 11Mbps 5.5 GIGA Bit!!!??!?? I don't think I need that yet.

I think she called you a furry animal of some sort.

Oh and to add to that, I actually think a lot of teenagers (and some adults) start to drink and smoke because they don't know what to do with their hands in public situations. It starts off as a way to fend off nervousness and have "something" to do and not try to not appear awkward ... but then of course with smoking the addiction sets in and it's all downhill from there.

Amen to that!!! Now that's voice of reason which I can respect However, statements like "oh people do it so so will I" is what usually triggers a response from me ... and I've heard it SOOO many times. Angel4Hope, don't worry about Juggy (Accelerated). He's pretty cool.

Nope ... not me. I'm not much of a drinker even in "social" situations. I'm not saying it's right or wrong ... just saying it's not something "you do" in social situations ... at least it shouldn't be. You do whatever YOU want Acc, about your post, I wouldn't expect you to understand. That's why I said Harut

Wow! A binary watch and a 5.5 Giga bit transatlantic connection ... I love this thread!!!!

Hope you guys/gals aren't talking about drinking as a hobie Harut ... How about programming? If I had some free time, that's probably what I would be doing. Here are some more suggestions: 1) Make a web page 2) Learn a new thing like flash, PHP, MySQL, OpenGL, DirectX, etc etc 3) Linux --- that is a WHOLE new world for you to explore

Yes. Love can be bought just like anything else.

I think mine has something to do with the 'quantity' of my orders

Hahahaha! I also found it funny that your gramma calls you Stormy too ... my impression for today? I can't stand it when you order some food and they automatically assume it must be "to go".

Oh and as far as my relative, he is certainly not gay ... married with two wonderful kids, one is same age as me

No that's why we have Accelerated and Domino I wouldn't say all priests are "gay". Maybe that profession by nature tends to attract some of the more disturbed people but that doesn't mean all priests are a certain way. Some are actually very nice people (not saying gays are not nice) who dedicate their lives to helping others. Some are quite well educated and they make their life choice based on intelligent decisions rather than doing it "by the book". One of my close relatives is a priest and after talking with him, I realized there is different reasons some may start to follow the "path of God". He workes VERY hard and is very very active in their community. Helping immigrants when they just arrive, etc etc. So although he does "sermons" on Sundays, his "priestness" goes way beyond just the church. That I respect a lot. Should you listen to what a priest says blindly? Of course not. Should all priests be ignored? Probably not. No matter how you look at it, you HAVE to use your own brain in life and make up your own mind about each person and what they say no matter what "position" they may be in.

Oh there IS a GOD!!!! J/k Domino ... interesting post.

Sasun and Hye_acher ... please get a room already We all know what's up with you two. Once it happens, there is NO denying it. Stormy ... I'll Fedex/DHL it to you as soon as possible. And you can keep it

I was probably the only one who understood!!! We have found our own secret language here Storm

Is it .org perhaps?

Vow vow vow ... save it for the adult section which we are not going to have

One of my favorite scenes from "Southpark" (this is from memory so it may not be 100% accurate) ... Cartman's mom goes to the doctor and says she wants to have an abortion. Doctor says how far along? She says ... eighth ... doctor says wow that's a bit far and we don't normally do abortions in the third trimester ... that's when she says ... oh no, he is 8 years old Domino, I agree with you that "abortion is right" as a sentence doesn't make sense but I think we know what Sasun and the voters meant. Abortion is right when the parent chooses to do it.

Domino... what do you consider "abortion" ... at what point is it wrong? At the point where the sperm meets the egg? What makes that pile of cels more important than the spider I crushed yesterday? Or are you saying that crushing the spider is also bad? Was it ok to crush that bug? Doesn't the spider have a chance to evolve into a superior being that may be able to write better music than Bach and have alcoholic parents as well? So if abortion is NEVER right then destroying anything is never right. You really want to make that argument buddy?

In other words ... you shouldn't make general policy based on highly unlikley exceptions ... general policies, such as is abortion right or wrong, should target the norms ... so I do agree with Stormeeee.

That one is so true. You have to pace yourself and it's very hard to do.

You think? You may be more right than you know