shanmonster | Stuff and Things

I haven't been around my computer much lately. This just in from my site's host:

It looks like the tide may have slowed.. I think the best thing to do is to ask joncanuck about sending the CPU & RAM, and if anyone else has something they wish to donate to send it as well and i'll sort/match/trade once something's here.

So, folks, if you have something to donate, please let me know and I'll arrange for shipping and what-have-you.

I'd really like to have my site back up and running. It's getting all cobwebby, not interwebby.

Links? I thought you'd never ask.

Love Will Tear Us Apart: A wide variety of covers of the old Joy Division standby. And what does it mean that I've seen two people wearing Unknown Pleasures t-shirts in the last week?

Turkish Man Fights Mob: This is what could happen when a man with good fighting skills gets jumped by a bunch of people without. Check out what happens to the guy in white. Classic (thanks,

gha5t)!

Butchering Makes a Cow Happy: I'm not sure if this is the cow from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

India May Arrest Richard Gere Over Kiss: He kept kissing Shilpa Shetty on the cheeks in a shocking display of erotic vulgarity.

Hot Dog Mailed Between Sisters for 54 Years: With pictures. Yes, the same hot dog.

Mysterious Huge Stone Eggs Discovered in Hunan Province: No word on if elephant bones or the remains of Sinbad's men were also found at the site.

Flagellation ritual exposes Filipinos to rabies: "More than a hundred men in the Philippines may have contracted rabies after taking part in a self-flagellation ritual to mark Good Friday, doctors and local authorities said on Thursday."

Lego Vibrator - The Fuck-o-matic: Uh, ouch?

LifTits: NSFW due to boobage. Don't you hate it when gravity is winning?

The Popularity Dialer: Not enough people calling you? Want people to think you're popular? "Via a web interface, you can choose to have your phone called at a particular time (or several times). At the elected time, your phone will be dialed and you will hear a prerecorded message that's one half of a conversation. Thus, you will be prompted to have a fake conversation and will easily fool those around you."

And from

norvellouwho comes this weirdly wonderful account:

We had a patient in our ICU who ate rocks. Pica is the clinical term for it, sometimes you'll hear about pregnant women eating strange things like paste or detergent, or licking bricks when they have it. It's usually blamed on vitamin deficiency.

The actual patient is not the source of the WTFery, although she was pretty nutty. Her family was really screwed up, they were amused by mom/grandma's affection for rocks and encouraged her behavior. She had been doing this for years and they never once considered seeking medical attention. She was brought to the ICU for a totally different reason.

The WTF part---We didn't truly realize how screwed up the family was until they went out into the back yard (her favorite hunting ground) and brought her rocks to eat to the ICU. It was a nice assortment too, a few small ones, a few larger ones. All were smooth and round, the way granny preferred them.

The patient was very distressed when we would not give her the rocks upon request, she knew that family had brought them in for her and was very upset that we had "lost" them. We never told her that we threw them away, she would have had a stroke or something.

Vitamin infusion for patient, psych consult for family.