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18 April 2008
Cue the Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth!→[More:]Hopefully it'll help with ups 'n' downs that have been happening lately.
Wait, what? *checks the Blue*
Oh, got it. Wow. Bummer. Isn't that what Flickr does when it's down? Get a massage? I think that the Blue should be getting a hummer while it's down.
Nerd-wail: The server is sending permanent redirect responses that mean anyone subscribed to an RSS feed on Ask or Jobs or MeTa will probably now be subscribed to the equivalent one on the blue. Waaaah.
It involves a Mexican fellow who is not clean, the evaportion of water by some Ohioans, and several yellow citrus having what can only be described as a racous fete.
Dirty sanchez, Cleveland steamer, lemon party. Do I win? Come on. I'd really like to win. Other people are always winning at the internets and I never win anything and it really sucks, you know?
Oh and please don't invite me to any of your parties, metafilter server. Nothing personal.
I prefer the Grim Reaper age estimator to the Real Age test, myself, LoriFLA. I do consistently confuse it, though; it thinks I'm ten years younger. It could be the hip college crowd keeping me young at heart, but I think it's more likely my constant hopping, all the hopping, enough with the hopping already.
I'm actually approaching 39, but the Grim Reaper thinks I'm 27. I took the same test a few years ago, and the Grim Reaper thought I was 24 or so. I still say it's the hopping.
The Grim Reaper provides a follow-up analysis of how its age calculations, and how your actual age [should you provide it] recalibrates the formula. Pretty cool. And mine plays out as a tension of older-person answers against little-kid answers, which sums me up pretty well.
My Real Age is 37, a couple of years younger than my, uh, real age. That's not bad; my biggest health concern (and the thing that makes me feel prematurely old) is a back injury, a typical Old Person's complaint, though mine is from an accident, not sheer broken-downedness.
Actually, that injury has pretty well curtailed the hopping, the hopping, the incessant hopping.
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