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  1. DougF
    11 Hours Ago - permalink
    DougF
    O Great and wise Pyrotex, this honor is all mine as I kneel in the shadow of greatness.
  2. DougF
    1 Week Ago - permalink
    DougF
    I just realized that I missed your birthday, Hope it was a good one.
  3. F_Q
    2 Weeks Ago - permalink
    F_Q
    Hi Pyro,
    I've tried posting this to your Hypobordomosity thread twice now, but they keep getting deleted since I was suspended, and I'm clearly representative of everything that's wrong with Hypography these days . So, I thought I'd post to your profile instead.

    If NASA is monitoring your Internet activity, you may be able to get around it by hitting Hypography (and any other sites) via a proxy server. Something like freeproxyserver.net.

    Check wtih Buffy or Alexander, they would know better than I do, but chances are good they will only see the hit to the proxy, and have no record of your actual web surfing/browsing destination. Cheers. I hope things are well with you and Gwen.

    Sean
  4. Pyrotex
    10-16-2008 - permalink
    Pyrotex
    Finally got through to a human being at Verizon and told them that my phone/DSL service has been kaput since hurricane Ike. The phone lines from our house are neatly coiled up in the back yard. Never mind that the person I finally talked to was in Banglore, India, and kept saying things like "we are thanking you for the the service that is an honor to be accepting you mister thompson". It worked. Verizon got the message. And last night my phone line was reconnected. How come utility companies have the VERY WORST automated telephone systems???? If it's because they are brainless morons, push or say the number "two",....
  5. Pyrotex
    07-27-2008 - permalink
    Pyrotex
    Sunday night--Gwen and I are back at home. Everything went perfectly. We made every milestone right on schedule. Spent time with my best friend in the whole world, MB Stacy, in Hattiesburg, a day and a half with my mother in Russellville, a long lunch with my cousins in Decatur, a few hours with Gwen's father and grannie east of Birmingham, a long breakfast with MD Stacy and his wife, Scooter, again, and back into League City at 7 PM. All goals achieved. Tired. So tired. But smiling.
  6. Buffy
    07-24-2008 - permalink
    Buffy
    Have a safe and fun trip, Mr. Pyro!
  7. Pyrotex
    07-23-2008 - permalink
    Pyrotex
    I'm on vacation (yeah... right... driving 1600 miles in 5 days is soooo restfull and relaxing) from Wednesday afternoon to late Sunday night. I will miss you guys. And you, too, Buffy.
  8. Symbology
    07-22-2008 - permalink
    Symbology
    Ohhh now I get it. I was here looking for Pyro's recent posts when I got distracted by this conversation. Glad I came across it because otherwise I wouldn't have figured out how to follow other people's posts.
  9. Symbology
    07-22-2008 - permalink
    Symbology
    Can you not find them under your subscriptions? That's how I look for my conversations. Though they don't point directly at my entries. The "Statistics" may do a better job of that.
  10. Turtle
    04-21-2008 - permalink
    Turtle
    ~93% of respondents have expressed similar confusion.

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Posted 3 Weeks Ago at 07:45 PM Comments 1
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We got a memo around the office this week that a new monitoring program has been installed at NASA, and that "big brother" will be taking a more active interest in our internet sojourns. The new rules forbid not just visiting sites with questionable or offensive content, but ANY site that is not directly work related.

So, my posts will (mostly) come from home now.

Only the trouble is, I don't know what to post anymore. None of the science threads seem to interest...

Posted 09-11-2008 at 11:20 AM Comments 1
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Second verse, same as the first.

Here we are, evacuated to Huntsville, TX, again. This time we are at my mother-in-law's apartment, fleeing the wrath of Ike. There is a difference, however. Ike makes Gustav look like a summer zephyr with insecurity problems. Ike has teeth, fills damn near the entire Gulf of Mexico, and appears to be headed directly at the Kroger parking lot just across hiway 518 from us.

Gustav was good practice, and this time the whole packing...

Posted 09-03-2008 at 02:01 PM Comments 5
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I’ll have you know that I’m not really “old” in any ordinary sense of the word. I think young, I act young (when I have the spare energy), and still retain all the curiosity and wonder as I ever did as a kid. And I was a pretty smart kid.
Why, I remember as clear as yesterday that my Mom took me to visit some family in Philadelphia. I was only seven or thereabouts, and was totally bored with all the adult conversation going on in the house, so I sneaked out the back and wandered down main...

Posted 08-30-2008 at 07:20 PM Comments 1
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Gustav is one sorry pain in the butt. As I write, he's tearing Havana, Cuba apart. The weather stiffs give Houston maybe one chance in 20 of catching the western edge of this Hurricane, but at 150 MPH, the "edge" is bad enough.

So we have to evacuate. God, how I hate this. If I were single, I would have put the cat in a pet hostel this morning, packed the car with a six-pack of Cokes and a box of Nutribars, and Monday, I would drive to a motel over on the west side of...

Posted 08-27-2008 at 12:31 PM Comments 5
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Buffy wanted me to do a blogen* on cooking. Okay, Buffy, this one is for you.

It's very nearly impossible to do an adequate job of cooking something -- and I mean by this, all the effort required to chop, slice, mix, thaw, beat, combine, measure, cut, pour, stir, manage the temperature, serve, etc -- AND think about sex at the same time.

And it's a good thing, too. This twist of reality (that is, the impossibility of cooking and simultaneously thinking about sex)...
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