To Don’t List (slight return)

  • Going to IHOP during All-You-Can-Eat-Pancakes promotion and eating three servings of pancakes after being on a low-calorie, low-carbohydrate regimen for two years
  • Trying — several times — to remove a contact lens from your left eye when the lens is in fact not there.
  • Mixing an underlying neurologic injury, resultant ADD-like and emotional pathologies, long-term personality and character issues, three psychiatric medications including a stimulant, and two dangerous sites for neurofeedback all in the same month
  • Listening to Devo and Neil Young duetting on “Hey Hey My My” from the soundtrack to Human Highway. (Only made 3:14 into a 9:43 track, and friends can testify that my tolerance for funnypain bad music is very, very high)
  • Putting some dark brown curry spice powder in a peanut butter jar that was then placed next to the other peanut butter jar containing the actual dark brown peanut butter

Homeland security for kids

http://www.ready.gov/kids/

Our attention was strayed. While we were pursuing disorganized and almost harmless Islamist terror cells around the world, the furries were quietly infiltrating the most secret and sensitive offices in the government. We have moles. Also cougars, wolves, skunks, and a shitload of foxes.

Deep beneath the Blue Bayou restaurant in Disneyland, a brain in a jar is being lowered into an immensely powerful biomechanical cyborg Mickey Mouse character. The day of reckoning is near when He will lift up His glove-like hand and the Yiffening will begin.

HOW WERE WE SO BLIND?

Ran into Jenae at D’s yesterday. Poor woman was there to put down a dog, her aged Corgi that I met recently. Not only that, but the wolfhound also died recently. They’re down to one dog. I waved to her husband who was outside with the other dog. She was all red-eyed. Ugh. She’s back in school now which was good to hear.

I made stirfry for dinner last night and got it right because I remembered to do the trick with the cornstarch water to get the stuff to stay separate, and because I put the ginger in right at the last moment. Trader Joe sells a decent imitation of Lundberg Wild Blend, too (Calfornia Rice Trilogy).

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serutan and serotonin

  1. Ads. Eggs. Ads on eggs. Ads on eggs? AAADDSSS OONNNN EGGGSSSS! (via AdJab)
  2. The CPSC would like to warn you about the sunroom roof glass… …OF DOOM!
  3. Hey Torgo! Your Industrial Art Gallery made it on to Bibliodyssey! And rightly so.
  4. Hacking for money got this guy in severe trouble for only 61 grand in revenue, and that was the prosecutor’s estimate. He would have been better off knocking over liquor stores.
  5. The 30 second bunny treatment is now applied to Night of the Living Dead.
  6. You may get a car guy boner for this 600 HP 392 MOPAR engine, but to me it’s a sign of how dead and stupid American car engineering is. Welcome back to 1970.

Alcohol, table saws, and flannel shirts just do not mix.

mendel send me this medical shop talk forum thread, which contains stories about emergency room patients from doctors and other ER folks on the theme: “Things I Learn from my Patients”.

We’ve all seen the funny/awful lists of things in butts, or heard about lamers who beg for drugs, etc. Hey, I watched that TV show sometimes too in the 90s. I don’t think they ever had a patient on E.R. with a lost TV remote located in an abscessed gluteal fold, though.

I’ve always thought I wanted to sell shoes

Competition for the title “Cheesiest Heavy Metal Video Ever” is intense. For one thing, it includes some 1980s material that can only be described as seminal in every way.

Via the Exploding Aardvark and Blabbermouth, I present to you:

Hammerfall – Hearts on Fire (Quicktime)

I will give you only one hint before you click: it’s winter sports-related.

Edit: For those who can’t see video, a small gallery of images is presented for your enjoyment below the cut here

new filter: brain

New filter for my writing about my neuropsychiatric adventures. Entry is by poll with one answer. Enter only if you’re interested and you feel you can handle it. If you see this after more than a week or so you should probably contact me directly because I won’t necessarily check it after that.

Note to local friends: Some of you have expressed frustration because I talk about this stuff on the Internet but not in person. I generally feel uncomfortable bringing up my issues in conversation, both because it feels egotistical and because I don’t think it will be acceptable, and there isn’t anyone in my life right now that I can call up on the phone and say “My brain hurts, can we talk”. I’m comfortable with other people bringing their stuff to me, no problem, but I can’t do that easily myself.

I’m doing this because 1) I need to write about this 2) I don’t feel comfortable talking about it in person with hardly anyone 3) I need a relatively safe place to write and 4) I’m attempting to stop freaking out people who don’t need or want to deal with someone else’s crazy.

I will do my best to keep my serious problems out of this space other than on this filter.

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