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an or swiss radio international was radio austria international or radio österreich international orf for short due to my work schedule orf s english service was often the last program i d listen to before bedtime and they managed to pack in the news from vienna as well as the program report from austria one day after listening to the news i decided to send orf a reception report as well as a comment on a story in the news something i rarely did and a few weeks later i received a letter saying my letter was going to be read on the air sure enough at the date specified my letter was read on the air with a short comment from the presenter the letter suffered from water damage dating from the move into our current house but here it is after some cleaning up sadly radio austria international is now defunct a victim of budget cuts and the changing methods of broadcasting news for nations worldwide i once had to type three lab reports in one night this might not sound so bad until you realize that each lab report was 20 30 pages long and that the only reason why i did it was because my save disk became corrupted ruining my copies of my reports i m dating myself here but i d been using old word processor program wordstar to work on my lab reports and saving the data on 5 25 floppy disks kids if don t know what 5 25 floppy disks are google it anyway i was working on cleaning up the reports before a presentation at my lab final exam when i tried saving and i heard the familiar ka chung of the floppy drive s gears screwing up sure enough my data was corrupted in a panic i realized i had about seven hours to rewrite about 80 or so pages to turn in for a grade to make a long story short with a lot of effort a lot of tea and a lot of semi insane muttering to myself i finished the reports in time and i even survived the presentation during the final which i believe was due to my being so tired i really didn t care how i sounded so i wasn t scared at all i am scared to death of needles this isn t that much of a surprise i suppose since a lot of people don t like shots but my personal reason why i could never do heroin centers around two specific incidents the first one was a shot i received when i was 13 and i d broken my collarbone at school the needle that the doctor used to give me a shot of morphine prior to setting the bone was so large about 0 25 diameter that i could see the hole at the end of the needle clearly that terrified me but because i was in such pain and was shoved down onto the table i couldn t move as the glorified morgul blade slowly moved in and punctured my shoulder i feel for you frodo from lotro wikia com the second incident happened when i was much older and as part of a life insurance application a nurse was dispatched to my house to draw a blood sample the process was supposed to be simple draw some blood from a vein in my right arm while the nurse prepped my arm i looked away gritted my teeth and waited for the needle i felt the needle prick and then a whole lot of extra well movement in my arm does that hurt the nurse asked i glanced over and saw her wiggling the needle in a wide arc while it was still puncturing my arm uh i began my brain not really registering what i was seeing ah dammit i went right through your vein i m going to have to use the other arm she yanked the needle out put it away and grabbed a new needle and my left arm after she was finished my wife said something to the effect of if you weren t scared of needles before you definitely are now gee thanks i once owned a car that had a hole in the floor seriously the car was a 70s era plymouth that had more rust on the body than actual metal and one day i realized the the place where i d been putting my left foot while driving felt well breezy i checked out the place after i parked and sure enough there was a heel sized hole in the floor with rust flakes all around all that kept my foot from plunging through the floor and striking the pavement was the carpeting and for the record i just kind of kept driving the car but just made sure that i put my left foot someplace else when i was a teen my d d collection was thrown out to save me from the fires of hell yes i m a refugee of the satanic panic that gripped the u s back in the 80s in those days many parents blamed societal ills affecting their kids on heavy metal music and d d this belief was whipped up by the story of james dallas egbert iii who allegedly vanished into the steam tunnels underneath michigan state university in 1979 the reality is more than a bit mundane but the ordeal and others such as patty pulliam s bothered about dungeons and dragons organization pushed d d into that satan is coming for your kids mini hysteria that gripped a lot of parents of that era my parents were no exception i trace my own problems with it to the time my family visited some in laws of my aunts who happened to be very much in the pat robertson fan club robertson was one of many televangelists who rode the satanic panic bandwagon constantly warning about satan s minions trying to get their claws on the american youth while i was at the in laws place my brother and i were both separately brought before what i d call a tribunal of my mom the in laws and my aunt and we were grilled over d d for about 5 minutes i don t recall anything particularly strange about it but that afternoon it was declared in a family meeting that d d was now forbidden as tools of the devil and the stuff was all collected and thrown out yes this was from an actual jack chick comic called dark dungeons and this was one of the milder forms of anti d d propaganda from geek and sundry s how d d writers fought the satanic panic of the 1980s no protests could sway them not even the obvious parallels with role playing games and acting helped because my parents believed that acting playing a role is fine but role playing is something else perhaps more than anything else those years in the wilderness as far as rpgs are concerned shaped my viewpoint on what rpgs are and how they are played as well as my views on how religion and power can be misused when people are afraid of something new i had to wait until later college before i really was able to embrace rpgs once more and i ve never looked back at this point i m supposed to nominate people for this award but no fear to my reading list i don t intend to do so many of them were nominated already so there s no reason to re nominate them and besides all good memes have to come to an end anyway or worse simply make them up john oliver had a great piece on this admittedly a running blog is one of the worst things for someone who is a shy b an introvert or c both to work on if you don t know who pat robertson is count yourself lucky he s a televangelist who loves to appear during disasters natural or man made and claim that it is god s wrath that brought about the tragedy if you google pat robertson nutty statements you ll get an idea of what i mean and they still believe it they also think harry potter and the rick riordan books lure kids into satanism and i ve chosen to ignore their disapproval when they see my kids reading science fiction and fantasy novels the irony is that my parents were the ones who got me into sf f in the first place with television shows such as lost in space and star trek and books such as lord of the rings and the sword of shannara eta added a few links that i d missed posted by redbeard at 2 11 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogging college d d memes shortwave older posts home subscribe to posts atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel context companion site mmo podcasts blizzard watch diablo 4 lord of hatred waiting room 6 days ago podcasts massively overpowered massively op podcast episode 563 in the name of the windrose 1 week ago twisted nether blogcast moving 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