note to self
Friday 26 September 2008 | 6 cookies in the jar
Do not compulsively check the Brujo’s lifespan on deathclock.com. (Although Mandarin’s supposed to live to be 97; and I gain or lose 20 years, depending on whether I bill myself as Pessimistic or merely Normal.)
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Maybe you could check John McCain’s? In the interest of national security, of course.
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Emily’s narrator: Well, but do I enter “Pessimistic,” “Optimistic” or “Normal”???
Wait….I’m gonna die?
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Mortal narrator: No, sweetie, just the rest of us! ;o)
Also the BMI on this thing says I am, like, totally fat. When the hell did THAT happen???
2062? It makes me tired just thinking about it. Thank God I don’t have to do all that living today.
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Exhausted narrator: Well, and now the Brujo has figured out that if you just sit there and click it over and over, you always get a different date. So much for reproducible experimental results.
(Okay now wondering if Patrick’s “When the hell did THAT happen???” was an egg timer reference? We’re going to have to start hyperlinking our comments, people! Also, the whole thing looked like a gimmick to make me read the same information I tried to ignore in 9th grade health class, so I refused to play. Besides, the world could end before then. And if the world’s ending is really only a form of wiping the slate clean and starting again, then surely I can get some do-overs. Except on receding gums. Man, I always get nasty lectures on when they measure my gums at the dentist and it is one more thing that pisses me off about getting older.)
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Long-in-the-tooth narrator: Dude, don’t even mention the gum thing.
I know Dr. Lienhard meant this commentary on The PaleoClock to be uplifting, but certain existentialist types are likely to find it much the opposite.
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Existentialist narrator: Yup, that’s about the bleakest thing I’ve seen since the LAST time I looked at G••gl• News. Though I admire his horological construction techniques, and his bleak sense of humor, immensely.
Hey you guys didn’t wash away did you?!?