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In other words, you have to give it away, for free, to a few friends, before they figure out it is something they would want..

that really defines what "sucks" here.

I don't think so.. but they could not hear this song either.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGI6qQHFlPk

yeah, me too..

thank you for your contribution, friend..

so.. the original question that drove me out of my mind.. what are we.. I need somebody else to define it.. It takes more than me here.. I'm sorry. I am asking too much here..

I'm already dead. nothing to worry about, or is there.. but.. I can still hear the music.. must not be 100% dead yet..

during my last year of high school. It was "minor" sexual contact. other words, groped by an elder in society.. I haven't told anybody anything regarding this.. as of now. I voted the "minor" sexual contact. it is not a "big deal" here. It is the "eternal" debriefing. doesn't bother me..

I mean.. we've lived through all of "this".. I just think what "this" is needs to be defined..

My bad experiences range from.. being spit at with open hand, to what.

I even repaired that clueless numbnut's laptop, with a soldering iron.. "no guarantees fella but.." it still worked. or rather, worked. I couldn't repair the kodak digital camera though. the ribbon cable was so thin.. one touch of any kind of soldering iron, and it is melted into a form that it will never successfully interface with a replacement circuit board. Provided one could even get one, to begin with..

The comb filter was a pretty big deal in the early eighties. Sylvania had a little comb filter board, that one could plug into their E-50 series chassis. The chip must have been over clocked or something. I ended up replacing quite a few of them.. along with the digital memory module in the tuner. At least it was a plug in replacement.. but I replaced the defective IC in both of these little boards.. Fast forward to the 2000's. I've replaced cheap failed chinese manufactured 2200 microfarad capacitors in Pentium IV motherboards, and in the power supplies.. a Pentium IV is still useful. It can do enough computerish things to surf the internet.. and its relatively cheap, second hand. Or even in a form of a throwaway. i.e. free. Install Linux.. and you have a perfectly capable to surf the internet computer. along with open office. So.. in the university I'm at.. at the moment. There is a literal sea of such failed computers. so some character comes in, with an expensive desoldering tool.. a nice temperature controlled Weller soldering iron.. a little bit of desoldering braid, in case we have a small splash of molten solder, somewhere.. "hey.. it ONLY university property.. we really don't care what happens to it here.. they've slashed our budget as it is, and we don't really give a s*it.." *they* are at war with the math department. Get far less funding, you know.. it's the POLITICS that is a killer here.. true story. so I use the de-soldering tool. the stinking capacitor drops off the board.. the new one goes in. I mop up the solder spill. And.. it still works.. or rather, it works. First attempt at boot. Previously, it took about 12 attempts. I hope all of this makes sense to SOMEBODY.. other than myself.. why am I saying all of this.. I dunno. In the end all I got was a real, working computer. Other than the one at home, and the two that I drag to school at various times.. The reason I am not at my last job? The boss could not understand the comb filter.. it all was beyond his control.. would you trust your computer to a maniacal squirrel, with a hot soldering iron?

You just forgot to cover it with enough toilet paper. And a brick.

This was a partial fix for the "dancing colors" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb_filter Hitachi came out with an even better system, that had analog storage, would store the last three or four lines of video, and would choose the "best fit" to cancel the interference.. then came EGA, VGA.. etc..

pin stripes. that only bothered early color televisions.. this is the last generations technology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC the problem was, when one transmitted too thin of a stripe in the pin stripes, the luminance frequencies entered the pass band of the chrominance frequencies. In other words (plain english) if the lines were too close together, you would see colors dancing between them while watching the show. I used to work on this stuff..

Why couldn't I have been so lucky as to gotten that ride?

Just wonder. If you don't mind. Please choose the worst experience you had.

The peeps look "cool" when you put them in a microwave oven for about twenty seconds..

It was called Total Fitness Institute then. The former numbnuts limb leader from WVA I knew was also a participant once, best I remember. I always wondered how it worked out for John Somerville.. a Google search with his name in quotes yield practically nothing..

so in my war against the "beast". I refuse, to pay an everyday low price for.. anything. The seventeen extra cents generally goes to a less harrassed, un-demasculated worker.. my own personal nemesis would shop at Wal*mart. let's say that is the only place I could afford my meds. I would get in, get the meds. Bypass aisle five, with cut flowers, imported from India's most fertile land, the land of big screens and computers, and get the hell out, as fast as my feet could carry me. I can look into the soul of wal*mart as well, and see myself. It is not a place which I want to be..

we have the privilege to leave an impression.. maybe that's all there is to an after-life.. who know..

When I consume red meat, I pray for the soul that was sacrificed for my sustenance.. same damned thing. When I read the label on the mostly cotton tee-shirt, I pray for the people who manufactured it.. capitalism is an unrestrained, for the moment, Pig.. who feeds the pig.. maybe Leary was right..

so who is the "ultimate foe". The devil? or some other abstract concept? In THIS particular world, who is it.. what about the fellow who buys a tee-shirt made in Pakistan, by a drugged teenage worker? You know.. that is how they get young kids to be able to repetitively perform menial tasks, don't you? YOUR dollar votes for this kind of behavior and practice.. I mean. "I will" to have this tiny bit of prosperity. at what cost? its nice to have a scapegoat in all of this..

"republican wives". The author was Jim Harrison.. http://www.cottagebooks.com/jimharrison.htm