Carpet Catastrophe

[shardavarius]

People seem to enjoy hearing about my self-inflicted (and usually much-deserved) injuries, so here's the lastest.

For the faint of heart, we'll just say it involved grading papers, Neil Diamond, carpet skating, a misplaced physics test, and a face plant into dumbells and leave it at that."

For those of you who have ventured further, we'll add the

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[xaandria]

I've heard you sing Sweet Caroline.

I think you invent new notes. Or you go searching for the existing notes and you just don't find them.

Also, The lone physics test springs it's trap. For shame, Bortman. For shame.

Hope you didn't hurt yourself too badly.

[tealtori]

You, trying to defy physics, were totally owned by a physics test. OH TEH IRONY!!!11one

That's what you get for inflicting such things upon children. Children care not for Newton's dull practices. They long for quarks and muons and the sweet delicate truffle that is relativity!

[deer_mews]

I could say a lot, but the others seem to already have speared most of the game for which I would have been gunning, and much more elegantly, so I'm reduced to this.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

er. and I hope you're all right, of course.

[deer_mews]

Oh, I know I've been on you for a while to read Steven Brust and we had the enlightening conversation the other day about why you kept mystifying me by giving a hearty "meh" whenever the topic came up... In case my word wasn't good enough, how about Cory Doctorow?

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/05/steven_brusts_dzur_w.html

Good enough? I'll throw The Book of Jhereg at you now. Careful -- it's large. And largely frictionless.

[shardavarius]

And *then* we had another conversation in which we talked about my perpetual confusion between Brust and Bunch. And you lent me _The Phoenix Guards_ which I added to The Stack.

Come on now, you're turning into Francesco.

[deer_mews]

No, no, that was the conversation to which I had referred. I didn't know if I had convinced you or not. Plus, darthparadox may be stealing that from you before you read it, as I know how long stuff can stay on The Stack.

Oh. ...And that other thing? Do you want to try to start this weekend?

[hufflepest]

Talent. Pure talent.

[doctorconquest]

hufflepest, I don't believe I know you, but that user icon is fantastic.

Also, I have seen the carpet skates in action. They are... improbable.

[hufflepest]

I heart this icon and I'd take credit for in a heartbeat but that would be, well, mean and false. Credit is listed somewhere in my userpics. It inspires me to take the Laura Roslin stance on life and be perpetually smug. And generally awesome.

PS - this whole debacle almost makes me want carpet skates. I'm current eyeing the carpet in my office thoughfully. But then I see the desks, computers, rolling chairs and in general, a million things that will try and kill me. Such as the water cooler that would somehow escape its corner and fall on me.

[strand]

I have nothing to say, other than this is hilarious.