Reuben

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Name: Reuben Gann
Date registered: 11/30/-0001

Latest posts

  1. An illuminating trip to the Microsoft store — 12/29/2013
  2. Netflix streaming continues to founder as dozens of prominent movies are taken down — 12/28/2013
  3. Saints Row IV is the most fun I've had playing a game — 11/19/2013
  4. Statisticians need to see how experimental science really works, then shut up about it — 11/13/2013
  5. Surface Pro 2: first impressions — 10/24/2013

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Sep 05 2007

What the hell is that sound?

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General, Our Home

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3:25 AM: *bang* whooooooooooooooo Jessica and me, in bed: What in the FUCK? We sat up in bed, waiting a couple minutes while the wailing voice of a woman continues. Then two more loud *bang* noises. They sounded like they somebody was actually hitting the wall of our bedroom. Now we're pretty freaked out. I …

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Aug 21 2007

Paramount is stupid

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There's been a hell of a lot of analysis of the fact that Paramount (known mostly for its Scientology films) and Dreamworks Animation (motto: we made Shrek, and a bunch of other shit...but, hey, SHREK!) have dropped Blu-ray for HD DVD exclusively. They join the one single other studio which is doing so, Universal. Let …

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Jul 26 2007

"Live with it."

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Medicine sucks. They can diagnose structural things, and chemical things, but anything functional and they are basically useless. To be fair, scanning organs on a cellular level to tell what's wrong with them is very Star Trek, but one would think they could do something. I had a CT (structural) following a bunch of blood …

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Jun 20 2007

Diagnostic hell

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To begin with: I am not great with needles. I don't get faint, but I am very squeamish. Nurses are fond of telling me that my veins are difficult, but I have, before today, had 2 successful and uneventful IVs inserted. Today I went in for my CT scan, ordered because the doctor doesn't know …

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Jun 10 2007

I really wish I knew what was wrong with me

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For 7 weeks now, I've had some kind of weird ... condition. Severe abdominal pain woke me that night at about 3am. I thought I must have food poisoning, got up, threw up. In retrospect, what I was feeling was not nausea, but it's hard to tell sometimes with such pain, and I thought it …

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