Paul's Journal

03/19/2010 22:54 #51226

Chat Roullette
Category: web

Here is a good way to waste your life away

. Its a chat program that randomly connects you with someone on webcam from around the world. At any point you can hit next. There is no friending, there seems to be no rules.

Really its crazy. I met some cool people from all around the world. Then I met a bunch of middle school aged dudes from america who thought I was osama, the one from the world trade center fiasco.

It is a perfect example of where flash is awesome and the apple iphone internet sucks.

paul - 03/19/10 23:37
fixed

tinypliny - 03/19/10 23:35
The link you posted leads to a generic placeholder-looking sham website...

03/19/2010 19:11 #51222

My house minus pink
Category: linwood

I painted the bay windows today and removed the majority of the pink
that was left. I didn't get to do the orange on the trim but it
already looks so much better.

03/19/2010 10:16 #51219

Who would have thought?

Being drunk could be so good for your survival chances in serious
trauma.

jenks - 03/21/10 19:10
haha sara good point. When I lived in new orleans, someone said it was the sober drivers who caused all the accidents- because they actually STOPPED at the stop signs. All the drunk drivers just kind of went with the flow.
You may be on to something. ;)

but an aside about drunk trauma- at ECMC in the ER, even if someone is clearly WASTED, we have to be careful not to document it in the chart anymore.
Because if a trauma is caused by alcohol, insurance won't cover it.

Ok, I can see where they're coming from with that. But it's not thought through all the way- because ECMC can not turn down the traumas. So what it ends up meaning is that if you mention alcohol in the chart, the hospital just doesn't get paid for the case, period.

So, we just can't mention it.

fucked up system.

dragonlady7 - 03/19/10 21:19
The trauma percentage thing is a bit misleading, but yes, if you're already totally explodinated, your odds of surviving it are probably higher if you were drunk out of your mind at the time when it happened than if you weren't. But your odds of having gotten totally explodinated in the first place are probably way higher as well...

iriesara - 03/19/10 14:01
I wonder if it has anything to do with anxiety levels. Like if you're shitfaced and you get fucked up you're too drunk to feel the fear. Kind of like that stat about DUI-related accidents. Because the drunks are all laid back they don't tense up as much as a sober person, and are therefore usually not as injured.

jenks - 03/19/10 13:36
whaaa? That makes ZERO sense to me.

03/19/2010 00:19 #51218

Matt's Birthday
Category: birthdays

We had his gifts imported from a previous century.

metalpeter - 03/19/10 18:50
Happy Birthday Matt

iriesara - 03/19/10 12:01
Happy birthday Matt!!
Is the gramophone functional? That's super cool.

theecarey - 03/19/10 10:59
awh, that is an awesome gift! Happy Birthday, Matthew! :)

heidi - 03/19/10 10:20
What awesome presents! Happy birthday, Matthew!

matthew - 03/19/10 10:18
Thanks tiny & James! And thanks for the gifts Paul and Terry! I love my lamp and gramophone!!

james - 03/19/10 09:13
happy birthday!

tinypliny - 03/19/10 07:07
Wish you have a rocking year ahead, Matthew! :)

03/17/2010 20:39 #51210

Tree looks like a monster

iriesara - 03/18/10 11:17
omg, can you imagine if that tree was in front of my house growing up???

uncutsaniflush - 03/17/10 21:41
I think that tree was in the Wizard of Oz <g>