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07 Sep 2011, 2:16 pm

I've learned that people will often get confused if you merely say what you are thinking without knowing how you got there... and also, people tend to see "tangents" as such to be an interruption of a conversation if they were not included in the digression from the previous subject of conversation.



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08 Sep 2011, 9:18 am

i learned that there mightn't be a word in arabic for pub- at least my mother doesnt know what it is.



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08 Sep 2011, 11:02 am

I've learned if the internet was ever governed by any single entity we'd all have problems..



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08 Sep 2011, 12:41 pm

I learned that there's a website called F***Book and the 70 year old man I clean for is a member of aforementioned site 8O



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08 Sep 2011, 8:03 pm

I learned that naming cyclo alkanes can get long. 1,1,3 Tribromo Cyclopropane. 1,1,2 Triethyl-3 MethylCycloPentane.

or the grand daddy pimp

2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-4-(methoxymethyl)phenyl]methyl 2,2-dimethyl-3-pro p-1-enyl-cyclopropane-1-carboxylate



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08 Sep 2011, 8:10 pm

LostUndergrad9090 wrote:
I learned that naming cyclo alkanes can get long. 1,1,3 Tribromo Cyclopropane. 1,1,2 Triethyl-3 MethylCycloPentane.

or the grand daddy pimp

2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-4-(methoxymethyl)phenyl]methyl 2,2-dimethyl-3-pro p-1-enyl-cyclopropane-1-carboxylate


Think about protein chains now.



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08 Sep 2011, 8:30 pm

Do people actually remember all of this stuff?



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08 Sep 2011, 11:32 pm

Don't forget my wallet at home.


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08 Sep 2011, 11:59 pm

That I'm drifting away from WP. I'm not leaving anytime soon though.


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09 Sep 2011, 2:33 am

That it stinks to wake up at 2am in the morning and not be able to go back to sleep. At least I'll be certain to be ready for my interview, although after which I'll be a zombie.



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09 Sep 2011, 10:46 am

That I am now not afraid to use taxis.


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09 Sep 2011, 10:54 am

That HR managers at Target occasionally work on the salesfloor, but only when they want to do so.



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09 Sep 2011, 11:04 am

That sales persons sometimes try to get you to buy the most expensive merchandise..



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11 Sep 2011, 12:49 am

Today I learned that there are actually good finds on clearance racks.


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11 Sep 2011, 12:52 am

apparently the communist manifesto is the highest selling book after the bible.



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11 Sep 2011, 7:21 pm

That I need to get more sleep at night.


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