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Don't you need a kidney?

Pfft! Kidneys are for the feckless. The constant toilet breaks when they should be working.

Once you put the third kidney up on eBay, people are going to start asking questions.

Depends on the patina.

I'm seeing numbers from $1500 to $250,000 for a kidney. The lower range origins from developing countries. I'm sure you could easily raise £6000 if you're going to the dark market.

Edit: I didn't mean that Wales is a developing country...

My condolences.  Coincidentally, we had to put down one of our longtime family dogs this morning, too.  17 years old. 

@Rick Dangerous Her name was Tilly. @Rogerpoco Funny you should say that, we're the same and was talking about it today with the person who had been looking after her for us. She said that she had to force herself to even look sad when her mother died and she drove back home all the way from the North East of England (Sheffield), when she was supposed to be at her mother's funeral, after she got news that her cat had died! I think people just jade us in the way that animals don't. Tilly had been retired from being ridden 3 or 4 years ago because of her age and because daughter had outgrown her. Whenever she was taken out for a walk, people thought she was a Thoroughbred foal and they'd be shocked when told her age. I always thought she looked like a mini TB. Her mother's side was all purebred Welsh Section A, hence her size (12.2 hands), and included a pony that won at the Royal Welsh Show several years in a row in the early 70s. Her dad's side was a bit of a mess. She had a famous Arabian in there plus a whole bunch of Thoroughbreds, including four English Triple Crown winners. Her other pony's an Appaloosa, with a predominantly American lineage.

Oh goddamn. I've just realised something. A couple of years ago I started working on a book about Tilly to give to my daughter but never finished it. It was going to be a story of her lineage, including whatever I could find about the famous horses within it. Not sure if I should finish it now.

That article about how Pitfall creates its levels based on bit flags is a pretty good reference.

Yeah, or River Raid. But it depends how much different and how particular each level needs to be.

It's my first proper attempt at a 2600 game in assembler. I like challenges and wanted to cram it into a 4K cart and use the stock 128 bytes of RAM. Already had to make some compromises, such as reducing the size of the play area on screen so I can generate the map in just 80 bytes. Full width would have taken too much RAM space. I'm basically discarding the two four-bit wide playfield areas. I'll probably fill the sides with something else.

My Great-Grandparents had all died by the 1930s; neither of my Parents had ever met them, but I have very fond memories of spending quality time with my Maternal Grandfather. 

Good Advice!  Mine were all gone by the time I was 16...One Grandma died when I was 3 (though I still remember her), one when I was 7.  One grandfather died before I was even born.

I've been doing my family tree. My family's not good about talking about themselves or their parents. Unearthed quite a bit that I didn't know. Never knew my grandmother joined the RAF in 1941, for example.

Congrats!

Where -- US, UK, Europe, elsewhere? Depending on the jurisdiction, another generation or two back and you will reach the limit of available records. One ancestor came from near Belfast, Ireland ca. 1762. He was born about 1740, but without knowing the specific parish I have no hope of pursuing him any further. 

All UK - so far. There have been a few surprises. My grandad lost his mother at age 7 and was one of 14 kids, with the youngest being just 2 when my great grandmother died in 1913. One of her brothers died a year later during WW1 in a battle between a British and a German ship. I also always thought that that side of the family's roots were firmly on the island. Turned out they came from the North Wales mainland (a place called Abergele) and moved here between 1850 and 1853, judging by where the children of that generation were born.

Aw, Man, your... "age" is really hanging in there!

Mine evidently reached it's quota a few years ago, and I gotta say, it actually makes life MUCH easier, stress free.

I wish some rain would fall on California or Oregon (and plenty of others),  to help with the fires...

I would gladly send some of this rain and humidity out west if I could!

yeah, I also wish they'd allow us to clean out the dead trees and let the water flow again for the farmer of California etc... somehow letting it all burn is better than actually collecting and using what nature provides. Stagnant water isn't helping the smelt either, they got into the system because they liked it... then we shut it all down to 'protect' them and now we sadly watch them and the crops die...

What do you have?

Just some 800XLs and a 65XE. First one tested works. None of the others seem to. I'm going to buy or make a composite cable. The picture's pretty terrible.

To be frank I doubt she's actually trying. I think it's just a stupid PR stunt alongside every other facet of her existence.

Would you want HER to defend you in a court case? ?

Not if my life depended on it ... oh ... wait ... ?

Spuddle = spooge in puddle?  I'm not privy to this new lingo.

It's actually old lingo, meaning: "To work tirelessly without achieving anything of worth. To put in a great deal of effort and achieve only very little." Pretty much me and every other Indie game dev on the planet.

Sponge in poodle?

Best of luck!  Been there recently myself.

One of my fave writers  (Charles Bukowski) worked for like 20 years before becoming successful enough of a writer to be able to earn a living from writing. He said that every time he went to apply for a job, interview for one, etc., he'd automatically assume he wouldn't get the job. So as a result, he was very calm, relaxed, nice and thus well-liked by the interviewers, so he usually ended up getting the job. And then when he would start the job, he was the same way -- laid back and relaxed so he'd get promotions and raises a lot. Humans like likable folks. They value likability over precision, reliability, punctuality, etc.. Good luck with the job hunt.

@jd_1138 Good advice. Although I suppose it would be too much of a stretch to repeat the reasoning that another writer gave for effectively having a desk job if asked why I want the job. "It involves no heavy lifting." That writer was Terry Pratchett.

I'd say some of them also have defective memory, are permanently underclocked, and are overdue for a reboot.

They're on screen saver mode.  Non stop flying toasters.

please don't hurt dragons... I don't blame her

@GoldLeader -If she didn't have horses of her own, I'd be expecting to wake up with a horse's head in my bed by morning.

Better buy life insurance for the horses, just in case.

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When I was out yesterday, the same kitten that got herself stuck in a toilet got herself stuck inside a roll of sticky tape.

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When the cat got old and sick, it started behaving strangely. It started using the litterbox less and less, and the rest of the house more and more. Her favourite new place to take a dump was next to the Playstation. Perhaps it was her way of telling me what she thought of it.

I could be watching TV, and she would do it right in front of me.

Our last cat, before he got sick and couldn't jump, had a habit of crapping in the kitchen sink if he couldn't get to his litter box. ?

You had a very well trained cat.

Or a spell, to pick up a brick and repeatedly hit themselves in the face, cheaper and less hassle.