Also, w00t, Philip Glass tomorrow night.
Ooh, that reminds me, I havenāt watched Koyaanisqatsi on my HDTV yetā¦
Youāre right, and I hate to hear this. A blood infection is what killed my father, and I didnāt even know until this happened that it was even possible to get a blood infection. I donāt know how this can be treated, if at all, but I am hoping things turn around for her.
One of my friends was hit by a car some time ago, while riding in the bike lane, and went into a coma.
It is concluded as of yesterday that he will not awaken from his vegetative state.
He was twenty.
Would offering a toast at my game nights to absent companions be somehow out of line? I kind of feel like it would be appropriate, since itās our mutual social circle.
Raife
4205
You could make him (or his character) an NPC.
Thatās awful, Aaron! Iām so sorry to hear that. I think a toast would be a fine idea, preferably a toast of his favorite tipple.
Not to change the subject, but is this Facebook thing actually worth using? Iāve resisted signing up to this point, but Iām looking to reconnect with some folks, and thatās one of the few common communications channels available. If I sign up, can I make my profile private, so I donāt have to deal with the politics of who Iāve āfriendedā and who I havenāt? And can I still decline to use āfriendā as a verb?
Raife
4207
You control what you see and what others see on Facebook. If you only want Facebook friends to be able to see stuff about you, you can set it up that way. You can even set it up that way for specific Facebook friends. You can also assign Facebook friends to groups (close friends, family, losers, or whatever you want), and set what people can see and do for that entire group.
If you have a āfriendā that posts a lot of stupid shit, you can hide everything they post and limit what they can comment on on your pages, or you can just unfriend them.
Okay. I guess itās about time I got with the program, thenā¦
Iām just feeling a bit isolated, and figure trying to rekindle some old friendships, even if only digitally, will help that.
Raife
4209
The privacy controls are kind of a pain in the ass to set up, but they have a nice feature where you can see what your profile looks like to another person so you can fine tune it.
No time to worry about privacy controls; itās time to start reminding people that Iām still around. I can think of at least a half-dozen Iād love to reestablish contact with.
Also, man, Philip Glass is only going to play for, like, an hour. That seems like a pretty steep price for the ticket, then, on a per-hour basis. But there will at least be a Q&A session afterward.
Ugh, Iām sorry. I donāt think a toast would be out of line if given respectfully.
So, as I was making my breakfast this morning (steak and eggs), for some reason my mind turned to that old Shangri-Las song, āThe Leader of the Pack.ā
And I got to wondering, What the hell kind of bad-ass outlaw biker dude hangs around a candy store? And just what kind of girl does he expect to find there, anyway? This Jimmy guy sounds a little shady.
Unless ācandy storeā is coded language for āopium den,ā or something.
The song āYou Donāt Own Meā by Leslie Gore is a great song, but the era in which it was released (1950s), makes me think itās less the product of legitimate early feminism and more a record producer saying āThis outta make the broads happyā.
Mrenda
4214
It turns out a university education does help with things.
I took an introductory/managerās guide to Object Orientation and software design when I was in third year. In my quest to learn programming it turns out I remember what I learned and the bookās explanations make sense to me.
Strato
4215
Working in a medical lab can be so convenient. Like when a co-worker asks me to take some blood from her to run through one of our analysers to determine if she is pregnant.
Sweet. While my seat for the Philip Glass performance were way out on the wing, in the 17th row, my seat for the Q&A session that followed was literally eight feet away from him.
Great show, albeit too short, though he did sign my ticket for me, so that makes up for the brevity a bit. Metamorphoses II-IV were particularly enrapturing.
Ninyu
4217
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I have a whole text file of spam like that, collected from various email[s] Iāve received. Iāve long considered buying a pair of bongos and reciting them them at open mic night at the coffee shop.
I once thought that was a good idea, and then I foolishly accepted friend requests from high-school classmates. That meant I could no longer pretend to be dead at class reunion time.:)
I sort of rebooted my Facebook account a while back and unfriended almost everyone, including and especially my high school classmates.
Yeah, but this would only be a few select people.
