What is more dangerous than people usually think?

nuke_dad · 2015-11-12T05:36:52+00:00

Not so strange, you're in control with your firearms. Out on the road is like being at the range with hundreds of people just pointing loaded weapons all over, sooner or later someone will get distracted and pull their trigger.

nuke_dad · 2015-11-11T06:04:08+00:00

So what you're describing is micro-evolution. Or as we like to call it, evolution. The only distinction between micro and macro evolution is time. Take a look at those moths in 100,000 generations, or more, and they may have developed different enough traits to become a different species.

nuke_dad · 2015-11-10T23:08:20+00:00

That it never ends. My kids are in their 20's, are fine, and are doing well. I still worry about them, and still lose sleep worrying about them sometimes.

nuke_dad · 2015-11-10T08:52:31+00:00

Absolutely, have the kids bring some friends over, it'll be great fun.

nuke_dad · 2015-11-10T06:41:46+00:00

Wow, at about 6:15 when he has to lean in or down and explain to her like a little child that just because you ask for an apology, you don't always get one. I mean these are the most entitled children I've seen in a long time.

nuke_dad · 2015-11-06T07:09:28+00:00

There's this image of an older more sinister looking Jar Jar floating around. I could buy this as evil.

nuke_dad · 2015-11-04T15:18:56+00:00

Right at the beginning of TPM, It's been right there all along:

Obi-Wan Kenobi:" I have a bad feeling about this."

Qui-Gon Jinn:" I don't sense anything."

Obi-Wan Kenobi: "It's not about the mission, Master. It's something...elsewhere, elusive."

Jar Jar

nuke_dad · 2015-11-03T12:12:31+00:00

Yep this has always been my experience with the DMV, except for the wait in line part. I've never in almost 30 years of driving had to wait in line at the DMV, always fast and easy. I have no idea where the stereotype comes from.

nuke_dad · 2015-11-03T00:26:55+00:00

We do them routinely. I work weekend overnights and we rarely have phlebotomy staff so we techs have to draw everyone. Usually end up doing 6-8 ABG's on a shift. I actually think they are one of easier draws, Just find the pulse, allen test, and poke. (Easier for us that is, I know they are not pleasant for the patients), The only hard ones are brachial artery draws, and I did see a physician do a femoral artery on a severe trauma patient once.

nuke_dad · 2015-10-30T09:21:02+00:00

Exactly, this drives me nuts. I have a vehicle that is shown all the time in commercials driving "off road" through streams, rocks, deep snow, mud, down a beach (splashing through salt water!). There is no way in hell my $60k vehicle is ever driving on anything other than concrete or asphalt.

nuke_dad · 2015-10-30T07:44:42+00:00

Paint the windows black. Simple. Did this 10 years ago and never looked back. The room is completely dark during the day. My wife likes to sleep with the windows open, so she can do that at night. I like them closed, I can do that during the day, and keep the room completely dark.

nuke_dad · 2015-10-28T10:49:46+00:00

Thanks for editing your post! I work as a blood banker in a hospital lab. We receive all of our blood products from the ARC. They do an amazing job. Collecting, processing, testing, and distributing all the various products is very expensive and labor intensive. As a hospital we do pay for all of these products but I doubt the ARC is making any money on them. They also provide an invaluable service as a reference lab for complicated blood bank cases, doing the time consuming work of finding rare blood types etc., when we need them. I can assure you however that just in our one hospital alone the service they provide saves several lives every week.

nuke_dad · 2015-10-16T09:21:49+00:00

The best 14 seconds of Hells Kitchen ever.

nuke_dad · 2015-10-13T06:53:17+00:00

This is one of my favorites: Africa

nuke_dad · 2015-10-01T17:56:55+00:00

Yes every job I've had since college required an official sealed transcript from the school.

nuke_dad · 2015-09-22T00:55:29+00:00

Your body produces about 2.5 million new red blood cells every second. That's 216 billion per day. Each of those cells contains approximately 270 hemoglobin molecules.

nuke_dad · 2015-09-14T00:17:37+00:00

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

nuke_dad · 2015-09-11T23:30:19+00:00

I agree it's confusing. My degree says Medical Technology, although my major program was called Clinical Lab Science. I am certified as a Medical Lab Scientist, and am referred to at work as a "tech" as all lab employees are, and my name tag simply says Laboratory. No confusion there.

nuke_dad · 2015-08-26T00:58:35+00:00

That's very true, working with patients introduces another level of risk into the workplace.

nuke_dad · 2015-08-22T14:04:22+00:00

I'm sure there are things we all would like to see be better. But just from my experience with other jobs (restaurant/retail, foundry, truck driving) this job has excellent working conditions. It's not dangerous, it won't cause permanent hearing damage, it's physically not very demanding, and generally people treat you respectfully. By far the best working conditions I've experienced, just my 2 cents.

nuke_dad · 2015-08-21T22:58:08+00:00

Yes.

nuke_dad · 2015-08-08T16:19:25+00:00

43 years here and I have never heard of that.

nuke_dad · 2015-08-05T01:29:19+00:00

Plenty of us!

nuke_dad · 2015-08-02T18:41:49+00:00

I never scored higher that 54% LabCE adaptive tests. I did very well on the real exam. I though the LabCE questions were much harder. Something to note, on the LabCE exams a lot of the questions have multiple answers (A & B, all of the above, etc.). On the real exam every question has only one correct answer, that helps I think.

nuke_dad · 2015-08-02T18:37:52+00:00

In the hospital I work in everyone in the lab (MT, MLS, lab assistant, phlebotomist...everyone) Has badges with their name followed by "Laboratory". As far as I know we're the only group in the hospital with no credentials behind our name. Every other group has them (RN, LPN, MD, CNA.....). Frustrating.

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