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Bloggers are dying all over the place.
You can get this really weird rush in your chest if you work online 10-12 hours+ Wwithout getting up. Your body is trying to fall asleep but your brain is demanded oxygen so you get this wild cardiac rhythm going… hey, it’s cheaper than amyl nitrate…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 10 at 11:00 PM • permalinkOrion, I had an NCO in the Guard, athletic as hell, a police officer qualified to teach hand-to-hand combat, in his mid-forties, and working no where near a computer.
And he literally dropped dead in his steps, from a heart attack.
I wonder if the NYT might consider that along with their other anecdotal evidence.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 04 10 at 11:56 PM • permalinkThis just in from another section of the electromagnetic spectrum. More people die from lightning strikes each year than drop dead from online comment/posting exhaustion.
Recommend that all thunderstorms are to be registered and followed (F), with an allocated quota (Q) of voltage available for discharge to the earth in a given period. It will be mandated that it occurs near uninhabited (U) areas. Observers (O) will be funded (f1) to enable comprehensive reports of thunderstorm lightning breaches to be filed (f2) with the Dept. of F.U.Q O.f.f
That should do it.
The Lancet reports that as many as a billion bloggers may have died since posting began. Numbers are predicted to rise as the blogmire worsens.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 04 11 at 01:58 AM • permalinkHey! I’m recently unemployed maybe I can blog for a living.
Posted by Old school on 2008 04 11 at 02:03 AM • permalinkBest way to stop all this worry is to take a deep breath and hold for about 20 minutes.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 11 at 05:49 AM • permalinkO for the good old days. If the Weekly World News had found itself with an empty page it would have gone for ELVIS LOOKALIKE ALIEN’S THE FATHER OF MY CHILD! or something similar - you know, a proper made-up story.
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#17
20:00 minutes would have stopped the worries, you too, but not need to worry.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 11 at 07:28 AM • permalinkIt’s the Legendary Blogger of Arrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhuuuuuhhhhhhhh….
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 04 11 at 07:45 AM • permalinkA growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.
Oh yeah, that describes Tim Three-Posts-a-Day Blair.
/sarcasm
Actually, I enjoy Tim’s humour. But it’s the comments that make this a must read blog.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 04 11 at 08:09 AM • permalinkHey wronwright - how many bloggers have died in the tardis? - How many?
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 04 11 at 08:13 AM • permalink#25 - paco - I think you are referring to passive blogging?
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 04 11 at 09:08 AM • permalinkSo, are we commenters in danger from second-hand blogging?
paco, there is no such thing as second ha
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 04 11 at 09:31 AM • permalinkSecond-hand blogging, is that what we’re up to? I thought we were raiding Tim’s virtual liquor cabinet…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 11 at 09:34 AM • permalinkI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Never apologize for not blogging. Do you really want your last words to be, “Have come down with something. Resting now posts to resume later today or tomorrow”?
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2008 04 11 at 09:38 AM • permalinkFor what it’s worth, I’d like mine to be, “You weren’t so bad yourself, Kristen Bell…”
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2008 04 11 at 09:42 AM • permalink#27 kae -
Don’t be silly, Surfie, they don’t die in the Tardis.
It happens OUTSIDE the Tardis when he forgets to…
I resent that! I’ve never lost any bloggers. Or members of the VRWC for that matter. Stoop Davy Dave doesn’t count. He found his way back.
As far as those other people are concerned—the Aztec priests, the Sumerian guards, both sides in the Trojan War (how did that get out of hand?), Charles I, and um, Jeanne d’Arc—I don’t anything about them.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 04 11 at 09:50 AM • permalink#33 Wron: Those Aztec priests had it coming. Sure, when they presented us with those capes made out of blue parrot feathers, everything looked hunky-dorry; but when they invited us to scale the big pyramid so that we could “admire the view”, and had their chef sprinkle us with seasoned salt and tabasco sauce, I figure they all deserve whatever they got later.
mojo,
I tell you I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ANY OF THAT.
Besides, as far as you know the Normans were supposed to win that battle. Same for Hannibal.
As for Babylon, oh good lord how did that happen? All we did is teach them how to make Sumerian ale. On the basis of that, a whole empire arose?
Posted by wronwright on 2008 04 11 at 11:01 AM • permalink#4 Actually, if I didn’t have the blogs to read every day (especially this one), I probably would fall over and die, just from the lack of humor around my place lately.
How many bloggers are there, anyway, about a billion? And two died? IT’S AN EPIDEMIC!
Can you die from blogging? No. Can you die from sitting on your ass 18 hours a day, drinking caffeine and eating potato chips? Yes.
Dammit, wronwright, Earhart and Judge Crater are still calling us about their damned return ticket! Collect, no less.
I know you’ve been busy moonlighting (recon, my ass) at the American Airlines terminal, but will you please do something about them?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 11 at 11:22 AM • permalinkYeah, Wron! Earhart and Noonan are getting tired of coconuts…and each other! He keeps saying, “She’s no Ginger!”
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 04 11 at 01:18 PM • permalinkI thought Wron was responsible for the setup of Stamford Bridge; Hastings was the blowback ...
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2008 04 11 at 06:26 PM • permalinkOn the plus side, if your nice to wron he’ll show you his “before they were famous” shots from his hollywood scrapbook. All tasteful european type art shots of course.
Boy that casting couch trick worked well back then as well.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 04 11 at 09:58 PM • permalinkWhile we’re on the subject; Wron, what the hell did you do with Harry Holt?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 04 11 at 10:51 PM • permalink
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So much for bloggers in pajamas.
Methinks that the Fish Wrap Of Choice™ is trying to spin out blogging as unhealthy and dangerous. Since they can’t sneer at bloggers, after all the mistakes by the NYT highlighted by bloggers, they have to try a different spin direction. Amusing and pathetic.
And, yes, I was looking for the “tongue in cheek” clues. I didn’t find any. Perhaps someone else can.