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I haven't been keeping up. I'm nearly caught up with myself. That won't do at all.

I have a post in mind but I'm pretty sure it'd be irresponsible to take any time to write it.

Now that last one I'm SURE I correctly set the date stuff on, and it still posted at first immediately to the current date, and then I had to edit it and reset the time stamp to make it go out to the future.

something is hose.

Sounds like a plan, huh?

Natasha Demkina has an extraordinary gift that means she can quite literally see right through people. Her story sounds like it has come straight from the pages of a science fiction comic book, but doctors have yet to disprove her amazing abilities. Natasha is able to look into people’s bodies and correctly diagnose their medical problems, without any help from ultra-sound or x-ray equipment.

(found via There He Is... (link in sidebar))

So this girl can see peoples' organs and make out details about what's wrong with the organs. This article is on DiscoveryChannel.co.uk, which gives it an air of legit-ness. But then there's this bit...

Natasha was brought to England by a national newspaper and she successfully spotted all of the fractures and metal pins in a woman who had recently been in a car crash. The woman was fully clothed and had no visible signs of how or where she had been injured.

Which is either a poorly written piece of reporting or just plain old suspicious. They brought her all the way to England and then that's the only test they did on her? We know we can't trust the Russians (joke with no punchline.) The initial statement that "doctors have yet to disprove her amazing abilities" is pretty meaningless. The story itself reads a bit like we're talking about pseudo-science, people coming to the girl eager for her to diagnose them, her mother bragging about what an exceptional child she was. Then the end bit:

Natasha wants to go to medical school in Moscow, so she can continue helping people. But the only way her family could afford to send her to university was to charge 400 roubles (£8) for each consultation she gave. Natasha often has headaches after these sessions and finds it emotionally exhausting because of the illnesses she diagnoses.

REALLY sounds off.

So there's something here on wikipedia.

Maybe I shouldn'ta bothered posting this. More later? Doubt it.

Still happily plowing on into the futures!!!!

I've never successfully used Twitter.

I need a way to easily reference my tags so that I don't duplicate tags without really duplicating them.
I need to fix the thing that displays all my tags; it worked when I first modified it so that the more often a tag occurred the darker it was. Somewhere along the line it spontaneously changed so that the more frequently used a tag is the more likely it is to be white, thus being invisible on the white background.
I need to check something off of some list.
I need to fix the sidebar bloglist thing, which I talked about before, if I haven't already by the time I don't do anything with this list.

I hate twitter.

...I add a post, I have to add another post.

That's not exactly what I mean. But to keep ahead. I've already missed days. So how any do I...

I've got to go pick up my daughter in a few minutes. Or a few minutes ago.

(this one's even more fancy)

In the spirit of this horrible get-every-future-post-out-of-the-way idea, here's a piece of pointless trivia about the current state of my NFL obsession (in the past you may have read a post about this, which I just now wrote but which I posted immediately instead of future-dating it.) (I don't know why I just said that.)

This past weekend didn't contain a Steelers game due to the fact that they played on Thursday night against the horrible-bad Bengals. This gave me a decent amount of Steelers withdrawal over the weekend, which started Friday (normally Fridays see me getting at least a little excited about Sunday's game.) As a result, I decided to try to dwell on victories past, from the days when I was alive but had no idea what was going on. I found that someone had posted the entirety of Super Bowl XIV on youtube, in 10 minute segments (I guess that's a youtube limit, as everything on there seems to broken into 10 minute segments.)

It was a youtubed video of somebody's old VCR recording. It was horrible. They also left out the commercials, which I'd kind of like to see. But still, I watched the entire first half of the Steelers playing the Los Angeles Rams. That was to be the last Super Bowl the Steelers would win until the 2005 season that was partially responsible for kick-starting my fanhood back into gear. It was very late by the time I finished watching the stuff on youtbe, so I didn't watch the second half.

Watching that stuff seriously whetted my appetite. I'm now hoping at some point to watch some DVDs of some of those Steelers Super Bowls that my dad's always talking about.

(Notably though: when I told my dad I'd been watching that game on youtube, he said something about that being the one where the Rams couldn't do anything and got their asses kicked. At first I thought that meant I'd told him the wrong thing about what I'd been watching, because the half game that I saw was nothing like a blow-out. Both teams held their own fairly well. Turns out we were both talking about the same game; he was just talking through that haze of 70s-Steelers-Could-Do-No-Wrong bias that he's got.)