Gokuma

well, I've been experiencing pain in my hips lately, sometimes so severe I have to walk with a cane. I had thought, and got one medical opinion that it may be bursitis. an MRI revealed that is is in fact avascular necrosis. what that means is the femoral head isn't getting enough blood so it is starting to break down. the only thing that could have led to this is that I drink alcohol daily. I used to drink heavily but I don't anymore. now I have to stop drinking completely.

the most conservative treatment is taking NSAIDs, like like ibuprofen, and physical therapy. the next option is a surgical procedure called core decompression, in which they drill a hole in the femoral head to relieve pressure and hope to increase blood flow to the bone. if the degeneration continues, the next step is total hip replacement.

so to sum up, this sucks.

this past saturday I participated in the fouth annual Zombiecon. it's a flash gathering of people dressing like zombies and "terrorizing" New York City. here is a photobucket slideshow of my day:

http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c292/VileSlay/zombiecon%2008/?albumview=slideshow

some notes. thats my girlfriend in the wedding dress. that was her actual wedding dress mind you. she's divorced. the wound makeup on her chest I made myself and I'm kinda proud of it. turned out pretty good. everyone had a great time at the event and there were even some kids involved. the tourists loved us. we put on good shows for them "attacking" the busses and cabs. I think we gave them a unique experience. lots of pictures were taken. I believe the main repository for zombiecon pics is on flickr. they should all be tagged zombiecon08. so check 'em out.

::edit:: sorry if you couldn't get into the slideshow. forgot it was set to private. fixed now. check out the pics.

Confucius say "he who hires prostitute in north Japan has Ainu sex".

Just post what you're listening to:
Biosphere - Bose-Einstein condensation

Or at least closing my eyes until I scroll down. It hurts my stomach.

Anyone else significantly invested in US stocks?

Last Tuesday, on september 9th, my girlfriend Beiyin and me got married! Some screenshots of the happy occasion:

Toasting, her parents on the left

My brother-in-law, us and my sister.

Posing in front of our oldtimer.

Time for (even more) champagne.

Or at least closing my eyes until I scroll down. It hurts my stomach.

Anyone else significantly invested in US stocks?

I went to go pick up my license this morning (yay!) and I saw this in the DMV



I can't stop laughing at it. That is one pissed off barrel.

Two weeks until Burning Man starts, and I'm starting to run around like a mad man trying to get everything in order and ready to go.

And I still need to get some water containers ARGH!

panic panic panic panic

So some Big Huge Company keeps sending us warnings threatening legal action. They claim that our company registered a domain name with their name in it. Not only that, but they accuse us of stealing copyrighted imagery and illegal usage of the names of some of their products and services blah blah blah. Of course, this is all true. Now why, do you ask, are we hosting a website that has the name of another company featuring the products and services of said company?

Simple. Because they are paying us to do it.

Except nobody told their legal department. Now, you have to understand that there's probably some OTHER technology firm out there somewhere whose job it is to search the interwebs for instances of their clients' names and alert them to any unauthorized usage.

So you have Company A reporting to Department B and Company C reporting to Department D. This is all fine and good until Departments B & D fail to communicate, which I imagine is often.

Big Business works!

Has anybody seen Hissy?

Now I can't decide what I want...

Has anybody seen Hissy?

Has anybody seen Hissy?

I was just going through some shit in my room and I found a HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL

GPA: 3.78
Class rank: 13 / 250 (top 5%)
Amount of law I know: maybe a little?

I was just going through some shit in my room and I found a HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL

On June 6th I am flying from Denver to Chicago, then from Chicago to Tokoyo and then from Tokoyo to Bangkok. This is my first trip outside the US, I have never been on an airplane before, and I have never traveled this far before. This is a trip of firsts. That being said, it follows that I have never been to Asia before. I will stay in Bangkok for 2 weeks whilst I tour the country. Any sort of feedback on what I could expect? People who have been to Bangkok before? Travel Tips? Any feedback that would benefit an awkward 18-year old (namely me) in a foreign country?

If you don't know, I'm a collector of old computer shit. I have an old Yamaha Midi Keyboard that has its own OS and sound chip inside- with a small boot disk. I immediately made images and backups of the original and used copies. Good thing I did. Because today, when booting, I heard a very bad "scratch" sound. to my horror, something from the inside of the floppy disk had gotten into the fabric and scratched the soft readable goodness off a section of the disk-- So much that I can see through it.


The problem is this: this is a brand new floppy disk, and with all my workings with computers, it seems that floppy disks are getting shittier and shittier as time goes by. not in age, but in performance with NEW floppy disks-this one lasted maybe a month before it died, while old floppies from the apple //e era still work. What the hell?

On another note, CD-Rs are also getting shittier. the labels come off easily, some never burn correctly, and one Memorex brand CD-R failed to work in all of my CD Burners. Funny, I used to equate Memorex with quality VHS Cassettes. Why does Removable storage in 2008 have to suck so bad?

So a few weeks ago I had this dream in which two hot girls were going at it... Then one hands out cups of chocolate pudding and starts getting it all over and in the other. (Note: I do not have any food fetish and find that chocolate pudding to be a turn off because of what it could look like in this situation.) So then in the dream I take a cup to some food analyzer/poison detector and the EVA voice from Command & Conquer says, "Impse or Spyblood detected."

So WTF?! Damn you mungtards! At least there were no imps or space marines in my dream.

So a few weeks ago I had this dream in which two hot girls were going at it... Then one hands out cups of chocolate pudding and starts getting it all over and in the other. (Note: I do not have any food fetish and find that chocolate pudding to be a turn off because of what it could look like in this situation.) So then in the dream I take a cup to some food analyzer/poison detector and the EVA voice from Command & Conquer says, "Impse or Spyblood detected."

So WTF?! Damn you mungtards! At least there were no imps or space marines in my dream.

I wish I could use IDDQD...

...to become invulnerable to the Government's taxing. This is just going to be a little rant of mine that will most likely become a closed topic, but, anyway.

The Government over here in Yorkshire are taxing too much. They have far more money than they need. The twats are even on about taxing for use of the road.
It's leaving me and many others broke.
Not literally broke. Perhaps some are. I'm running out of money. I'd considered sending a letter of complaint to them, but I concluded that it would do no good. If only there was some kind of vaccination for taxing. If you could just pay ten pounds and say "that's it". Unfortunately, there is no vaccination for taxing. It's terminal.

That metaphor was a bit over the top. Dearest apologies.

If you have any views, feel free to express them.

If you want to flame me for wasting your time and board space, feel free to do so.

Johannson
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Fredrick
Frederik
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Frank

I am 5'7"

My rifle, with bayonet attached, is 5'4"

It came with a sling, ammunition pouch, oil canister (smothered in cosmoline, a bastard grease that protects metal parts) and the screw-driver, and cleaning-rod attachments. $99 for the rifle, $15 for S&H and $30 for the transfer fee.

I also got a bad-ass 19" HP monitor, and we got a bad-ass 50" TV.

Everyone wish happy birthday to Ralph Vickers, our resident Ralphis! I am currently stalking him