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Recursive Blood Donation Picture

Posted on | September 17, 2010 | 26 Comments

by Smitty

Is it excessively geeky to open up the blog on the netbook to last May’s blood donation post, and then have a picture taken of that, while donating again?
axis of fedora coughs up the blood
I mean, of course it’s geeky. The question here is whether it’s excessively so.
Again, I go for the apheresis machine, which limits me to approximately three visits a year.

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26 Responses to “Recursive Blood Donation Picture”

  1. Joe
    September 17th, 2010 @ 1:06 pm

    Is it coincidence you and Glenn Reynolds posted about giving blood within 24 hours?

  2. Joe
    September 17th, 2010 @ 9:06 am

    Is it coincidence you and Glenn Reynolds posted about giving blood within 24 hours?

  3. Bob Belvedere
    September 17th, 2010 @ 1:35 pm

    Joe: You didn’t receive the order from VRWC HQ?…oh, I forgot…oops, you weren’t supposed to kno…ah, er…forget I even spoke.

    BTW: This will probably reflect bad on me but: one of the few postive things about having had chemo is that no one can ever guilt you again in to giving blood.

  4. Bob Belvedere
    September 17th, 2010 @ 9:35 am

    Joe: You didn’t receive the order from VRWC HQ?…oh, I forgot…oops, you weren’t supposed to kno…ah, er…forget I even spoke.

    BTW: This will probably reflect bad on me but: one of the few postive things about having had chemo is that no one can ever guilt you again in to giving blood.

  5. KingShamus
    September 17th, 2010 @ 1:54 pm

    Excessively Geeky? Maybe.

    Excessively Gracious? Sure.

    Rock on, dude.

  6. KingShamus
    September 17th, 2010 @ 9:54 am

    Excessively Geeky? Maybe.

    Excessively Gracious? Sure.

    Rock on, dude.

  7. Americaneocon
    September 17th, 2010 @ 2:12 pm

    Cool geek.

  8. Americaneocon
    September 17th, 2010 @ 10:12 am

    Cool geek.

  9. Joe
    September 17th, 2010 @ 2:16 pm

    Bob Belevdere, you are a funny guy.

  10. Joe
    September 17th, 2010 @ 10:16 am

    Bob Belevdere, you are a funny guy.

  11. Joe
    September 17th, 2010 @ 2:20 pm

    Jeff Goldstein/Protein Wisdom posted this insider Democratic knife job of Barack Obama. Looks like the President is giving a little blood too:

    Such as this.

    And this.

  12. Joe
    September 17th, 2010 @ 10:20 am

    Jeff Goldstein/Protein Wisdom posted this insider Democratic knife job of Barack Obama. Looks like the President is giving a little blood too:

    Such as this.

    And this.

  13. The Dead Hand
    September 17th, 2010 @ 2:36 pm

    Is it EXCESSIVELY geeky? Well, I ask myself… is Smitty doing it?

  14. The Dead Hand
    September 17th, 2010 @ 10:36 am

    Is it EXCESSIVELY geeky? Well, I ask myself… is Smitty doing it?

  15. vinron
    September 17th, 2010 @ 3:29 pm

    Did you give platelets with one arm only? That’s how it appears. When I give, they stick both arms and I am stuck for a long time with only the idiot box to entertain me.

  16. vinron
    September 17th, 2010 @ 11:29 am

    Did you give platelets with one arm only? That’s how it appears. When I give, they stick both arms and I am stuck for a long time with only the idiot box to entertain me.

  17. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    September 17th, 2010 @ 4:29 pm

    Ah… So one machine runs the innertubes, the other machine runs the outertubes.

    Bravo Smitty!

  18. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    September 17th, 2010 @ 12:29 pm

    Ah… So one machine runs the innertubes, the other machine runs the outertubes.

    Bravo Smitty!

  19. JeffS
    September 17th, 2010 @ 4:33 pm

    Smitty, that photo is not geeky. To be geeky, the computer would have to be controlling the blood donation. Or possibly receiving the blood as a transfusion.

  20. JeffS
    September 17th, 2010 @ 12:33 pm

    Smitty, that photo is not geeky. To be geeky, the computer would have to be controlling the blood donation. Or possibly receiving the blood as a transfusion.

  21. wombat-socho
    September 17th, 2010 @ 6:05 pm

    I miss donating blood, but once they find out I may have been eating mad cows…[insert Nancy Pelosi joke here]

  22. wombat-socho
    September 17th, 2010 @ 2:05 pm

    I miss donating blood, but once they find out I may have been eating mad cows…[insert Nancy Pelosi joke here]

  23. Pat
    September 17th, 2010 @ 8:27 pm

    Gah!

    Blood!

    *faint*

  24. Pat
    September 17th, 2010 @ 4:27 pm

    Gah!

    Blood!

    *faint*

  25. Irish Cicero
    September 18th, 2010 @ 11:24 am

    Our prayers.

    http://www.washingtonreb.com/2010/09/18/o-smitty-hear-our-prayer/

  26. Irish Cicero
    September 18th, 2010 @ 3:24 pm

    Our prayers.

    http://www.washingtonreb.com/2010/09/18/o-smitty-hear-our-prayer/