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[Caliga]

I'm sorry about your friend, Cal.

Thanks all.  I still don't know much but it was liver surgery.  I last had lunch with him a month or so ago and he didn't mention anything about being sick or needing surgery.

I just exchanged emails with his business partner and this is what she told me:  He came down with a pancreatic infection about a week ago, and the bacteria was very aggressive.  It spread to his kidneys, so they put him on dialysis.  Unfortunately by that point, his liver had also shut down, and they found out that his colon had been punctured, which just spread the infection all over his body within a matter of hours.  They took him into emergency colon surgery, and he died 10 minutes into it.  Tried to resuscitate him for 48 minutes unsuccessfully, and he passed at 10:40am yesterday morning.

WHAT.  THE.  FUCK.

[derspiess]

That sucks, man.  Sorry to hear it.

[Maladict]

That's awful.

[MadImmortalMan]

That's the kind of thing that makes you not want to work so hard to stay healthy. I mean if you can just go from zero to dead in less than a week. I think I'll open a bottle of wine.

[CountDeMoney]

How the hell did hos colon get punctured?  Doesnt sound like something that goes hand in hand with an internal infection.

[alfred russel]

Does anyone know how many countries there were in 1930?

At work today there were some old documents being passed around, and one said a company was present in 76 countries in 1930. I said, "that must have been most of the countries in the world back then" and another guy was like, "you're crazy, there are way more than 76 countries", and I replied, "now yes, but in 1930 the world was less fragmented and more colonized."

He was skeptical. I tried googling this unsuccessfully.

[The Larch]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_1930

[DGuller]

Wow, Dorsey was right. 

[Caliga]

That's the kind of thing that makes you not want to work so hard to stay healthy. I mean if you can just go from zero to dead in less than a week. I think I'll open a bottle of wine.

What I want to know is: how does one get a pancreas infection?  All of the possible causes are things I need to avoid, like hardcore.

[DGuller]

I hope pancreas does something really important, other than give you extremely lethal cancers and infections.

[Caliga]

I hope pancreas does something really important, other than give you extremely lethal cancers and infections.

Doesn't it make insulin?  That seems like a pretty important job.

[Ideologue]

Before and after of what loss. Dude - 160lbs and chick - 120lbs.

It's like they melted.

Nonetheless I approve.

[Ideologue]

Does anyone know how many countries there were in 1930?

At work today there were some old documents being passed around, and one said a company was present in 76 countries in 1930. I said, "that must have been most of the countries in the world back then" and another guy was like, "you're crazy, there are way more than 76 countries", and I replied, "now yes, but in 1930 the world was less fragmented and more colonized."

He was skeptical. I tried googling this unsuccessfully.

And yet his obvious educational inferiority in the field of history hasn't impacted his life at all.  Interesting data point.

[jimmy olsen]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_1930

Wow, exactly 76 sovereign states if I counted right.

[alfred russel]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_1930

Thanks.