I saw Barton-Pine about 5 years ago. I wrote about it here. In that thread, I commented on her injury. On January 16, 1995, Pine was severely injured in a train accident in the suburb of Winnetka, where she taught violin lessons. As she was exiting a Metra commuter train with her violin over her shoulder, the doors closed on the strap to her case, pinning her left shoulder to the train. The doors, which were controlled remotely and had no safety sensors, failed to reopen, and she was dragged 366 feet (112 meters) by the train before being pulled underneath and run over, severing one leg and mangling the other. Pine was saved by the prompt application of tourniquets by several passengers who disembarked from the train after pulling its emergency brake handles. She sued Metra and the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company for compensation for her injuries and legal and medical expenses. Metra argued that she made the choice not to extricate her arm from the strap of the violin case due to the value of the instrument, a 400-year-old Amati valued at around $500,000, and thus she carried most of the blame for her injuries. The jury ruled in Pine's favor. Metra changed its conductor safety procedures following the incident and made other changes to the trains themselves. Daniel Barenboim, the conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, organized a benefit concert and raised over $75,000 after she was injured.[43] After a two-year hiatus to allow for recovery from her injuries, aided by numerous surgeries and physical therapy, Pine resumed her career.

That's it! Except with a lot more detail than whatever my source had provided. Thanks, Phibes!

@george-k said in The IRS sends a letter from Uncle Joe: It was not informative, Actually the letter is informative, it contains the specific IRS estimate of the benefit due to the recipient. Having said that I agree these letters are shitty. As were the trump ones.

Apple has gone ARM for the laptops and desktops, Microsoft will also move their Surface line if laptops and tablets to ARM. I run Windows in a Parallels virtual machine anyway. I will just use the ARM version of Windows whenever Parallels and the Windows application I need support ARM natively. I will keep my current Intel-based Mac with Windows 10 running in Parallels until then.

From the Preface: On September 18, [1865], Lee, riding his horse Traveller, arrived in Lexington, Virginia, to take up the appointment of President of Washington College, which he had accepted at the invitation of the rector and trustees. <snip> Though his experiences were extraordinary and his stamina and intelligence well above average, Traveller must have shared the basic psychology common to all horses. His fears and pleasures, his eternal hopefulness, his striving to interpret events beyond his comprehension, and his convinced misunderstandings , will be as familiar as the smell of a horse to any rider. (The story opens in the setting of Washington College. It is nighttime. Traveller is asleep in his stall. He is dreaming.) The Blue men! The Blue men! They've got round behind us, they're in among those thick trees! The guns -- the guns -- I shall go mad! The ground's shaking. Run! Run! A horse that's afeared has to run, what else? Pressure of Marse Robert's knees; steady hand smoothing my neck. "Easy, Traveller, easy." <snip> The smoke! I can't see anything! Stand still! Must stand still! The Blue men are coming! No, it's the Yell! The Yell! Over there in the trees! It's Cap-In-His-Eyes is coming! Oh, I -- my legs, this straw -- Where am I? I'm in the stable! It's just another of those dad-blamed dreams! No Blue men -- not anymore. No guns. I'm all a-sweat. Better stand up. https://www.amazon.com/Traveller-Richard-Adams-ebook/dp/B00Q8KXQUM/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=Traveller&qid=1626684729&s=books&sr=1-7

As everybody knows, math education around here is freaking great. I hope the CRT isn't as effective.

Sweet baby!

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/mackinac-bridge-reopens-after-closure-due-to-bomb-threat-michigan-officials-say/2557725/

Take them out to your grill, shucked, and baste them with salty butter while they cook on medium heat.

Does it hurt when you assume pretzel form?

The biggest enemy our country faces is the democrat party. We have passed the point of trying to reason with them, and they have no desire to reason with anyone. As a nation we must either give the country up, or drive them out of even the smallest position of power.

Hope they release a podcast ... let's see how "insane" the conversation really is. My guess is that it'll be pretty reasonable and interesting.

What do people use Chromebase for? Just a terminal to run the Chrome browser on a big(ger) screen?

And that proves what, exactly? Antifa has made it clear they want to overthrow the government. Yet the democrats support and defend them. BLM has made it clear they want to overthrow the government. Yet the democrats support and defend them. Admitted Socialists are now members of Congress, on the democrat side, who make it clear they want to overthrow the government. Yet you and the rest of the idiots still calling yourselves democrats defend and support them. You find an article where one doofus makes what amounts to just his one opinion and you think it proves something?

@loki said in Food Scams: I’m not sure I understand the economics of the scam. The incremental cost of the product left out is minimal and the real outcome is the people don’t buy the product again. But is the effect on an already-tight profit margin minimal?

@horace said in Today's Deep Thought: @klaus said in Today's Deep Thought: He's talking about TNCR. Link to video We recently hired a senior software developer/architect who's written some books, one of which is about how to interview and advance in your career as a software developer. He was hired in a role with the same job title as most of his co-workers, including myself. I literally thought of that scene when I saw he'd written that book. It's just an e-book though, with like two Amazon reviews. In fairness, he does seem to know his stuff. I just became aware that this guy wrote a book recently about his mental health struggles, suicide attempt, and subsequent involuntary institutionalization. He was in a psych ward less than a year ago, and thought everybody there was so stupid and corrupt that he had to write a book about it, self-published on Amazon. Now I know why he took the job here. Everybody else googled him before making him an offer.

see I like grilled corn on the cob a lot. If you do it with the right things it gets a nice smoky flavor. I don't do it that way very often, but I like it.

@horace said in Most annoying cooking narrator: Reminds me of the optometrist my wife and I saw last week. She had a speaking pattern that went up and down in tone arbitrarily across a sentence. It came off as a mechanical caricature of normal inflection. I figured maybe it was an attempt at distancing, like to keep her job as impersonal as possible. I bet she successfully remembers zero people she treats at the end of the day. I found that the hardest thing about understanding Aussies was not necessarily their accent, but their entirely weird-ass inflections. It threw me off for a very long time.