Earl had to die.
2002-11-19 - 5:11 a.m.
This has been a culture week for me, of sorts.
First I finally got a chance to listen to the Dixie Chicks for the first time, and I love "Goodbye Earl!" I have more than trippled my selection of country mp3s on my PC... I had 3 before.
And tonight, I walked past the TV in the cafeteria at work, stopped, saw something vaguely resembling a funny home videos show in Spanish, and asked the others watching if they were watching "Ay Caramba!. They were, and seemed surprised I knew the show. :) I sat and watched it with them for a while. If the commentary is as bad as "American's Funniest Home Videos," it's just as well that I don't know much Spanish.
I am a sensative artist...
2002-11-13 - 12:20 a.m.
Bleh, tired, don't feel that great. At least only five and a half hours to go this week (plus a meeting, probably thursday, bleh).
Oh well, thought this was cool:
I'm exceptionally artistic!
Find your soul type at kelly.moranweb.com.
sad meat story
2002-11-05 - 11:33 p.m.
There's this Thanksgiving story I remembered and was looking for online, but I couldn't find it anywhere, so here it is, to the best of my memory.
A man won a raffle at work for a Thanksgiving turkey. He picked up the turkey and got on the bus to ride home.
He overheard a man who said he wished he could afford a turkey for his family for Thanksgiving. The man thought about it for a moment, walked over, and handed the stranger the turkey. It was a touching scene, etc.
The next work day, the man told his co-workers about the incident on the bus. Strangely, no one seemed very happy about it. Finally, someone explained to him that they had intended to play a prank on him. They'd given him a rubber turkey.
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If anyone knows the origin of this story, please let me know. It might have been an anecdote I heard in church even... sounds like something Chuck Swindoll would have shared. It's structured like a joke, but with a downer for a punchline.
Thinking back on it, imagine the man got the turkey home, opened it, and decided to make up that bus story to "get them back."
online friend, offline death
2002-11-03 - 10:11 p.m.
A friend of mine just told me a friend of his from an online game died in a traffic accident.
This got me to thinking, if I died today, would my online friends ever know, or would I just disappear, leaving them to wonder?
Thankfully for me, my domestic partner knows all the places I hang out online, and a few other friends know most of them.
But I'm sure I have a few friends who spend a lot of time online, whose families would know to contact certain off-line friends in the event of their deaths, but might not know about online friends or know how to contact them. Also, most people online use a handle, that their families may or may not know, while their online friends may or may not know their legal name.
My friend's friend probably had a "crossover" friend, that they knew both online and offline, or at least they had each other's phone number. Lacking such a friend, I think writing up a document of online contacts along with a will (or just handwritten in a safe place) would be a nice idea.
Does anyone know if there is already an established format or precedence for such a form? At the very least it could be a set of instructions for family to follow.
