Out of the Blue [Nov 27, 2004, 12:55 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A follow-up for my fellow coffee lovers after a long-ago discussion of coffee
grinders. I recently found a new grinder that seems to fit my requirements,
which is simply a burr unit that won't require constant shaking and banging to
keep the beans flowing to their ultimate destiny. This
KitchenAid Coffee Grinder fills these seemingly simple needs in a stylin'
form. I've only been using this cast-iron and glass contraption for a short
time, but its solid construction is clearly built for the long haul, and the
only complaint I have about its operation is a bit of scattered grounds in the
area when it's done. We even found it on sale in a Williams-Sonoma outlet,
though they didn't have the spiffy blue, so we settled for kitchen white.
Anyway, I've put the blade grinder away for emergencies, and it's good to get
out of the same old grind.
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Awesome site, tron, but (sstblahblah) I don't think they address the "who is" aspect of Gordon Freeman very well. Claiming he's an MIT grad/scientist seems to fit with what Valve has presented directily, but if you read between the lines it seems obvious he's not just a scientist.
Honestly, a hazard suit provides some advantages, but it doesn't make you invincible. Just look at the corpses we saw in Xen, protected by hazard suits, but thoroughly dead nonetheless. Had Gordon been human it seems likely he would have been killed quite quickly in Xen, if not before then.
The obvious conclusion is that Gordon is almost as invincible as the G-Man, and if the G-Man is not human, than Gordon most likely isn't either. I'm (and I should not that I think my whole theory is pretty unlikely, I'm fairly certain that when Valve wraps up the series, Gordon will still in fact be thought of as human) hoping that in the end of HL 3 or whenever the series ends it is revealed that Gordon (and the G-Man) are not human, but instead are a third (or fourth, who's counting?) party with a vested interest in an independant humanity.
Anyway, it's really freaking late, and I need to get back to bed. Gonna leave it at that (I've got a lot more hole ridden HL theories, but those will remain safely locked away in my head) for now..
This comment was edited on Nov 28, 07:07.
Honestly, a hazard suit provides some advantages, but it doesn't make you invincible. Just look at the corpses we saw in Xen, protected by hazard suits, but thoroughly dead nonetheless. Had Gordon been human it seems likely he would have been killed quite quickly in Xen, if not before then.
The obvious conclusion is that Gordon is almost as invincible as the G-Man, and if the G-Man is not human, than Gordon most likely isn't either. I'm (and I should not that I think my whole theory is pretty unlikely, I'm fairly certain that when Valve wraps up the series, Gordon will still in fact be thought of as human) hoping that in the end of HL 3 or whenever the series ends it is revealed that Gordon (and the G-Man) are not human, but instead are a third (or fourth, who's counting?) party with a vested interest in an independant humanity.
Anyway, it's really freaking late, and I need to get back to bed. Gonna leave it at that (I've got a lot more hole ridden HL theories, but those will remain safely locked away in my head) for now..
This comment was edited on Nov 28, 07:07.
I eat pasta!
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