Had an accident today, I'm fine, but here are the details that I have in hi-definition slowmotion except for the last second. I got called by grandfather to help set up a printer for his brother-in-law.On my way I lost control of my vehicle on some loose gravel on a curvy one-lane road, rock embankment on oneside, 500-600 foot drop on the other.
I managed to avoid hitting the bank in the first turn, then ended up preparing to go over the edge on the next turn. However, I saved myself yet again, but rear wheels were still sliding out over the edge, so I nailed the gas to keep from slipping backwards. As the rear wheels hit the lip the immediately accelerated me and further exaggerated my over-steer, propelling me into the bank going sideways. Car ended up facing about 150 degrees from the direction I was initially heading, on impact at which point airbags deployed, passenger bag cracked windshield, and rearview detached and gashed my ear.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Thank God, noone was coming around that second turn, most likely we would both be dead, or at least me, the angle of the vehicle means the driver side section would have been crushed.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Yeah, I don't know if I want to deal with any tech call's anymore, lol. Totalled my car and my left arm is a bit sore, in the wrist area, WoW'ing will be decreased as will time on the net in general, I need to live in the real world for a while.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Thanks guys. ( Gus ), the amazing part is I was only going about 25mph when it occured, GRAVEL IS EVIL. ( Anika ), yeah all bruising except for my left arm I'm missing about 6-7 layers of skin over about a 2in x 2in spot right below my wrist, the gash on my ear, and a very peculiar friction burn on my right pec, caused presumably from the seat belt, but left no damage to my shirt.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
James I'm not tired this happened an hour and a half after I got up, and I feel energetic I'm kind of afraid to go to sleep because of the stiffness I'll feel tomorrow.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Here are some images that show the majority of the damage outside of my arm. http://ff.im/7diAZ It's all pretty minor to some of the stuff I've seen in the past.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Wow, that's intense. I would've been petrified. Glad you came out of it with as little injury as you did!
- Jandy
Jandy, I got out and continued up the hill for about 5 minutes before I realized I could call someone. I was dazed. Finally called my mom and she made me go back and make sure noone else hit it.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Sounds like your good driving saved you man. I don't know whether to say you were lucky (to not be badly injured) or unlucky (that it happened) either way I am glad to hear that you are ok.
- Matt G
A buddy of mine got pulled over in his Porsche 911 many years ago doing somewhere around 130mph and was amazingly let off with a warning. A week later he totaled it doing 27mph when he chose the wrong time to try to shift, spun on gravel and off the road he went. gravel=evil.
- Robert DeBord
Holden, WV isn't that scary to drive through, I'm really thankful for my job now though, have plenty of experience driving. What part do you go through?
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
That's terrifying. I'm so glad you're okay.
- joey
Yikes, Jimminy! Very glad to hear you're OK. It's amazing the clarity w/ which you can remember those details in slo-mo, isn't it? Try to take it easy for a couple of days. Give yourself a chance to really recover.
- Ayşe E.
Ayse, I have a very strong visualization and memory ability, seeing someone in real-life I can occasionaly get a very accurate image of what they look like when they were younger, when compared to images, also have been able to enter and memorize lucid states for several years. The slo-mo was very different though.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Thanks everybody. Micah, I am too, changes your perspective a bit. I was really close to losing it.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I'm so glad you came out of that alive. Sounds incredibly scary and harrowing.
- Spidra Webster
Yikes. Could have been a lot worse, glad it wasn't
- LANjackal
Thinking about it it's kind of like the story of Friendfeed, going along smoothly then it lost control when it was acquired by FB, and it regained a little bit of control but we still don't know if it's going to be able to make it around the next turn. No one has a clue yet.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I’m inclined to think that using web services as omens for your life is a poor idea, lol
- LANjackal
from IM
It's not an omen, just noticed a similarity, though exaggerated. Also, the last line is great. "We still don't know if it's going to make it around the next turn.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
LOL, Ahsan, I guess I got a raw deal then. No I lost about $7000. Dammit, I screwed up somewhere I guess.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Sheesh, that is pretty steep...
- Ahsan Ali
from IM
Yeah, It goes up to about 1200-1400 at the top of the hill, I was just about half way up. Oh, the price, I totalled my car and have to pay medical bills, out of pocket.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Hope you're not too sore in the morning!
- Anne Bouey
Going 25mph and your car is totaled? Wow! That is some wicked gravel! Good that you're okay!
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
Fajar, I don't know how fast I was going when I hit, I was going 25 when I hit the gravel and had to accelerate to get my rear wheels back on the ground in the second turn, unfortunately I wasn't think as I did this that the car was All wheel drive, as soon as the rear wheels hit the ground, It fired me right into the embankment, so I hit at about 35-40mph, I guess.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
So your doing it rally style? Good thing that can instinctively drive yourself out of the 500 foot drop.
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
Fajar, yeah rally style, with out the jumps, and flipping when I hit the bank, though it was a near perfectly vertical rock where the road was carved in the side of the mountain. I was actually in an Impreza.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Good grief! Sounds like you were very lucky to walk away from that one. Glad you're ok!
- Andrew Terry
This is the closest thing I've found to my accident, everything over the dotted line was the drop off though, and the road wasn't quite that straight, so that turn back he does I was entering the second turn. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Wow! You've got my respect brother! Make sure you keep the scar, chicks digg scar -- or so they say lol
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
I have plenty of scars, there just in places you can't normally see. Armpit(fish-hook), head(triple-cracked skull), abdomen(hernia), the only one I think may stick with me is the damage to my ear and that won't impress anyone, or maybe the deep friction burns on my chest.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Holly shit! I'm glad you're ok man! That's one hell of an accident!!!
- David Cook
Yeah, the fact that some other primates are also omnivores suggests to me that we've been omnivorous the whole time. And my impression was that before the agricultural revolution, there were days when humans just didn't eat anything at all. Although I think we also used to eat a lot more insects.
- Victor Ganata
I understood that most of the evidence used by the paleo-diet folks is based on what indigenous hunter-gatherer populations do now, and then extrapolated. That ends up skewed, due to tribes in the extreme north, which have a very meat-centric diet due to available resources. If you take them out, the diet goes mostly fruit, greens, small mammals and fish when you can.
- Jennifer Dittrich
This morning we changed the format of FriendFeed subscription email messages to include more information about people who subscribe to you. Please let us know if you see any problems, and keep an eye out for more email improvements in the future.
I'm all for improving the format of notifications, but wonder (aloud) if it is such a smart move to include the Approve/Reject link right at the top (unless it only appears in private feeds to which someone has requested access). Right now we have the option of blocking/ rejecting a subscriber at any time but presumably not at the very outset. This may lead to more of a walled gardens' mentality, already very prevalent at FF.
- ianf ⌘
ianf: approve/reject is only for private feeds. Public feeds just have a link to subscribe back :)
- Benjamin Golub
I noticed this one! Such informations about people who subscribe to me on FriendFeed are useful, and makes it easy to quickly get in the conversation. Thanks for the good job!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Gmail automatically showed me the images in a subscription email, even though I never told it to (you know how gmail has the 'display images below' option). further, it doesn't give me the option to hide the images. not that I'd want to, but how are you bypassing gmail's security feature to hide the images?
- chrisofspades
Chris, we don't do anything special. I'm not sure how gmail decides what images to show, you'd have to contact them or check the gmail help.
- Casey Muller
Casey, you sure FriendFeed's founders didn't use some of their "we created Gmail" mojo? ;)
- chrisofspades
Chris, the "show images" only applies to external images hosted on other sites. Gmail doesn't show those by default because doing so would allow people to "bug" email. We include the images with the email so that they can be displayed immediately.
- Paul Buchheit
Yes, Mo asked to participate in the Ass Roasting. I wasn't really serious about it until Mo asked. Then I had to make it exist.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
LMAO, Kamilah so awesome, but you missed Sean's half-stache and goatee. Those would have made it even more awesome.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
aw, shoot. I checked, but I wasn't sure about the status of his facial hair.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
This is THE. BEST. THING. ON. THE. INTERNET. EVER. *weeps for joy*
- MoTO Bott
I'm tempted to lie about it just to see what I'd look like in one of your illustrations
- chrisofspades
oh, though sketch is good, ever had an exhibition?
- testbeta
I always knew it. The first time I saw Mo Kargas on FF, I knew he could roast asses with his eyes.
- Joshua
Thanks, everyone :) I don't know that I can sell the original sketchbook, it's really my personal journal. As I say from time to time, though, my goal is to do some larger drawings and paintings, and eventually I hope to sell those, I just need, like, 48 hours in a day to get everything done... it's going to happen somehow, soon. I have had some of my work exhibited at various times,...
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- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Kamilah, you're here! You should subscribe to me. :)
- EricaJoy
What happens if I subscribe to you, Erica? Is something in particular happening over on your feed?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Nothing interesting happening on my feed but I bet $100 I could make your day. :)
- EricaJoy
By the way Kamilah? I want the MoBot on a t-shirt.... Pleeeaaaasssseeee???
- MoTO Bott
Yes, giant robots are made of win. I dunno, Barry... last time I tried to make a t-shirt, people got all excited but no-one bought it (DYSP!). I might just make a design but not bother to try setting up a Spreadshirt (or whichever one it was that I used) for it. I'll have to see.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I could do that somehow, I guess. I've taken payments through PayPal before. I wonder what pose the MoBot should be in? Have some source material I could work from?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
"She has described measles (the disease which has killed more children than any other in the history of the world) as "benign;" she suggested the slogan "Shaken Maybe Syndrome" as a way of implying that Shaken Baby Syndrome does not exist but is always damage caused by vaccines; she provided strong support to a man imprisoned in the US for the murder of a ten-week-old boy, her support being based on the idea that the dreadful injuries to the child had to be the effects of a vaccine, not the actions of a violent man; she is on record as an AIDS denier; she said on television that "whooping cough didn't kill us thirty years ago and it's not kill anybody today""
- Mark H
from Bookmarklet
Melanie's Marvellous Measles copy: "This book takes children aged 4 – 10 years on a journey of discovering about the ineffectiveness of vaccinations, while teaching them to embrace childhood disease, heal if they get a disease, and build their immune systems naturally."
- Mark H
"heal if they get a disease" isn't that a hypocritical statement not to mention extremely self-righteous, do you honestly believe that if their kids fell ill and were unable to heal, they'd of written such irresponsible rubbish? I don't mean to sound nasty, but this is totally irresponsible and will they take responsibility for all the children's deaths that could/may result from their...
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- Halil
OMG when John and Holly make out right after John throws Hans off the building it's exactly the same as when George and Mary make out post George coming back to the house post near death experience.
- SteVe C
I've not seen either movie! Spoiler! HAHAHA!
- Anika
from FFHound!
That's the one where they break into the good old savings and loan to steal the bearer bonds, right?
- Kevin Fox
from iPhone
Yes but luckily George has all the detonators for the C4 so only bad guys get their wings.
- SteVe C
Uncle Billy = Ellis (the guy who wants to negotiate)
- SteVe C
i once stayed up for slightly over 4 days in a row. it took me a couple of weeks to recover. i think i survived becos i was in my teens and still somewhat resilient. watching Live Aid on television during this little experiment of mine was FSCKING SURREAL.
- Joe The Sausage
Even Thai Ngoc is starting to feel like crap from not sleeping, though.
- Victor Ganata
The longest I've personally gone is 10 days with only light rest 20-30 minutes at most a day. I finally laid down when I noticed degraded cognitive abilities, I was playing poker daily so I had a gauge. I slept for 22 hours after I finally laid down. Honestly, one of my favorite weeks ever.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Of course it's one thing to be forced to stay awake, and willingly staying awake. I think this is a possible flaw in the experiments, at least mentally.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Sleep is when the brain goes through experiences to generalize, compress, free up room for new stuff? Sleep is when I lose the most weight? Sleep builds my creativity so that I can get more done in less time? Sleep is the only reason I haven't turned into Louis Gray?
- Amit Patel
My brain works better when I sleep then when I don't. That's good enough for me.
- Victor Ganata
Amit and Victor, all good reasons. Add: Body heals much better with sufficient sleep.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Also I notice Louis hasn't chimed in here. He's probably sleeping.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Even if you don't feel cognitively impared from not sleeping, chances are that you still are, to more of a degree than you probably think. Driving when sleep-deprived can be as dangerous as driving drunk.
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
Nah, LG has probably decided this thread is also a waste of time and unproductive :D
- Victor Ganata
Realistically, you can't not sleep unless you've got something like familial fatal insomnia or some other terrible pathology. Even if you never actually completely nod off, eventually you start experiencing microsleeps. This is probably the only reason why Thai Ngoc hasn't died yet.
- Victor Ganata
Yeah, doesn't he spend six hours a night "resting"? (AKA, sleeping with his eyes open.)
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Amit, if you did turn into Louis Gray, what would change?
- Louis Gray
As for chiming in, it means I am on FriendFeed a tad less. But that's a different thread for people to tell me I am wrong. :)
- Louis Gray
If I turned into Louis Gray, I'd get invited to more parties.
- Amit Patel
I cannot dispute the fact that most people are highly entertaining after 30 hours of sleep deprivation :)
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
A two-headed albino Honduran milk snake is shown in Ridge Manor, Florida. Snake of this species are normally orange and black. Daniel Parker, a University of Central Florida biologist, says two-headed snakes have been documented to live as long as 20 years in captivity. But with two brains giving commands to a single body, Parker says the snake... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...
I think this is the first time I've noticed that problem with one of my own tweets.
- John (bird whisperer)
It seems to happen in the evenings for me. It missed one of my "good night" tweets once. I think the service gets high traffic during certain hours.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Thank you all.<3 Today has been crazy. I go from being fine and surprised about how normal I feel, and then completely breaking down and sobbing the next minute. I'm scared to go home in a few days because it's going to be a full week of heavy heart and tears. Right now, I've got a 3,000 mile barrier from the reality of the situation.
- Anna Haro
that's horrible. my condolences for you Anna - I hope you have enough strength to help your sister through this besides your own pain. feel hugged.
- esther
My condolences to you and your family Anna. So sorry for your loss. Sending you love <3
- Penny
I'm not sure about the political efficacy of the strategy of fucking over hurricane victims. It seems like that didn't go over very well last time, either.
At first I thought it was green beans on the pizza and I was like 0.o...then I noticed they were peppers. I make pizza a lot myself and find it especially yummy if you put olive oil on the crust and some salt and garlic powder before putting it in the oven.
- Chris Topher
I put olive oil in the dough when I make it :) More might be good, but I'm not sure it needs it.
- Katy S
Its mainly for helping the salt and garlic to stick, and I guess it helps the crust from getting too crispy.
- Chris Topher
Ah! Got it! That makes sense. I'm not a big salt user, so I normally don't think of things like that. Garlic and pepper might be good, though. I put that on breadsticks when I make them.
- Katy S
Rach just had an accident. She spun and hit an embankment Some fool dumped a load of gavel in their driveway which has diverted the water runoff from the rain straight onto a sweeping uphill corner. Very proud of Rach's defensive driving skills. It could have been A LOT worse. She's shaken but ok
Missed a telephone pole by 3 feet. As I told the tow truck driver "You can buy a new car, you can't buy a new wife... well, you can, but they won't be as rad as this one"
- Johnny
from iPhone
Please tell Rach we are glad she is OK and a mad driving heroine. Also please don't *actually* kill that fool with the gravel. It'd ruin Christmas.
- Josh Haley
Oy. Glad she's okay! Time for an early dinner, with wine. Yer Auntie says it's okay - mandatory even. you may also substitute dessert.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Yeah rolling in over the 101 I was dying with no A/C in the car. Even with the windows down, the air coming in was hot and uncomfortable :(
- Just Katie
See way over there on the pacific where it's 66? That where I am. Yay.
- Todd Hoff
84 degrees with 0% humidity would actually be a perfect summer day for me. It's amazing how 33-66% humidity can absolutely ruin everything.
- Victor Ganata
You really don't want to hear this: 76F, 46% humidity, clear, beautiful. (I'm quoting Bing on the humidity: I would have said 20%-30%.) Oh, and an 8MPH breeze...
- Walt Crawford
We're (the UK) is getting a mini-heatwave but it's only in the SE of England, only for a few days and only hitting 30C - hot enough for me though.
- Kol Tregaskes
I wouldn't trade my Bay Area mid-60's for any of that hot, muggy nonsense!
- vicster
I always found the Bay--even the East Bay--slightly chilly, even in August, but I guess it would be much better than this grotesquely unnatural suffocating humidity we have in So Cal right now. I hear this is the very far outer fringes of an Eastern Pacific hurricane or something?
- Victor Ganata
speaking as someone living in the middle of the burning heart of this map: "FLAME ON!"
- Joe The Sausage
in early September we'll all just burst into flames.
- Joe The Sausage
Victor: "East Bay" covers a lot of territory--where I am (Livermore) and the surrounding area are rarely chilly in summer. Berkeley and Alameda, more likely.
- Walt Crawford
Walt, yeah, I always forget that East Bay refers to the inland valleys as well. I've gotten use to thinking of it as just the side cis of the Oakland Hills.
- Victor Ganata
http://friendfeed.com/cats-ph... If you love cats, I invite You to join this group. | Eğer kedileri seviyorsanız Sizi bu gruba üye olmaya davet ediyorum.
- Ali Oz
İngilizce herşey deYil. Bir kedim bile yok u ingilizce desem ne anlayacan a güzel kardeşim. I have 2 cats by the way. Hah şimdi tam oldu, ayıkla rice n rock unu.
- Eren Çıracıoğlu
@Safak >hello!......you are waiting for Tom?......wow!.....nice!?......:)
- keiko-san
@Eren Çıracıoğlu > hello, Eren!......do you have two cats?
- keiko-san
If I didn't have this sore throat, I'd go sing at kataoke.
- JCunwired
from Android
Yup it reminded me of myself. We didn't have tv in my house growing up so we would watch the tv across the street until the lady caught us and closed her window. I missed a lot of good episodes of sesame street when she did that. It really sucked.
- Jeunelle Foster
Jeunelle Foster, that feeling, I know very well.......
- keiko-san
very like romantica a cat keiko:)=)))
- Ramazan Çekiç
no è che oggi ho cacciato un gatto clandestino per tutto il piano hobby. era buffo, da un lato aveva paura di me e voleva nascondersi. dall'altro miagolava disperato, segnalando meravigliosamente il suo nascondiglio :D
- antonio pavolini