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Post Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:29 am   Post subject: The Power of Dreams Reply with quote Back to top  
Discuss the article here.

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Post Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:37 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Thank you for that article, T. Smile

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Post Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:48 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
My pleasure. I had a blast writing it... and researching it, too.

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Post Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:04 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Top article. XKCD has long since been a favourite of mine too. I bet that was a brilliant trip.

A mere sign isn't going to keep those clever ass-raptors out though. I hope you were armed with sufficient quantities of grapejuice.

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Post Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:27 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
CheeseMonger The Great wrote:
Top article. XKCD has long since been a favourite of mine too. I bet that was a brilliant trip.

A mere sign isn't going to keep those clever ass-raptors out though. I hope you were armed with sufficient quantities of grapejuice.

I had plenty of fermented grape juice; does that count?

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Post Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:24 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
that's kewl.

FYI: found a typo... in the fourth paragraph... XKCD is shown as XCKD.

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Post Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:26 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
now... if only we could get people to vote...

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Post Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:26 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
OhioArt2 wrote:
now... if only we could get people to vote...


now you're asking the impossible

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Post Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:38 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Slymer wrote:
that's kewl.

FYI: found a typo... in the fourth paragraph... XKCD is shown as XCKD.

Bastard typos. I went through it I-don't-know-how-many times.

Well, thanks for spotting it; it's now fixed.

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Post Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:07 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Good read, thanks T.

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Post Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:57 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
re-read it... I think my favorite part is "A quick sketch of a cat's face had the caption, "I can has chalk!"" Immediately some LOLcats came to mind and I ... LOL'd.

definitely fun times. wouldn't be surprised to see a bunch of plskthx scrawled after bad leet speak requests or spots from the ascii war flash vid.

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Post Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:58 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid48208.aspx

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Post Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:29 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
T wrote:
http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid48208.aspx


Norris, eh? Laughing

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Post Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:47 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
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T wrote:
http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid48208.aspx


Norris, eh? Laughing


Indeed. I've written to the editor asking for it to be corrected, but they've probably already gone to press. Ah well. I can live without one extra vertical stroke.

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