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by Linna Heartbooger
Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: My hobby: chasing down earth-shattering paradigms.
Replies: 4
Views: 1549

My hobby: chasing down earth-shattering paradigms.

The call went out: More Posts Are Needed. So here we are. Family Systems Theory. Game Theory. (I read the book "The Strategy of Conflict" last year; not any of the newer--or more math-heavy--stuff.) Marshall McLuhan's & Neil Postman's paradigms in Media Studies ("Understanding Med...
by Linna Heartbooger
Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: How Do You Feel Today? v4
Replies: 3427
Views: 837217

How Do You Feel Today? v4

I'm here now! My family... bought a house. After decades of apartment-living, hearing my OWN washer and dryer "ticking away" downstairs is such a sweet, sweet sound. I'm enjoying the adventure of setting things up around here. Oh--the previous owner gave us--err, planted a FLOWER GARDEN! B...
by Linna Heartbooger
Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:28 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: 9/11 2001 (pic heavy)
Replies: 64
Views: 19356

9/11 2001 (pic heavy)

Remembered this place, and remembered this thread today.

(A Discord buddy linked me a memorial thread that runs each year from Yet Another Very Different Forum From Ours. "Ohhh.. yeah; it's today.")
by Linna Heartbooger
Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:22 pm
Forum: Announcements + Suggestions + Q&A + Help
Topic: This is a Sign of the Times
Replies: 19
Views: 17251

This is a Sign of the Times

I need to increase the number of Pink Floyd songs I've heard; I'm currently at the title song, (of the album) and like.. some thing about money, iirc. But also, speaking of time, here is a song that is stick-in-my-brain beautiful, but I try to restrain myself from singing the chorus of... https://ww...
by Linna Heartbooger
Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: Not MIA
Replies: 14
Views: 8971

Not MIA

I'm here! :hide:

I recently deleted my account on another Forum Very Different From Ours where i was punching a clock. ...as surety of my fealty. (?)
...but in any case, time to tumble back in here for a bit!
by Linna Heartbooger
Mon Mar 13, 2023 5:16 pm
Forum: Announcements + Suggestions + Q&A + Help
Topic: OH MY GOD EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT
Replies: 201
Views: 833556

Re: OH MY GOD EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT

Woooooo! Thank you Vain, Av and all peeps involved in doing the work for this upgrade!
wayfriend wrote: Mon Mar 13, 2023 3:30 pm BTW the new board is way more phone friendly
Oh good; all ready to consume your spare time!! :twisted:
by Linna Heartbooger
Thu Dec 22, 2022 9:47 pm
Forum: In Pursuit of Mallory
Topic: ABCs of Kale Withdrawal Syndrome (KWS)
Replies: 238
Views: 34815

"KaleKaleKale, glorious kale!!" goes forth the cry!
by Linna Heartbooger
Thu Dec 22, 2022 8:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: Happy Southern Solstice 2022!
Replies: 7
Views: 1342

Hey, remember the episode of West Wing when they had the cartographers? That was excellent. Oh my goodness--I sure remember that West Wing episode!! I actually re-watched the exact clip on YouTube a couple months ago, because I was thinking of dropping it into an online conversation on Discord. It ...
by Linna Heartbooger
Mon Nov 28, 2022 5:56 am
Forum: General Literature Discussion
Topic: What are you reading in general?
Replies: 2275
Views: 426518

Aww, fun conversation to drop in on the tail end of!! ...Wos asking Fist "You're no longer a Reductive Empiricist/Materialist, amirite?" followed by Fist saying, "It was all Z." I'm reading "Anna Karenina" right now. And the 3rd book in Naomi Novik's "Scholomance&q...
by Linna Heartbooger
Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: Land lines
Replies: 18
Views: 7571

Thankfully I don't phone people much and don't like them to phone me. But having to run outside and up the stairs to the top floor to get an OTP or something is really annoying. :D Oh, yuck!! Thanks for providing that image so I know someone has it worse than I do. I hate when texted-to-a-cell-numb...
by Linna Heartbooger
Thu Nov 24, 2022 2:21 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: Land lines
Replies: 18
Views: 7571

We only quit using a landline and got a cell phone in 2020. We had thought about switching from a landline to a cell before then, as the monthly fee for the landline was unreasonable, but I/we always got "stuck" when trying to make all the decisions about REALLY switching to a cell. But th...
by Linna Heartbooger
Tue Aug 23, 2022 2:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: How Do You Feel Today? v4
Replies: 3427
Views: 837217

Most of the US tends to have AC so when its that hot at night, we just turn the AC down. Funny what you can get used to though. When I grew up we didn't have AC and had to run fans in the windows to get a cross breeze. Fast forward 45 years and I keep my house at 70F at night in the summer. My fami...
by Linna Heartbooger
Sat Jun 04, 2022 2:09 am
Forum: In Pursuit of Mallory
Topic: Sentence game
Replies: 750
Views: 80001

The long bland institutional buildings of the facility were appoaching rapidly. "It only remains for me to help you carry in your things and say goodbye," I said, hands on the steering wheel. "I'm practically a native here by now," she said, attempting to reassure me, but decided...
by Linna Heartbooger
Sat Jun 04, 2022 12:33 am
Forum: In Pursuit of Mallory
Topic: Guess the Next Poster volume two...
Replies: 12255
Views: 985993

Maaan... so there was this time my husband's parents took everyone camping. In one of the information centers, his brother found a book titled, I kid you not, "Girls who look under rocks." Also, I kid you not, he pointed it out and asked me, "Is that how you found him?" (But that...
by Linna Heartbooger
Wed Jun 01, 2022 8:30 pm
Forum: In Pursuit of Mallory
Topic: ABCs of Kale Withdrawal Syndrome (KWS)
Replies: 238
Views: 34815

Wistfully wishing for freshly-baked kale chips.
by Linna Heartbooger
Tue May 03, 2022 7:42 pm
Forum: General Literature Discussion
Topic: What are you reading in general?
Replies: 2275
Views: 426518

Cord Hurn, yay! Good to hear words of greeting from you. :> Nice to see you, Linna! Those books sound interesting, especially that Scholomance . Yes! It's really engaging. :) Starting on Sunday, I was gulping down Celeste Ng's "Everything I never told you," and now I'm done. That was her f...
by Linna Heartbooger
Fri Apr 29, 2022 7:14 pm
Forum: General Literature Discussion
Topic: What are you reading in general?
Replies: 2275
Views: 426518

Hey, people! Thanks for keeping up this fine thread & its tradition! Some passages have the curious effect of stirring up both admiration and puzzlement in me, such as the following... Same for me! Thanks for sharing those excerpts! Right now, I'm rereading "Ender's Shadow." so much go...
by Linna Heartbooger
Fri Apr 15, 2022 5:32 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: In Memoriam: Cagliostro
Replies: 285
Views: 96400

After posting that on Facebook, I was overwhelmed with responses, most of them well thought through and beautiful and completely face moistening. I felt compelled to thoughtfully respond to each and every one, and got some phone calls and FB Messenger messages as well. It has really been feeding my...
by Linna Heartbooger
Wed Mar 23, 2022 4:46 am
Forum: The Hall of Gifts
Topic: "...But More Than That, a Father."
Replies: 2
Views: 1559

If you have never been to my land, you may not know the funerary customs of our village. Many villages in our land have done as we do for long generations past. The traders' tales tell of villages across the great river which grow careless. And can we understand how this happens? Of course! The youn...
by Linna Heartbooger
Sun Feb 20, 2022 3:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: Frosty's and Fuzzy's Valentine Adventures
Replies: 11
Views: 3078

Ahh, unforeseen consequences of architectural-embellishment decisions. Those'll getcha every time... I guess? FROSTY!! Fuzzpaws! (I'm glad you've left "hue of" in your name. so I can remember who you were. who you ONCE were. Now yer just hers!) So much joy! I'm glad this forum "worked...

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