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Greg

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I'm a Seattle expat living in Southern California for some damn reason I like beer,… more »

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SF or LA
Elliott Bay or Amazon
Tom Skerritt or Dave Matthews
What's your biggest grammatical pet peeve?: Everything people do wrong bugs me.
Dan Savage or Charles Mudede

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Jan 14

Greg commented on Mars Hill Church Not Actually Volunteering with Lifelong AIDS Alliance.

I have a pact to propose here with all the Slog peeps: Every time Mars Hill does something that makes me upset, I will put aside a few bucks for an organization that is making a real, positive difference in people's lives. Planned Parenthood, Lifelong AIDS Alliance, Solid Ground, Medical Teams International, United Way of King County, Compass Housing Alliance, etc. What do you say?

Jan 14

Greg commented on Mars Hill Church: Now Conveniently Closer to All the AIDS.

*sigh*

Oct 20, 2012

Greg commented on Republican Fears of Voter Fraud Turned Out to Be Vindicated, Because a Republican Was Just Arrested for Voter Fraud.

The real voter fraud is likely to come from those easy-to-spoof voting machines.

http://tinyurl.com/9yemp4a

Oct 10, 2012

Greg commented on Hello, I'm Calling to Argue for My Rights.

Good stuff.

Aug 12, 2012

Greg commented on Dubai Wants to Build an Underwater Hotel.

@9: Diving is a major logistical issue for building things underwater; the higher the pressure in the working zone, the more dangerous, complicated, and expensive it is to build something there. On the other hand, medical knowledge about diving and decompression has advanced considerably in the last hundred years. Nowadays construction divers work under the close supervision of a doctor, and there are strict limits for work times under pressure, as well as standard decompression times. Divers also use special gas mixes to reduce problems with nitrogen narcosis, hyperoxia, etc.

For work at extreme depths, where it wouldn't be practical or safe to compress and decompress divers each day, saturation diving is the preferred technique. Essentially divers live at the working pressure full-time; they spend their off hours in a specially pressurized chamber. A dive team and a doctor watch them 24 hours a day.

So diving, while hazardous, is possible. However, other methods are preferred whenever practical.

Aug 9, 2012

Greg commented on Want to Look Inside Basic Plumbing?.

Forget the sage. What they need is bleach, and lots of it.

Aug 7, 2012

Greg commented on Can Anything Be Worse Than Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album?.

Debussy and Bach have survived car commercials and elevators. This eye roll-inducing tie-in won't harm the music, though fans are better off buying them individually so the super-embarrassing cover doesn't show up in their living rooms or iPods.

In general, soundtracks to books are a cool idea. I love coming up with songs that go with certain books. Hell, I just made a playlist for The Hunger Games. Go ahead, laugh. I'll wait.