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[Ed Anger]

Shatner is looking for Dyson spheres in his urine.

[Ideologue]

Good God, age is the real final frontier.

I think Brooks and Bakula look alright.

Anyway, google's doing one of their animation-type deals regarding Winsor McCay today.  It's neat.

[Josquius]

I've been racking my brain but can't figure it out, what is the English word for someone who works for a company? You know, English for salaryman. Standard graduate job which doesnt require special skills in any particular area.
Businessman has too much grandiosity about it, somebody on the board, not just somebody in the offices. Office worker seems a bit....too...I don't know, just literal and under rates the job.

hmm, I'm stuck, I just wasted the weekend trying and failing to fix my bikes.
I should take them to the repair shop...but now I've put so much work into trying to fix them to end up paying the same as if I'd done nothing to begin with feels so bad. Gah.

What's wrong/broken with them ?

Replacing the inner tube of the rear wheel

Ironically I did the very same job yesterday afternoon, when I had a sudden puncture whilst on an old railway line. It's easy when you have the right tools:
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=5790

Do you want me to send you some ?

Nah, I'm fine for tools. I've loaned a spanner and have a repair kit with those wee plastic thingys.
It is damn hard though to put everything back together again.
Also fitting the inner tube in the wheel is kind of weird. It seems....off. Sticking up more in some places than others.

[jimmy olsen]

Office worker seems a bit....too...I don't know, just literal and under rates the job.

Perhaps it does underrate it, but it is the best translation. Anglo-American culture just does not see it as a desirable profession. A job that's respectable and makes good money, yes, but nobody wants to be one.

[Syt]

Sometimes the scale of countries you have in your head is funny. See Austria and Israel. Their population is similar - Austria's 8.4 vs. Israel's 7.9 million.

However, Israel's area is only about a quarter of that Austria. That country is seriously small. Israel is in the same size category as Macedonia or Slovenia.

[Razgovory]

Good God, age is the real final frontier.

Yikes.

[Pedrito]

Today's Doodle is wonderful.

L.

[Ed Anger]

I think I'll put the Christmas tree up tomorrow. Might as well get that out of my way.

Time to use Santa blackmail on the kids.

Tree: Erected. Lights...detangled and on tree.

I'm done for the year.

[HVC]

Shatner is looking for Dyson spheres in his urine.

guess the Trekkers were right, Kirk is twice the man Picard is. Literally.

[Barrister]

Sometimes the scale of countries you have in your head is funny. See Austria and Israel. Their population is similar - Austria's 8.4 vs. Israel's 7.9 million.

However, Israel's area is only about a quarter of that Austria. That country is seriously small. Israel is in the same size category as Macedonia or Slovenia.

I always enjoyed comparing the population, and total area, of the Yukon.  30,000 people in an area larger than all of Germany.

[garbon]

Sometimes the scale of countries you have in your head is funny. See Austria and Israel. Their population is similar - Austria's 8.4 vs. Israel's 7.9 million.

However, Israel's area is only about a quarter of that Austria. That country is seriously small. Israel is in the same size category as Macedonia or Slovenia.

I always enjoyed comparing the population, and total area, of the Yukon.  30,000 people in an area larger than all of Germany.

Or Austria's 8.4 to NYC's 8.2...with Austria be 68 times larger!

[Eddie Teach]

I always enjoyed comparing the population, and total area, of the Yukon.  30,000 people in an area larger than all of Germany.

How do the deer populations compare?

[Barrister]

I always enjoyed comparing the population, and total area, of the Yukon.  30,000 people in an area larger than all of Germany.

How do the deer populations compare?

Yukon is moose and caribou country, son.  The one time I recall a deer being spotted in Yukon it made the papers.   

[Eddie Teach]

Meant lumped together. Deer, moose, caribou, elk, reindeer, gazelles, impalas, etc.

[Barrister]

65-70k moose

elk - very few, 250 or so

caribou - 165,000 in porcupine herd, but it comes and goes between yukon and alaska

:moose: