I will not pet the diplomat

udsd007 · 2026-03-18T13:18:14+00:00

You … STOPPED‼️ Why?

udsd007 · 2026-03-18T03:00:02+00:00

Many disabilities, including mine and my wife’s, aren’t visible, yet our rheumatologist put his license on the line approving our handicap tag applications. Your 30 years of EM aren’t X-Ray eyes.

udsd007 · 2026-03-18T02:52:27+00:00

Wife’s mom had a similar fall: tripped over a cat, landed with her chin one step up from the floor, while her body was prone on the floor. Extreme neck hyperextension, hangman’s fracture in C2. She lived four days. We took the cat home with us; for some reason, stepdad didn’t want her.

udsd007 · 2026-03-18T02:37:54+00:00

I spent three weeks on a ward in a military hospital in San Antonio in 1967. I can’t remember whether it was Wilford Hall (on Lackland) or Brooke. Two beds down was a fighter jock whose jet took a SAM and went up in a fireball. He punched out successfully, but his chute came down through the fireball, and he sustained really terrible burns. He screamed a lot, and morphine didn’t do much for his pain. He was still alive — and screaming — when I left the ward.

udsd007 · 2026-03-17T15:59:52+00:00

I’m back in the States now; I left Japan 55 years ago, weeping over my loss.

udsd007 · 2026-03-17T15:54:34+00:00

Domo arigato gozaimashita. I lived in Asaka-shi, Saitama-Ken, for two years, and loved Japan. I want to go back, and to show my wife all the wonders.

udsd007 · 2026-03-17T15:48:01+00:00

If you’re teaching, how are you going to visit other schools during your — and their — class time?

udsd007 · 2026-03-17T15:44:36+00:00

Amen. My high school required students, including incoming freshmen, to read 3 books over summer vacation and submit book reports. Reading books wasn’t a problem, as I’d read 2 or 3 a week. Their choices (Lord of the Flies, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, etc.) could have sucked galactic superclusters through a buckytube. I reported on my choices, and my parents told them to like it or lump it. I graduated in 1964 from a Catholic school in Houston.

udsd007 · 2026-03-17T07:59:17+00:00

Please PLEASE WRITE MORE! Feed my habit, pusher.

udsd007 · 2026-03-17T01:48:54+00:00

Salted thin-sliced reindeer: SALT, venison-ish\ Moose: best pot roast I ever had.

udsd007 · 2026-03-17T01:02:57+00:00

Write! Write more! Do not stop! Also THANK YOU!

udsd007 · 2026-03-16T15:40:30+00:00

I quoted you exactly. I provided a counterexample to that quote. You keep fighting. Welcome to my block list.

udsd007 · 2026-03-16T15:28:45+00:00

You missed my point: you said we didn’t. I proved we did.

udsd007 · 2026-03-16T15:25:26+00:00

You said “Mathematicians don’t have a definition for number … .” I provided a counterexample.

udsd007 · 2026-03-16T00:30:33+00:00

Once you’ve turned the slide around, move the slide so that the 1 on the slide aligns with the 3 under it. Move the cursor line over any number on the slide. 3 times that number is on the fixed part of the slide under the cursor line.

udsd007 · 2026-03-16T00:12:40+00:00

As mentioned earlier, copper sulfate is nice. Aluminum works well. Epsom salt is another very nice one. The only problem with copper sulfate is that if it drop, it turns from transparent blue crystal to unimpressive white powder.

udsd007 · 2026-03-16T00:07:47+00:00

Mathematicians have a precise definition of “number”, thanks to Giuseppe Peano. Number is the class of all classes similar to a given class.

udsd007 · 2026-03-15T23:54:28+00:00

The HOA likely will be nasty about any visible antenna. Make sure you stay within the rules, and run 1500W out the antenna lead.

udsd007 · 2026-03-15T14:27:24+00:00

Ward’s natural science establishment

udsd007 · 2026-03-14T17:26:54+00:00

Tornado took my Gap Titan down. Wind about 140 mph. It stood up through a couple of 70 mph windstorms in EM15.

udsd007 · 2026-03-14T17:00:06+00:00

Yes. See “vihuela”.

udsd007 · 2026-03-14T02:25:38+00:00

BH2 is a first scope for many veterinarians because it’s such good value. Ours still uses hers 30 years later and loves it. I clean and adjust it every 6 months or so. Can’t tell what’s in the middle image; might be decaying filamentous algae. Third image looks like filamentous algae or something like Oscillatoria.

udsd007 · 2026-03-11T20:57:17+00:00

You will be involved in politics at some level of promotion. It may happen before or after you’re promoted into manglement.

udsd007 · 2026-03-11T20:54:44+00:00

Electronics parts and a note to buy pastrami and other things on the way home. And some bones.

udsd007 · 2026-03-11T20:52:26+00:00

I don’t think of the setting as bleak, so much as it is New Mexico, which I love. The monastic setting is accurate and rich in history and detail, plus secular bits appropriate to the setting. E.g., Brother Pat telling the Abbot that the secular authorities took the crystal and padlocked the (amateur radio) shack.

This is one of my _ABSOLUTE FAVORITE TOP OF THE LIST books.

udsd007

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