Word: ritual
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...pointed it at me. No good games, I admitted, but I did have Vindigo, a real-time list of things to do in Manhattan. "Cool!" he said. "I've got a subway map. Want it?" So right there, on the 6:24 to Huntington, we engaged in the Palm ritual known as "beaming"--using our infrared ports to swap programs wirelessly. We both got so excited about beaming with a stranger that we made e-business cards and beamed those too. We were beaming like idiots, and no one noticed. There were at least half a dozen other people...
...that simple. I quickly learned that you shouldn't shovel a lot of bran into your system all at once. You get bloated and gassy and suffer abdominal cramps from the sudden onslaught of all that indigestible bulk. Once I got over the initial discomfort, though, my new breakfast ritual became routine...
...feeling is that this is a matter of community concern to the Faculty--and of ritual importance," Eck said...
...Rituals are part of creating and sustaining a community...Insofar as we are a community this is an important ritual for us," she said...
...there, mostly dull sections and a few response papers. So as my three-day weekend approached (courtesy of strategic scheduling), I began to think about what I wanted to do with myself for the next 72 hours. As luck would have it, while in the midst of the ritual Thursday night drinkfest, I ran into a friend of mine. He invited me to join a group to go on a daytrip up to Manchester, N.H., to shoot various handguns and machine guns. No, he wasn’t dressed in army fatigues or preparing for Armageddon much like those punk...