Alli

  1. I just got shot.

    4 times. With deadly diseases and stuff at the travel medicine clinic. My arms hurt so bad now. The last time I got an injection also happened to be my second day of work as a dishwasher. I can't even tell you how much pain that + 8 hours of scrubbing dishes and lifting heavy things caused.

    After 20 minutes of waiting around "for my safety and comfort" (a.k.a. for their lawsuit-avoidance strategy) it was determined that I wasn't going to succumb to the 3-in-a million ...
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    life
  2. Can't get used to the header image linking to the home page?

    I couldn't either, so I wrote a little script. It links the "DF" part of the image (Update: or the rightmost rabbit for the DU skin) to the homepage, but the rest of the image links to the forum index like it used to. Install at your own risk!

    1. You must be using Firefox
    2. Install "Chickenfoot" from here: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/
    3. Restart your browser and press F8 (or View > Sidebar > Chickenfoot)
    4. Click the ...
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    board stuff
  3. 10 years ago today...

    I woke up in a hotel and on my way to the breakfast room I passed the newspaper boxes announcing that Diana had died. Later that day I waved goodbye to the only continent I had ever known, and boarded a plane with my family, bound for Argentina. I'll spare everyone the details of my overseas experiences since I've rambled on enough about them in the past. But it's not very often you get to look back and see exactly where you were a decade before, and everything that's happened to you since. ...
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