The Off Topic Topic

[Valmy]

The important lesson here is that Denmark's economy is plastic block based.

[Liep]

The important lesson here is that Denmark's economy is plastic block based.

Pretty sure our bacon, beer, milk and medicine exports are all bigger than plastic.

[Josquius]

It is quite amazing quite how much lego is worth.

[Ed Anger]

The important lesson here is that Denmark's economy is plastic block based.

Pretty sure our bacon, beer, milk and medicine exports are all bigger than plastic.

Don't forget your butter.

[mongers]

It is quite amazing quite how much lego is worth.

Not when you see the prices of the sets in toy shops.

[Ed Anger]

Lego Mindstorm is ridiculous.

[mongers]

I really thought Timmay would have posted a link to this video:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38825330

Rare 'lava firehose' from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano

1 February 2017

The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has been active since 1983, but scientists have filmed an unusual phenomenon.

Dramatic footage shows lava as it flows through a crack in a sea cliff, and into the Pacific Ocean.

You could almost label it as awesome.

[MadBurgerMaker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNJU-5vCrJc

[MadBurgerMaker]

My grandma died about three hours ago.  She had been suffering from dementia really badly for the last few months, and I knew it was coming, but it's still a shock that it happened so suddenly. 

I'm glad I decided to visit her today after work.  She even knew who I was when I first got there.  She forgot after a while, but that's okay. 

After my parents got divorced, we came down to San Antonio and lived with her for about a year while my mom got back on her feet, got a job here, etc.  Grandma would take me to swimming practice in the summers, then she'd make me a sandwich and let me watch cartoons and shit all day E:  And shes the one who told me about MASH.  I watched that show every night in my bedroom at her house, all the way through the last episode.  Took me to the doctor when I got pneumonia and mom had to be at work.  Heh.  I remember watching the Mets win the World Series at her place. That was a long time ago.  She never liked Jay Leno either.  I'm sitting out here on the back porch remembering random shit.  I don't want to attention whore or anything, just wanted to tell someone else all this without actually saying it out loud or soemthing.  My mom and my wife are sort of freaking out, so I have to be doing something other than that for them.

RIP Grandma.  I'll miss you a lot, and I wish I had thought to thank you today for all the things you did for my mom, my sister, and I. 

[Syt]

I'm sorry. MBM

[The Brain]

I'm sorry.

Sounds like she was a wonderful person.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Thanks Syt E: and Brain.  Sorry to dump like that on a message board at 420 in the damn morning.  Ive known ("known") you guys for a while though, so...just one of those things.

E2:  Ha.  Just remembered how, before I moved down here and when we would visit, she would always take my cousin and I to go buy GI Joes as the absolute first thing we did during the visit.  The cool small ones, not the lame-ass 2 foot tall GI Joe doll things.  I have a whole army of those in a box in her garage.  She was cool as fuck.  Didn't even care about the little trenches we'd dig all through her yard, even though it really is a spectacular yard (which I didn't really recognize until I grew up and she bought me my first lawnmower when we bought our firs house goddammit Im really going to miss her)

Okay sorry back to regularly scheduled programming:  I'd like to remind Tim that that World Series was the one Buckner screwed up.   

[Richard Hakluyt]

Sorry about your loss MBM 

Some of my favourite people when I was youngster were quite elderly. They just had more time to pay attention than the parental generation I guess. I miss them a lot.

[FunkMonk]

Sorry MBM 

[The Larch]

Sorry to ear that MBM.