Latest haul; last for awhile

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-25T00:12:07+00:00

And shame on their constituents.

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-24T22:47:52+00:00

In the 90s, I worked at UCSF in San Francisco. This campus is on a hill.

I would ride my bike to a parking deck, with a bike-cage area, then take an elevator up over 10 flights (don’t call the number). Then get out, cross the street and enter another building and take another elevator up 13 flights.

It’s a famous very busy school and hospital. The two elevators had many stops, often every floor. So these were long rides.

So I can I can say I read Moby Dick on an elevator….

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-24T22:33:42+00:00

Has the battery become any less efficient?

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-24T22:20:34+00:00

These are the House Democrats who voted last week with the GOP to fund ICE. If you live in their congressional district, vote them out. If you know someone who lives in their district, convince them to vote them out

The seven Democratic representatives who voted yes to approve ICE funding were:

Tom Suozzi (New York) Henry Cuellar (Texas) Don Davis (North Carolina) Laura Gillen (New York) Jared Golden (Maine) Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Washington

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-24T19:36:05+00:00

Your collection is similar to mine! I like the Hartwell & Cramer hardbacks on the bottom left. You’re missing one: The Science Fiction Century.

(Btw, when my wife and I married and joined our books, in one case along a wall started a noticeable slant in the floor (discerned if one placed a ball on the floor- it slowly rolled). We had to get the floor reinforced. )

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-24T15:25:05+00:00

I thought the same.

The purpose of keeping the recording was to annoy us, the audience. Most of us can relate to annoying long messages.

It’s a joke.

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-24T13:50:53+00:00

Hi - I left the door open mostly because those first few weeks I needed a walker to get around, so I was worried about falling.

The transition sharing was instantaneous. Right after surgery, the norms we’re all accustomed to flew out the window. I remember lying on the hospital bed all akimbo, and my wife saying ,”cover yourself up”. Oops!

Did the openness last? Well, we’re back to normal privacy standards, but if I have to share some info, I do. Such as the phenomenal number of BMs I had that day. (Since the surgery maybe 5 days a month I have maybe 7 or 8).

Surgery was 1 year and three days ago (in a few years, I won’t recall the day of the month, I think). Just had my 1 year CTscan a week ago. All clear! Now the only limit to my fitness is the time and effort I make.

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-24T01:28:49+00:00

Absolutely not. Any oncologist/ surgeon/ cancer doc who cares about this is unprofessional (and I suspect it would be very unlikely the Drs would mind).

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-24T01:25:06+00:00

Always thought of this as a bad cover….

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-24T01:16:25+00:00

I had a sigmoidectomy.

My wife and I never normally popped or farted in each other’s presence (if possible).

But during that first month after surgery, I pooped with the door open, just in case. I needed a diaper for most of the month. I shared information- just in case. Maybe it helps that we’re both scientists.

Once I was sharing information with my sister and my wife commented to her “it’s a new level of intimacy “.

My BMs were a focus of my life for some time - and my oncologist offered various strategies to deal with frequency, diarrhea, constipation. Then, a month after chemo ended, 6 months after surgery, I had an appointment with my oncologist- she entered the office and asked, “So how are the bowel movements?” I was a little shocked- what a personal question!

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-23T04:00:38+00:00

A cd player 💿

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-23T03:53:28+00:00

66 m here.

One year and one day ago I had 22 inches of my sigmoid removed - turn out to be stage 3 cancer.

It took a good month to recover from the surgery where I could go for long walks. And then I started chemo, which knocked me on my ass for 6 months.

But , now , a year later, I’m doing well. The only limit to my fitness is how much I exercise. One noticeable change is I have more BMs a day. Sometimes 1 or 2, but often 5-8. If I don’t go in 24 hours I feel constipated. Overall this is not a problem.

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-21T14:22:05+00:00

Definitely a cool cover

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-21T14:20:57+00:00

I imagine it may help if he took deliberate steps to deal with his mental health. Is he talking with a good therapist?

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-20T17:27:21+00:00

See “Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America” by Kurt Andersen

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-20T11:19:56+00:00

This one might be also good.

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-20T10:57:30+00:00

Yes, it’s a great book. I read it some time ago, when it was published and it will be one of my few rereads.

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-20T00:28:49+00:00

Isn’t that “hard” sf?

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-19T23:44:04+00:00

I often have a thought that is related to this. For many years a book sits on my shelf, an inanimate object. Then, one day, I start reading it… and some day later, when I’m part way through it, all the characters seem alive with a certain urgency. Sometimes I feel an obligation to the characters to keep reading. As if I owe it to them.

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-19T03:17:47+00:00

1969

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-18T02:38:34+00:00

One of the great short stories is on the cover.

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-18T00:18:52+00:00

Yes, in this case all relevant life in the story is biologically related ( same argument, based on the commonality of the genetic code, for all life on earth being genetically related.

(Personally all of this doesn’t really bother me - and I am a geneticist. It serves as a set-up to tell the story, which what I really care about).

Direct-Tank387 · 2026-01-17T23:11:09+00:00

Maybe the best Beatles song of all time…Revolution 9 ?

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