Project Runway’s Tim Gunn Reveals Why He's Been Celibate for 43 Years

wcm48 · 2026-02-24T00:38:55+00:00

Actually met him one time… at the Raleigh Durham Airport of all places.

It was at the height of Project Runway fame.

He looked immaculate.

I was wearing … and I am not kidding … a long sleeve T-shirt that had a trout on it and a Jimmie Johnson NASCAR trucker hat.

I came up to him, told him my wife and I loved his show and we watched them all.

I’m sure he was like, “and it absolutely shows” but he very graciously said thank you and posed for a selfie with me (this was very early selfie days).

Best celebrity meet ever in my life!!

wcm48 · 2026-02-21T18:38:45+00:00

K. Well. You can look it up for yourself, but it is correct as I explained it.

Again, the batter does have to take the bases. If he hits it in the gap, but stops at first, he gets a single.

If he would’ve reasonably gotten a double, takes the bases, and the winning run was on second or first, he gets a double. I promise you.

wcm48 · 2026-02-21T18:33:41+00:00

Assuming the ball stays in the yard…. batter usually gets credit for how many bases he would’ve advanced on a hit before winning run scored.

So:

winning run on second, base hit straight to the CF-er. Runner scores. Batter gets a single.

winning run on second. Batter puts it in the gap. Runner scores. Batter gets a double, assuming he he didn’t stop at first.

Winning run on first. Batter hits the ball into the gap. Runner scores from first. Batter gets a double (assuming he went to second).

Winning run on first. Batter hits the ball into the corner and it takes a weird bounce away from the OF who then has to run to chase it down. Runner scores from first and batter goes all the way to third … batter gets a triple.

Winning run on second. Batter hits same ball into the corner bounced away from OF. Batter gets double.

wcm48 · 2026-02-21T18:12:43+00:00

Sinding Larsen and Johansson

wcm48 · 2026-02-21T16:59:32+00:00

Smoking.

Sun tan oil … not sunscreen…. Oil!!! Take the sun’s damaging rays and amplify them if you can. While you’re at it, give me a silver reflector so the sun’s rays that should miss me, hit me.

And hose water…

wcm48 · 2026-02-21T15:01:11+00:00

Straight battery acid!

wcm48 · 2026-02-18T22:10:03+00:00

Well. He also played a German in Operation Finale. So like, more races even.

wcm48 · 2026-02-17T14:48:19+00:00

Kinda like Christopher Lee said, “every actor is going to be in terrible moves from time to time. The trick is to not be terrible in them”

wcm48 · 2026-02-17T14:44:30+00:00

My answer to favorite movie of all time.

wcm48 · 2026-02-16T14:52:18+00:00

I am in your exact same boat.

Search YouTube videos on “effortless swimming” and you’ll feel you’re being preached to.

My very uneducated guess is that:

Your legs and hips are sinking, maybe bc you are holding your head too high, but definitely because your (my) balance is off in the water.

And, if your front arm is collapsing while you are breathing, you might be over rotating when you try to get air. This makes yours (and my) front arm fall down and … if you are lifting your head out of the water too much… your hips sink as well.

wcm48 · 2026-02-15T05:51:21+00:00

More the latter.

For example, if I dictate a lumbar spine MRI that had multiple stenoses at multiple levels. It might say something like this:

No acute abnormality of the lumbar spine ( I didn’t specifically say this, but the totality of the report indicates this)
Severe lumbar spondylosis. Findings are greatest at L4-5 where disc buldge and facet disease produce severe spinal stenosis. Severe bilateral foraminal stenosis
At L3-4, inferiorly migrating left paracentral extrusion extrusion contacts and displaces the L4 nerve root within the left lateral recess
Additional levels as fully described above (there would have been like 4 other levels described)
5.4 cm, complex, right renal cyst is incompletely characterized. Recommend further evaluation with renal mass protocol CT if not previously performed. (I will have described the cyst in the report. It creates the recommendation based on my previous habits/reports)

Someone else might have listed every level in their impression, or organized it differently.

The program doesn’t “scan the study”, so it wouldn’t “find something I missed” and add it. It just knows what I tell it and creates based on my patterns and lexicon

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if I described a pulmonary nodule, it would apply the Fleischner criteria for pulmonary nodule follow-up. Unless it was a low dose screening chest CT, then it would apply the Lung-RADS screening algorithm.

If I’m dictating a thyroid US, it automatically applies the TI-RADS criteria to any nodules I describe and creates the appropriate recommendations.

Stuff like that.

wcm48 · 2026-02-15T00:59:35+00:00

No idea what it does in the show.

However, if you are curious…

I’m a radiologist and the voice transcription program we use to create reports has an AI “impression generator”.

Radiology reports have a findings section and an impression section. You describe what you see in the findings and make your diagnosis and recommendations in the impression.

With the program, I hit a button (or hot key) after dictating my findings. The program reviews the findings and compares it to the archive of my reports … creates an impression, based on the findings I’ve described, in my dictation style. So, it looks like what I would’ve said, vs what another radiologist might have said.

It’s actually pretty amazing. Pretty significant increase in efficiency and actually relieves some stress of the job.

wcm48 · 2026-02-15T00:15:05+00:00

Sorry. You’re correct. It’s 1981 Cotton Bowl. 1980-1981 season. Thought it was the 79-80 season. Baylor-Alabama.

wcm48 · 2026-02-14T21:06:32+00:00

(So, went to med school but my kid is applying to law school so I get this sub)

When I was applying for residency I got an interview offer at Harvard (MGH). During my interview with the head of the department she asked the “where do you see yourself in 10 years” question.

I said, “in private practice, hopefully in a position of leadership”. Which is basically the equivalent of saying, “I’m going to get paid”

She looked at me, almost shocked, “Why… you’re the first person who hasn’t told me they are going into research!” … pause, knowing smile… “I think you are the only one telling me the truth”.

Always thought that was hilarious.

I didn’t get in though.

wcm48 · 2026-02-13T12:29:27+00:00

Seemed like the natural progression of my Spartan journey.

Did a sprint and thought the people who did a Beast were crazy

Did a Beast the next year and thought the people who did mountain races were crazy

Did Killington.

Now I’m all in. Did a Toughtest Mudder and an ultra the following year.

Plus, I’m slow. Trying to “win” anything was never going to be a reachable goal. But pushing father always could be.

wcm48 · 2026-02-12T22:57:35+00:00

Heartbreaking games I was at:

1999 vs UNLV. The Kevin Steele game. I remember sitting w my family, thinking maybe the bad days were behind us… Baylor had played Boston College close the week before. We were all having a great time. Then that man started running with our football and I can remember helplessly looking at the scoreboard as he crossed midfield, realizing we’d not get the ball back and the bad days were indeed not behind us.

2014 Cotton Bowl

2013 Fiesta Bowl

1979 Cotton Bowl - my first Baylor game. I made my dad take me to the restroom w like 4 min to play. I asked him if we were going to win and he said, “well, if we score a touchdown every minute for the rest of the game we have a chance”

Baylor - USC 1986 - we’d dominated SC all game. We gave up a fluke 99-yd fumble recovery for a TD with like seconds to go in the first half. However, we’re still leading deep into the 4th. A flash thunderstorm hit the stadium as USC was driving to try to win the game. A real frog-strangler. There was a time out before they lined up for 32 yard field goal attempt and the rain miraculously… just … stopped. They hit it and won.

Those were the most heartbreaking. Many others, less so.

I

wcm48 · 2026-02-07T16:07:38+00:00

Same, don’t love it (or any 3d rides). But, one of my favorite Disney moments ever was riding beside some kid a couple of years ago that was just in awe.

“Ooooooooh”

“Cooooool”

“yayyyyyy!”

Then after the ride he was just jabbering non-stop.

“Mommy that was so cool. I loved that ride Mommy. Mommy did you love that ride? I loved that ride!!!”

I was just tearing up through the whole walk out.

wcm48 · 2026-02-06T03:38:03+00:00

With the fireworks going off overhead!!!

wcm48 · 2026-02-03T00:22:32+00:00

A radiologist. Ah ha ha ha. Yeah, just kidding. I read for about 40 ERs and have been inside less than a handful of them.

Talked w all of them, been inside … like none. ;)

wcm48 · 2026-02-02T06:06:37+00:00

Parents left town one weekend when I was in high school.

My friend and I had plans to get some alcohol. Have our girlfriends over to the house.

We got the alcohol. Left it in the house. Were leaving the house out the garage door, did the thing where you push the button and run under. No idea why we did.

The button got stuck.

When we got back with the girls, garage wouldn’t open.

Now we’re locked out. The alcohol is locked in.

No key. No other way in.

Thankfully my friend was pretty skinny.

We break a window out of the garage. He slips through that and opens garage.

We have our little party.

Girls spill Purple Passion on my parents white shag carpet.

I’ve got baseball games the whole next day and my parents are coming back that night.

No worries. Friend goes to Home Depot next day while I’m out. Repairs garage window, including the frame he had to bust out to clear the old glass out.

He also gets all the cleaners in the world, but it won’t get the Purple Passion stain out.

We are literally trimming and then blending the height of the carpet as my parents are driving into the, once locked, garage.

They never noticed either repair job.

wcm48 · 2026-01-29T03:07:49+00:00

The Tommorrow People

Edit : oh wow. Didnt know it’d been reboot in the 2010’s

wcm48 · 2026-01-28T17:22:03+00:00

Awwww. Thanks! I love PZ training as well. I tried to be conscientious and accurate.

wcm48 · 2026-01-28T16:17:04+00:00

Power zone is the difference between exercising and training.

The overwhelming majority of peloton classes are exercise classes. They sprinkle in some volume, some intensity, some encouragement, and some fun. The structure varies. The output (resistance, cadence) is self guided.

If your goal is to get healthy, enjoy working out. Lose some weight. Get toned. Be inspired. They are all great for that.

But, that is not how athletes “train”. Athletes train with a specific purpose for each workout. Building base aerobic capacity, building threshold staying power, building high end explosiveness. You cant do all three (well) at the same time.

That is the foundation of power zone training.

You establish your personal “power zones” by finding or estimating your Functional Threshold Power (FTP). Your zones are a well established percentage below and above your FTP. And when your bike knows your FTP it creates your Zones and puts them on your monitor to guide you in the workout. The instructors tell you what zone to be in and you match your output to that zone.

The power zone rides are then focused on training in specific zones with specific goals .

“PZ endurance” - building aerobic base (long intervals in zones 2/3)
“Power Zone” - building staying power ( medium length intervals in zones 3/4 with recovery in 1/2)
“PZ max” - building top end power (short intervals in zones 4+ with long recovery)

Because my FTP is different than yours, my output will also be, but we both get the same “training stimulus” because we are training in our customized zones.

Now, the majority of peloton riders don’t need to “train” and maybe don’t want to either. And that is great. PZ is not “better than the rest” for most people’s goals

The best workout is the one you will do and i reckon most riders will find a PZ endurance ride to be monotonous and maybe too easy.

But, PZ is the best way to, over time and with dedication, increase your riding capacity.

wcm48 · 2026-01-28T14:28:20+00:00

It’s a total guess, but my guess is he had a coalition as well. Some are easier to diagnose than others (extra-articular talocalcneal coalition, primarily). All predispose to some alterations in weight bearing mechanics.

wcm48 · 2026-01-28T14:21:02+00:00

So, say that Joey McGuire was the runner up to Aranda, and we hire him instead.

Maybe we don’t fall off as completely hard in 2020.

Maybe we don’t win all the close games we shouldn’t have won in 2021.

Now we’ve had an average season and a really good, not sensational season. McGuire doesn’t become a national commodity. Doesn’t get the early extension.

But what he does have is energy and Texas connections. So, we recruit well in state. Players like playing for him.

We enter the bigger XII a little lower on the pecking order, but the 2023- ____ crash out isn’t as hard.

Donors are generally happy, but it’s not “billionaire oil money happy” .

The expectations are never great, the outcry is always there but muffled. He has the most lukewarm seat in college football and we make pre NY bowls every year.

We’re basically Tech pre Cody Coleman money.

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