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This guy, 46 years old, decides to take up smoking for 31 days, to see what it's all about.

I have been smoking for almost 10 years, and I basically quit for the New Year, I've had I believe 2 since, but, everything this guy discovers, it hits right into me. Specifically, the concept that smoking is sort of a club. When I was in school for architecture, the most memorable times, most cherished, is the smoke break, because we had so many great conversations, so many smart students and even teachers smoked, and I struck up so many friendships over smoking, it's the icebreaker into so many thoughts that people have about the world. And, it's almost a blessing in disguise for smokers when they passed laws forcing smokers outside or into special smoking areas, you end up bonding with total strangers over this silly horrible fun addiction. Yes, it will kill you, yes, they are cancer sticks, and all these surgeon general warning's are jokes thrown about as we all kill ourselves with cigarettes, but, god damn, a smoker will always tell you how much fun it is to smoke.

This is what I want for an avatar...something like this:



But motherfuck me if I can get it done with these fucking airplane dashboard like photoshop apps. I use the gimp 2 and I actually got one attempt to a point where it animated between these 6 pics, but there was no option to save it...like "Hey, click this and save your animation and call the friggin thing: ap1.GIF"...That's too easy I guess. But no matter as yeah I know... it fucking sucked anyway as the pics fucking suck - though I did have enough sense to friggin resize them all to equal dimensions whence I did the thing.

Anyway, my point is making an animated gif is like shooting down a satellite with a hellfire. Fuck these developers and their shit image editting tools. Also and to the point: Is there an user-friendly app that is called something like: Animated GIFs for Dummies?

That's what I'm looking for here...or you can make ther gif for me outright...that'd be nice of ya.

Good night, DIG. Make sure to post something worth responding to by 7am.

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HedCold produces by mistake... just like his mom did.

Now that HedCold has a job, he's got all this free time on his hands. It's gonna be the opposite of his unemployment. "Oh man, ever since I started, I have so much time for hobbies and doing things I always wanted to. I took a class at Apex, they gave me a free box of tools, and now I'm a TV/VCR repairman on the side!"

Goat has like 40,000 posts PER BOARD. Is this your actual day job, do you work for the O and A Community?

I think Goatweed comes pre-installed on the latest version of vBulletin.

Now we're bestest buddies for life!

Seriously though is this here not absolute gold?

I found myself in a round room, surrounded by seven doors, each neighbored with a small table with a different flower in a small vase on top. The walls contained no other indication as to where I was, and neither did the doors, which were numbered 1 through 7. It seemed as though each door would just open into a hotel room, yet there was no ice machine nearby. The floor and room smelled clean, but was probably just vacuumed and sprayed with New Car Scent air freshner, to give it that stench of every commercial building you've ever been to. Along the edge of the ceiling trailed a circle of florescent lights, embedded in the perimeter, dripping soft light onto the light maroon houndstooth wallpaper which covered much of the surface area. The carpet was also red, a Mondrian-esque landscape of cubes, but done in a hideous, warm, and playful way, allowing for one to play a large game of Tic Tac Toe. I sat on the floor quickly coming to realize that I needed to leave this room, and so I would have to choose a door to try to open.

The tables each allowed for a vase with a different flower in each.

Door 1's had a daffodil sitting in its vase.
Door 2's held a Morning Glory vine.
Door 3's held a twig of Wysteria.
Door 4's a Rose.
Door 5's an Easter Lily.
Door 6's held an Orchid.
Door 7's held a Dandelion.

I opened Door 2 first.

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Just one corporation (Exxon Mobil) pays as much in taxes ($27 billion) annually as the entire bottom 50% of individual taxpayers, which is 65,000,000 people! Further, the tax rate for the bottom 50% is only 3% of adjusted gross income ($27.4 billion / $922 billion), and the tax rate for Exxon was 41% in 2006 ($67.4 billion in taxable income, $27.9 billion in taxes).

People are stupid because they hate evil, rich companies no matter what.

Because of my work schedule and whatnot I was up this morning at 8am on my day off and The Last Starfighter was on. So of course, for nostalgia's sake I watched it. I felt a little giddy cause I remember LOVING this movie when I was 8. But now seeing it again, now that Im an old fucko, I was let down. After the whole DeathBlossom Kodan Armada Commandship thing, I was all "Thats it ??" That was the big problem of the galaxy ??

I dunno.