I've heard it as caffeine, nicotine, sugar and preservatives.

@taiwan_girl said in Now, something different...: @Jolly Thanks!! Maybe pick one up and try it? Mass produced instruments are chromatic scale and you can pick it up much faster than a guitar. You get really good, you might want to go to a diatonic scale harp or convert your own. An Oscar Schmidt from a quality outfit: https://www.elderly.com/products/oscar-schmidt-os21ce-electrc-autoharp?variant=26854261653568 [image: 1_13_127.jpg?v=1645722477&width=1100] Beware of becoming pretty good on one, they're like guitars. You may only be satisfied with more resonance and bottom end. https://shop.daigleharp.com/collections/daigle-autoharps-for-sale/products/copy-of-tlc-w-s-21-chord-daigle-autoharp-4221930ws

I don't post much but I do try to keep up with the conversations since coming back. I do play a lot of catch-up sometimes between work and all. I do like all the interesting and funny topics and you all too.

I would be shocked if even both siders and political nihilists didn’t admit to the difference Trump made to the existential threat narratives.

In fairness, you can do it with a picture that identifies you as a certain phenotype of human. It's just that the estimate gets more and more noisy as the data gets more abstract. DNA test might be way more specific. Of course this DNA prediction stuff can and will happen, and of course it's going to be highly accurate, to the extent the prediction models are as nuanced and complicated as DNA is. My favorite bit of parenting wisdom I've seen is that you shouldn't knock yourself out too much, because your kid will be what they will be, as long as you provide some basic parenting essentials.

My sympathy metre for the perp’s parents checked out long ago particularly when it was made public that they had been called to the school the very day of the shooting and chose not to do anything about their disturbed teenager. That they also provided the means for said mentally disturbed teen to terrorize and murder his classmates and teachers, leads to me to total apathy as to their well being for their life in prison and beyond. I didn’t sense much in the way of remorse expressed by either guilty as charged parent, though I did however sense a fair amount of self justification and attempts at hand washing other day before the sentencing was handed down.

So, 'splain me this, Lucy. Once the skimmer reads the number, what is the likelyhood that the attempt at another purchase won't require the CVV code, or a zip code for verification? I can't buy anything online without the 3-digit verification.

We're just not good enough to deprive people of their lives.

@Axtremus said in Support for White Coats: He still uses a stethoscope (which he carries around), one side to listen to the lungs, the other side to listen to the carotid arteries Actually, the diaphragm on the stethoscope (the flat side) is for hearing higher-pitched sounds, and the bell is for lower frequencies. There have been times when I couldn't hear a murmur with the bell, but with the diaphragm, yes. Also, if i had listened to someone's heart or lungs through a piece of clothing, I would have failed that course. Today, everyone does it. Considering the availability of imaging, etc, the "art" of diagnosing someone with a physical exam is becoming lost. As a side note, in the OR, I used to use an "esophageal" stethoscope. It was a long tube with a bladder at the end. I'd position it behind the heart in the esophagus. Amazing what you could hear when you're about 5 mm from the heart. [image: 1712849551166-image.jpeg] I had a custom earpiece that would attach to the stethoscope.

@LuFins-Dad said in Thrown to the curb: Another important distinction, in a trailer there is no way for the driver to know something is wrong… I was thinking about that. I wonder if the door was visible in the driver's side-view mirror.

@taiwan_girl said in The few, the proud,...: On my recent trip to Vienna, rented a car for one day. When looking to reserve the rental car, the cheapest ones were all manual. Using an automatic added to the price quite a bit. What a sneaky way to impose an American tax.

Neither one of us drowned in wet, driving ____. I can only speak for myself that I didn’t want to.

@Jolly said in in The Box: Calling Baton Rouge by Garth Brooks I saw him in concert. He puts on a very good show. I know he has played his top hits hundreds (thousands?) of times in concert, but he is able to make it seem as though he is still excited to play them.

@George-K said in Today's Med Mal Case: and has lost more than 100 pounds, Well, I guess there was a silver lining! 555

What is the joke "saying"? Guy meets the "right" girl, and assumes she will never change. She does change.. Girl meets the "right" guy, and assumes she can change him to make him perfect. He doesn't change.