Hey Mike, sorry to hear the bad news. My mum has MS and I have done some charity work for the MS Society in the past (and intend to do more in future). Give me a shout by PM if there is anything you wanna discuss.

Really sorry to hear Gaz but GL moving forward. Dont let this dictate or run your life. Its your ride so the fker is just gonna have to come with you whereever you decide to take it!

Thanks all again for your comments. Really, truly appreciated

****ing-a. this. Thanks so much for that!

Best wishes Gaz. Although it probably feels very daunting right now, I reckon a definite diagnosis is far better than ongoing uncertainty. I have heard that there have been promising results with stem-cell therapies in treating MS.

Gaz, much love to you. You seem like a tremendous character and have become a favorite poster of mine. I even read your tweets when they come across!

Wishing you the best.

no probs buddy and and just keep pushing forward.

Thanks for telling us Gaz. I don't think our interest is just sensationalism. I think this community of poker players is an unusual group, and my experience of it over the last 4 years makes me believe that there is a genuine spirit of support.

Couple of my friends set up GWPharma about 7 years ago - it has the only licence to grow marijuana in Europe, specifically for relieving MS symptoms. Nice to have an excuse ...
http://www.gwpharm.com/

Only other stuff I know about MS comes from The West Wing, but maybe you don't want to be Prime Minister anyway?

If you want a break for a few weeks, to sit high in the mountains in the sunshine, be delighted to give you a bedroom for as long as you need to work out how to deal with this.

Got travel approval from Japan country manager in our company today for 2.5 days in the South-West of Japan beginning of April.
Still quite some collegues who think I should cancel.
Figured that the guy with the approval responsibility will be one of the most cautious persons regarding risk, so should be very low risk if he approves, amirite?

Kitty loves her pot!

Wp, sir.

Wp.

Anyone pre order Gears of War to get the Beta? Think I might like the Beta??? but actual game won't be out till mid September, might end up like Cartman waiting for a Wii.

idk but it tilts me super hard that it seems they push it back another 6 months everytime i check

bump

smoking hookah while browsing through my HEM and making notes... Not many better ways of studying


EDIT: GODDAMNIT!!!!!!!!! State Radio is playing tonight in Portland (where i live).... I had no idea and no one wants to go last minute. Thinking about just busing down there for the **** of it.

For those of you who don't know them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jza3P3PBeQ4

I can't leave you for a second can I Mike??

This:

And:

I you, keep your head up.

Lyrical analysis of Rebecca Black's - Friday:

(Yeah, Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ark)
Oo-ooh-ooh, hoo yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah-ah-ah
Yeah-ah-ah
Yeah-ah-ah
Yeah-ah-ah
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Analysis: It's about childbirth (ooh ooh) and about the hope that parents have for their children the first time they lay eyes upon them (yeah yeah).

[Rebecca Black - Verse 1]

7am, waking up in the morning
Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs
Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal
Seein’ everything, the time is goin’
Tickin’ on and on, everybody’s rushin’
Gotta get down to the bus stop
Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends (My friends)

Analysis: The early part of the stanza is about enlightenment. Her eyes open, things are fresh to her. However, real-world pressures bring her down from this enlightenment ("go downstairs"), and drag her into the mundane (eating cereal). She is then forced into conformity with society (going to the bus stop to catch the bus, which is full of other people who have done the same), but then she sees an alternative, a means of escape.

Kickin’ in the front seat
Sittin’ in the back seat
Gotta make my mind up
Which seat can I take?

Obviously, this is about self-determination. Will she ride in the back seat and let others guide her life, or will she sit in the front seat and lead a purposeful life?


It’s Friday, Friday
Gotta get down on Friday
Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend
Friday, Friday
Gettin’ down on Friday
Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend

This is about death. Friday represents the end stages of our life, akin to the end stages of the week, and then she talks about "getting down" (dying). Everyone is looking forward to death. It completes the initial birth/life/death cycle of the early stanzas.

Partyin’, partyin’ (Yeah)
Partyin’, partyin’ (Yeah)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
Lookin’ forward to the weekend


Again, we have a positive anticipation of death ("the weekend" aka "the weak end"), but the message here is positive. Enjoy life while also looking forward to death. And note the clever use of words four times. This is a bow to the Chinese superstition of the number four being related to death. Repeating the words partyin' and fun four times means that we remember death and are surrounded by it even while embracing life.

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Please tell me that's not spacegravy.

Look at the legs->ass->waist.

That is not spacygravy.

guess i'm not the only one who tried to look more of her pics by decifring the URL

instantly wondered if that was spacegravy as well.