Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 05 May 24 - 05:23 AM ignisecond, n: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!" -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets" |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 02 May 24 - 05:28 PM The firemen and police left a half hour ago. It all started by leaving the car interior lights on. I accidentally hit the switch when I opened the sunroof days ago. I have seen episodes of airplane disasters when the pilot hit the wrong switch. I didn't expect I would do the same. This morning the door opened but it would not start, dead battery. I could call AAA and get a jump but I thought if I waited when it was 90 degrees it might start this afternoon. So when I went out an hour ago the door would not even open. Aha a tow truck driver taught me how to unlock the door if disabled due to an attempted break-in or dead battery. There is a secret key slot at the rear of the car that opens the trunk and from there a hidden cable that can be pulled to open the door. It all worked so now I could unlatch the hood. I was feeling pretty smart when I sat down. Muscle memory was closing the door when my brain said don't do that. Click. I was now locked in a small 90 degree car with no horn or phone. The windows were sealed but by lying down and kicking it I could jam a pair of scissors and umbrella in the crack to get an inch of air by bending the window outward. I was winded and hot from the kicking so I took of my shirt. Eventually my neighbor was unloading her kids when she heard my yell for help. She called the fire dept and I gave my info through the small window opening. I heard the sirens when the first lady cop arrived. I explained how to find the secret cable to unlock the door while she held a window breaker. It worked and I explained to the firemen how she had opened the door and thanked them all. She wanted to know how I knew about the secret cable and I explained about the tow truck driver. I thanked the neighbor and went in the house. My wife was none the wiser wearing her noise cancelling headphones and in a meeting about ribosomic DNA. |
Subject: RE: MOAB science trivia (of all BS) From: Donuel Date: 01 May 24 - 11:16 PM Tantalum, Boron and a touch of Iridium make an alloy that has solid solutions, a nonoxidizing subsurface and high conductivity that makes a good hard but flexible skin for UFOs. (EYES ONLY) Gold is only formed in the largest massive supernovas or colliding neutron stars but silver is produced in any ol' run-of-the-mill nova. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 30 Apr 24 - 09:24 PM Today the neurosurgeon told me not to come back until I need him again. He approved the way I walk and use a stick to help with balance when needed. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 29 Apr 24 - 07:55 PM Stilly, I agree about lead poisoning. The cops and the city, however, frown on it. Otherwise I'd just use a .22 or an air rifle. But...I have a friend who is a legal trapper and supports his family partially by the pelts he sells and the money he makes trapping for various ranchers. He's very ethical and may have another suggestion. I'll ask him. I could be persuaded to do nothing, except that the tunnels run downhill from my lawn to the golf course and I don't want my backyard to develop a bad case of erosion. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 29 Apr 24 - 06:24 AM Their crime is fake news about the Russian Army. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 29 Apr 24 - 06:08 AM Good news for Putin. Journalists from Reuters, AP, and even Forbes have been arrested. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 28 Apr 24 - 10:10 PM Trouble with that "poison dinner" is that the next hawk that eats one of those critters will also die of the poison. Don't you have any other options? Lead poisoning is probably preferable to the other poisons. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 28 Apr 24 - 09:07 PM We have a good sprinkler system and good sprinkler techs. We do NOT have good weather or control over tiny earthquakes which barely move a seismograph needle. Or rodents that live underground and gnaw on plastic sprinkler pipes and whom I shall feed a poison dinner as soon as I am able. Yes, I shall be certain that what I use is well underground and that the corpses are not when they might be eaten by the various hawks, owls, eagles, and other critters who frequent the golf course behind the house. Oddly enough, the cops take a dim view of shooting in the city limits, even with an air rifle (BB gun). I'd trap them, but releasing them out in the national forest is nearly certain death for them anyway. I've checked before and our animal control bunch doesn't deal with moles, voles, skunks, feral cats, and certain others. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 28 Apr 24 - 02:11 PM Rap, having to set up or restore the home system is the price we pay for not letting the IP company send a tech out who fiddles with stuff and leaves you with whatever their default setting is, and not giving you much information. I've helped several friends with the systems the cable or phone company left behind, usually with setting up a booster or extra ports for the router. If I ever get the house leveled (right now it is at its most level time of the year, the soil is moist and the cracks have almost disappeared in the walls and at the ceiling edge) I'll put in a sprinkler system. That I will diagram and supervise because too often those sprinkler guys just wing it. (Neighbors up the street paid for a high dollar system only to find later that they put in a cheap set of buried hoses and such, workmen long gone along with their cash). MOM should have Gluon train to help with this stuff, I bet a duckdog would be great at digging and working out the water end of things. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 27 Apr 24 - 12:52 PM The network is working fine. RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT. That's why I'm down here again working on it. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 26 Apr 24 - 05:41 PM So far today I have spent better that five (5) hours installing a new Netgear Nighthawk MESH network system here in the house. The sprinkler people come out, replaced the bent pipe comprising the top rail of the back fence, dug out and replaced TWO breaks in the main sprinkler line in the back yard, and replaced a busted sprinkler head. I had planned to do other things today that mess with routers, satellites, IP addresses, and suchlike nonsense. Of course, neither had I planned to do what the sprinkler guys did. I had hoped to read and nap. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 25 Apr 24 - 11:48 AM Discontinue use if it causes death. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 25 Apr 24 - 10:49 AM Glucosamine Chondroitin worked on my stuck shoulder. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 24 Apr 24 - 06:59 PM Like MOM, like daughter: sinking to the bottom of the queue. Let's head back up to the top. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 22 Apr 24 - 06:11 AM It ain't the sixties but there are still some young people who care and believe they can change the world. After our leaders like JFK, RFK and MLK were assassinated, today there are leaderless collectives of dissent. However, there has been enough disinterest and old-time religion to turn the clock back on women 200 years. There are more guns than peace signs and more fascists than progressives in the House. There are more mass shootings than Taylor Swift songs, and more extinctions than politicians. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 21 Apr 24 - 03:51 PM No, you aren't. I was away for three days. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 21 Apr 24 - 02:49 PM Mom! Am I the only one who now cares? |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 19 Apr 24 - 09:11 PM Since the ophthalmologist I've been seeing for 20 years has retired, I had an appointment today with another one (who worked with the first and has his records). HOWEVER, he is in a practice of ophthamology only -- he can't prescribe glasses. Sooo...I have an appointment with another person who can (who also worked with my original eye doctor) at the end of May, unless there's a cancellation and they can work me in. Fortunately, the optician is still the same in the same place so getting new specs isn't a problem (save for the cost). This is the first time in my life I've run into this situation. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 18 Apr 24 - 08:24 PM Librarians are the secret masters of the Universe. DON'T ever piss one off. Spider Robinson |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 18 Apr 24 - 02:28 PM Everyday is, it’s not just celebrated. WE RULE!!! |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 17 Apr 24 - 09:23 PM Today was National Librarian Day. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 15 Apr 24 - 01:11 PM Goodness me! Mom, why are ou hanging out with the old folks? And shake those cigar ashes off your shawl! |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 07 Apr 24 - 07:08 PM With my vintage mixer I am making natural casing pastrami dogs. Its 4 parts minced pastrami and one part Nathan's hot dog. Today was nice with iconic puffy clouds so we went for a long walk down to Turtle Pond but it felt like it was uphill both ways. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Apr 24 - 04:14 PM Anything interesting happening out on the golf course? Have you set up a golf ball vending machine at your back fence? |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 06 Apr 24 - 07:27 PM I seem to remember, Rapparee, that you live in what you called the "banana belt" of Idaho. So, along with the snow, I hope there are soon flowers to enjoy, like crocuses. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 06 Apr 24 - 04:40 PM I went with a friend for a nice long ride this morning. Lots of snow up in them thar hills 'round hyar. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 06 Apr 24 - 10:50 AM Thinking of you, Rapparee. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 03 Apr 24 - 03:57 PM The wax of my memory was scraped and melted for a couple of months. Right now, a drain will be installed next Tuesday and then plugged to stop the continued leak of cerebral-spinal fluid. The leak is considerably slowed but not yet stopped. My life seems to be one medical thing after another right now. Gluon dropped by and tried to console me with a fresh tokamak. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 03 Apr 24 - 06:39 AM > I can remember lyrics I learned fifty years back, but not > things that happened three weeks ago. The wax of the tablet of memory gets hardened with age. Once you've seen it all, nothing new makes much of an impression. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 01 Apr 24 - 06:44 PM I awakened from a nap and picked up a book — and there was a reference to Eleanor of Aquitaine. This triggered another memory and I quietly sang all of “Quen Eleanor’s Confession.” Odd. I can remember lyrics I learned fifty years back, but not things that happened three weeks ago. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 29 Mar 24 - 07:32 AM The world's burnin at both ends but we're waking up slowly News is a game of pretend and the best liars are holy Change has always been this way but were waking up slowly Morning feels like a new day The same old thing is phony When you're waking up slowly think of one thing you can change and then just go out boldly and do it even if its strange |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 27 Mar 24 - 02:37 PM Well, the city golf course workers starting to clean up after the heavy snow three weeks or so back. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 23 Mar 24 - 06:38 PM Yes, but didn’t stay long. Barely long enough to hump my leg eight or ten times. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Mar 24 - 10:45 AM Rap, has Gluon been by to see you lately? |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 23 Mar 24 - 07:38 AM > I keep getting signals from the universe, they're incoherent. Are you a radioastronomer, Rap? it's the only field I've been in where noise is the signal, and coherent signals are the noise. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 23 Mar 24 - 06:03 AM I cannot say that I know you well But you can't lie to me with all these books that you sell I'm not trying to follow you to the end of the world I'm just trying to leave something behind Words have come from men and mouse Oh, but I can't help thinking that I have heard the wrong crowd When all the water is gone my job will be too So I'm trying to leave something behind Oh, money is free but love costs more than our bread And the ceiling is hard to reach Oh, the future ahead is broken and red And I'm trying to leave something behind This whole world is a foreign land We swallow the moon, but we do not know our own hand Oh, we're running with the case, but we ain't got the gold Yet we're trying to leave something behind My friends, I belive we are at the wrong fight And I can not read what I did not write I've been to his house, but the master is gone Yet we're trying to leave something behind Now there is a beast who has taken my brain You can put me to bed, but you can't feel my pain When the machine has taken the soul from the man It's time to leave something behind Oh, money is free but love costs more than our bread And the ceiling is hard to reach Oh, the future ahead is already dead And it's time to leave something behind Now, I've got this feeling that I'm still at the shore And pockets don't know what it means to be poor I can get through the wall if you give me a door So I can leave something behind Oh, wisdom is lost in the trees somewhere Oh, you're not gonna find it in some mental gray hair It's locked up from those who hurry ahead And it's time to leave something behind Oh, money is free but love costs more than our bread And the ceiling is hard to reach When my son is a man, he will know what I meant When I was just trying to leave something behind And I'm trying to leave something behind Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Sean Rowe |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 22 Mar 24 - 01:09 PM I did, over a cuppa with Steve Hawking at Kings one afternoon. We came up with the whole lack hole thing. I did the thinking and he did the math. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 21 Mar 24 - 09:06 AM Only two tidbits of innovative cosmology have become apparent to me this decade. 1 is that the inflation theory is far from what we are led to believe leading to a much older universe than we deduced from background microwave radiation. 2 is that black holes are space-time generators. There is a meme that says if you don't contribute a major discovery by 30 you never will. The problem is too many people believe that is true. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 19 Mar 24 - 07:03 PM The new physics we need to be open-source is actually almost a hundred years old. Much of that tech was explored by Thomas Thompson Brown Who died in 1985. Electrogravitics was one of his inventions that used high voltage low current science. The last 20% of this video explains his contributions. An explanation how UFO's work. Sorry but classified info is often approached obliquely. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 19 Mar 24 - 12:14 PM My favorite mashup movie is on, The Day After Strangelove On the Beach. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 18 Mar 24 - 08:40 PM I keep getting signals from the universe, they're incoherent. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Mar 24 - 11:39 AM Knowing Rap, I suspect he required his surgeon to use one of the fine steel weapons he has in his collection at home. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 17 Mar 24 - 08:12 PM Trephination refers to the process of creating a hole in the skull and, in specific cases, the nail and is one of the oldest surgical procedures documented to date. It has been used throughout history with the goal of relieving pressure; managing symptoms of head trauma, such as subdural and epidural hematomas; and accessing brain tumors. Trephination can be performed using a trephine, a drill, by scraping with an abrasive instrument, or for the hard headed, cutting with a jackhammer. Rare complications that may arise with trephination include infection and, if the dura matter surrounding the brain is damaged in the process, damage to the underlying blood vessels, meninges, and brain. Modern medicine has used trephination as part of treatments for frontal sinus disease, glaucoma, and subungual hematomas. Newagers believe that Akashic memories and signals from the universe are enhanced with trephination. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 17 Mar 24 - 05:00 PM The main thing is, you're home, Rapparee. You are a survivor. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 17 Mar 24 - 03:44 PM Surgery for chronic subdural hematoma. Four burr holes drilled. Drainage that messed up the tidy operating room. 3.5 weeks rehab, still going on but at home. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 17 Mar 24 - 07:52 AM It's great the pressure is off and you're home again. Kate Middleton has had a rough time of it as well. That's not to say you are not one tough cookie, a jaw-breaker, and a survivor extraordinaire. Mom would be jealous. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Mar 24 - 07:02 PM From what he told me it wasn't hyperbole. Sounds uncomfortable! |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 16 Mar 24 - 06:48 PM Rapparee, what was that earlier post about getting holes drilled in your head? Was that BS or not? Good to see you back, your silence had me worried. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Mar 24 - 06:28 PM Good to see you back. You'll have to whip this thread into shape - too many folks want to come here to argue. And Gilly - Passive/aggressive my ass - just bad spelling. |
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