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by older mycroft 1 view

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That's the top and bottom line folks!

I've now been to three Solicitors and they've all said the same thing to me:

"Sorry, but if you are incapacitated for any reason, by Law we cannot issue any notice whatsoever that you are forthwith incapable of any form of communication and that is that!"

So, if I finally lose my marbles ~I've already begun dropping big fluffy things, like Kitchen Roll and Bedding~ so I reckon it's only a matter of time before I can't remember who I am or why I'm in existence, [b]BY LAW[/b] I'm not entitled to someone else sending out an email to say (in the very least) that I have become incapacitated.

That sucks.

There [u]HAS[/u] to be another way around this - although I've already been warned that:
'[i]any such act could lead to prosecution on the grounds of misrepresentation[/i]'.

[b]THOUGHTS FOLKS??[/b]

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by seanferd

You grant power of attorney (or the UK equivalent), and someone can pay your bills, run your bank account, or pretty much do whatever he wants, except to send an email stating you are incapacitated?

They have got to be kidding. How would your proxy explain why he is your proxy when asked?

Maybe Velcro could do it. Cats love keyboards.

by seanferd

Here's an excellent fit:
http://www.deadmansswitch.net/
Sends email if you don't respond to their email prompts. Configurable.

Maybe something else in here, if you want it done locally, assuming your systems are always on:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=software+deadman+switch

edit: Not investigated, but a local app:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23183-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/fileTabs

edit: The download looks pretty good. Seems to work OK on XP. Make sure your system clock doesn't go all funny!

by seanferd

I'd really hate to see you loose your marbles. I do have some understanding of your condition from previous posts of yours, so I know what you are expecting. It is just that, well, "You will be missed, sir", in advance. You have my respect and admiration.

by boxfiddler

put me on whatever notification list you come up with. If you don't, I'll haunt your know nothing @ss just for twisted fun. :^0

by seanferd

I hope that one or both work to your satisfaction.

I know what happens around here when you disappear for too long. ;)

by older mycroft

I'm most likely to [b]GO[/b] quite a while before I've actually [i]shuffled off this mortal coil.[/i]

OldER Mycroft will have left his own personal building yet still be 'alive' - that's the RUB. I'm as 'holy' as the next holy bloke - I was born into the Catholic faith, educated within the Catholic faith, followed the ritual of the Catholic faith, then I grew up and questioned everything that had come (and gone) before.

I most certainly do not discount any of what I experienced (that would be like dissing my entire family) but I DO wonder if the various and nefarious World Religions might have a teensy-weensy element of money and corruption about them, and consequently my view is one of a Religious Liberal as opposed to a Devotee.

I'm not in any way dangerous to any religion, I'm just not besotted with it. We all die, each in our own way, but I'd rather someone just switched the light off without warning rather than this apparent slow lingering descent into brain-awareness nothingness. It's a particularly bitter pill to have to swallow.

[i]Another sodding stupid typographical error![/i]

by older mycroft

I'm gonna use this Dead Man's Switch - if I'd been in any way 100% I'd have figured this out myself but, being the way I am now, it's the simple things in life that appear the most obscure. Odd, that !!

If this had been a question - you'd be getting the THUMB! :)

by ron k.

... for two emails simply because one never knows when their time is going to be up.

by seanferd

I'm sure you'd have found them on a better day. As it is, you know more about software and systems than I probably ever will.

And, actually, I'm glad I was prompted to look.

Best wishes.

by hal 9000

Windows. :0

Now that just isn't believable. It's bound to fail when it works on Windows. ;)

Col 0:-)

by santeewelding

Into worse than senility, I may not wish to know.

I know already, and have for some time, with awe, that you still are.

I leave it at that.

by nexs

Could you not write a statutory declaration stating that a certain person, on the grounds that a medical certificate is provided, can pass the incapacitational news to people deemed important enough to find out?

by older mycroft

I keep ending up between the rock and the legal place.

The last thing on my mind (pun not intended) isn't to get someone else into legal strife, and that possibility keeps popping up. Maybe I'be just never heard the RIGHT lawyer yet. Let's face it, a Lawyer is only another bloke - and there's good and bad in any profession. I've seen some total tosspots in the Print Trade and also some Wallies in IT. The legal profession can't be any different - it's just SPOTTING them that can be difficult because the Law is not my forte.

I'll just have to go further afield - being in the Scottish Highlands, there's not too many Lawyers because there ain't that many people.

by john.a.wills

like 2 weeks imprisonment without plea at the prosecutor's request and those other fine things the Scots lawyers are so proud of?

by nexs

Maybe a quick trip is due. Though the thought of chasing law around the country is a bit.... strange, to say the least!

My step brother spend 7 months in Scotland and he said they drank him under the table... so I'd be paying careful attention to your next lawyer's pupils! haha

by darryl~

I'm surely not going to let you play with mine! I have a hard enough time keeping track of them as it is....even if you think you might be in a position of losing your marbles I think I'm a little iffy about allowing you to even look at mine (not that mine are much to look at anyway...most days they look like scrambled eggs).

How about resetting your password every day & when you finally don't remember it, you'll know it's time to put all your marbles in the sack and go home & get the kids to spread them out on the floor & describe each of them to you....

Hummm....this will take some thought....

Now what was I doing?....damn...it'll come to me....I'm sure (or maybe not).

PS - I think you're doing just fine! Keep up the good work ;)

by darryl~

I have accumlated a list of "haunting prospects" (and it keeps growing)...I will be very dissapointed if I don't get to haunt people after I die....gezzz...I've been working on this for years!

by tig2

And unfortunately, I don't really HAVE answers.

When I set up the CB site for the SO, I did it in a way that allows me to always have Owner access. Since he won't go anywhere I don't know about, I will have a way to provide any updates, no matter what.

He also has his passwords noted in a hashed file that I won't get the key to until it becomes necessary. Right now, that is in a safe that I can access but don't and won't.

Since GG is closer to you than any of us, can you arrange to have a neighbor post a letter to her in the event of emergency? She could then pass anything on to the rest of the people that you would want notified.

I'm in much the same boat. I don't see him outliving me and there is no one that has any of MY information. I figure that I will deal with that when it looks important enough.

Hang in there, sweetie. Velcro kitty will make sure that SOMEONE knows.

by darryl~

Yeah, I agree that would not be a good situation....but there are those of us who know that "bus" is going to hit us one day....and the street out front getting pretty busy & the "busses" are becoming more difficult to dodge.

I enjoy things as they are today & try not to concern myself with tomorrow....works for me but may not be the best approach for some.

by nicknielsen

Now I can't find the goshderned sack!

Others have made good suggestions here. From my point of view, you're as sharp as any of us and probably sharper than most.

by darryl~

Glasses, Tin, and a few other Crown Royal items.

Maybe we can all put our marbles in the purple sacks & place them in a tin then let PurpleSkys guard the tin....ummmm....okay....bad idea....onto the next thought....geez....now I'm losing my marbles too!

by ed woychowsky

How about sending out a message once a month that you haven't lost your marbles? If we don't get it, then we'll assume the worst.

By the way, this concept is something of a joy kill. I for one have never had marbles, does it show?

by tig2

But then, I haven't any marbles either so you look pretty normal to me!

by darryl~

JD & Scummy's "solids" to knock me out of contention.
:D

She's bad!!!!....Very BAD!!!! Don't let her see/hold/think/know your marbles.

I say no more about this for fear that she smashes my marbles (if she can find them).

by santeewelding

How [b] does [/b] one track their marbles?

See what you've done?

You have everyone looking down to think another of theirs rolled away on the floor.

by shellbot

This thread now has me questioning if all my marbles are accounted for..
but if they aren't..how will I know????

I'm not sure how many i had to begin with..

I know I lost a good few a couple years back..is one able to regain them??

by the scummy one

while it is harder and harder to find marbles, I did run into a store some time ago (forgot which) that actually had marbles.
They looked kinda big to just pop in my ear, so I walked on by.

by shellbot

i suspect there are spiders under the couch..
hence that is a no-go area for me :(

great..the spiders may have my marbles..i'm fubar'd

by santeewelding

That you are fouled up beyond all recognition. You need marbles in order to know that you have no marbles.

by shellbot

ok..so i have some marbles..
but i'm still unsure if i have as many as i used to have...

now..if i can just get someone to check under the couch for me....

by boxfiddler

My brains leak out my ears at night while I sleep. I don't give a rats @ss about marbles. :0 ]:)

by jessie

If all your marbles are gone?

I say we all mail some marbles to OldER Mycroft to replenish his dwindling supplies. Somebody go check under Shelbot's couch and whatever marbles you can wrastle away from the spiders, mail them to Mycroft.

I haven't had a lot of time to post in the past year or so... but I do occassionally get a chance to read the forums and I have to say OldER Mycroft, the marbles of wisdom you've left on this site will keep many of us going for years to come.

by michael jay

your marbles have been lost, you have been a voice of clarity here for quite a while and the halls of TR would echo silent if you were lost.

by tig2

There is an element of truth in that. I may even start a thread about that.

by tig2

It would be all too easy to confirm.

I would rather that kind of accident potential than the thought that none of the people I am close to would be notified.

by ron k.

Check out DMS. There's barely anything at their site. It looks to me as if it's a work in progress or simply a way to gather email addresses.
After a few more moments of thought I decided that even a fully functional deadman's switch is not for me. I have other means of getting 'the word' out.

by tig2

As I rather enjoy that trait in common with you. I find myself in excellent company, sir!

by the 'g-man.'

I'm one card short of a full deck
I'm not quite the shilling
One wave short of a shipwreck
I'm not at my usual top billing

by seanferd

"My memory is still pretty good. I can write, and actually I've no problem with plotting; the plot for Unseen Academicals [came] together in my head beautifully," Pratchett told The Bookseller earlier this month. "But like a lot of writers, I love the therapy of hitting the keys, with my brain going at the pace of the typewriter. It's very frustrating to lose a skill like that. [But] while I still think I can write with my brain, we'll find ways of getting round not being able to write with my hands." Long may it continue.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/unseen-academicals-the-carpet-people-by-terry-pratchett-1807371.html

by santeewelding

Play this thing to see, and to see again, against the lot of others, how we do, or to what degree, or ultimately not?

by santeewelding

Needs a comma after, "least"; after, "not"; and, after, "perhaps".

Matters with that which matters, in which, you matter.

by seanferd

I do, at least, some of the time. This assumes that I do not do this always, in everything.

This would be "anal retentive", I assume, rather than the other option. ;) Coke?

by santeewelding

And others, like, Rogerian self-directed psychotherapy.

Into them when I was twelve, and my peers were into other.

What were you [i] into [/i]?

by seanferd

At twelve I was probably still focused on physics, cosmology/cosmogeny, and still quite into geological sciences, archaeology, ancient history/pre-history.

Got into studying various psychologies, mythologies, cellular biology, and things neurological later on.

Science fiction and The Beatles had rather been staples from a very young age. You can blame a teacher and a librarian for the science fiction. Something to do with having to write book reports on fictions</>.

by older mycroft

[b]Girls![/b]

...maybe my early ventures into that particular field can account for my lack of success (no commas, just a full stop!). :^0

by santeewelding

Why they come out faster than I can stuff them back in.

Explains also why I get called, "shlt for brains".

by shellbot

yup...just might explain the speed of expellment...
(not likely a word..but sounds good..)

by seanferd

until much later on. Must say it was always an interest, even when I did not have a particular girl in mind. When I did, I would adopt the long-term plan approach, sutBly convincing the oBject of my affections that she was interested in me. ;) I can Be very patient. :D

Oddly, in early grammar school, some girls seemed to take a shine to me. But they all moved away, negating any sort of relationship while growing up.

Wow. It's the Nostalgia Section down here!

by darryl~

Thanks for keeping that thread going Boxfiddler...it was nice to revisit it...I think that's around the time he added PurpleSkys to his Facebook contacts.

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