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If one of our family suffers a case of mortality, it would
be
good to be notified about it, as sad as that would be.
When
we lost Paul (Maxwell Buchannon) a while back, there
was
closure and some solace in that we stayed with him and
offered him comfort while he was going through his final
challenge.
This would simply be a line on your page with "Secondary
contact". Don't need to get into why that would be an
option, it would just be another email address of a
friend
or relative. Then if
somebody disappears, that second contact can be
written
to and hopefully they'll just write back and say "He/she
got sick of the
lot
of you and decided to get a life." and we could all breath
a
sigh of relief.
Sorry for the Debbie Downer of an idea, but people
dissapearing is creepy. I don't like it.
Underwater-basket weaving (for catching fish)
https://willowhaven...hat-keep-on-giving/
[pocmloc, Jun 21 2020]
Ditto
https://babbarra.co...mandjabu-fish-trap/
A well-proven technology [pertinax, Jun 21 2020]
The Howard Stern bit I got my moniker from
https://www.youtube...watch?v=wtXr7-NvZdI
[doctorremulac3, Jun 23 2020]
[link]
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It's a good idea, and a nice reminder to us all that life
is fleeting, make plans, be aware that people care
and you'll be missed. Not just here, but other places
as well.
Thanks, doc. I've done mine. |
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Thanks Blissy, I’ll do mine too. |
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I always imagined [8th] as some part of shadowy governmental operations. Contractually that work involves creepily moving around, disappearing, reappearing with no trace. Unless a clean up crew has been ordered. |
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Next of kin or friends should be oblivious. |
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//Next of kin or friends should be oblivious// Yes I've heard about those parties. |
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Nice sentiment. I posted something here on a similar theme many years ago (since deleted). I just have a status update on my user page & you can check the 'last modified' date to see if it is current or not.
I just checked mine & realised that I am coming up fast on 20 years of halfbakery attendance. Haven't done much actual halfbaking recently but, still, thats...a long time! hippo & po are probably around the same point too I imagine. |
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Wow, I thought I was a long time veteran at 15 years. Very
cool Doc. |
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I'm 19. 19 years old. That's very old, but you are right, Dr.B
(it's so good to see ya), hippo and po are even older. They are
officially our Elders. |
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I only bin here 14 years. |
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Hey, I'm coming up on my 18th birthday. |
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Although I thought I was older... perhaps I had a protracted
gestation. |
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14 years here... Man what a time it's been too... |
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I've done this in reverse. That is, in case I take a one-way ticket
unexpectedly, I've asked the inventor of Draughts Abdication to
drop in here and let you all know. So if you don't hear from her,
I'm probably fine. |
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//That is, in case I take a one-way ticket unexpectedly// |
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WA Borders still have a hard closure so you should hang
around. |
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//hippo and po are even older. They are officially
our Elders// - that's a scary thought... |
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{the H P Lovecraft reference that [8th] ought to have made at
this point} |
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[Loris], our birthday on our page isn't correct if you
lived through the great crash, and I'm sure you did. |
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My old college has a special members club for people who have written the college into their will. Perhaps the halfbakery could do likewise. The Flakey Crusties could have the privelege of mumble mumble and their bequest, when they finally croak, would help pay for HB expenses. |
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Wow 18 years goes fast!
If I haven't come around for a while and anyone cares I left my wifes' contact info. |
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What do you mean, if anyone cares??? You'd be missed so much
we would have to bestow a day in honor of you, a half-day of
course, but a day just the same. |
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Thanks 2frys. You'd be surprised how many nice people are
out there who care about others. They just don't get a lot of
attention. |
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Makes for boring headlines but a good world. |
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Aw that's sweet.
I'm kind of in-like with you guys too. |
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(handshake, awkward hard slap on the back man half-hug) |
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So, looking forward to the new football season? Yea, gonna
be great. |
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//[Loris], our birthday on our page isn't correct if you lived through the
great crash, and I'm sure you did.// |
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I'm not sure about that. It seems like it would have been data available
for scraping when jutta was salvaging from the google cache.
The wayback machine has its first hit on my user page on august 10, 2002
with the same birthday - and by then it has three ideas listed.
Also, one of the first comments I remember making was on "progressive
peril clock" in august 2002. You replied to that (very kindly), but that
comment is now gone. I think you might have deleted your account for a
while. |
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In brief, I think my registration date is correct (mental reconstruction of
when I found this place notwithstanding), but also you're right in thinking
you had an account in 2001. |
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hmm... a check and my first posting is Dec 2007, so only 12-1/2 years... a veritable newbie, I is. More likely of course is one of those annoying parallel universe shifts, that keeps my car keys and glasses in places I already checked. |
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It's weird. I could probably spend a century here and still feel like a newb. |
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That 8th needs his arse spanked. Who let him out
of his box? Where is he? |
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Do we have a bakery version of an "Amber Alert", that
beeps everyone's phone and comes on the tv, and gets
you while in your car as well?
A missing person auto alert for everyone on Earth
would work.
Maybe someone kidnapped him.
I'm starting to get sad. Very sad. |
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Yea, me too. I think it's probably safe to make a
pretty horrible assumption at this point. |
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England's been pretty hard hit. Of course it could
be anything but I'm not seeing a reason why one of
the most prolific and earliest Halfbakery members
would suddenly just drop off. We've obviously had
members who just got tired of the site, but 8
seemed to have as much or more fun with this site
as anybody. He's also not the type to get offended
and leave a contentious forum, on the contrary, he
relished it. |
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I'm going to sadly assume we've lost him. Hope he
turns up and makes fun of me for being so
melodramatic but, well... not sure what to say beyond
that. |
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Wonder if we should just do a compendium of
thoughts about our brother. If somebody wants to
take point on that I'll join in but I'd rather not do it
myself. I've had enough drama this year. |
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But if nobody else wants to I'll handle it I will I
guess. |
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I'm also fine with holding off for a while. He may
be sick and sick people do recover. |
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Assume people who want to be here will be here and people who do not want to be here will not be. That's the extent of it. |
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I don't want to be here! How do I get out? Everywhere I turn there is a stupid idea, and my only option is typing a supposedly witty or insightful reply into a little box. |
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With [MB] gone, my suspicions would immediately point to an
unsupervised Sturton. If someone could track down the intercalary for
questioning, it might be of some use. |
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Just some observations... |
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During the learning curve with Covid [8th] seemed to be
the info man, perhaps too much info? He caught some
flak for that judging from the subsequent annos. |
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When [kdf] popped up he was openly hostile to [8th],
though those annos have now been removed. |
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Losing [Max] hurt many of us. |
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Maybe our alien friend is sitting back, rethinking his
approach, taking a break from recent events. And if he is,
that's fine. But it's worrisome to not know. |
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All I know is that my favourite teachers seem to be disappearing at an alarming rate. |
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I disappeared for a while because [grayure] said I
should get a life and was spending too long on here. I
proceeded to go out and get a job-type thing, which
went on for a bit and eventually came back to this
place. My absence was somewhat noted. It was in
about 2007 I think. Sometimes meatspace intervenes. |
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But yes, it is a little concerning given the
circumstances that [8th] is not here. |
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I am always connected to some folks by Facebook,
like nineteenthly. I notice disappearing people
though. |
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I don't think I know [8th] from elsewhere though
[blissmiss]. I would like to know what's going on. |
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//my favourite teachers seem to be disappearing at an alarming
rate// |
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Surely that happens to everyone at a certain time of life. What it
means is, you're one of the teachers now. |
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// What it means is, you're one of the teachers now.// |
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Well crap... I'm completely unprepared.
If we could just rewind the last decade or so that'd be great... |
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Allrightythen sign up sheets for underwater basket weaving 101 have officially been posted.
May God have mercy on our souls. |
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//Well crap... I'm completely unprepared.// |
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I know. It's a bit like parenthood, right? Just think of all
those big, round trusting eyes looking up at you, then
bursting into tears. |
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//kind of in-like with you guys// |
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Umm ... steady on, old chap. |
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What, I've got to learn a whole new set of niggle points. That's a bit unfair. |
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Underwater basket weaving is really given short shrift. Do you realize just how many fish have been caught with underwater baskets? |
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^ I think I may need technological help to complete. |
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I feel like I've had just about enough death to deal
with. Best friend of 39 years, ex wife who
remained a dear friend after we divorced, my mom
recently. Maybe with all the crap going on in the
world it's time to have a little quiet introspective
moment and appreciate the life and loved ones we
have. |
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Max and 8th gave me 15 years of great
conversation, debate, advice, criticism, humor and
views of the world from a different perspective.
It's time for me to celebrate that and knock of the
negativity associated with loss. I don't have the
strength to carry that kind of pain anyway so I'm
just going to let it go as best as I can and move on. |
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I'll celebrate the good memories I have of these
people but my heart told me it's tired, so I'm
reducing the load it has to carry. |
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I'm standing up now, dusting my knees off and
moving forward. I'm trading my grief for
appreciation of the people I've been blessed to
have in my life, those still with me and those who
have passed. |
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It's father's day today. Hope I get a tie. Maybe
they'll bring me ice cream. And life goes on. |
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My daughter is studying to be a Death Doula. She and
I have always felt that death should be a celebration
of life, not an ending... |
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I think time will tell but my belief is all will be well. |
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My husband lost both his parents in January. I'm still
trying to support his grief, but not take it on. It's his
to mourn, really, if that is what he chooses to do. |
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Have a shoulder, doc, you can cry on it or pinch it.
Just don't let those emotions fester inside of you and
become an illness. But you are a doc, so you already
know that. |
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Thank you Blissy, you're kind and wise. People like
you shine in times like these. |
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(By the way, I'm not a real doctor, I just picked that
name because it sounded funny.) :) |
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(It's a Howard Stern thing yes?) |
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Yup. That’s where I got it. Didn’t put a lot of
thought into it because I thought I would post my
custard filled speed bumps idea and be on my way.
Of course 1,000 people had already thought of it
but I found the site intriguing and decided to hang
out for a few minutes. That was 15 years ago. |
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And as I've said, I'm doctorremulac3 because
doctorremulac and doctorremulac 1 and 2 were
already taken. Guess the Stern show bit was pretty
popular. |
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//“8th” was openly hostile to almost everybody here at one
time or another// |
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Oh please, 8th is a pussycat. All you gotta do is mention
any sort of antipathy towards felines or small children,
mahogany, or steam powered ANYTHING and he'll be
eating out of your hand. |
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//But don’t mistake characters for their authors...// |
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So, don't you think there's any truth in Vonnegut's famous
remark, "Be careful what you pretend to be, because you are
what you pretend to be"? |
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/“8th” was openly hostile to almost everybody here
at one time or another/ |
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Absolutely, I got into it with him often, same with Max.
Who the hell wants to sit around holding hands singing
kumbaya? |
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I always considered debate as being like the tension
cables holding up a suspension bridge, they pull in
opposite directions but they're effective towards
achieving the same goal. In the case of the bridge, it's
holding up the road, in the case of debate, it's critically
analyzing the complicated options and choices we're
faced with in running a civilization. |
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Right or wrong, 8th would get into the ring, and although
some find that uncomfortable, I consider the crucible of
contentious debate a sacred place no matter where it's
located. Keep in mind, some cultures don't have that, so I
think it's something to be celebrated and cherished. I
think it should be voluntary, but from my perspective, if
that challenge bell rings, I'm jumping over those ropes
and getting into it. 8th had that attitude too. |
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And 8th could take a (metaphorical) punch as well as he
could give it. I respect that. |
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Of course everything I've just written is debatable.
Ironically. |
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I'll go out on a limb here and guess that he's not dead, Jim,
just doing other stuff. Maybe out standing in his field,
perhaps critiquing pon farr while laughing but probably
repainting the damn Cube. |
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I misread that as "...perhaps critiquing porn". He's
probably taking a break. A few times I've found I had
nothing particular to say, and taken breaks of
several months from the Halfbakery. I think this
happens to a lot of people; It's just more noticeable
with those who have a high volume of contributions. |
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I did too. I think it was porn and it was changed.
Haha What the hell is "pon farr"? |
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Yes, breaks give you perspective. Maybe when he comes
back he'll be as sweet as a little lamb. Docile, agreeable... |
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Does anyone else read "the flipside"? it gives an alternative
rationale for current issues and makes you think about other
people's perspectives if you are unable to figure out that for
yourself. (wear a mask/not wear a mask for instance) |
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// I'm doctorremulac3 because doctorremulac and doctorremulac 1 and 2 were already taken. |
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Presume you are talking about other platforms because those usernames are all available here. As is "doctorremulak" which I believe was the accepted spelling. |
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God, it's like you all have this secret language. I feel
left out. Does anyone know "Pig Latin"? That would
suffice. |
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//Presume you are talking about other platforms// |
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Yes, I signed up for Halfbakery at the same time as
I
signed up for, I think it was an old defunct email
address I
used
to have as well as my Macy's account, etc. If the
Howard Stern show I listened to that day featured
a character named Captain Buttface that would
have been my name to this day. Got a little luckier
with Doctor Remulak being the guest that day I
guess. |
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And yes, the Howard Stern guy spells it with a K. |
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In case anybody is interested, here's a link to the
bit. (link) |
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You would have made a great Captain Buttface if it's any consolation. |
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Pon Farr is the most ridiculous idea ever to grace SF,
[blissmiss]. It's the idea that male Vulcans come on
heat every few years and if they don't have sex, they
die, which makes no sense at all from the point of
view of passing on their genes (except maybe it does).
But it's annoying. |
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//it's like you all have this secret language// |
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"The secret is, there is no secret". That was told me by a
Russian at the end of the Cold War, apropos the closed cities of
the Soviet Union. It probably applies here, too. |
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//"The secret is, there is no secret".// |
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also
"The halves and halve-knots"
...because that just popped into my head while I was typing. |
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