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  Does anyone else wonder whether we need a new category: "I can't be bothered to Google it"?

  1 2 http://bit.ly/yvZum3 Bion Satir answered in Feedback 4 days ago Answer, comment & read 5 more answers »

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  Como se dice "ferry" en Espanol?

  0 0 According to my big Oxford Spanish English dictionary, it is transbordador (m); ferry (m); or for a smaller ferry balsa or barca. I think Washington State Ferries are big enough to be transboradores. It doesn't say anything about regional differences. I'd imagine the Staten Island Ferry would probably be known as a 'El ferry de Staten Island' to most Spanish speaking New Yorkers. Bion Satir answered in Whatever 4 days ago Answer, comment & read 2 more answers »

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  0 0 I just think paddles are supposed to work in water, and snow is just frozen water. So that is false advertising on their part. And no, I am not serious. Bion Satir commented 15 days ago

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  Recommend a book (novel) about or taking place in NYC

  0 0 These are all old; they tell you what NY WAS like, not what it is like now: At the risk of being obvious: "A Catcher in the Rye" "Call it Sleep" by by Henry Roth is as awesome book about the Jewish immigrant experience. And if you want to venture into poetry, and if you are up for a challenge, read "The Bridge" by Hart Crane, which starts: How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of tumult, building high Over the chained bay waters Liberty-- Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes As apparitional as sails that cross Some page of figures to be filed away; --Till elevators drop us from our day . . . I think of cinemas, panoramic sleights With multitudes bent toward some flashing scene Never disclosed, but hastened to again, Foretold to other eyes on the same screen; And Thee, across the harbor, silver-paced As though the sun took step of thee, yet left Some motion ever unspent in thy stride,-- Implicitly thy freedom staying thee! Out of some subway scuttle, cell or loft A bedlamite speeds to thy parapets, Tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning, A jest falls from the speechless caravan. Down Wall, from girder into street noon leaks, A rip-tooth of the sky's acetylene; All afternoon the cloud-flown derricks turn . . . Thy cables breathe the North Atlantic still. And obscure as that heaven of the Jews, Thy guerdon . . . Accolade thou dost bestow Of anonymity time cannot raise: Vibrant reprieve and pardon thou dost show. O harp and altar, of the fury fused, (How could mere toil align thy choiring strings!) Terrific threshold of the prophet's pledge, Prayer of pariah, and the lover's cry,-- Again the traffic lights that skim thy swift Unfractioned idiom, immaculate sigh of stars, Beading thy path--condense eternity: And we have seen night lifted in thine arms. Under thy shadow by the piers I waited; Only in darkness is thy shadow clear. The City's fiery parcels all undone, Already snow submerges an iron year . . . O Sleepless as the river under thee, Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend And of the curveship lend a myth to God. Bion Satir answered in Book Recommendations 15 days ago Answer, comment & read 10 more answers »

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  0 0 If you used your membership then they should have a record of your purchase. Ask to talk to a manager. :) Bion Satir commented 17 days ago

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  What should I do with this broken paddle?

  1 0 Return it to REI for a full refund or at least a store credit. Bion Satir answered in Making Art/Crafting 17 days ago Answer, comment & read 6 more answers »

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  0 0 No, I don't, but I definitely have thought about it - not really for the impotence issue specifically (although now that I think about it, I'm not as young as I once was; I don't know how age affects all this stuff). More for general health of my perineum. I'd love to find out that it's been debunked, but I wouldn't trust what a bike shop dude says about it - they are going to be subject to a lot of confirmation bias against noseless seats. "John over there's a sex maniac and he bikes 200 mi. per week" isn't exactly solid science. All that said, I would guess that it is more of a serious concern for people who ride a lot more... I hope, because I have a 5 mile commute too... Bion Satir commented 19 days ago

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  Should I explain or expose my mental illness to potential employers upon interview?

  1 0 I'm just going to add my own take to the other good answers. I think it would be perceived as unprofessional, a sort of 'overdisclosure' that indicates a certain eccentricity. Sort of like if I started talking too much about my pet or my kids, or my wife, they might think that I was missing a certain degree of social finesse. I don't want to suggest that this is true about you - you have a valid reason for mentioning it (although I agree that you should not). I can just imagine an interviewer - even one who doesn't have strong negative impression of mental illness per se - to be a little taken aback. Not sure if I'm right about this, but it's my gut feeling. Bion Satir answered in Job Hunting 21 days ago Answer, comment & read 8 more answers »

• Follow Following 1 Why doesn't the cable on my telemark skis fit around my boot, and what can I do about it? Bion Satir asked in Other - Sport & Rec. 26 days ago

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  0 0 Okay, I got it. I knew about the hairy palms thing but didn't connect it with the itching. Bion Satir commented 29 days ago

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