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Dave W.
Info Junkie

USA
26022 Posts

Posted - 01/05/2008 :  23:33:55  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Poll Question:
My most-important New Year's Resolution…

Choices:
…is to lose weight.
…is to do that home improvement project I've been putting off.
…will improve relations with my boss/in-laws/neighbors/ex/whoever.
…involves a donation to the SFN.
…puts me on the Moon by 2015.
…is none of your damn business.
…is to stop being so darned critical.
…has already been broken.

(Anonymous Vote)

- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard

USA
14408 Posts

Posted - 01/06/2008 :  04:05:39   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
What if you didn't make any? I didn't; can't take the pressure of the obligation nor the shame & disgrace of the inevitable failure.




"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

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pleco
SFN Addict

USA
2998 Posts

Posted - 01/06/2008 :  07:34:12   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Well, since "overthrow the abrahamic religions" wasn't there, I went with "lose weight."

by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart.
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Halcyon Dayz
New Member

Netherlands
27 Posts

Posted - 01/06/2008 :  19:11:47   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Halcyon Dayz a Private Message  Reply with Quote
All of the above. And same as last year's.

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. -- Don Marquis

"The universe is a strange, practically incomprehensible place. But that is how things are, and no amount of wishing that things are really the way we perceive them will change that." - The Black Cat
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard

USA
3739 Posts

Posted - 01/07/2008 :  07:00:27   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit marfknox's Homepage  Send marfknox an AOL message Send marfknox a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Where is the "other" category?

I make several resolutions every year, some of which I keep, others I fail to keep. This year's:

1. Go out to eat (including ordering in) no more than once a week on average

2. Spend at least 6 hours a week in the studio until June 15th, and 20 hours a week after that (barring vacation or illness)

3. Finish the first draft of Worshipping Chaos

4. Finish the 7th and final draft of The Cousins of Sede and begin marketing it to agents

5. Apply for at least 6 grants

6. Apply to at least 6 residencies, unless I get one, and then I can stop there

"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong

Check out my art store: http://www.marfknox.etsy.com

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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist

USA
4955 Posts

Posted - 01/07/2008 :  08:28:54   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Cuneiformist a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I actually began a get-in-shape program in November as a sort of early New Years Resolution. The goal was lose weight plus be able to run 5k's in the upper-16:00 range (what I was doing before I started grad school) by the end of 2008. Then, a month into it, I got the injury bug. The doc cleverly reminds me that I'm not 25 anymore (asshole-- I'm never going to him anymore!), and so the program is already derailed. I hope by the end of January to be starting again, though. Behind schedule, but hopefully not too much so!
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the_ignored
SFN Addict

2562 Posts

Posted - 01/10/2008 :  18:35:45   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send the_ignored a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by marfknox

Where is the "other" category?



3. Finish the first draft of Worshipping Chaos



Hah? What's that about?

>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
>
> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
>
> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.

What brought that on? this. Original posting here.

Another example of this guy's lunacy here.
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