Please share this potion with Jasper Fforde
as a humane treatment for his readers....
Fri Aug 17 2012 08:55:43 EDT from triLcatomg - someone's immune to my thread-killing poison! :)
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I'd be happy to donate my skills to any number of topics :)
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work in flame wars (On the rare occasions I respond I tend to feed trolls/fan flames)
Over the weekend I accidentally broke a glass desktop on the desk in my home office, which is in the basement. After cleaning up the small pieces of glass I set aside the larger pieces so that I could safely break them down later.
I didn't want any children getting near them if I set them outside.
This morning I was checking messages and briefly touching base with dothebart and the_mgt on IRC while having my morning coffee. I got up from the desk and ... tripped over the pile of broken glass in my bare feet.
While I showered I noticed the stream of blood going down the drain was getting bigger. The cut was worsening the more I moved around. I wasn't going to be able to keep this one closed on my own, so I threw on some clothes and had my wife drive me to the hospital. Six stitches later I'm back at work and limping around the office.
I blame Mark Zuckerburg for all of this. I just haven't figured out why yet.
Glass furniture has always freaked me out. Thanks for strengthening my paranoia, and for giving me an anecdote to reference (though I'll probably
refer to you as an amputee if I ever re-tell it).
Got wood?
Nowadays they make those out of plexi but this one was probably 50 years old.
Whoa, evil! All my glass furniture is marked with the label "security glass", but I never put it to the test. And I hope I will never need to.
Anyway, hope your foot gets better soon.
Ouch, IG, heal up. And stop auditioning as a glass-walking miracle man. Don't you know those are all aliens?
IG: I hope your foot gets better quickly. That really sucks.
interrupt: I was an Amigaphile as well, although I have long since moved on. Still, it might be interesting to examine.. maybe it's a good OS for specialized needs, which my company has. Hm....
Fri Aug 24 2012 01:05:50 EDT from interruptwow i just discovered something so deep i think i am going to cream! i am an ole commie 64 amiga phreak from back in the day. well lo and behold i discovered this jewel...Commodore OS Vision. i know about amigaos efforts and aros, etc...but this is just such a fresh thing yet. all these ugly fucked up windows managers and fighting on freenode and all the shitty distros coming around...this thing is the bomb. http://www.commodoreusa.net you will love it. :D
all that is, is an old version of linux mint with a theme. nothing to get excited over. and it is certainly NOT a commodore OS.
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Thu Aug 23 2012 16:16:47 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
I blame Mark Zuckerburg for all of this. I just haven't figured out why yet.
It is the mindset the RDF he radiates that calls for transparent personal appliances
which is responsible.
Get well soon.
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TheOneLaw
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/05/us-costarica-quake-idUSBRE8840XK20120905
Tsunami warnings issued.
so meanwhile the best part of this news message is, that the hotel guy claims about half of the whater was shaken out of the pool.