Oh dear god. Looks like someone was trying to make the entry deadline for this year's Darwin Awards....

Tree Surfer In California Slams Into Car, Injures Head (VIDEO)

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — Authorities say a man in Southern California riding a Christmas tree being dragged behind an SUV slammed into a parked car and was hospitalized with head injuries.

Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino says the 18-year-old and another teenager were Christmas tree surfing, a seasonal Internet fad.

Capt. Greg McKeown says the car was going about 25 mph Sunday night when the female driver took a corner and the tree veered wide and crashed.

Amormino says the driver fled. Two SUV passengers and the other tree surfer told deputies they didn't know the girl.

Authorities did not release any names. The injured man was hospitalized with moderate head injuries. Amormino says he is expected to survive.

He warned against tree surfing, calling it a serious traffic violation.

Apparently, yes, we are having DNS problems. I still don't understand why I can get here, but please, no one take it away.

I still don't understand why I can get here

Because you go here very frequently, your computer is using the cached result of an earlier DNS search.

Could someone please predict how sick I'll be next year, so I can decide which insurance plan to pick?

Because you go here very frequently, your computer is using the cached result of an earlier DNS search.

But it doesn't work for any of the other sites I go to frequently? I don't mean to interrogate you, I'm just curious. And about to go home, thank god.

But it doesn't work for any of the other sites I go to frequently? I

It should. I don't know how long before the cached value is expired. (DNS servers are somewhat of a mystery to me, hence they are magic.)

I don't mean to interrogate you

WHAT ARE INTERNETING FOR??

Obviously I say "SO" when talking about D., but that's an internet phenomenon left over from when I wasn't revealing my gender identity. In real life I say "my husband, D." a lot, particularly because we discovered that a lot of our kids don't realize we're married. Sometimes they ask us if we're brother and sister, I guess when we talk about living in the same house or something. Which is pretty funny with our ethnic heritage differences, but I guess to them it's not that odd to have siblings of varying ethnicities.

I notice that I say, "my friend, X" when I'm talking about all y'all because I must feel odd introducing some completely random name. I just say the friend's name if it's someone I'm talking about meatspace to meatspace.

Could someone please predict how sick I'll be next year, so I can decide which insurance plan to pick?

Yet another fabulous feature of the fucked upedness of the US healthcare system. We did eenie-meanie-minie-mo. And I threw a dart at a board to guess our FSA deduction.

I didn't do a medical FSA this year, though perhaps I should have. Just childcare and we'll go over that by no problem.