3141

Oh yeah, got one of those too. Pretty much can’t resist a free email account.

3142

I’m vaguely offended that Wheel of Fortune contestants are almost always relatively hot female, older/less attractive female, and man. Not sure if it’s because my odds of making it onto the show aren’t very good or that it must be a little depressing when a woman realizes she isn’t the attractive female.

3143

Hot dogs with injected cheese are one of the many stepping stones to armageddon.

3144

Hillshire Farms makes these Cheese injected sausages and they are very addictive, I’ve eaten a pack of 6 in less than half a day.

http://www.gomeat.com/products/cheddarwurst.aspx

3145

…This fucking hangover wont go away.

3146

A blowjob, like you used to, wouldn’t kill me.

3147

Having to work past 3:40 is the pits.

3148

Don’t want to search for the thread and awaken it again, but for the life of me I can’t find the individual level leaderboards for Super Meat Boy. Even when I highlight a level and press the leaderboard button, it still seems to take me to the main boards.

Huh.

3149

Heh. Remember the first time you got blinded in Everquest? Where the screen went black and you thought your computer broke? That was pretty cool.

3150

Yea, I do. I was frantically trying to fuck with my monitor cables, while all I could hear blasting out my speakers was the sound of death, explosions, and chaos from all the evil eyes swarming me.

3151

It’s a bit pointless to order from Amazon if I have to take several hours out of my day to receive the package. Oh well, I guess the internet-order lifestyle isn’t for me just yet.

3152

You’d think that in a city with four sports radio stations I’d have something better to choose from on a Friday night then local high school football, basketball from a minor college nobody cares about, or pre-recorded ESPN radio shows.

I guess not, though.

3153

Hoooollly shit. I’ve just started House of Leaves, after hearing so much about it. There’s nothing quite like it.

3154

I see the forum’s newest member is “yourmomsarse”

Classy.

3155

My grandmother is in hospital. She’s 92. The doctors think she’s on the way out. They don’t know if she has hours to live or weeks, but it’s unlikely she’ll recover from what she has now. Theoretically, I’m prepared for it, I don’t think my father is. And he or his sisters are with my grandmother round the clock. She’s in really bad condition. She has some infection/circulation problem and her extremities have swollen up and turned purple, she can barely talk and can’t move very much at all. The doctors don’t know what’s wrong with her but do know it’s extreme enough that they’re documenting it for medical journals.

I went in to see her on Friday expecting the worst, and I was right to. The most difficult thing of all however is that she’s still quite mentally acute. Her hearing is very bad, and she doesn’t have the energy to really listen to us or talk very much. But when she does we can tell there’s nothing wrong with her mentally. She’s still able to talk about my sister who just started university, the rugby that’s on over the weekend, and the state of politics in Ireland with the IMF and bank bailouts. That’s the thing I was most unprepared for. I was ready to accept that her quality of life isn’t good, and never will be again, but she isn’t ready to accept that. She’s more than able to hold her own mentally, but her body is betraying her. And that’s the hardest thing for me, and I think it’s really getting to my father. She’s currently in a public ward with the nurses’ station right next to her. She’s entitled to a private room because of her health insurance. My family don’t want her moved in there because the attention wouldn’t be round the clock, but they left the decision up to her. And when she was asked what she wanted you could see her equate a private room to a private place to die, and that was really tough.

This in turn is making me think about a friend of mine. He has muscular dystrophy. He’s confined to a motorised wheelchair, but quite healthy, with a clear bill of health from all his doctors. But he could start to detoriorate any year now. This is really challenging me. I never figured that death in cases like this would be unexpected, and that that would make it somewhat easier. But really it’s terrifying to think that outside of tragedy, someone who’s capable of anything they put their mind to is still at the whim of their biology and body.

I don’t expect anything in replies from this post. I’ve just never had to deal with death as an adult. Both my grandfathers died when I was a child. I just wanted to write this down to get a bit of clearance in my mind.

:|

3156

Make sure to to read it at least twice. I went through the first time reading everything, but I also went through reading just the Navidson account and ignoring the footnotes, and then I read the footnotes separately. It’s not an easy book to read, but it’s totally worth the effort.

3157

I wish wikiquote wasn’t a wiki and instead kept each quote as its own entry which could be dynamically loaded in to pages, thus using tags to create pages instead of having specific pages for topics or people. That way a quote could be labeled Thomas Jefferson, liberty, America, freedom, blah blah and it would be able to be loaded into a search for any of those and adding one quote would allow it to be added to any number of searches. It would make it a much better site.

Edit: Random thought made with no regard to technical terms.

3158

International carry on restrictions suck. I get one carry on bag weighing no more than 6 kgs (13 lbs).

3159

I’ve never really understood mix tapes.

3160

A well made mix-tape can be a wondrous thing.