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We are migrating VC to a new server. I've been told it will be seamless (fingers crossed!), but in case you keep anything "archived" here and don't want to lose it, please do whatever you need to do to save favorite old threads, etc. I'll keep you posted when the migration is complete.

Yes, I'm yelling. The site is due for renewal. Solace asked YEARS AGO that we get someone else to be the tech brains behind this outfit. No one has stepped up yet. I'm getting ready to renew the site within the next week. It would be great if someone else with tech savvy would make themselves available to take a look at what we currently have, if we need to update anything, etc. Generally, the only other tech help we need is occasionally the server needs to be reset. I could probably do that one myself, but I would much rather have someone who isn't just "following the instructions" b

I'll see your offer, and raise it... **TWO** GA tickets, and a summit parking pass, for $150 (way, way under face value). Please PM me if you're interested.

Count me in as a clamorer(?). Very sorry to have missed this one!

*bump* A parking pass, people! C'mon, you know you want it... (I just really don't want to see these go to waste. Seriously, make me an offer, any offer.)

I hope so! But yeah, I was really hoping to be able to go...

I've got two GA tickets and a parking pass for this event. Total face value was $274, but I'll accept any reasonable offer.

Solace was nice enough to help us out and do whatever magic needed to be done to get VC back up and running today, but we've been leaning on him for years, and it would be nice to have some other folks who could help out with tech issues when they arise (I don't think they're usually anything major, but my skills in this area are zilch). Anyone out there willing to be on-call for this kind of thing? -gogo

If anyone is in San Francisco today, you're all welcome to my nightmare: http://sf.funcheap.com/action-happiness-bay-area-hugfest/

Totally different topic: I'd be interested to know if the series has any affect on Louisiana's tourist industry. On the one hand: no thanks. But on the other, some of those locations were so beautiful, so lush. Also, I imagine there would be no end to the creeps who would want to take a "True Detective" tour of the area.

For full-on creep factor: in the hospital, they said that based on DNA, the woman was "at least" Errol's half-sister. But when they were "making flowers", he asked her to tell him about grandpa in the field. I was kind of assuming that she'd become pregnant following the rape by her father, making her Errol's mother and half-sister, so the old guy would be his/their father, as well as Errol's grandfather. And now, I need a full Silkwood shower...

The thing about the whole series that was most inconsistent to me was the distance between Marie Fontenot's murder (totally private, body never found) and Dora Lange's (body left exposed, as if meant to be discovered and investigated). So yeah, I'll give you that all of the missing people after a certain point (missing people whose bodies were never recovered) could have been Errol Childress's doings, but there's still some disconnect between those two scenarios. Which were the cult, and which were the lone psycho? What about the Lake Charles murder, why did that break the pattern? I've g

But the video was of Marie Fontenot's murder, and weren't there five men in the video (Cohle watched the whole thing, hoping that one of them would take off his mask)? That murder pre-dated Dora Lange, so I'll give you that maybe the cult dissolved after that. But then what about the 2012 Lake Charles murder? Tuttle was already dead, but why then did that have the similarities to Dora Lange? So yeah, there's still something cult-ish going on. Maybe it's dying out, and Childress is the last gasp, but Childress didn't do Marie Fontenot and Dora Lange on his own, they were full-on cult acti

That was exactly my thought when I read this last night.

My sister allow her high-schoolers to take one "mental health" day per semester. We have an Irish band, we always go out on St. Patrick's Day and play at bars and parties all around town, so the two of them are going to take tomorrow off. She's considering sending them to school on Wednesday with a note saying they couldn't come in because they had the "Irish flu" and see if anyone at the school notices.

Part of the reason people get flu shots is so that they don't spread the flu to other people, who would be in greater danger from flu. Anyone who has contact with small children, older people, people with underlying conditions that might lead to complications associated with the flu, should all get the flu shot. The more people who get the shot, the more protected everyone is. This doesn't seem too complicated to me. (In the mid-1980s, my dad was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre, which had been considered to be a risk of getting the flu shot after the big push for swine flu-vaccination in th

Agreed. But I haven't seen any research that convinces me that the chance/degree of adverse affects on vaccinated children, is worth the risk to community-wide immunity due to children not being vaccinated. edit: bleedorange got there first, and all of his sentences actually make sense.

What research are you looking at, Lammy?

Dubliners and Portrait are both fairly readable (Dubliners is one of my all time favorites). Ulysses much less so, and Finnegans Wake, forget it.

They should go ahead and engrave McConaughey's name on the Emmy right now.

I usually like Ellen, but thought she was off that night. I wasn't crazy about the pizza bit, but I did think the selfie was cute. Very happy for Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto, but I can't even imagine what a freak show that set must have been. Those two are both so spacey.

Best part of the Oscars was Lupita Nyong'o's brother getting right up front in that all-celeb selfie.

I saw a buzzfeed list (I know, I know...) about books to read if you love San Francisco. So I'm starting on a few of those: And not on the list, but from SFPL's pick-of-the-month list:

That's also a pretty good description of me.