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General => News => Topic started by: Ruski on March 03, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
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Well, just a point of general interest; my wife and I are expecting our first child to arrive, care of the stork; some time late October.
I currently am hoping for the ever-popular October the 13th (Just so happens to fall on a Friday this year) or perhaps the more celebrated 31st. (We will of course welcome the little screaming fecal factory into our warm embrace at whatever predetermined time the almighty has seen fit to schedule for us though)
On the 9th of next week, I'll find out if in fact rumor is true and we will be accepting the residence of two simultaneous offspring into our home. (Twins of different natures hide in both her, and my own; genetic code)
At this time we are about six weeks into this process of creation. Having created several things during the course of my life, mostly computers, and a couple of cars; I incorrectly assumed that I was well prepared for a nine and a half month project of this scope. (I built an E-Business once that took about the same amount of time, complete with midnight outages that required 2AM runs to the store to pick up pickle ice-cream, my contractual boss at that point had very odd tastes.)
However, it is now apparent that no training on earth could have prepared me for the excitement of living with a pregnant woman. As I stare half-cross-eyed at the screen from three weeks of sleep deprivation courtesy midnight-sickness and cramp massage requests; I have a feeling that the adventure has only just begun.
So, if I seem sluggish; or comment overly on the odd choices that women sometimes make in dietary supplements; please forgive a humble digital pirate, on his ramshackle journey through life; I may stop and shudder, or post lengthy rants of almost no coherent value at 2AM while the rest of the world enjoys uninhibited sleep, but I’m not really trying to prove any individual point. I’m just trying to build a family.
-RuskiFace T. Pirate, Soon to be proud pirate father extraordinaire.
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Hey, congratulations. Hope the kid(s) don't run ya too ragged.
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It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn. Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down. Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament, tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
;D
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gf tells me to say 'congrats'.
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Thanks All !
-RF
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Little Pirates!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AARRRGGGHHHHH!!!! Congrats, Ruski!!!! I'll be sure to send you some Jplly Roger diapers for the little tykes. ;)
Gabriel
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arrgh! swabin da' poop deck does look to be my asignment for a couple of years starting in about 8 months... arrrhhhh....
LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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OMG WE R DOOMED! AAAHHH!!!
That's what one of my friends said at the thought of little Ingo's running around! As of today, there are no little Ingo's running around as well as none in process. Lucky them ;)
In any case I was to with you and your wife a heart-felt congratulations as well as best wishes and good luck. Look at it this way Ruski: If you can administer the network for more than 50 babies (sometimes called users) for 8+ hours a day, you should be able to handle 1 real baby 24/7... in theory anyway ;)
pir8s ru1z! :ruski:
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hahahahaha thanks Ingo!
hmm... actually I think a real baby would download less spyware...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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At least, until he's old enough to get online.
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well, He, She, or They; will be well versed in the use of firewalls, proxys, and their proper use.
i'm going to teach them how to use a computer properly, not just throw one in front of them and say "go to town kids!"
oh yes... they WILL be pirates. LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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One of the MIS guys at my work has a 4 month old now. When he's sitting with him on the bed and has his laptop, the baby constantly wants to type things. Starting him off early ;)
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Can you say: "Multi-Level-Security?"
Goo-Goo-Gaah-Gah!
"Multi-- Muulllltttiiiiiieeeee"
hahahahaha
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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You do realize that the little Proto-Ruskis will be MUCH better hackers than you are, right?? Just look at the generational trend towards computers and more recent users. SO just be ready to not understand a THING they are doing online. Damn, we're REALLY in for it then...
Gabriel
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I don't know about that- my Dad has kept abreast of most of us when it comes to computers- and he's passing fifty at this point. Ruski is the only one who rivals him in knowledge, and most of Ruski's knowledge is hardware, with more recent forays into networking and haXX0ring t3h pL4n37.
-kv
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*shrug* I was into hacking before there was an internet to hack. I had a copy of a war-dialer back when they were still called 'drunk dialers'
Dad's good, and I owe a big chunk of my skils to the head start of using a computer before I could walk, and I hope to pass that on.
if I can keep up or not... that's a seperate issue. but I'm dam well going to try.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I found out today that I won't be having a baby...
I'll be having TWINS!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
-RuskiFace the fater of twins.
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'Fater', yeah, that I can believe.
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I can't help but misstype things! I'm excited!
:ruski: :ruski::ruski:
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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SO, are you going to name them R1 and R2???? ;)
Gabriel
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we are still working on names.
my wife vetoed 'danger' as a middle name for one of them, even though I think it would be totally cool.
now i'm going for 'gren' and 'grim' as middle names.
gren, for her father (who I've never actually met)
and grim because... *shrug* it would rhyme, and the brother's grimm are cool.
if it's girls we have a middle name of my wife's twin sister's first name.
and... a middle name of... perhaps Egeso, for my 'ancient' family surname.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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He will vanish without a trace the minute those two pop out. We won't see him until Romulus and Remus are potty trained. Congatulations my friend and good fucking luck. You guys are in for a hell of a great ride :)
What other famous twin names are there? Castor and Pollux...
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Cor and Corin?
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hahahahaha Romulus and Remus...
although naming them that would probibly induce a level of fratniside that my wife will want to avoid.
would be hella-funny though.
hahahaha
Fight! Fight!
okay, did some looking:
Romulus and Remus
Cástor and Pollux.
(Gemini)
Oohm Aha
(chinese dragons)
Luke & Leia
(starwars)
Fred & George
(harry potter)
Apollo and Diana/Artemis
(roman mythology)
Ashvins: Nasatya & Dasra
aribian fokelore
Sunrise Sunset (Translated?)
Orior Occasus (Latin)
Stige Solskinn (norwegan)
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perhaps Egeso, for my 'ancient' family surname.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
That would be 'Egesø', correct? Or do the norwegians use ö? I never kan remember.
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*shrug* don't know. just saw it on a family crest once, and I happen to know that it was changed when they came to america.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Unsurprising.
IIRC it's 'Egesø', which cannot be pronounced without special training ( ;) ), and which would likely confuse the hell out of most american minor functionaries, what with tagging that 'empty set'-sign i the end... see also here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98).
Mind you, that 'ege' means oak (or rather oak-y), and while a 'sø' is a lake, a 'so' is a female pig.
Some use it as a derogatory word for women.
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OOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! OOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Don't forget Zann and Jaina!!!!
Wonder Ruski Powers ACTIVATE!!!!!!
Gabriel
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congrats ruski from Me and luna and you know it could be one of each
pray for boys ruski thier less trouble
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My brother has two pairs of twins, the first maternal and the second identical. They are crazy little monsters. Beware!
Seriously though, congrats and good luck, you'll need it.
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I'm a twin, (to my sister), and my two older brothers are twins.
And yes, while boys are pesty when they're young, they are MUCH less trouble as the grow up. No offense, ladies, but you're dangerous . . .
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awsome.
we are planning on having another 'batch' after this.
I'm hoping for another set of twins.
so far, this set looks to be identical (in the same sack)
but we won't really know for sure untill next month sometime.
do have a doctor's appointment today. so perhaps we'll know even sooner?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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No offense, ladies, but you're dangerous . . .
Now that you've found that out we'll have to remove you ;)
So anyway, naming twins - if they share a sac they'll be same sex but ultrasounds aren't always all seeing so here are a couple historical examples...
Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene , twins of Marc Antony and Cleopatra.
Benedict and Scholastica , founders of the Benedictine Order .
Berenguer Ramon, Count of Barcelona and Ramon Berenguer, Count of Barcelona, born in 1054.
Waleran de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, born in 1104.
Henry of Castile and twin brother Fadrique of Trastamara, born in 1333.
Henry III of Castile and Ferdinand I of Aragon, born in 1379.
James II (of Scotland) and Alexander Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, born in 1430.
Jeanne and Victoire de Valois (born 1556), twin daughters of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici.
Henry Vaughan, poet, and Thomas Vaughan, philosopher, born in 1622.
Ronald and Reginald Kray (born 1933 ), British gangsters.
Lava and Kusa, children of Rama and Sita Devi, Ramayanam (Hindu mythology).
Jacob and Esau, Biblical.
Perez and Zerah, Biblical.
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I think the names they picked for if it's a boy are:
Mark and Maddox
For a girl:
Alexis and Carla? I think? I don't remember those ones for sure.
-kv
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Well good, at least there wont be any rhyming names. I hate it when people do that with twins. Sarah wants to name our kids (if we ever have kids) Luke and Lea, no kidding. Now, I'm a nerd, but I'm not THAT bad. I'll just stick with the good old names we picked out one night after heavy drinking: Gweneviere (sp) Galladriel Freeman for the girl and Octavius Maximus Freeman for the boy. It's not like you could get beat up at school with names like those, now is it??? ;)
Gabriel
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what you dont want to be able to say luke i am your father lol
and theese days names get stranger and stranger
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Yeah, because Gwenivere Galladriel and Octavius Maximus are normal, sanity-based names.
Just kidding. I'm not one to critisize- I want to name my kid "Mark Danger"
-kv
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I still think Ruski whould name the boy Danger and the girl Trouble.
Gabriel
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He wanted to... but I think his missus nixed the idea.
Well, I don't think. I know she nixed the idea. ;D
-kv
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what about frik and frat or tweedle dee and tweedle dum
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I have a cousin named for a character in Dune.
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Really??? Which character???
Gabriel
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Chani
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I wouldn't mind naming a kid Muad'dib...
except for the fact that the people who actually got it would be the kind of people I would probably want to keep away from my son. ;D
-kv
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LOL. Nothing like starting a pan-galactic religious jyhad around your son, is there?? Oh, and it would also mean that you would probably be killed by your family doctor. I thnk it's best if you just name your kid something like Sam or Biff, you know, typical American names. ;)
Gabriel
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No Biffs. . . You don't want your son screwing up the time-space continuum do you? Besides which, they have a nasty bad karma effect when near manure. . .
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Damn! I forgot about the whole time/space continuum thing! Well, there goes buying him a Delorian for his 18th birthday.
Gabriel
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Twin Names
Salt and Pepper
Jekyll and Hyde
Abbott and Costello
Jack and Jill
Bonnie and Clyde
Butch and Sundance
Laverne and Shirley
Unique (or Interesting) names
Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky the Fourth
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Hmmm... actually,Abbott and Costello would be funny names, as would Butch and Sundance.
Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky the Fourth... I see we have a Cowbopy Bebop fan among us!
-kv
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Butch and Sundance.... I LIKE IT!!! Would you belive that I've actually used Butch Morganson as an allias when running with my chummer, Spirit. See, he's a lot younger than me (abotu 10 years) and he'd go by the name of Thomas Sundance. I always figured somone would catch on, but no one ever did.
Gabriel (call me Butch)
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well if you want a civil war you could name them north and south
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Gabe, I have only known you recently, but yes, I can believe you using that nickname. . . heh
And as for people, they won't notice anything. A person is smart; can be brilliant . . . People are dumb. (No offense to any people here. . . Unless you are dumb. . .)
Yeah, Bebop's great. Maybe I should let my kids name themselves, when I have them. Like a rite of passage, eh?
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hahaha... I don't know that Ed's Dad didn't name her something else, and she decided to change it for something cooler.
-kv
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so...call them something growing up, then for their 12th, 13th birthday they pick new names?
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That might actually be really cool. You could let them get it leagally changed in court to wht they pick for themselves. When you think about it, that wouldn't be too strange. Many, MANY cultures have similar customs.
Gabriel
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Well, maybe not so legal and official as a whole name, more like a chosen middle name, which they choose to prefer to be known as.
I'm Chris Kramer, and Curris to my friends, so make it Chris "Curris" Kramer. Neh?
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But what if, when you ask you 10 year old child what they want to be named, they pick something like "Thundar the Barbarian"?
I know that's a name I would've picked when I was a kid- just ask my parents- when my little brother was about to be born, Ruski and I decided he should be named Thundar.
Better for us to just give them silly names to start with. ;D
-kv
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Well, make the rite of passage, when they are old and mature enough to realize that they will have that name for the rest of their life Or, you know, don't make it a legal change, just refer to them as that. Then if they want to change it, just refer to them with the new name. Like chosen transient nicknames.
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Nah, frag that. You need to stick the kid with the name for good. THAT WOULD TEACH THESE KIDS SOME NMANNERS!!!!!
Gabriel (old fart)
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It could be worse, your kids could have ghetto ninja names!
(http://www.drmcninja.com/issue2/2p10.gif)
PS, It's a good comic, read it from the beginning for best effect. . .
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got a link?
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Nope back to twin names - no jihad, the spice must flow -
Starsky and Hutch
Holmes and Watson
Theo and Vincent
Ima and Ura (of course this pair only works when your last name is Hogg)
Gilbert and Sullivan
should I stop now?
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What about Home and Ug with a last name of Lee? (Yes, I got that from the Double Dragon movie...it's been probably 8, 9 years since I saw it and I still remember that joke.)
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www.drmcninja.com
Yes, he's a doctor. And Irish! And a Ninja! Good stuff.
As for names. . .
http://www.mcpeepants.com/sounds/042thelastone/thelastone20.mp3
Save target as. Whose got a rad name?
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"Echolalia is the repetition or echoing of verbal utterances made by another person. Echolalia is pretty funny because it's like back in 2nd grade when you would say something, and that one kid would keep repeating you to be annoying. But now you're a jerk for thinking it's annoying, because they have a problem.
Jerk."
Okay, it wins my 'funny for the day' award!
-kv
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I think that everyone gets to choose their own name eventually anyways.
like... Ruski.
I've been using that sense highschool. perhaps even Jr. High.
*shrug*
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Well, you're the only cobbers who ever call me Gabriel, and I'm pretty sure that if any of us ever met in RL, we would be much more inclined to use our aliases. Kind of a neat thought really.
Gabriel
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well, what's a name really? a designation of who we are... a way to make ourselves diffrent from thoes arround us? something that you exchange in a first meeting, so that all of the values and properties that we each have, are entitled under one 'name'
you know, i've had friends that defined their 'name' in my mind for a particular persona.
so, I'd see something, or witness someone doing something and think: whoa, that's 'parman'
the name becomes a definition of who we are, written by our actions.
so, in choosing your own name, the actual letters and ocasional numbers don't actually have much of a meaning other than what we provide as a backdrop.
if it's 'RuskiFace the Pirate' or Shadow-Punch-Sneeking-Night-Guy or Fred Jones...
so, with that in mind: picking a name is only half the battle. the second half is making that name mean something. weather it's posting
'J00 were HACKED by RuskiFace the Pirate' acrost the internet, so that my name inspires a degree of dread to thoes who reconise it, or helping little old ladies cross the road and proclaiming yourself 'the last boyscout'
actually, now that I think of it... the names that we give to ourselves rarely reflect the names that our friends think of us as.
My friends picked 'RuskiFace' as my nickname. and although I've chosen to embrace it, it was their creation to begin with.
hmm...
-Ruski
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Well think about it, you can't really give YOURSELF a nickname. And alias yes, but not a nickname. Other people have to do that based on some defining moment/trait/observation/etc. that they mark you by. Sometimes they're flattering, sometimes they're insulting,b ut always they are a reflection of yourself to others. Kind of makes you think, really. Persoanlly, I don't think I've ever been given a nickname. I wonder if that's good or bad...
Gabriel (nicknameless elf)
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I have a friend who constantly refers to me as "My tall glass of mormon," but most people just call me Matt. Not Matthew, which is my christian name, but just Matt. On here I'm Kid_Vid, and other forums that's been abbreviated to KV, and on D&D Forums I've taken to the name Logain. (Logain was the name of my hamster... also a Robert Jordan character.)
-kv
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A.J. Starhiker originally started out as an original character in a bad (in my opinion) Star Wars fic I did in high school. It then became my email and screen name online. I usually use Kalara (an RPG character) as an alternate.
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I have a friend who constantly refers to me as "My tall glass of mormon,"
That's funny, I have a friend who we distinguish by his Mormonism. Mostly because he disproves all of the sterotypes about mormons, while being one.
Curris was the name of my first RPG Character (A ADnD 2E Paladin). His name was taken from an NPC in Ultima VIII; Holy Cirrus (Like the cloud type).
One anagram later, Curris existed, and interestingly, it sounds like my name.
Curris
Chris
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I have a friend who constantly refers to me as "My tall glass of mormon," but most people just call me Matt. Not Matthew, which is my christian name, but just Matt. On here I'm Kid_Vid, and other forums that's been abbreviated to KV, and on D&D Forums I've taken to the name Logain. (Logain was the name of my hamster... also a Robert Jordan character.)
-kv
You named a HAMSTER after Logain???? Chummer, that's just... wrong. :-\
Gabriel
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Hey, I like the name. It's also Wolverine's name, albeit a different spelling. I originally named him after Wolverine, because it annoyed my girlfriend at the time, but I changed the spelling later because I was re-reading the books in preparation for the new one coming out. (That last one that jsut came out)
-kv
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Well, I stopped reading the Wheel of Time somewhere around book 9 I think. That series has gotten WAY out of hand, and I just lost any kind of faith in Robert Jordan's ability to bring it back together. In fact, I dumped all of my books off at the Good Will and just walked away.
Gabriel
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I've read the first one and part of the second.
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Well, I stopped reading the Wheel of Time somewhere around book 9 I think. That series has gotten WAY out of hand, and I just lost any kind of faith in Robert Jordan's ability to bring it back together. In fact, I dumped all of my books off at the Good Will and just walked away.
Gabriel
I'm with you Gabe. The guy lost direction and I lost interest. Hunny got all books dumped back in his lap and thehn he shoved Song of Fire and Ice at me so now I'm stick in another endless series - at least this one seems to be moving though...:P
Oh hey, on topic, there were twins in that one - Jaime and Cerce
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But uh... they were incestuous. At least in the first book. I tried to get into that series and never really did.
It just. I don't know. It seemed like Martin was trying too hard, or something.
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I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only one who thinks like that about that series.
It came so very highly recommended, and I'm just about done with the first book, and bloody well bored.
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My girlfriend is reading the George R. R. Martin books right now and she really likes them, so that means I will have to read them too, or at least give them a shot. But I have a rule (which I only ever broke for Wheel of Time and learned my lesson) and that is that I never start a series that isn't completely published yet. I HATE reading 2 or 3 books and then having to wait a year for the 4th book, then another year for the 5th. Bugger that. So when all of those Martin books are published, I will give it a read, but by then, I'm sure no one will really care. ;)
Gabriel
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I've discovered he's fine with killing off even those people you think should survive - central characters in some cases. Not sure how I feel about that. After all if I invest the time to get to know them, why should he get to bump them off in favor of yet more characters I have to learn about?
And yeah, Jaime and Cerce are bad guys and incestuous, but that has nothing to do with them being twins ;)
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Are they from Arkansas???
Gabriel
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off topic here zone if you get a chance check out the wild card series
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I never could get into that author-----
BTW Ruski, don't forget to get your wife a mother's day card :)
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OK people, we're all getting a bit off topic here, even if Zone did indeed try to heard us all back.
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You know, I htink ROOTless just LOVES saying stuff like that. ;)
Gabriel
PS - Name one of the twins Gabe. ;D
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How's your spouse Ruski? Are you guys done with timester 2 yet?
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I guess I could let him answer for himself, but I'm already here and everything. ;D
The twins and Mrs. The Pirate are doing very well. There was a little bit of a scare- the doctors were afraid that the boys (identical twin boys) were sharing the same amniotic sac, which meant that one of them could have all sorts of problems if the fluid wasn't even between the sacs.
It turns out that the babies are fine- last weigh in, I think one was 1.5 pounds, and one was 1.25 pounds. So the smaller baby is catching up.
-kv
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Excellent. A lady I know who had a pretty even distribution (nine all told) says boys are easier than girls. Wonder if that's true if the bet is doubled :) My best to them.
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actually, the fear was a bit more complicated than that. they have something called 'twin to twin transfusion syndrome'
it's a complication that's typically fatal in about 80-100% of the cases that it shows up in.
although the twins don't share a sack, they do share a placenta, and there's a blood vessle that goes from one twin to the other.
(one twin gets too much blood, the other, not enough)
so far they are doing good (better than expected) we are currently at 25 weeks. if they make it all the way to 30 weeks, their chances of survival go from 20% up to about 80%. so that's good.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
(and thank you for the reminder Zone, I did get my wife a mother's day card)
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Criminy - all our best thoughts are pushing you guys into week 30....
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Yeah Ruski. I hope everything goes well and that we are all buying you guys some little fluffy gaming dice for the twins.
Gabriel
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Thanks all! we are very hopefull at this point.
at the last checkup, the smaller twin was catching up with the larger one in size. (getting better, as oposed to getting worse) so even though the doctor hasn't said that 'we are out of the woods', I'm guessing that it went from a target number 24 to a target number 6 for survival.
and that's a good thing.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Well, yeah. That's a pretty big reduction, even if the new T# is 6.
Good luck on the process.
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Your to the all important 30 week mark now aren't you?
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yup. just passed 31 weeks.
they are doing really well at this point. the size difference is getting less and less every checkup.
last I recall, they were at 3lbs and change each. if they can stay in long enough to get to 5lbs each, they'll probibly come home with us from the hospital.
my wife is more hoping that they'll just stay in long enough to reach the baby-shower next weekend, because she wants some more cute outfits. LOL
-Ruski
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Just wait until you get the baby present I'm planning on sending you. By the way, do you think they will boys or girls?? Only, I have to get the little Darth Vader helmets ainted the right colors first. ;)
Gabriel (Is he joking??? No one can tell...)
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helmets ainted the right colors
I'm not sure I'm familiar with that word, please?
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WOW, even for me, that is a really bad type-o. That should say "painted the right colors." Damn, I really need to go back to 9th grade typing.
Gabriel
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... yes, now that you mention it Gabe. You really do.
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identical twin boys.
paint away!
-Ruski
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Excellent! Here's wishing you 5lbs 7oz and 5 lbs 5 oz spawn :D Hope you get lots of bibs and blurb cloths too. My nephew really went for range on that old blurp canon - he was a formula kid and was probably trying to get back at his mom ;)
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You know, I wonder if being breast fed really makes a difference in development. Hmmmm....
Gabriel
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If I remember correctly, a baby gets some immunities through breast milk (Can't remember if it's permanent or not).
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For the first six months of postnatal development, the baby's thymus is stimulated by secretions in thier mother's breast milk. This allows the mother to pass along whatever immunities that she has developed on her own, giving her child an even greater chance of survival.
After about six months, the secretions stop, and breast milk is about the same as formula. So there's no need to breast feed the kid until he's sixteen in the hope he becomes a super hero or something. (more likely than not, if you breast feed him until he's sixteen, he's going to be one of those creepy kids who always quotes Nine Inch Nails lyrics under his breath when people give him crap for being such a weirdo)
-kv
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altho there are studys that seem to indecatie that breast feed babys are better soscialy adapted then bottle feed
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Hmmm... I hadn't heard that.
Oh, and on the topic of Ruski's progeny, I've been given the task of calling everyone once the babies are born.
Y'all will be included in the calls- via digital text format.
-kv
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You mean we don't get that wonderfull 3:00 a.m. wake-up call saying something like, "Hello? Is this a guy who prentends to be a one-armed elf named Gabriel? It IS?? Great! This is a guy who pretends to be a 15 year old child matrix wiz calling to tell you that another guy who pretends to be a pirate just had his wife (who doesn't pretend to be anything) give birth to twins!!!!"
And here I was looking forward to that call. ;)
Gabriel
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Yeah... cause that wouldn't be akward to call a wrong number or anything. ;D
"Hello, is this the guy who pretends to be the one-armed elf named Gabe? No? ...Why, actually I have no idea what time it is there... where can I stick it? Is that even possible?"
-kv
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Which leads to the stick it /expell it debate - don't let s-i-l tell you what it felt like to order the eviction, but rest assured that after pain comes goop. Quite a bit of it.
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35 weeks today.
oh, and as for the guy who 'pretends to be a pirate'... well, let's say that some things are easyer to pretend than others.
excuse me while I go steal some stuff.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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You forgot to say "AARRRGGGHHHH!" :ruski:
Gabriel
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Arrrgh!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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AAAAAAAAAAahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...... that's better. Now my sense of wellness and contentment are flowing again. :)
Gabriel
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¥5.00 on October 31st :vampire:
Gabriel
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Uhhh... they're having a scheduled c-section, so I guess I don't get to bet.
Since I already heard rumors and stuff.
-kv
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Is it by any chance on the 31st of October??? :)
Gabriel
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Uhhh... nope. They're looking at the end of September.
-kv
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NUTZ! Well, I was gonna get them infant-sized voodoo masks for their birthday, but oh well,there goes that wiz idea. ;)
Gabriel
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I think you should TOTALLY get them infant-sized voodoo masks.
That would be so awesome that words can't even describe it. :D
-kv
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Actually, I had something else in mind, but maybe I'll see about switching...
Gabriel
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Hola all, your favorite (or one of your favorites, I hope) matrix pirate here! and with some news no less! (information is the stock and trade of pirates you know)
Sory I haven't posted in awhile. I've been buisy, ya'll know how that goes.
Babies were born on September 22nd.
Mark was 5 pounds 11 oz.
Maddox was 5 pounds 6 oz.
unfortunatly, Maddox was dead by the time they cut him out.
we've already had the funeral for Maddox, and Mark is home and doing well. so everything is as good as it can be.
I'll post more on it later!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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sorry to here chummer wish they both would have made it luna sends her condloances as well
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Sorrow shared is halved, joy shared is doubled.
All our best to you and your family - welcome to the little guy.
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Give him a handle and let him post a few "goo-goo's" and "ga-ga's". ANd again, chummer, I am so sorry for your loss.
Gabriel
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hello all! kid update: just hit the 9 month mark, and the little booger eater is saying dad and wiggling everywhere. for fathers day mrs ruski took us (kidvid and i) to a go cart track and let us race arround, pretty coll stuff!
-ruskiface the pirate