It seems the clickcaster links for Connections and The Day The Universe Changed have gone away. Fortunately I had saved the streams before they went away, and so I have posted them to tpb for easy downloading. Now... it's still uploading over Fruity's adsl line (read: very slow), but it's better than nothing.

The shows:

1. Connections (torrent)
2. The ( Read more... )

If you have not see the wonderful shows Connections and The Day The Universe Changed by James Burke, I highly recommend watching them ( Read more... )

Been avoiding posting for a while, but this is too good to pass up:

I highly recommend watching In My Language (8:35), a video as written, acted, and produced by an autistic woman. It contains first a bit "spoken" in her "native language" (language is not necessarily the correct concept), and later explained in English. It is probably the best ( Read more... )

alive, and not a zombie. though the hypovolemic shock at a bp of <50/20 for a while was interesting.

I guess I'm ok for now. More to be posted later as I get time.

For now, I can re-enforce this was not about anybody in particular, just a total lack of goals/end-states/whatever in my life. Sigh.

Sigh...

For those that don't know the works of Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis-Clos is his canonical existentialist work, "No Exit". It contains the famous line "L'enfer, c'est les autres", or, roughly, "Hell is other people ( Read more... )

A short Thanksgiving Prayer, quoted here for those that do not want to deal with the annoyance that is youtube:

For John Dillinger
In hope he is still aliveThanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts ( Read more... )

A wise man once said:

A verbal agreement is worth the paper it is printed on.

Normally, this is "common sense", especially in the area of people doing legal maneuvering. Not so at a certain .gov, apparently.

They just spent the last hour or so saying one thing and blatantly, in the very same sentence, contradicting it. Most companies have ( Read more... )

So the surgery is over.

Yay.

That seemed to go pretty well the day of the event, though the paper-signing people you have to talk to first were kindof freaked I actually wanted to read the multi-page, tiny-font documents before I signed them. Sigh. When I woke up, the anesthesia wore off in <15 min... very nice stuff. The only thing it left me ( Read more... )

Damn him to hell.

Bark At The Moon is fscking evil.

But, finally:

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Apparently the pre-op for the nasal-surgery is monday, which usually implies that the actual surgery will be the day after. "Fun". At least I should get some fun pain-killers out of it... ^_ ( Read more... )