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ntclark wrote:
all other US cities I can think of have large malls.
Are those accessible by walking, or do you always have to drive there?
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Bisqwit wrote:
-- Somehow, the taxi fares between Croton-Harmon and the IBM research center had risen by a few bucks between Monday and Wednesday. I wonder why.
The taxi fare is based on a conglomerate of distance travelled and time of trip. Note that distance travelled is how far the cab actually goes, rather than the direct distance between the start and end points. The result of this is that the fare between any two points can fluctuate with changes in traffic patterns, and depending on the specific routes with which the driver is familiar. Assuming, of course, that the driver isn't deliberately taking a slightly longer route in order to squeeze some more cash out of a passenger who's not familiar enough with the city to catch on.
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Bisqwit wrote:
I just can't make out all the words; too high percentage of the frequency spectrum of the speech is masked by the car's noises.
Sounds like you're thinking too much. Being too conscious, logical and analyzing. Take Bruce Lee's advice: "don't think-- feel!" Go with the flow. To really be myself, I have to stop thinking about myself, and just be myself. Because God said: "I am who I am."
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nfq wrote:
God said: "I am who I am."
No, I'm pretty sure that was Popeye
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alden wrote:
nfq wrote:
God said: "I am who I am."
No, I'm pretty sure that was Popeye
AKA the god of spinach! ;P
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I very much agree with this post.
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stickyman05 wrote:
alden wrote:
nfq wrote:
God said: "I am who I am."
No, I'm pretty sure that was Popeye
AKA the god of spinach! ;P
I really doubt he's the god of anything. Certainly not of TASing ;)
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nfq wrote:
Bisqwit wrote:
I just can't make out all the words; too high percentage of the frequency spectrum of the speech is masked by the car's noises.
Sounds like you're thinking too much. Being too conscious, logical and analyzing.
You do realize that that's not what I'm thinking at the moment as it happens, but rather, what I'm thinking when I'm trying to explain it at the forums, do you? Apologies to everyone for replying to nfq's post. Today I went to the ICWE again, and came back. After that, I was really tired because I did not sleep that much last night. This conference day was much better than yesterday. More interesting topics... and I talked with people. I also noticed that my travel cash is nearing its limits. Hopefully I have enough to buy souvenirs...
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Raiscan wrote:
stickyman05 wrote:
alden wrote:
nfq wrote:
God said: "I am who I am."
No, I'm pretty sure that was Popeye
AKA the god of spinach! ;P
I really doubt he's the god of anything. Certainly not of TASing ;)
Meanwhile, the God of Abraham called himself some Hebrew phrase that the scholars working under King James II translated as I AM THAT I AM.
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Today weather: Really hot. As I stood outside the IBM Research Center and the wind blew to my face, it felt like a hairdryer. So hot. And the smells of the vegetation were really pronounced -- as if they were being cooked in the humid air and all the fragrances of those plants get airborne. In enjoyed those aspects very much. Today feeling: Apathetic. Theme: Lose a lot of money. Okay. I lost my camera today. The one I paid a robbery price for. I took some pictures in the taxi on my way back from the IBM place, and when I arrived at the train station, I was so focused on the topic of payment and receipt that I forgot about the camera, and when I left the cab, I soon came to a desperate realization that I no longer have the camera with me. I forgot it in the taxi. I tried to run and catch the taxi, but the driver did not notice me. I immediately checked the receipt and called the taxi, but it was busy for a minute or two so I couldn't reach him very soon. When I did reach him, he said there's no camera in the taxi, but he would come back to the train station. And he did come back, and he and I searched the taxi and no camera was found anymore. It wasn't either on the ground where I disembarked the taxi. He had however picked another client, so he let me check the areas where he picked and dropped the client, but the camera wasn't there either. My best guess currently is that it dropped when I disembarked the taxi, and I did not notice it. (I should have noticed the sound though.) And when I ran to catch the taxi, someone else picked it up and kept it. That, or the taxi driver kept it to himself and the story about the client was false. But he was very forthcoming and appeared to be honest (and being the owner of Croton Taxi & Airport Service, he has some reputation at stage too), so I can't tell. What I do know is that I have now ~$344 less of goods. (Incl. camera, memory card, rechargeable batteries.) Well, that's not all... So I travelled back to the Grand Central Terminal. I had previously bought a 10-trip ticket to GCT/Croton-Harmon, but I had only used 8 of those trips. I wanted to get refund for the unused trips. Turns out, that would have actually been possible. But to do so, you must fill a (large) form, and the payment will be given in the form of a cheque. Cheque! It costs a lot to claim those. Not an idea I was willing to entertain, so I got another idea. I got a large paper from my backpack of endless supplies, and scribbled on it: "Roundtrip ticket available to Croton-Harmon/GCT for $10 -- ask me". And I walked around the ticket purchasing queues and showed the sign. After around 10 minutes with no success, I changed the sign a bit, adding the word "Unused" in the beginning and lowering the price to $8. This time, after a few minutes, a British-speaking person came and asked me. I had no change for $20-$8, so he purchased the ticket for $10. He left in a great hurry, while I was feeling good for having helped someone. Until the realization came: I just sold someone a ticket for $10 that would have been worth $63 for me, had I returned it to the company when I go back to Finland. I should have at least given him a note saying "After you have used up the ticket, please kindly mail it to <address>". But I didn't think of that soon enough. So in fact, I lost about $400 today. I'm not feeling very happy. My only hope of getting the camera back is if the person who took it notices the pictures on the memory card -- a few of them are about me, and I'm wearing a badge that contains my name and my company's name and my country's and town's name. This information should be enough to be able to contact me. No camera was delivered to the ticket officer at the Croton-Harmon station. The ticket officer somewhat impolitely pointed out that that the ticket office is not a lost-found office. And in fact, all lost items will be delivered to GCT, where they can be claimed by filling a form. Unfortunately, the lost-found office at GCT is closed for weekend, and will open the next time at Monday -- when I'm already leaving to Finland. As for the ticket... Maybe tomorrow I should go to GCT and show around a sign saying "Will buy an USED 10-trip ticket to Croton-Harmon or Mount Kisco for $5"...
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nfq wrote:
Bisqwit wrote:
I just can't make out all the words; too high percentage of the frequency spectrum of the speech is masked by the car's noises.
Sounds like you're thinking too much. Being too conscious, logical and analyzing.
I have that problem too, especially in clubs, where I often can't make out what people are saying no matter how hard I try and how often I ask them to repeat. I'm good at following melodies masked by noise though. ^^ So, I guess it all comes from a lack of training rather than from thinking too much.
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Kuwaga wrote:
So, I guess it all comes from a lack of training rather than from thinking too much.
yes, maybe what i'm talking about has nothing to do with it. but let me explain more clearly what i mean: i've noticed that if i'm too conscious and if i think too much when i try to do simple things like walking or talking, it becomes difficult to do. doing things with the conscious mind is like programming and doing things with the unconscious mind is like following programs. when we first learn to drive, we have to use our conscious mind, so it's very hard, and there's so many things to keep in mind. but when we have created the program, driving is so easy that we can talk in the phone while doing it. we no longer have to think, we no longer have to give instructions... i created my walking-program already when i was a small child, so walking is very easy to do. but if i start reprogramming (thinking) it, i'm just messing it up and i might stumble. talking is also an easy thing to do, but if i try to do it consciously, thinking how each word should be pronounced, i might stumble on words. when i talk unconsciously, i don't think about words at all, i just think about the meaning and the words follow automatically. sometimes things can trigger us to become conscious, for example if we are near a pretty girl. maybe you have no idea what i'm talking about... anyway, it's off topic.
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As for the ticket... Maybe tomorrow I should go to GCT and show around a sign saying "Will buy an USED 10-trip ticket to Croton-Harmon or Mount Kisco for $5"...
Which is exactly what I did today. I checked out the incoming train schedules and whereever a train was arriving from Poughkeepsie or Croton-Harmon, I went there holding my sign. -- It was fun, watching all the different reactions of people when they read my message. Some people just ignored me routinely. Probably thought I was some beggar or something. (But a well-dressed one for that!) Some people didn't seem to notice anything amiss. Others expressed disbelief of why one would want to buy a worthless ticket. (Nobody said anything, but it could be read from their faces.) -- But completely fruitless. Nobody sold me a ticket, worthless or otherwise. -- However, at the second train, after all the passengers had walked past me, I went to talk to a train crew member, and after some discussion, he gave me one used-up ticket for free. ---- But not before cutting it full of holes, warning that he doesn't want to jeopardize his career. Apparently, the train crew collects used-up multitrip tickets so nobody could have sold me one even if they wanted. ------ I wonder, what evil could one possibly do with a completely used-up 10-trip ticket that they could not do with a partially used-up one? Why do they collect them? ------ So if I had used up mine completely (instead of selling it), I would have still lost it anyway. So yay, I recovered my receipt worth $63 :) (Even though it's not the same ticket. Even the destination station is a bit different. But close enough, I hope!) -- First though, I tried to acquire a such ticket from the ticket-selling booths. They told me they can't give me one without a receipt of the previous one. But they never gave me any receipt! I had assumed that the ticket itself was the receipt (it does indicate the price, the product, and the date and place of purchase). -- I still have that $10 which I got from selling the previous one, too. ---- Well, considering today's purchases, actually I don't. My USD cash now sums up to less than $10. ------ A few days ago, I talked at IRC about coins and accumulating lots of them because you always pay with just banknotes. Well, yesterday I bought Chinese food (which cost $4.75 -- indeed, Chinese food is very cheap here) and paid it with a $5 bill and $1.75 worth various coins, including 5 1-cents and 4 5-cents. So the coin problem was resolved. I also went today to the Convent Avenue Baptist Church, and upon my way back from GCT, I bought some souvenirs for my sister's kids. (Gangsta caps!) Yesterday I didn't go anywhere. I spent the day inside, doing things such as filling insurance forms for those two unfortunate camera incidents. Let's see what becomes out of them. Oh, and the weather is just as horribly hot and humid as it was when I got here. Nice symmetry. I was soaking wet of sweat when I got back to the hotel. Good thing the bathroom is readily available without extra charges.
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Bisqwit wrote:
$4.75 -- indeed, Chinese food is very cheap here
How much food did you get for $4.75?
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arflech wrote:
Bisqwit wrote:
$4.75 -- indeed, Chinese food is very cheap here
How much food did you get for $4.75?
Enough, unless you are starving. Now I am heading back to Finland. Let's hope I don't forget anything here :P
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Allright, I'm home. I made some notes on my way back. Apologies for using this thread as my blog, but this is the last of it :) [At the JFK airport in NY] I can't believe I'm leaving USA now! Of course, every moment comes eventually, but still, this feels unreal. Very unreal. I arrived at the JFK airport right in schedule (although not the route I originally planned -- I took the A train to Howard Beach instead of changing to E at Street 42 and heading to the Jamaica station), and from there the AirTrain to JFK (cost $5, 7-day metro pass is not accepted). After the AirTrain there was a guy who wanted people to give him their MetroCards, saying he collects them. I asked him if he gives me refund for a 7-day card that still has some days left. He said he hasn't got any money, and asked me if I'm leaving the country. I said yes, and he repeated the request to have my leftover MetroCards. I said that if he does not pay for them, I rather have them as souvenirs. Entering the airport, I proceeded to check-in and drop-in my baggages. For a moment, I contemplated on going somewhere as I had hours of free time before the plane leaves (guidelines suggest one to arrive at JFK 3 hours before the flight), but I couldn't think of anything. So I went to the security check. The check took about 49 seconds longer than the one at Amsterdam (no, I don't seriously time them, but I'm just expressing how short time they took). Mainly because I had to take off my shoes and because the crew was slacking off preoccupied with something else. I didn't have to remove my belt this time. With the security check behind, I went exploring the departing gates, watching airplanes leave, typing in some notes, taking pictures and generally do whatever you do when you must waste 2.5 hours of time and you have only $2 and you can't leave anywhere and don't feel like buying overpriced stuff. (Hotdogs for $4, anyone? For the record, they aren't all that great. I had one for $2 somewhere and it was literally what I expected: Warmed bun, wiener and ketchup and mustard sauces. Not the spectacular NY experience Warp had suggested it might be.) Other observations: -- The airport crew, that operates within the vicinity of airplanes with engines on, still does not use hearing protection. I observed this at all gates of terminal 1 in JFK. (And in terminal 4 when I arrived.) Weird, and hazardous. -- I don't seem to pay any conscious attention to the fact that everything is in English. Yes, I mishear people and words coming from my mouth are hardly fluent, but when it comes to text, I am as if at home. And that's what makes thie departure all the more confusing. Only when I board that French airplane, will I feel truly like I'm far out. That's what the influence of USA to the rest of the world is like! I am Finnish. Even if politically or historically I'm also an European, I definitely don't feel myself as an European. Anywhere in Europe is foreign for me. But USA is in a special situation due to its influence. [In the AirFrance airplane] 20 minutes to the takeoff. This starts to feel familiar, and it's only my fifth flight this year (and in my entire life). This plane is very KLM-y. Which is to be expected as they are both Boeing 777s and subsidiaries of the Air France-KLM group. I'm not anymore looking at everything curiously like a cat at strange places, but rather, making plans on my jetlag adaptation. Actually, I made the plan a long time ago, but I still need to realize it. Basically, I need to figure out how to sleep in the airplane (so as to match the Finnish timezone). But I don't want to miss anything they possibly offer in the plane... Free food is still free food even if you're not hungry! (And I am.) Also, for once, I was one of the first ones to board the plane. Previously, I've been one of the last ones. I dislike long queues, and both approaches are good for averting them. Miscellaneous notes: -- Flight maids seem to wear scarves in weird, impractical ways. I wonder if it is for some kind of identification? -- The French crew looks distinctly non-American, but not Finnish either. Another thing where I don't feel very European. -- This is the first flight I'm on where the crew does not seem to take the safety mime act very seriously. On the transcontinental KLM flight, they were very professional and it reminded me of deaf people's TV newscasts. -- I was hungry. I had only eaten a breakfast before I had to go to the airport. In fact, I was counting on that they offer a lunch/dinner/whatever in the airplane. But the way they did in this plane was weird and confusing. First they distributed us very promising looking menu pamphlets. Some time later, they distributed trays of meals to a few random passengers. And after that, nothing happened for a long time. I wondered, was there something I should have done? Maybe they only gave meal to those who weren't going to sleep? Maybe I missed some crucial information? Should I have reserved in advance? But I didn't want to make a scene. Thankfully so, as later they started distributing meals to everyone. And that meal was a good fulfillment for the menu they gave. I had "sautéed beef Bourguignon accompanied by mashed potatoes" and red wine ("Vin de Pays d'Oc Cabernet Merlot 2007 La Baume"). It wasn't a big meal, but very good for an airplane meal. And red wine, too. Spectacular. (In retrospect, those random trays were probably for special diets, such as vegetarians.) -- After the meal, I did my best to sleep. A little over four hours of flighttime were remaining. I managed to catch a dream or two. I think those dreams caught an aspect or two of the environment I was in. It looks like in the dream, I was in a dystopia setting, evacuated by some kind of freedom fighters. In the vicinity, there was some kind of nuclear plant and they were securing the area by continuously bombing the surroundings. (Yes, this sounds like Half-Life 2.) The bombs did no environmental damage expect for the loud noise. But there were also armed protesters against the nuclear plant, and they had started their own bombing campaign as well, doubling the noise level so it was almost impossible to communicate with anyone. At some point, some guy provided a realistic death simulation which started with the building tilting over like a falling bottle. No, that doesn't make much sense plot-wise, but one can find parallels of that to the sensations in the airplane. -- I woke up when the plane was about to arrive in Paris. I wrote: This is so unreal. Yet, I'm not awake enough to fully appreciate it. All I'm thinking is of everything necessary to find the continuation flight. The plane to Finland will be a Finnair one, and this is an Air France one, but the Finnair one operates under Air France name, so there might be some hassle. Apparently, the baggages will be moved automatically. -- The pre-sunrise views of France from air are nothing short of stunning. Unfortunately I can't capture those views on a camera, because it's the worst lightness conditions. -- This was the first landing I observed in cloudless conditions. No descending through layers of clouds. But the sky was not clear; it was full of a huge but thin cloud, obscuring sunlight but without any boundaries, vertical or horizontal. [In the Paris airport, and the Finnair airplane] Ok, Paris airport was something different. Upon arriving, it looks like a large traffic center that has lanes for airplanes intermixed with roads for regular cars and trucks, with bridges and tunnels and intersections. And parking lots for airport vehicles and even airplanes, separate from any terminals. It does not look like any regular airport I have seen. In comparison, on "regular airports" you have vast plains with roads of asphalt where only airplanes roam, culminating in terminals where airplanes are served by myriads of exotic vehicles, and with passageways leading directly from the airplane to the airport complex. -- After disembarking from the plane, I felt the Paris weather and it was cold. I had mixed feelings about that. (Considering that I had just left from New York where it was uncomfortably hot, and that I'm heading to Finland where it always isn't even comfortably warm -- and it's about 2000 km norther than Paris.) -- I had 1 hour and 40 minutes of time to transfer to my continuation flight. Here's how it went: ---- First 30-40 minutes: Walking from terminal 1 to terminal 2D. Quite long distance, even with the occasional walkways. It includes the queue for the passport check. ---- Queuing at the Finnair check-in: 10-15 minutes ---- Waiting for the check-in clerks to get their work done: 15-20 minutes ------ During which time I grew worried about my baggage. Hopefully they transfer it correctly... ------ My boarding pass was on the table most of that time. I heard many Finnish clients saying "voi vittu!", and at least one of them had an adequate reason for that, considering that they made him miss his flight. ------ Then they gave me a Business class seat! Huh. I hadn't bought one... But to avoid further delays, I didn't bring the issue up with the clerks. ---- Security check: About 3 minutes, most of it in a queue. The guards seemed a bit absentminded. ------ At this airport, picking up a tray from a pile for putting my backpack and pocket stuff on, was self-service. On others, the securitymen do that. ---- Queue for boarding: About 5 minutes. ------ Most surprisingly, the boarding passageway lead into a bus, not an airplane! ---- Waiting in the bus: About 15 minutes. ---- The bus driving to the location of the plane: 5 minutes, plus some 5 minutes of waiting at some airplane-car traffic junction. ---- Boarding the airplane that was parked in some random place in the middle of nowhere: About 10 minutes. -- After boarding the plane, a while passed and a French person came over and told me (and four other persons sitting in the Business class) that they don't have meals for us; if we want meals, we should choose seats from the Economy class section. So we had to move. ---- There was conveniently a row of empty seats somewhere and I chose the window seat -- right next to the plane's wing. Not the best view outside... Observations: -- Some Finns are really easy to recognize as Finns for some reason. In the transcontinental plane, there was a woman I thought that she's probably Fininsh, even though she said no word. Even though she would have been the only Finn I had seen for 15 days. The next time I saw her was when she walked past me in the Finnair plane and nodded at me. I describe it as a friendly look. Most foreign people look very cold. Although they smile more (in communication) than Finns do, their smile is forced and fake; Finnish smile is (usually) gentle and pure. That trait, combined with the northern skin color (eupheministically white, even though it's just a tone of yellow-pink), is a very rare sight globally. (For the record, Miss Finland candidates aren't the best representatives for this trait.) It might also be some kind of a country person look. I recall that German people also have that trait to some degree. But British, for example, look distinctly British and nothing like Finns. -- The breakfast served in the Finnair plane was rather bad compared to the dinner at Air France. True, a breakfast cannot compare fairly to a dinner, but still. There's something to be said when the bowl contains a nondescript splat of tomato puré, a nondescript chunk of some not very fresh vegetable (that could be sea weed for all I know), and a piece of pie. -- KLM and Air France airplanes are airconditioned to be rather cool. In fact, if you are in shorts, your legs will shiver from cold. Finnair airplanes are very warm. In fact, after hot coffee, you may even sweat. I wonder that difference. For the record, I prefer warm accommodation over a cold one. [At home] Everything at Helsinki-Vantaa airport proceeded rather swiftly. My baggages were almost the first ones to emerge from the baggage rotation mechanism, and I was able to leave early. I went through the EU gate at the customs and I was immediately free to go, with the exit ahead of me. There was no passport checking, there was no opening of baggages or anything. No single official to ask me anything. I got a lift from a relative I had asked to take me home, and I came home. The weather in Finland is currently nothing splendid (it rains), but the temperature is nice. About 15 Celsius. (Not a picnic day, but I like the fact that I don't need to shower 2-3 times a day.) First observations on my computer: -- Wow, this is really fast. (The hotel computer was laggy.) -- Wow, so much blue! (The hotel computer screen did not display blue; everything was red, green or yellow.) -- Wow, how silent my computers are! I can use computer without having to listen to a LOUD air conditioning device! A comment about the security measures on the whole USA trip: -- Really quick. No problem whatsoever. Every airplane security check I underwent was really quick and I was never body-searched. I just put my backpack on the tray, and empty my pockets on another (and everywhere except in USA, put my belt on it too), and walk through the metal detector. Then I just wait for my backpack to come from the xray, and I wear it, and I wait for the rest of my stuff to come, and I collect them back to my pockets. (And wear the belt and/or the shoes if I had to remove them.) -- In my backpack, I had two potentially questionable items. A 5 mW laser pointer (among a few ballpoint pens), and a medicin bottle (albeit not containing liquid afaik). Neither raised any questions. Other items in the backpack were clothes and papers. -- In my pockets, I had things such as a cellphone, a camera, keys, a wallet, my passport, sometimes a pen too. -- The biggest security measure, time- and effortwise, that I had to go through, was the immigration procedure at USA border control. A really long queue, and an official that asked difficult questions like "how are you" and took fingerprints, and a photograph using a webcam. And filling the forms in the airplane, before that.
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Indeed it is always nice to have your computer back after long periods without it (or using a worse one). Thanks for entertaining me with your experiences in USA.
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Yes, definitely an interesting read :) Makes me wonder what it would be for a US person visiting Finland. Of course, most of us do not have the benefit of being bilingual...
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For example, it's common to hear children say something like "I sitted there", or "That's a lot of sheeps", or anything else that involves conjugating irregulars.
Yeah. In the Central Park, a ~10 year old kid came to me as I was watching the birds at the pond, and asked if those are ducks. Then after some thinking, he identified them as "gooses". :)
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Then after some thinking, he identified them as "gooses". :)
geez... it's so much more intuitional to say gooses than geese. i would have probably said so too.
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Two mans, two womans, their wifes, and a bunch of childs on the tips of their foots watched how the mouses, the deers, the sheeps, the wolfs and the gooses were separated into both halfs of the cage, showing their tooths, and cutting tomatos, cactuses and loafs of bread using knifes to solve the phenomenons caused by the many crisises, the focuses of all their attention.
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nfq wrote:
geez... it's so much more intuitional to say gooses than geese. i would have probably said so too.
intuitive. Sorry, had to.
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But's it's more intuitive to say intuitional!
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or maybe the right word is... intentional.
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Warp wrote:
Two mans, two womans, their wifes, and a bunch of childs on the tips of their foots watched how the mouses, the deers, the sheeps, the wolfs and the gooses were separated into both halfs of the cage, showing their tooths, and cutting tomatos, cactuses and loafs of bread using knifes to solve the phenomenons caused by the many crisises, the focuses of all their attention.
These foods costed many golds, but they didn't have negative thoughts about it.
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Today feeling: Apathetic. Theme: Lose a lot of money.
Today I received the decision from the insurance company regarding my statements about the two cameras that suffered ill fate. They compensated the broken camera for the full price I indicated in my insurance statement, and the lost camera for the maximum price for "lost item" type reports, which is about half of the price I indicated. They didn't buy my indication of the incidence as "robbed", and turned it into "lost" instead. (I don't think I can help that decision.) Weird. "Broken" gives you full compensation, and "lost" gives you only 120 euros at maximum. Well, in any case this is much better than "nothing", and I am now really happy that I decided to include some baggage insurance in the travel insurance I bought in the first place.
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