Aha ! A piece of solid ground in this burgeoning morass folks :
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... I would be VERY surprised if the person we seek had not at some point turned round on their swivelly chair and said: "aah... fermi Lab data... not extra-galactic but will have to do I suppose" ...
( discovered The Universe was generally behaving oddly, got a prize for that. Something about accelerating when it shouldn't. Sounds like an F1 race steward or something. )
Oh, and that example is the very reason I don't play ping-pong. It is the ball game with the highest self-face-whack index. I suspect the game was invented by a facio-maxillary surgical group.
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... I'm retracting all my apologies now...
*lifts pen off score sheet*
Cheers, Mike.
NB. Do morasses really burgeon ? I wonder.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
My swivelly chair also has an up/down axis and a tilt back lever. These have their dangers .... if I kick the upper/downer one accidentally with my right heel then I go down about a foot real quick. Though I do use that to interrupt the consultations that have bogged down a bit.
Cheers, Mike.
( edit )
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Heisenberg compensators.
@David : We can compensate for this [strike]crappy[/strike] thread ? Thank heavens ! I felt the entire E@H project was at risk.
( edit ) My staff are revolting. I ask for Mrs Very Much KerFoops to be put on my list to visit at the nursing home this afternoon, so they put in my appointment book :
"12:00 - Dr M to visit nursing home and be admitted"
( edit ) Silly misunderstandings : "be admitted" as in 'be allowed to enter the property'. Yeah right. Ahem ! Young whippersnappers, sacking's to good for them ....
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I never had that problem *anniet* ......can't you tell by my perfect form when swinging the 58 degree wedge?
*Examine Magic's picture carefully* erm... *remember you're dealing with no ordinary human* Oh... Yes... I see it now :) Is that what you call a "practise shot"? :) And is that the end of your swing or the um... beginning of it...? :) I'm thinking beginning because you're still holding the club :)
Nice trees! :)
edit: apologies to golfers everywhere and to Magic in particular for my facetiousness :) I am working through a rude streak at the moment :)))) I may be some time... :)
Ah now I see what you see......that ball in front of me after my swing.
Well I rarely play 9 holes on my home course and just use it to practice shots from 100 yards in with my wedges.
When I practice I may dump all the golf balls on the ground and one by one hit them onto the green and see how close I can get (2 hole-in-ones over the years here)
Now in that picture I was doing another practice I do by putting 3 balls in a row in front of me spaced about one golf head apart and that makes the swing more accurate.
So yeah I had just hit the 2nd ball and one was left.
Why would I do this?
Well for almost 20 years I play in a pitch shot contest for money.
Usually about 20 guys get 2 shots at a time to hit the hole in one from about 55 yards away.
I have made the shot 9 times and once I made it with a one hand swing for the money (well I have back problems so I got pretty good just swinging the club with one hand)
As far as my trees.....you would be amazed if you saw this 5 acre park I made 30 years ago (I don't let many people on the property) 50 giant sequoias,4 windmill palm trees,3 types of magnolias,10 different rhoides,5 different version of the butterfly bush,150 fir trees,blue spruce,and several different flowering trees.
And then all the different flower bulbs all over......stuff blooming all year.
This is not where you normally would see palm trees or sequoias.......way up north on the NE corner of the Olympic Peninsula near the San Juan Islands.
So when I look out my window I don't see any neighbors.......only birds and deer...and all the other critters and trees (just wish I could buy all the surrounding property to make my park even bigger (oh and the creek runs through the property next to the trout pond about 75 feet from the house.
(moles and land otters NOT allowed)
But I do have my flock of satellite dishes too
Oh and Dr. Mike.....I built this house and moved in on 1-21-2003 and it has a metal roof and the siding is made of *Hardy Plank* (concrete made to look like wood boards) on a concrete foundation that I made years before the house was built on it.
Only thing that ever burns is the wifes cooking (she will never see this)
*sniff* Well all I can say is you're fortunate Seti's ping pong expert stepped into the breach with the golf tips (thank you Chris :)) because you were not getting a squeak out of me...
*return to reading thread*
@swivelly chairs
*look down (a lot) at Mike* :) The high powered plummet. I like it. Is there a setting that takes you straight through the floor or do your patients just have to make do with you disappearing under the desk from time to time? Perhaps you could tinker about with things... see what you can achieve...
I'll probably have to get one of those lower tech ones Chris is promoting though... you know *wrinkle nose* to keep the BT engineers occupied... I am very fond of the one I'm teetering on at the moment however :) (erm swivelly chair... not BT engineer) Nothing like a meander anti-clockwise before exhiliratingly unscrewing yourself into an orbit that leaves you flat on your back admiring how well the spider webs are coming along.
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I felt the entire E@H project was at risk.
Clearly S@H is made of much stronger stuff :))) They stood up to 9 months of me posting before the cracks started showing...
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( edit ) My staff are revolting.
*place jaw in sling to prevent it hitting the space bar* Let me get this straight... you edited that ^ in? Morale boost is it?
You do know that the 12 o' clock slot in the nursing home's register says "Dr M to be committed"? [aside to everyone except Mike] It seems, peoples, that Mrs Very Much KerFoops is considerably less KerFoops than Doctor Exceedingly Much KerFoops is and in fact is deemed sane by comparison.[/aside]
As to Saul Perlmutter... you're right... there is an "S" in there somewhere and oddly enough, other letters too :) That, Mike, however, *pause to admire quantity of suddenly deployed commas* is the height of your achievement. Well done! :) Have a twinkly star :) At this point however is where the news starts becoming increasingly bad.
Dr Saul is alive. Now obviously this is not bad news for him... I'm sure not being dead is one of his favourite hobbies but when a doctor struggles to differentiate between a demised one and a live one... well... dare we wait for his "nursing home" ""appointment"" everyone...? :)
@Magic
erm... *puff* *puff* *ladder@#!$%tangle* ...Hi Magic... *oof* How often... *TUG* *wheeze* *scrape* ...do you check your... you know... trees... for erm... uh... moles...
Hi Phil :)
edit: can anyone smell burning? :)
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@Phil : Now that you bring it up, I have lost some moral authority with The Minions since the Purple Hair Happening.
@Anniet : Oh joy ! A star ? A Twinkly Star ! I may now pass on from this world as a complete being ( or alternatively be the nursing home's 'resident doctor' ).
Allegedly the chair lever with the greatest risk is the tilty-backy one. I'm told it causes a backal* lobe brain injury that includes loss of memory and intelligence, but in such a fashion as to cause increased use of said lever. Personally I really can't vouch for that at all. No idea. Can't help you there.
Cheers, Mike.
* This is just around the curve of the main brain bendy bone ie. nearby the sidal and topal lobes.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
So that everyone's fully in the loop that Mike orbits... here is -------> the Purple Hair Happening. :)))))
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Allegedly the chair lever with the greatest risk is the tilty-backy one. I'm told it causes a backal* lobe brain injury that includes loss of memory and intelligence, but in such a fashion as to cause increased use of said lever. Personally I really can't vouch for that at all. No idea. Can't help you there.
I thought there was a glaring omission in your manoeuvrings... because if I had a tilty-backy swivelly chair that I could bash all my topal lobes with... anomalous tilting upsettisodes would be the very first thing I'd mention... assuming tilting it back hadn't tilted me out a window or anything. Then no... I probably wouldn't mention it either...
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Oh joy ! A star ? A Twinkly Star !
I knew you'd be pleased. :) I suspect you will continue to be pleased too... for a very long time to come... :)
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I'm beginning to understand why you guys will put-up with Phil.
There is no way that I can keep-up with it all. I can't even tell the clues from the clueless!
(well, except I can tell by not being able to tell that the incompetent teller is me) (and Phil)
Is this what I've been missing by staying away from the Cafe SETI?
Main brain bendy bone???
Sure, sure, I know; every profession has its jargon to confuse the general public. It's all about "obstacles to entry." Also, you can't fix something until you have a fancy name for the problem.
At the risk of using stereotypes to help me make a guess...please, please let this be wrong....
I *really* hope I'm wrong...
Dr. Maura McLaughlin
That can't be right since she isn't showing her "S."
Ah tbret. I am a general practitioner. That means I know precisely nothing about absolutely everything, or maybe absolutely nothing about precisely everything. Or something like that. If you can't riff the BS then you won't last long. But here's the trade secrets to totally crush your spirit :
- use Latin if you know it, that keeps the understanding threshold nice and high. Dermatologists have thousands of phrases to describe red, sore and itchy spots. They all wind up getting a steroid applied. Ointment or Cream is the Big Decision that keeps everyone guessing. However that is, like a magician's trick, merely a distraction to avoid real scrutiny ie. not alot is actually happening. Throw in the words 'fungal' and 'bacterial' occasionally and wham ! Big bucks. No night calls. Can't even spell 'litigation'.
- obstetrics is for those that can spell litigation. It would help if you enjoyed court appearances.
- gynaecology is for those that didn't enjoy their court appearances.
- a good doctor times his treatment to coincide with recovery. Most people think post hoc ergo propter hoc ie. it came after therefore was caused by. See how cool Latin can be ? Medieval logic thrives out there in the 'burbs. So if she weighs as much as a duck, she must be a witch etc.
- if touching people gives you the willies, or even conversing with them, then anaesthesia is the go. The nurse gives the pre-med, so they are nearly unconscious by the time you are in the groove. No challenging questions or behaviours. Plenty of interesting electronics to play with. You can poke faces at the patients when they are under if you want.
- alternatively radiology is also for the socially challenged. The radiographers do all the work with taking the happy snaps. You can just sit in a room, look at a screen, drink nice cappuccino, smoke both all & whatever you want and merely talk to the dicta-phone. But remember to never take any calls from real doctors.
- the stethoscope is the status symbol. Forget the fancy cars, bow ties and arriving at parties by helicopter. The Scope is where it's at. We call them 'guessing tubes' but the rest of the world thinks it's a magic wand aka Harry Potter.
- 'away at a conference' is code for Holiday In The Bahamas, typically paid for by errr .... companies concerned that you have appreciated the true value of certain manufactured goods. Have no morals here. The pensioners will pay for it through higher drug costs. They don't mind at all, because they don't know any better. As ignorance is surely bliss why spread unhappiness, eh ?
- cosmetic surgery is for those that always found the eggs at Easter. You must memorise all currency denominations by age 11 and ideally have pick-pocketing skills prior to med-school entry. Just keep honing from there.
- never dis the neurosurgeons. One day they may hold anything from your brain down to your backside in their hands. It's your call, but I'm just sayin' ....
- never dis the bowel guys. This is self evident.
- please yourself with pathologists. If you ever meet them then you won't be minding anything whatsoever by then.
- if you are into jumping out of perfectly good aeroplanes, riding pushbikes while wearing Lycra during heavy traffic, taking amphetamines while cruising on your Honda Fireblade or just setting yourself on fire for the attention it draws then : Emergency Department work is for you. Usually you will not notice any change of pace between your work and leisure hours. Expect to die before thirty-five though.
- psychiatry is best entered into by those who are already mad. Saves time.
- paediatrics is for those that haven't grown up and never want to. Kids are fun. Chaos is your BFF. Do not annoy the Mother Bears though. One paw slash and your guts just erupt into the environment.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Aha ! A piece of solid ground
)
Aha ! A piece of solid ground in this burgeoning morass folks :
Deductions :
(a) Prefers extra galactic data.
(b) Will settle for Fermi Lab data.
(c) Uses swivelly chairs in rotation mode.
(d) Speaks.
So that rules out Stephen Hawking then. Try :
Saul Perlmutter
( discovered The Universe was generally behaving oddly, got a prize for that. Something about accelerating when it shouldn't. Sounds like an F1 race steward or something. )
Oh, and that example is the very reason I don't play ping-pong. It is the ball game with the highest self-face-whack index. I suspect the game was invented by a facio-maxillary surgical group.
*lifts pen off score sheet*
Cheers, Mike.
NB. Do morasses really burgeon ? I wonder.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: Uses swivelly chairs in
)
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
ROFL ! :-) My swivelly
)
ROFL ! :-)
My swivelly chair also has an up/down axis and a tilt back lever. These have their dangers .... if I kick the upper/downer one accidentally with my right heel then I go down about a foot real quick. Though I do use that to interrupt the consultations that have bogged down a bit.
Cheers, Mike.
( edit )
@David : We can compensate for this [strike]crappy[/strike] thread ? Thank heavens ! I felt the entire E@H project was at risk.
( edit ) My staff are revolting. I ask for Mrs Very Much KerFoops to be put on my list to visit at the nursing home this afternoon, so they put in my appointment book :
"12:00 - Dr M to visit nursing home and be admitted"
( edit ) Silly misunderstandings : "be admitted" as in 'be allowed to enter the property'. Yeah right. Ahem ! Young whippersnappers, sacking's to good for them ....
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: Ahem ! Young
)
Says the doctor with the purple hair...
Phil
Phil
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
RE: @MagicRE: I never
)
Ah now I see what you see......that ball in front of me after my swing.
Well I rarely play 9 holes on my home course and just use it to practice shots from 100 yards in with my wedges.
When I practice I may dump all the golf balls on the ground and one by one hit them onto the green and see how close I can get (2 hole-in-ones over the years here)
Now in that picture I was doing another practice I do by putting 3 balls in a row in front of me spaced about one golf head apart and that makes the swing more accurate.
So yeah I had just hit the 2nd ball and one was left.
Why would I do this?
Well for almost 20 years I play in a pitch shot contest for money.
Usually about 20 guys get 2 shots at a time to hit the hole in one from about 55 yards away.
I have made the shot 9 times and once I made it with a one hand swing for the money (well I have back problems so I got pretty good just swinging the club with one hand)
As far as my trees.....you would be amazed if you saw this 5 acre park I made 30 years ago (I don't let many people on the property) 50 giant sequoias,4 windmill palm trees,3 types of magnolias,10 different rhoides,5 different version of the butterfly bush,150 fir trees,blue spruce,and several different flowering trees.
And then all the different flower bulbs all over......stuff blooming all year.
This is not where you normally would see palm trees or sequoias.......way up north on the NE corner of the Olympic Peninsula near the San Juan Islands.
So when I look out my window I don't see any neighbors.......only birds and deer...and all the other critters and trees (just wish I could buy all the surrounding property to make my park even bigger (oh and the creek runs through the property next to the trout pond about 75 feet from the house.
(moles and land otters NOT allowed)
But I do have my flock of satellite dishes too
Oh and Dr. Mike.....I built this house and moved in on 1-21-2003 and it has a metal roof and the siding is made of *Hardy Plank* (concrete made to look like wood boards) on a concrete foundation that I made years before the house was built on it.
Only thing that ever burns is the wifes cooking (she will never see this)
*sniff* Well all I can say is
)
*sniff* Well all I can say is you're fortunate Seti's ping pong expert stepped into the breach with the golf tips (thank you Chris :)) because you were not getting a squeak out of me...
*return to reading thread*
@swivelly chairs
*look down (a lot) at Mike* :) The high powered plummet. I like it. Is there a setting that takes you straight through the floor or do your patients just have to make do with you disappearing under the desk from time to time? Perhaps you could tinker about with things... see what you can achieve...
I'll probably have to get one of those lower tech ones Chris is promoting though... you know *wrinkle nose* to keep the BT engineers occupied... I am very fond of the one I'm teetering on at the moment however :) (erm swivelly chair... not BT engineer) Nothing like a meander anti-clockwise before exhiliratingly unscrewing yourself into an orbit that leaves you flat on your back admiring how well the spider webs are coming along.
Clearly S@H is made of much stronger stuff :))) They stood up to 9 months of me posting before the cracks started showing...
*place jaw in sling to prevent it hitting the space bar* Let me get this straight... you edited that ^ in? Morale boost is it?
You do know that the 12 o' clock slot in the nursing home's register says "Dr M to be committed"? [aside to everyone except Mike] It seems, peoples, that Mrs Very Much KerFoops is considerably less KerFoops than Doctor Exceedingly Much KerFoops is and in fact is deemed sane by comparison.[/aside]
As to Saul Perlmutter... you're right... there is an "S" in there somewhere and oddly enough, other letters too :) That, Mike, however, *pause to admire quantity of suddenly deployed commas* is the height of your achievement. Well done! :) Have a twinkly star :) At this point however is where the news starts becoming increasingly bad.
Dr Saul is alive. Now obviously this is not bad news for him... I'm sure not being dead is one of his favourite hobbies but when a doctor struggles to differentiate between a demised one and a live one... well... dare we wait for his "nursing home" ""appointment"" everyone...? :)
@Magic
erm... *puff* *puff* *ladder@#!$%tangle* ...Hi Magic... *oof* How often... *TUG* *wheeze* *scrape* ...do you check your... you know... trees... for erm... uh... moles...
Hi Phil :)
edit: can anyone smell burning? :)
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@Phil : Now that you bring it
)
@Phil : Now that you bring it up, I have lost some moral authority with The Minions since the Purple Hair Happening.
@Anniet : Oh joy ! A star ? A Twinkly Star ! I may now pass on from this world as a complete being ( or alternatively be the nursing home's 'resident doctor' ).
Allegedly the chair lever with the greatest risk is the tilty-backy one. I'm told it causes a backal* lobe brain injury that includes loss of memory and intelligence, but in such a fashion as to cause increased use of said lever. Personally I really can't vouch for that at all. No idea. Can't help you there.
Cheers, Mike.
* This is just around the curve of the main brain bendy bone ie. nearby the sidal and topal lobes.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
So that everyone's fully in
)
So that everyone's fully in the loop that Mike orbits... here is -------> the Purple Hair Happening. :)))))
I thought there was a glaring omission in your manoeuvrings... because if I had a tilty-backy swivelly chair that I could bash all my topal lobes with... anomalous tilting upsettisodes would be the very first thing I'd mention... assuming tilting it back hadn't tilted me out a window or anything. Then no... I probably wouldn't mention it either...
I knew you'd be pleased. :) I suspect you will continue to be pleased too... for a very long time to come... :)
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I'm beginning to understand
)
I'm beginning to understand why you guys will put-up with Phil.
There is no way that I can keep-up with it all. I can't even tell the clues from the clueless!
(well, except I can tell by not being able to tell that the incompetent teller is me) (and Phil)
Is this what I've been missing by staying away from the Cafe SETI?
Main brain bendy bone???
Sure, sure, I know; every profession has its jargon to confuse the general public. It's all about "obstacles to entry." Also, you can't fix something until you have a fancy name for the problem.
At the risk of using stereotypes to help me make a guess...please, please let this be wrong....
I *really* hope I'm wrong...
Dr. Maura McLaughlin
That can't be right since she isn't showing her "S."
Ah tbret. I am a general
)
Ah tbret. I am a general practitioner. That means I know precisely nothing about absolutely everything, or maybe absolutely nothing about precisely everything. Or something like that. If you can't riff the BS then you won't last long. But here's the trade secrets to totally crush your spirit :
- use Latin if you know it, that keeps the understanding threshold nice and high. Dermatologists have thousands of phrases to describe red, sore and itchy spots. They all wind up getting a steroid applied. Ointment or Cream is the Big Decision that keeps everyone guessing. However that is, like a magician's trick, merely a distraction to avoid real scrutiny ie. not alot is actually happening. Throw in the words 'fungal' and 'bacterial' occasionally and wham ! Big bucks. No night calls. Can't even spell 'litigation'.
- obstetrics is for those that can spell litigation. It would help if you enjoyed court appearances.
- gynaecology is for those that didn't enjoy their court appearances.
- a good doctor times his treatment to coincide with recovery. Most people think post hoc ergo propter hoc ie. it came after therefore was caused by. See how cool Latin can be ? Medieval logic thrives out there in the 'burbs. So if she weighs as much as a duck, she must be a witch etc.
- if touching people gives you the willies, or even conversing with them, then anaesthesia is the go. The nurse gives the pre-med, so they are nearly unconscious by the time you are in the groove. No challenging questions or behaviours. Plenty of interesting electronics to play with. You can poke faces at the patients when they are under if you want.
- alternatively radiology is also for the socially challenged. The radiographers do all the work with taking the happy snaps. You can just sit in a room, look at a screen, drink nice cappuccino, smoke both all & whatever you want and merely talk to the dicta-phone. But remember to never take any calls from real doctors.
- the stethoscope is the status symbol. Forget the fancy cars, bow ties and arriving at parties by helicopter. The Scope is where it's at. We call them 'guessing tubes' but the rest of the world thinks it's a magic wand aka Harry Potter.
- 'away at a conference' is code for Holiday In The Bahamas, typically paid for by errr .... companies concerned that you have appreciated the true value of certain manufactured goods. Have no morals here. The pensioners will pay for it through higher drug costs. They don't mind at all, because they don't know any better. As ignorance is surely bliss why spread unhappiness, eh ?
- cosmetic surgery is for those that always found the eggs at Easter. You must memorise all currency denominations by age 11 and ideally have pick-pocketing skills prior to med-school entry. Just keep honing from there.
- never dis the neurosurgeons. One day they may hold anything from your brain down to your backside in their hands. It's your call, but I'm just sayin' ....
- never dis the bowel guys. This is self evident.
- please yourself with pathologists. If you ever meet them then you won't be minding anything whatsoever by then.
- if you are into jumping out of perfectly good aeroplanes, riding pushbikes while wearing Lycra during heavy traffic, taking amphetamines while cruising on your Honda Fireblade or just setting yourself on fire for the attention it draws then : Emergency Department work is for you. Usually you will not notice any change of pace between your work and leisure hours. Expect to die before thirty-five though.
- psychiatry is best entered into by those who are already mad. Saves time.
- paediatrics is for those that haven't grown up and never want to. Kids are fun. Chaos is your BFF. Do not annoy the Mother Bears though. One paw slash and your guts just erupt into the environment.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal