We all sat down to eat: the spirits, the sisters, the monk and me, the stranger who was maybe not a stranger.

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We all sat and witnessed the posturing, positioning and finger pointing, since the committee was seated and charged with finding solutions to our woeful economy.

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We all sat silently for a minute and sipped our drinks.

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We sat there all afternoon fishing instead of going to school.

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At first glance, Bug Labs' latest creation actually seems like a bit of a downgrade from the version it replaces -- it loses the onboard LCD display and a handful of buttons, after all -- but we sat down with CEO Peter Semmelhack today on the hustling, bustling floor of MWC to get the straight dope on what makes the BUGbase 2.0 a superior product.

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But for all those differences, when we sat down to see what we had learned we found the similarities were far greater than the differences.

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And to his credit, he sat down with all of us and we went over some of the qualifications.

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She sat with tubes running in and out of her in a hospital while all we could do was sit there, hold her, sing to her, and pray.

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And I, along with the all the rest of his national security team and Secretary of Defense, stayed -- everyone else, we sat around there and he asked our advice and we gave him our advice, and we told him told him a little this and that.

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