Anemia brought me in for a colonoscopy in June. They found 17 polyps, 2 from the upper GI and 15 from the colon, but no cancer.

2 were large enough to be concerning, 20mm and 30mm and when I saw the pictures I was like “Oh, crap, THAT’S CANCER.” Nope, not cancerous.

But the rule of thumb is if they find more than 5 or of they are bigger than 5mm, you wait 6 months, come back, and do it again.

2nd time, 6 polyps, 1 20mm and full blown invasive cancer.

The photo also looked TOTALLY different from what I thought was cancer. All pink and bubbly, no black discoloration like on the others.

I just assumed when they pull something out of you that looks like Tetsuo from the end of Akira, that’s cancer, not so.

Looks more like:

America - for profit everything!

2026 has been the longest year of our lives and it’s FEBRUARY!

“a Political Movement that is far smaller than people would think — But obnoxious, ignorant, and loud!”

🤔

RUUUUUUUN!

You stop caring to argue your point.

Someone does a big presentation.

Back of your head: “Well that’s obviously a terrible idea for X, Y, and Z reasons.”

You keep quiet and let it blow up instead of trying to fix the process as it’s being implemented.

The sigmoid colon is gone, only question is if it snuck into the lymph system before they got it.

That becomes stage 3 with chemo. And it’s hanging over my head for 5-7 days (more like 2-5 days now.)

Diabetic so strict glucose control is already a thing.

This cancer was solved for surgically, we just don’t know yet if they got it all. 5-7 days on that!

Started with mild anemia. Low red blood cell count, low hemoglobin, small red blood cells, etc.

Iron didn’t really help so it was colonoscopy #1 and Endoscopy #1, then a follow up colonoscopy 6 months later.

Find the center square with the screw behind the sticker, remove the sticker, remove the screw, disassemble/reassemble!

As I write this, I’m in a hospital bed recovering from having my sigmoid colon and all the associated lymph nodes, removed.

June of last year they found 17 polyps in a routine colonoscopy/endoscopy. 2 were abnormally large. The rule of thumb is “More than 5 or >5mm you get re-checked.” Well, 17 total, one was 20mm, one was 30m.

But not cancer as of June.

Report back 1/14 - 6 more polyps and stage 2 cancer. Possibly stage 3, we’ll know more in 5-7 days when lab results are back.

If it got into the lymph system, that’s stage 3 and will need chemo.

March is colon cancer awareness month! Wear blue!

Bots will automatically remove certain words regardless of context.

I used to see this all the time in the old Sega game “Phantasy Star Online” where objectionable chat was replaced with “*”.

So “Nice shoes!” became “Nice s****!”

You couldn’t arrange to play a game on “Sa****ay”.

And god help you if you lived in a “ba*****t”.

Agatha Christie is probably one of the most popular writers of the 20th Century, and one of her classics is now published under the title “And Then, There Were None.”

If you’ve ever seen a movie, play, or game where a group of people are invited to a house only to be killed off one by one, you’ve seen something influenced by “And Then, There Were None”.

Generally the victims are symbolized by figurines on the mantelpiece which get gradually destroyed one by one as the murders progress, eventually leaving “none”.

The previously published title was the incredibly culturally insensitive “Ten Little Indians”, and the figurines were just that.

The original published title, in the UK, in 1939 - an era when we DID IN FACT KNOW BETTER was “Ten Little removeds”.

They did not change the title in the UK until 1985(!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None

“Holographic Storage” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Data_Storage_System

Oh, look, it’s the latest mass storage tech that will never be commercially produced!

Promise of Sleep by the Jody Grind:

https://youtu.be/nmyRm21WRPc

Corinna, we were 7, she kissed me in class and we ran around at lunch time holding hands. LOL.

The Master.

Can it really be an infringement if there’s no physical source though? That’s the question.

Say someone does an online comic strip, I download the images, re-format them for print, and sell a print version.

There is no physical version to bootleg, the only reason a physical copy exists at all is because I put the time and effort into making one.

Same with the “Calvin peeing on things” car stickers. King Features and Bill Watterson could absolutely produce those themselves, but don’t. Watterson refuses to license the character for anything.

At the same time, they also haven’t gone after the people who are producing them.

For gaming, lets say you have a title region locked to Japan but someone sells an unlocked pirated version.

Should they be able to sue for a product variant they very well could make but are choosing not to?

There’s the whole “no harm” rule, if they aren’t being harmed by selling to people who are not and never will be their customers…