The Off Topic Topic

[katmai]

This darkness at 5:30 bullshit is driving me up the wall.

I'd kill to have two extra hours of light you ass!

[Ed Anger]

This darkness at 5:30 bullshit is driving me up the wall.

I'd kill to have two extra hours of light you ass!

Live in a civilized area then.

[CountDeMoney]

However, cognitively, I still feel like I'm about 20 IQ points lighter (I'm also still eating too much, though my appetite is dropping off somewhat).  I'm having trouble paying attention to things; it feels more difficult to string sentences together, especially in speech but also in print; semicolon use is down 23%.  Will I get back to "normal," or does it turn out I was self-medicating a nasty case of ADD for fifteen years?  If it doesn't go away, I'm totally going to start again, because I'd rather be kind of ill and shorten than have every time I work on anything feel like I'm pushing my way through a universe filled to the brim with gauze.

Nope, doesn't really ever go away.  You kinda get used to the sleepiness.  Kinda.

But hey, as long you're not offending anybody else with your stinky pooh-pooh sticks, the level of your mental acuity is no big deal.

[Sheilbh]

This looks like a real Stalinist purge report. And mental:

Upon hearing the report on the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the service personnel and people throughout the country broke into angry shouts that a stern judgment of the revolution should be meted out to the anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional elements. Against the backdrop of these shouts rocking the country, a special military tribunal of the DPRK Ministry of State Security was held on December 12 against traitor for all ages Jang Song Thaek.

The accused Jang brought together undesirable forces and formed a faction as the boss of a modern day factional group for a long time and thus committed such hideous crime as attempting to overthrow the state by all sorts of intrigues and despicable methods with a wild ambition to grab the supreme power of our party and state.

The tribunal examined Jang's crimes.

All the crimes committed by the accused were proved in the course of hearing and were admitted by him.
A decision of the special military tribunal of the Ministry of State Security of the DPRK was read out at the trial.

Every sentence of the decision served as sledge-hammer blow brought down by our angry service personnel and people on the head of Jang, an anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional element and despicable political careerist and trickster.

The accused is a traitor to the nation for all ages who perpetrated anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional acts in a bid to overthrow the leadership of our party and state and the socialist system.
Jang was appointed to responsible posts of the party and state thanks to the deep political trust of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and received benevolence from them more than any others from long ago.
....

And so it goes on.

http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/12/13/full-text-of-kcna-announcement-on-execution-of-jang/

[Ideologue]

See?  It's not so bad.  We could totally have one here.

[Iormlund]

I played Risk today for the first time in almost two decades. 

I also met what is possibly the worst player ever. He was oblivious to the concept of balance of power or the laws of probability. He completely disregarded maintaining a power base preferring instead to spawn all his dudes next to his secret objective (me). Then kept attacking against all odds until all he had on the board was one soldier in each province.
It's like he was the AI in a game of turret defense.

[garbon]

I played Risk today for the first time in almost two decades. 

I also met what is possibly the worst player ever. He was oblivious to the concept of balance of power or the laws of probability. He completely disregarded maintaining a power base preferring instead to spawn all his dudes next to his secret objective (me). Then kept attacking against all odds until all he had on the board was one soldier in each province.
It's like he was the AI in a game of turret defense.

This is the first year in many that I will not being playing Risk at Christmas time. I've finally convinced the cousins that we're going to give something else a go.

[Eddie Teach]

That's what I hate about playing Risk with real people. There's always somebody going kamikaze against me.

[11B4V]

Doctors Find 40-Year-Old Fetus in Woman, 82

(Newser) – An 82-year-old Colombian woman went to the hospital with abdominal pain and got a diagnosis she almost certainly wasn't expecting: There was a 40-year-old fetus inside her. The condition is known as a "calcified fetus," "lithopaedian," or "stone baby," the Telegraph reports. It's very rare and happens when a fetus implants outside the uterus, cannot be re-absorbed because of its size, and ends up calcifying or "mummifying" as it decays.

Doctors thought they were dealing with a simple case of gastroenteritis, but spotted the fetus on an X-ray, the Independent reports. The woman will need to undergo surgery.

http://www.newser.com/story/179103/doctors-find-40-year-old-fetus-in-woman-82.html

[Admiral Yi]

I played Risk today for the first time in almost two decades. 

I also met what is possibly the worst player ever. He was oblivious to the concept of balance of power or the laws of probability. He completely disregarded maintaining a power base preferring instead to spawn all his dudes next to his secret objective (me). Then kept attacking against all odds until all he had on the board was one soldier in each province.
It's like he was the AI in a game of turret defense.

It's you responsibility in that situation to uncover the root cause of his animosity towards you and cure him of it.

[The Brain]

This darkness at 5:30 bullshit is driving me up the wall.

Sequels often suck, you should know this.

[jimmy olsen]

 

[Syt]

[Eddie Teach]

The Amish blotted out the moon and the stars?

[Syt]

The Amish blotted out the moon and the stars?

With a freshly raised barn.