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  • Nelson joined on Jan 25th '10 (2 years ago).
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Name (first): Nelson
Name (last): The only people that probably want to know that are the people that I would prefer to not know (I will give a hint, though: it comes from the name of a small Norwegian town).
Age: 18
Place of Residence: Wisconsin
Education: Freshman at the Milwaukee School of Engineering studying software engineering.
Favorite Food: a tie between sushi and country fried steak
Favorite Books: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Harry Potter, most books by H.G. Wells or Chinua Achebe
Favorite TV Show(s): Doctor Who and The Office (US & UK)
Favorite Movie(s): Life is Beautiful
Favorite School Subject: Math (I'm hoping to go into a math heavy career field.)
Hobbies: Play tennis (used to play doubles, but now I play singles more often); play chess; surf the web; learn useless things (e.g. how to write in binary, how to read barcode, etc.) which I will most likely forget due to lack of use; procrastinate; sleep/nap; read (unless I'm forced to); think

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Nelson commented on post #690792

I'm not sure, but I doubt it. I don't, however, doubt that it can pleasure a penis.

Nelson commented on post #669231

I want to see how it would work if we tried for a difference of 1 chrono between time zones. I'll use vals for the calculation as they are more specific, so 10,000 vals difference in time zone is the goal. 1 day = 1,000,000 vals. 1° = 1/360 day = 25,000/9 vals. Difference in degrees for 1 chronos: 10,000 / (25,000/9) = 3.6° 360/3.6 = 100 time zones This may be a little much, so I guess 10 time zones would work with a difference of 10 chronos when moving between them. I'm not sure how much the sun's position will vary between the time zones at just 10, so we could try 20 so it's closer to the current number, and that would then be a difference of 5 chronos between the time zones, or we could go for 25 zones which would yield 4 chronos change between zones. This may be the best as the current number of time zones is 24. If I knew how to calculate sun's position, I would to try and get within the current specifications for that (no more than 1/24° change), but I don't, so I won't. Summary: 10 time zones: change of 10 chronos 100 time zones: change of 1 chrono 20 time zones: change of 5 chronos 25 time zones: change of 4 chronos Pick your favorite.

Nelson commented on post #628745

Actually, the last time they printed $2 bills was in 2003. http://www.moneyfactory.gov/small2denom.html

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Nelson commented on post #643474

Doctor Who; I don't usually get into sci-fi shows, so I wasn't expecting it to be that great, but then I watched it, and now it's among my favorite shows.

Nelson commented on post #113506

Only some TV shows have a laugh track, and, thankfully, it seems to be getting less common.

Nelson commented on post #192706

The earliest reference to it being called 69 was in the 1790s in the Whore's Catechism where it was referred to as soixante-neuf (French for 69). I couldn't find the first English reference of it being called the 69 position, but I'm assuming it made the leap into English well before Bryan Adams wrote that song.

Nelson commented on post #191199

That reminds of another detail I could have added, but no need to add anymore, right?

Nelson commented on post #191199

As a man who spent a year and a half of his life cleaning toilets professionally, I can assure you that they are right when they say that the girls' restrooms are worse. Not only do the toilets get covered in way more shit (especially under the seat), they also get covered in a lot of period blood (I swear it just explodes out of some of them) and lint; I'm not sure why, but there was always a thin layer of lint on the girls' toilets, but never on the men's toilets.

Nelson commented on post #186818

According to wikipedia, Wales is a constituent country of the United Kingdom, so it's a country that's part of a larger country, and most people just refer to it as a country. I'm not sure if a constituent country is like a US state or what powers they have (or if they have any), but here's a wikipedia article about them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituent_country#United_Kingdom

Nelson commented on post #244039

Does he?

Nelson commented on post #636008

Space exploration creates a lot of jobs and supports jobs in many different fields, so it's not like the money isn't helping people. Also, the new technologies that have come from funding space exploration makes life easier in all walks of life. Basically, I'm going back to the teach a man to fish versus give a man a fish philosophy here.

Nelson commented on post #630323

I haven't in a while, but I have before. Right now I have an idea circulating through my head that I've been fleshing out at work (and one morning I did wake up to find that I wrote something in a notebook by my bed the previous night, but the handwriting was about as good as you'd expect from somebody who was sleep writing), but I haven't attempted to start it yet. I don't know how I'd write the beginning of it because the narrator doesn't really come in until later, so it'll be a challenge that I hope I take on, but I can't be sure that I will.

Nelson commented on post #632244

The movies that are supposed to keep you thinking after the credits have rolled would be ruined by this as the bloopers would change the mood that the film has worked so hard to put in place. I do, however, think that they should be a special feature on films for the reason you stated.

Nelson commented on post #464714

My mom and I have a little game we like to play where we try to think of organs in her body that actually work. We still have yet to figure one out, but there has to be something in her that's actually working right. She's also always coming home from the doctor with news that she has some extremely rare thing that the doctor has only ever heard of and doesn't know how to treat. The last time this happened the CDC called her up for some questions.

Nelson commented on post #304464

When Team America: World Police came out, my mom took us to the theater. This was the cheap theater that only showed two movies, and the movie we went there for was sold out, so we ended up watching the much less kid friendly Team America; my mom never heard of it before and figured a movie featuring puppets couldn't be that bad. She was pretty surprised when the rather graphic puppet sex scene came up.

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