An interestingly sadistic little puzzle...

Grow RPG. You pick items, dump them in the "grow" part. Once they're all on board, your character does a quest. If you don't get them in exactly the right order, you die.

I, of course, gave up and cheated. It's what I do.

Apparently, Costco deserves a new motto:

Costco: It's not evil.

I'm stunned. Simply stunned. Stunned is the only word to describe how... stunned I am.

Wall Street analysts, on the other hand, are.

Figures.

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Does my reply here make sense?

I stand by it, but I'm not sure that it didn't suffer from haste....

Not that there isn't any point in listening to what the author says about his or her own work, of course. But... no matter what the author thinks is there or isn't there, people will see all sorts of things. Humans are good at seeing patterns, and shapes, and fitting words into what's already in their heads. I could sit and curse this tendancy, or I can smile and say that we're all better off for a little diversity in our reading experience.

Consider that. You hear a story three times, and each time it's a different story because, although the words haven't changed, you have changed. Isn't that better than hearing a story twenty times, but it's always exactly the same, thought after plodding thought?

My day....

This is mostly two subjects: Internet and Ana. So I'd divided the subjects for your convenience!

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( Ana )

For the last part, I had to look up the spelling of "deux", so I used one of my favorite sites to do so. And yes, the way I learned, one in French is indeed "a", though I may be misspelling it.

Interestingly, they have the spelling of how to count to ten in (at least one dialect of) Walloon:

onk deus troes cwate cénk shijh set ût noûf dijh

I love that site. I just wish he'd IPA or sound-file some of these entries instead of relying entirely on the native spelling or the romanization.