My disorganised thoughts in no particular order:

In Australia, donation of blood products is not paid. I think you get a cup of tea and a few biscuits (“cookies”).

I don’t have a problem with that, and I’m very grateful to those anonymous people who volunteered their time and blood so that I could have blood during my stem cell transplants.

I also don’t have a problem with people in other countries who are paid for their blood products; I understand what it’s like to be in dire straits, and blood is a renewable resource. However, I feel that if a company is making money from selling blood, they should be paying a fair price to donors.

Ethically, I feel that any donation of blood (or organs) should be completely anonymous, altruistic, and uncompensated in order to remove any hint of obligation between donor and donee. The idea of being paid for donations makes me personally uncomfortable, even though I just said that I don’t mind other people being compensated.

I’d like to contribute and save lives and whatever, but I have incurable blood cancer (multiple myeloma) and they won’t allow me to donate.

The only way I could be a better player than you are right here in this situation would have to have the best team on your side to beat the team and be able and play for the best player on your side of this scenario and not just be able and not have a team to beat the best player of all times in this scenario and I don’t think you have the same problem with that scenario and you can have the best player at your position in this situation but you can’t be a bad team and I think that would make it a little easier to play against your side because I don’t know what to say.

Okapi. They’re unusual and they look cool.

Gave up smoking 25 years ago. Diagnosed with incurable blood cancer 5 years ago. After two stem cell (bone marrow) transplants, three years of chemotherapy, and a year of immunotherapy, I’ve been told I’m in full remission — no evidence of disease — and I’m not expected to relapse.

Look after yourself while you’re young and fit and still have a chance to keep healthy.

Old enough to watch the moon landing, but too young to remember it.

Eliza

Why aren’t the basic laws of mathematics clean round numbers? Why are pi and e irrational? What secret is hidden down in the depths of these numbers?

Dyson, Kirby are great if you can find one secondhand. (They’re also great new, but very expensive).

I’m recovering from cancer and caring for my wife who has severe post traumatic stress as a result of natural disaster.

• I have a shower most days
• I get dressed most days
• I turn the dishwasher on when it’s full, and empty it when there’s no more room in the sink
• Occasionally I sweep and vacuum
• I mow the lawns every few weeks

That’s pretty much all I can do at the moment, but I’m slowly getting better.

International Talk Like a Pirate Day, the Pastafarian religious holiday celebrated on September 19.

“Be excellent to each other”.

Show some compassion, be a bro, care about other people. Maybe we can make society a bit better; one person, one act of kindness, at a time.

One time, we were given six month’s wages plus a month’s wages for each year we had worked there (I had been there 12 years). The company paid for career counseling, resume training, self awareness (similar to Myers Briggs only it was useful), use of an office space and computers and printers to hunt for jobs.

Another time, we were told that our entire IT department wasn’t important enough to keep and our jobs had been outsourced to India. But they still wanted us to stay for four weeks and train our replacements. Bitch, if I’m not important enough to keep, then I’m not important enough to train anyone. I collected my stuff and walked out that day.

• The Italian Job (1969)
• The Magnificent Seven (1960)
• Ennio Morricone’s music for the Man With No Name series

Press windows D to go to desktop and press alt F4 until you get the shutdown menu.

Singapore Changi Airport. Huge garden and waterfall at the centre, electric train to commute between sections.

The first book was a self contained story, could make a movie, or mini-series if you must. There are a series of sequels and prequels that could do the same.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majipoor_series

Avalon by Roxy Music.

Have you heard the remastered version with additional tracks? Julie Don’t Live Here is especially poignant.

Also, the album Eldorado.

Lord Valentine’s Castle series by Robert Silverberg

Colossal Caves. First graphic game was Space Invaders.