Wetness

[ndkid]

This was definitely the wettest morning I've had since my time at the NRL in Washington, DC. Probably because there's still melting snow in some spots, leaving the ground already saturated, mixed with the poor drainage on the roads, getting to work this morning was a game of dodging the dirty water that the cars driving kicked up. One trucker

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[fishy1]

how about a full length coat?

[ndkid]

*chuckle*
One of my brain droppings from the walk in was whether "trenchcoat" and "duster" are synonymous or not.

I don't have a good reason for never owning a full-length coat other than them seeming like the sort of thing I wouldn't like... I always picture them as restricting one's stride. But I really ought to give them a shot.

[timotab]

• your car loan isn't simple interest? The last couple of car loans I've been involved in have been simple interest, so prepayment would have worked just fine.
• Annual letters are great for keeping vague contact with distant friends/family. You write one letter, and send it off to all and sundry so they feel like you're keeping them up to date. If you have something personal to add, a handwritten addition works
• Google sketchup is a lot of fun. My gut feeling is to make the tower walls, then make an "arch prism", then intersect the two to cut the arch out. I've not tried this
• Get an iMac

[ndkid]

• I don't own a car... but, apparently, it is not uncommon for car loans in particular to pre-calculate the interest and amoritize it over the expected length of the loan, so that you end up paying the interest for the full term no matter when you pay it off. Suffice to say, I do not ever see myself accepting loans under such terms, but not everyone is as picky as me.


• My current hang-up with sketchup mainly centers around its unwillingness to push up/down arcs. So instead of making rectangle + arc, I have to make rectangle+circle. I'm trying to work out the pecularities of the intersect command, because whenever I take my rectangle+circle solid, place it where i want the arched doorway, and use the intersect command, the effect is not the simple "overlap volume of non-selected object(s) removed" that the examples act like it ought to be.


• Wine arguments aside, a non-insignifigant portion of my computer time is still gaming, and a non-insignifigant portion of my computer gaming are things I already own a PC, but not a Mac, copy of. I will

[timotab]

Bootcamp :)

[leiacat]

Most car loans that I've met will helpfully pre-calculate the interest, but will actually recompute when you pre-pay. If you have doubts you can call and ask, but in overwhelming number of cases, you can finish early and save on the interest regardless of the payment schedule.

[vtbiochemgoddes]

You should see I Am Legend.

I think you'd appreciate it.

[ndkid]

I doubt I would... too many plot holes. How did they get into the city if the bridges were down? Why is he putting all this effort into hunting when he has a lifetime supply of canned food lying about (that we never see him touch)? Stuff like that.

Still, it'd probably be fun, regardless of its goodness or badness.

[vtbiochemgoddes]

It's actually a fair bit different from the book... and from what I've heard about the book, probably better. The movie itself I found to be genuinely good with very few plot holes (their explanations of the virus and just about everything else are distinctly different).

*sigh* It saddens me when movies are made from books, then of course when they're made different, people get all upset. If I wanted to have the same story as a novel, I'd simply read the novel... but people only want to see what they expect, so the movie won't be as appreciated, I'm sure. Also, it deals with some themes and emotions that many people really don't like seeing, so that's another strike against it.

Anyhow, it's good. Go see it.