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I need to show you this. It starts crazy, then in the last fifth corkscrews down into some delusion that is seriously holy-shit impressive.

I must have met at least three people like this.

http://io9.com/5684920/an-important-update-on-the-secret-alien-war-in-america

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I just found out that someone I know Stateside, whom I never met but was nonetheless brilliant, passed away from illness.

I'd really hoped to meet them. They were, genuinely, awesome. Brendan would have dug her. She'd been living the dream for about thirty years. Goddammit. Seriously, this is just the absolute fucking pits.