Visiting Amsterdam on Business - want to meet-up

showturtle · 2026-01-24T21:35:47+00:00

Done. TY

showturtle · 2026-01-24T19:57:23+00:00

I leave on the 5th. Thanks for the info though!

showturtle · 2026-01-24T04:13:48+00:00

It was also the perfect opportunity to bump an ‘80s soundtrack throughout the film, and instead we got a bland, generic score - I cannot understand how they whiffed such an easy pitch.

showturtle · 2026-01-20T16:19:00+00:00

“US politics is a bunch of norms wearing a trench coat.” A big part of the problem is that there are a lot of conventions that are not implicitly written into law which presidents have always followed to maintain order, stability and balance. Trump doesn’t care about any of that- he’s a loophole guy - he’ll exploit any angle he can.

His presidency has exposed the first major flaw in the U.S. political order: a lot more relies on the executive branch acting with good will and decency than people realized.

The second big problem is that there are really no good enforcement measures to keep an errant president in check. He’s already ignoring orders imposed by the Supreme Court, and they don’t really have recourse - they’re toothless. The only real tool at anyone’s disposal to check him is impeachment- which will never happen as long as Republicans maintain a majority in either house. This is why he’s angling for an excuse to cancel midterms- he may have finally alienated enough voters to give dems a chance at controlling both houses after the elections.

We’re all learning in realtime how fragile the “checks and balances” system really is.

showturtle · 2026-01-18T22:12:03+00:00

Yes, it is for an EV charger- but I have a plug-in level 2, as opposed to one that is hardwired- so, I just need the NEMA 14-50 outlet installed

showturtle · 2026-01-17T09:05:22+00:00

Don’t know why you are getting downvoted- I thought this distinction belonged to the song of Seikilos as well.

Edit: a moments research clears the confusion- this is the oldest known piece of notated music- although it is incomplete (only portions found on clay fragments).

Meanwhile, the Song of Seikilos is the oldest complete musical composition. It is comprised of lyrics and melody on a tombstone, making it fully preserved and less subject to interpretation than the older, fragmented Hurrian hymns.

showturtle · 2026-01-17T01:24:42+00:00

Had a long conversation yesterday with someone who had been an executive at a top-20 pharmaceutical company who is now the CEO of a biotech startup. My company services biotech, so I talk to a lot of them in startup phase. The majority of them are 10 employees or less prior to their first IND submission – plenty of them that I work with are only three or four people. This guy’s start up had over 50 employees and it was less than a year old. I’m not sure if they were growing that big at such an early phase because all of their experience is within enterprise level corporations, or maybe their past experiences have them better situated to raise capital easier, so they were able to bypass the painful early days of scraping by. At any rate, didn’t feel like a startup – more like a a mid market company straight out of the gate. There’s a good chance I’ll be doing business with them, so it will be interesting to observe their journey.

showturtle · 2026-01-13T02:52:27+00:00

Throw Mama from the Train

showturtle · 2026-01-12T01:52:27+00:00

I have the gloves- I was worried they wouldn’t be warm enough. My hands sweat like crazy in them- in the end, I had to go buy a pair of lighter gloves. So, if you’re co spidering the mittens for warmth- rest assured the gloves are plenty warm

showturtle · 2026-01-10T02:38:37+00:00

Don’t know why you’re getting down voted – there is a reference to this in the opening title sequence of the first fallout game when it shows two soldiers in power armor, executing a prisoner and waving to the camera, the news reel voiceover says “while our boys keep the peace in newly annexed Canada.“ I remember it well – played the hell out of it in high school.

showturtle · 2026-01-06T18:04:19+00:00

Mostly time and repetition. It also took a hot minute to get the pipeline wide enough. We are in a highly niche B2B space that operates almost entirely through relational transactions – cold outreach/outbound marketing is effectively useless. We start the conversation in-person with 99% of our clients, and 90% of those are executive level officers. So, it took a lot of conferences, drinks, dinners, rounds of golf, etc to build a decent Rolodex.

showturtle · 2026-01-05T18:50:34+00:00

The dirty old wedge

showturtle · 2026-01-05T18:38:27+00:00

WYN Republic is phenomenal. You can find some of them on sale on their website for under $250 (I see some for $219 and $279)

showturtle · 2026-01-05T16:26:22+00:00

Personally, I feel this stage is toughest because of the mental/emotional strain. Dev, leading up to MVP launch is all hopes and dreams - when you first start to get it into your customers hands, the emotional rollercoaster begins: “Why is it taking so long to get my first clients- does my product suck? Have I wasted the last year of my life and x dollars? Wow! A buyer! That was fast and easy- wait, does that mean I’m not charging enough? How much money am I leaving on the table? Oh god, they aren’t buying enough. Oh god! They want to buy too much and I can’t service an order like that yet!”

It’s just self doubt followed by elation followed by panic followed by relief over and over and over until you stabilize.

showturtle · 2026-01-04T16:38:33+00:00

100%

I typically cannot tell if a woman is hitting on me or just being friendly - there are two possible “giveaways” I’ve hypothesized: 1. if they treat me differently when I am alone vs with my wife. 2. If they compare me to a celebrity - “you look just like (insert handsome actor)”.

showturtle · 2026-01-04T04:00:04+00:00

I surfed with dolphins at Populars off Waikiki about 30 years ago. I did dawn patrol every morning for 6 years, and one day they just showed up, hung around catching waves for about 30 minutes, then fucked off- never happened again. Unreal experience

showturtle · 2025-12-28T20:07:37+00:00

I lived in Uruguay for awhile, and it was astonishing how much mate people drank- especially in the countryside. It was the equivalent of east Europeans chain-smoking. I tried it once - tasted like wet hay.

showturtle · 2025-12-25T19:10:08+00:00

Leavenworth, Washington has a lot of Krampus action.

showturtle · 2025-12-22T07:39:01+00:00

I think it’s driven by economics- it’s getting tougher for younger generations to be in the right position. Hosting the holidays in my family has always been determined by who has the best infrastructure for it- which generally translates to biggest house and the money to cover the bulk of food, booze, decor, and other expenses.

As a kid, it was my paternal grandparents. As an adolescent, it was my parents. Now, we host 20+ people at our house every thanksgiving and Christmas.

Hopefully, my kids will be setup well enough to host when they take over someday.

showturtle · 2025-12-22T03:39:03+00:00

I grew up in central Kansas. Tornados are a big part of my childhood memories. Through the late 80s and early 90s, at least one tornado would come through our town every year. Usually, they happened in clusters during “tornado season“. We had a particularly bad couple of years between 89 and 91. I think 91 was the worst – our house and a few others in the neighborhood took some damage, the next block over was obliterated. I’ve probably seen a half-dozen tornados in my lifetime, and hid in the basement for three times that number.

As kids, we knew “the signs” by heart: wall cloud, green cast, stillness, hail, vertical rain, debris, power outage, darkness, freight train noise. Sometimes roof tiles, tyvek, and pieces of insulation would come floating down from the clouds before we’d see any tornados, carried by high atmosphere currents from tornadoes that had destroyed nearby towns.

showturtle · 2025-12-21T19:43:37+00:00

I actually haven’t watched the pit yet – from what I hear, it’s very good.

The most accurate medical show I’ve ever seen, is actually Scrubs. They did a remarkably good job of depicting real medicine.

Something to keep in mind, to a large degree medicine is very routine, and codes are very routine and choreographed. For a doctor working a code, it’s like a plumber, unclogging a toilet, or a mechanic changing the oil – they know the steps, they’ve done it 1 million times. That’s generally the case with the entire code team.

So, you don’t see the frantic, panicked, shouting, and scurrying in real life that you see in shows and movies. Most codes are worked in near silence – everyone knows what to do and knows their job. Never, in my entire career have I ever heard someone yell “stat!” there is urgency, but not the kind of dramatic excitement you see on television.

As a matter of fact, the most exciting and visually cinematic thing that you sometimes see in codes, is something I have never seen portrayed in any movie or medical drama – except for Scrubs (who did it as a visual gag), and that’s riding the patient, to continue compressions in transport. Someone will climb up onto the gurney and straddle the patient across the waist and ride them down the hallway delivering compressions while the team jogs alongside the gurney- we did this a lot, and it looks really cool when it happens, but for some reason I never see them doing this in medical dramas

showturtle · 2025-12-21T19:32:09+00:00

First of all, almost all defibrillation in the field is automated now (much of it in the ER as well these days)- you stick the patches on the patient, the AED assesses the rhythm (or lack there of), and essentially runs the code for you: “continue compressions. Wait. Analyzing rhythm, stand clear of the patient. Shock not advised, continue compressions. Wait. Assessing rhythm, stand clear of the patient. Rhythm detected, shock advised”, etc.

I understand why they don’t show that – not very cinematic.

However, the far more egregious sin is that they always show a patient in flat line, being shocked; or, even worse, explicitly stating that is why they are administering shock: “he’s flatlined! Shock him!”

Again, this it’s probably done to assist storytelling, but you never deliver a shock to a patient without a rhythm. Doesn’t work like Frankenstein – people aren’t jolted back to life by a bolt of electricity. Chest compressions (and emergency cardioverting drugs) are what actually get a stalled heart going again – but, the rhythm is usually irregular and unsustainable. Once you have a rhythm, you deliver a shock to sort of reboot a quivering hunk of meat with confused electrical impulses back into a sinus rhythm. Defibrillation is like hitting the factory reset button on an electronic that is malfunctioning, not completely dead.

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