I meant Mary Aileen at 11, of course. Number 14 didn't exist until after I finished the post and realized I'd hit the wrong numbers.
But it's still the funny one.
Mary Aileen @ 14: I laughed loudest at that one.
Speaking of doctors, the panel I attended and liked the best was this:
"Clinical Case Reports (aka 'What's Your Diagnosis?')", and featured Leonard McCoy MD, Prilicla MD, Alfred Harrington MD, Ethan Urqhart MD, and Amber Geriant PhD*
Dr. Geriant, a medical microbiologist with a wide variety of species in her care (human and non-human) had some good cases that broke the ice and got the panelists eager to top those with their own. Dr. McCoy amazed everyone with the way things "used to be done". Dr. Urqhart had a little trouble getting started, especially when trying to address Dr. Geriant -- it almost seemed as if he couldn't believe she existed -- and I noticed that all his patients were males, which didn't seem right. Dr. Harrington spoke eloquently of wartime medicine, but Dr. Prilicla stole the show and had the most exotic cases of them all. I had to stop myself from taking notes and just look at the pictures s/he presented. Way cool!
Lila @ 535: I suspected that might be the case when the car was reported abandoned; he didn't seem like the kind of guy who could do an Eric Rudolph. Still, that means no one will ever know why he chose to do such horrible acts.
I hope you and your family are recovering from the trauma suffered that day.
Clifton @538: It's odd, isn't it, how the body chugs along when the brain goes awry like that? Best wishes to you and your brother at this time.
xeger@ 135: Well, I pleat innocence here. Before everyone gathers to bandy words, I'll just throw out here that it was somewhat of an embellishment of mine. I hope you won't be biased because of this thimble error.
Bruce Arthurs @ 24: I think she means a strainer rather than an antique ricer. Modern ricers aren't conical, for some reason.
In fact, I didn't think the old potato ricers were conical until I found that antique listed. It's probably harder to use as a ricer than as a strainer.
Raphael @ 129: Sure they do. Everything that's pleated is also gathered or flounced. We could also say frill, ruffle, or furbelow.
Xopher @128: "Bloodsugar probably in the teens"
I hear that -- the lower mine goes, the grouchier I get, although I hope your "in the teens" is just poetic license.
What I find interesting about those kinds of trolls is their insistence (like Rummy) that these "enhanced techniques" are no worse than hazing. Well, hazing's illegal and has been for years. Anything less than hazing isn't hazing, although I wouldn't care for it being done to me. Once behavior crosses that line, it becomes hazing. Because so many people seem to think hazing is "ok", many municipalities are changing the penalties from misdemeanor to felony, and there's talk of a federal anti-hazing statute to really kick things up a notch.
I still would like to have Rummy standing in front of me, listening to loud sounds every hour on the hour, and dealing with the minor face slaps that he thinks are so painless, and the sleep deprivation that he seems to think is meaningless (despite the research coming out of Army labs), and I'd better stop ranting, hadn't I?
janetl@90: Lesson #3 also applies in our house, albeit for different reasons. However, vacuuming the floor is still required.
I grew up with a smaller version of the Rock in our front yard. Naturally, we call it "Big Rock". The town attempted to make it smaller when they wanted to widen the road there. After making hardly any dent in it with their drills, they gave up all hope of widening the road *there* and moved on.
Now Big Rock has been chipped and doesn't have the nice little ledge along the bottom that made it easier to climb the front, but it's still There.
(...and I am not blowing any raspberries at the town. Nope. That sound you hear is just the Rock, shifting.)
One doesn't exactly teach a hamster not to bite. They like to bite, and they do it well. One encourages the hamster to bite non-human items. Non-flesh, even.
Condolences on the passing of Hiro Frumentius, and welcome to Maggie Aggie.
Xopher @ 221: It would probably be officially named A/Veracruz/01/2009 (H1N1), so the Veracruz Virus works for me.
Naming viruses is difficult sometimes. When the CDC isolated the new virus in the Southwestern US that was causing acute respiratory distress syndrome, and first named it "Four Corners Virus", the locals objected because it was culturally insensitive (Navajo have certain taboos against death and related items). After discussion, it was renamed "Sin Nombre Virus", which became the official designation for the Hantavirus discovered in that region.
Hantaviruses, of course, are named for a river in Korea, the Hantaan, where the original virus in this family was found.
Marburg Virus is another example of a location being appended to the virus name, when the origin of the virus was actually somewhere in Uganda, not Marburg, Germany. Even though the first people died in Uganda, the "outbreak" was identified in Germany.
There's already a standardized notation for influenza viruses, and it isn't HxNx. You can download a copy of the WHO memo from 1972 that discusses the standardization here, but basically it's the species, the type (A, B, or C), locality, isolation number, year, and HxNx identifiers.
Earl @ 891: Grebes outgrabe. Says so right there.
610, 611: Oh, Nightflyers! One of the rare awful movies that I've actually seen! Well, part of it. I fell asleep about 2 hours in, and we'd only just gotten through the beginning of the movie. My housemate stayed up to watch it, and as I recall, he said nothing much ever happened.
There was some hot babe -- Catherine Mary Stuart? -- wearing dark sunglasses. Yes, on a spaceship -- you never know when someone's going to suddenly turn on the lights. You know it has to be a bad movie when even a hot babe in sexy sunglasses doesn't keep you awake.
(Did she also have a leather jacket? My memory is vague.)
Serge @ 482: I saw Transformers in the movie theater, and I thought it was difficult to follow the action sequences -- whether they were too rapidly generated or the cameras were too "shaky", I don't know. I eventually gave up trying to focus on anything, and even took a little nap.
As I tend to do in these movies lately. Doesn't everyone?
April 16th -- the day Masada fell to the Romans. Also my parental units' wedding anniversary.
April 24th -- my brother's birthday.
April 26th -- Shakespeare's birthday.
Overall, not too bad by my reckoning.
Lee @432: I should, shouldn't I?
Serge @431: Clearly, your boss is a long-hidden mole for the CIA, as in this operation. As for golf lesbians, they're the ones who attend the Dinah Shore Tournament every year. Think "rich, understand and/or play golf, and like to visit Palm Springs".
Clifton Royston @ 445: I think that if the world were in a place where Amazon.com (or book publishers) routinely tagged books as "straight" as well as "gay", we'd be in a different world altogether. It would be a lot better than the current assumptions, though.
pericat @444: Amen, sister. All the lesbian books I started out reading had that level of fear deeply ingrained, because too many women had lost their jobs, families and even their lives by being identified at the wrong time. A lot has changed, for which I'm grateful, but it also means that all the easy and obvious stuff has been taken out -- now we're left with the hard part.
Serge @ 7: Assuming she respects me now...
Various: I know men and women named Kelly, Kerry, Lynn, Kevin, Morgan, and Robin. Oh, and George was a female neighbor of ours.
Back to Serge @ 39: only if you're udderly lost.
Wirelizard @ 143: I think you're combining sic semper tyrannis with semper paratus; the latter is, of course, the motto of the US Coast Guard ("Always Prepared").
Velma @157: Congratulations to both of you on your incredible exercise programs!
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