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- Пт, 13:26: #scifichat Yes, the dark hero is the one to whom the ends justify the means.
- Пт, 13:28: #scifichat For all his brooding, Angel is less a dark hero than Captain Sisko.
- Пт, 13:28: #scifichat Intro: Paul Gadzikowski, writer/cartoonist http://t.co/lxFg4bbr
- Пт, 13:33: #scifichat Story makes a dark hero as much as character. Superman and Micheal Corleone both do what needs to be done.
- Пт, 13:37: #scifichat @JLichtenberg Yes, I meant to say earlier: every hero makes a sacrifice - Superman's and Micheal Corleone's, e.g., are different.
- Пт, 13:39: #scifichat A dark hero is, or believes he is, working for the good. An antihero is working for himself.
- Пт, 13:45: #scifichat @Radlein I thought it was Orpheus who screwed up by looking back, not Persephone
- Пт, 13:47: #scifichat A4 My favorite "hardboiled" sf? BVS/A. Wheadon does both feelgood and dark well. Often simultaneously.
- Пт, 13:59: #scifichat Forever Knight could be dark, but Nick the protagonist wasn't the dark character there ...
- Пт, 14:03: #scifichat Jack Harkness is a dark hero, 'specially in Children Of Earth #torchwood
- Пт, 14:07: #scifichat I once wrote that Buffy chooses the light instinctively but Faith had to try both sides to choose.
- Пт, 14:12: #scifichat diGriz is an antihero rather than a dark hero, by the definition I offered.
- Пт, 14:19: #scifichat I don't read or watch Dexter but I'd say he's a dark hero. Doing evil against evildoers doesn't make a right.
- Пт, 14:22: #scifichat Must catch a bus. Must find somewhere to break a tenner first. See y'all next week.
- Пт, 15:37: The problem isn't whether it's accurate that Buffet pays less in tax than his secretary. The problem is that it's credible he does.
- Пт, 18:38: RT @dduane: Looks like #PrincePhilip had coronary artery blockage, had it treated by coronary cath & stenting, is now in ICU. (hosp. statement via Sky)
- Пт, 18:59: Sometimes I feel the sketch format at 3Faces is great for updates for bad gag days and sometimes I feel that that's not what 3Faces is for.
- Пт, 20:10: #AKOTAS update: already updated. http://t.co/ju4LY9Qi #webcomics #kingarthur
- Сб, 10:00: @Paul_Cornell You need to turn the coat loose on the Coke machine, that what you ought to do.
- Чт, 22:24: #AKOTAS update: harbinger. http://t.co/B30kD7V0 #webcomics #kingarthur
- Чт, 22:27: Hero of Three Faces sketches: checking out Windpows 7 MSPaint. http://t.co/tyOdvD68 #aftermash #startrekvoyager #buffy
- Пт, 07:27: Not going to Dreamwidth http://t.co/Sx1dC3FD
- Пт, 09:34: Every time I stop to make sure I have my nitroglycerin pills with me, I think of Ace. #heartattack #doctorwho
- Пт, 09:44: "Ace, I've got angina. Give me some of that Nitrostat you're not carrying."
- Пт, 09:49: See, Ace would have to carry it, because you can't keep it in a pocket because it'd get too warm; so Ace'd keep it in her sack.
- Пт, 09:50: Is Time Lord angina twice as painful?
- Пт, 10:34: Boy, a lot of people calling a technical assistance IVR get really testy.
Manually created Twitter mirror post 12/8
Dec. 9th, 2011 11:15 pm- LJ's function for Tweeting new entries seems to be coming back on, with special new 18 hour delay.
- '@choochoobear @RedneckGaijin You must have a certain threshhold readership amount to include ones that crazy. Or at least that's my guess.
- @PeterDavid_PAD I think of Dan Quayle any time I find myself believing a ticket including Sarah Palin couldn't be elected.
- @TheOnlyTrout I'm working today on a strip for a week from now - a regular strip, not a sketch - with a development no one has seen coming.
- Got a cart insteada a basket at the grocery cuz I dunno whether 10 lbs is still my limit
- Oh! Pierce Brosnan looks his age now.
- #AKOTAS sketch: anything for a pal. http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2759.htm #webcomics #kingarthur
Manually created Twitter mirror post 12/7
Dec. 9th, 2011 08:03 am- RT @coyotetoo Homophobia: the fear that gay men will treat you the way you treat women.
- Looks like #AKOTAS will be mousedrawn until I can get a new scanner or a drawing tablet.
- Including warmup and cooldown, I did half an hour of exercise this morning already. I'm pretty wiped now.
- RT @guigar R.I.P. Harry "Col. Potter" Morgan. nytimes.com/2011/12/08/art...
- Can't scan what I drew for the last hiatus sketch. 'll have to redo it by mousedrawing. I hate having to redraw by mouse.
- Well, I've started. Go me.
- As of now I have extended the #AKOTAS buffer through the rest of the sketch hiatus ending 12/14. Next, buffering real cartoons!
- #AKOTAS sketch: announcement. tinyurl.com/akotas/2758.htm #webcomics #kingarthur
- Hero of Three Faces update: obituary. http://tinyurl.com/3f4c3s/abam.htm #mash #dragnet
Now, I think, I'm properly scared
Dec. 7th, 2011 05:30 am I've been telling people I have a false sense of security about my heart attack Thanksgiving eve. I recognized the symptoms right away and was whisked to the E.R. by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
qtrhorserider. So I was only in pain for about an hour before the morphine and the nitroglycerin took effect. Intellectully I know I had a surgical procedure, and need to be careful about diet and exercise From Now On; I've been taking my meds, watching my sodium, fat and cholesterol, and yesterday I went and registered at the cardio rehab center where I'll be going to exercise Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings for many weeks. But on an emotional level all I've been feeling is that I've had a nice vacation but it's time to get things back to normal.
One of the meds I've been prescribed isn't for everyday, it's a nitroglycerin pill for if I have pain again. Nitro opens up your blood vessels, which stops the pain because it stops the cause of the pain. About 3:30 this morning - about two hours ago - I woke up, or was already awake, I don't remember; and I was having chest pain, again, and my left arm felt numb, again. I poked qtrhorserider to bring me my nitro pills.
After the first one, the pain went away but my arm still felt funny. The directions I was given with the nitro pills differ from doctor to doctor to nurse to nurse: either you're supposed to take a nitro pill, and take another and go to the E.R. if the pain doesn't go away in five minutes, up to three pills; or, you're only supposed to go to the E.R. if the pain doesn't go away after three pills. I had my pain go away after the first pill, which presumably means any blood vessel issue cleared up - but I had to take a second pill anyway in order to make my arm feel better. I'll report all this when I go into the rehab center in an hour or so.
But now, I think, I'm properly scared.
- Fri, 13:09: @JLichtenberg Had a heart attack Wenseday night. Caught it fast so effects are minimal, but it's still a lifechanger
- Fri, 13:18: #scifichat The first Doctor Who serial had matches and cavemen
- Fri, 13:27: #scifichat Looks like I'm getting discharged. May not be back online before chat's done.
- Fri, 17:02: RT @CrypticMirror: The shocking truth about the crackdown on #Occupy http://t.co/U9Y3gVVd via @guardian even by my cynical standards thi ...
- Fri, 17:20: Home again. We picked up my new meds. Every one warns of drowsiness and dizziness. No wonder I'm not to drive for two weeks.
- Fri, 19:16: Seem to have hit the wall. Gonna be a lot of that for awhile I gather.
- Fri, 21:55: #AKOTAS sketch: iconic image. http://t.co/Sot0WXoU #webcomics #kingarthur
- Fri, 21:57: One thing this spate of adversity has taught me: keep your webcomic on a buffer.
- Sat, 10:19: Yay for sleep in one's own bed.
- Sat, 10:47: I just discovered I skipped a whole alphabet in the 3Faces filename convention last season. Went from aawz to aaya.
- Sat, 11:17: Meds! All those new meds I'm to take. That's what I was going to do after breakfast.
- Thu, 12:19: Wednesday night about 23:20 I rolled over in bed, poked my wife and said, "I don't know how else to say this, but I … http://t.co/IkprEVND
- Thu, 13:24: 14 hours behind on my Twitter feed. Wotthehell, nuttin else to do.
- Thu, 13:30: @stratosmacca Counted once, don't recall exact figures, but Kirk actually "sleeps with a chick" only about half the time. Or less.
- Thu, 18:33: Turned on Quantum Of Solace about twenty minutes in. Not really watching close enought to follow the plot.
- Thu, 18:37: John Landis saw the police chase in Diamonds Are Forever, said, "I can do better than that." Thus the last half hour of The Blues Brothers.
- Thu, 19:30: The nurse says the doctors'll prolly say I can't drive for two weeks or work for four. Well, that's what short term disability is for.
- Thu, 19:36: I feel fine. I emailed my boss I thought I'd be back Monday.
- Thu, 19:49: Everyone suspects I'll leave the hospital tomorrow.
- Thu, 20:02: Thanks for all the good thoughts, on Twitter or LJ
- Fri, 07:17: Well today I'm supposed to have doctors come around to tell me about rehab and diet.
- Fri, 07:53: Partner on call from my physician's office says with a sedentary job like mine the cardiologist may send me back after only a week.
- Fri, 10:09: @ferretthimself For me it's "monoxidil".
- Fri, 10:26: Nurse educator visited my room. After I go home drill will be, take it easy, take my meds, no lifting, call if there's pain agan.
- Fri, 10:40: #AKOTAS sketch: oh right, even with all this I still updated. http://t.co/unQUg2nV #webcomics #kingarthur
- Fri, 10:44: Hiro Nakamura is my cardiologist.
- Fri, 10:45: Looks like I'm getting sprung from here today. Not going back to work till December 5 at the earliest.
Thanksgiving
Nov. 24th, 2011 12:18 pm Wednesday night about 23:20 I rolled over in bed, poked my wife and said, "I don't know how else to say this, but I have chest pains and my left arm feels funny." qtrhorserider popped out of bed and insisted on driving me to the E.R. instead of calling 9-1-1.
By the time I got to the car I was sweating too (but I never had any more symptoms than that). When asked by the nurses where my pain was on the scale of one to ten, I said five to seven, because I don't think I'm as sensitive to pain as most people, and I haven't ever had cause to be asked that before, which may be related. After the morphine and the nitro it went down to point five.
I was admitted and taken to the cath lab, where they gave me more good drugs and a cardiologist went in through the groin to remove the blockage. Afterwards he said there had been 99% blockage, but it was removed and now he'd put in a stent. He said, or the E.R. doctor said later or earlier, that a stress test such as I'd taken five years ago would have identified if there were any blockages then, but there's always the chance of existing deposits in the arteries breaking off and creating new ones; which my doctor had stressed at the time, too.
About 01:30 I was moved up into a room, wondering here my wife was. By the time the nurse thought to ask for the cell phone number, it rang just outside the hall; my wife, my dad and his wife (my mom turns her phone off at night) visited for a little while. I had to sleep on my back the first four hours, which isn't usual and didn't work well. But by the time my wife showed up with my laptop at 11:30 I was ready for it.
About 08:00 the nurse gave me five pills, one of which was Lipitor, which says the blockage was cholesterol. I guess that set of pills is to be daily routine from now on.
I left a message for my mom to call me when she got up. Then I was on my phone with my wife when she called. I know Mom would feel best when she heard I sound perfectly normal, but the phone tag went on about half an hour.
More when I know more.
- Wed, 14:11: Hour and a half to get home on the bus, boo. Got offa work early cuzza the holiday and it's not a call center job, yay.
- Wed, 18:43: #AKOTAS sketch: new cap. http://t.co/KDHDZqpn #webcomics #kingarthur
- Wed, 19:03: The advantage to being nine days behind on the DVR is, episodes with particularly intriguing previews can be watched immediately. #house
- Wed, 19:19: @choochoobear I'da reacted badly if you'd said stuff like that about McLean Stevenson in 1974
- Thu, 02:19: In the hospital with a heart attack. Not gonna die. More later.
