@axtremus said in Rudy Giuliani's professionalism:

Skip to the 2:38 mark or thereabouts.

Skip ahead? But then we'd risk missing the objective analysis that precedes the fully in-context video clip!

@larry said in The Book:

It doesnt put an end to it, it just indicates that perhaps conditions have changed.

Well anyway, call me a Never Woker. Regarding sides, I guess mine is "anything but that" for the time being.

So not only do they need to be seasoned for destination, but seasoned for the trip too.

@jolly said in Self-identification at Microsoft:

My wife heard part of an extremely long-winded corporate conference call Wednesday, that my daughter was participating in. Nobody on the call had less than a Master's degree. A high percentage held doctorates.

After about 20 minutes of this stuff, my wife said it was extremely obvious to anybody listening, who could actually think and problem solve. She said it was no more than one in three.

Your wife is generous.

Bubba hadn't seen Leroy in a few months, then one day he ran into him at the hardware store in looneyville.

Bubba:hey Leroy, haven't seen you in a few months. Where ya been?
Leroy: I've been busy lately. I'm taking a couple of night classes down at the community college.
Bubba: well, howdy! What are you studying?
Leroy: well, I guess my favorite class is one called Logic.
Bubba:.... what's Logic?
Leroy: the best way I know to explain it is to give you an example of logic. Bubba, you got a weed eater?
Bubba: yeah, I do.
Leroy: well, logic says that if you have a weed eater, then you probably have a yard.
Bubba: wow!
Leroy: and since you have a yard, you probably have a house.
Bubba I'll be damned!
Leroy: and since you have a house and a yard, you probably have a wife.
Bubba: man, this logic stuff is something else, huh
Leroy: and since you have a house and yard and a wife, logic says you probably have kids.
Bubba: good Lord have mercy!!

A few days later Bubba and a couple of other guts are trying to load a pig into a truck when one of the guys says "I wish Leroy was here to help... anyone seen him lately? Bubba says "I saw him the other day down at the hardware store. He's been taking night classes down at the community college. He said his favorite class is called Logic. One of the other guys says "whuts logic?"

Bubba says "the best way I know to explain it is to give you an example.... You got a weedeater?" The other guy says "nope". Bubba says "well then, you're a queer...."

And that's when the fight started.....

@bachophile

Yeah, renal physiology is way, way beyond weird. All those gradients...

I loved, and understood, neuroanatomy. I've forgotten almost all of it now, though I still have the vocabulary.

Eyes? No way, no how. As an aside, giving anesthesia was one of my least favorite things. I actually saw a seasoned (20 years) OR nurse puke as the specimen was handed off.

Antibiotics and immunology are my black holes as well.

@jolly said in Amazon and the modern novel.:

Has Amazon changed things forever?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/01/is-amazon-changing-the-novel-everything-and-less?utm_source=pocket_mylist

I was on about this shit 10 years ago. Yes, it sucks.

Gotta look at the whole, though. We're gaining visual literacy, but this is the cost.

@lufins-dad me neither

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Old Blue Eyes


Okay. I thought he left out JFK, who also had some very memorable, mobilizing lines.

Back to Riley...Many congrats. I think he'll be a good father.

@taiwan_girl said in Gas:

@jolly said in Gas:

Yeah, gas is a lot higher now...

But the article was about a gas shortage.

Yes we have one.

@jolly Cool story. I like the history stories you share with us!! 😍

Wow! So sad. Depression is such a sad disease. It can really affect people in ways that I cannot understand.

There was a speaker I watched about suicide. And his point was that people dont want to die, they just want to change the way they are living. So, it becomes a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

@bachophile Yup.

@Catseye3 Watch the movie "Free Solo". If you do not have wet palms through the movie, you are quite a strong person.

Some of the stuff he would do to train is crazy - like hold on to the wood frame that frames a door (maybe one inch wide) for 90 minutes to strengthen his hands.