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Outdoors Safety -- GPS tracking apps?
Trail running, MTB, and now kayaking -- I'm starting to think I should make it possible for my family to track my whereabouts when I'm in the hills/out on the bay. You know, just in case I break a leg or get mauled by a mountain lion or flip my boat or something. Anybody use a tracking/personal safety app that they would…
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The unexpected NSV of a lifetime...
All of you overly sensitive/easily offended types may wish to leave now... So, I assume that most of us who remember 1999 are familiar with the pre-/post-Fight Club assessment of someone's Arsch. Pre-FC: cookie dough; post-FC: teak. Mein Arsch has unfortunately always been of the cookie-dough persuasion. As a corollary of…
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Made-Up Words
Hey all, I'm looking for books (I suppose also movies) that have invented/made-up English words in them. Good examples (which I, sadly, already have) would be: Terry Pratchett inventing words like "thaumaturgical", "splatter" (like a bouncer, but tougher), or "headology" Jasper Fforde with "beigeing", "loopholist",…
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the MFP theme song
To the tune of "To All the Kids", by the Vandals (for those of you who don't know the song: dude. Seriously? What are you doing with your life, exactly, that you have not made the acquaintance of the Vandals? *huge-shoulder-slumping-sigh* for your edification: < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omhkz49NLow>) This song has…
