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meades
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posted 07 August 2001 11:08 PM      Profile for meades     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, the title is pretty explicit, but I'll say it again:

What do babblers do for a living?


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Michelle
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posted 07 August 2001 11:19 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I babble! But occasionally I take time out from babbling to actually work on my university courses.
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Jared
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posted 07 August 2001 11:39 PM      Profile for Jared     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'll be a full-time student come fall. This summer I've been a labour serf at a greenhouse operation (no, not that kind of greenhouse, but I am in BC ). I seriously enjoy doing backbreaking-type work during the summers, but could never do it year-round (or for a career for that matter).
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sean s.
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posted 07 August 2001 11:44 PM      Profile for sean s.   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
capitalist ho'
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Liam McCarthy
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posted 07 August 2001 11:51 PM      Profile for Liam McCarthy   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm the President of the Graduate Student Society at the University of Windsor and I do a little bartending on the side. At times I also remember that I am a student and I should finish up my master's in poli sci.
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sean s.
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posted 07 August 2001 11:56 PM      Profile for sean s.   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Excellent choice on the part of the Windsor GSS. I would certainly vote for you for any office for which you chose to run.
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'lance
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posted 07 August 2001 11:56 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I dig. And dig, and dig... I may end up digging up most of the south-east side of Edmonton.

That's digging up contaminated sites, to be clearer. And sampling soil and water, and figuring out the cost of all this, and trying to keep the cost under control...

I'm a consultant, if you like. That's a person who borrows you watch to tell you the time, then charges you a dollar for it.


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DrConway
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posted 08 August 2001 12:00 AM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
*chuckle*.

Pseudofelinoid entities sip milk, scratch posts and in general make nuisances of themselves all the while looking endearing at the right moments.

I will be a student come September, in my nonfelinoid form. As they say, "Better living through Chemistry".


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meades
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posted 08 August 2001 12:02 AM      Profile for meades     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm a high school student in Sault Ste. Marie. Yippee!
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sean s.
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posted 08 August 2001 12:08 AM      Profile for sean s.   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
All I can say is you're a hell of a lot more with it than I was when I was in high school. Keep it up!
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verbatim
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posted 08 August 2001 12:10 AM      Profile for verbatim   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
For another month I will be assisting at the Intellectual Property Program of the BC Government (dealing with copyright, trade mark, and patent issues concerning all Provincial property in BC). It's more interesting than it sounds. Then, in September, it's back for my final semester at UVic Law. After that -- since I have no articles lined up, I imagine I'll be part of Gordon Campbell's shining "New Era" (no joke -- that's what it's called by the executive in their correspondence).
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'lance
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posted 08 August 2001 12:12 AM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Pseudofelinoid entities sip milk, scratch posts and in general make nuisances of themselves all the while looking endearing at the right moments.

Like I said, I dig (this). Like I said elsewhere, I'm a pseudobeagloid entity.

My earliest memory, incidentally, is of digging in the dirt. Of such beginnings are geologists made.

quote:
I will be a student come September, in my nonfelinoid form. As they say, "Better living through Chemistry".

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Doc: we gotta talk. I just picked up the latest Granta, with its feature "Confessions of a Middle-Aged Ecstasy Eater," which only fuelled my resolve to -- ah, later for all that.


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meades
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posted 08 August 2001 12:14 AM      Profile for meades     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Oh dear. And I thought I had it bad in Ontario. Why don't the BCLibs just stop lieing to everyone, be a bit more open to the public, and just rename the party "National Front". Because that's what they are. Well, maybe not as bad, but that proposed referendum on treaty rights brings them awfully close!

sean S.: thank you


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Gayle
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posted 08 August 2001 10:29 AM      Profile for Gayle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
If you mean, what do people pay me to do, then I'm a multimedia instructor and a webdesigner. If you mean, what do I do on the side and hope people will pay me for later, then I'm an artist and a jewellerymaker.
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skdadl
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posted 08 August 2001 12:00 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hey, 'lance: that's what my no. 1 stepson does. (He calls himself a consultant too. )

I guess I can see what you mean by this word:

quote:
I'm a pseudobeagloid entity

but can you tell me where it comes from?

I've already bored people with several descriptions of what I do for money. It wouldn't be untrue to say that I'm a pseudoliterary entity: the streets of Toronto are paved with us.


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MJ
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posted 08 August 2001 12:48 PM      Profile for MJ     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm highly implicated in the capitalist system. I'm a business consultant.
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Victor Von Mediaboy
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posted 08 August 2001 01:10 PM      Profile for Victor Von Mediaboy   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
By day I'm an international playboy. By night, I patrol the streets of Gotham City...
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Dawna Matrix
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posted 08 August 2001 02:25 PM      Profile for Dawna Matrix     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Breather. Not heavy.

I'm a nanny, and someday I'm going to be a teacher. And then I'm going to teach...Lessons. (Cracks whip).


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clockwork
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posted 08 August 2001 02:30 PM      Profile for clockwork     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I make bags, plastic ones. Nothing as trivial as ones you’d find stuffed under your kitchen sink…
Whoops, repost...

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Tommy_Paine
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posted 08 August 2001 09:41 PM      Profile for Tommy_Paine     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm employed in a factory that makes Truck Wheels, from the little ones you find on pickups and SUV's to the ones you see on the tractor trailors on the highway, to somewhat larger ones you might see on cement trucks.

I've been in the Quality Assurance department for most of the time I've been there. Fortunately, my actual duties have changed enough that I've learned a lot of different skills over the years.

Since the quality and performance of truck wheels has an impact on public safety, I tend to take my job seriously.

Oh, originally I took the job there to save for college or university. A few things happened in the mean time.

But, I'm too old to be taking lessons now. I might give a few though. (slices the air with my ridding crop)

[ August 08, 2001: Message edited by: Tommy_Paine ]


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'lance
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posted 08 August 2001 10:58 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Skdadl wrote:

quote:
I guess I can see what you mean by this word:

quote:

I'm a pseudobeagloid entity

but can you tell me where it comes from?


Why, just imitation of the good Doctor, of course. I dig beagles. Among other things, they dig.

While Dawna Matrix wrote:

quote:
I'm a nanny, and someday I'm going to be a teacher. And then I'm going to teach...Lessons. (Cracks whip).

Hmm. I know I've lost my shining armour, DM (among other things, my heart is not pure), but... (trails off into his own private, sordid, but extremely creative thoughts).


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Pankaj
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posted 08 August 2001 11:02 PM      Profile for Pankaj   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I am a naturopathic doctor and have been practising for the last 10 years.
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Doug
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posted 09 August 2001 01:17 AM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I administer a database, write reports and generally serve as the "nobody else has time to do this, let's ask him!" person in a major corporation you no doubt all know and love.
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ergotist
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posted 09 August 2001 02:22 AM      Profile for ergotist   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
i am an artist who is learning how to say that like she means it cuz she really does. i mean - i do.

at home (Bear River, NS) i made lovely one-of-a-kind potty things out of porcelain and the odd lump of stoneware and then i confess: i became quite dejected about how little (and i mean little) people who could might consider paying for such unbelievably labour intensive technically insanely demanding a way to burn 14-16 hours a day. i almost made $ ... then i figured hell. painting's GOT to be easier than this. in many ways it is ... but now i make less $. if my sweetheart weren't a whizkid of a computer programmer i'd surely starve. but he and me share and so life is beautiful.

[ August 09, 2001: Message edited by: ergotist ]


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skdadl
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posted 09 August 2001 06:59 AM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
ergotist, I'm sure I can't afford to pay you fairly, but I am nutty about pottery and porcelain -- I know the crunch you're caught in all too well, but boy I envy you that skill.

Do you have pictures of your work, the pottery or the paintings either one? I would be really keen to admire, at least.


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wagepeace
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posted 09 August 2001 08:41 AM      Profile for wagepeace     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I am the Executive Director of Baseball Nova Scotia and, believe it or don't,

I do humanitarian deminining, range clearance and EOD - in my previous incarnation as a member of the Canadian Forces, I was an Explosives Ordnance Disposal Technician.

When I left the military, I felt that my super powers could be of better use to more humanitarian measures.

Hopefully I won't blow myself up - that would be bad and Dawna Matrix would be really pissed!


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ergotist
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posted 09 August 2001 09:32 AM      Profile for ergotist   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
skdadl heck you people are nice. the positive reinforcement flyin' around in here is like a cooooooooooool breeze on a hot day.

well ... one winter not long past i spent glued to a computer being tutored in flash by my sweetest (his patience lent me virtue) and the result was a web tangly of some work current at the time - clay and paper ... i confess to losing the keeeen interest required to keep it lively. i wanted to make art in meatworld more but as a relic ... mmm...ARTifact - it can be seen at newbedlam.n3.net

i thank you for your interest cuz in my universe it's worth plenty more than money.


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audra trower williams
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posted 09 August 2001 03:50 PM      Profile for audra trower williams   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I just realized that I know ergoist in real life, and I can assure you that her work is fantastic.
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skdadl
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posted 10 August 2001 09:37 AM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
ergotist: re the site: Far. Out.

(I'm not sure I saw the whole of it, though: I got to the point where there were no more buttons to push -- ?) Still hoping to see one day your pottery.


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ergotist
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posted 10 August 2001 10:47 AM      Profile for ergotist   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
thanx very much skdadle

mmm ... the very slick set-up is due to my partner's stunning flash abilities ... you can sit and look, pushing buttons i made or skip direct ... in the upper right corner is a wee plus sign in a circle that appears straight off ... hit it and you get a menu ... then you can see a few pots. ok just looked myself. haven't been in aaaages. it was my dear who insisted it go back out on the wire ... anywho. you mebbe got stalled on the counter? whenever you hit a page with no apparent button the page itself is a button ... see i am no perfect webby though it was fun trying, so i recall. guess that's why he installed a straight menu...


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Lawrence
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posted 10 August 2001 01:24 PM      Profile for Lawrence     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
ergotist

I just had a visit to your web site and I must say I was impressed. I think your art is fabulous. Your partner did a great job setting up the presentation of your art. Very nice.

I also found the RantZone interesting, is that you and your voice? Neat site


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ergotist
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posted 10 August 2001 01:38 PM      Profile for ergotist   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
thanyou Lawrence. very much

i know it's not the brag thread ... but i gotta credit me where i'm due - all Jeremy did was stick on the menu via the plus + in a circle - the rest, the presentation is alll me. blood sweat and tears with his tutelage and damnit i'm proud of it cuz oooooo it was hard flashing. previous computer experience amounted to using word when i was a student rabble rouser and a bit of goofing with adobe ... so again - i thank you.

yes the rant zone was my attempt at something like all this wonderful babble going on here though really rabble hits the mark better ... in part, through structure and in part through drawing attention to itself ... i had no Judy Rebbick to drop the url on national radio

so erma's rant is me talking ... Teresa R.N. Dangered is the speech of a great guy from home whose wit is so sharp and funny funny ... he's activist indeed. I have a file of other stuff to add to the rantzone .... mostly about deforestation in S.West Nova ... but. sigh. sitting at the terminal bugs me out too much. i like to get my hands dirty. with actual dirt and such ... doesn't xplain why i'm at the terminal babbling away ... oops! i must be stalling ...


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verbatim
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posted 10 August 2001 03:44 PM      Profile for verbatim   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Where IS this website everybody's talking about?
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Lawrence
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posted 10 August 2001 04:35 PM      Profile for Lawrence     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Here you go

web page


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Dawna Matrix
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posted 10 August 2001 05:04 PM      Profile for Dawna Matrix     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
That is DAMN cool! Holy talented babbler, batman!
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verbatim
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posted 10 August 2001 05:09 PM      Profile for verbatim   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Damn! Flash! I'll have to wait until I get home to check it out...
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Victor Von Mediaboy
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posted 10 August 2001 05:22 PM      Profile for Victor Von Mediaboy   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Flash is the devil.
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clersal
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posted 10 August 2001 05:42 PM      Profile for clersal     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ergotist, what a beautiful site you have. It really took my breath away.
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ergotist
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posted 10 August 2001 06:32 PM      Profile for ergotist   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
jeez u guys. *starts to feel embarassed* you can't imagine ... i've been in the bush sooo long talking to twinkly bears in the night sky ... i thought for sure i sucked. anyway. uh ... thankyou. so i was just reading the thread about notforsale.ca and thought they might like to use the Flash flikker called encoded ... it is really very much about that whole discussion - the heavy boot of american imperialism stomping north (as well as in all other directions) watchoo think? i was very pleased with it. it's my politics and yet is not serving as political a purpose as i'd like ... if you didn't catch it it's on the image index. has a yellow S stuck on it to indicate audio so turn 'em on ... so sorry to the thread's originator that this has turned into something about my schtick. an acccident i assure you.
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audra trower williams
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posted 12 August 2001 02:14 PM      Profile for audra trower williams   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
(she's a good dancer, too)
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'lance
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posted 14 August 2001 01:15 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
'Tis a truly great site ergotist, and such of the clay art as I saw was inspired/inspiring.
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