Julie

@movicont (494)

United States • Age 72

Joined myLot 18 years ago

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Ubuntu 9.06 was just released!

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 23 Apr 09

Has anyone used the newest update for Ubuntu yet? I'm still in the middle of downloading the distribution; it's taking quite a while. Are there noticeable glitches or improvements?

linux

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Which browsers do you have on your computer?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 23 Apr 09

Which browsers do you have installed on your computer? Which ones do you actually use? I used to be a web developer, so I still have a large array of browsers installed, ranging from Internet Explorer to Firefox to Opera to...

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How big is your school?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 23 Apr 09

How big is your school in terms of population? My school has several thousand people (I think around two thousand), and I suppose it's medium-size for a high school. Still, in terms of the amount of space the school occupies, we...

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What are the worst books you've finished?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 23 Apr 09

What are the worst books that you've actually managed to finish? For me it would probably be Eragon, as I thought the plot was extremely overused and ill-defined. In general though, I don't finish books that deem bad, so my...

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What did you do for Earth Day?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 23 Apr 09

Did you do anything special on Earth Day? I know at my school, several students gathered to make a tree lined with plastic bottles and other trashed materials that they found throughout campus. It was quite an interesting...

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Easy foods to make that still taste good?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 23 Apr 09

What are the easiest foods to make that still taste good? Any recommendations for good recipes would be appreciated, thanks!

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Opinions on alcohol laws?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 24 Mar 09

What are your opinions on U.S.'s no-distribution-to-minors alcohol law? Do you think it's actually useful in preventing underage drinking or if it really only serves as a mostly unenforced law? I always thought it was interesting...

alcohol

minors

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Senioritis?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 24 Mar 09

Anyone a high school senior now and experiencing senioritis now that you're in the second semester of your senior year? I guess now that all the stressful activities of the past three and a half years are over, I feel...

school

senior year

senioritis

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Facebook, Myspace, and their correlations with social class

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 24 Mar 09

I recently read an article here [ http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html ] outlining the correlation Facebook and Myspace had with social class. It was an interesting read, positing that Myspace had more lower...

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Have you ever visited Wikipedia parody sites?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 24 Mar 09

There are some sites out there like Encyclopedia Dramatica [ http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Main_Page ] and Uncyclopedia [ http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page ] which serve as parodies to Wikipedia. While I think there...

encyclopedia dramatica

uncyclopedia

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See anonymous Wikipedia edits in realtime

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 24 Mar 09

I found an interesting site recently that lets you see anonymous Wikipedia edits in realtime. Here's the url: http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/ Although I suppose this isn't necessarily all that useful, it does serve as an interesting...

Anyone experiencing senioritis?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 24 Mar 09

Now that college applications are over and second semester senior year is set into motion, I've been feeling the remnants of senioritis. I can't stand (unfortunately) a lot of my current classes, and can't wait until I actually go...

senior year

senioritis

seniors

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What is your favorite nonfiction book?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 24 Mar 09

I've read a large amount of nonfiction, and so I have a pretty hard time deciding which ones I like the most. I think /Smartest Guys in the Room/ was a very informative book, and /Guns, Germs, and Steel/ brought up a lot of...

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Do you feel compelled to point out other's mistakes in spelling and grammar?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 24 Mar 09

I was just curious---do any of you feel compelled to point out other people's mistakes in spelling and grammar (or, more adequately labeled, be a grammar/spelling nazi)? Sometimes I feel like the mistake is so egregious that I...

grammar

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Help me find a recipe site that lets me input ingredients and outputs recipes?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 23 Mar 09

Are there any cooking recipe sites that allow me to input ingredients and will output corresponding recipes? I think something like this would work well if I just happen to open my refrigerator and can input the items there to...

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What's the worst part of your job?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 23 Mar 09

Which aspect of your job do you dislike the most? I remember working in a museum once, and the worst part were always interactions with museum visitors that somehow became highly embarrassing and awkward. I remember there were...

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What are your thoughts on affirmative action?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 23 Mar 09

I guess I started thinking about this more now that college applications results are slowly rolling out. What are your opinions on affirmative action? I believe that affirmative action is better off based on socioeconomic class...

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college

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What was the happiest day of your life?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 23 Mar 09

Which day(s) did you find the happiest and why? Does that type of happiness last for some time or is it generally short-lived? (I've found that most instances of happiness tend to last only for several hours or so, and they...

Help me choose a different distro...

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 23 Mar 09

I've been using Ubuntu for a while now, and everything has been going quite smoothly. However, I apparently like playing around with different distros, so any suggestions for a different one to try? I was thinking maybe Debian...

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Have you tried Gmail's Labs?

Julie @movicont (494) • United States 23 Mar 09

Have you tried any of Gmail's labs yet? (I.e., their tasks, new labels, signature tweaking, and old snakey) Have you found any of them to be interesting or useful?

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