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Note to self: Sobering reminders of mortality suck.

Earlier this year, I had a good friend die in a drunk driving accident. Just today I learned a friend of mine has Stage 4 Hodgkin's Lymphoma. You never really think of 27-year-olds as cancer patients... usually kids or the over-40 crowd.

Does, however, make me want to start keeping in better touch with people. Hadn't talked to my friend that died in several years, only recently caught up with the one with cancer.

Hooray for having a cancer-free family history, though. Just gotta deal with the rampant alcoholism. :P

At 11/18/07 02:58 AM, Ravariel wrote: Note to self: Sobering reminders of mortality suck.

Hooray for having a cancer-free family history, though. Just gotta deal with the rampant alcoholism. :P

My grandfather died of Prostate cancer back in 1999. I hope to god that I don't have that problem.

At 11/18/07 08:49 AM, Ronald-McDonald-LoL wrote: My grandfather died of Prostate cancer back in 1999. I hope to god that I don't have that problem.

Make sure you get your butt probed regularly.

My grandfather had prostate cancer back in the 80s, and they removed his prostate, but the blood transfusion they had to give him during the surgery was tainted and he contracted Hepatitis C.

Then again, knowing him, it might just be karma.

At 11/18/07 11:23 AM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: My grandfather had prostate cancer back in the 80s, and they removed his prostate, but the blood transfusion they had to give him during the surgery was tainted and he contracted Hepatitis C.

apparently some people caught AIDS and Hepatitis C from organ transplants a few weeks ago.

I heard about that, it's really unfortunate. Thankfully it doesn't happen that much anymore.

Hep C isn't a death sentence, Grandpa is 83 years old and has had it longer than I have been alive. Still pretty shitty, though.

I left my phone in the computer room over night.

I just noticed, I missed one call this morning.

it was some number I didn't know.

So, I goggled it.

Why is some leather store two towns over calling my phone?!

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHFUCKSAAAAAAK E!!!!!!!!!!!

Typical, I was working on something when The Boss had another of his brainwaves: to have an automated message flash up every five minutes about cleaning the place...which promptly crashed the PC, and still flashes up no matter how often I OK it.

Typical, though - more interested in hoovering that anything important, such as numerous Health & Safety violations (holes in the floor, broken office chairs, most of the lights not working, NO HEATING) as well as other violations of worker's rights (no designated breaks, wages that are illegal to pay for the hours worked), but we must be told to tidy up a bit.

At 11/18/07 02:28 PM, D2Kvirus wrote: Typical, I was working on something when The Boss had another of his brainwaves: to have an automated message flash up every five minutes about cleaning the place...which promptly crashed the PC, and still flashes up no matter how often I OK it.

lol, great boss you've got there!

what did he do, want to put it as "urgent" or "repeat" but didn't specify something and all of a sudden he's crashed everyone's computer?

at least when you restart your computer you'll have some time to tidy your work space up a bit. he was probably worried that an inspector was on the way or some shit.

At 11/18/07 02:49 PM, Malachy wrote:

At 11/18/07 02:28 PM, D2Kvirus wrote: Typical, I was working on something when The Boss had another of his brainwaves: to have an automated message flash up every five minutes about cleaning the place...which promptly crashed the PC, and still flashes up no matter how often I OK it.

lol, great boss you've got there!

By "here" I mean "Spain."

WHne I was typing this out, I had one flashing up asking if I had a comp[laint about shop policy. Should I just give him a link?

The irony is he's got an intense paranoia about Spyware, but snooping on workers is OK...

what did he do, want to put it as "urgent" or "repeat" but didn't specify something and all of a sudden he's crashed everyone's computer?

It was one of those PC to PC messages, and because the PC isn't set up to send and receive them, it needed to be restarted. As he's the Administrator (in fact, the only person with Admin privileges, which has caused problems before), he can remotely shut the PC down to initiate it. The PC was suffering major league slowdown before this, and PCs generally don't restart themselves without a prompt.

at least when you restart your computer you'll have some time to tidy your work space up a bit. he was probably worried that an inspector was on the way or some shit.

He has a fetish for tidiness on the rare occasions he gives a shit - the irony is it's the manager who lets the place become a tip, and I have to clean up after him. In other words, that makes me the Tidying Up Fairy to both the manager, and He Who Must Be Obeyed.

At 11/18/07 03:59 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I've been reading since 11:00 AM. My eyes hurt.

Couldn't think of a clever joke so I'll just ask what you were reading. What were you reading?

I just finished a great collection of the first conan the barbarian stories. Not only does it provide great insite into the character but it introduces words I've never heard used. Someone display a skill so I can say you're adroit.

Assisted Diplomacy is a game made by a chilean based on the events of the IberoAmerican Summit celebrated in Chile. Mostly a chance to slap our presidents. Go and play it now!!! I had the time of my life bitch slapping Kirchner! xD

At 11/18/07 04:07 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I'm displeased with the way things turned out.

When you read "The Wake" and think back on the series as a whole, you will probably appreciate the events of "Kindly Ones".

I felt the same way until I actually finished the series.

I'm reading a picture book too. ^_^

literally, The Last Hero is basically a picture book, with art from Paul Kidby in a typical Discworld novel. the art is amazing.

Ok, using the lounge to rant because otherwise I'd have to post in a spam topic

The writers strike is not about piracy, you napster happy simpleton. It's about the networks displaying the work on a new medium, making new money off of it and denieing residuals on this to the creators of the product. Writers are not paid like actors so yes, this matters. This isn't fith house or no fifth house, it's house or no house. I know you think the prietties on the picture box do it all themselves but that's just because you're shallow. people write for them, people light for them, people even make them prettier with clothes and make up. Is that fitting tribute being paid to a ruling class? No, it's people putting in their fucking section of the overall product.

Also, Mal, how'd you get a picture of my future?

At 11/18/07 04:47 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

At 11/18/07 04:43 PM, stafffighter wrote: Ok, using the lounge to rant because otherwise I'd have to post in a spam topic

Why don't you create a non spam topic about it then?

Non spam topics have already been done about it and bringing one of them back would also violate a rule. Plus all I'd get in general are bad people who think greedy writers are keeping their celebrities hostage.

At 11/18/07 04:43 PM, stafffighter wrote: The writers strike is not about piracy, you napster happy simpleton. It's about the networks displaying the work on a new medium, making new money off of it and denieing residuals on this to the creators of the product.

It seems sort of funny, but the truth is there is a movement in the US away from collective bargaining, and in most states, unless you have a rock solid contract through a union, an employer can get rid of you on a whim, for whatever reason at any time as long as it's not because of your race, gender, religion or sexual orientation.

Technically I'm a member of the Civil Service Employees Association, a union of state employees, because I work at the ski mountain, which is run by a state agency. We have been without a contract since last spring, and the bargaining hit an impasse this summer.

The thing that is at the heart of the debate is the pay we get at the olympic venues. Whereas any state employee who's been working seasonally for a few years is offered insurance, and pay around $10 an hour, employees like myself are being paid $8.25 an hour and only receiving workers comp. for on-the-job injuries regardless of years worked, education, or merit.

Without that union, the different agencies of the state would keep all pay low with minimal benefits and what benefits they do give, will have some very tough-to-achieve standards to reach them, basically we've been getting walked all over by the agency and the union is trying to make it better. but the union is not as strong as it once was, since some agencies in the state are no longer making contracts with them, or there isn't enough interest of employees.

I would think that the screen writers strike is going to be one of the last major union lockdowns you'll see in American industry. Unions are weaker than they have ever been and fewer people are joining the ones that are still around.

Also, Mal, how'd you get a picture of my future?

the irony is that the hero in that picture is name Cohen the Barbarian...and you just mentioned reading about Conan.

At 11/18/07 06:41 PM, SevenSeize wrote: meh.

Now you need to read "Endless Nights". Followed by the heaps of non-Gaiman written rip-offs and spin-offs with no particular value.

At 11/18/07 02:58 AM, Ravariel wrote: Hooray for having a cancer-free family history, though. Just gotta deal with the rampant alcoholism. :P

i wonder if sudden and unknown immune defficiencies could be genetic.

At 11/18/07 06:41 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I suppose I am satisifed. The things that worked out were neccessary, maybe not the happy, but neccessary.

there are consequences which you can not run from forever.

At 11/18/07 01:17 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: I heard about that, it's really unfortunate. Thankfully it doesn't happen that much anymore.

Hep C isn't a death sentence, Grandpa is 83 years old and has had it longer than I have been alive. Still pretty shitty, though.

I was listening to the local rock station a few weeks ago, and they announced that Pam and Tommy were getting back together, then he followed it up by saing "Great, now they have the Hep C outbreak contained for the publics safety."

Then again, this was the same guy who picked on the traffic newscaster who thought that "Kit n caboodle" referred to a kitten in a caboodle's box, by saying "This just in, the term 'kit n' caboodle' actually refers to a kitten with a tube of lipstick shoved up it's ass." He's pretty ruthless.

At 11/18/07 04:15 PM, Malachy wrote: hero picture

I'd have a grumpy constipated looked on my face too if I had red and inflamed knees like that too.

At 11/18/07 04:53 PM, stafffighter wrote: Non spam topics have already been done about it and bringing one of them back would also violate a rule. Plus all I'd get in general are bad people who think greedy writers are keeping their celebrities hostage.

Then put it in here, it has more to do with politics and current events than it does general forum anyway.

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I am tired, my day sucked, and I have the next two days. SMIRNOFF AND LEMONADE TIME FOR ALL!!!

At 11/18/07 09:42 PM, Proteas wrote: SMIRNOFF AND LEMONADE TIME FOR ALL!!!

even for us underagers?

puts on Bambi eyes

At 11/18/07 09:42 PM, Proteas wrote:

I was listening to the local rock station a few weeks ago, and they announced that Pam and Tommy were getting back together, then he followed it up by saing "Great, now they have the Hep C outbreak contained for the publics safety."

Then again, this was the same guy who picked on the traffic newscaster who thought that "Kit n caboodle" referred to a kitten in a caboodle's box, by saying "This just in, the term 'kit n' caboodle' actually refers to a kitten with a tube of lipstick shoved up it's ass." He's pretty ruthless.

We had a great radio station like that here. It was run by two guys who made fun of just about anything and everything.
They actually got a warning about their content, and they made fun of it on the air. But the content was a little more careful after then. These guys were hilarious. I could listen to them for hours. It was really fun. Eventually they got shut down.

At 11/18/07 05:06 PM, Malachy wrote:

the irony is that the hero in that picture is name Cohen the Barbarian...and you just mentioned reading about Conan.

When it comes to identifieing simular names I would describe you as being adroit. Thanks for that

At 11/18/07 09:42 PM, Proteas wrote:

Then put it in here, it has more to do with politics and current events than it does general forum anyway.

Ok. with blessings from you and seven I'll come back later on today with a well crafted topic, which will involve David Letterman. Dave rocks. He is adroit at rocking. I'm done.

At 11/18/07 09:42 PM, Proteas wrote: I am tired, my day sucked, and I have the next two days. SMIRNOFF AND LEMONADE TIME FOR ALL!!!

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As much as I appreciate a nice refreshing alcoholic lemonade, I will instead just pour my own Black Rum & cola. I like a nice drink like yours Proteas when its warm out...but at 30 degrees outside right now, I prefer something that warms you up as it goes down.
151 lambs black rum!!!!!
now that's refreshing .
(& yes I know alcohol consumption will make you colder,when you drink outside in cold weather, that's why I have a wood stove;)

I was reading Joe Rogan's blog (really interesting and intelligent guy btw. Not to mention down to earth and honest) and in one of the sticky threads they had compiled an entire list of awesome comics that are downloadable. I don't know if I can post it here or not given that they're downloadable comics, i.e perhaps 'illegal' but yeah. They were awesome even though I hardly read them. But yeah, I might go and buy Dark Knight. More comics need to be like this.

At 11/19/07 05:08 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I'm baking three kinds of cookies, 2 kinds of pie, a casserole, and a cake this week.

Who's coming over?

OOOOOOOOOOOH, ME ME ME!

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Try this and post your scores!

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At 11/19/07 05:08 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I'm baking three kinds of cookies, 2 kinds of pie, a casserole, and a cake this week.

Who's coming over?

ooo ooo mE ME ME!!! *raises hand and hops up and down in seat*

At 11/19/07 08:16 AM, stafffighter wrote:

At 11/18/07 05:06 PM, Malachy wrote:

the irony is that the hero in that picture is name Cohen the Barbarian...and you just mentioned reading about Conan.

When it comes to identifieing simular names I would describe you as being adroit. Thanks for that

Pratchett (the author) bases his entire Discworld Series (which the book is part of) on satire. you meet Cohen the Barbarian in the first novel of the series, and he's basically a very very old Conan. he got that way from being very good at what he does, so don't think "poor old man".

At 11/18/07 09:42 PM, Proteas wrote:

At 11/18/07 04:15 PM, Malachy wrote: hero picture

I'd have a grumpy constipated looked on my face too if I had red and inflamed knees like that too.

apparently during cold soccer matches my knees would turn purple.

I am tired, my day sucked, and I have the next two days. SMIRNOFF AND LEMONADE TIME FOR ALL!!!

I drink women drinks...my fiance seems to think that since I don't mind her flavored smirnoffs, that it means I would like things like Mike's hard cranberry lemonade. (i do)...so, i'll go for the bitch drinks plz.

At 11/18/07 11:05 PM, therealsylvos wrote: even for us underagers?

Go ask Mal if you can have some of his out of date Juicy Juice.

At 11/19/07 04:13 AM, Ronald-McDonald-LoL wrote: Eventually they got shut down.

The local rock station used to have a radio personality that was REALLY an asshole, I mean that was his entire reason for existance when he was on the air...

Caller: Hey, can I wish Fred Durst "Happy Birthday?"
Mo (the DJ): NO! Fred Durst doesn't even live in Nashville you idiot, and if he did the odds of him listening to us right now would be slim to none, next caller

Caller; Hey man, what did I win?
Mo: VERIZON DIALTONE! *click*
They finally wound up firing him after he pulled a rather cruel April Fool's day prank... he told everyone that Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam was found dead in his hotel room in London from an apparent suicide. He then went into the Top 9 songs of the day at 9 PM as an entire list of Pearl Jam songs in memoriam, starting off with "Alive," then aired calls from people who were CRYING THEIR EYES OUT over his supposed death.

The next night, he was gone.

At 11/19/07 05:20 PM, Malachy wrote: i'll go for the bitch drinks plz.

I never really understood the whole "bitch drinks" thing. I like to occasionally get and maintain a buzz, that's all, I don't see the fun in doing this if I have to down something that tastes worse than cough syrup.

It's like when my sister talked about mixing up a cooler full of "Hooch Punch" using Pure Grain Alcohol... she talked about pouring in Hawaiian Punch by the gallon, cutting up fresh fruits to throw in, entire bags of ice... all that trouble just so they could all get thoroughly drunk beyond belief and not feel as though they were drinking gasoline. I just don't understand that logic.

At 11/19/07 05:20 PM, reviewer-general wrote: Try this and post your scores!

Final Score: 167,517.
Final Level: 6
Traveler IQ: 91.

Well that was an interesting diversion, the last level really kicked my ass though.

At 11/19/07 06:31 PM, Proteas wrote:

At 11/19/07 05:20 PM, reviewer-general wrote: Try this and post your scores!

Final Score: 167,517.
Final Level: 6
Traveler IQ: 91.

Well that was an interesting diversion, the last level really kicked my ass though.

No offense, but that is SAD.

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