It has been a while since I have been here. Although I've enjoyed many of the games, I have been trying to figure out the benefits of visiting this site. If I can add a profitable aspect to this site, I could give some time to do that. However, I have found many of the discussions to be unprofitable Christian bashing episodes. Many of the threads that have been added are totally unrelated to literature and have been added to spark controversial discussion that attacks Christian values. ...
"If two things don’t fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that’s credulity." - Umberto Eco (1929-), Foucalt's Pendulum
Yes, I have updates on the latest of my ever entertaining alleged drug dealing neighbors. This is better then most the stuff they put on TV, it is my own personal Reality TV right outside the window, and you never know what is going to happen next. Well last night they had their usual "Happy Hour" as I call it, in which at 10 o'clock every light on the house goes on and they open up their garage, and have kids running around, and people doing who knows what, constant cars ...
I was reading a book about coffee called 'Coffee a dark history' by Antony Wild. very good, he talks about the origin of coffee and traditions in different countries. also he talks about how the coffee market is one of the biggest slavery market in the world today. farmers picking the crops to early because they don't get very well paid for the beans. the work is very hard and this will always come down on the consumer because there is so much of low quality beans and therefor low quality coffee ...
"Olhe, capitão!", o identificador aponta para uma bola incandescente, lançada com um estrondo, seguido de um tremor, do corpo da Utnapistem. "Ainda tinha fogo naquilo?... O Beta deve ter tido certa aporia para convencer Bóreas da ejeção... Aquele é o sol artificial da nau..." "Eles já faziam sóis internos, à base de gases..." "Tecnologia impressionante, sem dúvida". "Capitão... Egar faz contato: o mercenário da nau inimiga o saúda, e deseja negociar. ...