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lem
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Hello. My name is lem. I have been lurking over a year now. I like the variety of topics posted on this sight and hope to make contributions. I am a fiscal conservative/social liberal/agnostic. People I look up to the most in the real world are often libertarians. My favorite genre is fantasy. I am not too particularly gifted, but I enjoy learning new things and discussing ideas. I am a family man. I am learning computers.

I feel like I am using "I am" way to much and must apologize. I am what I am. OS Card seems cool. Speed seems funny. Dagonee seems sincere. Katharina and Farmgirl seem empathetic. Kasie H seems intense. TomDavidson seems sharp. Everyone seems gifted. I hope I fit it.

[disqualifier] I don't mean to degenerate anyone down to a one word discription; I am just expressing what names I recognize because of something they wrote that I have since forgotten which has stuck in my head [/disqualifier]
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because of something they wrote that I have since forgotten which has stuck in my head
ponders... [Confused]

[ October 08, 2004, 12:40 AM: Message edited by: lem ]

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Hello lem, and welcome! Glad you stopped lurking...
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Hey, lem. Welcome to Hatrack! [Smile]
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Hey dude, nice tan.
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[Hat]
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Hey, it's another lurker! I would consider you a distant relative, since I don't lurk all the time, just MOST of the time.

Welcome!

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Welcome and bienvenido! [Wave]
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quote:
I don't mean to degenerate anyone down to a one word discription
I hope you brought enough one-word descriptions to share with everybody.
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Welcome aboard, lem.

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lem
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I have a computer question that involvesbooting multiple OS on my computer. Is that an appropriate topic for Hatrack, or can anyone direct me to a good tech sight? If it is appropriate, I will start a new thread on Multi-booting.
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quote:
I am a fiscal conservative/social liberal/agnostic
Wow! You are my inverse! This means if you make a comment and I make a comment, we will have spoken the whole and complete truth! [Smile]

Welcome to the light side!

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No, if you both post on a topic, you'll just cancel each other out.
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quote:
I have a computer question that involvesbooting multiple OS on my computer. Is that an appropriate topic for Hatrack, or can anyone direct me to a good tech sight? If it is appropriate, I will start a new thread on Multi-booting.
Go for it. We have several very talented tech-minded people on the board, and tech-question/troubleshooting threads tend to pop up on a fairly regular basis.

Welcome to Hatrack, by the way. Glad to hear you made the lurker->poster transition.

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[Hat]
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quote:
Wow! You are my inverse!
What is the inverse of agnostic?
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Welcome to Hatrack!

The inverse of agnostic is either -agnostic or 1/agnostic depending on whether you wanted the additive or multiplicative inverse.

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I'd assume it would be someone who didn't believe and then does.
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And MPH - here's my mathematical reasoning:

1/Annie x Annie/1 = 1

1 has to be the complete and utter truth, neh?

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Welcome lem! Glad you took the plunge.
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Hi Lem! You forgot this one - "Space Opera is fantastic." [Big Grin]

space opera

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AH...FANTASTIC! [Party]
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i thought the inverse of an agnostic was someone who'd believe anything. and then i had a good laugh about that.

ps: how did you pick your name? like stanislaw?

[ October 06, 2004, 10:51 PM: Message edited by: celia60 ]

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I really should get out more. Though, for some reason, I never feel like there are any subjects that I would like to add to, nor is there anything in particular that I would like to say to start a new topic. So, I stay in the shadows, and graffiti every once and a while.
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For some reason when I read the title of this thread, I couldn't get the theme of 2001 Space Odyssey out of my head....
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*wonders if "multibooting" is similar to an Imelda Marcos passion for footwear*

[Big Grin]

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Shan: [ROFL] [ROFL] [ROFL]

That tickles me to no end!

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Welcome to posting on Hatrack. [Smile]

Hobbes [Smile]

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Hi! Good to see you.

I'm dabbling my foot in lurker-dom. How is it today?

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Welcome to regular posting at Hatrack!
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You know, you should be a bit more careful with your slashes. One might think you vote agnostic and worship Arnold Schwarzenegger. [Smile]

Anyway, welcome!

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so what your saying is I should keep my Ah-nuld shrine between me and God? [Taunt]
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quote:
1 has to be the complete and utter truth, neh?
If 1 is the complete and utter truth, then what is 2? 3? PI?

Mmmmmm... PI... </homer>

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Pi is then spherical truth.
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[Wave]

Is that lem as in Lemuel?

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quote:
because of something they wrote that I have since forgotten which has stuck in my head
Well, it sounds like you will fit in fine...lol..

Kwea

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...or lem as in "Stanislaw"?
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it's like my post doesn't exist....
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Is that Lem like Lemuel or like Stanislaw? I don't think anyone's asked that yet?

[Laugh] at Celia.

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[Wave] [Embarrassed] at tammy. [Wink]
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[Embarrassed] Didn't see your post celia!
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Yeah, I was wondering when someone was going to mention Stanislaw. Good call Tammy! [Laugh] Celia60

I should rename this to the "Lurkers Caver," a quiet place for lurkers to grab a drink in the shadows.

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I'm glad I was the first one to mention it. [Smile]

Recognition is hard to come by around here. You have to claim *cough* steal *cough* it when you can.

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Welcome Iem! [Smile]
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[Hat] Welcome. [Wave]
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[Wave]

Hi lem!

You're very observant [Smile]

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I hear that Stanislaw guy comes from a weird place in Russia.

[Wave] lem

[and I can't even spell the friggin name [Embarrassed] ]

[ October 07, 2004, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: Kama ]

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Welcome Lem [Wave]
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quote:
I hear that Stanislaw guy comes from a weird place in Russia.
I heard that too Kama. I think he's from a city called Pollund or something.

[ October 07, 2004, 09:14 PM: Message edited by: Noemon ]

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who's stanislaw?
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You've probably never heard of him.
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