Random Thoughts

[number8]

[Kurosawa Fan]

When did IFC start running commercials during their movies? Just realized this tonight. How lame. Guess I can scratch that off my list of channels to check for quality movies to record.

[Spun Lepton]

The bus stop where I catch my connecting bus into work was completely snowed in this morning. I climbed to the top of the mound and was able to pull snow off of the top of the bus shelter. No small feet, considering I'm relatively short. :lol:

[Mara]

Poor little Bianca mouse finally died this morning. She has been so sick the last few days that I can't believe she took this long. It was awful watching her suffer and not being able to do anything about it. I couldn't think of a way to humanely euthanize her, and she seemed to really be fighting to stay alive. Poor mousie.

3 years, 4 months. The longest-lived mouse I've ever had.

[Irish]

Sorry to hear that, Mara. :cry:

[Dukefrukem]

Not to one up Mara or anything, but my great grandmother passed away last night. She was 97. She lived a long, great life. And she died of natural causes. i was grateful I was able to know her for 26 years. I still have all four of my grand parents.

[Mara]

That's amazing that you got such a long time with a great-grandparent. I'm sorry for your loss.

[Dukefrukem]

That's amazing that you got such a long time with a great-grandparent. I'm sorry for your loss.

I know. I knew my great grandfather too. He passed away when I was 16. I haven't had much experience with death, which is good and bad. The bad part is it is inevitable... and all of my grand parents are in their 80s now.

[number8]

Wow, she must've given birth very young. That's amazing that you knew them, Duke.

[number8]

Poor little Bianca mouse finally died this morning. She has been so sick the last few days that I can't believe she took this long. It was awful watching her suffer and not being able to do anything about it. I couldn't think of a way to humanely euthanize her, and she seemed to really be fighting to stay alive. Poor mousie.

3 years, 4 months. The longest-lived mouse I've ever had.

I want you to know that I didn't do this, for all the differences we had, she and I.

[Mara]

I want you to know that I didn't do this, for all the differences we had, she and I.

Her last squeaks were your name.

Whether it was a blessing or a curse, time can only tell.

[number8]

For the record, I had nothing to do with Duke's great-grandma, either.

[number8]

That might have been a terrible joke.

[Dukefrukem]

Hehe. I got a chuckle. Yeh I'm doing the math right now and you're right. She was first generation off the boat from Italy and married young. Both my grand parents appear to be very health and sound minded as well. I'm grateful for that.

I hear they were able to reverse aging in mice. I want me some of that.

[Mara]

My grandparents had my mother at 18, and my mother had me at 24, so my generations always felt close. Although, my grandmother passed away this year after getting Alzheimer's at an alarmingly young age.

[Mara]

By the way (to change the subject drastically):

I finished shrink-wrapping my windows yesterday and the difference is HUGE. My house is easily 10-15 degrees warmer. Strongly recommended for anyone wanting to save on heating bills who is not afraid of looking like a cheapskate. (Hint: I'm not.)

[Sycophant]

My condolences to both Mara and Duke.

[Dukefrukem]

I've given out too much reputation in the past 24 hours - but I appreciate that.

[bac0n]

My Dad's best friend growing up, Val Jean, is, at 74, already a great-grandparent. It would not surprise me if Val gets in a few years as a great-great grandparent before his time is through. I'd call it crazy, but he lives in a small town, and people tend to marry out of high school round there and commence to pounding out babies almost immediately, and people are living longer and longer these days.

[Dukefrukem]

74 is a very young age to be a great grand parent. Technically, my Great grandmother had a great great grandson. (my cousin has a 4 year old)

[D_Davis]

r/dogfort - FTW
http://www.reddit.com/r/Dogfort/

My new favorite thing...

[DavidSeven]

Does anyone else think it's annoying that Facebook interacts with various websites you're browsing (e.g. RT, Yelp) by default when you're signed in? I understand you can disable this stuff, but kind of seems like something you should explicitly have to opt-in for to get started.

[Ezee E]

Does anyone else think it's annoying that Facebook interacts with various websites you're browsing (e.g. RT, Yelp) by default when you're signed in? I understand you can disable this stuff, but kind of seems like something you should explicitly have to opt-in for to get started.

But you did.

I forgot when it was, but when you logged in, they introduced a new setting, and it was pretty wisely worded to make it seem like a fine idea, without knowing the full details of it all. I want to say it was during the summer, maybe even before May, because it prompted a lot of people to cancel their accounts.

[DavidSeven]

But you did.

I forgot when it was, but when you logged in, they introduced a new setting, and it was pretty wisely worded to make it seem like a fine idea, without knowing the full details of it all. I want to say it was during the summer, maybe even before May, because it prompted a lot of people to cancel their accounts.

Hm. I'm pretty uptight about these kinds of things, and I have no recollection of this. Looks like they got me. Should have been more explicit as I mentioned and not dressed up.

[Derek]

Hm. I'm pretty uptight about these kinds of things, and I have no recollection of this. Looks like they got me.

Neither do I. I don't go on more than a few times a month and I'm pretty sure I never clicked on anything other than friend invites. However they did it was pretty slick.