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Of course I know what an egg cream is. Then again, my folks were still getting seltzer bottles (yes, the glass spritz ones) delivered by the seltzer man until this past year! They only stopped this year because they moved out of NYC. And of course, it's soda...except to all these Midwestern dorks in Ruleland.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Deb!

Did someone say hockey? <ears perk up> And Snow Dog, hockey isn't just for spectators. It's the greatest sport to play, too!

I've heard people talking about the study that mapped a high school "sex chain." It surveyed direct sexual contact, and showed how one student's direct sexual experience could be linked indirectly to hundreds of other people/partners. To use that analogy, I was wondering about the "chain" from Comicality. As I will readily admit, he is not my favorite author, though I do (or did at one point) like many of his stories. But putting my own tastes aside, I think Com has left a very important legacy to authors and readers alike - and I was trying to fathom just how many people he has touched with his writing. I think if we made a "chain" linking all the authors who were inspired or helped by Comicality in some way, all the readers who had direct contact with Com's work (whether they wrote him or not), and all the readers who then have linked with those inspired other writers...we'd probably connect the entire online gay erotic fiction world and quite possibly beyond. I know I'd easily put myself down on the list.

Actually, in humans, depth perception is about 85% visual cues, and only like 15% stereoscopic vision. :king: Snow Dog the Domaholic Danderthal <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thank you for proving my point.

I hear Mark is good at airing out dirty laundry...

I'm glad you shared that link. Those pics are nice! It's cool to see talented people around here...

You know what they say about the one-eyed man

An Update (not that anyone really cares) - I can see clearly now... The infection is all gone, and I'm back in contact lenses - Hurrah! I'm also making a point not to sleep in them and to switch to back and forth with my NEW glasses more often. We'll see how long that lasts. Plans to continue my oppositional campaign for emperor will resume shortly.

Michael Jackson is black?

If the evidence wasn't there to convict, then it doesn't feel any better to realize this from the vantage point of the jury box. It would be nice if more people with a spine and above average intelligence served on juries. That said, there is a reason that people who have a spine and intelligence get knocked off the list by one side or the other. Depending on my case, I may love to have you as a juror or I might make sure you have no chance of making the jury. But I suspect that if it was the former, the other side would have you off before I could blink. The sad reality is that too many people shirk this important civic duty, but the system isn't really set up to favor selection of the backbone bearing intelligentsia.

Congrats to my favorite couple of shmoops!

Is this REALLY news? Sheesh... Doesn't anyone have anything better to worry about?

Heretic!

The following is a bit rant-y, and I realize that it is mostly my own damn fault. But that doesn't change my mood. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am a contact lens wearer. I love my contacts. Love them, love them, love them. They are so wonderful for sports (especially hockey) and the whole peripheral vision thing. I am not only a contact lens user, I'm also an abuser. I'm the person who wears disposable lenses and when you ask me when the last time I switched was, I can't really remember precisely. I sleep in my lenses more often than not. I hate wearing glasses. Hate it, hate it, hate it. Fortunately, I don't do it very often. I can count the number of times that I've spent a day in glasses in the past two years without even needing to take off my shoes. My current pair of glasses is about a year and a half old (the last time I had gotten my eyes checked by an optometrist, gotten new lens prescription too). This pair never seemed right to me, but I never spent enough time wearing them to figure out if they were incorrect (in prescription or fitting) or if I just am not remotely used to glasses. Now, the story jumps to about two weeks ago, when I went to get my eyes checked. I hadn't seen an opthamologist in several years, and I knew my vision had gotten worse from my last prescription. [side note: the whole 'your eyes stabilize as you get older?' - not true when you spend your days in front of a computer screen or reading other written materials.] The doctor was very nice. Gave me a clean bill of health and issued me my new glasses prescription, which is a decent amount off from the last one. I'm getting even more near-sighted (which I tend to forget how bad it can be when I have my lenses in), but slightly less astigmatic. Then I went to see the contact lens guy (an optometrist) who wanted me to test out two different left lenses before issuing me my new prescription. Lens #1 never felt quite right. I took it out a few time to see if maybe I had it wrong. But lens #2 felt just fine. It more closely matched the type of lens I had been using before (it's a question whether I still need a toric in that eye). I went back this morning, planning to report that lens #2 was better and to be given my new prescription so I could go on my merry way. When the optometrist looked in my eyes, he discovered a minor problem. It looked like an early infection in my left eye - could be nothing, but he needed me to see the doctor. The opthamologist confirmed what was suspected. Corneal ulcer (which is a bacterial infection) that needs antibiotic treatment pronto. She told me to chuck the lens, and that I could plan on being in glasses for 10-14 days minimum. I pointed out that since I felt fine, had gotten a clean bill of health 2 weeks prior, and had just planned to get a prescription, I hadn't even brought my glasses with me and I couldn't drive home without my lenses in. And of course, I hadn't gotten the new glasses precription taken care of yet, because I was waiting on the one for the lenses, and I almost never wear glasses. So...on my way home, I went to order a new pair of glasses (it'll take 7-10 days), dropped off the prescription for the antibiotics to get that started as soon as possible, and took out the lenses. When I ordered the new glasses, the lady commented that they were a nice bit stronger than the last pair. (Gee, thanks!) With the old glasses, things aren't the best. I can drive, though I won't be reading any signs anytime soon, and I'll be more comfortable handing the responsibility off to my weekend visitor. The letters on my monitor are a bit fuzzy/blurry. The rational part of me knows that this is my own damn fault for not heeding my mother's advice about taking care of my eyes (you only get one pair!). It also knows that I'm lucky about the timing here (when I chose to see the doctor and how that played out) and I'm lucky that the professionals treating me took things seriously and didn't just send me off with a prescription and the potential for unknown damage. But there is also a part of me that is just annoyed at the thought of having to work out - and even worse, play hockey - in glasses (they fog up terribly). I'm annoyed that I won't be able to see clearly for a good week or so, and I'm annoyed that I don't know exactly when I'll be cleared for contact lenses again.

Snow Dog - Have you been reading Dawn of Tears again?

Bonus points in the race for Emperor are available if you can identify the actual poem that I'm ripping off.

Uh-oh. Perhaps I should start mobilizing my legions. It's time to get them moving from Kamchatka into Alaska...

I love it when... ...I can use the 'view new posts' option.

The new server calls to me. It's fast speed seduces my heart. Oh, how I want to post in the forums. Oh, how I want to read the blogs. Alas, I cannot...no wait. I can. Thank you, Myr! Thank you, Myr!

World domination starts in Australia. There is only one border to protect, and you get the extra armies at the start of every turn. Control of Australia and South America is the key to success...

Happy Birthday, Snow Dog! PS Let's see you find something to argue about with this post...

Chapter 1 - Val's Opinion Chapter 2 - Lurker's Opinion Reading Val's post, I couldn't help but agree. Who wants to see the same thing repeated? There had to be a way to communicate all the thoughts and feelings if needed. Ahhh, screw this... Bravo, bravo, Val. I couldn't have said it any better myself.