That's fair. The he is Jewish defense was more just questioning why it is so offensive, for some people, when it comes from him but not from others. Is it because he has the features of a black fella? Race is just such a weird, mostly completely co…
I mean...you are going to have to hate a lot of comedians if those are your standards for comedy. I really don't understand the problem with the Jewish jokes as he IS Jewish and Stewart himself made a joke about Jewish people almost nightly and peop…
Where do you most often check UHX?
a) computer
What sort of (smart)phone do you have?
iphone six
Do you use UHX just "once a day" or do you check in multiple times a day?
A few times a week.
Do you find the number of participants and the speed…
That Oliver Sacks letter...wow.
I have experienced both kinds of death. They are all shitty. I have also experienced the weird essentially death but not actual death of someone with severe brain injury waking up and basically having to start over a…
Also, I am pretty scared that I will be one of those left behind people and that someone I love will just randomly die at any moment from something like that. It takes me, I think, much longer than most to recover emotionally from that stuff. Sends …
Yeah, I guess so, I'm just sorta a fan of and attached to being alive, and would ideally like a chance to say goodbye to the people I love and whom care about me even if it kinda sucks for me. I also think I hate leaving things unfinished and if I d…
The kind of thing that happened to Jerome Kersey is pretty much my biggest fear. Just walking along, reasonably healthy and then BAM dead. Aneurysms are the scariest thing to happen or to receive as a word in a spelling bee. I think he just had a bl…
Just saying. Walking with a friend on a snowy night and they are kinda drunk on bourbon and floppy and they flop into a snow bank. I'm imagining it as really dry snow so also a little bit of a comical snow explosion on impact. Maybe a snow beard on …
Long underwear and small bottles of bourbon can make the ride a little easier. If you drink little bits of bourbon while you are walking in 0 degree weather it feels awesome. Your insides get all warm while your outsides are cold. Kinda like the get…
I don't get it. What did he do that is so much worse than what like 95% of all politicians do all the time? I mean I guess I do get it. That sucks that he did that stuff, and I'm not even really a Kitzhaber fan, but getting run out of office for it …
I like the structure of it, but I wish it was a higher top. I could see it being one of those shoes where the spinoffs are better than the initial release. Like the D Rose classic is not so great but there is a navy and white spinoff that looks awes…
Someone should try to convince terrorist groups/organizations that this is maybe a way more effective and definitely way better option than murdering people.
Those are some great stories! Oh man, tour tales...two of my best stories to share are tour tales. I am a sorta bad writer but a cliffnotes of them:
One involving a town called Carefree Indiana in a Days Inn sports bar with a guy named Ray (that w…
I'm a sucker for most cartoons. I do sorta hate South Park but occasionally it will just get real weird and I just like it with no qualms. The Cartman and Cthulhu recreating scenes from My Neighbor Totoro episode for instance. From that world, I lik…
Don't forget about Paul's diary entries about how dudes should cut their hair.
Corinthians 11:14: "Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him?"
IMPORTANT STUFF! WORDS OF GOD! CUT YOUR HAIR HIPPY!
I think DFW is just pointing out that we all have our unhealthy obsessions whether consciously or unconsciously and picking something bigger than yourself will generally keep you happier and mentally healthier over the long haul.
The best parts of …
I think fundamentalism can be mostly ok. People get handed unbearable sadness and suffering to the degree that none of us can even imagine and I think that is generally religions best purpose. It helps people get through things they other wise would…
That is a very reductive assessment of that personal email to 4 people that I believe I also said I respected, cared about, and don't know if I would have acted any better than. Words that would've been better said in person but that opportunity ne…
I was using it in a humble way and thought it was clear that I was including myself as part of this board and this town, but maybe I should not? I have been here for 7 years. I have a home here. I have deep friends here. I do talk and act differentl…
I come back to this board precisely because I do like most of the people on this board that I have met, but also I have some deep disagreements with some of the smartest people here. That is exciting to me. We, largely, all live in a city where most…
I think Mike's points are probably right a lot, I just think they go a little to far. Even if understanding tech helps eliminate fear and frustrations 9 times out of 10, maybe that 10th time is weapons or some sort of other tech or progress that is …