... said. "The realities I knew no longer exist, and I am
damp and cold. All about me is a sense of gloom and dejection. It is an
apprehension—an emanation—so deep and real as to be almost a ...
Richard Kadrey
Butcher Bird
Spyder Lee is a happy man who lives in San Francisco and owns a
tattoo shop. One night an angry demon tries to bite his head off
before he's saved by...
... said. "The realities I knew no longer exist, and I am
damp and cold. All about me is a sense of gloom and dejection. It is an
apprehension—an emanation—so deep and real as to be almost a ... It is an intangible and evasive—thing—but very
real. And it is coming closer! It has no organs of sight as I know them,
but I feel that it can see me. Or rather that it is aware of me w...
...
magnetized or demagnetized. The machine is capable of storing and manipulating numbers,
letters, and characters. The basic idea of a computer is that we can make the machine do what
we want ... mathematical and/or logical operations then
supply new information.
2. All computers have three basic capabilities.
3. A computer is a machine that can be made to operate by receiving...
... servers?
Transfer speed improvement. Proxy servers accumulate and save files that are most often
requested by thousands of Internet users in a special database, called “cache”. Therefore,
proxy ... only then it transmits the
data to you. I know many are looking for IP Maskers or Scramblers, but honestly, it aint
real easy for the simple fact that any website that you visit needs your ....
... for heart attacks on the theory
that it harmfully lowers blood pressure
and increases heart rate. A heart attack,
unlike an angina attack, always involves
some localized, fairly rapid heart muscle
death, ... and an
angina attack is that a heart attack
(A) involves an acceleration of the heart-
beat
(B) cannot be treated with nitroglycerin
(C) generally results in congestive heart
failu...
... Chapter 19. Mail and Address Book
Email is a fast, cheap, convenient communication medium. In fact, these days, anyone
who doesn't have an email address is considered some kind of freak. ... do have an email address or two, you'll be happy to discover that Mac OS X
includes Mail, a program that lets you get and send email messages without having to
wade through a lot o...
... candles. I was suspicious,
so a number of years ago I set up an ordinary candle one foot away from a
white square on a black background. I tested two cameras. The first was a
popular CCD camera ... by a
standard candle at a distance of one foot. Lighting measurements are made
using an incident light meter, which has a white plastic cover over the
sensing element and a lo...
... specific advice on panic attacks (
☛ Box 5.3) or phobias (☛ Box 5.4).
My heart is beating fast
I must be having a heart attack.
My heart is beating fast
this is because I am tense
and when a ... person is tense,
the heart always beats fast.
I need to relax and
my heart will relax as well.
It doesn't matter whether
I have anything to say
this is a marriage an...
... personal saving
rate was negative. See Nakamura and Stark (2005) for a discussion.
Garner (2006, p. 16) anticipated an upward revision of the NIPA
saving rate because the U.S. Census Bureau has ... recent
downward trend in the personal saving rate
clearly has failed to involve only the United
States: Similar dynamics also characterize, for
instance, Canada and Australia.
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In particular,
t...