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Went to set up a bank account this morning. The guy helping us was very sweet. He mentioned that local people were actually cloning credit cards -- tampering with the ATM machines -- so my mother, in her ultimate genius, exclaimed, "But how do they do that?" with a tone of great curiosity. Oh, mother! But he laughed, anyway, and didn't boot us out ( Read more... )

I am going to Boston for two weeks.

. . .and I'm going alone. Someone buy a ticket and come with me. Please? I'm scared. So much for this "I am Indiana Jones and I can't wait to explore a strange city all by myself" jazz. It requires me to behave like an adult, and I want to be looked after and babyed for the rest of my life ( Read more... )

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French women are amazing ( Read more... )

So, my dearest father emails me a quote:
"In science you want to say something nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand."
- Paul Dirac

I, livid, replied with:
What bullshit.

He replies:
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darksunday: She's so alive.
ist15: She's an actress! She could probably fake being alive.

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