So make a move, because I ain't got all night

[thorne_scratch]

Apparently it's Lurker Amnesty Day, or something? I don't know, I'm trying to dig my ass out from under two and a half feet of snow. If you lurk, please feel free to say hello in the comments. I am in general a very unthreatening and laidback person. The majority of the charges for public drunkenness and lewdness were dropped, and that thing with

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[puckling]

I am here because you wrote about Micheal Phelps. And then you had fun links and wacky stories about your life so I stuck around, but somehow I never got around to commenting, but ummmmm, hi!

[thorne_scratch]

Michael Phelps is my RPF obsession, which is a little strange but I have since come to terms with it. Expect copious further amounts of Michael Phelps in the future. I'm glad you like the links and wacky stories, though!

Also, your dragon in formaldehyde icon both intrigues and creeps the bejesus out of me. Good show.

[thorne_scratch]

Thanks for the link! Good God, that is frightening, the way this family was kept in the dark about the enormity of the contribution she made. I mean, I love science and find the field of medicine fascinating-- I wouldn't work in it if I didn't-- but that's still a dick move.

Heh. I can't wait to use Calvin and Hobbes stamps on everything. I love the designs they've chosen to use.

[maureenlycaon]

I felt real horror myself at that paragraph. No one meant to hurt anyone, but dear gods . . .

It was less a matter of deliberately keeping the family in the dark for so many years than a mindset that didn't understand any reason to inform the patient. Not until the last few years has there been any discussion about the ethics here -- about whether patients should be entitled to any profits from cell lines created from their cells. Keep in mind that most of what doctors and medical specialists take from people is stuff that the patients can do nicely without, such as tumors. It just didn't occur to researchers that there was any moral question.

Then, too, there's the huge problem of how doctors should talk to people who have a third-grade education. Scientists and doctors often don't realize how totally in the dark most people are about the simplest things! And so we have horrible misunderstandings like this. Just because you're smart and well-educated and like to learn difficult things doesn't mean you know how to explain things to

[thorne_scratch]

Oh yes, I know, my fault for not being more specific. I mean, the realization of how moral attitudes have changed is staggering. Look at how you used to be able to get patients institutionalized with very little choice or evidence!

Just because you're smart and well-educated and like to learn difficult things doesn't mean you know how to explain things to people.

Yes, half the problem with making people understand health care right there! (Plus, I regularly work with doctors who misspell their own damn names.)

[nano_moose]

Um. Hi!

You're actually on my friendslist, which just makes the lurking that little bit more shameful since I'm perfectly happy to take advantage of your fabulous/disturbing/fabulasturbing wit, links, fic, music and so on, but not enough courage to say hello like a normal person. Except...like one time when I first came across your LJ. And I can't remember when that was, either.

So, do I still count as a lurker and thus protected under the amnesty, or am I just very, very quiet, and vulnerable to your wrath? Because if it's the latter, be assured that I was lurking in spirit the whole time and it was like that when I got here and I'd never seen that elephant before in my life.

[thorne_scratch]

Dude, no worries. (Actually, I worried you didn't like me. Here's this cool person who's friends with Kadrin and Baco and Squeem, and then we never spoke or anything, and I was wondering if I smelled or something like that. Or if I had annoyed you when I think I mentioned you in an IM conversation with Kadrin, where I needed an Australian person on my flist other than Kadrin, and you were the first person who jumped to mind. Given the conversation was something ridiculous about Steve Irwin, stingrays, and the powers of vegemite, you would have been well within your rights never to speak to me again, on basis of my invocation of a trifecta of Australian stereotypes.)

At any rate, be assured I like you and your gamebabble enormously, and do not actually see you as a lurker, just as someone very quiet.

[nano_moose]

It is merely that you are merely so hilarious it gets a little intimidating and I'm very easily intimidated. And well, I don't take issue with the Australian stereotypes, but if Patrick happens to send a rampaging army of genetically engineered kangaroos your way, that's not my responsibility. (I'm now insanely curious about that conversation.)

Oh! Neat, I actually get worried a lot of the time that nobody likes those, given they're more or less wholly self-indulgent and pretty free with the spoilers.

(Your icon keywords? Well-played, madam.)

[thorne_scratch]

Man, don't be. Most of the time, I'm very clearly stealing the hilarity from other friends, like some kind of parasitic sucker-fish. At any rate, I'm pretty sure this was the conversation. In my defenses, Kadrin clearly started it.

Man, considering I rarely get around to actually playing games, vicariously experiencing them through my friends is the next best thing. (I managed to be completely creeped out of my gourd by Twig and Flidget's recaps of Rule of Rose without ever actually seeing any portion of the game itself. Also Silent Hill, but I did play that one in the end.)

(I love playing with icon keywords. It's too bad I can never think of anything good when I'm initially uploading them.()

[d0rkgoddess]

damn, you called out the Lurkers... must... post... =P

[thorne_scratch]

Hee, I like it when people talk! I feel bad if people feel like they have to lurk.

Now, normally I would immediately follow that up with some comment about FF7, but I noted in your interests that you have Madeline L'Engle listed, and I am intrigued. What's your favorite book of hers? Which family did you like the best? Was I the only one who wanted to smack Polyhymnia? (I loved Meg, and wanted to shake Vicky a few times, but overall I quite liked Vicky. Poly, though, rubs me the wrong way.)

[d0rkgoddess]

honestly, I can't remember the name of the book. It is the one where the twins go back to the Naoh's Ark time, talking about the nephilim and seraphim. Haven't read her in ages. And I'm not sure I could pick a single family, though I tend to like Meg's more. I once made a chart showing how every single family is interconnected throughout all of her books. MY English teacher was fairly impressed, but no one else was, lol. and Poly was just... weird.

[thorne_scratch]

Many Waters! I liked that one (which is Meg's family) very much, what with all the angel bits and takes on Biblical times, though I did think the end with Yalith was a bit of a cop out.

[kaisers_minion]

Er, hi! I know I've commented on your journal before, quite a while ago, but I do tend to lurk like a lurking thing. Your posts are always interesting and fun, though, so... thanks!

[thorne_scratch]

I remember you! No worries, I just hate feeling like people are lurking for negative reasons, like they think I don't want to talk to them or anything. Totally the opposite. I'm glad you like the posts!