Are these people serious? You have to be half deaf, or fucking stupid to think that the audio in that Hallmark card is “black hoes” and not “black holes”, especially when the card is based upon the fucking solar system. The NAACP has nothing better to do than bitch about a greeting card? Get a real fucking job, you sparkling wiggles.

Allow me to elaborate. I was only about 7 at the time, and I was a very thin youngling. My friends and I were playing tag after school waiting for our parents to pick us up. I tagged a friend of mine who can be described euphemistically as heavy set. I ran away, but there was a fissure in the ground that we were playing on and I tripped on it and fell on my stomach. He, in his relentless heaving pursuit, tripped on the same crack and landed on my leg, snapping my femur. It gets better.

While waiting for my mother to arrive, the genius teachers who were watching over the playground activities, thought it wise to pick me up and carry me to the principal’s office and lay me down on the table. This only caused further injury, and caused the bone to nearly break skin.

In any case, I was brought to the hospital where I had to spend quite some time because the bottom half of the bone had ended up overlapping the top part so first they had to attach weights to my leg and pull it down into the correct position so it could heal. Hospital stay lasted 10 days. Then I got a cast which completely encased one leg, went up to just above my belly button and halfway down the other leg. I was incapacitated for 6 weeks, unable to bend over, sit up, or walk. It was miserable.

Fucking fatass.

Share your worst injury.

I was playing Starcraft 2 with a stranger and it reminded me of my younger years of playing Starcraft 1. Only this time I was lagging because my computer sucked and couldn’t run SC2 very well, as opposed to a decade ago when it lagged because I was using dialup. Who here ever had a 28baud modem? Pretty sure a few of the older guys have.

Anyone remember Compuserve? It was just a small chunk of the web trend of 1995-2000 before broadband was available to even the most remote locations in the Louisiana swamp; the web trend of portals, where you “dialed in” and received a big list of channels to check out, before things like going straight to websites was a cool thing to do.

But I digress.

What I’ve realized over the past year is the complete abandonment of Instant Messaging. When I (we) first got an Internet connection, probably from a shitty company like AOL, the main selling point was email and instant messaging. While email is still in use for obvious reasons, IMing people seems to have died completely. The first thing it would do when you signed into any portal, be it AOL, Compuserve, NetZero, etc, was your buddy list would pop up (or you would open the standalone AIM client).

While this may still be standard practice for me, or maybe just a force of habit, the difference is simple: nobody is ever online. As it stands, I have 111 friends on my AIM list:

Facebook and other social networking and micro-conversations (like Twitter updates, wall posts, and post comments) have completely replaced online conversation. If I find something cool and want to share it instantly, no one is even there to receive it, and I could get it out in the open faster by just posting it on Facebook.

It’s a sad time, actually. I remember when I’d be juggling 10 ongoing conversations at a time, and doing nothing else. Now, to even reach somebody on AIM is a long shot. I’d be better off mailing them a letter.

Since writing the last two paragraphs, there is now only one person online. I don’t know why, but I actually miss the days of talking to people on AIM without it being a three second pointless conversation. I guess I just need to get with the times.

Server URL: run-around.com

Pick any username.

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?Product_ID=65548

Works either in-store or online.

If you go in-store, the key is printed on your reciept ( I just did this and confirms it works ).

If you go online, the key is sent to you within 1 business day ( not sure how accurate the time estimate is but you can follow this thread for details : http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/btxuu/preorder_sc2_at_gamestop_get_beta_key/).