Gimp Hand Update — 4÷29÷2009

For this week’s install­ment I get that gods damned split off for good!! See the slightly less dis­gust­ing pic­tures below the fold.

Gimp Hand the Movie II: Electric Boogaloo

Gimp Hand 4-19-2009 from Darby Lines on Vimeo.

Well, you depraved fuck­ers seemed to enjoy my last per­co­cet induced ram­blings. Here’s part two.

Gimp Hand Update — 4÷15÷2009

It bog­gles my mind, but some of you sick fucks seem to enjoy these pic­tures. Whatever blows your skirt up.

Gimp Hand — the Movie

Gimp Hand 4-12-2009 from Darby Lines on Vimeo.

I’ve been want­ing to play around with some video, and what bet­ter way than to hor­rify peo­ple with my ugly mug and hideous hand. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll crap your pants.

Night Out to Nightmare in Thirty Seconds.

If you fol­low me on Twitter, or Facebook or even just par­tic­u­larly pay atten­tion to this site you should know by now that I mas­sively fucked up my hand last week­end. Since then, I have received numer­ous requests to explain just what the hell hap­pened. I do appre­ci­ate the con­cern (or just sick curios­ity) but I haven’t really felt up to the task of typ­ing this all out until now. I’m going to make this fairly brief, since the act of typ­ing is excru­ci­at­ingly painful. I’m also going to omit spe­cific names and loca­tions. If you already know the whos and wheres, nifty. If not they won’t add to the story.

The story begins last Saturday night. I was drink­ing at a local bar with a good friend of mine. Nothing out of the ordi­nary. As I was drink­ing I noticed that there was some­thing not quite right with my barstool. For those not in the know, the stools at this par­tic­u­lar joint are basi­cally a welded steel frame with a cheap seat bolted to the top. What I was notic­ing was that it seemed that the uphol­stery of my stool was com­ing unfas­tened. What I didn’t

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Gimp Hand

For the mor­bidly curious:

Site Changes – New Commenting System

In the inter­ests of being lazy, I’ve decided to install the Disqus com­ment sys­tem. I’m sure some­one some­where will have a prob­lem with that, but frankly I don’t care. You all can still post anony­mously in order to tell me what a hor­ri­ble per­son I am, but now you’ll also have the option of using your Disqus or Facebook cre­den­tials to insult me as well. See, it’s a win for everyone.

Giving Thanks

Tomorrow, in the U.S. at least, is Thanksgiving. It may be dif­fi­cult to tell some­times based on con­ven­tional obser­vance and media cov­er­age but there is a deeper mean­ing to this hol­i­day than four day week­ends, shop­ping and gorg­ing one­self on roasted fowl. Thanksgiving is about reflect­ing on what you are thank­ful for; although given the econ­omy, the two wars that we’re engaged in, and the dete­ri­o­rat­ing envi­ron­ment it may some­times be dif­fi­cult to find things to be thank­ful for.

In the true spirit of the hol­i­day, I want to reflect a lit­tle bit on what I am thank­ful for. There are many things I could write here, but I won’t. It’s too easy to make a facile list of ways in which I may hap­pen to be bet­ter off than the aver­age chump. Instead, I want to focus on the one thing that I am truly and hon­estly thank­ful for.

I am thank­ful for the friends in my life.

That’s it. It’s the bonds that we form with peo­ple in this world that bind us in the world; and true friends are the purest form of those bonds. I am lucky to have a great set of friends; both in

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I Gave at the Office

So, my office is doing a canned food drive for a local food bank. Ok, that’s cool, laud­able even. Now, how are we going to imple­ment this? A box in the break room per­haps, where peo­ple can qui­etly donate as their con­science dictates?

Oh. Fuck. No.

No, instead we’ve been divvied up into teams, appar­ently via some ran­dom algo­rithm since I have no idea who these peo­ple are. Then a “team cap­tain” is appointed to send out obnox­ious rah-rah emails. And why, dear read­ers do we need rah-rah emails? Because, of course since this office has a ten to one ratio of Sales douches to nor­mal peo­ple, we’ve gone and made this into a com­pe­ti­tion. Yes indeedy, don’t donate because it helps peo­ple, donate to get a splen­dif­er­ous half day off. Sometimes I think that these retards are inca­pable of tak­ing a crap unless some­one posts the results to a “leader­board” somewhere.

To add idiocy to obnox­ious­ness, the lat­est douchemail from the “cap­tain” encour­ages us to buy cases of bot­tled water. Because, you know, it’s more effi­cient for me to pro­vide water at $.75 a pop than it is for the food bank to use the taps at $.01 a

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I’m Not Dead.

Just a quick note to my loyal read­ers (sorry started laugh­ing at that then lost my breath), I’m not actu­ally deceased. I’ve just been too busy/hungover/flu-infested to gen­er­ate a proper rant.

That is all.