Jim Hearts FF

*goes to get a beer* - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I raise my glass in your direction, Concert Maven! - Jim Hearts FF

*clink* - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Oh yes. - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

I haz lemonade, and I like it. - Derrick

*clink* - Jim Hearts FF

*raises Nyquil* - Laura B coughin'

*clink* - Jim Hearts FF

Fan is working. - Jim Hearts FF from iPhone

This is the laptop? - Laura B coughin'

yes. - Jim Hearts FF

Lemme know if you want me to ask Mr. B for suggestions. - Laura B coughin'

just blew some compressed air through the fan and surrounding areas. Lots of dust. Who knows. - Jim Hearts FF

I had an overheating laptop recently and dust was the culprit. A repair technician from HP had to come to our office, rip apart my computer, and remove a large dust/hairball that was trapped under the CPU/VPU fan. If your dusting with compressed air doesn't completely solve the problem, don't rule out dust that can get pinched in those difficult places. - Mitch

I'd love to take the case apart and see if I've got a dustball problem but I'm scared I might break something. - Jim Hearts FF

You may have cat hair in there, too. - Laura B coughin'

nah, it's probably all mine. I've been pulling it out for months! - Jim Hearts FF

A friend of mine was stung by a wasp on the tongue once; it had settled onto the rim of a can of Coke and he'd not noticed and gone to take a swig. - Mark H

The woman was insisting that the bee flew up from her pizza and into her mouth. - Jim Hearts FF

She'd never been stung before. She just happened to have a bottle of liquid benadryl in the car! She took a couple of swigs. - Jim Hearts FF

ouch - VAL D.

It probably was on her pizza. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

I specifically heard her use the word 'flew' between 'pizza' and 'stung'. Then she ran to the bathroom and came out announcing to anyone who could hear that her tongue was swelling up. - Jim Hearts FF

Dang. That would hurt! - Laura B coughin'

maybe it was on her glass & she just wasn't paying attention. that sucks...:( - Anna Lynn M.

Oh wow that's horrible :( - Rodfather

no. - Jim Hearts FF from IM

ok - Curtiss Grymala

I had no idea what ffspy was so I joined but I really don't want to know so I undid it. I felt this way yesterday after I just discovered on my own by trying to send a DM. *HUGS* - joey

I am now feeling the same thing you talked about yesterday, like maybe I'm too sensitive for this online friendship stuff. A couple of people leave the playground and I just fall apart. I wish I could be like most other people and just say, "ah well, see ya!" - Jim Hearts FF

Why do people sign up for services like this if they only lead to hurt feelings? - cecily

Me too. I take it really personally, especially on FF. As I said, it feels more like a family than other sites online so when it comes without warning I feel that I'm losing a real friend. In some ways I'm learning to have a thicker skin and in other ways I don't want to. - joey

Cecily, that's like asking why people get married or why people have any relationships at all. We're all fools, that's why. - Jim Hearts FF

cecily, can I hire you to be my voice of reason in life? - joey

Do you spy on your wife or friends ? If you do, they will probably hurt your feeling too eventually. #justsaying - Eric Logan

Joey, you feel that way because in a sense, you ARE losing a friend. And you're right about FF because the interactions are so rich. You really do get to know people here. - Jim Hearts FF

Eric... you don't need to spy on someone to have them hurt you. Relationships hurt. If they don't then it makes me wonder if they're real. - Jim Hearts FF

Thats true and I was not trying to make light of how you feel. I am just not sure if some of these services are healthy. - Eric Logan

That "healthy" question is an interesting one. I've always thought it was a lot like other venues... they CAN be unhealthy; depends on what you do with them. - Jim Hearts FF

hmmm... now I'm wondering if you were talking about FF or FFspy or both? Or social networks in general? - Jim Hearts FF

I was referring more to ffspy and similar services. In real life relationships we are usually more aware of context when friends or co-workers do certain things. Having a bad day. Fighting with a significant other etc etc. Online it is hard to gain that same context some of it is unsaid in real life and picked up by cues i.e. overheard argument, body language etc.. Incidentally my daughter is upset today, she actually cried earlier because her brother said derogatory things about her new Myspace picture. - Eric Logan

I was a major U2 fan at one time. For nearly a decade however, they seem to have lost their way. Their music has become spotty at best. The thing about U2 is, just when they seem to be beyond hope, they come up with something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Jim Hearts FF

That video gives me goosebumps Jim. - Rodfather

That song came up in the shuffle last night just as I was pulling into the parking spot outside the high school stadium. I cranked it up and sang along... got kinda teary eyed in the process. People were looking at me funny but I didn't care. - Jim Hearts FF